skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd bet innate intelligence mostly works on heuristics.

It's interesting how English especially has evolved to consistently reduce complexity. We've lost gender, all noun inflection, some verb tenses, etc., which are exactly the tools that keep a language well-ordered and unambiguous. We've reduced clear structure and precision, but increased in flexibility.

Of course, making sense out of ambiguous, constantly-changing, and often contradictory things is the goal of most intellectual pursuits, and as we augment our intelligence with tools like Google, we need less and less to put things precisely into a priori categories or define complex systems of rules in general.
"it will be important to do placebo-controlled, double-blind studies of any medical intervention proposed for autism."

The author isn't proposing giving marijuana to all childhood autistics. She's just saying that it helps her son.

Besides, doing placebo-controlled, double-blind studies on whether marijuana is an effective medicine is like doing placebo-controlled, double-blind studies to figure out which is the best girlfriend. There are dozens of strains to choose from, and there's no reason to believe that a strain which is good for one person would be good for someone else, or even the best strain today would be ideal for tomorrow.
Blasphemy! You should know better than to slam Douglas Adams in front of this crowd.
I disagree with this completely.

I think the golden rule is "either work for full price, or work for free, but never work for cheap." It is unfair to you and your clients to even suggest that a "cheap" price exists and that it may be acceptable- It isn't.

I think it would give me tons of anxiety as a client if I had to decide on the price after the fact, without a clear guideline from the contractor.
Do you have a source for this study? I'm not calling BS, i'd just like to read more about it.
The US doesn't allow medical trials on marijuana. It doesn't allow research on marijuana.

Since I have found a contrary statement, in a publication that I would expect to tell me the truth on this issue,

http://hightimes.com/news/ht_admin/295

"DEA OKs MEDICAL-MARIJUANA TRIALS

"Tue, Jun 11, 2002 12:00 am

"Peter Gorman WASHINGTON After nearly 20 years of refusing to approve a single medical-marijuana human research trial, the Drug Enforcement Administration has simultaneously approved three individual trials. All three patient trials will involve the use of smoked marijuana, and be conducted at the University of California's Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research (CMCR), at its San Diego and San Francisco campuses. The marijuana used will be supplied by the National Institute on Drug Abuse's (NIDA) federally approved Hattiesburg, Mississippi pot farm."

I would expect you to back up that statement if you want us to believe it.

I see from the expected Google Scholar search

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=marijuana trials

that marijuana clinical trials are going on somewhere, so if there is demonstrable medical benefit from taking marijuana that is not available from some other drug, the scientific community will eventually hear about it.
Term Paper Analysis Must Include Research techniques
Any term paper analysis exercise must include evaluating and investigating methods, to find the existence of essential features in the particular research paper.
Diminishing returns. The USSR overeducated much of it's population to the point where society would have been better off if they had spent more time working and less time learning.

Diminished public good. Copywrite that never expires.

Graft. Often public resources are sold to individuals at less than market cost.
About resolution:
24" - 1920 x 1200, 27" - 2560 x 1440

For me the most important number is the height resolution as I can display more lines.

Having more screens is also a source of distraction. I prefer to focus on a single task and switch to an other if I need to.
Developing browser extensions for Chrome vs. Firefox
Not everything that benefits an individual benefits society. Reallocation from the general public to an individual can benefit an individual, but be detrimental to society. Also some things may benefit an individual, but only provide marginal benefits for society.
SOAP is ridiculously complex, which makes it annoying and slow. Rest has its own set of problems and annoyances, including lack of compatability with browser plugins (because browsers don't expose the http codes), and the awkwardness of trying to fit everything into the verbs offered by http, and the fundamental lack of support for betching calls because the endpoint is the method, etc, etc.

Rest was awesome when it was the alternative to SOAP, but now there are alternatives to both that are significantly better. My protocol of preference is JSON-RPC 2.0. Simple, fast, compatible, handles batching, fairly human readable but also quite compact.
Have you experimented with 2 x 24" (1920x1200, not 1920x1080) running in portrait mode?
Your hat wouldn't be off if you were a competitor that just got squished.

I'm sure they're all great people, and they're not evil and all, but damn they're starting to look like the Borg.
I'm with ya.
I agree that it is a personality trait, for sure. But those traits mean that over time the "roles" become separate. I'm defining role as the person's job function.
The author of the paper you cited explains that funding per student has declined from 2001 to 2005. He says that in 2000 funding was at an all time high. This is so because of the Clinton presidency and the economic boom.

Sorry, I didn't read the part of the 2005 dollars. I suspected but didn't find it in the paper. I retract my paragraph that this relates to.
I've edited my comment above.
His metabolic processes have ceased. He is an ex-author.
Top 1000 iPad apps average income $300-$400/day?
Quit Infosys Movement... Thousands Exit Due To iRACE?
I use MooseX::Declare, Perl6::Gather, Perl6::Junction and Regexp::Grammars in production regularly so on that basis my listing them is totally sincere.

However stating that I'm disingenuous to list them at all... is well a very disingenuous slant directed at me :(
Much as it's not cool of Gizmodo to drag this guys name on to the front pages I think everyone engaged in the Apple rumour mill is culpable in this, especially Apple themselves.

Gruber over at Daring Fireball basically called Gizomodo out by implying the phone was stolen. Apple love taunting the fan boys with the secrecy and ratcheting up the tension - this is the result.

It's all very funny until someone gets hurt.
++ for fixing the lighting. It's really hard to see your eyes, Andrew. Aside from that, Thanks for interviewing Jessica. I've been looking forward to that one for a long time.
The paper below talks about the funding decrease at public institutions. This coupled with the increase in adjunct labor is partly responsible for the rise in grades.

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/FFP0410S.pdf
Not necessarily. If the government were to, say, buy big screen TVs for its citizens that wouldn't necessarily create a social benefit as it may promote TV watching and negatively impact health. Education, however, it likely to give people perspective and options that will lessen their chance of looking to the criminal sphere for income and becoming a social cost via the prison system.
This is pretty close to not having any regulation at all.

The problem is that investors don't get "consistently burned" by companies with bad practices, they get inconsistently burned. And people are so bad at appropriately estimating and valuing really rare events that, if the burns are infrequent enough, investors will choose options that don't maximize their expected outcome. Leading, in some cases, to disaster.

Note that this wouldn't happen in an ideal market where 1) everybody's perfectly rational and 2) everybody pursues strategies of maximizing their long-term expected finances. But it happens in real life. That's one of the major problems with the financial system as it stands, and (ostensibly) a powerful argument that regulation of some sort is a good idea.
Why easier wins over better almost every time.
This is what REAL business is. I'm so glad real entrepreneurs like these guys are getting some attention.
If you think about innovation over time, you see big, quick jumps separated by long, shallow periods of improvement. Apple can't blow your mind all the time; they can't innovate exponentially.
That game theoretical analysis is interesting, but it is only applicable to optimizing the pricing with one particular client. In practice, it's far more interesting to figure out how to optimize your interaction with the market as a whole.

If a good contractor is in a market where there are many clients who will pay a higher, more appropriate rate for certain work, why should that contractor absorb the risk of this technique? And that's even before considering the practical problems with doing spec work for a client without tying the requirements to cost. If you've ever done that with a real client, you probably know how painful it is.

Ultimately, part of your expertise as a professional is knowing how to put a value on your work. If you need to rely on laymen to do that, you probably need to take some time to learn about pricing. When you set a rate, you send a signal to the market about the value of your work. And, empirically, I've found that the quality of your client interaction is directly proportional to the value of your work. So: if you do good work, charge an appropriate rate, and only work with clients who are willing to pay for that quality. However you set your rate, you'll get the clients you deserve.

If you have no idea how to value your time, this method will improve your margins but it's far from optimal. Worse yet, it will increase your risk as well as the likelihood that you end up spinning your wheels with clients who have no respect for your time. That's no way to make a living.
Random guess #1: If some Oracle insiders are saying "we don't care about ODF, and this makes us no money - kill it," other insiders who want to save the plugin may respond with "people want this, sell it!" as a delaying tactic. Expect the plugin to die in six months after nobody buys it.

Random guess #2: Sun already had some contracts that require it to support this plugin for some time, but Oracle doesn't truly want to encourage further adoption.
Many Teens Send 100+ Texts A Day
What's special about this number? (0-9999)
good tips, if any of them are new, get "Javascript the good parts", it's an awesome book, and not too long
I have to strongly agree. The individual recieving the education will likely benefit more than society, but on the whole there is great benefit to society to having an educated populus. This is true of all societies, but it is much more true in a democracy(or republic) where the populus is meant to take some role (even if indirect) in the governance.
It's not intended to be a complex statistical model. It's intended to replace XML Files that may have included calculations, with a system that allows people to plug their assumptions into the program and get an answer, rather than parsing XML and turning that into a program.

My understanding is that the type of calculations they're talking about, if you need complex Functional Programming you're doing it wrong.
You're comparing apples to oranges with Lisp to Perl based on popularity. Perl came on the scene just as Lisp was beginning to lose ground to Unix. They grew up in different worlds. Even then, Lisp never languished in academic obscurity. It was, for a while, very popular in the marketplace.
What are you, a lawyer?
Ask HN: Does Apple's new section 3.3.1 mean I cant use Boost?
Slightly confused. I can still use a 3rd party library like Boost in my ipad apps, but the point of 3.3.1 is that I must use Objective-C, C++ or C or any combination of the 3 (essentially..)

True?
This is definitely a usability issue that we will be resolving shortly. Thanks for the feedback!
While it's impressive, I wonder if this is visualization of a simulation, or if it reflects actual atmospheric measurements.
I know Mr. Harold is much more experienced than me. It's pretty obvious he's more of an authority on most programming subjects. With that caveat I give my reasons why I despise checked exceptions in Java.

I've never seen code that got cleaner because of the use of checked exceptions. If you have a fairly complex piece of functionality that you've refactored mercilessly, it is quite possible to end up with a deep object hierarchy. If the checked exception is thrown at the bottom, that pollutes every interface on the way up the call chain to the method where the exception is handled. Also, whenever you are ready to catch the exception, you have to have a try/catch block and that aesthetically looks like an if-else statement, which means it is really easy to write it in an ugly way (merely having 3 lines of code for each the try and catch part is enough). All of this inevitably slows me down as I have to come up with a way to deal with those problems. It also frequently tempts me to just eat the checked exception rather than handle it.

I also think throwing a checked exception assumes too much about how I want to use that particular class/function. Suppose I'm using some sort of parsing tool to test complicated output (say, HTML). I'm only using this in tests. I do not want to have to handle exceptions. Even if it was in production code I may not actually care about addressing anything but the happy path.

I cannot effectively argue I'm not a newbie, writing buggy, shaky software. But I can't help but feel that the concerns of most programmers are more aligned with mine.
"Assuming the trials are independent..."

This is a big assumption. Same entrepreneur, same personality, more or less same skills, same contact networks...
It can hardly be independent.
Why are you complaining about Universal healthcare when both your examples of low costs France and Germany include universal healthcare? All evidence I have seen suggests that the US government would save money by moving to a well regulated universal healthcare system.

PS: Much of the savings of a universal healthcare system only works as you cover everyone. EX: Massively reduced paper trails, subsidizing the cost of medical school etc. As long as the government only covers a subset of the population it can't realize a wide range of cost saving options.
But if the headline was "sends 100 lines of instant messages per day" it would be wholly unremarkable, and on a smartphone with a semi-decent price plan, the use case is identical.
No you can use whatever library you wish. Boost is C++ so you are fine.

Also, the whole clause is there to prevent Flash from happening on the iPhone. There really is not that much to worry about.
I think what he means is that it's not actually the array you're working with, so the name is misleading in this context. It's the underlying object. So if I have

var a : Array = [];
a['property'] = 'value';

, then I'm setting a property of the object, not an element in the array. It works just as well with

var b : Object = {};
b['property'] = 'value';
More accurately, he's effectively saying he's willing to look up the personal voting record of users who complain about the output of the voting algorithm.

Sounds like a perfectly hackerish thing to do. PG looked into whether the problem was with his algorithm or with the user. Turns out, PEBKAC.
It was wearing a case that made it look like a 3GS (in a case), though. You'd have to pick it up and stare at it to realize it had an extra camera cutout, etc. You'd have to be planning to do something with the phone already (steal it, or just return it to its owner) to take that long/hard a look.
You are exactly right, don't just blindly give a quote on what they are asking for. Dig in deeply enough to understand what the clients goals are and propose alternate solutions - as well as giving them the quote for the original work. Sometimes word comes down on high to get X done using Y. you don't want to be the PITA supplier they always have to argue with just to get a price.
So my app and the libraries that I use must all be C++ or C or Objective-C.

So this is why entities like Unity are crying fowl?
Better in a moral sense or some abstract notion of the word? They very well may not be, the connection is murky certainly.

Better in the sense of being more valuable to society? That is often obvious. While a brick layer may be a fine and noble man who truly contributes to society, I think it is safe to say that the doctor's contribution is more valuable.

Also, when talking about a democracy, the people are meant to play a role in the governance. An educated populus will play that role better and make better choice in who they elect for leadership and what ballot measures to support.

On average, an educated person will contribute more to the governance and more to the economy than a less educated person. This does not make them morally better or better in the eyes of God, but it does make them more valuable citizens.
I think you're missing my point. While many kids in your math class might need linear algebra in the future, there are many classes that don't adequately prepare you for study in that field yet expect that you are, in fact, on a major path in that field.

This just isn't true for many cases and you can't expect students to not be turned off by this. At the same time, learning that you don't know anything about a certain field is incredibly enlightening and makes you realize you aren't an expert in that field, it's just unreasonable to expect students to risk messing up their future in their field of study over a class that isn't relevant.

In hindsight, Linear Algebra was a bad example of irrelevance.
The progressiveness isn't in the "country" it's in a few states. This is an argument for greater states rights as it leads to more pragmatic solutions to social problems. With 50 states experimenting on what works best, we are more likely to find what works.

I think some of the backlash against your statement though is that the country has outlawed mj and it is the progressive states fighting against that regressiveness that has led to what we have now. Still, due to our national laws, the author of the post can still go to jail and there would be a rallying cry outside the courthouse full of angry parents who think she is destroying her child's life.
I created a service nearly identical to this about a year ago.

http://www.fileinaflash.com
It is very important, but it can wait. My first cut at any new piece of software has a bunch of names containing words like "stuff" and "thing". I find it's ok to go back and rename things later if it helps you remain in the flow state of just getting your ideas down in writing.
The 3/5ths clause? The two-senators-each rule to assure that the slaveholding states would have disproportionate power, and the subsequent battles to prevent new slave-prohibitionist states upsetting the balance? Article 1, section 9 (The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person)? The necessity of the 13th Amendment? Sanford vs Scott (4. A free negro of the African race, whose ancestors were brought to this country and sold as slaves, is not a "citizen" within the meaning of the Constitution of the United States.

5. When the Constitution was adopted, they were not regarded in any of the States as members of the community which constituted the State, and were not numbered among its "people or citizens." Consequently, the special rights and immunities guarantied to citizens do not apply to them. And not being "citizens" within the meaning of the Constitution, they are not entitled to sue in that character in a court of the United States, and the Circuit Court has not jurisdiction in such a suit.

6. The only two clauses in the Constitution which point to this race treat them as persons whom it was morally lawfully to deal in as articles of property and to hold as slaves.) ?
English is a mess compared to programming languages. As a natural one it is one of the simplest.

The "search and replace" tips given in the article would fail in most languages. From the top of my head I can think of 4 different ways to say "There was" in Portuguese, and I bet there are many more.

Not that it's good or bad. It's just a characteristic.
"Simply put once a news source starts omitting facts based on what they think is relevant that's the beginning of the end."

Well, then apparently the beginning of the end was the beginning of journalism. This is done all the time.
What this is doing tying cost of goods more closely to the value of the goods than the production cost of those goods. As we're fond of pointing out here, the true monetary cost of something is whatever people are willing to pay for it. Nonetheless, cost of work or cost of product is often quoted based on internal cost of production, not on value added. What the article is proposing is one way of breaking that habit.

If I do some consulting and save a client a million dollars, they should be willing to pay an appreciable fraction of a million dollars for that advice. And that fraction that they're willing to pay doesn't change based on whether it took me four hours or four thousand to come up with my recommendation. The idea of charging based on the amount of effort it took you is silly. The effort is your problem, and irrelevant to the client. They should pay, and you should charge, based on the value that it gives them.

The guidelines that the articles gives are basically guidelines for when the client can be trusted to give a fair value-based valuation of you work. However, what the technique does in general is it moves the focus away from cost-of-production and towards value. It's not the only way to do that. Fixed-bid, rather than hourly, contracts also do that and are easier to reliably negotiate without a good client relationship.
This article attacks the current attempt to create new regulations without actually providing any alternatives to fixing the problems in the financial system. The author states:

"If we want to restore our economic freedom and recover the wonderfully productive free market, we must restore truth-telling on markets."

Yet the author provides no ideas or suggestions on how this is to be achieved. Even Alan Greenspan, former champion of the free market said this about the greediness of Wall St, "Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity, myself included, are in a state of shocked disbelief." The author wants to restore something that was never there.

Since people (especially bankers) have proven time and time again that they will act in their own, immediate, self interest, this simply comes off as a rant by someone who's quite satisfied with the current state of affairs (cronyism included) and doesn't want anyone messing up his (or his cronies') cash flow.
the most important (and non obvious) one in this I think is delegated events, they are invaluable when working with dynamically generated content.

I was always confused at why mouseover / out events bubble in the insane way they do, now I am glad for the behaviour (I just wish enter / leave came sooner)
It's great that it went well, but it's a stretch to say it proves anything. It was the first (mainstream) attempt at this model, and so many people (may have) paid to ensure that it worked.