skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what would be the formula for that?
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FWIW, I pissed off a whole entire mailing list of self-described INTJs once by suggesting the same thing, but for differing personality types: that INTJs, being one of the few types that was so self-analytical as to know what type it was, had the ability and need to talk and act in a way that could be better understood by other types.
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Yup, that's basically it. Moral panic + DAs striving for reelection = mob justice
I do share the observation of technical leaders with a quick observation very well and it has 2 sides of the coin.
It can be crucial in the early stage for a company to survive. Some people see it as control, but on the other side it often carries a certain degree of success.
The flip side is that kind of close relation of the founder/CEO to customer and not letting go the control can limit growth of a company. And if the company keeps increasing on revenue/employees and the situation has not much improved it sometimes turns to chaos within the organization.
People expect polished applications that are better than what they already have

Maybe they expect that, but what they want is to solve a problem.
A data-only phone is a pipe dream. VoIPo3G sucks (http://gigaom.com/2010/01/19/iphone-the-lack-of-voice-over-3...) and uses more bandwidth than a circuit-switched call. Data is temporarily priced lower than voice minutes, but you can expect this to change if VoIP becomes popular. The carriers will have their ARPU; it's just a question of how they get it out of you.
I have yet to find an acceptable way for cursor movement that doesn't involve analog input. The linked keyboard layout moved the inverted-T arrows and the extra six (insert, del etc) block to a position between the hands.

I can only imagine that it was to avoid having to move the hands off the home row. The keyboard's lack of a trackpoint means it's not the keyboard for me. Which is unfortunate, as the AVR USB uc series (they might be using one but the linked page is unclear) has a usb hid mouse profile available (http://www.fourwalledcubicle.com/LUFA.php)
This gives computational access of the GPU to JavaScript.

See: http://groups.google.com/group/jetpack-to-cuda/?pli=1
Perhaps telling us what you don't like about Media Temple will help you out a little.

If it's a relatively low traffic weblog, there are cheap hosts like dreamhost.com. If you don't require a lot of customization (themes, plugins, etc) you can just set it up at wordpress.com and go with their options. If you want a little more power, and don't mind the sysadmin duties, pick a small VPS from linode.com or slicehost.com.
Good that the control key is in the correct place but think I'd rather just have one of these: http://www.sun.com/desktop/products/peripherals/keyboard/
"The real determining factor... isn't financial but one of convenience"

But convenience is financial as it can be valued. (My statements based upon extensive research involving 7-11 and getting food delivered)
...and a week later, present her with a gift-wrapped clock/led nightlight/etc. powered by a potato.
I hear lots of good things about Expression Engine (http://www.expressionengine.com/) but I've never used it. It always seems to come up as the platform that fills the void between Wordpress and Drupal. But even Wordpress could most likely do what you want with the myriad of plugins and themes out there.
The top 3 Google results for "Brazilian Funk" are the Wikipedia article, an NPR story, and a compilation CD from CD Universe.

Seems like the least you could do to put up a quick primer on the genre (it will be slicker than wpedia), swap links with prominent bands (better rankings), and maybe put up some announcements and a forum. You could focus the information on making it easier to transition from curious to interested to fandom.

The big questions are how much the musicians would be able to support a site like that, and how willing they'd be to coordinate with each other.
I'd pay for a list of bookmarks from various opinion leaders. If george soros or andreesen bookmarked on a consistent basis content that they read or think is important to read I would be interested in that. What would be good is if they also included a short commentary of the importance.

The value to me is I can get a feel for what some of the most influential people are interested in and what specific information they are using to shape their opinions on various topics.

Twitter is some what like this, but there needs to be good consistent content.
Great interview and optimism.

The $1,000 genome is indeed within sight.

Let us hope that software will be evolving as fast to handle the data.
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Microsoft releases Silverlight 4 Facebook client for Windows and OS X
You know, they could have done something with user agent (up-to-date Safari, Chrome or Firefox gets a YES, IE or older versions get a NO, etc), reverse IP lookup (to determine if you're in a "techie" part of the country), etc. That might make it a bit more interesting than randomly picking.
You allude to an important point of distinction between the Cocoa Touch binary switch and the traditional form checkbox: The former is presumed instantaneously effective, while the latter may or may not require a form submission.
Well the first time you do it to see if you can, the second time because you can and the third time you use it to see if you can do something else
For example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1078529
The article did phrase it as an approximation ("With those 35 people, they've grossed about $9,000.").

If 35 people sign up to pay $260 per year, that's $9100.
I might be missing something, but I don't understand your complaints:

- You can still hit shift with your pinkies in essentially the same position as traditional Qwerty.

- There's a control key in the "correct" position, next to the A, which is less of a stretch than PC keyboards with control in the bottom corners.

- Yes, you need to move your hand to reach the cursor keys, but how is this worse than Qwerty (where you need to move it even farther)?

- Backspace is a thumb key on this keyboard and requires no finger movement, while on Qwerty it's one of the least-accessible keys.

- PC Qwerty keyboards do require you to move your fingers more than one key left or right. Depending on your exact keyboard model, how else do you type backspace, Enter/Return, Escape, right-bracket/right-brace, pipe/backslash, or equals/plus? (These are totally common keys for programmers, and backspace/enter/return are common for everybody.)
the headline is a bit misleading. that is 35 paid online subscriptions from people who don't already have a print subscription (who get online access for free), and/or who don't already have a cablevision account (who get a free account).

i'd be interested in knowing the number of people who are new subs for the print version in that same timeframe, and/or new subs from the cable deal.
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If you're in a formal business meeting, then you're in a social situation that has nothing to do with the focus of this article, which is informal two-way conversation.
Instead of flipping a coin, they should just have it point to yes with an affiliate link.

But then it's no longer clever.
For anyone working on SEO, paid search campaigns, or just performing research on competing products/sites, this is an invaluable tool. It provides some great suggestions for keywords that you should rank highly for/buy.
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List your predictions for tomorrow and vote on best ones. Interested to 'crowd source' tomorrow's announcements!
If they signed up per year, yes.

But their subscription terms are '$5 per week'.

So, unless I'm completely uninformed about consumer law, that means they have to do recurring billing on a weekly schedule charging $5 each time the subscription renews, and customers can cancel at any one point in time.

See here:

http://www.newsday.com/services/7.387?registration=true&...

Any two bit webmaster running a site with a subscription model would be able to tell you some of the downsides of that registration page and why you really don't want to do this (the $5 / week charge) but that's their problem.

So, what they've grossed is the number of subscribers times the number of weeks, once they've figured out their 'life cycle' they can project to future earnings.

People do not as a rule fork over a years subscription in advance, another truth of online recurring billing. That's a great way to have to refund all of the money if the customer is not 100% satisfied during the run of the subscription.

So, the 'middle ground' is monthly billing, with in case of a dispute a maximum 3 month refund.

I also love their 'opt-out' for spam checkbox (check to opt-out, default 'unchecked'), and the fact that they (optionally) ask you to fill out your gender and birth date.

> " Please check this box if you prefer not to be emailed "

The marketing joys of double negatives.
Including one of the classics of computer science, of course:

Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/p...
Bah. Code should just be:

if (Math.random() < .5) {
var response = "NO";
...
I don't think we really disagree all that much. I think the problem is really that content publishers have been dishonest about what they're selling. When I "buy" a DVD what have I actually bought? What does my mom think I've bought? This difference is I think what fuels the gasps of shock and horror at the size of the damages when it inevitably goes to court. The rental car on the other hand, isn't sold as a bait-and-switch.

Where we differ however, is that I don't see attempting to coercively redefine the contract as any less legitimate. If the law is an ass, especially if the law is an ass and has been completely captured by moneyed interests, then disobeying the law en masse until the weight of numbers brings the law into disrepute seems far more likely to push change (at least in this case) than passively boycotting.

(FWIW I also believe in jury nullification, which should give you an idea where I stand in the push and pull of rule-of-law vs will-of-the-people)

By using technology to put the power to coercively redefine the contract in the hands of the people, the content controller/producers are put in a squeeze. People don't have to pay them any more (which hits them in the wallet) - to fight that they will have to spend ever increasing amounts of money to buy laws and DRM technology. As they do so they will increasingly damage the economic and legal systems they depend upon by becoming ever more draconian, causing ever more collateral damage, with predictable consequences. It seems to me like a case of classic asymmetric warfare, and why they'll lose (or end up so changed from the fight that they'll wish they had).
The version of the article I read (not this one) mentioned in passing that children tend to take same-gendered role models, and that 90% of elementary-school teachers are female. The inference is that females have negative role models for math, while males have none, which is apparently better.
> Girls often believe themselves to be bad at math, in accordance with gender stereotyping

I think this should be qualified with "in the US".
I don't think I had a single male math teacher when I went to school in Russia. In fact, girls were supposed to be more studious and get better grades in all subjects. And yet, undergraduates in the technical courses were predominantly male, while humanities students (including students of pedagogy -- future teachers) were mostly female.
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1. Designers, engineers, and roboticists aren't usually the types taking manufacturing jobs except to find ways to improve the process.

2. Many and dare I say most people in manufacturing are people without the inclination or talen to be designers, engineers, and roboticists. The more we automate, the more we will struggle to find productive roles for these people.

3. That said, it's still cheaper to stick a third world body on a project than a robot, and until we've raised the world's standard of living this is going to continue.
The problem with this notion is that elementary school teachers need to be generalists; subjects don't really start getting "split" subjectively (with different teachers) until middle and high school.

[Edit] Citation FTA: A new study suggests that elementary school may be a breeding ground for this anxiety. The study found that when elementary school teachers, who are primarily female, displayed a high level of anxiety about math, that skittishness was transmitted to their female students.
Are the new interstitial ads on TC blocking anyone else? My experience today has consistently been:

1) Click link to TC article, shown interstitial

2) Click 'skip this ad', taken back to same interstitial

3) Click 'skip this ad' again, taken to techcrunch.com

4) Scan headlines for the article I wanted

Its maddening, am I the only one?
Thanks for the feedback folks. I will rethink few things on beepl. Cheers!
which is tax money and they tax the society enormously , e.g. sales tax alone 19%.
DARPA called in the past for some great technical innovations, but this one bringing manufacturing back to US is questionable. Not that I don’t like to see it, but it is an open worldwide market and may the best business model win.
I see this initiate more a reaction from the government, because they are scared loosing the access to the companies who run the semi fab process.
I would be interested in a database conveying this article's information in tabular form. Then it would be useful to record the traits of other population strata, each in its own row (or with one row per observer/observed combo, to allow capture of multiple points of view). I would enjoy reading, searching, updating and sorting that.
Sure... the 3rd gen in Q4 2012, if it's still around.
or

var response = Math.random() < 0.5 ? "NO" : "YES";
If I were on IE, I'd definitely want a slate.
Apparently those 35 people did sign up for a year. (Edit: I guess not. I think the author is just establishing a best-case calculation). According to the article, anyway, which unveils the number 35 as the answer to the following question:

"...how many people have signed up to pay...$260 a year, to get unfettered access to newsday.com?"
There's an interview w/ the artist here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhF3YS5KuAo
I tend to agree with the sentiment put forward by Karl Denninger at http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/1791-Finally-Mai...

"Years ago there was stigma - a man's word was his bond. But that is gone now, and it is not you, the consumer who made it thus. It is in fact the very people who lent you that money who made it so - who proffered documents to you written in 4 point type that were impossible for anyone with less than a PhD to understand (and sometimes even then), that contained intentional tricks and less-than-honest inducements, and who themselves were in fact stuffing bogus loans into securities that they then peddled out to the masses!"
Sounds to me like there's a vicious cycle going on. Girls are socialized to think that math is hard, have difficulty acquiring the skills, grow up, become teachers, and pass both their skill and attitudes on to the next generation of girls. This makes it rather difficult to find the ground truth (if any) on whether girls are inherently worse or better at math.
Went to a gathering of Web developers the other night. Someone (poor fool!) actually admitted to using, and liking, Dreamweaver for certain code and HTML editing.

Boom! The jackals were on him in an instant, tearing away at any and all weak spots. It was pretty funny.

So, yeah, I've been guilty of this myself, but lately I've been trying to pay more attention to what people are saying and why. The Dreamweaver dude had plausible reason for his preference. But every time he mentioned something he liked about it, two or three people jumped in to explain how he could do that with TextMate or Vim or whatever.

While I think people were mostly trying to be helpful, a good part of this had to be the opportunity to show off specialized knowledge of this or that tool.

It's why trolling is one of the best ways to get help.

Don't ever ask how to do something; assert that something can't be done.

You'll get a flood of people wanting to show off and prove you wrong.

(Someone one has written about this behavior, and has an Internet law or rule named after him regarding this, but I can't recall who. I'm counting on everyone here to jump in and show off their knowledge by providing the name. :) )
It still holds: an adult who lacks confidence in his/her ability to do +-*/ on multi-digit numbers and fractions should not be teaching the subject to elementary-school-aged kids.
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From my somewhat limited experience with Wordpress, it's a bit tough to wrestle into a portfolio framework, but very easy to set up a blog with. Quite a few web designers have Expression Engine and rave about it (you'll have to pay for the full-featured version). Skip Joomla; it's not very well done, and support is lacking. You could, if you have the time and willpower, roll your own CMS for total control.
Yes, all technically true, but some people have pride or ethics issues with breaking contracts (social contracts being an even stronger example than mortgages..).
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I think it goes back to the mappers/packers mindset. Mappers tend to think of the world as a solvable map, given enough information. This obsession with correctness is simply a way to help correct someone's map.
/me thinks that they made the connection between the $5 per week and the year all by themselves, the website is mum on $260, but prominently displays the $5.

That's the one thing they did right, if they had put $260 up front you'd be looking at 3 in stead of 35 subscribers :)
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Housing prices were not normal when many were buying.
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I think it's an advantage of the phone that there are less visual cues, so you can concentrate on auditive cues. A non-geek on the phone is somewhat in the situation of a geek, because he is aware of less non-verbal signals. He will tend to compensate with more auditive signals and clearer indications in the content of what is said. Fewer signals with more significance are easier to see for the geek.

At least that's what I used to think when face o face conversations were still a big problem for me, but phone conversations felt easier.

It seems I have become much less of a geek over the years.
Because of the millions upon millions of Kindle users waiting for the apps ? I have yet to see a Kindle in real-life but I saw iPhones way before they were officially launched in Europe. And there are shops selling iPod Touch all over the place.
Linking to this blog post as it has a transcription of relevant part of the earnings interview.

Direct link to the CNBC Video: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?play=1&video=1396376379
but in this case you don't see the bright color and "on" part until you slide it, and having to do that just to figure it out is not very intuitive.
Yep. And the upshot of this listening test is that even that doesn't matter at all. It just means that your amp will have to work a little harder and you get some electricity converted to heat. But the sound quality has very little to do with the resistance of the wire.

Capacitance and induction are a different issue, but don't tell that to the people with 'golden' ears or they'll go crazy.

Those two definitely affect the 'high' end of the spectrum, around, oh, 500 KHz or something. Which of course everybody can hear clearly.

</sarcasm>
I think thats what the parent was suggesting, but the same logic gets you nothing new, ever.
"Our program can't withstand images of that magnitude!"
A behavior in a similar vein that I see on Twitter a lot:

some_twitter_person: I went to the park tday.
some_twitter_person: In the last tweet, I meant "today" and not "tday."

Unnecessary overcorrection. I've seen it on HN a lot too. It's as if making a mere typo will make everyone think they're an uneducated idiot.
It would be interesting to know the conversion rate of that hideous page.
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Going back to C
Subscriptions in newspaperland are never weekly. They get marketed as $x/week in order to reduce sticker shock, but you pay yearly or twice a year.
Did this last night.

Wife was having trouble with a financials spreadsheet from work, and asked me to help out. I took a look, and although I didn't know the actual content, it was clear to me what the kind of error must be, and how to correctly design a spreadsheet so that such errors are easily identifiable.

She said she didn't know that the incoming data might be problematic; I replied that one must always treat all inputs as untrusted. She said that XYZ gave it to her; I said be defensive against bad data even if I give it to you.

Anyway... the whole thing turned into a conflict, when I could have just said "I'm glad I could help you this time".
seriously, what is the point?
I don't think it's shame; just practicality.

If I'm about to hand someone a large sum of cash, it's generally not practical to carry that in my wallet. Plus, that money likely came from, or is going to, someone who also doesn't want that money mingling with "their" money. (likely someone who will be dealing with several such envelopes)

And, in general, you don't want to have more money than you owe in front of you, while you count out a criminal's portion. If you do, you'll quickly find that prices go up.

There's also plausible deniability. Stacks of cash attract more attention and aren't as easy to explain away as envelopes. And envelopes of cash have the hallmark of the legitimate proceeds of a cash-only business 'on its way to the bank'. If the money is mingled with your own, that's a harder argument to make.
No doubt the author made the connection himself. It's sensible for him to have calculated the best-case since the gist of the piece is that even the best-case annual revenue is abysmal.
Can you send me an email please, j@ww.com

This thread is getting overlong and is about to go out of sight for me, it's already on one of the last pages of my comment history.
subjects don't really start getting "split" subjectively (with different teachers) until middle and high school.

That's a mistake of the system in the United States. In many other countries, teachers specialize by subject in the elementary grades, the better to teach their subject effectively. See Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States

http://www.amazon.com/Knowing-Teaching-Elementary-Mathematic...

for a detailed discussion of elementary math teaching, or The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom

http://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Gap-Improving-Education-Class...

for a broader perspective on other ways to organize schools.
I don't remember seeing that kind of post on HN. If you mean people editing their posts, I blame/credit the ease of editing. I tend to post before proofreading and then clean up any mistakes. It just seems like the natural way to do it.
I can see a few very pissed off users in their future then, and it makes me wonder what would happen if they would simply make it a monthly subscription.

Do you have any proof of this ? The website says very clearly $5 / week.