skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. But Humans are so hard-wired on it, that this behaviour persists even in anonymous one-shot sessions.
I love that Gary made his point live :)
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KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL, June 08, 2010 – Search engines lead by Google are on the prowl to catch black hats and are rewarding the white hat practitioners handsomely with higher rankings. “We wouldn’t be caught dead in our sleep practicing Black Hat techniques”, claims Sundeep Tibrewal - one of the cofounders and Directors of SEOMixi. “We believe in natural link building with unique content and ethical back links for higher ranking in SERPs” he says.
There are different types of search engine optimisation techniques - some genuine, some shortcuts. White hat affordable SEO techniques use only a hundred percent authentic tools for promoting their websites with the search engines. These practices are followed worldwide and endorsed by all the search engines, irrespective of the different ranking algorithms they use.
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The bottom line is everything should look natural and normal to the common sense. Anything that seems out of the way or unnatural should be avoided. It is safest to stick with the basics and follow the simple guidelines set down by Google to help those in doubt.

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I was surprised many of their photos seem to show the 3g better than the 3gs. Is this something they could fix in their evaluation photo technique, or inherently an advantage of the 3g?
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I have unlocked N1 with Cyanogenmod and haven't noticed any problems with touch screen. I had G1 before and N1 is better, more sensitive.
haha, oops. I meant to say "personal life or work"...
We've seen this guy a number of times under different guises over at 99designs.com.

Our anti-fraud systems mostly pick him up now, he's not particularly bright.

Does anyone have a contact at 37Signals that I could provide with details?
It's because you read like a programmer. You see a data structure (multiple data points within a single page) and then you apply the "False" modifier to every object in that structure without really parsing/grokking the prose.

Try to read more carefully.
>Maybe Apple can endure a lot more pain than their competitors, but that's not magic, that's because of the pile of cash they're sitting on.

Exactly. They make enough margin on other things to not be forced to be so aggressive with pricing on other things.

>but basic market forces don't stop applying just because it's Apple.

My point was: the cost of things is much more complicated than "basic market forces" [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pricing_strategies
I venture to say Gary Vee has a hood pass to most any place in this world. Including my heart.
It's been a while since I, personally, have had porridge, but it's far from dead here in the states.
Thanks ElbertF, that's a great site. There are some nice stats there.
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One of the things I did when I started was Project Euler problems, a simple clojure REPL, and I used Etherpad as the editor - simple, cross-platform, cross-computer programming made ridiculously simple. And it worked very well - it let me experiment with clojure in a rewarding way, didn't need anything complex to set it up, and all the help I wanted was essentially right there in the "editor." That, and automatic versioning as well...

Pity etherpad is gone now... so I can't retrieve my editing history, but there are a few clones there that do the same.
Yes, and the answers are either pure (crummy) tactics ("X Crazy Cat Pictures!") or sensible book recommendations which barely get any votes. It turned into a "wahh I hate when people use these tactics on me, I am a super brain and I don't like that they work" brouhaha.
Thanks.
Yes wouldn't you know it just after I posted the link we had server trouble, which never happens. What are the odds....
yeah probably all scientists were instructed to come in "blue" jeans only.
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It's great to see an interview where Mac OS X is not the desktop OS of preference. I don't dislike Mac OS X in fact I think it is the best UNIX system for the average computer user. But considering that setups at usesthis.com are of people more involved in IT, software development and the Internet I would've thought that the share of OSes was less monotonous with more Linux and a few more BSDs.

I also use KDE3.5 since OpenBSD doesn't have KDE4 although I really like and think KDE3.5 is awesome.
how does this scam work though? at what point does he actually get money out of people he approached to employ?

don't tell me he's scamming people out of web-design labor.
I just got a Samsung Galaxy S, it's a great phone. I was looking at the Nexus/Desire before this but when I saw it I ran with it, bought pre-ordered and got it imported.

The 4" Super AMOLED screen has better constrast ratio and response time than the iphone4, but not as good a resolution. From what I've read (haven't seen an i4) this means iPhone is better for text, but videos / pictures should look better. It has a 1ghz hummingbird processor, which is supposed to be the fastest out. 720p processor, 8/16gb internal memory, front facing camera.

Its android 2.1, with 2.2 on the way, has wifi tethering, samsung has touchwiz enhancements which I find to be pretty decent (but don't like the menu screen so just downloaded a loader to change that)

the phone is very thin, my main complaint is that it looks like an iPhone so people keep asking me if its the new iPhone...
This self-promotional post is not white-hat. Flagged.
I'd always thought that it was Alexander Crapper. I got the important part right, though.
Exactly, which is why I think the concerns over VP8 patents are FUD.
Isn't a Mac Mini a perfectly valid choice for iOS development?
Why on earth would an old translation in that kind of Biblical language be preferable above a newer translation? That kind of language is perfect for suggesting wisdom, through age, where there isn't any.
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How can you "fail to see" how plugging an iPhone on a thread called "which Android should I get..." is off topic??? Are you just acting stupid, or actually?
As a university student, I can attest to the popularity of fratmusic.com - it is a resource used my many of my friends from across the country at different universities.

It's recent shutdown caused quit a bit of chatter among all of us and we were sad to see it go. It would be great for it to come back with an even better and more substantial offering.
> What the people retailing pot will find is that an easily-growable agricultural commodity is subject to perfect competition and prices will be driven down to a very low level.

That might depend on the regulatory constraints. From the article: "A batch of regulations known as Amendment 1284, signed by the governor on June 7, is expected to put many dispensaries out of business, eliminating the amateurs and semipros who jumped in because there was nothing to stop them, but greatly strengthening those who have the wherewithal to remain standing."

As in other industries, onerous regulations might help large companies by raising barriers to entry and hindering startups that can't afford to jump through the hoops.
I have a Milestone, an ADP1 and a Nexus One. I use the Milestone because it has the physical keyboard. It is not as good as the keyboard on the ADP1 but its not awful.

So I guess everyone thinking about a physical keyboard has to try it to know whats better.
In general what happened was that after the visit the kids start identifying scientists as actual people rather than an archetype, and thus, closer to themselves.
My girlfriend, daughter and I are quite comfortable in 700 square feet. More would obviously be nice, but neither one of us are willing to move to the parts of town necessary to make that affordable. When I was on my own I lived in a 450 sq ft apartment which I considered plenty big enough for me, and where I (god forbid) ever to find myself alone again I'd probably move back to a 400-500 sq foot apartment. Again bigger would be nice, but not nice enough to sacrifice either location or the extra money.
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Sure. My complaint is independent of predictability, it's about the disconnect of TA from established principles of science (objectivity and reproducible research) and the abuse of established terminology.

One example is when the description is vague or cannot be the same for everyone. An example that comes to mind is 45-degree angles on charts ("Gann angles"? Not sure what they are called), which are extremely sensitive to changes in the scale of the Y-axis!

Another is the use of the word "stochastics" for a TA indicator that has nothing to do with what the word "stochastic" means in established research. (Also found someone using "Gaussian" recently to lend an air of sophistication to his idea, which has nothing to do with Gaussian distributions as understood by anyone else!). But heck, at least stochastics are expressed using an objective formula.
UMTS (3G) with HSDPA is also 3-6Mbps. Depending on your carrier its available in all major cities in Germany.
With respect, 1000 sq.ft. (about 92m2 for those of us using sane units) for two is not "downsizing". You are suffering from space blindness.

About 75m2 (800ish sq.ft.) is comfortable for a family of three, and you can certainly get by with much less.
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iPad 3G and iPhone 4 use the Broadcom BCM4750 receiver: http://www.broadcom.com/products/GPS/GPS-Silicon-Solutions/B...

"High-sensitivity, -157dBm assisted acquisition sensitivity
(with coarse time assistance) and -162dBm tracking sensitivity, enabling indoor and deep urban operation"

You can compare this with an usual SIRF Star III based GPS receiver (Leadtek 9101x), which is not assisted:
http://www.leadtek.com/eng/gps/overview.asp?lineid=8&pro...

With a sensitivity of -159dB and a cold start time of 35s (worst case scenario).

I think that, on open water, with a good sky visibility, the GPS included in the iPad 3G and the iPhone 4 should be more than adequate for this kind of usage.
Nice quote from one of the links' links, from NY Times:

But as these new techniques proliferate, some worry that promotion is outpacing reality. These techniques may be better for marketing than stock picking.
Even more extreme are the capsule apartments in China:

http://www.chinahush.com/2010/04/09/young-girl-becomes-first...
The proof is in the pudding.

Whether you like apple or not and there is certainly much to not like about them even if you like most of their products, you can't ignore that they have built the strongest digital ecosystem out there. Stronger than FaceBook or any other competitor.

Contrary to most others this ecosystem is built on paying customers which is quite an accomplishment. It includes both music, video, applications and now the Apple Store app which gives you access to the apple products. I don't even want to know how many people will be tempted to press buy on that one.

This is not about ignorance of mass, it's about reducing the friction to almost zero while still maintaining some level of quality.

In all other business situations this is the main goal.

What really baffles me about the Android App store is just how much friction there is. It's a complete mess to be quite honest.

Even though google should be applauded for their open approach, let's not forget that they do this for one thing and one thing only. To expand the reach of their adds.
Agreed with gojourno's "This self-promotional post is not white-hat. Flagged."

But what I found hilarious was that they offer to create an XML sitemap for as much as $1/page, but if you look at http://www.seomixi.com/sitemap.xml you see:

<!--
created with Free Online Sitemap Generator www.xml-sitemaps.com
-->

Awful people detected :)
The guy runs a $60 million a year empire and won't spring for a new iMac? come on Gary, that thing is an antique now!
Actually, I don't (want another tool). So, of course it's a case of "I have no need for Faceboook" (though I do think Facebook is evil).

Now I asked a question. Let me reformulate it: how do you define "social networking"? Why do you thing it is hard to reconcile it with privacy paranoia?
The performance gap in the Mozilla SunSpider test is much smaller [last page]

Wait wait wait... How'd they derive that SunSpider is a Mozilla test when it's hosted on webkit.org?
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The History class provided by GWT offers this functionality. Of course, you need Java for this.
Thanks Gary Vee...that was pretty epic. I don't necessarily subscribe to your RSS, but I love finding these little nuggets of gold.
Heh. Your point reminds me of something I noticed earlier while reading profiles at http://usesthis.com/ - these people are all pretty high achievers yet, in the main, their hardware setups aren't cutting edge.

But I suspect Gary just has the mentality not to spend money unnecessarily - not a bad way to help get and stay wealthy and reasonably common. See Bill Gates' wardrobe and Warren Buffett's house and car for further examples ;-)
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buy one that is supported by Cyanogenmod. Period.

This will reasonably guarantee you that you wont be left out in the cold, when the new ubercool Android release is out.

In general, I have found Cyanogen releases to be better in terms of flexibility as well (CyanoGen "Spare Parts" app)

As on today, the options are Nexus One, G1/Magic, Desire, Evo, Droid, Slide, Hero (maybe only CDMA)
Eh, isn't providing liquidity reason enough?
What are astroturf forum comments?
Wordpress -- and its close friends Joomla and Zen cart -- hold a huge share of responsibility for infected and compromised sites on the internet.

I understand the desire that people have to be able to maintain their own website without any specific knowledge and without paying anyone else to do it, and I understand a good consultant's willingness to make that possible for a client. However, any time I've recommended Wordpress -- which is rarely -- it's come with the HUGE caveat that it's very vulnerable to attack, and that cleaning it up may get expensive. This has been true at least until version 2.9.2.
More people have been scammed face-to-face than over the internet. I am currently reading Robert Greene's The 48 Laws of Power, and he discusses many actual cons that have taken place over the years. My favorite is where a guy got $5000 out of Al Capone.
I am completely out of touch with the black market, so I don't know for sure, but I was always under the impression people involved in the black market were there for the potential for large profit, not because they can't run a business.
Basically he would have used a stolen credit card to pay for the contest he was suggesting on 99designs.com. Then he would have awarded the prize to the designer, but asked the designer to send him back some of the money "for tax reasons" or some other nonsense via PayPal. If the designer can get the cash out before the chargeback comes in or the design contest site notices, then he profits.

Aside from that, he might just have been getting free design work that he could sell elsewhere.
HTC has both the Desire and the Legend (not sure what the US names are) in their line up. The Desire is for people who want the hottest specs and the Legend is for people who want better battery life and design.
Sometimes thoughts like that cross my mind, but don't forget the target audience of this newsfeed is entrepreneurs who happen to be hackers, so practically any article about markets (esp. up and coming markets) is potentially relevant.
A search on google now shows this link is now the top google ranked search for this guys name.
I understood "elimination of fallacies" as "elimination of all fallacies". That wouldn't mean we shouldn't avoid (or point to) the worst ones.

I'm insisting because I can't believe that someone actually think that no fallacy is worth eliminating. Unless he state it without ambiguity. Daniel didn't. Plus, he stated the difference between debate and conversation. I think we can equate "mutual understanding" with "search for the truth" here.

So Daniel, would you tell us what you actually think? Are some fallacies worth eliminating? Can the human language be truth seeking?
Working with the code as the data - lisp code isn't a lists itself, and JVM isn't a Lisp machine in general.
I've been insulted in a chat by a HN member, too (chatting about contract work). Disconnect... I actually found it interesting to meet that kind of person (even if just virtual). To think that some put up with that kind of abuse every day in their office jobs...

I wouldn't like to use PayPal either, though.
It's kind of ironic because what kids are taught is that science is objective. Instead of learning that about science, these kids were fed dogma - which is way to common in 'science' these days.
There are, roughly, two schools in modeling (I'm not in the finance modeling field but I see no reason to believe it's different there): extrapolation and process modeling. Extrapolation becomes better with more data and more accurate descriptions of the curve. Process modeling becomes better with (duh) understanding the processes better. Of course in practice all models incorporate aspects of both. My point is that just adding data isn't the only way to improve a model, and in my opinion, it's even only relevant after you've achieved a sufficient level of accuracy in your process description. In my limited understanding of financial modeling, quants focus a lot on the mathematical aspects.
Like the prices of wine all get driven down to a very low level? I suspect there will be lots of expensive premium varieties.
I've met people who claimed to make money with their algorithms, which really surprised me. Your post gave me an idea, though: What if instead of running your algorithm on the whole set of stocks, you create several random subsets. One of them has a good chance of being successful, at which point you can claim that your algorithm works and sell it for $$$. (I am not entirely serious, of course - but maybe some of the successful algorithms work that way?).
What I want to know is whether they over-rated or under-rated their attractiveness.
Terrific stuff, you can do a lot with OpenCV right out of the box. The Python bindings are pretty poorly documented, though (they change a lot). As much as I'd rather write Python than C++, if you're not already familiar with OpenCV it can be a lot easier to learn with the C++ version. There's a great introduction and API rooted here: http://opencv.willowgarage.com/documentation/cpp/index.html

Shameless self-promotion: If you're interested in face / eye tracking, email me or keep tabs on http://www.gazehawk.com.
I quickly read through the list. Not sure if this is in there but I call it "Insight by progress". What I mean by it that you start on something and than halfway through you realize you should have done it differently and rather than sticking with it you start over, again and again...
Maybe because it reminds you too much of an outhouse or a toolshed? :-)
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Headroid's author here - yes, the background skills took a fair while to acquire.
As a kid (I'm 34 now) my late father (hardcore electrical engineer) used to bring home electronics junk so I could build robots aged 10 (solder+Commodore 64 joystick port+Lego+Basic). Then I got bored of robotics for a long time.
For 11 yrs I've worked as an A.I. consultant after an AI degree/MSc, recently I wanted to hack, play and build fun stuff so I setup the AICookbook.com with Google Group and I'm posting my play-time projects. Headroid is one of them, there's also OCR (see the Plaque entry on the blog), NLP, recommendation engines, data mining, game play (auto Zork solver anyone?) and more to be done. I'm also a part of Brighton's HackerSpace (BuildBrighton.com) which is where I met BotBuilder who built the servo board and frame.
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in the few comparisons I remember studying closely the 3GS pics were always better than the 3G pics (the 4 shown clockwise from top-left ones) -- are we just thinking of different sets?
Or just do this at home(we did at work). No need to ruin a speaker.

1) Mix cornstarch with water in shallow plastic bowl.
2) Hold the bowl firmly against an office-grade subwoofer
3) Turn bass+volume to max
4) Start experimenting with music (or noise generators of different frequencies)

We had about 10 minutes of similar effects before the headache hit.
Should really subtract out the 63M for Wii Sports though.
Man this guy has some energy, I'm not sure what he's selling but I want it.
Most people drink wine because it tastes really nice, most people smoke pot to get stoned. I've listen to my pothead friends discuss pot, and not one of them has ever mentioned its flavour and bouquet. Equally I've never heard wine connoisseurs talk about which wine is better for getting you really drunk. If people drank wine simply to get drunk then no wines would cost more than 2-3$ a bottle.
I had somebody steal my content and create an iPhone app from it, too. The copyright holders should contact the Google Market about the infringements.

That said, the market certainly is not perfect yet. But not too bad, either.
The moral of the story is that the author wants it to be more like apple store.

I don't and do believe that the fact that he wants makes him worse than a retarded dingo.

His only valid complaint is that google can't seem to get their ass out of their own payment system, which is indeed a tragedy.