skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a big difference between a heated debate between passionate enough individuals that grows into an yelling match, which then somebody tries to break ("Stop arguing!!") when both actors turn on the mediator ("WE'RE NOT ARGUING!!!").

Or on the other hand - a straightforward domination attempt - where individual A (with possibly higher socio-economic rank) approaches individual B and proceeds to tear them a new one without any forewarning.

Case 1 - Good: indicates passion and willingness to break stalemate.

Case 2 - Bad: me big gorilla approach.

Personally when situation 2 arises, I kindly notify the would-be Alpha. Just like the parent. That nobody and really nobody yells at me and gets away with it. I'm prepared to go extraordinary lengths to satisfy people or to avoid mistakes or even make them up - just to avoid getting yelled at - so whenever situation 2 arises there are only 2 options:

1. Somebody needs somebody else to release their steam on.

2. Somebody wants to prove a point that I'm a looser without even giving me option of proving them wrong.

In any case - yelling at (not with) people is bad, really really bad.
"The Iraq war is largely about oil." ... "I'm saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows,"

-- Alan Greenspan
I did my Masters thesis informational ontology. Here's the thing: Shannon's information theory is a mathematical formalism, and is not enough to define information. Furthermore, information can only be defined within bounds of a model, and there are typically many ways and many abstraction levels available to describe a phenomenon, so the question of objectivity of information is still open.

If to assert objectivity you try to pick the lowest possible layer of abstraction at the quantum mechanics level, you lose the whole layer of semantic information, i.e. information about something, which is actually the primary concept of information, and "information" simply becomes a name for a set of mathematical formulas, and as such it may not be treated as a substance.
Nice lib and examples!

Some time ago I also started with a 3d engine (path tracer). If anyone like to have some code: http://thuijzer.nl/jsrender/ (I never took time to optimize/bugfix the code).
Redis has native pubsub for a few weeks. A client can subscribe to channels by name or pattern, and publishers can publish messages to channels.

The ruby, python, and node.js clients support non-BLPOP pubsub. We are starting to see some layers added atop this (e.g. NodeRed).
Juggle, or ride a unicycle.

I also second the recommendation to ballroom dance.
Something similar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pi-unrolled-720.gif
You'd be surprised at how fast that all can go away though. Everybody thinks they are all a bunch of friends, hanging out and building something cool, until they can't make payroll. I've worked at a few startups with that kind of nice "let's make it great here" vibe. And sure enough when the investment money runs out, and it's time to start turning the results from the monthly accounting report black...well the company's loyalty will only stretch about so far.
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reCaptcha is more than captcha since the user is reconfiguring the misconstrued word taken from a real source. If I remember correctly, the words are from old versions of New York Times and they are put through computer programs to make them hard to decode with computers.

In essence the spammers are really being helpful more than they know!
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Er, I meant GM has been making money in Asia and S. America.
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Seems like no one could tell how they would return an investment. Of course, their exit strategy could be an IPO, but it seems too late - looks like they were reached their peak, and in-browser social networks in general is not a so cool thing anymore.

They got the hype, the users, and the data. The data is what someone might want to buy when users start to shift to some new emerging service (something truly mobile and location-based, I guess).

So, it is an established communication platform for people across the globe, but they still unable to make a profit from it, while it is already on the peak.

It that sense it is a true Ponzi scheme. For investors. =)
I'd be happy to be filtered out by that criterion if my employer thought that was an important filter to test for. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1233385 for an admittedly biased description of the person you've just decided you didn't want in your organization.

As for whether yelling happens, of course it does. But not bloody often in healthy organizations. I think I've been yelled at by 3 people in the workplace in the last decade. None of whom I reported to. One of whom apologized fairly rapidly. I accepted it - he had a lot of other stuff going on in his life. The others my manager arranged buffers with so I wouldn't need to have interactions.

In the same period I've yelled at 2. Once at a social event when someone dumped water on me without checking whether I had electronics I cared about on my person. (As soon as the shock passed I apologized for yelling, and the other person apologized about my cellphone. Which luckily was not harmed.) The other case involved someone who physically hit me without provocation or warning. (He had mental problems which I had not known about.)

If your average is significantly worse than that, I suspect you have an issue that is worth looking into.
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Posted to HN a day or so ago: The Guardian's take on the lawsuit. Lost to inadequate upvotes.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/apr/22/climate-ch...
It says a 43% chance of finding someone better means I should keep looking? This app composes Gaussian distributions but can't even master the basic logic that if there is a less than 50% chance of doing better, I should just lock down the hottie I've got.
I've mentioned bits and pieces in relevant stories here before, but haven't put a coherent account of my five days in the DPRK anywhere online. Paul Karl Lukacs' somewhat colorful account was what inspired me to go, and starts here: http://knifetricks.blogspot.com/2007/05/dprk-q.html

Tourism is opening up a bit this year; you can now take a beach vacation in the DPRK, via Koryo Tours!
Is it just me, or in the past few months have I seen a lot more browser based web widget builders oozing out of the cracks of the various Cappuccino/Javascript/Ruby/etc frameworks? As html5 ascends over flash's corpse this year, we might just hit an inflection point where the level of sophistication of web builder apps passes the drawbacks by doing more desktop-y things.
Even an aged once-cute girl has a much higher status in our society than any geeky engineer and Ally Sheedy knows it.
We didn't have a VCR when I grew up, I got my first when I got my own apartment when I was about 20 (in 1998). My mother was a teacher at an adult school, teaching maths and computers. They had WarGames on VHS and they also had something called a MovieBox in Sweden, a VCR made for carrying which video rental stores also used to rent out.

So WarGames was the only movie I watched on VHS. It's just called video in Sweden. Watching video. And I watched WarGames again and again. Every day my mother brought home that MovieBox and WarGames, it was the best day ever.

I owe my life and worldview to this masterpiece.
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Looks like you are asking two questions. "How does C++ get mapped onto real machines (and operating systems)?" and "How do machines really work?".

You might want to look at Yale Patt's book which begins from the bottom (gates and assembly language) and works up. http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Cp_27...
probably an intelligent rand() value approaching fate() at the moment.
Better could mean 10% better or it could mean 1000 times better. If you've got a 10% chance of finding someone 100x better, then the expected return calculation heavily favors dumping your current significant other.
"It seems digital media analysis and the media studies derived from them share this mild case of schizophrenia"

Then again, the philosophy underpinning all of modern science was supposedly delivered by an angel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92pBIw0f_Og
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I also reacted to this. I think her comments are telling a close minded and anxious worldview. I also think that actors who are suspicious and anxious gets less interesting and lower paying jobs, unless they are in a circle of people who share their worldview.

So if Ally Sheedy had watched WarGames, and been a little more curious, she might not be acting against Meat Loaf in a direct-to-TV movie called "Citizen Jane" today.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1415256/
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I have actually seen that happen, although it was at a factory, not some white collar place(where the watch would be better). A man worked there for 20 years and the owner gave him a $40 watch. He certainly earned only slightly more than minimum wage those 2 decades—more than the co-workers he himself oversaw. It was quite surreal, and unfortunately the meaning of it was lost on most present. I quit that job not long after.
There is a vast, quasi-invisible economic divide in America between rural and urban. Perhaps it's always been this way.
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I'm sure you're just being funny, but I'll bite:

How I'm using the term strategic here is to indicate that certain resources, those that are most critical to be able to function, such as water and oil, will not always respond to market forces.

So the flatness of suppliers, that it is fungible, is rendered irrelavent once it becomes critical, because that is an aspect of the market to which it no longer strictly applies.
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One more thing that I found strange:

"Parkes: If there's something naive about the movie, it's that we didn't anticipate the power of hackers. For the handful of people who ended up doing things like unleashing viruses, well, most of those guys got arrested and then worked for the computer security business. So I guess it's all worked out."

What does he actually mean? The first sentence, I get. But the thing about virus writers not being a problem, and a handful of people writing viruses... In which world does this guy live?
I wonder if he typed that post on an iPad.
I see one person wallowing in ignorance here, and it's not the author of the article or the one who posted it...
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Very interesting.. Shows what can bring a real money. Paying $70 per one click is insane or must be very profitable and pay you back...
The graph suggests strongly that in the worst case the price of oil will rise in a slow and predictable fashion

Um, no. No, it doesn't. The gap between decreasing production and increasing demand will widen not nearly slow enough to come up with and implement alternatives on the almost unimaginable scale that will be needed. Furthermore, demand for oil is very, very inelastic. That means that the price will increase very fast, even for a small gap.
I lived in Mexico for a time and find this idea both interesting and exciting. Thank you for posting this, I look forward to following the developments of AspireLabs!.
Actually I'm British/Irish so the only issue is country (culturewise I'm very Americanised).
I think it can be expected in a professional setting in the US. Given your line of thinking, almost any behavior can be excused.

I'll also add that it depends on the expectation of the job when you applied. Normal white collar work in the US usually doesn't entail being yelled at. Being a football player does. So does signing up to be a Marine.
Oddly enough I was just watching a TED talk on origami and math and applications thereof by this same author. ( http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/robert_lang_folds_way_new... )
Sending click for $70 is a way better than selling anything online... And who says that adsense is not profitable? When someone pays $70 - another person must earn similar amount on adsense... am I right?
Back in 2004, someone pointed out to me a nice way of getting free CAPTCHA solvers by offering certain audiovisual materials to visitors and requiring the visitors to solve CAPTCHAs in order to access those materials. To maximize effectiveness, said audiovisual materials tended to "appeal to the prurient interest," to put it politely.
Maybe with a stylus (they exist) you could take handwritten notes, basically treating it just like a paper notepad.
> Copy/paste is also so much slower than a laptop... I don't know how to improve it, but it is relatively tedious.

On the iPhone, screen space is precious; there's pretty much no other way to do copy/paste than the way they're doing it. However, there's a lot of room on the iPad screen—it would be pretty simple to have a "fine selection input mode" where part of the screen gets overlayed with a "touchpad" and an actual selection (vertical bar or crosshair, depending on the activity) cursor moves around on the rest, controlled by it. I imagine they're only doing it the iPhone way for consistency.
I think you nailed it...today, many sites blur the line between "spam" and "content". Ridiculous viagra ads are obvious spam, and Wikipedia is obvious content - but what about eHow? I may very well find a good answer on that site, but the site is littered with ads, the quality is usually terrible because it is mass-produced with quantity in mind instead of quality, and lots of answers are basically duplicates because fresh content is good for seo. What about a site whose only content is "top X" lists, or one who ranks high but the actual content is hidden behind a paywall?

That blurry distinction between useful content and spammy content is tough for an algorithm (and a person) to sort out.
Also happens to be the most spam search results on google, what a coincidence.
If an employer overlooks good code and instead places more emphasis on an amorphous process like an interview which has plenty of false-negatives and positives , then i would argue against working for such an employer.

They have a broken recruitment process.
This piece is nearly devoid of information. What are "media", beside the examples given? Are textbooks included, for example? How many students experienced withdrawal symptoms, and how were those symptoms measured?
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Here's a strategy: with government having a financial interest in your corporation's success, you have government regulators crack down on minor violations in your competitors' products, then get reporters to write stories about how "GM's cars are regaining popularity now that Toyota's cars were proven to be unsafe" (paraphrase of an article in a local paper read by hundreds of thousands of subscribers).

It sounds like a nutty conspiracy theory, but it's just too convenient that Toyota gets hit with a record fine shortly after the government buys GM.
Wouldn't it be relatively easy to create an alternative iPad browser using the Webkit component, but with the chrome more aimed at this style of surfing? It would only take a few alterations from the default: Pages wouldn't be loaded until you actually switch to them, and so all non-active tabs are really just quick, forced-order bookmarks; clicking on links would always push them onto the queue (with the option to push-front if something is important); and the primary interaction mechanism would be an "I'm done with this one, give me another" button, which deletes the current bookmark and opens the next one.

It could be called WikiWalker: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WikiWalk (Yes, I have, in fact, linked to the most degenerate case of the need for such a browser.)

Actually, upon further reflection—why doesn't this browser exist for PCs yet? This is an itch that has needed scratching for a long while now; I'm surprised in its apparent non-existence (Tree Tabs doesn't count.)
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I think the only real restriction is that you can't use arbitrary objects as keys - only strings or things that easily convert to strings (such as numbers).

See: http://ajaxian.com/archives/true-javascript-hash-table

Personally, I've never really regarded this as much of a problem.
Yeah - I've used PowerShell a lot and while it is a nice idea I sort of find the overall experience less good than it should be.

For a bit I was doing a fair bit of PowerShell scripting and bash scripting at the same time and I ended up concluding that I still preferred the Unix command line. Using JSON as the "standard" data format would seem to me the ideal compromise between delimited lines of text (Unix shells) and full blown objects (PowerShell).
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Search engine traffic is and always will be the best traffic source as it is most targeted. But the worst is a lot of spam that google is showing more and more often...
This site offers an interesting differentiation between the linked to top priced keywords, and a proposed list of the most profitable keywords:

http://www.xedant.com/researches/top_500_adsense_keywords.ph...

(It iss certainly dated, and does not cite sources, but provides food for thought nonetheless).
Agreed. Whether you work for a startup or a large corporation, you have to do what's best for yourself. Anyone who kids themselves into thinking that a company is going to put you before the business is an idiot, especially when the boss blogged about laying off almost 10% of his workforce and saying what a smart move it was.
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That doesn't make as much sense as it sounds like it does.

From a macro point of view the multiple worlds are all identical. All. The business with hitler doing something different in a different world is nonsense, quantum uncertainty almost never has any effect in the macro world.

So when you are computing in your world, everyone is doing the same computation in all the worlds.

Part of the MWI is that each world has a slightly different version of the event, and you just see yours, which was effected by theirs. But in a quantum computer you specifically set it up so that your get a single right answer - but if you get just one answer, all the worlds are the same, so how do you get multiple worlds each working on it?
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I think that any motherboard with NVIDIA ION chipset is good for building a HTPC...
Very well-written critique. But I wish people stopped putting giant disclaimers on their blog titles such as:

Occasional badly-informed opinions, worth exactly what you pay for them. Mostly technology and politics with a pseudo-philosophical twist.

Is that meant to be funny or protect the author from criticism?
I'd say media studies is actually one of the better areas for that, because its methodologies are so varied that there's quite a lot of good stuff. Marshall McLuhan's ideas, while at times extreme, are pretty rigorously developed, for example.

There's a lot that imo really has problems in the other direction. A huge part of modern media studies is obsessively empirical, not publishing a paper unless it has a study and a p-value (see e.g. all the people publishing papers on MMOs). Empirical research can often be great of course, but I feel there are significant areas where nobody's really done the conceptual or philosophical work: just reporting the outcomes of studies is very surface-level knowledge, not really getting at mechanisms and relationships and how or why they exist.
That's pretty awesome for developers. The rates are really low for the translators, but I guess that is the sweet spot for simple content.
That would be Google.
r.e. moving from SVN to HG - I've had success with the various tools [1] in converting entire histories to mercurial [2] (it was about 400 change sets) and also have been maintaining an SVN/HG dual repository for a wordpress plugin.

1. http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WorkingWithSubversion
2. http://hg.errant.me.uk/eventscripts-xa/changesets
Yes, but this makes reCaptcha no more secure than other captchas - just more tangentially useful.
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This is one of my favorite startups and they're right here in Tokyo.
indeed. good to see great work coming out of Tokyo - it's a surprisingly small community here...
Come on now. Ally had nothing to do with WarGames. The script may as well have said <insert random ordinary looking girl>. She was damn near an extra in this film. The plant used to ask the dumb questions in order to fill in the less technically savvy viewers.

I saw the movie when I was nine. I remember being distinctly disappointed that a dumb girl was screwing up a good computer movie.
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Try imagining that you are in a (contemporary) large city in the subcontinent and you will feel right at home:

- No sidewalks or discernible rules of the road

- Cycles, cars, trams and horse buggies all mixing it up

- People standing around in the middle of the street to pick a ride, or strolling casually straight across heavy traffic

- Cars making u-turns right through traffic, or parking everywhere, making the street half as wide as it would have been

Once I thought about this I couldn't shake the feeling that I was watching Lahore 2010.
I highly agree with the notion that one shouldn't deny one's weaknesses, and instead try to turn them into strengths (as raheemm and joshkaufman have written in this thread). This question, "Are you an information addict?" came at an opportune time, as I just finished reading this gem from Neil Postman, titled "Informing Ourselves to Death."

The talk looks at disruptive technologies, but points out that there are "losers" as well as "winners" when these emerge, and proceeds to explain why information has become nearly meaningless. His conclusions are in direct conflict with what I imagine many people here believe about the boon computers and information have provided to the world, but his argument is an interesting one, and hopefully it will challenge the way you think about this "Information Age."

It can be read here: http://www.mat.upm.es/~jcm/postman-informing.html

[edit: found a better copy to link to]
ugh, I feel for you, 16x16 sprites look really cool no matter how far in the future we go. FWIW I've lost all my old work too. I wish Dropbox was around back then.
Great stuff, great for developers.