skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Watch "The Corporation" if you get the chance (although it's 4 hours long). Essentially, corporations have the legal rights of a person, but none of the incentives to "be good". Their sole imperative is to maximise value for shareholders, leading to behaviour -- as characterised in the documentary -- that would be classified as sociopathic in an actual person.
I do horrible things to bacteria. I don’t consider myself evil. If Google does horrible things to entities 1/100,000th its size, it’s considered to be doing evil.
Is there good, accessible science (not the opinion of an "expert") about

- What kind of exercise is good for what (e.g. short intense or long light)?

- How quickly does performance increase? What causes better performance?

- Why and how quickly does muscle tissue form?

- Does lung volume increase?

- What happens to your heart?

- What happens to your veins?

- How much exercise?

- How does eating affect exercise? E.g. if you are losing weight, will your body still make roughly as much new muscle tissue?

- Why is it that I get sore more quickly and run more slowly when I haven't eaten enough, even in the first few minutes of running when all the energy is still coming from stuff stored in muscles?

I think the answers to these questions would be very valuable to individuals as well as society as a whole.
Distributed blame.

No one person has to take the blame for any action. When you are only 1/1,000,000th responsible for something, it becomes easier to justify bad decisions.
SEO Myths that won't die but need to
Dodd: a career politician who never had to live under the laws he created while being paid by lobbists to create them.

How much more damage will be done before he finally leaves?
Is it really reasonable to expect individuals to always not be evil? I think it would be very hard to find individuals who were never evil and who were always consistent in what they do. It’s just that when I lie, I don’t have the power to cause harm that’s even comparable to what Google can cause.
Nice copy on your site. It appears you are a good marketer :).
And that the initial assumptions were crap.
Sometimes logic still doesn't make up for disappointment. I guess my way of delaying gratification this time would be "It's not i3/5/7 (is it me or is Intel after BMW number scheme) something and no USB 3.0" and they don't give me an Mac + iPad for Back to School.
To answer your last question first I think traveling problems are taught in math because speed and time are easy for students to relate to, the same way that finding the height of a flagpole by its shadow problems are easy for students to visualize and relate to. As for average speed that is one of those concepts that really isn't that relatable and should probably require an introduction beforehand.

As for the goal of a math class being that students should come out understanding math I completely agree but the beauty of math is that it is applicable everywhere and the goal of teaching a math class should be that students understand mathematics and where to apply it.

I couldn't imagine being taught vector calculus without some mention of applications and examples, my professor catered more towards mathematics majors with an abundance of Tensor notation and proofs but he never failed to understand that many in his class learned well by physical and other practical examples such as magnetism or fluids and so on.

Although I failed to watch your video I believe there is most likely a counterargument to word problems and what effect they have on students because if students really are solving word problems with the math they are learning the issue isn't that they don't understand what is going on but rather how to apply it to an actual math problem. Either that or the word problems do not incorporate well enough with the math that a student can grasp it quickly without knowing underlying ideas.
It seems like Apple is ignoring or allying with Microsoft, e.g., threatening to replace Google with Bing as the default search on the iPhone. Meanwhile they are focusing heavily on competing with Google: reacting to Google's Android OS with multitasking on the iPhone, going on the offensive with iAds to compete with Google's text-based ads.
Starving startups of cash makes them easier to buy.
Notes on Facebook's Javascript Performance talk at JSConf
My wife's iPod broke last year. The hard disk was clicking and the device just wouldn't boot up. We took it to the genius bar and they helpfully suggested we buy a new iPod. Tough break.

Then somehow we found out about this cool the hard disk technique. We put the iPod in a ziplock bag and in the freezer overnight. The device was working perfectly fine while backing it up, but as per the post, it would warm up and start stalling. So we put it on an ice block and it lasted long enough to get the backup done.
I can speak for myself. I've lost 15 kg since last summer, not feeling hungry at all, so it's not "1000 calories less than required", at least not what my apetite requires :) In fact, I don't feel like I'm doing a diet, it hasn't been my intention at all. I simply started eating a lot more fruit, in part by accident (didn't know how delicious is pinneaple), in part for convenience (apples are easy to bring in the backpack, salads come now in cheap bags), in part because of my son (he loves orange juice at all times, I eat the ones that remain).

Also it's better to avoid prepared food. I still eat a lot of pasta and meat (I've just enjoyed a 250 g steak) and enough seafood. The only significant casualties are bread (only with meat or fish) and cheese... like Hurley said "everybody likes cheese", but it does no good to me :-(

I agree that exercise is great. But I live far from sea, so I can't windsurf most of the year, and jogging bores me to death. Once year ago I went to the gym and it was really good, but it made me really hungry, so it didn't help with weight lose. In my twenties it was different, but at the time it was much more intense than what I can do now.
Comic: Why Printers were sent from hell.
FYI:

http://ismycongressmanbought.com/my_cong.php?con=%3Cblink%3E...
The hard drives in aluminum PowerBooks, older MacBook Pros, and virtually every other Apple laptop except the MacBooks and unibody MacBook Pros are not user-serviceable.
Amazing iPhone to iPad upgrade kit
I wonder if there were more and better fair trade organizations, then investors and customers would be more picky as to who to associate, and corporations comply as a result. Who'd bear the cost of compliance? How successful has corporate social responsibility actually been? Will it ever reach China?
Modal (continuation-based) webserver in scheme
You think Apple has a whack at bringing technology into the classroom/education because the interaction is primal? Never mind that Apple has traditionally had a major share of the education market, I don't think specific technology or UX/UI is the major hindrance to continued/increased use of computers in the classroom, it has more to do with finances, politics, perception of what it means to be "computer-literate", the lack of applications that are truly educational (rather than mostly rote memorization and bookkeeping (the kind that exist now that we agree that we wouldn't use in an academic setting)).
The page cheats a bit: the font contains "TO THE" as a single char "&" instead of composing the words from 5 letters.
So - who makes and plays truck-driving sims?  Why?
Somewhat orthogonal but apropos:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/am/how_a_pathological_procrastinor_c...
"Take in fewer calories than you burn, put yourself in negative energy balance, lose weight,” says Braun, who has been studying exercise and weight loss for years."

Weight loss is not this simple - this kind of article enrages me. Everyone wants it to be an easy equation. Low carbohydrate/high fat diets are wildly successful despite not having to monitor calories. All calories are not created equal and simply eating less does not lead to long term weight loss, it leads to hunger.

I know many have talked about this idea on HN before, but in case you missed it, an excellent, eye-opening read is Gary Taubes' book, Good Calories Bad Calories - http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Scienc...
Is that why it requires js, and looks like "Back < & Future" if js is disabled?
Does it also have features like removing/changing CPU cores _while it is working_? Same for memory?

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for cheap still useful hardware. But I've also worked on a Superdome. Believe me, it's crushingly superior to your chosen opteron box; mostly in terms of HA though. So, if you need HA, this price is unbelievably low.
Libre Graphics Meeting, why it matters
or any of the others
Quick feedback - it was quite hard to spot a price without registering. I usually go to "sign up" page to see all of the packages, yet in this case the only place to find a price is to scroll down the front page and find it buried there after a few screens of text.
I agree that users get confused over what is a search result and what is an ad. However Google tries to make it clear which is which and to avoid confusion.

However Google has ads in a lot of places other than search. And makes a lot of money on them. Yet somehow they also haven't turned gmail, youtube, picassa, and maps into banner-fests.
During training, soccer players often run around the field in a big group, but you'll never see them do that during a game. Running laps around the field isn't the goal, but it does help them achieve their goals.

His basic argument is that the point of high school math education is to teach kids how to reason and understand the world quantitatively. I agree. The teaching of algebra to high school students is secondary to the real goal. Without a good education, most people are sloppy thinkers -- and they vote more frequently than they solve equations.
WYSIWYG copy/paste is binary. It either is, or not. You can't tweak binary.

WYSIWYG copy/paste is bound to break at some point. But it should be pushed as far as possible to complex tasks not floated into the most abstract action - copying an address. The issue is conceptual, it is unrelated to implementation.
I really like it but outlook has templates and Gmail has canned responses. Email tracking is nice but it's commonly used by your customers and it's a flawed metric as images are not always displayed (and counted).

It's a nice piece of work. Please update us after a month with how it's going.
Excellent point. I absolutely agree with you. Touch is the new mouse is my humble opinion. Thanks. http://buzz.dennykmiu.com/touch-is-the-new-mouse
Distinctions of physical size are more important to your moral philosophy than basic questions like "is this a sentient being"?

If this is even part-way serious as a justification for abuses of corporate power, then what a terrible, glib argument.
I only knew of about half of those, so the list alone is valuable to me. I'll have to try a few myself, thanks!

To those interested, I've been using Unfuddle for a while, and a super-basic review:

Pretty quick, clean, and most importantly loads of very helpful (?) documentation popups for n00bs (myself included). Someone who's never used Git can jump on Unfuddle and be functional very quickly. I believe they use Trac for a ticketing system, but I'm not familiar enough with it to say for sure.
Do they really learn such motivation from solving word problems? Especially when many word problems are not practical or even correct?

How about this for motivation, we solve such equations because we can. Solving equations is useful and the more equations we can solve the better.

It's not really motivating when we give a word problem whose model is a radical equation and then say solve the equation. Most equations can't be solved by algebraic methods and anyone who really needs to solve an equation and trust the answer is better off having a computer do the computation.

In solving the 30 problems one might get to a point in understanding why sqrt(2x+1) = sqrt(x) + 1 is slightly harder than solving sqrt(x+1) = sqrt(x) + 1. In solving 30 problems one might get to a point to discover why sqrt equations can be solved but why we don't solve cube root equations. Or why sqrt(2x+3) = x is fundamentally easier than sqrt(2x+3) = x + 1. You won't get this from solving word problems.
Eh? It only has to move relative to the image behind it. Parallax should do the work here.
This article is a journalist painting the glass that is 3/4 full at Google as 3/4 empty. There's nothing creepy about Google except that they try and make the lives of their employees easier. It's not an isolated cult with barbed wire fences.

They have a dinosaur as a leftover of the previous tenant. So what. They won't talk about China on the record because they're just on a tour. Expect anything different?

I would have preferred the journalist ask some interesting questions to the Google staff and then give those answers to the reader.
You just said that if you download a copy of Emacs, then make some modifications to it, then I can force you to surrender those modifications to me. That is wrong.

So, I am getting annoyed because you (and many others) don't understand the GPL. Go read it.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
The experience of the professor at Harvard in the video contradicts your last paragraph. They know how to apply the math but they don't understand the problem. And the traveling problem I gave underscores this point. It's a very simple problem and almost no one gets it correct.
You can give yours students an incredibly useful skill that has inordinate practical application, exciting their minds with possibilities, intrigue, and a sense of empowerment. Or you can engage them in rote mechanics, fail to impart the usefulness of mathematics, and send them all to sleep.
Ha ha, it's just a large iPhone or iPod Touch! Ha ha, how clever! Also, it has a name similar to feminine hygiene products! Ha!

Really, though, we get the point. It's very similar in shape and looks, and doesn't have much in the way of new functionality. Let's hear something new.
I've thought inmediately of Asimov's The Caves of Steel where pedestrians jump from a moving band to another, some slow, some faster.

For trains it could be nice to use small wagons that could change from a train to another, not because of energy saving, but to achieve more speed, avoiding the time needed to change lines. I agree with a previous commenter that trusting passengers to behave correctly is looking for problems.
Are you sure? How much extra air drag will there be having a hump that basically doubles the frontal area and adds a load of form drag?
I think the trouble is what they leave uncontrolled. If type of food is important and you only measure total calories you have a problem in your experiment design. It seems here there is also a subject selection problem. A 5% body fat difference for starting out is pretty significant. This is the trouble with the vast majority of this research. It's done in such a way that it's hard to learn much from it.
Using word problems is one likely to discover why sqrt(2x+1) = sqrt(x) + 1 is fundamentally different than cuberoot(2x+1) = cuberoot(x) + 1? Give this problem to calc one students and many will do both problems incorrectly. They'll incorrectly cube both sides in the second equation. They don't understand why we solve sqrt problems but not cube root problems but they know how to compute doubling time for bacteria growing in a petri dish.

Your fourth paragraph is an argument in favor of what I've been saying. The applications we teach ought to be applications to math; not to physics or biology.

But back to the apathy problem. People aren't going to be motivated by number theory or bacteria in a petri dish if they possess too great a disdain for knowledge.
Here's the mathematical argument:

A corporation is typically considered evil if any of its employees are evil. If you're feeling generous, maybe you'd relax that to a small group of employees, say 0.1%. For example, AIG employs close to 100,000 people, yet I doubt that more than a few hundred were involved in the mortgage derivative mess. Yet we still pretty much universally revile AIG.

Say that 1% of people are evil. It's totally reasonable to expect an individual to be non-evil; after all, 99 out of 100 (in this model) are.

But then extend that out to a large corporation. The probability that you'll find at least one evil person in a startup of 10 is (1 - .99^10) = 0.095, or about 10%. The probability that you'll find at least 100 evil people in a corporation of 20,000 is (1 - .99^19900), which according to Google calculator is 1, i.e. virtually certain (there's some round-off error there, but you get the point). In order to have any fighting chance at being non-evil, a large organization has to actively seek out evil and eject it from the organization, simply because the organization as a whole tends to be judged by its worst members.

"Never attribute to malice what can be explained by math." - PG
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Then perhaps you and him are assigning the wrong word problems or not giving proper introductions to said word problems.
Ok well, in my free time, I was reading learnyouahaskell.com (Which, by the way, is pretty great but a bit slow-ish if you aren't new in the functional way of thinking).

And I was kind of anticipating monads since I keep hearing that they just blow your mind and are hard to understand. So, I was happy to read this article and found it quite good actually :) Good job to the author.

Here's how I can summarize it: monads are a kind of pattern which "implements" ">>=" and "return" as a Int implements "eq" or "ord". The job of >>= is to act a little bit like the Null Pointer pattern in the OO world. For instance, if everything is ok, it returns the good value else it throws an exception or return an error value. However, to use the >>= function, you need to encapsulate your first value. Depending of monads, that "encapsulated" value may be different. In this article, we were working with the Maybe type, however, monads can be of any type. So, the "return" function takes care of encapsulating the value in the right type so that the >>= function can use it.

Anyhow, that's what I understood ;-) And I'll continue to read learnyouhaskell.com
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Norway Prime Minister governs with the iPad
Perhaps they logged in through a proxy?
His argument is that current HS math doesn't provide enough distractions. Students don't learn to focus on the problem at hand, because the problem is already in sharp focus. All the variables are provided. The word problem is a slightly jumbled description of the formula to use. All you have to do is look up the formula, then plug in the variables.

Your students can't solve the travelling problem for the very reasons he's talking about. That problem is completely unlike anything they've ever solved in high school, because it doesn't give them the numbers to average. It's a two step problem where they need to use the given numbers in one formula, to get the resulting numbers for the second. HS students don't learn to solve problems: they learn to match paragraphs to formulas, then plug and chug.

Also, don't be such a purist. It's not useful. There is a great deal of overlap between math and physics. Physicists often invent new math to understand physics, and old math is often found to describe some newly discovered physical phenomenon.
I think that Eric Schmidt bought the dinosaur, actually.
Well, it's more interesting then the Acid test. But the fact it only runs 100% in Safari raise some "hack" flags.
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UBench: IronJS (F#-JIT) vs. V8 vs. TraceMonkey
Notapipe.net: a realtime, collaborative text editor
Hahah, of course not. I’m saying that large things that are net good can still do a lot of harm in absolute terms. The Google-to-person comparison is kind of iffy because the normal harm that a good person does is mostly below the threshold we care about. nostrademons makes this argument clearer in a sibling comment.
Great generalization and oversimplification. How about this oversimplification?

Or you can teach a generation of students that if isn't 'practical' then it shouldn't be done and certainly isn't worth any effort or struggle.

Hopefully then, we can eliminate poetry, music, art, literature, and p.e. We have practical problems to solve!
Teaching so called practical word problems is not accomplishing this goal.
There's a big difference between "hardly see any" and "75%".
LDAP doesn't pass the Global Disaster test. That is, if some global disaster happened and we lost most of our computing resources and had to rebuild from the ground up we would not rebuild LDAP. We'd do something much better.

I'd also put SMTP, POP3, and IMAP in this category.
Well, you work Google, right? Thought of writing a book about what's really going on?
You wrote:

"HS students don't learn to solve problems: they learn to match paragraphs to formulas, then plug and chug."

I agree completely and this is why I advocate for an end to the focus on so called practical word problems in high school in algebra classes. It should be in physics where one learns about travelling problems not in algebra. The focus on so called practical word problems is not accomplishing the goal and it's distracting from the learning of mathematics.
Genius. Fighting taboos (even if it's math) with entertainment strikes me as one of the "why didn't I think of this" things.

Goes well along with http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1275035
Perhaps you should watch the video and then you would realize that your characterization of this professor and me is wrong.
Sounds related to ariel: http://ariel.rubyforge.org/
Another article on the topic by Jacob Nielsen:
Usability in the Movies -- Top 10 Bloopers
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/film-ui-bloopers.html
For clarity's sake I would probably refrain from calling it "pure" as long as the -webkit- is necessary.
Apple was beaten by Microsoft (although it had partnerships originally) as it considered IBM its major threat. This time around I think Apple will be beaten by Google as it is having most of its focus on Microsoft.

Much more likely is that Apple will once again be beaten by Microsoft because it considers Google its major threat. Apple has a blind spot for the idea that a company without any quality technology can crush it. Accordingly today's Apple considers Google its major competition. The thing that can do in both Apple and Google is that Microsoft still owns the Desktop and can extend its monopoly onto other platforms.

Bing wouldn't have any traction without the ability to control IE and install itself by default. Lucky for Google, manufacturers can change it; if it hadn't been for the Clinton Justice anti-trust suit they would still be prohibited from changing it and Microsoft would have already killed Google.

IE has had as its main mission for a decade the prevention of HTML/DHTML/AJAX applications that run with Web standards just as well as Desktop apps and resistance to quality standard versions of HTML5 will be led by a raft of subtle Microsoft incompatibilities. That will extend the Win32 API monopoly.

If Google and Apple can't understand that, all the tech and design in the world won't save them.
Here's an opposite:

"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." -- Edmund Burke

The bigger the group the higher the probability it includes a "good man" (or woman).