skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"if it tastes good, spit it out"

I am always glad when loonies reveal themselves easily and I don't need to pay them any more attention. What complete bollocks.
"Now, is it safe to assume a roughly equal standard deviation for both curves?"

No, not really. Why? Which bit of statistical theory tells you this would be the case?

"I'm not aware of any data to suggest otherwise."

Well you don't have any data going the other way either do you?
I am also in the position of buying nearly everything via Amazon. If you haven't already, it's worth taking out the Amazon/Chase credit card -- it amounts to a 3% discount, redeemable directly as cash (in increments of $50) or as further spending on Amazon.
It's funny because games originally derives from real life competitions and adventures, now people are pushing the ideologies in modern games back into real life.
Why do you say that? Seems like a reasonable application of compressed sensing.
Are Adobe products safe? (video)
Careful with that axe, part one: Should I specify a timeout?
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all.... With the exception of one benchmark ruby's memory is about the same as perl's. As for speed usage, ruby is no more than twice as slow as perl for most benchmarks. It does poorly on pidigits because there aren't gmp bindings available for ruby 1.9, and it does significantly worse on regex-dna because perl's regex library is much higher quality.

Both are so much slower than C that a 2x difference is insignificant.
xtractr - Unleash the power of packets
I simply can't imagine what relevant factor would cause a difference in the width of these curves. I know that, in general, men have a higher standard deviation for most activities and attributes than women, but these effects are minor. So, my question is, is there anything relating to the SD that you think affects the soundness of the underlying argument? If so, I'd actually be curious to learn more about it.

My argument here is simply the best reasoning I can muster given the data that I'm aware of. You are welcome to poke holes in the reasoning or present alternate data. I'm eager to learn more in either case.
um... clean up as cartoon, clean up as text, clean up as photo...
Clearly it's not important for those colleagues. I'm honestly curious as to why, given that I believe that the behavior in question seems to me anti-meritocratic (because it drives away worthy people from wanting to work with your team).

I also don't think "trash-talking" is really the right phrase, as it connotes a kind of equal back-and-forth among peers. That's not the behavior I observe; usually it's pretty one-sided.
I think that if a state ever starts mandating laptops, they'll probably be mandating firewalls too.
It won't be. Don't bother.

You can't convince people like me to give you a gmail password. It's simply not going to happen.

Meanwhile, you could convince my mom to give up her gmail password with an animated GIF of a cartoon padlock.

What we can help you with here is how to communicate about security without setting off alarm bells. Your security page isn't awful; "bank security" is a security idiom, it's fine that you use it. But we can help you make it better. Make it clear that you're storing passwords so nobody can say they're surprised about, and make sure security researchers know how to contact you.
Gist.com?
Yes, you have to click slightly at the top of the buttons. It's like that on the Eris too, the only other Android phone I've owned, so it may be an HTC thing.

And the touchscreen really is less sensitive. Scrolling a web page is jerky, whereas on the iPhone it really does feel like you're dragging around a piece of paper with your finger.

And not having scroll bounce on the menus _will_ drive you nuts. It really does seem like the phone froze.

Something he didn't mention is that the new apps launcher blows hard. They tried to go with some pointless 3D effect where the rows snap into place. All it does though, is make sure that right after you scroll, your apps move just a little bit, making tapping the right one a game you'd rather not have to play every damn time.

However, all that said, widgets and multitasking are huge. I got rid of my Nexus One to go back to my iPhone, but only because I'm stuck with AT&T and couldn't handle edge for everything. Every day I miss the snappiness of switching between apps that don't close and regret having to open the calendar app all the time to check what's coming up because I can't make it a widget.
>In practice, this doesn't work as well for more complicated images such as brains or abdomens. There is just much more to draw, and the images cease to be sparse.

Compressed sensing works just fine for brains, abdomens etc.. because the images need to be sparse in some basis (e.g. wavelets), not in the original space.
Of course; that's why socialist countries such as Germany and Sweden are seeing their economies collapse, while strongly capitalist countries such as the US have enjoyed uninterrupted growth. If socialism were efficient, overhead costs of important services such as transportation and health care would be dramatically lower in socialist economies. /s
When you think from the institutional point of view, this system of spying and control mirrors system of spying and control the government is using. I don't think there will be a well publicized smackdown, lest other citizens start questioning government's own spying and warrant-less wiretapping.

Just so we don't forget, Obama voted to give telecoms, which handed our privacy to anyone who asked for it, immunity.

http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/90990

Why are we so surprised when a school takes a cue from its "big brother" and starts spying on its students so blatantly? Obama "protects" us from "terrorism" by spying on us, and the school has to "protect" the students from "thieves" by spying on them, makes sense right?
This is pretty much the exact problem we're having here in Australia. We get 3 hours of coverage a day at 9am, which is summarised further and shown at 9.30pm. They only show us events that Australians appear in and barely show the rest. I think they showed about 5 minutes total of that USA vs CA hockey match in our prime time.

We have a 'pay tv' network which has 4 channels dedicated to Olympic coverage, and it costs $65 extra for the privilege.
You can't generate information from nothing. Compression based on sparsity seems to be making assumptions about the level of detail in a picture[1]. If you stored 20% of the pixels in Obama's face you may miss a spot of acne.

I can't imagine trusting to this technique for pictures of the galaxy. After spending a bazillion dollars on a space telescope we aren't going to "throw away 80% of the pixels".

[1] - I'm not certain of this deduction. Can somebody with more background confirm or deny?
"So, my question is, is there anything relating to the SD that you think affects the soundness of the underlying argument? "

What underlying argument? You are presenting a political position unsubstantiated by any facts. Arguing about the distribution of standard deviations about two imaginary curves is like arguing about something in Alice in Wonderland. (Note that i didn't make an argument either way about the std dev in my comment).

Speaking against political correctness will probably get me downvoted, but here goes anyway,

From your blog post, I gather you think "diversity" of genders/races makes better dev teams. All I am saying is "prove it". With data, not hypotheses.

I have yet to see any real evidence for this, whether in terms of sustained commercial success or even in a statistical sense.

Show us these supposed benefits from race/gender diversity as applied to software development and startups. Is that too much to ask?
Microsoft says it has reached more than 600 licensing agreements since launching its intellectual-property licensing program in December 2003.

Wonder how much they've made so far from this new line of business.
I don't have data on "diversity" as such, but I tend to give extra points to candidates who speak multiple languages.

It's not just an indicator of intelligence. A team with broad "cultural literacy", in my experience, tends to create software with broader appeal. At Terespondo we kicked Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's ass for years in search advertising in South America because we understood and catered to our customers.

This probably does not hold for all kinds of software but for consumer stuff it's been a real advantage.

Do you sell/support BCC in Japanese? Not many people here could do that.
it's not coverage on NBC, it's a digest. pathetic. we stopped watching it.
Windows Phone 7 Series Announce Video
Yeah and it should be changed soon.

@ETacts Again if you need any help let me know.
With Google custom search engine you can create your own personalized search service...built off the back of Google, but while delisting any sites you do not want results from.

And it only takes about 30 seconds to set one up. Then you embed the search box wherever you like.

http://www.google.com/cse/
Try http://media.olympics.com.au/.
and stubbornness. Never underestimate the power of the stubborn.
I normally listen to your wonderful work pretty much whenever I can have my headphone on. These days my iPhone carries more of your interviews than any music. You are doing a fantastic job Andrew, no doubt about that. I think $25 is reasonable to me but can't vouch for others. I would think may be arriving at a middle price point would certainly make the cut.

As others here pointed out, I'm not sure if it's fair to charge all of a sudden without the interviewees knowing about it. And I'm not sure if the quality of your interview would ever change just to keep the paying audience happy!
How about an option where the user enters their credentials once per day (or however often they like), directly feeding the polling process, so that their credentials aren't stored?
Dupe. This paper is new, but the result is not.

The paper Betting on Permutations by Pennock, Chen, Fortnow and Nikolova already proves this.

Consider a race between n runners. Now consider a prediction market accepting bets of the form "X will finish before Y". They prove that the market maker/auctioneer problem is NP hard. Conversely, if markets are efficient, then they solve the market maker/auctioneer problem.
Sorry I had to downvote, not because I don't like the ingenuity of your idea (that's what I would have done if I was in that high-school and 20 years younger), but I think we should be hacking the law and the media's response in this case, instead of sticking tape on laptops' cameras.

There should be more shock and anger about this, and if there isn't that fact should also be a reason for shock and anger.
OK. So you use encryption. +1

Have you had a vulnerability assessment done?
Do you protect against SQL Injection?
Do you protect against Cross-Site Scripting?
How about Cross-Site Request Forgery?
What preventative measures have you taken to lock down your servers?

I know most users don't care about all of those and you're trying to be friendly by saying you use "bank-level" encryption, but some more info would be nice for those of us that care.
* forehead smack * I did not know I could do that with the trackball until I read your comment.
Here is a flowchart! Everybody loves flowcharts!

http://developer.android.com/images/activity_lifecycle.png
I haven't seen any good compressed sensing reconstruction for brains, though I'm not 100% up to date on the literature. Can you give me a cite?

The best I've seen is Candes/Donoho's reconstruction based on curvelets, but they don't offer any real improvement over regular reconstruction.
I've seen the same a lot of times, and I wonder if it's how many textbook companies work. I've read a couple wonderful textbooks, but they are definitely the exception rather than the rule.

Typically, the more complicated the language, the less is being said. Ever read legal documents?
I think you're missing the personality differences. Several of the ventures I've been a part of I joined simply because it looked like such a challenge. I enjoy pushing the limits of my mind, of what I know and of what I can do. This isn't a "do it the hard way because it's more fun", it's finding that simple, elegant solution to the impossible problem, or like a touch of red pepper in spaghetti sauce to give it that tiny kick it needs to be perfect. If you're trying to sell people on your idea to be co-founders, they aren't the right person. If you tell them and they start talking in plans and ideas and acting like it's their idea, too, you have a good co-founder.
I don't get it. He reduces one unverifiable claim to another one.
I cannot make sense of your comment. How does having debt decreases your share of equity?
Ask HN: YC alumni to email?
Dear YC friends,
I've read that its a good idea to contact YC alumni regarding their helpfulness in application and interviews. I was wondering if any alumni here would be so kind as to look over our application.

I tried googling individual companies and investigating their blogs/etc to find their contact info, but its pretty inefficient.

We just need someone with fresh eyes and experience to look it over. Your help is appreciated, feel free to contact me at coryliu[at]gmail or post your email here and I can get to you.

Thanks guys!
Yep, great company. You know what they should try selling? Books.

Because right now they pretty much aren't.
His rational superiors should obviously start scapegoating him by now to divert attention and blame. Their strategy at this point should be to paint this guy as a deranged, power hungry nerd who took matters into his own hands. They should fire him immediately.

(I am not saying whether it is his fault or someone above him ordered it, but I am assuming his superiors are soulless bastards who can hire expensive attorneys. He might be just as bad, but he cannot hire lawyers and PR firms).
Pretty nifty. Needs import though, so you can do stuff like:

:m + Data.List
intersperse '.' "hello"

And anything else you'd need if you want to use stuff other than just the Prelude.
I don't want to say this is unoriginal, but I'm surprised that the usual suspects are missing in bibliography: "computable economics", "Philip Mirowski", "K. Vela Velupillai", "Barkley Rosser", etc.
Amazon receives a good majority of my business for several reasons.

1.) When I order an item I know i'm going to get it within 2-3 days (thanks prime) or an email stating its delayed.

2.) If that item is lost or stolen in transport, I can trust Amazon to handle the matter above and beyond what's required.

3.) I can buy something with one click. (I'm pretty good at not over spending, so I really like this feature)

4.) Most items have reviews, and positive or negative reviews are treated equally.

5.) The site is quick/responsive and easy to navigate

6.) They have what I want, and I can find it in seconds.
I was amazed that NBC shuttled the Canada/US hockey game to their SD cable news station. I remember watching some guys skiing with guns, and shooting at stuff... I guess, in HD, then having to switch over to SD to watch the only game anyone I knew actually gave a crap about. What a joke. But, I'm a Canadian, so I guess at least I didn't have to watch them lose in more resolution.
So I love the web app. Super simple (especially with the keyboard shortcuts). Let me know when you have a login & saved lists will ya? Email in my profile.
John Koza Has Built an Invention Machine
I kinda cringed at the same thing. I think the key escape-word there, though, is the "enshrining" of design patterns.

Enshrining anything is bad. But, directly after agreeing with semantic compression via abstraction, patterns, and DRY, attacking design patterns seems ass-backwards as that's precisely what they're supposed to do.
That's just an excuse to quit. So you start with email. Email is the baseline. The important thing is to have a clear vision and start building shit.

If it's really important to integrate other services, you can do that later. (I don't think it is, personally. At least not for the kind of people who would pay you money.)
Also Clower and Howitt.
Doing a startup is not just about programming ability. Determination, desire, competiveness, a willingness to take risks, etc, are all far more important. Of the long course of human existence, something like 40% of men have reproduced, while 80% of women manage to reproduce ( http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/is-there-anyt... ). Thus for a woman to reproduce she basically has to not take risks, and not screw up. But the proper reproductive strategy for a man is to take major risks so he can be the top dog with 5 wives, rather than the median man with no wives. The result is that men are by nature far greater risk takers. Startups require a lot of risk and a lot of sacrifice, it's not at all surprising to me that it is so male dominated. All the most risky activities, throughout the entire course of human history have been male dominated.

And also, being good at programming is not just about having the smart genes. It's also about liking programming. I'm a nerd, I like spending most of time dealing with abstract logical concepts rather than with people. Most women are not like this. We have several women on our team in QA and product management. They have undergraduate degrees in engineering from top schools. But they don't program. Why? Because they don't like it. Whenever I talk with women about career plans, and mention programming, the usual response is something like, "meh". On the flip side, I'm pretty sure I would hate working in PR.

Men and woman are different. And you know what? That's OK. I don't see what this obsession is with putting all of society in a blender until every job as a perfect distribution of every demographic component. Celebrate and embraces differences!
Well, a more accurate title given the tone of the post would be, as another commenter on this thread has written:

"The iPhone is the best thing in the universe, and anything on the Nexus One that seems to be better actually isn't and anyone who thinks so is clearly mistaken"

If you think that's a post worth reading, we have very different preferences in reading material, that's all. The criticisms I directed at it were made given the premise that I expected to read a post about what the title said it was about.
Because your contact list doesn't contain frequency information?
Database in cloud – Amazon RDS or MySQL on ebs?
Recently Amazon launched RDS – Relational Database Service. Before Amazon offered this service, we had a MySQL configured on an ec2 instance. We needed one more database in cloud. Which way did we go? In this article, I have tried to compare both the options.
'Good' Beats 'Innovative' Nearly Every Time
I second xero, it's fantastic. Try before you buy, they have a demo company you can trial with before purchasing.
Small product nit: I think you weight older messages too highly.

#1 on my list is my girlfriend (cool). #2 is my co-founder from my last company (also cool). #3 is my dad.

#4 is my ex-girlfriend, and it's telling me to email her (fail).
You can watch most (all?) of the curling events live on the nbcolympics.com website. I've usually had a curling or hockey game streaming while at work for the past week.

One annoying thing about that though: you have to subscribe to a cable or satellite service in order to actually view it. Why should NBC care if I have DirecTV or not? It also requires Silverlight, which begs the question: why aren't they using Hulu for this?
Ah, but can it reverse an infinite list?

> reverse [1..]

Time limit exceeded
That royally pissed me off. Why did I have to watch the one game that I cared about in standard def? At least they could have moved it to CNBC, which was broadcasting curling in HD.
I've never had a bad shopping experience at Walmart, well not one that was within Walmart's control, but that's not really the reason most people dislike them. The real problem is on the supply side, Walmart is so massive that supplying them can make or break your company. So if getting a contract means your margins are razor thin you do it even if it may not be a very good long term strategy. People don't like Walmart because they squeeze everything out of their suppliers and then move on to a new supplier.

Now granted you could view this as the suppliers not being efficient or smart enough but in a non-Walmart monopoly world they would have easily survived.

Pretty good Fast Company article on their negotiation techniques: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html
Totally agree. Try ruby isn't great because it's a ruby shell in your browser. It's great because it's a ruby shell in your browser that shows off many features of the language. By the end, though people are definitely still beginners, they have a decent handle on the syntax and many of the basic objects. More than just multiplying numbers and reversing a string.
I'm not quite sure I understand everyones frustration. Why don't people just watch whatever events they want whenever they want online (it's all available there for free and with fewer commercials).
Now, is it safe to assume a roughly equal standard deviation for both curves?

No.

Hyde, J. S., Lindberg, S. M., Linn, M. C., Ellis, A. B., & Williams, C. C. (2008). Gender Similarities
Characterize Math Performance. Science, 321(5888), 494-495.

A WSJ article summarizing: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121691806472381521.html

Choice quote: "...there were more than twice as many boys among the top [math] scorers than girls."
Another factor is that the weak inefficient market hypothesis (as far as I know) isn't a claim that we can't find the method for analyzing past prices. It's a claim that there is no possible method because the future price of a security is for all purposes stochastically independent of past prices. No matter what algorithm you use, NP, P, or any other algorithmic space, you can never reliably predict the value of a variable that is independent of its previous values.

I'm not positive that this defeats the argument this guy was making (not a computer scientist, only a programmer), but from what I could gather it seems to.
If you find a proof that a problem is NP-complete that's not reducing one unverifiable claim to another one, be sure to let us know!
I think you should definitely give the premium service model a shot. Even if it doesn't prove to be your final business model, you've already proven that you know what entrepreneurs want to hear, so maybe you could move into hosting panels/luncheons or similar.
Another thing you can't do with recipe ratings is prove the the rater actually made the item in question. At least on shopping sites, you can say "jrockway bought this item on 5/19/2009", so you have some idea whether or not the person has any clue.
Hey I very much have enjoyed the curling matches this year :)

I didn't get to see the hockey game though.
Dreamwidth's diversity is its strength
I thought you were going to go on one of your rants about how encrypting passwords is useless .. with which I happen to agree, btw.
Obviously I didn't mean it as a permanent solution.
Wal-mart fills a very-much-needed niche. Volume. Where volume is key, Wal-mart fills the bill very well. And I like garply's comment, it shows what they're really good at and good for.

The newer local-foods focus is fantastic, but they really do have a "if we don't have it, you don't need it" style to the stores, and all they tend to have is mid-low-grade everything. In my experience, that ends up costing you more in the long run, even ignoring the huge amount of added frustration and just counting the cash.
Because watching it on my computer isn't nearly as easy (stuttering, finding URLs, downloading players), convenient, relaxing, or high quality as sitting on my couch while watching an HD broadcast on my 50" LCD.
Possible surprise exclusions:

Apple

Google

Any single food or beverage brand, e.g., Coca-Cola.

Any single media brand, e.g., NBC

Surprise inclusions (IMO):

Toyota (they just had two major recalls!)

WebMD (what?!)