skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cocaine leads to a temporary alternate form of consciousness that may or may not lead to valuable insights too. So does ecstacy, or ketamine, or modafinil, or coffee, or weed, or the 2c-X family, or whatever RC you want to take, or yoga, or meditation. A temporary change in perception is not an increase in intelligence.
Then why the downvote? If I was just falling into your deliberate trap, you shouldn't be taking it out on my karma.
As per the article:

-Expected exceptions get turned into metrics

If it's not a bug, mute it in your exception tracker and measure it.
I was aiming my comment at HN as much as the article.
sorry ;) I guess I came across as trollish, but I really loved Twitter and it's difficult to see it on its current path. There were so many historical and important industry news items I learned first on Twitter. Twitter owns the in-the-moment. However, I'm passionate about UX and see something really cool being built at Ello. I've dealt with all the platforms and Ello to me is very unique. Deep down, I want Twitter to still succeed, but I see too many bad product decisions coming from a company that lacks clarity and UX passion.
Show HN: Reddit AMA question de-duplicator (suggestions welcome)
He should have you write a dust jacket blurb for his next book. One of the authors fullest of shit in a world full of many full of shit authors, Pico Iyer has crammed his latest masterpiece absolutely full of the stuff. You won't read another book fuller of shit this year!
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Please retitle. Kojo: and educational IDE based on the Scala language inspired by Logo and Processing.
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slashes or dashes makes no difference to me, still the most readable formats, since we are used to the biggest number first, from our numbering system :)
They are just selling fun puzzles. What you see is what you get. Even if you wrongly believe that puzzles have some benefit they do not, you don't have to buy puzzle from them; the false belief applies to all puzzles you can get anywhere, including free sources: Internet, library books, ...

There seems to be evidence that mental activity saves off cognitive decline --- just not that it can cure Alzheimer's and such.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100302151242.ht...

http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/15/mental-exercises-are-m...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201403... (#6 - brain training games)

http://www.newsmax.com/Health/Health-News/mental-activity-de...

http://www.healthcentral.com/alzheimers/c/42/151976/exercisi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascals_wager

I don't think it would be fair to malign philosophers because they come up with outlandish scary scenarios that scare people with OCD sometimes. It's not like LW gives Roko significant air time or serious treatment (EY freaking out and deleting it was partially principle of the thing, partially the fear that somebody might follow this road of thought to come up with something more terrifying and he doesn't want to take the community there, etc) somebody doing this is generally taken as a sign of serious crankery.

(FWIW, I agree with the top parent post that the hyping of Bayes Theorem is one of the LW foibles. At least the presentation of it.)
How many others do you imagine would pay twitter by the character rather than use mediums not so constrained and how much.

The most expensive medium per character is text messaging

https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing and each carrier effectively holds a monopoly on reaching that customer via that means especially since plenty of phones still can't receive any other form of electronic message.

Twitter has more than ample competition this kind of blackmail would destroy twitter.
A side question: Is there a service/project that can identify features of a person by feeding it various photos of that person? Examples:

- body type

- piercing

- tattoos

- eyeglasses

- colored hair

- etc.
One only needs to look at the recent issue with hacking cars to see that it is quite possible. A single bomb, short of a nuke, would do far less damage than a virus attacking certain vehicles. The real issue is the effort needed to acquire the bomb/build the virus. Bombs seem to still have a far lower startup cost, so while you may get less bang for your dollar, they are more popular.

Is it popularity or damage/$ that determines what is more dangerous?
If Netflix Were Your Girlfriend
Lora vs. LTE-M vs. Sigfox
Arch Linux running on a MacBook
I wouldn't quite be going "Thank God!" if I was you on this news. It could end up that now when people go "Oh it's just like Lumosity" it could potentially be with the added tinge now of "Are you trying to mislead me too?"
From experience using lumocity games, I am sure people who develop these games don't use them - there were annoyances and blockers which are too obvious and constantly present during the game process. If they were playing themselves they would fix it I think.

Also their approach to metrics was too unscientific.
How do you know it isn't guessing sex instead of gender (and hence it "sexed" you wrongly)?
I support this.
Yeah, I botched my mental math, but yours isn't quite right either, because the 141st character is 1 cent, which is 2^0. So the 20th power of two in this context is 2^19, and the sum of the powers of two up to the 19th is 2^20 - 1.
Not exactly an attiny85, but it's getting close: https://tessel.io/ :-)
This was a pretty interesting article but as a sports fan I got distracted by the dig at Deflategate. Especially since the author not only mixed his sports metaphors (basketball to football) but also because it was an accusation scientifically proven to be untrue.

It wasn't even relevant to the article really but stuff like that takes you out of it and you lose interest.
The change from 31% to 48% compliance represents a 54.84% increase, not 17%.
Precisely - most major currencies today ditched their deflationary practices in the 20th century.
If you know all about the drug as you say, then you should also know that it has different effects for different people. Why do you automatically assume that people claiming to have benefited from LSD are stupid?
$24 million revenue isn't net income after all the expenses and taxes.

2/24 is 8%. How would you like to be fined 8% of your yearly salary?

Make $100k as a developer? $8k please!

Good thing I'm not blowing gently in your other ear; that would be 16 thou.
To the people thinking 10,000 characters means suddenly everyone will write blog posts instead of tweets... Have you ever tried blogging? Writing blog posts is insanely hard and time consuming. You'd be an outlier if you could write one good blog post a day. It's not like every tweet is suddenly going to be an essay. More likely tweets will just be slightly longer (200 characters or something) and then there will be the occasional longer post. This is great because the hacks we were using beforehand (tweetstorms, replying to yourself, posting images of text) were all ridiculous for such a basic use case.
I have one concern with framerate, if there is no need to maintain 60fps 100% of the time, Phaser should have a way to lower or pause fps, sadly, there isn't a way to avoid battery drain.
Unfortunately Canonical has stopped putting that time and effort into the desktop OS and is instead concentrating on mobile/tablet "convergence".
I wrote my prelims on these kinds of 'training' paradigms and there is zero credible experimental evidence that ANY of them actually generalize to things like fluid intelligence or g. For an excellent overview on the real state of the science see here [0].

0. http://longevity3.stanford.edu/blog/2014/10/15/the-consensus...
Yikes...This comment has me seriously thinking about moving my VPS elsewhere.
Thanks for spreading this information, this is definitely good to know.
What's the formula for converting monks to cpu cycles?
I'm always suspicious of such over-hyped services as Stripe

hyped ≠ over-hyped
I'm always interested to find out how people decide upon names for their projects.

In New Zealand "gobby" is slang for a blow job, not sure if that makes me want to try it more or less though.
I agree. "Coding" requires concentration, attention to consistency and detail, organization, and sitting in one place for many hours.

None of those things are anything like what I'd describe experience of LSD, even at very low doses, is like. Rather, I'd say the opposite.

When I was a kid I'd open my VIC-20 and deliberately "circuit bend" it; make connections across the data or address bus that would cause garble to show on the screen, etc. I think of many hallucinogens of acting in the same category; they have an effect, a very interesting effect, and alter the experience of the world. But not in any kind of systematic organized fashion.

The chief insight from taking something like LSD is that perception is plastic. Which most of us know already. After you learn that lesson there's not much more to learn and it becomes a purely aesthetic, and quite uncomfortable, experience.
In the past they were more similar, at least the NPC art style was. When they first started Rimworld they used a sort of Prison Architect art style for their NPCs as placeholders until they got their own art in (which they have now).

If anything, both Rimworld and PA are "clones" of Dwarf Fortress.
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If you search on trademe.co.nz (biggest auction site in NZ) in the book section there are several copies of all the books available cheap.

I was an 80's kid and the Fun Way books and associated kits were definitely one of the ways I got into electronics and related tech stuff. It's a real shame what's happened to Dick Smith but it's been easy to see it coming for a very long time.
IQ is held in high esteem because research around g is very good and comprehensive, perhaps the crown jewel of psychology. Additionally most people's knowledge of the Flynn effect is out of date -- recent studies (here's one: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289615... in fact here's a boatload of references http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/MasterFlynnEffectreferencelis...) show a rise, leveling off, and then an overall fall from the beginning in performance over the last 40 years rather than the continuous rise (or at least non-decreasing) behavior most people would probably bet on from their layman understanding of the effect. (Additionally ethnic gaps have remained despite controls for everything and it is this unfortunate reality that I think is the reason for so much dismissal of IQ...)
It's very, very far from attiny85 or even things like PIC32 or ESP8266. 64Mb RAM, a 32bit MIPS and all that stuff. It's an order of magnitude larger than the minimum you'd need for javascript.
Australia too.
Good Lord, I watched the second video -- the one featuring Ed Copeland -- and I think I just fried my brain for the rest of the day.

(Also, he has fantastic penmanship.)
So is ancient Japanese culture.
Bad UX practice according to whom?

I was initially really against this, but parent comment brings a compelling argument: people are already using the service to say more than 140chars worth of stuff. The current methods to do it result in a far worse user experience than the tried and true "Read More" button would.

That said, I'm skeptical of it just in terms of product definition. Like Instagram adding portrait/landscape photos, more than 140 characters to a tweet does nothing but obscure what exactly the product is and how you're supposed to use it (even if people circumvent that anyhow).
Yeah, it's the XY problem. Sorta.
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In the UK we have a company called Boots which used to be a pharmaceutical giant and is now a high street toothpaste and moisturiser giant. At the counter, they always ask if I have a 'Boots card' (purchase tracking card). I say no, because I don't, and they are often confused - because it's weird to not only have presented one immediately, but to claim not to own one. I'm then told I can be given my 'points' on a receipt so that I can add them to my (non-existent) card later.

I'm not a tin foil hat type, but I really don't like filling my wallet with tracking cards and can't be bothered to claim the miniscule compensatory benefits provided in return for proffering my purchase (and also location, hygiene, etc.) information.

Saying 'no' is almost more hassle than simply submitting, however, which is probably exactly what the company would like to hear. Suggestions welcome for brushing off this nuisance without a) Avoiding their shops entirely (not practical) or b) Being rude to cashiers.
Is that ironic? 'Cause I think polar bears are so hot.

(XPpPpP)
There's quite a few ideas that were created because of the limit. For example Micro SF (https://twitter.com/microsff). Constraints can fuel creativity, it would be sad to see this go.
What is your professional opinion of how much the balance has been shifted by this?
Xamarin is the whole mobile environment (including framework), Mono is "just" an open source .NET implementation and a C# compiler.
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Damn. I had originally even typed it with 2^20-1 and $10k, but then second-guessed myself. (This process of me second guessing my math intuition and then making it worse is also why I didn't end up competing on the national level for my state in the high school math leagues ;P.)
Isn't this simply a question of choosing the right logging levels?
Define "benefited". Saying, "I dropped acid and learned about myself," is very different from saying, "I dropped acid and became smarter." If you're in the latter camp, yes, I'm going to assume you're stupid.
I totally agree. I am still very sad that Google did not buy Sun at the time of collapse.
Ugh. I know it's just an example, but stamps.com is one of those "borderline legal frauds", a step away from phone slamming. Opt-in renewal, online signup and "you have to call us to unsubscribe".

Now I think of stamps.com as the literal devil -- it might be possible to get a good deal, but you really better know what you've agreed to.

http://darkpatterns.org/stamps-com-october-2013/
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This is still working backwards: a thought experiment that increases your chances of being tortured by a future AI? Surely outlandish! But why? Which premises are truly outlandish, arbitrary, etc? What I see given the premises is no more than what Yudkowsky's already said: ".. a Friendly AI torturing people who didn't help it exist has probability ~0, nor did I ever say otherwise."

(However, I agree that to be genuinely distressed by the thought experiment possibility suggests more is going on psychologically than a rational assessment of unknowns, but this seems to be a minority of the community)
Of course not. New cultures were build up on their remains. Such is Europe.
Maybe that the natural frequency "normatized" for some people may be completely different from the actual frequency that apply to them, because the people that researched the frequency did their grouping badly.
Doing God's work.
A Review of the 2015 CPAN Pull Request Challenge
Don't forget to use MailChimp.
> Giving them a pass because it's "assumed"

...is the law of the land in USA

It's called "puffery"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery

> In law, puffery is a promotional statement or claim that expresses subjective rather than objective views, which no "reasonable person" would take literally.

US Supreme Court has ruled that lying in ads is protected speech, up to some non-specified boundary:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100211/0133368126.shtml
If you think China's air is bad, you should see the water
To turn something into useful metrics there needs to be more than zero of it the first place. So maybe the right way of putting it would be to say "Don't just log bugs. Fix them!". Calling that "zero exceptions" is misleading.
I never simultaneously downvote and reply to something. That shouldn't even be allowed. The downvote can be regarded as a form of reply to something that doesn't deserve the normal reply. Under that view, it is contradictory to apply both.
I frequent /r/GameDeals, quite some people really seem to like those dating sims.

And now that you say it, I remember that about the not interested button.
Not only that, but the site tells me that it can help treat "ADHD, anxiety, or depression" and improve my "productivity, focus, and mood."

If I were in this space, I'd start putting "not FDA evaluated" disclaimers on my site and marketing, and temper my promises right away.
This only works if the input password has low entropy. You would think that people using Linode are savvy enough to be using long, randomly generated passwords.
That's because they know they should just tell you that they don't need to pay you less–you're a salaried employee. Salaried employees get paid a fixed salary to get a job done. The part that employers enjoy in the arrangement is you being able to work more hours to get something done and your compensation remains a fixed cost. What they don't like to talk about is the other side of the coin: It doesn't matter how much time it doesn't take either. So accordingly you should, in theory, be able to work less days if you get your job done in those days.

But the reality is that many managers and employers only support the part that benefits them. Even many of the ones that are supportive of someone taking a Friday off every other week feel that they're doing you a favor or giving you a "perk". At the end of the day your manager has to support it (and if necessary continue believing they're doing you a favor) because they can find a way to shit-can you if you start pushing boundaries they're not comfortable with (in the US).
He explains in the first comment:

A little clarification on Solitaire history. I wrote it
for Windows 2.1 in my own time while an intern at
Microsoft during the summer of 1988...

...A program manager on the Windows team saw it and
decided to include it in Windows 3.0. It was made clear
that they wouldn't pay me other than supplying me with an
IBM XT to fix some bugs during the school year - I was
perfectly fine with it and I am to this day.
How exactly did you get caught? opsec/comsec violation?
I think its fairly persuasive for bootstrapped startups, and the SMB market.

If you're a VC funded startup or an extremely large enterprise who can get substantial pricing discounts from cloud providers, it most likely doesn't play into your decision.

I've already emailed a few clients who this might effect, and am interested to see what their responses are.
Fortunately it's still a very stable desktop environment.

Source: It's my everyday OS.
With this addition they will have officially become a user-focused Reddit. It's certainly not a bad thing but I doubt it's where the Twitter devs saw themselves heading. I'm sure people will continue to write 140 character messages but they'll probably become a minority over time. The bulk of tweets will just become title+link to external content or title+discussion starter.
EFF proves T-Mobile is throttling YouTube
Just curious how you would view Dollar Shave Club as "overpaying".
Did the USDA ever get fined for the Food Pyramid being completely wrong and then being thrown out[1]? Justice, justice?

[1] http://www.pjstar.com/article/20151230/OPINION/151239951
It depends on the denomination of the CPU.
I may be mistaken but my impression was the opposite. I only saw the listing as a way to grab the project some quick social proof.

I figured the intended audience is people who prefer to craft their own website rather than just blast the social networks with what they had for dinner and their latest obscure political point of view.

I can imagine when I find the 'now' page on somebody's website, it'll seems like a nice and natural way to see what they're up to.

And c'mon, it's Derek Sivers.
> The worst that can happen to a good small company is that some overhyped and overfunded 'start-up' enters the field and spoils the trust

Like FB destroyed the trust of social networks, and ruined it for themself and their competitors? The same with chat with WhatsApp and other pseudo secure chat apps.
Founder here - looking for feedback on the product. You can think of Emburse as being like AmEx with Expensify-like features built-in. If you're in the process of transitioning from having all spend on a shared corporate card to having cards for each department or employee, definitely take a look.
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This is actually a form of corporate sabotage some companies use. You'll find it interesting to read about Coca Cola's Tab Clear[1].

Basically, Pepsi introduced a soda called Crystal Clear that was gaining momentum in the "clear soda" market. Coke wanted to sabotage the public perception, so they introduced "Tab Clear" and made it taste so terrible, that both products failed within 6 months. After that, no one wanted to touch clear soda for a while. (That is, until Coke reintroduced another drink called Sprite).

[1]http://thedailyjournalist.com/pen-and-pad/corporate-sabotage...
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"It is a bit unfair since the employee leaving hits the company with a big payout"

Paying out for unused vacation days is the only fair thing to do. After all, the company got all those unused vacation days as extra work days.
The really smart thing would be to donate[1] it to a "charity" you create and fully control (that your kids will inherit, etc) so it's effectively a tax-free bank account.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/technology/mark-zuckerberg...
Fedora 21 through 23 has worked well so far. All of my peripherals work well on my ThinkPad X1 Carbon (3rd gen). The community is quite easy to join if you need to submit bugs or ask for help.

I've had zero PulseAudio issues even with creating multiple monitoring devices, a USB DAC and a USB webcam with audio support.

Which wifi cards are you using? Broadcom can be a bit of a pain, but the Intel chips are fairly easy to get working.
The World of Warcraft analogy is particularly bad I have to say. Firstly, I am not saying that people who got rich unfairly should keep what they have, so you are arguing against a straw-man. Secondly identifying people who exploited a bug, is usually very easy, in real live it is usually hard. Following on that, if you say that everyone above some level has to be severely taxed, then you are punishing also those who aren't guilty and setting up a bad precedent, both very bad things, instead of waiting until a proper solution, instead of a band-aid, is developed.

I didn't say you can'd draw a line, I said it was a bad solution (actually not even a proper solution). You came up with another bad analogy, because unlike owning the products of your labor, driving at any speed you wish is not a right almost all people agree on (even if some agree to trade part of that right for more of another right).

Regarding the public services and resources I definitely agree that their usage should be properly compensated by their users, and that is what should fund them and things like social security net. (I never said otherwise)

You are right that success is in part due to luck! What I don't understand is why people feel it is fine to suppress (even if slightly) freedom of other people, in order to make it easier for everyone to achieve success as is portrayed by mainstream media - fame and money. That is not considerate at all, as there are other concepts of success, multiple of them not requiring much money, with philosophies valuing things like freedom and compassion as ultimate values. That is why I cannot accept band-aid "solutions" instead of addressing the true problems in a proper way, which respects presumption of innocence.
Funny enough, Facebook first copied Twitter with the subscription function...