skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice critique. I never really used Buzz, because my first instinct was to turn it off, but what little experience I have with it seems to match up.

I've never worked at Google, but I know someone who interned for the UX team, who complained that UX wasn't as involved with design as they could be. I'm guessing that the usability of non-core Google projects depends a lot on whether the engineers who start them seek input from their UX people. If you're doing a 20% project and want other people to work on it with you, you've got to find and convince those people yourself. So at least initially, the involvement of UX people outside of core Google projects depends on whether their involvement is sought.

Buzz in particular appeared to have been launched with little forethought, so there's a good chance it didn't get much of a UX pass, either.
Gentoo's vim cheat sheet is how I learned it in about 1 hour.
Earle,
You posted the fermilabs mystery letter: full cryptanalysis, you last comment is drink you ovaltine. I am incredibly interested in where this fits into the code...f0be58f2fd63 6c79d2e493e6..I am trying to break a code that is very similar to this but have no experience breaking codes so I have been researching codes and how to break them, this is the closest I have come, but still would love to ask you some questions, if you have time. I dont want you to break it for me, I just need a little guidance, when thinking this thru.
Speculation on odd correlations is not meant to be conclusory, but to spur thought on mechanisms, alternative explanations, and possible investigations.

Almost all correlations are complete crap. 99.9% of people who read Slate have neither the expertise nor the resources needed to spur investigations. Most of their readers are people who are ignorant of science and who will get falsely believe that articles like this constitute real science; they'll totally gloss over the tiny proviso at the end about correlation not being causation and the tiny bit about how Taxo actually harms reaction time. For most readers, this article will actively miseducate them. How can making your readership dumber possibly be a good thing? Don't we have enough stupidity in our world already?

What if this speculation prompts a study of soccer players, and finds that compared to their countrymen and controlling for other observable factors, pro players are more likely to show toxo infection?

What if I spontaneously turn into a dragon that lays golden eggs? What then?

If you can find a few cases where real research that wouldn't have otherwise happened resulted from Slate publishing some crappy anti-science article like this that did nothing but note some weird correlation and speculate about it, then I'll concede that you have a point. That should be easy, right?

highlighting the strangeness of the possibility raises awareness of this parasite, which I view as a positive thing.

I don't. Taxo infection is interesting in a "wow, that's cool" sort of way, but it should not be a priority for medical research or public health interventions. We actually know quite a bit about how to improve public health globally and combating Taxo infections is not how you do it. Spending public health funds or devoting public awareness campaigns to Taxo infections is a huge waste: it would mean sacrificing lives for our own amusement.

Public health is mostly about boring staid dull things, not cool neat awesome things.
Google could do the same thing but unfortunately when I use the search function and search for "Rachel" (I have two in my address book) the first result is a web search for Rachel Maddow -- useless.
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New perspectives on the dialogue between brains and machines
"The benefit is to give these people a way to communicate with, learn from, and contribute to, the rest of the world - we hope to give a voice to the voiceless."

All this with 140 characters?
Meh. LuaJIT seems to be where the JIT innovation really is.
1. That I/O keynote was something else in terms of mindshare. Before, Android was an ugly also-ran where devs were making a tenth of the income they made on iOS. After, Android was still ugly and making a tenth of the income for devs, but was transformed into an inevitable iPhone-killer. The facts were the same. If you bash Apple for hype, take Vic with a pinch of salt.

2. iOS 4 is packed with features for devs. Some of the new APIs and block-based animations have taken hundreds of lines of code out of my apps. Doing common tasks like throwing a new view on the screen are massively simpler compared to doing the same on Android.

3. Feature comparisons impressed IT managers in 1989 as they sat choosing between Word and WordPerfect from a list in Byte. Users don't care; they want things that work. They didn't care that the iPod didn't have wireless or as much space as a Nomad, and they still don't.

4. Seriously, features don't factor into it. For 8 years companies were trying to best the iPod by ladling in features, and each time the market told them to go zune eggs.

5. The phone companies are absolutely destroying Android. They're still launching devices with hacked-up versions of 1.6, with no promise of when Froyo will ever make it on there -- that is if the carriers decide to allow it. Imagine if Microsoft had been launching XP but Dell decided it would keep on shipping Win 98, and AOL wouldn't let users even upgrade to Win 2000. Ludicrous.
Such an interesting concept but some key data is missing.

How much energy is lost by using a wheel vs battery? Meaning, how much energy can be extracted from the amount of energy put in? How does that compare to a battery?

How long would a charge on a wheel last (eventually it would spin down on its own) compared with a charge on a battery?
Replying late. In Italy, or Albania, your name is registered after your gov documents. You can use a "mouth" different name with your friends, but since the register of the class is open and stays always on the room, everyone could read it.
whats the language/platform of the software? how many customers/users are there currently?
I see your spinning wheel in a vacuum and raise you a battery drive and the dirt road behind my house.
"the electricity delivered during off-peak periods comes from dirty coal-fired power stations--rather negating the point of having a zero-emission vehicle in the first place."

Except these so-called dirty coal plants are still far cleaner than car exhausts, and more efficient especially if you consider the extraction and refinement processes required for gasoline. Finally, it's much easier to upgrade or replace a power plant on the grid to make it cleaner in the future than it is to get thousands of people to replace their vehicles with ones that are more efficient, cleaner, etc. Nevermind the logistics involved if we wanted to do carbon sequestration.
How brilliant pyrotechnics get made
In the next, say, 3 months, will the number of Fring or Qik users be even close to the number of iPhone 4 users?
I saw a talk the other day done by an independent researcher saying a similar thing, comparing a high end Nvidia card to a Intel quad core chip. The speed up was really only 1-2x most of the time and researcher thought maybe 10x could be achieved for some codes but 100x was not acheivable.
Try learning one new vim command or feature every day, and forcing yourself to use it. If you find yourself not using it, instead doing something less efficient, undo the changes you've just made and re-do them in the newly learned way.

For example, after learning that ^R let me paste to the command-line, I sometimes would copy and paste text with the mouse. When I would catch myself doing this, I'd delete the newly pasted text and use ^R" instead.

The vim wiki and blogs like the Daily Vim helped out a lot with learning a new thing every day.

Also, the docs are excellent. Start reading them (:help toc for the table of contents).

Learn how to use regular expressions in vim efficiently! Turning on hls (:se hls) helps out a lot in learning regex, because you can interactively see what atoms are doing.

Learn how to script vim (:help vim-script-intro). Vimscript kind of sucks, but being able to automate tasks using it is great.
I think an accident causes gasoline to burn more often than explode. Even when the tank explodes I don't think it would be as dangerous as a fly wheel shattering with shrapnel flying everywhere.
Then he's on the right track. If you do all of the fabrication for your prototype yourself, you are probably doing it wrong.
The "greenhouse effect" has a long history in scientific writings, though not necessarily always in the context it is now. The oldest example I can think of is its appearance in Fourier's writings. Of course, it was in French so it was like "effet de serre"
That website charges $125 for the 90-day course, however Vipassana meditation can be learned for free at donation-supported meditation centers all over the world: http://www.dhamma.org/en/bycountry/

All you have to do is register and attend the 10-day course.
hover first?
Flywheels running at high speed are not made of cast iron or other things that turn in to 'shrapnel', they're made of wound filaments of carbon fibre bound with resin, usually they are designed with failure in mind. The bigger problem is dealing with the conversion of the energy in the wheel in to heat.
Don't rely solely on your code base's latest snapshot. Rely on its history.
> Unix has developers but no consumers. Android is the same.

What? 160,000 new Android phones are now activated each day I thought?
While not extremely glaring, this is just another hint of the education bubble waiting to burst in years to come.

http://chronicle.com/article/Will-Higher-Education-Be-the/44...
Am I the only one who absolutely prefers Android's copy/paste to the iPhone's?
This is actually a huge pain for me.

I should have mentioned that another thing that can get you more intimate with vim keyboard shortcuts is trying out one of the vim browser plugins. I use vimium on chrome and vimperator on FF. These give you a number of the keys you're used to using in vim like gg, G, and even / search.

Gmail binds those keys, but I'm so used to scrolling up and down with j/k that the action Google chose is infuriating. What's worse is that turning the keyboard shortcut option off in gmail still captures the key press event, but silences it, effectively breaking my favorite plugin.
1) the GTX280 is not exactly top of the line anymore, it is now fully two generations behind. The sweet spot cost/performance wise is the GTX295.

It was when they wrote the paper. From http://isca2010.inria.fr/index.php?option=com_content&vi...:

Abstract Deadline: November 9th, 2009, 1pm PST

Final Paper Deadline: November 16th, 2009, 1pm PST
Donna Dubinsky: The seven lives of Palm computing
If by "empirical" you mean rigorous, double-blind style studies then obviously there aren't any just as there aren't really any for any serious programming language design questions.

The overwhelming (and it really is overwhelming) market preference is for imperative, infix languages with rich syntax. The extraordinary claim that this is purely circumstantial is the one that requires extraordinary proof.
@jacquesm Does the heat problem confine it to providing only bursts of energy?
This has some really great war stories about getting the government to make its information available online. Very much worth reading.

I do find the scribd interface annoying: put the toolbar at the top of the page, don't try to get all my Facebook information, and no, I don't feel like joining another social network.

Note to scribd: your PDF translator lost two pages out of the middle of this document: I had to download the PDF to read them.
A co-worker of mine got divorced not long ago. I believe it went to court, but not sure (they both had lawyers). No kids were involved. His wife received half his assets, 100% of their co-owned business, all of his retirement money, and substantial alimony for 5 years. He got a devalued house with 2 mortgages and a 15 year old car. The wife is also a skilled, in-demand professional who could easily make $60k/year+.

Hearing face-to-face how badly this guy got fucked over was eye-opening to say the least. The truth is, family courts are highly biased against men. Get a pre-nup if you get married, or learn that truth the hard way.
The whole book is available online for free:

http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html
If we have a flywheel falling on a movable object on the floor I imagine this movable object can attain quite high speeds.
Yes, 100x _is_ achievable. But only with embarrassingly parallel workloads and when comparing a high-end GPU against a modest dual-core CPU.

For example the AMD HD 5970 can execute exactly 100x more 32-bit integer or floating point operations per second than a dual-core 2.9GHz CPU with 128-bit SSE code.

Embarrassingly parallel workloads such as password hash cracking scale exactly linearly with this 100x difference.
Noise is definitely an interesting factor, but the truth is, most renters simply want the most bang for the buck and therefore, price is still the most important metric used in apartment hunting.
Eh, there have been vacuum-based wall-climbers for far longer than 1 year. I remember seeing robotic ones built by high school students at least a decade ago.
I think the point is that those aren't taxes; those are fees demanded by private-sector entities. That's what tends to happen in anarcho-capitalism: without a government wielding ultimate power, private-sector entities with sufficient power can demand payments with offers you might find difficult to refuse.
Artificial Cells- Playing God? Or Just Good Science?
The GTX280 was released on June 17, 2008. So the grand-parent is still right.
I meant on destruction of a running wheel, not on normal use.
I'm pretty sure bars don't actually mean anything, and that they are just arbitrary.
Yea, it's quite true about that seeing improvement longitudinally would be better than the "average person". The study cited in the below BBC article studied people (Buddhist monks) that don't pass the self-selection filter though.

This study shows brief mediation gives improvement, however I'm not sure how they controlled for those who didn't complete the experiment. Could those people be self-selecting out of it due to difficulties - ADD perhaps?

Overall - I'm love to try a simple form of meditation to see if it'd work for my ADD self.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100414184220.ht...
How could you develop for Dropbox without an account?
Can the stylesheet be tweaked to say font-family:Verdana, sans-serif; instead of font-family:Verdana;

Otherwise, systems without Verdana installed show a serif font.

Thanks.
The "vice-versa" part is an important life lesson. Walk to a freeway onramp w/ a rucksack on your back and stick out your thumb, you'll probably meet some fascinating people. Quit what seems like a safe job, travel a bit, land in a different city, and see what you can do there - at the worst, you'll find something differently stimulating. The fear of change is never based on certainty, just on an inverse relationship with one's own flexibility. And I'd wager that, generally speaking, the more flexible, the better.
This is also another benefit of having an organized code-review system that records review comments perpetually. Oftentimes, I'll wonder why someone's using an obviously short-sighted and naive algorithm, only to look through the review comments and see the original author say "I know this is a bit of a hack, but it gets the job done now, we've got to check this in in the next two hours, and we can fix it later." Or I'll do the same and see, "I tried this elegant solution, but it doesn't work for reasons X, Y, and Z", saving me many hours of going down a blind alley.

It's generally good software engineering practice to build for your needs now and not worry too much about anticipating your needs later. Code reviews naturally end up surfacing lots of concerns of the form "But what happens if the system changes in this way later?" If you have a record of that, then when the system actually does change that way later, you can refer back to what the issues were and what potential solutions the original designers had in mind.
The comment is what exactly happens when gov't sticks its nose into private enterprise. It is true regardless who says it.
Simple, fun games are usually the most successful games out there. The hard-core gamer market is small comparatively, especially if you're counting by players instead of purchasers.

(Numerical comparison: Half Life life-time sales: 9.3 million as of the end of 2008[1]. Bejeweled life-time sales: 50 million+ as of Feb this year[2]. And how many play FarmVille (though it's not overly simple)?)

[1]: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/56193 [2]: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/27183/Bejeweled_Sales_Hit...
Yeah, same here. Although I'm using the 5.0.375.86), it still doesn't crash.
Nobody cares for your stupidity. Please stop making reddit out of HN.
This situation perfectly demonstrates what has been what is, and will continue to be, Apple's unique advantage: true hardware and software integration. iOS may be behind o features, but the software is only part of the story.
tl;dr: Some cigar-smoking fat cat with a history in the nuclear industry, as well as assuredly well-read bloggers, consider the nuke the ultimate solution to a very thorny problem.
It looks like the answer is "it's pretty damn noisy everywhere we measured."
Google can't index things behind a login wall (as far as we know...).

It's also just sort of annoying (you may have a dropbox account but not be logged in at the moment on the device you're using) and unnecessary.
Sure, it costs money, but it also costs money to be in an index fund that falls 40-50%. No-load, low-expense index funds are extremely useful but not foolproof. Something to be said for cash right about now as well....
A lot of SMTP servers implementing SMTP AUTH will add an annotation "(Authenticated sender: localusername)" or similar, which will let you distinguish between different users of the same mail server, even when they spoof the From: header. Not sure if that's the solution Posterous is using, or how widespread it is, though.
The point is that it's not an iOS feature, it's an iPhone feature. The original question is about the operating system, not the hardware. This distinction doesn't matter much for the iPhone, but it certainly does for Android devices.
Here is bad: Auschwitz, Treblinka, Buchenwald. Some survived. Never underestimate your ability to bounce back. When you can't summon strength, summon spite.
I like the linked "horses" story a lot.

"We'll see."
brings the total iOS devices to over 100 million

so Apple's shipped about the same number of iOS as MS has Windows 7?
For the MIT graduates, it's not as much "finding a job" as "finding a job that they will take." Their standards are pretty high and in some markets, the downward expectations-adjustment process takes some time.

Also, as an MIT graduate myself, I can say that there are people who have Master's in Engineering in Computer Science and can't even be a code monkey.
You know who else thought a carefully planned network of farms would be a good idea?

Food production is one thing that actually works.
I think it works the other way around as well. It's not a coincidence that Apple marketed the 3G and 3GS models with the "There's an app for that" line - the sheer number of (useful) applications in the App Store is a huge selling point for the iPhone and a real asset for Apple.
Is it legal to say "This device is being tracked by the SFPD" if it's not?
How does this show the science was bad?
In terms of raw FLOPs, the current top ATI card (the $2k FireStream) is 4x the double precision FLOPs of the current top Intel 6-core ($1k).
The nice part about Canada is we have federally sponsored jobs programs in the IT sector exclusively for those with degrees so they don't face competition from those with out higher education.
When I was studying for my degree, my favourite course was "Digital Signal Processing" and I'm pretty sure it was because the lecturer was genuinely interested and enthusiastic about the subject. Enthusiasm is very contagious and hard to resist. I think everyone in that course liked it and found it easy to learn, just because we had a teacher who was really enthusiastic about what he was teaching. If only everyone was like this...
My experience with meditation is that immediately after a long sitting, my awareness of the various "mental events" bump up an order of magnitude. I was indeed seeing the subtle fluctuation of emotions in myself and my family that I didn't even know existed. It was a pretty eerie experience at first, then I gradually got used to it. It's more like a drug-induced experience than something I naturally run into.

It took me several months of experimenting to get to that point when it just "clicked". Before that each sitting did leave me refreshing, like after an exercise, a cold shower, or a long introspection, but there wasn't the same degree of amplified sense of awareness. I believe the latter is what the author is talking about.

What you experience with your newly developed awareness probably depends on your environment. For me, as a newbie, I can't sustain this mental state for more than a few hours. Within those hours I generally feel like staying home, so I don't know what it's like in a social event. Supposedly it takes years of practice for this awareness to stabilize and become permanent, so perhaps by then I can gain more perspective on the various walks of life like the author described.

So yeah, the skeptic part of me can't let me vouch for the specifics, but there's a good chance the author isn't bullshitting.
Agreed. It feels more like trying to get through to a Rapidshare file than anything.
Not really. I developed in it for about three months for a financial company, and compared to all of the other ML derivatives I have used (SML/NJ and OCaml) I found it frustrating to program in and some of the libraries to be broken and/or fragile. But what it really comes down to is that it is one of the few languages that was truly painful and boring to code in.
DroidX or Droid 2?
Any thoughts?
Why does my own party make me hate them more, and more, and more ?
Dustin Curtis no longer on a polyphasic sleep cycle
I found it very funny, but part of me wonders is this just a publicity stunt
Way to shatter my illusions! I thought you were all lisp gurus that could code an NLP processor in 10 lines of code.

I suppose I'd have pretty high job expectations with a master's from MIT too but I'd still rather be working than unemployed.
Hasn't stopped me from planning to get an iPhone 4. I figure, worse case, you have to be careful to avoid shorting the antenna. I already have to be mindful not to cover the microphone, speaker, or camera lens when taking a photo.
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I can argue with the HTC incredible that launched with a 252 (IIRC) screen. It's actually a rather similar form factor, and I'd argue that the screen is pretty damn close to the iPhone in overall clarity.
what else should I have put?
Originally I had "what to do if your being stalked online."
But than I thought how many people have the resources to do what he did.
Isn't it kind of boring to just copy and paste a generic anti-tax quote, though, with the only relationship being that this is a discussion involving taxes? I could copy-and-paste some generic pro-government quote from JFK or something, but it wouldn't be too useful either.
Submitted because it’s relevant to the continuing mentions of polyphasic sleep here.

Dustin’s original article: http://dustincurtis.com/sleep.html

Comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=673726

HN comment on a different thread, noting that people tend not to stick to such cycles: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1464420

I mean no criticism.