skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a tounge in cheek comment really. This move will definitely give you some leverage with a very vocal crowd who has concerns over privacy. I really would like to see more search engines around. I am just tired of big G's de facto monopoly status. So well done and keep it up :)
I think "prosodic" is the word he meant.
I'd say it would only be fraud if he misreported his methods in his papers.

Fair point, you are right. Many authors do, in fact, misreport in this fashion, but I have no evidence that John Gottman has done so.

I think the Slate author just says that she assumed his methods to have been different than they were, after reading Gladwell's story about them.

No, she doesn't just say that. This is not a difference of opinion, it's a matter of fact of what is written in the actual article. "I think" does not apply.

Also, it seems to me that if you make a model that fits the data, that doesn't at all mean that it doesn't have predictive power.

That is not what I said.

You could fit it with one data-set, and test it on another one. It just means that you now have a purely empirical model, with no built-in assumptions on why it is so.

That is a valid methodology, but not the one the article says he used. What was described in the article was pure curve-fitting to the training data, which is not predictive. You can only claim predictiveness by using the generated curve on a test set and seeing how well it does, which is exactly what the article says he did not do. You are arguing in circles!

You should, in fact, expect to fit a curve to a training set with higher accuracy than its general predictive power! You can only test its predictive power on test data.
Eye Scan Pulls Up Medical Records
"Privacy conscious climate"? Are we using the same Internet? (The one with Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, etc...)
1) one year or so

2) no, never applied

3) no

4) http://seashellapp.com and http://peashootapp.com - I run these two SaaS apps and thoroughly enjoy it. Would like to add a third at some point, then just spend time iterating and growing the customer base.
It's not a joke, you're just not taking the reponse literally enough. It's trying to tell you that "What's that got to do with the price of ....?" is an idiom which literally means "Your question is unrelated to the current topic of discussion". The idiom is used as a reponse when someone in a conversations asks something that seems like a non-sequitur.

The "...price of fish?" version is the most common version I've encountered, but is probably chiefly British, but I know other variations exist (i.e. "...tea in China?", "...price of rice?").
But it's really more like his choices are:

a) His $1 million earns ~3% interest and depreciates by 2% per year, or

b) His $1 million earns ~4% interest and depreciates by 3% per year.

You're arguing that these guys are promoting multi-trillion dollar swings in the country's wealth in order to earn a couple more basis points on their investments. If you're going to posit a Greedy Ben Bernanke, why is he being so slow and cautious? He can probably make, at most, 1% per year extra by manipulating the value of the dollar. Or he could take a suitcase full of cash.
Nick DiUlio: What economists are learning from cyber economies
Why MBAs are Going (Far) East
Stdeb:  make debian packages from Python packages
Facebook to open new office in India
This is like the 5th time I've seen that same-design front end over another service, most notably that site that 'converts' urls to pdfs by iframing a site that actually does it the other month.
He does log the browser string. The EFF's panopticlick project shows that this is a way to identify a user surprisingly uniquely.
Microsoft: 70% of HR managers turn down job candidate based on online reputation
"The signal bore expected hallmarks of potential non-terrestrial and non-solar system origin."

Where can I read about what these "hallmarks" are? The article is very detailed about the interpretations of the signal, but it never explains why the signal itself is really that interesting in the first place, besides its high intensity. What about the signal made it uniquely suited to potentially artificial, extra-terrestrial origins?
Nice. A few searches turn up relevant results. But I think it should return more than 5 results.
Shuttleworth Marks Progress on Cadence
I love anything that points out Gladwell's pseudo-intellectual bullshit too.
node.js + twitter streaming api + comet + google maps
Scribd link to original paper:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/28394063/353438

JSTOR link to original paper:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/353438
To properly use your analogy, if I first saw your data, then "predicted" that "a = 1.1, b = 2.1, d = 3.99, e = 5.01, f = 3.9999" and claimed that I had "predicted" your data with 90% (or whatever) accuracy, that is substantially misrepresenting what I have done.

However, I would be convinced by a strong correlation (i.e. the model is not overfitted), coupled with a plausible model.

That is a problem. That should not be enough to convince you. It is enough to make it an avenue worth exploring.
1) 1 year
2) no
3) no with a but
4) http://www.swfstats.com/

3's but is I've had private offers from some of the leading companies in my little industry.
"current privacy conscious climate" sounds like something Fox News would use. Just like we were all subjected to years of "...in these uncertain times." after 9/11.

And as said, this is probably the least privacy conscious the internet has ever been. Most people just don't care (They're also the ones clicking on ads).
There's an almost identical set of rules in the UK: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/ir35/
Wow, really? Any references? I'd consider ditching them. They're not doing much for me anyway.
Modern SQL lesson: Graphs in the database (CTEs and Window Functions)
Currencies backed by anything are a terrible idea. Most economists now believe that deflation caused by a gold-backed currency was one of the primary causes of the Great Depression. Imagine how much worse it will be with, say, an oil-backed currency. What would 2007 have done to our economy?

Central fiat banking is the best known solution to the currency problem. This solution gets hated on by a lot of people who don't know any better, but think they do. The central requirement is that the currency-makers be independent of just about everyone, so that nobody can debase the integrity of the currency for political reasons. This angers everyone who thinks they know better than the central bank, but the anger of the average anti-establishment type is fickle and transient. It also angers the politicans, who are more dangerous--the examples of Argentina and Taiwan given here demonstrate not the dangers of fiat currencies, but rather that any currency should be kept far, far away from politicians.
+1 for The Diamond Age, that is a killer book!
Fascinating. The document states that "Several foreign countries including China, Israel, North Kora, Russia, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe have denounced or blocked access to the Wikileaks.org website."

Whoever wants to put the US on that list is no patriot.
True, but I wonder if the extra tax collected is cancelled out due to the overhead of the more complicated beaurocratic system? Maybe/Maybe not, but it still might not be worth it from a cost/value perspective.
Minnesota Twins
Minnesota Twins set to host games at Target Field! Minnesota Twins President Dave St. Peter said that the organization is proud of its commitment to amateur baseball
The original intention for Wave was as a protocol. The Wave client we all use at wave.google.com is just a reference client. Anybody know of other clients that do better?
Sony PlayStation Move
1) 2 years
2) no
3) no
4) http://wireframesketcher.com
Welcome to the pinnacle of modern Knowledge Management engineering.
Ask HN: Rate my web app: HAPPO
Internet TV's New Ad Medium is an Old One: Live Sponsor Ads
Great Post!

He's on to vital fundamentals.

It's helpful to look at civilizations as products of 'social energy'... countless decisions by individuals and groups. (A decision is an idea + an action).

Money and credit are very imperfect technologies for the storage and allocation of this 'social energy' with an inherent bias in favor of any with the power to create it.

So, since this 'creator' bias is inevitable the solution has to lie in democratizing (with important checks and balances) the process. This inherent bias also makes the Fed’s claim of independence ridiculous on its face and is a core problem with the monopoly of central banking. (This doesn’t suggest its elimination, only elimination of its monopoly).

After all… who has the right to create and than allocate YOUR ’social energy’ without your input?

That’s worse than taxation without representation… that’s potentially multi-generational enslavement without having an ounce of input into that allocation of your life’s energy.

The thought process that rationalizes it for the ‘credit creator’ and those most closely benefitting is tied to a problem of scaling biological altruism but that’s a separate essay.

I believe this inherent bias may suggest that more than one type of credit creation may be desirable. For example local currencies geared to local products and services to function alongside one or more global currencies… in an attempt to overcome a ‘proximity’ bias which goes along with a social bias.

This approach can encourage asset-based-community-development and economic and financial resiliency while preserving the advantages of global trade and markets as well.

Again, I’m not an economist but it seems to me these are ideas worth investigating.

A brief post on some of this here:

On Social Energy, Enterprise & Expanding the Technology of Money

http://culturalengineer.blogspot.com/2010/01/on-social-energ...

I also believe the Individually-controlled / Commons-dedicated Account facilitating the microtransaction in Commons focussed activities (politics and charity) is an essential piece of this puzzle.

Opinion and influence are also aspects of ’social energy’ which money powerfully conveys(though we might wish it weren’t so). Current money technology inhibits the free flow and networking of this energy which distorts opinion markets.

And, in fact, tends to further entrench the problem.
well we fund single founders, the bar is just higher. and since the bar with a co-founder is already high, that becomes a very high bar.

and yes you can outsource development but boy were we infinitely more productive once we had a tech co-founder and i started doing front end dev.
Great to hear that it's working out for your dog :)
We wouldn't fund a group if the founders were really lacking, e.g. if they seemed uncommitted, or not smart enough to build whatever they were planning to.
Free pickles equals better customer service
One upvote doesn't do justice. The linked article made me actually understand what I'd only thought I "understood" before. More such articles, please.
Dude, you can go call someone else a weasel.

My point is this, again:

Android is open, and that lets business do things even without signing up for some Apple-supervised Dun and Bradstreet-number-requiring enterprise program.

I never said nor implied that you can't, somehow, do stuff with the iPhone, just that it's a more invasive procedure, and a lot of businesses might not care for that. Also, there is a ton of stuff that you can do with Android because it is open from top to bottom that you will simply never be able to do with an iPhone.

That is going to be a win for some, and possibly many businesses.
HR folks are known for wanting only the blandest of employees and probably will look for any reason to disqualify a candidate whose "lifestyle" is cause for concern. Still, it's a shockingly high number and makes me wonder what else might fall under that "lifestyle" category.
Try scrolling :)
Here's my problem with the Zoo Hypothesis:

You know how hard it is for us to find them in all that immense, inconceivable vastness of space? It's probably just about as hard for them to find us.

Space is not indexed. It's not made of octrees. To find something, you have to get within radio signaling range in 3D space, of which there is more than any being smaller than a solar system cannot realistically comprehend. If anything else intelligent out there is also bound to the same dimensions as us, and exists at a scale where they inhabit a planet of any type, there's pretty much no way we should ever know about each other unless we already get each others' radio pollution.
This seems really dysfunctional to me. "The ball is in your court, so I shouldn't have to do anything else..." and "right now, the person who follows up is the one who cares most about it." (not exact quotes)

Well, imagine you're on the receiving end, and it's an annoying email that you don't care to respond to. Do you want to keep getting automated repeats, where all the pain is yours, or do you want it to be somewhat painful for the person sending to have to take the time to re-send?

Yes, it's courteous to respond, even if to politely say "not interested, can't do it, go away." But to be auto-spammed if you don't!?
Is Dell's customer service really that bad?
Welcome to the United States of Iceland
Right, that's tracking everything the browser outputs, not just the user agent, which is maybe 1% of the full string.
Nice interface, though I'm missing a sign up link.
I disagree. It has, in some cases, served me very well. I agree it has a long way to go.
The idea currently on row 17 "apt-get update/upgrade for music" is very good IMO. I would use this service.

You could also expand it in various ways beyond tracking new releases for a single band to make it more of a music discovery service, e.g., (a) tracking side projects started by members of a given band or band "communities" where there are several inter-related artists and bands that appear in various ways in one another's work (like Broken Social Scene, Wu Tang Clan or The Bird and the Bee) (b) tracking other bands/albums/songs etc. that someone had a hand in (e.g., show me new releases that Pharrell Williams produced) and somewhat obviously (c) tracking new releases in a given genre, which could be very fine grained.
Ubuntu One Music Store – The new iTunes?
That's just the internet you know about. :)
From my experience, I feel IR35 is actually set out to be beneficial for the worker and the organization, whereas it looks as if the US policy is set out to be beneficial for the IRS and US government.

Although in my circumstances it was quite easy for me to be IR35 compliant...so I may be biased.
random afterthought:

- haskell, F#, scala are state of the art as far as type inference:

http://blogs.tedneward.com/2010/02/14/Dont+Fear+The+DynamicV...

- scala has become a actor/message passing and STM lab:

http://osl.cs.uiuc.edu/docs/pppj09/paper.pdf

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs94si/Concurrency.pdf

http://github.com/djspiewak/scala-stm

http://akkasource.org/
Another launch date slips; Que now coming in summer
Moody's ratings agency warns of "downward pressure" on US triple A credit rating
I have duckduckgo set as my default search engine in Firefox. Does anyone know how I can make it use SSL? In other words, make it use https://duckduckgo.com instead of http://duckduckgo.com.
If you're only logging the info provided in the GET request you only have less than 20 "bits of identifying information". They also use some Javascript to collect additional information, which increases the available information quite a bit.
epi0Bauqu you may want to add DDG to Firefox's list of search engines (drop down search engine box, manage search engines, get search engines):

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/search-engines/

Didn't see it there.
The chart you linked shows a cliff-dive from 1929 to 1933, followed by a more or less steady, small rise from 33 to 37. If the value of the currency is the main problem, I'm wondering why you are looking at the molehill instead of the mountain.
Everyone got really excited during the demo at Google I/O, but the second I used it my reaction was "what do I do with this?". Email, IM and Twitter. That's all I need.
SXSW: What happens after the Times dies?
Siqi hadn't agreed to share his entire life with his YC cofounders and pretending otherwise is very childish. The fact that PG is being upvoted for this simply because he is PG is damaging to reasonable debate.
And lets not get started on bananas...
By privacy conscious I mean users - specifically us techy users (where there is a lot of privacy debate currently going on)
Go to http://duckduckgo.com and click "Add To Firefox" at the bottom.

*Edit: Just kidding, that's not what you meant. Leaving this comment for those who don't know where to add DDG to their Firefox search engines.
Perhaps space is not indexed - but our system of GPS satellites would seem magical to ancient sailors. We could speculate that if a civilisation has solved some of the problems of interstellar and possibly FTL travel, they may have an analogous system, subspace location beacons (to use Star Trek buzzwords).

With a system like that, marking out a piece of 3D space would be simple enough, like avoiding landing your plane on an island where the natives were less technologically advanced and hostile.
1) 2.5 years, 1 year live

2) No, not seeking to be accepted

3) No, not seeking to raise VC

4) http://diveintothepool.com

I'm trying to make a modest income from this and a few other ideas. I got the idea when the leader of the free online dating sites said that there was no more room for anyone else, anyone that says that will eventually fall and I think with time I can take a good portion of the available users.
i often use it for comparison of company sizes, where it is quite useful, imo.
Example: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=microsoft+vs+apple+vs+g...
Etherpad?
Indeed.

It's hard for me to imagine the "killer app" that can't be done on a platform that has a completely open web browser and a locked-down app store. Google Voice seems as close to one as I can think of and note the following things about it:

a) not THAT many people cared. You may think they did if you are a geek/work with geeks, as I am/do, but your perception in that case is way off

b) Apple's restrictions were circumvented via a web app

c) if such an app became important to have to enough people that it caused concern to Apple, they can easily change their policy at any time to allow it.

I mean, there are a couple of things I'd really like to do on my iPhone OS devices (ScummVM on iPad would be awesome... yeah, I know I could theoretically jailbreak) but these are really minor annoyances compared to what I get out of the platform. It's just a pragmatic choice for me, not a holy war. And I can quit anytime. Really -- my cost of switching away from iPhone is the cost of replacing like 5 or 6 $2.99 apps.

Jiggly boobs apps may be popular (within a fairly narrow niche), but hardly anybody is going to switch devices over that. It's something people download on a whim and play with for a couple of minutes then never open again. Welcome to the $0.99 software market. It's not good or bad, it just is.

I guess what I'm saying is just this: all the cries of "software freedom!!" as though it were a revolutionary political struggle ring hollow to me. This isn't Stalinist Russia that people are being saved from if they're convinced into buying an Android device instead of an iPhone OS device. There's literally ZERO chance that Apple is going to completely own the smartphone and tablet computing worlds. The great concern with Windows throughout the nineties was that their lone real competitor was going to go out of business and they'd essentially be all that's left and all devices would only be able to connect to them and, with the advent of the internet, they'd entirely control the publishing platform of the 21st century. None of that applies at all to this circumstance. We've won: the web is open. Now it's down to games and jiggly boobs.

So all the non-browser apps will always have plenty of places to be built. Innovation isn't going to ground to a halt. You're just as free to buy a non-Apple device as you ever were and you'll still be able to get to all of the same web services as you do on an Apple device. All your documents and file formats are still open no matter which route you go. All the options are good. So if this topic matters a lot to you, buy non-Apple. But all this talk about them being "evil" seems ... startlingly lacking in perspective.
Carbonated drinks are also safe - the acid kills pathogens.

You can also easily carry water purification stuff - a bottle of polarpure lasts many many uses, and there are stirring wands that use UV light to kill germs. You may need to do a bit of research about what kills what, though.
I noticed you're running your own servers. What kind of setup do you have? How many machines? Are the machines literally sitting in your garage or are you colo'ing somewhere?

Not asking because of privacy, just curious about the technology. If you've answered these questions already somewhere, sorry!
Send me an email (zackster@gmail), I'm interested in prototyping this.
How is the legal situation in US? Aren't web services forced to keep records?
Hey, what's not to like? Enforcing a consistent font and no more than 3 bullet-points per slide on your lackeys I mean co-workers, all the money, the babes, the status, the happenin' clothes, why, all the cool kids want to be systems engineers.
Wave is great for organizing trips (or at least in concept it should be, unfortunately it still needs a lot of work). That's pretty much the only thing i use it for.
Not testing the model on a validation set doesn't mean it doesn't have predictive power... but if you don't test it, there's no way you can say it does have predictive power. And saying it predicts the data 87% of the time when you're using the training set is in fact fraudulent.

I can't believe that no one called him on this before, or that he got away with this! Anyone who has take a college statistics course knows that you have to have separate sets for training and for validation. There are even a ton of statistical methods to deal with this problem with a small data set, i.e. bootstrapping your training set. There's no excuse.

In fact, I remember reading some Feynman lecture in which he specifically mentions how bad this is... anyone got a citation for me?
Peeping Tom's playground
you must have lost your ti-89 then.
Given that IE seems to include all the installed programs on your computer in the UA, I would have thought there's quite a lot of info. I've seen some really long IE UA strings, including all versions of .NET installed, InfoPath, random stuff for adding smilies to emails (really!), and so on.

Combine that with a few other hints, and you've got something interesting.

Maybe you could distill it to a very simple description, like IE6 or FF3.5? I wouldn't have thought you'd want to drop knowing which browsers your users are using.
Scare-mongering of the worst sort: the obvious sort. C'mon guys, if you're going to posit "doomsday" threats, use a little imagination.
Alex. Proj. #9: You've Got Mail (and an Ultimatum}
Google news tax could boost local papers, report says
IR35 always seemed very reasonable to me. The only thing annoying was that it could affect those who were being genuinely entrepreneurial because it had to be general enough to catch all the tax cheats.

Still, in the end it worked out OK. Annoyingly, it also worked out OK for many of the tax cheats, who just worded their contracts differently.
They bought have Scandinavian origins, bought have small market share, passionate community support, Linux have problem with drivers Opera with plugins

both?
Or rather:
alert('Hello, World!')
slaps forehead

I blame my confusion on the .cpp extensions!
Dude, you can go call someone else a weasel.

Oh I do! Right now I'm calling you a weasel. For weaseling.

My point is this, again:

That's your weasel-point. It's not the point you brought up. Both small and large businesses can easily put their apps on the iPhone without the App Store.