skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where do you think you fall on the introvert-extrovert scale? More than a variant, "extravert" is actually the original spelling that Jung used, which he chose because "extra" is a legitimate Latin prefix, while "extro" is not:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-diff...

I'm pretty far on the introverted side, and would prefer spelling it "extraverted" although I'm aware that this is nonstandard in the US. I think this is because I tend to be more attentive to the rules of orthography than to common usage. I'd guess that extroverts tend to care more about social norms than while introverts are more comfortable with consistent rules?
Author here: we scraped every script website on the Internet. First we tried to normalize the dataset but only doing stats on the top 1,000 box office, but we were missing too many scripts. So we decided to go big and then display a cut of the data that's only films in the top 2,500 box office (we had about half of those).

We're aware of sampling error and the potential for cherry-picking, but also struggled to figure out what was a representative sample.
Thanks for that link. I'll include it in the post.
Indeed, the ideal solution would be to build more housing in the places and price-points where they're so in demand- but that's a large material effort. Lifting the 4-people restriction would just require the town government to stop actively trying to make life difficult for people.

And its also true, this kind of rule exists for a reason- in my experience, the sardine-student-housing lifestyle stops being fun at about 8 or 9 people to half as many bedrooms. But I guarantee you that Somerville is already full of such situations, and they're all much worse off because they're illegal- these people's landlords can get away with anything, because if their tenant's complain to the town everyone living in the building will get evicted.
Odd that the video doesn't seem to catch spall then.
Everything seems to follow the development of the 1985 baby boom but nobody actually acknowledges or realizes it.
OK, first of all I appreciate the thoughtful response.

I agree that the necessary transition from scarce hydrocarbons to something else, whenever that happens, is not likely to be totally pain-free. One of the traditional problems with markets is the turbulence that happens around these big paradigm shifts. America is in the middle of one right now as we transition to an information-based economy.

I don't agree that the existing players in the hydrocarbon market have the ability to delay the change in the way that you're implying. In other words, resource availability is not a stepwise function that can just go from "available" to "not available" overnight. Rare things gradually get more expensive, investment is gradually shifted into alternatives, and this is basically guaranteed to happen with oil as long as there is not a perfect monopoly or perfect collusion.

Also I'm skeptical that the economic policies you're suggesting won't lead to giving up freedoms. In practice freedoms do get taken away very often when institutions obtain the power to do so (e.g. the regulatory blockade on nuclear power, the ratcheting emissions rules for automobiles that will make a legal gasoline-powered car physically impossible in the near future, the outright ban on fracking in NY). I think this has a good chance of happening even if the initial plan is just to influence the market. A possible scenario: Some bad idea is encouraged for whatever reason by policy makers, and the economic policy isn't able to overcome the fact that it is a bad idea, so the decision makers cling to the sunk cost and pile on more regulations, until they start taking away freedoms.

For the record I'm not a big fan of the current agricultural policies we have in general, even though I do think imposing a tariff or offering an incentive is infinitely preferable to a ban.
Who is buying these things? Even the "high-end" (nest) is buggy, expensive, and hostile to ownership. What is the appeal? Can anyone explain? My thermostat has no physical ability to lock me out or brick itself. That this is even on the table is terrifying.
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You may not mean it this way, but for any reader who might be mistaken:

P == NP => integer factorization can be done in polynomial time with a classic computer but not vice versa.
In fact, many people believe P != NP && integer factorization can be done in polynomial time since FACTOR lies in this awkward space in the intersection of NP and co-NP. (Most other problem in this space are also in P, but we think P != NP, so...)

Now of course, if you put in quantum computers into the mix, Shor's algorithm can break both RSA and ECDSA in polynomial time.
I upvoted you, too! That's usually why I read it.

I think as bad as the mainstream US media source you mentioned can be, they're still not equivalent on the whole. Wish they weren't so actively trying to close the gap, though...

edit: there are sources as bad, and there are source as prominent, but I don't think any are in the intersection. Honestly, it's more of hand-waving/gut feel on my part, though.
Maybe it would be considered a niche thing, but I started hearing demoscene podcasts around 2000.

Eagerly waiting for the day to download the mp3 or RealAudio file with the new show.
What would the economic viability of oil look like without the massive subsidies the industry reeceives every year, including the construction of infrastructure that favors transportation predicated on cheap oil over everything else?
You need to divide Brooklyn into the parts you'd actually want to live in (commute times and safety). Split it in half. You'll definitely pay more than $2200 in the more convenient safer areas
I tend to find it easier to hold a discussion with those that say what they mean. I personally have found the type of person that says "You know what I mean." in response to corrections of the "they're/their/there" sort to be intellectually lazy in many of their endeavors (and in support of the one of the article's premises, typically "outgoing" as well).

The type of person that sprinkles their text with whatever word seems appropriate enough and leaves you to figure out what they truly mean is offloading their cognitive work onto you, to the detriment of communication and understanding.
Thanks, Scott, unfortunately, I can't edit. Next time I will try to avoid. About the monetization part, is more about give the opportunity to brands without interfering too much with the experience of people.
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while being upfront about employment terms is always a good thing,

this sort of arrangement is unilateral in the company's favor. you sit there, churning out codes and solutions and they get to keep it after you leave.

what do you get other than a pat on your back and some space filler on your resume?

shares of the company?

free software updates for life?

a chance to preview new hardware before anyone else?

how about free hardware? or at least the chance to buy it at cost?

what about using whatever you help create, somewhere else?

there are non-tech businesses that work this way and the morale is typically through the floor. you see this at brick and mortar businesses when there's no room for advancement within the company, because the company isn't expanding geographically they have one location and they like it that way.

most of those companies, love these loopholes they can take advantage of, like less than full time hours so you don't get healthcare benefits and because the turnover rate is so high, no one ever really gets a raise. oh, they have protocols on the books, but no one makes it that long.

it's like the rat box experiment -

one box of rats has food and a way out - they spread out and flourish

one box has no food, but a way out - they all leave

one box has food and no way out - when the food runs out, so do they

one box has no food and no way out - you end up with one really fat cannibal rat

just because we humans like to pretend we are civilized, we are not immune to succumbing to our animal instincts.

interestingly enough, this behavior can also be observed in neighborhoods in NYC where there are many NYCHA buildings grouped together like Queensbridge and Morrisania Houses. from their perspective there's no future, no food, no money, no hope - no discernible way out.

so what do they do? they turn on each other.

what do humans do where there is a massive blackout and we are suddenly back in the stone age?
we behave like the animals we are. we've seen it time and time again.

I recommend becoming well versed in IP law if this is a 'lifestyle choice' anyone wants to make. at least then, you can protect your own right to profit off of anything you create in these set ups.
With Virtual Reality in mind I feel that I should mention that people have noticed that VR can mess with peoples day and night cycle perception.

When I listen to audio books I often use my D2 Oculus rift VR headseat and explore like a tourist cool looking custom minecraft maps with the MineCrift mod, I have experiences some confusion after being in a day time VR world and taking off the VR headseat and seeing that it is night time in real life, and the opposite with night time VR scenes at day time IRL.
The ability of high quality VR to mess with the visual senses of people is really powerfull and not restricted to entertainment.
> Something is wrong and broken with "modern capitalism" if a mere 90,000 people have more wealth than 90% of the planet.

Honestly, I don't think so. I believe we are merely returning to a state of the world that we've always been in - with the exception of the last 70 years or so. The existence of a large middle class is a distinct phenomenon of the 20th century, and specifically of the western countries. If I'm not mistaken then such a thing as a large middle class did never exist before anywhere else. It was always this heavily skewed distribution where 99% of the people own next to nothing compared to the 1%. I dont wan't to advocate for either of these two distributions here, just stating the historical context.
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Just a small nitpick, it's called 'Leuchtturm' (lighthouse), 'turm' beeing 'tower' in German. Their solution for digitizing notes is called "whitelines" [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXiZgVaRkSM
I don't see anyone else complaining about it.
Isn't this just log structured storage [1], essentially?

[1]: http://blog.notdot.net/2009/12/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Log-stru...
Shopping in Bellevue is better than Seattle. As for culture the popular parts of Seattle are as homogenous as Portland, and Bellevue at least has a sizable immigrant population from Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa.

But yes, Bellevue is not the most happening place in the world.
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The malware would just disable this warning. This is the same cat & mouse game that antiviruses are already playing.
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I work about 90 hours a week building software for local governments (http://seneca.systems). If I only cared about personal gain, I would have either a) stayed at Gusto (where the stock I left on the table is now worth ~$2m) or b) started an ad-network. You won't here about us in TechCrunch because what we do is not sexy or about our personal brands. I have never had so much fun as I do now, empowering public servants.[1]

I agree he deserves a shot at redemption, but my point is that he doesn't seem to have gotten there yet.

I'm not saying he is a bad person forever because of his original comments. Those do not really bother me—he fucked up, said some stupid things, and got vilified on the internet. But the why and how he goes about his future work absolutely matters to me because it indicates where he is going in the future.

Let's say you're interviewing two candidates for a marketing position, both of whom have identical backgrounds, skills, etc. (impossible, but this is a hypothetical.) One says they want to do marketing for you because they love your customers, believe in your mission, and care about the impact they can have by spreading the word. The other one says they want to do marketing for you because they think you are attacking a huge market opportunity and can make a lot of money.

Which do you hire? Would you say it doesn't matter because outcomes are the only important thing? I wouldn't, because part of trusting someone to act independently is understanding their motivations. If either of these candidates fuck up, they will do so in very different ways. Candidate 1 will err too much on the side of the customer and the mission, while Candidate 2 will err on the side of making money.

I would take Candidate 1 11/10 times.

[1]: Which, by the way, is probably irrelevant. You brought up good points regardless of who you are or what you do. Challenging the pedigree or credentials of the commentors only serves to distract. Unless I was making the point that I was better than him (which is not what I was trying to imply, so forgive me if it came off that way), then who I am is not relevant.
WebGL is one of the best things that appeared in browsers few years back.
The Android 6.0 version is better in some ways, but has its issues. For instance, in Android 6.0 the Internet permission is assumed. For the truly privacy conscious, the best internet is no internet.

There is something 'clean' about building an app without internet access. I created an app with schedule data that's updated every two months. With no need for regular updating, updates are distributed as app updates. The app was created in a weekend: no backend services to create or maintain.
Well you are entitled to your opinion but it is very likely you are wrong. The consensus among very many strong chess players,and historians is that the mantle of 'greatest player ever' is a toss-up between GK and RJF. This is based on many factors: peak rating,percentage wins/losses, fighting spirit and aversion to draws, quality of the opposition, quality of play, raw talent, statistical analysis of elo ratings, their contribution to theory and other factors. The phrase is not a whim of the reporter.
I wonder if it would be better for services to express uncertain coordinates as the min and max of latitude and longitude, rather than center and radius. The information conveyed is equivalent, but it would be a (small) barrier against lazy or clueless people ignoring the radius.
WebUSB is a way to make it useful from day one => if WebUSB was marketed with this business goal, then why not (except nobody would buy it)? but the implications are so much wider, in terms of security and usability...

Why not WebSATA? WebPCI?

There are certainly a few key actors who would benefit from such a standard (benefits could be time to market), I'm just not sure it's enough benefits for the end user to justify a new standard!
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I've taken it several times and it does nothing for me :-(
I take your point. ECC probably wouldn't cost Nintendo more to implement, but would provide a system that probably isn't being attacked as successfully, hopefully giving their system more time on the market before it's cracked.
That doesn't prevent the main 'exploit', which was just inspecting the traffic of the app externally.
Less than 5% of phones currently run Android 6.x. I don't really think that's a fair "requirement" to give to people, given that many people are otherwise prevented from getting a Marshmallow update not because of the age or model of their phones, but because the carrier has prevented it.
Well, here's a fairly compact Haskell function that should be reasonably efficient (no fancy stuff mind):

queens n = q n n [[]] where
q 0 m ss = ss
q n m ss = q (n-1) m (concatMap (\s->(map (:s)(filter (f 1 s) [0..m-1]))) ss)
f _ [] a = True
f n (b:s) a = a /= b && a /= b+n && a /= b-n && f (n+1) s a
main = print $ queens 8
Yes, I've been to a sleep specialist and they told me the same thing. Anything over 1mg is far too much. And you really have to look to find the 1mg bottles.
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Ah, my childhood, this is great.

Maniac mansion, world games, pirates!, the last ninja and impossible mission were some of my favorites.

I actually managed to beat impossible mission, and I can't even imagine the amount of time I spent wandering aimlessly in last ninja and pirates! not having a clue where to go or what to do.

Good times.

"Stay a while, stay forever!!!!"
Clearly the right thing to do is to have them map every single "default" IP to the nearest law enforcement facility rather than an individual address.
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> I see nothing wrong with drilling an oil well on your own land.

Yet drilling an oil well is currently illegal on a lot of private land in the US.

> Where we have a problem is when you start spreading that oil, or stuff derived from it, in my air and water.

Air and water pollution are regulated separately by another group. I don't have any problem with this kind of regulation unless it gets out of hand (classifying CO2 as pollution for example).
Haha - yea, there's a lot of work to do for sure. I'd argue also that just robotics isn't enough - cell design and machine interfacing is actually way more time than the robot programming itself.
And for some, it is very powerful.. I recommend first-timers start with a half-tablet!

Melatonin works great when you're trying to adjust your bedtime to be much earlier than when your body is expecting.
So, tack on an "S" and you're good! The laws of supply and demand.
Poverty is actually the reality for many today.
Some people have been saying this for a while: "The Alzheimer Pandemic: Is Paracetamol to Blame?" - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3921468/
Funny story, but here in The Netherlands they are named after the owner, as far as I know...
Great timing. I was just going through the referenced "Tutorial: Handcrafting an Isomorphic Redux Application (With Love)", having gone through the React tutorial the day before. When I first saw your article, I thought it was nothing more than a rehashed version of the "With Love" one. But as I got to the end of "With Love" I wondered:

# "With Love" uses an external API server; how would I handle API requests on the same server?

# There's no real demonstration of how to do routing beyond a single route.

# "With Love" is unfinished, with no live updates etc.

# How to integrate even simplistic file-based persistence?

The Facebook tutorial had all that, but I wasn't sure how to integrate those features into a server-side-rendered framework. So essentially my next step would have been to figure out how to do what you just did here. The extra work of making the application functional (beyond just showing the pre-rendered screen) is icing on the cake.
The only way this would happen is if the property appreciates.

At current property tax rate of 1.1%, a half-million dollar appreciation would result in $5500 yr additional property tax.

I would gladly trade spots with those who have to uproot themselves because they've had such massive home price appreciation.
> key sizes we'd have thought totally reasonable in 1995 are totally inadequate today.

Not really. The last big jump in complexity was in 1991, when the first 512-bit modulus, 2^512+1, was factored by NFS [1]. What has progressed the most, by far, has been the available computational power.

[1] http://www.ams.org/journals/mcom/1993-61-203/S0025-5718-1993...
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Mirra had recently been feeling lonely and lost, his friends tell me, but it never occurred to them, or most of them, to worry for his life.

Someone very close to me committed suicide and this is exactly how I felt. I resolved to never look past this symptom again and try and be more active in how I respond in the future, if I ever see it again.

At the time, I remember feeling helpless and unsure how to help. If I could do it over again, I'd just be there and offer to listen more than I did. I'm not saying this would have made the difference, but it's what I would do in the future.
You've never hit your head on the end of the lane while doing laps? Especially backstroke...
Sunset and Richmond districts seem to be ignored in almost every discussion of San Francisco.
All that goodwill pissed away for a paltry 2k? I mean, at least get into five figures if you're planning a heist like that.
In this country, you can't do that without a drilling permit, because of several concerns:

1. Soil subsidence.
2. The well casing can break, causing migration of oil, gas, and other pollutants to neighboring wells.
3. You over-pumping your well, drawing oil from under neighboring lands.
4. Releases of gas and natural gas liquids into the air.

So now if instead of having to comply with intense drilling regulation about drilling, owing to the rights of other citizens, you are told not to drill at all, this makes our country an authoritarian tyranny?

Can you try offering an argument that passes the giggle test?
If you define "functional style" as using immutable data structures, higher-order functions, avoiding side-effects and using referentially transparent variables, I think Python programs look fine, and I try to write all the code I can this way (although practicality beats purity).

If you define "functional style" as writing Lisp or Haskell programs using Python syntax, I agree they look horrendous.
If you need to install a plugin, why not install an app? Presumably plugins will need to be written for each different browser, just as apps need to be written for each different OS. So there would be very little gain.
then we get into the whole "at what point do we stop supporting windows xp for real this time guys" argument though..
The last big theoretical jump in complexity was NFS, but is your argument that implementations of NFS haven't much improved, apart from raw computational power of the same sort available to general purpose computers (ie: non-vectorized instruction sets)?

You know much more than I do about this stuff, but I think I'm prepared to challenge you on this. :)
Great article. I wouldn't place technology that obviously benefits tremendously from being Internet connected like wireless music systems in the Internet of Shit category, however. You might as well start tossing in e-readers, tablets, and laptops then.
The Chinese communist party is only recently starting to care about air pollution, and the Front National (France's far right party) has an environmental platform.

Historically, the Republican Party gave us the National Park System and the Clean Air Act, and Soviet officials thought green air around factories was a sign of progress.