skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't know the study, but it seems worth pointing out that it probably didn't show dumb kids becoming smart and vice versa - it showed kids who were previously perceived as dumb to become perceived as smart, and vice versa.

I don't actually understand why it should be unethical? This happens all the time, at least in my country: pupils are sorted into different schools according to their perceived smartness (higher education or "lower" education). That might well be unethical, and such studies seem to be a good way to find out about it.
Serious question, does a divorce like that really require 2 years of full time work for each party?
Google Patent's link is a bit cleaner: http://www.google.com/patents?id=6yqbAAAAEBAJ&printsec=a...
I agree that using emacs for everything is not for everyone. But with regards to switching between buffers being cumbersome:

1. If you're not willing to change your keybindings to taste, Emacs basically isn't for you; its default bindings are terrible. I suggest binding switch-to-buffer (C-x b) and other-window (C-x o) to single, easy-to-reach chords (I use C-. and C-' respectively).

2. switch-to-buffer sucks. Use iswitchb-mode; it gives you interactive completion of buffer names with substring matching. It also lists your buffers in most-recently-used order, so switching back-and-forth between two buffers is trivial. (There's also ido-mode, which adds interactive completion to even more things with even more features.)

Basically this is the same issue that emacs has always had: the learning curve is steep and you have to invest some time and explore in order to find settings that work for you. (I'm sure you're happy with your current setup; I'm making this post more for people who might be scared away from Emacs than to try and convert you.)
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This can easily be solved with MS coming out with there own number. Or verizon.

And I am pretty sure if someone told me that they had sold 503 phones, I would have asked some more questions.

"They only sold 503 phones on the weekend"
"What, for the enture country"
"Oh no, just at this one store in Arizona, and they were only open for 1 hour, and they ran out of stock".
"Oh, not so bad then"
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How The Truth About Motorcycle Helmets Got A Journalist Fired
Did he spam this to a bunch of news sites or did he send it to one and the others copied it? Usually there's more attribution. e.g. if BusinessInsider copied it from HuffPo then they should probably give credit.
"To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right)."
vest your marriage over time

AFAIK some state laws have this feature; the wife only gets half after ten years or something.
I remapped my CTRL, ALT and Left Shift keys so I can easily press them with my thumbs in any combination (I use a TypeMatrix).

No more alternating nonsense. Pressing modifiers is instantaneous and requires no thought.
If you think you can get hundreds of millions of dollars out of a divorce, of course you'll spend tens of millions of dollars of legal fees to get it.

Especially if some of those tens of millions of dollars essentially pay someone else to tell you you'll get hundreds of millions of dollars out of it.
Why you should never ask for favors from designers
Normally when I see pictures of glowing green things accompanying science articles I assume someone just did an image search for "glowing green thing" and stuck it at the top of the article. In this case (as the caption in this article says), the glowing green thing is actually (part of) the device used to make the measurement.

It's nice to get a reminder once in a while that science isn't just papers and publishing and long tedious experimentation. Science may not be exactly what I idealized as a kid, but there's still a place and a use for boxes filled with green lasers.

And that makes a part of me very happy.
Hopefully his actual children are more important than his allegorical children.
I mostly live in textmate and textmate clones when I need to traverse many folders/files at a time, which is frequently.

If I'm working on something obscure (server-side javascript, ML, parser generators, ragel, etc) I just fire up emacs because there is ALWAYS a mode for what you want.

I don't see why there has to be one true tool either way, so I'd say that I agree in general.

Can't say that I grok acme. Tried it, can't do it.
Do you know about frame-configuration-to-register (C-x r f <key> to save, C-x r j <key> to jump to one)? I set up an IRC configuration with the 4 channels I check regularly, another one for shell buffers for all the machines i'm usually on, etc.
Interesting presentation on the topic of designing games into everyday life:

http://g4tv.com/videos/44277/DICE-2010-Design-Outside-the-Bo...

Skip to 17:30 for the most relevant part (but the whole thing is interesting)
Here's your web browser http://www.haxney.org/2009/08/its-alive.html
I've thought for a long time that the removal of profiles (that are viewable by the other party) is pretty much the key that will make online dating actually work.

People are far too picky, and reject far too many people they would otherwise get along with famously in real life - I've noticed this pattern in myself also. Profiles suck at describing people, not to mention their compatibility with you - yet they have this air of authority and legitimacy about them.

If we had a decent matchmaking service that wasn't just a complete crapshoot (i.e., high-scoring matches are actually good matches), I'd say a blind-date system may in fact work better than what we've got now - get people out there and interacting in real life as opposed to a terminal with a bunch of droll readouts of vital statistics.
Biggest Map() of my own
I guess it's an ok idea (a manual version of that brushing your teeth = points thing from several months ago) but I would think if you have enough self control not to cheat on this, then you don't really need it.
He's going to Miami, almost certainly. The Celtics-Heat Championship of 2011 will be one of the greatest of all time.
Genetics are serious rubbish. :p

Thank you for that, though. It was a fascinating read.
This movie is full of the usual hollywood hacker bs. But I still enjoy watching it every time. Redford, Kingsley, Akroid, James Earl Jones. Awesome!
It's a shame that somebody point at this obvious feature on 2010. Javascript lacks a lot of features from scripting languages.
It's interesting how everyone is interpreting this data one way. (the startling way)

Another way to look at it is height has a certain level of importance and how much money you make almost doesn't matter at all. In other words, it takes so much money to make up for the height difference because almost no one actually cares about the money.
>> the goal is to not pollute the global namespace

Right, like this, I guess

new function() {
var jQuery = ...
}

I think this document is either omitting the important details or it simply doesn't address the namespacing problem correctly. Remember when Prototype.js had a document.getElementsByClassName? Fun times when that broke.

>> the module/export/load are a part of an opt-in dialect

That doesn't seem very well thought-out. How would one access a module declared in a <script type="text/es-harmony"> from a <script type="text/javascript">? It's a pretty realistic scenario (e.g. say you have a non es-harmony codebase and you want to add a es-harmony library)
The reason you were downmodded is because there is a lot of research that's been available for years and hasn't been tried in practice. New languages that try new features and new avenues may or may not end up being used, but sometimes they influence later (or existing) languages. New languages are a good thing, embrace them.
Hmph, well the study is by Dan Airely, so he's just citing himself.

Now I want to plot a graph: "Number of papers written about the effect of height on male attractiveness" vs "height of author"
From the PDF:

Rust is a curly-brace, block-structured statement language. It visually resembles the C language family, but differs significantly in syntactic and semantic details.

I'm not a programming language buff, but why curly-braces and C-style still in 2010?
All good advice (up voted), but I really am swinging for the fences here. I don't want a masters or PhD at a lesser school . Doing quite well without one.

"I see it all the time that people get hung up on gaining admission to the best schools. Why Stanford? "

I am not "hung up" on it in the sense that if I don't get in that is quite all right. I have zero ego attached to any academic credentials. As you rightly point out the odds are that I'll fail and that is OK.

This is an attempted "hack" somewhat akin to climbing Everest via the hardest route possible. If the goal is just to stand on top of Everest there are better ways.
There are easier routes up the mountain (like getting the Masters first from a lesser school, then going to Stanford for the PhD etc etc), but the fun (for me, I am a crazy guy) is in doing the hardest thing possible. There are other things I could do like come over on an H1 visa first then attend some classes while working at some MegaCorp, ace those, get to know some professors etc etc, but I don't want to do it that way.

I don't mind if I never get a PhD. I am not doing it to increase my self worth or career opportunities. (I have plenty of both, and the time and effort put into a PhD can probably be used to build a half dozen startups instead if money were the goal). In Computer Science anyone with a laptop, Ubuntu, a network connection and an ACM/IEEE membership can do any kind of research he wants to, though that would be a very barebones approach.

This is just a(n artificially high) bar I am trying to jump over. Jumping over a bar is intrinsically pointless. The fun is in the attempt.

I understand if people think it is a crazy idea. I just put it down here because the OP asked for "interesting" goals. Crazy ideas are often interesting!

"At the risk of discouraging you, have a look at the applicant profiles people post up on some of the grad school forum sites. "

I am not discouraged at all. I personally know very "average" people who have PhDs from MIT/Stanford. The idea that every MIT/Stanford grad is some kind of technical/research superman is a myth. There is a bell curve there, and I am confident I am not on the lower end of that curve. I don't have the right "background" to get in but I've never let that stop me from trying anything so why start now?

So sure, by conventional thinking I have next to no chance. On the other hand, a scientist I work with (who supervises several PhD's at IISc and IITs) said to me "I've never seen anyone level up as fast as you do. You understand [his specialization in Machine Learning] more deeply and have more ideas than any of my students. If you ever want to do a PhD and want a recommendation, ask me".

I plan to. ;-)
the goal is to not pollute the global namespace as we do today

What is the other option? The jQuery in "import jQuery.$" has to refer to something. Does he want to create a "module namespace" with special "module objects" not referenceable from normal variable scope? No thanks: that sounds like Java, not JavaScript.

the module/export/load are a part of an opt-in dialect of javascript when you specify "text/es-harmony" as the language

Why does Mozilla need to build dialects into their browser for something which can be done with a simple compiler? Between "create a little module syntax compiler which works in all browsers now" and "wait for all of the borwsers to implement the text/es-harmony dialect", I'd rather see the former.
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Javascript is a scripting language -- and off the top of my head, I can't think of any scripting language with modules (maybe VBScript?)
I'm not asking you questions. I'm sharing my questions with you. If you don't want answers to those questions then don't seek them.
So is Cordellia gonna be there? Oh, it's Angel Investing, not Angel Investigation. My bad.
Very easy to setup, I've signed up, so I'll be able to give you a bit more feedback once I get the first email... I do like how simple it is. Give me a list of profiles, I select the ones I wanna see.

Edit: Got my first email. I don't like the font, otherwise this is great. None of my sites are really so critical that I check analytics every day, so getting this once a week is perfect for me. I'll keep it for now.
Wow, from the title I thought that article was going to take the opposite tact (ie, you should be building a business, not an R&D lab).

Very interesting though.
False. The I-expression:

lambda (x y)
display x
+ x y

corresponds to the S-expression:

(lambda (x y)
(display x)
(+ x y))
Information Entropy (wikipedia)
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Flipping the question upside down: Anything you can master in a month is almost by definition trivial.
Well then, more power to you & best of luck. I'm curious--if accepted would you even bother going? It sounds like merely getting in would satisfy all of your goals.
My company is also working on the many problems in finance. We're hiring.

http://www.facecash.com
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So what you're saying is anyone who has HIV has been infected by every single HIV strain?
Aw crud, sorry about that.
This 'cultural' matching process is the most important element of having anyone join your business - investors, board members, staff, even clients if your business involves ongoing interaction with them.

I like to think of the 'have a beer with' as having the 'family photo fit' - if you can't picture this person fitting into a photo of your business family, then you don't want to work with them. Especially if they are bringing money you need, because personal differences will painfully divide the business.
It's amazing that someone could have enough genius to revolutionize the internet (paypal enabling easy ecommerce), revolutionize space flight and are attempting to revolutionize personal transpost, but can not successfully navigate the california legal system.

All jokes aside, Elon Musk is a freaking inspiration and it sucks to see their creative potential squandered by a lame court battle.
The Federal Reserve is working on speeding up the ACH network. Starting in August same-day ACH will start going into effect based on my understanding.
It could automatically contact friends from your contact list and ask them if you stink.
I think you're off to a good start, but the best way to learn any of this stuff is through experience. Take your classes of course, and study, but if you've got time, contributing to open source, or creating your own projects from scratch is a great way to learn and gain real-world experience.
Why do you say it's "useless for its intended purpose"? I see no reason that thing won't take calls. It's running under Android, not in place of it.

The given reasons are indeed stupid, IMHO, but there are non-stupid reasons to be interested in a computer that is always with you, always connected to the internet, and fully Linux. The only limit at that point is your imagination.
As another 5'7" - fuck :(
Is there any thought about expanding this to other analytics packages? We use Piwik instead of Google Analytics.
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The lesson here is: marriage is a very risky proposition

That depends who you are, who you're marrying, and where you live. Divorces are only this expensive and drawn out in a handful of countries, and milking your ex-partner for all they're worth is a similarly non-universal trait.

Further, some people simply don't have this mentality or a single retributory bone in their body. Those are the people you marry.
Reversals occur too. Tectonic plates, stress causes ulcers, neural networks are the one true future of AI, and those are just three off the top of my head. Rare for an entire science to be rewritten, sure, but trying to contain it by saying it's always just refinements betrays an unfamiliarity with scientific history too.
> What caught me by surprise, and forced me to seek emergency loans from friends, were the enormous legal fees I had to pay my ex-wife's divorce lawyers. In a California divorce, the wealthier spouse must pay both sides of the battle even if they are not the aggressor.

> The legal and accounting bills for the divorce total four million dollars so far, which is an average of roughly $170,000 per month for the past 24 months. Journalists were quick to mock the poor "broke" guy that had $200k a month expenses, failing to note that legal fees constituted the majority.

That's utterly despicable - Grellas, can you help us put together a plan to disbar and exile everyone involved in the divorce racket or something? Talk about a destruction of wealth, energy, time, and life - it's embarrassing that we let this happen to people in the United States.

Our family/divorce courts and the associated personnel are destructive, vindictive, and capricious. This needs to change. Why do people stand for it? What can we do?
IF that application was granted it would be the latest evidence that the USPTO is a joke.

IF it was rejected it would instead be the latest evidence that some humans are nuts.
I'm a big fan of CS, but I wasn't aware it has module support. Are you talking about the class system?
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As much as the USPTO can be a total joke sometimes, this particular patent was rejected and marked as abandoned.

Transaction History
Date	Transaction Description
12-06-2006	Mail Abandonment for Failure to Respond to Office Action
12-05-2006	Aband. for Failure to Respond to O. A.
04-27-2006	Mail Non-Final Rejection
04-26-2006	Non-Final Rejection

See: http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair
(Publication Number: 20060071122)
Definitely one of the more entertaining demo vids.
Media and award-giving groups lazily crib from each other; this is one factor feeding the 'Matthew Effect' in notability:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect
JavaScript needs macros
Most familiar to the largest number of people, easy to parse, only people who want to complain about the color the bikeshed instead of the semantics of the language will care.

--- professional Python coder

(P.S. I like significant whitespace, but I also really don't care.)
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I was under the impression that patent examiners aren't supposed to worry about whether an invention actually works. Since they can't possibly verify the efficacy of every invention they get, it doesn't make sense to try.
If you are using Firefox, you can modify the variable keyword.URL in about:config to point to DDG instead of Google. This also enables "bang syntax" in the firefox address bar.

For example, I can type "!cpp string::length" into the address box and be taken right to the reference page(s)
The mouse has always been 10 times as hard on my wrists as the most intense emacs fiddlings. I'm actually happy to spend more time doing a task just to keep my hand off the mouse.
Master? No. Get moderately competent? Yes
Uneducated and unconstructive opinions expressed here get downmodded, and so do meta comments complaining about being downmodded.

In future prepare more thorough and informed commentary if you don't want to take a hit on your karma.

If you're unwilling or unable to read the documentation and peruse through the implementation source of your own accord, then I don't think this is the community for you.

Either way, good day and have yourself a nice meal whenever the next one is. :)
Don't forget that this guy (still) works alone. He only needs a small niche, he doesn't need to beat Google at all. His users don't even have to be loyal; they could just be (temporarily) frustrated.
If I could upvote this more times I would. It's as if people would rather throw their arms in the air and give up than work in an imperfect system — rather than deal with occasional shoplifting, close up shop and live on the street.

People say they want to know the reporter's opinion, but the thing is, it's relatively unimportant information. The reporter's opinion is nowhere near as important as the facts of the story in most cases. The reporter is just some guy whose opinion is worth about as much as anyone else's. His value to me is in the quality of his information-gathering and his explanation of that information. In an opinion-based piece, these take the backseat to proving the writer's thesis, which does me little good.
Maybe social news sites such as reddit could double as online dating sites.

The focus would be on intellectual debate, rather than on more superficial things.
Grover Norquist propaganda.
I ran a hosted Blogger, which became a hosted Wordpress, which I threw away and now I have a Posterous.

Let's say I run Wordpress on a shared host, which I did for years. That means I have to keep Wordpress updated. Easy, but takes time and effort to do a boring housekeeping task. There's no 100% control because you have a CMS controlling your site instead of writing your own HTML and CSS files. Then you have to pay for hosting and stress over things like storage and bandwidth, or pay enough money that you don't have to, and then stress over the money. On the other hand, you could run your own domain name with email and so forth (and then worry about storing all the spam you ever receive on the server and the fact that your hosting provider has terrible anti-spam systems).

Or you could just point your domain to point at a Posterous and get Google Apps for your domain, spend 10 minutes playing with DNS settings and maybe an hour waiting for the DNS to propagate, and have a blog at your domain, the best email client in the world, and no stress.

If I needed more control, I'd write my own CMS and do the same thing except with Heroku instead of Posterous, because that's more fun than hosting my own installation of someone else's CMS. If I needed even more control I might consider a VPS and my own CMS. But hosting your own wordpress doesn't fit anywhere useful in terms of fun, control, or convenience.
I guess he never came back from his last jump...
I'll stream it this year, probably will be a while before I can check "yes" on the accredited investor box. Last years was great.

Is there going to be a Startup School 2010 or did you decide 18 months between Startup Schools works well?
Guess you'd better be psychic enough or psychologist enough to be able to assess someone's "retributory bones" ...or their ability to grow them when they feel aggrieved against you.
I don't know either, and I don't know why he's getting voted down :S

Anyway, looks like there is a time difference. The Huffington post seems to be from earlier in the day (possibly an original).