skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The WMAP space probe allowed better measurements of the CMBR, from which the relative composition of matter at the time of the CMBR's emission could be determined (using methods I don't fully understand). Once it was known that the Universe was X% atomic nuclei, Y% photons, Z% dark matter, etc., this information implied certain bounds on how quickly the Universe was expanding during the inflationary epoch (10^-36 to 10^-32 sec after the Big Bang), since high rates of expansion can overpower the nuclear forces and prevent quarks from bonding to form protons/neutrons. The math for all of this is, unfortunately, far over my head. Sorry I can't be of more help.

I'm not fully understanding your next question. The origin of our light cone is here and now. Minkowski spacetime is an approximation that (almost) works in the absence of gravitating bodies. Once general relativity gets involved, certain features of Minkowski spaces start failing, like the fact that you can always reorient light cones so that they're parallel. This fails even in intergalactic space, where there is still a non-vanishing Weyl tensor effect due to Hubble Expansion. So, without getting too much into the detail, in the real world light cones are (forgive me) uncannily un-coney. Our past light "cone" collapses back in on itself in the distant past and converges on the Big Bang, but so do light cones everywhere in the Universe, even outside of our observable universe. Though, whether a light cone even has meaning before the inflationary epoch is a question of Grand Unification Theory, which is very much over my head.

As for further reading, Dodelson's "Modern Cosmology" is great if you're not afraid of learning the math behind General Relativity: http://amzn.com/0122191412 The text doesn't assume very much familiarity with GR, but it does assume enough mathematical sophistication that you can fill in any gaps in your knowledge on your own.

(And if you don't like the idea of learning about tensors, you're SOL. Sorry. There's a very low ceiling of how much one can know about cosmology without tensor calculus.)
I think you misunderstand. It's not true that everyone who paid $7 would pay $20.
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Yes, it seems quite plausible that RescueTime is best known among technology types, who tend to be male.
Your questions look pretty valid to me. It's a shame that the language barrier leads to down-mods. Especially, considering that you are making the effort and speaking their language in the first place.

(English isn't my first language either.)
Nice! I just experimented with it.
Seems to be a lock-in.
Your comment reminds me of my past winter up here in Minnesota. I bike to school, each and every day -- snow, rain... it got down to -20°F in January. And my experience is exactly the same as yours: I did it without a big down coat, without µfleece or anything high-tech: just a layer of thin wool and a layer of polyester. No GoreTex. Not even fancy socks.

People think that it'll be unbearably cold or simply intolerable without all the fancy stuff -- but you plunge in and your body adjusts so fast. You described it very well: FREEING.
You probably don't live close to your parents.
I'm not following Facebook closely either, but two things I'm aware of:

- 3rd parties (app developers, Facebook Connect users, etc.) no longer have a 24hr limit on storing user data

- Open Graph basically means your Facebook info has the potential to be plastered all over the web if you're browsing without being logged out of Facebook
How does assuming that macros don't scale help in proving that macros don't scale?

How does the complexity of C++ templates prove anything about syntactic abstraction in general or Lisp macros in particular?
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Given that privacy policies and TOS change on most websites, is there any merit to a 'bait and switch' argument or anything like that?

I remember a recent commenter suggesting there was but didn't see any follow up.

Conceptually, there is no contract between FB and its users. It's use at your own will; essentially a one-way deal and therefore cannot be a contract. That said, knowing they monetize our content, can argument be made that our content is 'consideration' and therefore a contract is implied?
If anyone is interested in this sort of thing, I highly recommend the Sinica podcast. The last episode featured Gady Epstein (Beijing Bureau Chief for Forbes), Will Moss (a prominent foreign PR executive in Beijing), and Kaiser Kuo:

http://popupchinese.com/lessons/sinica/huang-guangyu-trial-r...

No better commentary on contemporary China anywhere imho.
I can tell you that's not the case for THIS particular data set. There was data from 4,000 men and 4,000 women, randomly selected.

But yeah, we do have a 5 to 1 male to female ratio and a geekier than average audience.
Agreed. You may want to see another comment I've made where I would be ok if they can explain the delay with a valid reason for it - personal reasons/infrastructure issues/unexpected complexity.

The basic point you are making is that if there are unplanned/under-planned developments, we need to account for them in a way that's humane, rather than forcing the developer to hold on to an arbitrarily identified date. I am all for it, but in my case, I am not getting any good reason for the delay, just a note that things are delayed.
Part of the problem is that there are a number of completely orthogonal ways to aggrieve an author: Infringement of Copyright, Infringement of Moral Rights (droit d'auteur, unauthorized alteration of the work or attribution), Plagiarism, Breach of Contract, etc.

Here he's asserting his Moral Rights. Alteration is covered in the US by All Rights Reserved as it'd be a derivative work, but you'd have to lean on trademarks and libel/slander to fully enforce your rights regarding attribution.
That's not really a lack of sanitization. That's cross-contamination and / or undercooked food, which puts it on the same level as nomming down on a piece of raw meat; sometimes you get something nasty. Cooking it properly and keeping it on clean surfaces afterwards is essentially perfectly safe.

As to the severity, apparently she got one of the nasty strains of E. Coli, where death isn't exactly uncommon (3-5%)[1]. Ever read the under-cooked meat warnings all restaurants stick on their menu? This is why.

Specifically with respect to the article you linked, did you watch the video?[2] The burgers they made were totally free of E. Coli, because they were fully cooked: only the cutting board, which was apparently wiped (shown by the video, at least) with a sponge, not rinsed, soaped, etc, had any. To which I say shock and awe. I did find it odd that it didn't transfer to the veggies, but meh. You use separate cutting boards to prevent this sort of thing in the first place. If you don't, you're essentially asking for trouble.

[1] http://www.emedicinehealth.com/food_poisoning/page3_em.htm [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=859ZHzK9_X4
It is impossible to estimate accurately. I read somewhere which seem quite valid - "if we can't predict how much time was spent developing something even when we have the finished product at hand, what chance have we got of estimating something that is still up in the air".

About managing people, the best you can do in your situation if you really care is to inspire those you think are not performing as well as they could. Explain how working passionately will ultimately benefit them. Of course, treat them as human beings first and not as resources.
> A higher percentage of black families only have a mother..and a father in Prison. I heard stats elsewhere that said that this was the case with something like 75% of black families.

75% of black fathers in prison? Looks a bit high.
The previous thread he mentions regarding HATETRIS: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1253492
You confront him.

It may make you uncomfortable but it needs to be done. You need to be up front with him and say that lately his performance has been unacceptable and that he needs to correct the situation.

Being honest about it will often fix the problem.

From your vocabulary and planned milestones and weekly status meetings I'm assuming you work for a large company. If he continues under-performing without valid reasons you start the process your company has for getting him fired. You call him in to your office to issue a formal warning with a copy given to HR and explain to him that he's on the path to getting fired if he still doesn't correct the situation. Depending on your company policy you can usually fire after 2 or 3 documented warnings. After the warning, if he still doesn't do anything about it you start putting out job offers for his position.

It's the only way his performance won't sap the energy of the entire team.
Sure, but if you think about it, you can host yourself as a vertice with all these incoming / outgoing / directed or not associations and any available number of key/value stores or open graphs for shared data, which could be negotiated as needed. Services might crop up to provide this. It doesn't have to be all users under 1 roof for the entire internet.
Welcome to SC2, where hard counters make an appearance. Rather than only having damage cuts, like SC1, they now have bonus damage, which can make an ENORMOUS difference. If you're zerg and rolling out a bunch of roaches, you'd better make sure he's not building immortals, or you're in for some pain.
Ah, thank you. Now I feel we are on the same page. The nightcoder- talking to him is something I was not considering so far, but now am.

Could we also talk a bit more about the problem I was trying to get around to - how do you solve the second problem? How do I 'by all means don't let that happen'?
That is a pretty awesome development. Hopefully other steam developers will jump on board.
Unfortunately in such a crowded market as 'to-do' lists or similar, your site doesn't tell me why it is so special, or what it does.

You don't have a demo, and you make me sign-up to get an intro.

I like the personal style of your writing on the right hand side of the page, and it makes me want to know more, but unfortunately, you haven't provided enough insight into what makes your project special to take me that extra step.
If you put a space after the * it will be preserved.
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This is a doozy. I think this really deserves much, much more research.
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No we aren't. A bandwagon isn't always started by 1 influential person.
I balance slavish dedication with passion. The more I care, the less I mind putting in more time because it really doesn't feel like work. That works for me, at least while I'm young and hungry for startups.

My approach changes dramatically when I'm working for somebody else because it's hard to find something to care about on the same level as your passion projects.

So the key seems to be passion. Have a lot of it? "Work" more because it's not really work. Have a little? Mind your hours and your rate.
Do you have a cite? I ask because I believe the growth of health care costs in MA over the last year has been lower than in other comparable states.

I believe the consensus amongst health care economists is that MA made the right choice in pushing for universality first and tackling cost growth later. And that's exactly what they're doing: MA has now started some very aggressive cost control plans, plans that are much easier to enact because of the regulated exchange and mandates that MA created.
Since you seem to know this stuff, I hope you doing mind if I ask you a marginally related question... It seems like deep learning is based on greedily building representations in an unsupervised setting. (Not sure if this is a defining characteristic of deep learning or just a common usage.) The postulate seems to be that greedily learning in a supervised setting is inferior. Why should this be so? Is there any justification (theoretical or experimental)? I can only find vague asides on this point in a few papers.
this is pretty awesome. If others can contribute links to their pitch decks or other resources - related that are similar to this it would be most helpful.
C++ templates are both less powerful and more complex and fragile than lisp macros. But no one ever says "oh, the C++ templating system does not scale" or "oh, C++ will never be successful until it eliminates/replaces the templating system"...do they?
PDF version - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=D07...
Google is making good-looking stuff lately. The YouTube update, Chrome, and now this.
"Selling all your details to advertisers."

Simply, no. There is no check you can write to facebook to in order to get a particular facebook user's, or set of users', information.
Nope. During the day my coding is like driving a taxi - it's driving, but I don't really get a say in where I go, or when, and I have to make sure other people are happy with it. When I code at home, I'm a boy racer - hooning around doing cool stuff as and when I feel like it. If it ain't like that for you, you've either been exceptionally lucky in the job market, or you're being played and haven't even got the nouse to have noticed yet.
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Every vote counts is a huge lie, perpetrated by those that govern, to make us feel that we actually have a say in the government. So we don't actually try to do something.

And you are not a mass, you are one person. And if your friends are anything like mine, you are not going to convince them to leave. Most people are happy to give up a little privacy, for the ease of keeping in touch with their friends that FB offers.

FB has a critical mass, so it is not as easy as suggesting an alternative.
The company I work for had a strong bias towards PMI-ish project management. Once I was discussing some allocation issues and the project manager said we should allocate more "Java resources" (despite the fact the product in question did not use any Java code).

I fired back with a recapitulation of all the "resources" allocated to the project, the "PHP resources", the "design resources", the "testing resources" and, when it came to count him, I mentioned one "powerpoint resource".

It took him about 5 seconds to get the joke.
And this fB open graph nonsense ... you'd have your own property sheet(s) of namespaced attributes (or semantic triples) and websites can negotiate with you for access. Ultimately no corporation would be able to dictate how your data store can be used. Legally it would be your own data domain from the ground up. Checkout VRM ...
I was debating on whether or not "Super+n" was too much of a Linux/Emacs-ism. But, at least on my keyboard, it is a diamond: http://comedialabs.com/images-matti/lite2.jpg
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Or you could just use this: http://hg-git.github.com

Not quite the same, I know, but the best thing if you want to use a combination of hg and github.
your number one task as a manager is to find suitable sub tasks a developer can estimate on. this implies that you actually know your developers and their skills and give them only the amount of work to judge on they are comfortable with. i can judge on a project that is worth some months of work easily, a junior developer probably only looks about 2-3 days ahead.
I'd argue the sweet stuff can be quite dangerous as well when consumed in large quantities. There's the directly dangerous effect (weight gain, diabetes) and the secondarily dangerous effect (weight gain, low energy resulting in low self-confidence which triggers depression).
Both sites have APIs, it could be done though a third-party. I've thought about giving it a shot a couple times, but I have more important things on my plate.
To add to your response: we didn't put it in the post, but the stats on the "reference" category (where things like dictionaries and code resources live) were pretty close (7.41% for women, 7.15% for me).
Of course we're here. However, this is an active legal issue, and commenting publicly on it can only hurt.
Go into your search engine manager (via options or the omnibox's context menu) and edit the keywords for your chosen engine - note that we automatically add engines here with the keyword as the domain, so if you do a search on amazon.com, we'll automatically add amazon with the keyword 'amazon.com' - with autocomplete, this lets you type 'am', then press tab to search (or space-separate the keywork from the term).
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The same person that own and/or host your email to that person: namely, you and they, and the providers you choose (which may be yourselves).
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That's a pretty good description of Soviet Union you have here.
You could follow the Spotify model, have a free app but require registration via a pay website to enable.
"Doctors don't do this" is a little broad. Anecdotally, I have had a doctor refuse to prescribe a less expensive medication, but more often I have had doctors be sympathetic to paying out of pocket. Sometimes they may not even know how much a medication costs.
As a former developer turned manager turned developer again, a few suggestions:

1. Never lose your developer mindset. Personally, I have great difficulty respecting a non-technical manager of technicians. I bet I'm not the only one.

2. Manage things. Get good at project management. Very good. A good plan, agreed upon, well built and administered, will always be your friend. Something for everyone to fall back on when things get hairy.

3. Don't "manage" people, lead them. Preferably by example.

4. Everyone has problems. Now that you understand that, don't let people's problems interfere with their work or nothing will ever get done.

5. Learn the difference between issues and details. Focus on the issues. Don't waste too much time on the details. And get your team to do the same.

6. When all else fails, communicate. When all else goes well, still communicate. Never underestimate the power of communication. You'd be surprised how much slack others will cut you if you're simply open and honest with them.

7. Treat everyone else the way you'd like to be treated. (This goes for everyone, not just managers.)

8. Listen at least as much as you talk. (This also goes for everyone, not just managers.)

9. Get stuff done. And have fun doing it.

10. Lighten up. You'll be fine.
I'm 27 single and healthy. I signed up with Kaiser a year and half ago and my rate was $90/month, for a 2700 deductable HSA. It seemed like a good deal, but they've raised my rates twice in 18 months, and now it's 140/month. I've never used the insurance.
Did you ever tried Drscheme?
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In which case it's not particularly offensive, and is part of the culture, negating the whole argument and the Byronic character aspect...
I posted on FB about my ambivalence about all the changes. I got quite a bit of attention to that post. I've decided that what I'm going to do is not deactivate, but scrub my profile and only post through reflector services (Buzz/Twitter).
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I could have used this last week when I hosed my box running the Lucid Lynx upgrade from 8.04 (I lost networking). I can easily justify $5/month to not have to waste my time rebuilding a server like I just had to…
Yes, DrScheme is awesome. However, I was specifically thinking of supporting Common Lisp, not Scheme as Scheme already has enough friendly tools for beginners.
I'm not assuming that. I'm suggesting that certain answers may become more popular and rise to the top for reasons that have nothing to do with correctness. These include but are not limited to: the style in which the answer is written, the assertiveness/aggressiveness of the answer, the decision to include or not include sample code, the karma or reputation of the answerer, and the current vote count and visibility of the answer.

I think it is safe to assume that there is a gradient in experience among SO users and that for those on the lower end, votes may be more influenced by the issues I just listed than any standard of correctness. It's simple crowd psychology, and already well established at other voting sites like digg and reddit.
There is a significant effect from account deletion. You are removing some of the motivation of your friends to interact with the web site. My account deletion had a significant effect within my social group, as I was a moderately heavy user. When I left, the "pull" from my comments and interactions ceased, and peoples usages of the site decreased considerably. (Confirmed via my girlfriends account, which lives in a very similar part of the social graph).
Why wasn't the prior art discovered when the patent was granted?
On the rar file yes, but on the file that is packed not. After all the rar compressor is 'lossless'.
You could have your Tropo app send you the audio file, too as an MP3 attachment.
Cameras make people feel safer, and make for great TV (a point he made). Just as airline searches make people feel safer.

Most people are perfectly happy living in their pretend world of security, rather than having to worry about whether anything is actually worthwhile or not.
After taking a neural networks course, I can't see why people think "shallow" approaches will ever work. If you want to simulate intelligence, start by simulating intelligent brains: deep layers and deep recursion.

It's not particularly provable, but it works damn well. And yeah, everyone wants something they can prove... but I side with the "make something useful" crowd before "make something provable".

And fantastic links, thanks! I've been meaning to get further into the field, but I've been swamped, don't know where to start, and have taken the only class on it at my college.
I used RescueTime for a few weeks because I had a problem with time management, as soon as that phase was over I uninstalled it mainly due to privacy concerns. I wonder how many people have a usage pattern similar to this, and what the average usage time is?
Remember that facebooks' customers are not the users, they are the advertisers.
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It seems to me that the author is arguing against a straw man. As far as I can tell, very few people are arguing that people with lower grades are better than those with good grades.

I think the prevailing sentiment is that it's a poor filter to simply disregard those that didn't do well in school -- the idea is not to abandon high-GPA students for lower-GPA students, but to consider both.
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This does a whitepages lookup, Google does not.
You can do the same in Chrome. Check under Options ("Basic" tab) > "Manage" next to Default Search. You should see a list of search engines. If you've already used the search engine and Chrome has picked it up, just select it from the list, "Edit", and customize what keyword you want to use (by default it uses the basic URL). If it's not there, "Add" to make a new one.

For example, for Wikipedia I use:
Keyword: wp
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&...

Here's the Chrome help page about it: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95...
It tells you to use Tab to search, but typing just the keyword and search term works fine (e.g. "wp Google" to look up Google on Wikipedia).
I always find it incredibly humbling to watch forces like that at play, even more so when we humans have managed to harness them for our own benefit.

I still get a shiver down my spine every time I hear, and feel, an F22 do a hot pass (hell even a P51 Mustang!), but something like this would be orders of magnitude more intense.

I would definitely love to see a launch in person at some point...