skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently read the book "Common Errors in Statistics." It was really illuminating. They spent a particularly long time discussing errors in various medical studies, although I think that's because the authors' backgrounds are in that area rather than medicine having particularly bad statistics.

To attempt to summarize the book, it seems that statistical errors tend to boil down to one of three problems:

* Improperly building the experiment, failing to ensure independence or account for confounding variables.

* Misunderstanding significance. Reading too much meaning into p-values, and performing post-hoc analysis. Remember that a 95 percent significance level means that in 5 percent of the trials, you'll get a positive result by random chance.

* Improperly using tests, by failing to account for their limitations. For instance, using a test that assumes normality when you don't have a strong case that the data is normal. Or using a test that requires a certain sample size on a dataset that is too small.

When you think about it, most scientists receive a few semesters of statistics strung out through their education. They learn a little about probability, then how to do a few significance tests and something here and there about regression. They then start doing work where in pretty much every field nowadays, publishing a paper involves statistical analysis at some point. And most of them grope their way through it based on hazy memories of introductory stats classes taken years before.
It is more likely due to timezone issues - it must be night there, that is why no one to approve comments
Is there a generic webapp (something like OSCommerce) that can automatically create an affiliate store like the one you linked when supplied with a list of item names or URLs?
This will surely end well.

gets popcorn
From this end, this preference for, as you put it, "cojones" looks ridiculous. I can't tell you how many contracting gigs I've gotten after recommending people who were /obviously better than I am/ - Frankly, I find it disgusting that the average business person would rather work with someone tall, arrogant and loud than with someone who actually knows what they are doing.
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When you are getting ready for your Maryland wedding, you must pay very close attention to one of the important aspects of your wedding day celebrations is your Maryland wedding day table arrangements. Wedding day table arrangements do not get our attention until the last moment.
Did I mention that Mac OSX drivers are written in C++?

To be nitpicky about an otherwise very good post, IOKit uses a "restricted subset" of C++, so things like exceptions, multiple inheritance and templates aren't allowed. Also, IOKit has its own runtime typing system. http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/DOCUMENTATION/DeviceD...
The Facts About Diamonds (and why I don’t like De Beers)
I believe its the Frontend implementation of the Chat that's unstable. Meebo has done facebook chat implementation pretty well.
Hard to believe, I first read that post after reading pluggdin, http://www.pluggd.in/paypal-india-outage-no-payments-to-or-f..., and that post has been up for at least 24 hrs now. In all fairness, the comments must have been scathing. I know I cant bring myself to be polite to anyone at Paypal if I meet them now.
Dude, did you see the Chrome ads? A lot of them were terrible.

You're right that this piece did achieve "Googliness" in an ad context. Maybe they've found their message finally.
Source code
http://github.com/wagerlabs/seaforth24
and Forth code to talk to the device
http://github.com/wagerlabs/seaforth24/blob/master/USBdriveM...
There's no need for that. The iPhone's PowerVR chip can push tens of millions of triangles per second (depending on the artificial benchmark used...). It's roughly comparable in capabilities to a Dreamcast (also PowerVR), and ten times better than a Nintendo DS.
20 reasons why the US economy is dying and is simply not going to recover
Eval kits are available since the whole team was canned and went to Green Arrays.

FORTHdrive (thumbstick) has a SEAforth chip on it (24 cores). Take a look at the hearing aid presentation in the files section of the SEAforth Google group [2] to see what can be done with this chip. Skip directly to p13 if you don't care about the math.

[1] http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/news/index.html
[2] http://groups.google.com/group/seaforth
Maybe. I wouldn't use the term 'grad school' for an MSc program, unless its the first two years of a US PhD.

I think the OP is talking about PhD programs too. After all, doing a short MSc doesn't prevent you doing YC afterwards.
Watch Nexus One get built, then beaten mercilessly
Self confidence is useful for making money as a contractor, but I know I felt a lot better about myself after I productized my work and thus largely made apparent self-confidence irrelevant.
"This is an edited version of an article that previously ran on DaveMcClure.com."

I'm guessing that "pruned" is a more accurate description than "edited."

Great article, though.
When in the empire of google, do as google just comment out the crap.
eh, disagree. I don't think I've ever seen anyone get fired for saying "Hey, boss, it would be really great if you could give me a raise"
A failed startup with experience doing cutting edge product R&D could have a lot more value in the job market than two years in school and a master's degree. Its worked out well for me - failure after failure, learned a ton, career doing quite well. I work with PhD's all day long, and they are bright, capable people. I also interview PhD's who are incapable of building things, or demonstrating their intelligence whatsoever. The Valley is a meritocracy - if you can do things, you are employable. If you can do difficult things, you'll get good work alongside degreed persons.

As long as you learn a ton - its not hard to make a startup as valuable as a degree. Its called 'equivalent experience,' and in Silicon Valley at least - it means what it says.
I did. From that perspective (my life seen through the lens of Google's information on me) I found the music pretty creepy, too.

It reminded me of http://www.fatal-attarction.net/dl/DuBistTerrorist_EN_deubbe...
I made a few games and demos on the C64 using this technique (switching colours every few raster lines). That part was easy to figure out. The hard bit to my 15-year old self was finding the foreshortening relationship. Through trial and error I finally settled on a lookup table calculated using 1/tan(z)... which as it happens is a good approximation of the true 1/z relation for small angles. Crazy...
HCM - Tuyển kế toán
CÔNG TY TNHH DP THÀNH ĐẠT là một công ty kinh doanh trong lĩnh vực dược phẩm với quy mô phân phối toàn quốc. môi trường làm việc tốt.
From the article:

Why Pseudo 3d?

Now that every system can produce graphics consisting of a zillion polygons on the fly, why would you want to do a road the old way? Aren't polygons the exact same thing, only better? Well, no. It's true that polygons lead to less distortion, but it is the warping in these old engines that give the surreal, exhillerating sense of speed found in many pre-polygon games. Think of the view as being controlled by a camera. As you take a curve in a game which uses one of these engines, it seems to look around the curve. Then, as the road straightens, the view straightens. As you go over a blind curve, the camera would seem to peer down over the ridge. And, since these games do not use a traditional track format with perfect spatial relationships, it is possible to effortlessly create tracks large enough that the player can go at ridiculous speeds-- without worrying about an object appearing on the track faster than the player can possibly react since the physical reality of the game can easily be tailored to the gameplay style.
If you wait for more info to come out, there's a good chance you'll wait until it's too late.

Who am I kidding? Donating $50 to the EFF is probably worth 50 hours of complaining online, with my limited reach. BTW, I just donated that $50. :)
Never make the mistake of thinking this is equally true of all chains. Some chains, such as Giant Eagle, are known for their data mining. Others just follow the leader.
FWIW, Their Facebook chat seems to be constantly wrong. Unless it's just my account. "50 users online", then you click on it, and it changes its mind and says 7 users.
Real-world device using Chuck Moore's SEAforth chips [pdf]
It sounds like the mechanism of action of the plasma might be (irreversible) electroporation. Basically, the electric fields created by plasma can tear small holes in the cell membranes/walls of the bacteria.
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How They Draw the First-Down Line on TV Football Games
Its amazingly complicated :-)
Original version here:

http://www.500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2010/01/startups-vcs...

The editing process apparently stripped it of some of damn-wretched bloodletting tricolored shamen-with-ransom-notes charm. (That might sound snarky but I actually kind of like the metaphor. The refusal to use rudimentary measures like e.g. A/B testing because "it is hard and anyway I know what I'm doing" makes us look less like doctors and more like physicians leeching patients because, hey, leeches were good enough for Dad. Or, to use a modern analogy, we look like doctors who will not use checklists because they're too smart to ever kill anyone because they didn't follow a checklist.)
In almost everyplace I've been, opening in my obviously American accented equivalent of the local "hello" then proceeding in English (even if they mistakenly think I can speak local), seems to work very well.

Which is no different from what I suggested, except that you mentioned saying "hello" in the local language and I mentioned asking if they speak English instead of presuming. Both good ideas, I think, unless you're in a situation where presuming is justified.

And I've been to some pretty hostile places. In some cases, stuffing my self-entitled American give-it-to-me-now-and-speak-English-while-doing-it attitude down my own throat opened tons of doors even across vast cultural and linguistic differences.

Well, that's a lot of external baggage you've imposed on the discussion. Since we were taking the time to discuss what polite behavior actually is in various situations, it would seem that we're already taking your "not being a douche" point for granted. And really, thinking in terms of your own attitude is not really the right way to do it, whether your attitude is "I'm an American and entitled to speak English anywhere" or "I'm quite proud of not being a self-entitled douche, and pardon me while I demonstrate that fact using this charming gentleman from the audience, I mean, the native culture." Aren't you supposed to think about what behavior will make the other person feel comfortable and respected, instead of thinking about what behavior would best reflect an admirable attitude on your part?

And you know, there are a couple of reasons why deference and humility are a pretty good universal pass to foreign cultures. It's not because they reflect a virtuous attitude, and it's not because they're polite behavior in all circumstances. First, the people you might offend or discomfort by that kind of behavior are generally not in a position to make any trouble for you. Second, lack of regard for social rank is part of the popular image of Americans (at least the positive popular image of Americans,) so people tend to understand inappropriately equal behavior as a reflection of Americanness instead of intentional rudeness. It turns out understanding and tolerance go both ways.
Search for "affiliate store script" and I think you should find some.
I'm curious what gave you that impression–just the fact that people seemed to give honest (i.e. good and bad) feedback?

Folks answered the questions despite any technical requirement forcing them to, and many of the responses looked like they had thought put in them. (Of course, many users from both groups gave answers which were not triumphs of well-expressed English but it didn't seem like folks were mostly typing asdfasdfadf to get their freebie.)

I like guaranteed prizes over random prizes because my experience e.g. in teaching is that surety is a powerful motivator/instructional tool. (Then again there is also the WoW model of random rewards over repeated interactions, but this is more of a one-off.)
To borrow Warren Buffet's term, the in-crowd are the winners of the Ovarian Lottery, and the normals (with me among them) are the losers.

"I’ve had it so good in this world, you know. The odds were fifty-to-one against me born in the United States in 1930. I won the lottery the day I emerged from the womb by being in the United States instead of in some other country where my chances would have been way different.

Imagine there are two identical twins in the womb, both equally bright and energetic. And the genie says to them, “One of you is going to be born in the United States, and one of you is going to be born in Bangladesh. And if you wind up in Bangladesh, you will pay no taxes. What percentage of your income would you bid to be the one this is born in the United States?” It says something about the fact that society has something to do with your fate and not just your innate qualities. The people who say, “I did it all myself,” and think of themselves as Horatio Alger – believe me, they’d bid more to be in the United States than in Bangladesh. That’s the Ovarian Lottery."
Pffft... sorry, that's very nostalgic and all, but if you really wanted non-realistic road effects, you'd still use polygons in any modern implementation. And I know what I'm talking about, I have used both systems.
Here's one way. Its a bit more inconvenient, but I think its worth the inconvenience.

1) GMail has an export to csv feature. Export your contacts.

2) Facebook creates a "import contacts" feature. Import the list.

Done.

I can't think of any right now, but you may be able to come up with a feature that absolutely needs you to put in your email password. However, I suspect that by adding a little inconvenience, one can find a way around it.
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Facebook just hears more gossip than any one person did in the past.

At some point, a large enough quantitative difference becomes a qualitative difference. Facebook has definitely crossed that boundary. This does, in itself, make facebook bad, but its not just the equivalent of an absurdly gossipy person.

When you make your data public, you no longer have a right to control it.

Fair enough, but the problem is the rate at which your information becomes very public that is causing problems. In the past, if you sent someone a letter with a return address, they could make photocopies if it and send it to everyone they wanted to, but that would take a lot of time and effort. The fact that its almost automatic now will catch a lot of people by surprise. People need to understand how quickly information about them can spread so they can make informed decisions in their life.
I'm guessing verizon blocked it because there was a attack directed at 4chan or something is fishy and they are attacking from verizons network.
I don't think the debate is, or should be, about if facebook is doing something wrong. The bigger issue is making sure people understand the scope of facebook's information.
Ooh, that's scary. Being so worried about XSSing themselves when they look at your password and so uncertain of their HTML sanitisation that they reduce the keyspace... that's a special kind of special.
Fair point. How do I remove this link do you know? I don't want to spam so I will remove it but it is not immediately obvious how to do so.
Publishing is broken.

In the face of the Internet, which is the greatest platform ever created for a single person trying to build a following on the basis of their writing ability, publishers still send out newbie authors on book signing tours. So that they can spend hundreds to go to a city they've never been and put copies of their book into the hands of people who happen by the bookstore that day. Because that is apparently the most efficient use of their time.

My little brother, who is trying to break into comics by sustained guerrilla warfare, has a more sophisticated Internet strategy than most published authors. (A blog, a mailing list, analytics, keyword research, reader surveys, etc. If you're going to make writing a career, make a business out of it.)

And authors have such a case of Stockholm Syndrome that they take what their publishers are doing, borked in many ways, and consider it normal. (There is a precious comment on a blog post I made about the Kindle, where a published author loudly objects at the notion that authors sell books to readers: I have it totally wrong, they sell books to publishers. Readers are an afterthought. I don't think I'd be very good at my job if I could even consider uttering the words "I sell software to Paypal.")
NASA's version of Google Earth extended to the edge of time
Surely, they're giving you a way to opt out every time they contact you? imo, provided there is a prominent and easy opt out method there's no problem

Of course, if there isn't a really easy to opt out then it is douchebaggery of the highest order.
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It has convinced me and everyone I know. At least 3/4 of them are going to buy it straight away. I don't think this 'analysis' is representative of the true story. I mean the ipad was announced with a 3 month wait on orders. I think this interest will pick up again closer to the actual launch.
Statistical Analysis of U Chicago Graffiti
The lack of punctuation characters makes this a DSL and not bog-standard Ruby code?

> ... instead of creating DSL people usually implement some kind of config file format instead. or just use XML.

Writing a grammar or a parser means you haven't created a DSL?

Unless by "DSL" you mean "Ruby syntax and Ruby semantics with symbol names chosen by the programmer", I have no idea what you mean by "DSL".
Aggregation itself doesn't necessarily create value, but depending on what is done with the aggregation can create much value.

Google news is a good example, no one could really say that having all that article discovery and grouping was providing no value. Google scholar provides no content by itself but is very useful.
Uploaded to Scribd:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/26543064/Preso-HLS
I can't believe there was a picture of an exploding van with a little caption saying 'demonstration' that could have been quite easily missed leaving you with the impression that Anonymous were blowing up vans. Unbelievable.
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The question of leadership has become a recurring theme for Chelsea in the last week or so, and now it is the turn of Arsenal to do the interrogating. Watch English Premier League football match, Chelsea Vs Arsenal Highlights here.
"It has convinced me and everyone I know."

The plural of anecdote is not data. Maybe you just hang out with people who think like you. I don't know how rigorous the OP's study is but this kind of response makes no sense.
Just substitute "entrepreneur" (or really many/most challenging and rewarding things) for "writer" in the excerpt below:

Call it stubbornness, stamina, a take-no-prisoners determination, but a writer at work reminds me of nothing so much as a terrier with a bone: gnawing, biting, chewing.
Exploring the linked site a little deeper, there's this gem on making applications more game-like: http://lostgarden.com/Mixing_Games_and_Applications.pdf

From what the author explains in the presentation, vim violates the tried-and-true video game mechanics of starting the user with only the most basic functionality. To teach vim using the author's method, one could start by removing all but the most basic commands. Then, these missing commands could be introduced to the user one at a time, in a controlled environment where there is a clear task (eg. jump the cursor to a particular point in the text) that can be measured as success or failure.

In the linked presentation, the author draws a comparison to the game Metroid. In the game, the player falls into a deep pit and has to find a way to climb out before being able to continue on. Failure to perform the new skill (accurately timing the character's wall-jumping) is immediately clear because the player will fall back down into the pit. When the user finally times it correctly, he's free from the pit and the brain rewards him with a sense of accomplishment.

Back to vim, if you wanted to create such an environment for learning a new command to move the cursor around, you wouldn't want the user to fall back on basic navigation with h, j, k, and l. You could disable these keys temporarily, or leave them but only reward the user if they accomplish the goal using the fewest key-presses possible.

Once they "win" this "level" you've designed, those new navigation keys should be considered part of their arsenal of skills for solving future problems. Each skill mastery could be further rewarded by filling in parts of a cheat-sheet (like this one: http://www.viemu.com/vi-vim-cheat-sheet.gif). This can be seen in the section where the author talks about Link to the Past and the picture of the player's item inventory. The vim player's goal could be to "unlock" and master these keyboard skills and ultimately fill in the complete chart.
Adobe Flash on Opera/Linux has always been quirky , crashy and all-round unreliable for me in the past. So, I use Opera as my pure-HTML+javascript browser, with ALL plugins, sound, animation, and Java plugins turned off in Global preferences.

Going off-topic [Opera praise]:
These settings instantly turn Opera into the most stable and shockingly scalable 'Research and reference' browser I've used. I only use Firefox3.5.x solely for web-dev, Google Apps, heavy-JS Web 2.0 apps, and Flash-enabled sites of course (with Flashblock as first-line-defence).
Facebook Launches New And Improved Photo Uploader
Yes, Opera/Windows handles Flash surprisingly well. The secret sauce is a mystery.
I've seen quite of posters for Google Chrome, which struck me as a bit odd that a company that depends on high tech advertising would resort to such a low tech medium.
Of course it is a legitimate threat - if Bing started doing searches in any consistently better way than Google I'd use that. I have about as much loyalty to Google as a service as I did to Altavista: i.e. practically none.

I suspect others think this way and Google knows it.
The Rise of Caller ID Spoofing - Digits - WSJ
"[...] a secret website that requires you to remain anonymous"
When I worked for BestBuy the store had a mainframe. I thought to myself ,"what the hell do they need a mainframe for to run a store?" A region or a district I could understand, but most of the tasks for running a store could be done from a decent Windows box. I figured they bought a lot of them for cheap and needed for them to do something so printing SKUs twice a week was what they were good for.

When I got to university the guy that ran the IT department for Walmart gave a presentation on how they got real-time data on each store.
... and health care?
I am a lady who had long disliked diamonds for these very reasons. They are not nearly as valuable as what you pay due to hoarding and such. My partner is aware that should the time come, I'd far prefer a natural pearl, than a diamond. Unless of course he can find a piece of genuine moissanite, one that actually came from space on a meteorite, that would be the coolest!
Software developers need accommodation and food just like everybody else.
Hardware based randomness for Linux