skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting experiment, but not a win.

For a new UI to be a success, it needs to be faster for the user to USE or faster for the user to LEARN. The former is more important for tools with repeat users (like a mail app), the latter is more important for sites with transitory users. You could argue that it could perform okay on the former point IF you ignore the meaningful population of people who use trackpads or mobile devices... But how can you possible argue that ignoring that population is a good idea?
I'm all for a magazine which, as you described, is "designed to give the average person an overview of the latest scientific research, without expecting pior knowledge in the field". But it could be done without sensationalising everything quite as much as New Scientist feels the need to do.

Frinstance, New Scientis starts an article on the fairly prosaic subject of random matrix theory with this paragraph:

"SUPPOSE we had a theory that could explain everything. Not just atoms and quarks but aspects of our everyday lives too. Sound impossible? Perhaps not."
The most confusing infographic ever (doesn't help that the topic isn't easy either)
Eating Vegetables Doesn’t Stop Cancer
Aye, but you could point us to those resources (thanks for the Tim Feriss mention for example) :)

I do agree that the poster could have used more research, but I don't mind seeing this kind of questions now and then over here (then again, the "core" / "original" HN audience might not, and I'm fine with that)
"the simulator can slow down your program to iPhone speed" Completely untrue, afaik.
Bob the Angry Flower holds forth as well - http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif
There's a new element: 117.
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The underlying research article is

"Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Overall Cancer Risk in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)" by Paolo Boffetta, Elisabeth Couto, Janine Wichmann, et al. Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access published online on April 6, 2010
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, doi:10.1093/jnci/djq072

I remember years ago reading a statement by Jerry Pournelle in Byte Magazine that he thought people eating more fruits and vegetables could prevent more cases of cancer than all the activities of the United States Environmental Protection Agency combined, but perhaps we now have to reject that hypothesis.
She's teaching 1,000 students this course every year, so at minimum I'd expect 500 in a single semester. I have no idea if she thinks she's "simply too important to deal with students", but in a class of that size I'd expect no more than two brief bits of semi-casual communication with her (e.g. in the minutes after a lecture).

The real question is why she has a budget for only 7 TAs, "some of whom did not have much experience", in a class which is in part serving as remedial English. At best that's 125 students per TA ... and again I'd expect to be able to get very little communication with whichever one was assigned to me at that sort of ratio.

Something has to give, and if the subject matter really counts, maybe this is one of the less bad choices.
Thanks, but I think I have one.
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Summary:

1. Finnish parents read with their children.
2. Low immigration - so "Finnish as a second language" is not a problem there.
3. Education and educators are valued highly by Finnish culture.
4. And contrary to all our K-4 efforts, kids don't start school to 7.
Genetics?

The article doesn't even pause to consider the possibility that Finnish people, a small and relatively isolated population, might just happen to be, on average, genetically just a bit smarter than world population at large. While thinking about these things is horrendously unfashionable, it should be considered before we start assuming that we can replicate their success by copying their school system.
How to Draw A Very Detailed RadioTape From The 80's
Remember the old days where cassette tape and FM radio still rules? The Rolling Stones, Beatles, and Ozzy Osborne was the king! Great memory isn't it? And of course you'll remember the gadget we use at that time. It's much bigger than iPad, but no one complains! Radio tape. In this tutorial, we'll recreate a radio tape from the 80's using only Photoshop.
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Higher education in Finland is free, therefore education level is high. If I remember right, almost 60% of people have some kind of higher education, university or polytechnic. Education is valued here.

And it is also said that entrepreneurship is not that valued in Finland because of high education... Most of the grads want to work for big companies & goverment positions.
Predicting the Present with Google Trends
Direct link to paper (PDF):
http://google.com/googleblogs/pdfs/google_predicting_the_pre...
California schemin'
Alternately, he was a recluse with a morbid aversion to publicity. Those who knew Salinger said (after his death) that he was a very likable person. Certainly they respected him enough to shield his personal life from Salinger-hunters.
Yes, the simulator has no throttling features, for CPU speed or network bandwidth.

This is why we have a collection of vintage iPhones (4/8GB models). It does not address the issue of network speed though, unless we swap SIMs (which we're not even sure will work).
"I captured a couple of next-actions for me."

...
Typographers are an interesting breed, I would have never noticed any of these details. But they make a big difference rather surprised apple isn't interested in this area anymore
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Totally called this one:

I don't think it's an accident that this announcement comes far away enough from the next release for there to be time for Google to make them a better offer. Even if that doesn't happen in the next release, this may be Canonical's way of showing their hand.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1079909
The iPad could revolutionize health care
FWIW, Windows XP doesn't support the TRIM command on SSDs.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/2738/10
There are 5 M inhabitants in Finland.

How much do they spend in their education system? Does it scale to a country of, say, 50 M inhabitants?
Equally unfashionable is the idea that there are advantages to homogeneous societies and classrooms.
Thank you for making me feel better about my half baked business plan. I as well spent 2 Months writing a 30 page business plan just to throw it in the corner.

Once I realized my assumptions about our target audience were as unproven as the "model consumer" in economic theories, I know that can't be right.
"you're" ("it's") is the contraction of "you are" ("it is").

"your" ("its") is the possessive.

The contraction <=> apostrophe rule doesn't break for me in this case. How could it break for anyone?
Does Visa actually know what you've bought?

"Cardholders who purchased carbon-monoxide detectors, premium birdseed, and felt pads for the bottoms of their chair legs rarely missed a payment."

My bank statements only state where something was bought, not what was bought. I'm not aware of a store that only sells felt pads for bottoms of chairs and premium birdseed.
In all fairness, Gruber makes a good portion of his living complaining about the things he dislikes about Apple's products and processes. He's one of the few Apple fans I know of that has openly (and intelligently) criticized the AppStore for multiple reasons.
It still baffles me that people want to read books on the iPad in first place.

Reading on a backlit screen is well known to tire your eyes very quickly, due to the low resolution and (afaik) because the eyes' Rhodopsin depletes faster while staring into a light source.

I have heard people arguing that we spend half our days in front of a computer-screen anyways, but that is a different kind of usage. During computer use the eye is mostly scanning and rarely reading chunks of text longer than a page at once. Book reading is a different story, as anyone who has tried to do that on a backlit screen can confirm.

Consequently this argument about (Book-)typography misses the point for me. If you want a good reading experience then get an e-ink device or stick with paper. Even the best font can only marginally reduce the inherent problems with staring a backlit screen for extended periods of time...
But there are noticeable differences in how schools are operated in Finland ("The Finnish philosophy with education is that everyone has something to contribute and those who struggle in certain subjects should not be left behind.") that should be looked at in trans-national comparisons.

The detailed reading I am doing currently in The Mathematics Pre-Service Teachers Need to Know

http://hub.mspnet.org/index.cfm/13083

draws together research from various countries in various parts of the world that don't have a common "culture," but do have common teacher training curricula in teacher training programs (which are not even at university level in some of those countries) and common characteristics in math textbooks across languages and common characteristics in elementary school classrooms. Those characteristics are very important to look at if they result in success across varied world cultures.

After edit:

It's been shown again and again in educational studies

What particular studies do you have in mind? Citations, please?
From the third column: why pack in individual days? I can't imagine it being very easy to display multiple appointments there, you'd run out of room.

Do people really care about the exact day number that something is on? How about just displaying items in order under "second half of April"? Then you won't have space wasted if there's aren't any appointments for a few days, but the data is still there. And perhaps show the day number on hover or something.
Your doing it wrong.
I've had (and have) many mentors over the years. The way I found most of them was I'd have a question on something I couldn't get answered. I'd go to IR and ask the question. Whether anyone knew the answer or not, I'd hang out for a while answering other folks questions or just chatting. It was never anything formal, but eventually there would be people I considered experts who didn't mind an email with questions. Thing is, it goes both ways a lot of times now. People who I would consider mentors for some things would likely consider me a mentor for others.

My advice would be to not look for a mentor, but instead put yourself in situations where there are knowledgable people to meet.
Raven paradox
Meet the Investors Who Cashed in on Facebook’s Divvyshot (YC W09) Acquisition
I'll add a config parameter to choose scroll direction...
Question - what side do you part your vagina on? I go left myself.
Fuck people that are offended
You missed what I think is the key point:

5. instead of making a big deal out of kids being "behind", they recognize that everyone learns at their own rate. Kids don't get labeled as "dumb" or "incapable", they just keep being taught.
Yahoo invisible detector , scanner , checker
This was my initial inspirator: read the history http://roberto.open-lab.com/2010/03/23/so-hard-to-have-a-dat...
I don't get it. Why would entrepreneurship not be valued because of high education?
>Does Visa have the right to use this data to target users?

Its probably buried somewhere in legalese in one of the Product Diclosure Statements.

I was surprised by some of the things my bank had wanted me to agree too several months ago when they "updated" this document, so much so that I switched banks.
Why wouldn't it? The per-taxpayer cost ratio would remain the same.
I'm pretty sure you just grin fucked us all.
Google does a good job with marketing against Apple with "Open", it would do wonders for MS to market against Google with "Privacy".
You can create an app, but you'll still need to do on-device testing to iron out some rough spots.

- Everything is faster in the simulator, except for OpenGL and (I think) Core Animation.

- Some desktop classes use more memory than the mobile counterparts so memory usage tests are not accurate. OpenGL again here.

- The simulator never runs low on memory that I've noticed. The actual device does, of course.

- Multitouch. You can test a two-finger pinch on the simulator by holding down alt, but the touches arrive in a different order on the device leading to subtle bugs.

- No accelerometer in the sim. You can test rotation the sim, but not put the screen face up or face down.

- Filenames in the sim are not case sensitive, but the device is. Snags many a new developer.

- There are other situations like sleep/wake, iPod interaction / mixing, and phone call interruptions that you can only test on a device.

In short you can get your app running in the simulator, but I would never submit to Apple without testing on a device.
Here's a paper on the applications of random matrix theory to finance:

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0910/0910.1205v1.pdf

The first pages are a quick overview of the math behind random matrix theory, if you're curious.
Sir, I heartily recommend that you avoid making biological claims that you clearly understand only dimly.

In any event, I have read numerous books and publications on my led backlit monitor for my laptop and not experienced significant eyestrain. The amount of eyestrain I feel is roughly analogous to reading in similar environments.

Modern display technology has come a long way from the days of CRTs. I think this complaint is weak at best and unfounded at worst.
Yahoo has gone completely mad. Instead of focussing on delighting customers and building a technical edge over their competitors, they are into marketing campaigns and MBA buzzwords these days. Do they still have 350+ Vice Presidents I wonder?
I don't see how it wouldn't. It's not like if you have 10 times as many students then you'll build a school 10 times as big. You'll instead build 10 times as many schools, all operating more or less independently at roughly the same scale as each other. There might be an additional layer of administration or two, which may cause some inefficiencies in certain areas that may be offset by economies of scale in others.
Your doing it wrong.

Did you actually mean a noun phrase? :-)
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Still, an article about random matricies and the Riemann hypothesis should not need to explain what a prime number is. I found that more insulting that the lack of any real information.
A Fart Versus Mouse Tracking in Usability Studies
Reading the text is made difficult by the spacing used. The paragraph headings for instance just look like bold text and could be spaced better to allow them to be found in the page. The ragged right edge is too ragged and makes the text difficult to read.
Twelve things to do with an old Apple computer
This seems analogous, in principle, to a system with fully utilized role-based access control - like security-enhanced linux or similar - although easier to grok perhaps?

Is there a fundamental difference? (I understand the technical difference - I'm asking more in terms of semantics - what makes this a better security model?)
The mobile social network Loopt or its competitors could conceivably predict with 90 percent accuracy where an individual will be tomorrow.

I would think that Visa would be better positioned to do this than Loopt, because people are more compelled to use their credit cards when they go somewhere. You can't go to a store and forget to pay, although you can forget to checkin.
"does the company really have the right to use that data to provide a service with it?"

Whenever I've signed up for a card, it's had a checkbox for whether or not the company is allowed to send you "great offers from our affiliates". Presumably, they'll only use your data if you allow them to. (Whether they hold to that in practice is another matter.)
Or if you don't mind spending money, then buy Expert F#: http://apress.com/book/view/1590598504
You have provided a good summary of the submitted article, without expressing an opinion on its conclusions. Allow me to respond to quoted point 2.

2. Low immigration - so "Finnish as a second language" is not a problem there.

A counterexample to this being especially important is the country Singapore, with four official languages (Modern Standard Chinese, Malay, Tamil, and English in decreasing order of number of home speakers) from four different language families. Especially important to consider is that English has been the sole language of school instruction in Singapore during my lifetime, even though essentially no one before the current generation of young graduates grew up in an English-speaking home. Moreover, Modern Standard Chinese ("Mandarin," called 華語 in Singapore) was not the home language of the ethnic Chinese majority of the population in Singapore, but rather Hokkien or other south Chinese languages that are as different from Mandarin as English is from German. (I speak much Mandarin and some Hokkien.) MOST students in Singapore for more than a generation were learning their school language of instruction as a second language as they attended school. (This was true of my wife's generation in Taiwan too, where Hokkien, "Taiwanese," was the home language and Mandarin the school language.) United States, and maybe British, teachers put a lot of blame on immigrants for not growing up speaking English, but an effective school system can handle a multilingual surrounding cultural environment and still DEAL WITH IT while helping the learners learn the preferred official language. See the TIMSS report

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009001.pdf

for the consistent finding that the average level of Singapore pupils in mathematics is comparable to the "gifted" level of United States pupils. The population of Singapore was not selected for high IQ or high levels of schooling (the immigrants who settled Singapore were mostly indentured agricultural laborers who fled wretchedly poor parts of China or India) but today's inhabitants of Singapore show the results of sound education.

4. And contrary to all our K-4 efforts, kids don't start school to 7.

Agreed with your noting of point 4 as an important issue, distinct from United States policy proposals.
Gurgaon
perhaps delaying the mind-warping effects of school for a few extra years really helps.
It's probably pretty easy, because in addition to what is being bought, Visa knows where the purchases occur. Most people have two clusters for their purchases: work and home. A person who develops a third cluster may be having an affair. If you know what's being bought, you can figure it out with even higher probability.
From the article, it seems like I could just fill in a grid with random numbers, wave my hands, and then divine the secrets of nature by reading it as tea leaves. What an awful article.

Also:
...has computed the locations of as many as 10^23 zeros of the Riemann zeta function and found a near-perfect agreement with random matrix theory.

I think that when you're talking about mathematics, "near-perfect agreement" is synonymous with "not in agreement".
Interestingly, there was now "Why?" section to this new note. I'm surprised that Ubuntu has enough of an installed base for Google to have made a counter-offer.

Also, isn't Bing powering Yahoo's search these days anyway?
I was in Helsinki last weekend, actually. One of their prominent politicians was in the paper saying "When in Rome, do as the Romans do... Or else", referring to immigrants. It's by no means "not a problem there".
> I don't see how it wouldn't.

Let's see if we can think of some reasons.

> There might be an additional layer of administration or two, which may cause some inefficiencies in certain areas that may be offset by economies of scale in others.

How do we know that the two "may" s cancel each other out.

Moving organization-wide decision-making one level further away from the base often has an effect.

Let's put Finland's 5 million in context. Ohio is just over 11M and Los Angeles County is just under 10M.
My objection is that if you run s/random matrix)/magic/g on that article, it is not significantly degraded. I hate most arguments based on "rewriting the original post", so let me be clear that my objection is that the actual information content on the technique itself is not merely low, it is nearly zero. I question the utility of writing an article like this when they clearly don't expect the audience to have even a high-school understanding of matrices. (I mean, the one bone they toss to "what is a matrix?" isn't even correct; matrices aren't necessarily "square"! And again, I reiterate, this is something learned in high school.)
Why should we think about that? What the U.S. is doing currently isn't working, there's very little disagreement on that. While there is a certain amount of "golden age of the past" syndrome going on, it's clear that results in terms of educational outcome and school discipline are going down. Looking at other systems that are having success is the rational approach. "No child left behind" (Keep testing! Keep testing! Test more!) is not.

It's not about assuming we can replicate their success with a direct copy. It's about looking at what their system does better than ours, and working to improve our system. Now THAT is politically unfashionable and unlikely to be done any time soon, but it's what needs to happen.
I was being facetiou's.
original link: http://tasktop.com/blog/tasktop/atlassian-connector-eclipse
Yes but that is a meaningless statistic. Here in the UK the present gov has the target of 50% of school-leavers to go to university. What this means is diploma mills turning out media studies graduates who immediately go to work in fast food and retail with 20 grand of debt.
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What's interesting is that there are people willing to pay millions to have a piece of art that they can't show to anybody or brag about it.
I guess these people are true art lovers.
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To paraphrase the guy from the thread on Visa predicting divorce [1]: Slightly off-topic: if you post something with a misleading title that you can improve, please do so. This article has no real information on how citable public documents will change your life, just the assertion that they will and that you should help.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1249539
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If you follow the MACENTERPRISE mailing list, you might come to a different conclusion about Apple's responsiveness to bugs.

Or, how about response to the vulnerabilities exploited in pwn2own? Firefox got fixed in about a week, but Safari is still unpatched.