skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over the past several days I've been developing something I call "comprehensive training" which may be useful to you. The idea is that rather than just training something like muscles, which a lot of people train, we train every attribute of ourselves.

I call this project Project Asymmetry because a lot of people live symmetric lives where they are born, climb up until they reach a peak, then decline until they die. The end of their lives are mirror images of the beginning. In Project Asymmetry, we reject that, and aim to get better at everything until we suddenly die in an accident.

Here is an image to illustrate: http://ryandickherber.com/images/project-asymmetry.png

Right now I'm researching all the components of the human body that can be trained and will be putting up a wiki with more information on this. I will catalog standard activities, like weight lifting, taking physics qualifying exams, etc., and seeing what parts of the body they train (muscles, bones, brain, etc.). This will take about a week probably.

Then I will design programs that train every component of yourself. The idea is that you will become stronger, funnier, more intelligent, more knowledgeable, etc., in a very rigorous way. Everything will be tracked so you can know you're really making progress. The program never ends, and you will always follow it (until you suddenly die in an accident).

Here is the latest reddit thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/cu0qp/we_want_to_be...

Keep track on my blog:

http://funnylogic.com/
Good question. GAE isn't without problems of its own, but at first glance looks good enough to scale to millions of users. I've never had a project that has done that, but it seems the time to move on is when you run into issues with it that you cannot overcome.
looks like there is http://github.com/klondike/campyre for android but it doesn't look very active.
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It also depends on the form. As others here note, Vit D is fat soluble so gel caps are much better. 1400 IU may not be enough especially if it's a pill. I take a 5000 IU gel cap most days.

Still, if you haven't been tested, you should. It's easy and inexpensive.
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I played Taipan a lot on the Apple II. Great game. I liked the overpay exploit with the moneylender. Many years later I heard about Drug Wars and played it. It looked like it was a mechanical clone of Taipan, just with a different world setting and superficial changes.
Zferral looks great, but the reason companies pay thousands for networks like CJ or tracking like DirectTrack or Linktrust is because these companies invest heavily in infrastructure, stability, and fraud protection to ensure that every valid action gets tracked and paid for, and invalid ones do not. At first glance, Zferral does not inspire the same confidence.

If you just throw up an affiliate script or service without any experience with the industry, you will get destroyed with fraud and traffic quality issues very quickly.
If you take this route for your startup, be sure to hire or at least consult with someone with affiliate experience to design your program correctly. I see new advertisers come up unprepared expecting a flood of customers with zero risk and quickly crash and burn in this industry every day.

I don't want to turn this into a critique of zferral, but as a quick comment, the pricing model is all wrong. If you're a hosted affiliate tracking service, you need to charge per click, like an adserver, and provide the proper SLA. If you're a network, take a percentage of payouts.
Interesting idea, but I can't help but think of how much of a nightmare that would make tech support!
I realize there's been a few alternative ways to read Hacker News that have been posted in the last few weeks, and this is yet another. I started building this a couple months ago, because I wanted it, and finished it because I found it quite useful. I hope you find it as useful as I have.
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Time to add conversionvoodoo.com to my hosts file. That "sign up for our newsletter" popup is absurdly obnoxious.
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I simply do not see why your goals 1-4 require a) the same language on the server as the client and b) the use of a non-blocking I/O model at the server. It appears to be a leap of faith on your part.

While marshalling of model objects to JSON is obviously going to be easier to achieve if your model objects are Javascript objects, marshalling to JSON is trivially achieveable in almost all programming languages.

To suggest that developers should - to achieve this microscopic payoff - choose to build servers using a language with a crippled concurrency model (i.e none) is laughable.
The school I teach at has recently found that women are actually more valued than their male counterparts by employers at the time of graduation. They've been averaging 4% higher job placement and about $2k higher starting salary; 95% and 62k, respectively, for women.

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=11721767&hl=2
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I started this because I am always on the lookout for interesting books that help people expand their boundaries. Let me know if you have any advice or book recommendations.
A couple years before Amazon's Mechanical Turk came out I started thinking about web services (SOAP at the time) with human beings at the end point. To do the things for our software systems that only humans could do.

I had a few long brain storming sessions with friends about it, but other than that I did nothing. Now it's my favorite story to tell people when they ask me if they should execute on their pet idea.
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If Google sucks at their algorithm, I'm free to go use Bing, or not use internet search if I don't want to.

If these credit companies suck at their algorithm, which they apparently do, I'm screwed. It doesn't help that they're most likely totally captured by the financial companies.
And what's wrong with lesser jobs?

It means that eventually a society where life and status is not defined by mere employment emerges. Currently we have few reasons to be unemployed that are acknowledged as okay: for example students and pensioners, maybe some others.

When the illusion that mostly everyone ought to be employed somehow, it means that it becomes ok to not do things that are seemingly productive in the short-term, like work. It will allow more acceptance for production of human values that can't be done under the traditional employer—employee relationship, like arts such as writing, composing, painting, and hacking.

The only reason to think everyone ought to have jobs is to be in a position where you benefit from it. Like manufacturing and selling things to people. But when production is efficient enough and/or people decide that they have enough, the bubble breaks and you will find the society with lots of unemployed people.
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the dataset is the extracted data from http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/wiki/Afghan_War_Diary,_2004-20..., guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/datablog/interactive/2010/ju..., nyt: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/war-logs.html
Wait - so in a nutshell, we actually have observations that can reasonably be assumed to be dark matter causing lensing?
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You don't really need legislative government when you can vote laws directly (through the internet).

Interesting article.

However, there is a risk of bugs as in any code rewrite, don't you think?
There's a story to Starcraft? Huh…
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Be Inspired (By Everything) 06
Welcome to the sixth edition of Be Inspired! So this week I’m guessing I’m feeling in a bit of an illustrative mood because it seems to have added up many illustration but maybe that’s just what was presented to me in my RSS reader, which is Fever by the way.
To me this illustrates one of the biggest weaknesses America has to BRIC. All of those countries have some form of an extraordinarily underregulated place within their borders as well as places with the money and efficiency of the US, and while these places allow for human rights violations, they also allow for extraordinary growth and innovation. They are able to get the best of both worlds.

The prime example is Rio, with it's slums right next door to giant skyscrapers. The slums act like incubators, and when innovation happens the cities eat it up. While the vast majority of the people trying to create businesses within the slums fail, the effects of the failures are absorbed back into the slums, while the cities scale the successes. This may keep the slums poor, but this juxtaposition (among many other factors) seems to be doing wonders for Brazil's economy.
Many years ago I had an idea for "emergency help with computers" but didn't do anything with it. A couple years later all of Moscow metro was suddenly covered with leaflets advertising "emergency help with computers".

Once I had an idea about adding georeferencing data to regular photos of landscapes - not just top-down images - to overlay them on the 3D terrain. Later this capability appeared in Google Earth for user photos and it looks great.
@zackattack I understand. It is of no use to argue over this stupid straw man, but I want you to know something. I firmly stand by Voltaire's school of thought and I will defend your right to say this, but I will not defend the ethical implications of it. It's a subtle distinction, but quite an important one at that.

Please try to understand that this wasn't about political correctness, but genuine understanding about the human being on the other side. I don't mind, but someone else can. One can argue that they're weak. That may be the case, but they're still human beings and they deserve respect.

P.S.- I thought that this was HN not 4chan where I have to use such stuff like; watcha doing ya mother-fucking dawg? (Ugh) :)
Of course. Why wouldn't it?

Remember you are not burning it with a nice flame, you are exploding it. You don't always have complete combustion.

And fine particulates are not the only hazard, there is also ozone which is catalyzed by VOC in the air, and ethanol is a VOC.

You also get NOx which is caused simply by high temperatures in an engine, and ethanol is no different.
There can only be one 'first', and if yours isn't it than that's just too bad. The 'I thought of that first' meme is one of the most common and most easily dispatched things that almost all entrepreneurial types have experienced at least several times in their lives.

The easiest way to think of it is to realise that for every idea that 'made it' not just one but probably more likely several 10s and possibly 100s of people had that idea too and they didn't follow up on it either. Chances that you're the first are very small.

Your idea couldn't have gone anywhere, at least, not by itself. You need to get a lot more factors just right in order to create something that really takes off.

The more interesting question to me is what ideas do you have that you are not following through on right now, that you can make a similar post about 10 years from now?

And, what are you going to do about it?
but it seems to have virtually no data on women in computing at all,

Are you asserting that we need to experimentally verify discrimination in every single new context one can think of? Usually, we generalize from other research: there is no reason to suppose CS is miraculously free of discrimination against women, considering the variety of areas in which this kind of discrimination has been shown exist.

I don't see a single source which, e.g., shows women outperforming men
at the same level, [..]

Why do you have to outperform others before you can be discriminated against? The fact that they are being discriminated against is in itself a reason why they are unlikely to outperform the others.
Very true, and very easy to forget when you're responding to a text box rather than in person.
I love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. When I was around 12 years old, I had an idea of peanut butter slices, like individually wrapped cheese slices.

A couple years ago, I read about:
http://www.pbslices.com/history/index.html
I've considered this an issue for a long time. What's even more annoying is when you apply and don't even get the courtesy of an acknowledgement. I've thought for a while that some enterprising job application software startup could add a 'be polite' function which would automatically reply back to someone after X days if the employer decided not to follow up.

But as someone else mentioned, we're (in the US) such a 'lawsuit happy' place that many companies are likely fearful of committing anything in writing which would come back to haunt them. Even truthful, as in "based on your application, you're not qualified to work here", might offend someone.

Personally, I think that excuse is a bit overblown, and I suspect it's more a factor of people being lazy or overworked when they don't reply.

What does a company get out of spending time replying to applicants they've turned down? A reputation of being professional, perhaps even 'outstanding'. When getting totally ignored becomes the norm, even getting a polite 'no thanks' acknowledgement might be something to make you think twice about that company and how you refer to them in the future.

Also, many companies could do well to post on a blog the types of candidates they're looking for, explain the process, and perhaps even give genericized examples of things to avoid in an application, based on the previous applicants. This would help get them a better prepared applicant, making the process a bit easier for them.
That's great. Anything you can share?
Like you, I'm unsure whether this is confirmation bias or not - but as I hit 40, my impression is that this is the 3rd time I've seen 'Old Spice' transition from being 'generic present for Dad' to being hip for young men.

I don't know whether it's something to do with the economy (since it's very affordable compared to designer brands) or whether the firm identified a generational cycle affecting their sales and made a conscious decision to build a long-term strategy around it, which Proctor & Gamble have just perpetuated. I remember buying Old Spice for my Dad, then buying some of their wares for myself back in the 90s because it amusingly 'retro' or ironic, and a few years from now I'll be the grateful Dad getting a bottle for Christmas. During the same period they've switched their logo from an old-fashioned 3-masted sailing ship to a sporty modern yacht...and back again.

Yes, bottle - the after-shave comes in the same container that it did when I was a boy and thought OS epitomized grown-up man stuff. Back then it was advertised (on TV at Christmas, and in the cinema all year around) with a 30 second clip of a guy surfing, set to Carl Orff's 'Carmina Burana' [1]. That seems like cheesy nostalgia now, but back in the 1970s it was the media equivalent of a hand grenade - overtly masculine, movie-quality eye candy, and unquestioning self-confidence. Sound familiar? And notice, if you will, that it's both new and 'classic'. Rather like their marketing strategy :-)

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rbZr7YoqK0
Is this a business opportunity?

If the premise of the article is true, that people who should be getting credit are not, why can't we start a credit-extending company that does a better job of assessing risk?

One or more of three things must be true here. Either:

1) there is an untapped business opportunity here,

2) the premise of this article is false and the machine is working fine, or

3) there are regulatory barriers getting in the way of making the machine work well.
Actually, I think Napster hit when college students had PCs (and ethernet) in their dorms. Kazaa hit when broadband started to get popular. Good point, though.
It doesn't matter where the shipment is from; if the business has a point-of-presence in the shipped-to state, they charge you sales tax for that state. For instance, I bought some stuff at the Pendleton store in Portland, Oregon, and had it shipped home to Illinois, and the clerk (very apologetically) told me that he'd have to charge me sales tax since Pendleton owned stores in Illinois. This despite the fact that I was physically in Oregon, the sale was taking place in Oregon, the blankets were still in Oregon, and Oregon has no sales tax at all.
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Is it me, or has the quality of Scientific American gone down significantly in the last year?

This is not the first article with problems like this I've read there. Maybe it's just the blog postings?
there are some crazy people out there who are desperate for jobs or (failing that,) money to pay the bills. I'd imagine it's pretty easy to threaten to blackmail on the grounds of discrimination if you are that desperate
we realllly need people like that at political speeches
Blizzard must not be up to the traffic. I tried to purchase the digital download. It errored out. Tried different browsers. Same thing. Tried calling Account and Billing support. Busy signal. The one thing you absolutely do not want to fail on a popular product launch is your digital purchases. I'm going to venture to guess that this is their largest product launch ever.
>I honestly don't think it's placebo.

Well if you did, it wouldn't work!
The design is not my taste, and looking at the designer's portfolio (http://www.gursimran.com/) it does all look a bit dated. (I think some of this is expected with out-sourced design where local tastes and aesthetics differ to 'western' current trends).
I distinctly remember having a very similar idea for Twitter after seeing how much people used their AIM away messages as statuses a couple of years before Twitter launched. Of course, I'm sure tons of others did also - there wasn't really a lot of magic in the idea, good (enough) execution and network effects is what made Twitter successful.
While I always enjoy a good rant, I don't see why it had to be so vicious and insulting.

The cygwin maintainers are not known for their patience and affability.
10/GUI just became a little more possible today.
Even worse:

A lot of household items are made from chemicals that off-gas. Shutting your home might actually make the indoor air quality WORSE than if you opened windows to ventilate.

See: http://www.epa.gov/iaq/
Do you have a better source than wiki? I mean, this was the party line on justifying the bank bail outs, but again, its counter to the World Bank Handbook on resolving bank insolvency through government buying/auctioning the bank components.
Obligatory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js9d48G9HSI#t=0m27s
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Fur Elise doesn't exactly say, "Help! Turn me off! I'm melting!" I think a Star Trek red alert klaxon would be more appropriate.

I'm not sure what "It's a Small World" says. Definitely not, "Your voltage is out of spec".
I have been thinking for some time: is 60 US dollars sort of price limit for a game or have there been more expensive games? I'm more interested in the cases where the price of the game is determined by the merits of the game itself and not by the price of the necessary stuff (controllers, pricey distribution media etc.) that the game needs to operate, so I'd like to factor that out. But It's still interesting to know: how much did they sell for those games that need special controllers to run (i.e. guitar) or those games distributed on cartridges with pricey ROMs and ASICs?

When iPhone App Store came along, it brought with it its own price conventions i.e. it's normal to sell games for $0.99, or $9.99 tops. Does anyone sell games for $60, or at least $30 on iPhone? Form a developer's point of view I see no reason for iPhone games to be priced cheaper than PC or console counterparts. Development of any game doesn't become 10x cheaper because it is for iPhone, does it?

The reason I'm interested in it is the following: I am thinking about how can indie game developers get compensated for their work? There's the notion that if the game is "big and good" ("AAA" titles released by major publishers) it deserves to be paid top dollar for ($60 currently, I assume; though $60 seems to be "very top" by todays standards); indie games from obscure developers deserve much less. I don't see why the opposite couldn't be true; "big" games, though require big budgets for their production, will sell many copies anyway, while indie ones appeal for much narrower audience (that needs them nevertheless), for which they have to compensate with higher price, which said audience will have to pay. Does history have any examples of this kind? If not, maybe, as PG noted[1], we're not actually paying for content in games, not just in music and print?

[1] Paul Graham: Post-Medium Publishing
http://www.paulgraham.com/publishing.html
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All of them, so far.
belkin might make something that could look the same, but it wouldn't work the same. hence, the mocking.
Hahaha yeah. Here is the link for those that don't know: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J-y2rFfny8
Perhaps should have said "a computer purchase among non-computer geeks".
Yeah. About the only thing you don't get from ethanol compared to hydrocarbons is... volatile hydrocarbons, and of course (unsunk) CO2.

The combustion outputs are quantitatively different, but the same compounds are present. Whether ethanol produces cleaner combustion products compared to gasoline is debated in the literature.

Of course, when it comes to particulates, things like diesel or bunker oil are much worse than either gasoline or ethanol.
didn't buy divx.com when i looked it up and it was still free.
Faster is the wrong word -- scalable. It was definitely talking about scalability and load, not just pure speed.
FTA:

"Let’s begin with the Perry Preschool Experiment, which consisted of 123 low income African-American children from Yspilanti, Michigan."

and three sentences later...

"The differences, even decades after the intervention, were stark: Adults assigned to the preschool program were 20 percent more likely to have graduated from high school and 19 percent less likely to have been arrested more than five times."

The above passage contains the only numbers I could find (cited paper's behind a paywall).
Those numbers mean _nothing_.

123 people

20 % more likely to graduate = 67 graduated, 56 did not 67 - 56

The author suggests that 11 people graduated high school because of pre-school. He/she could have said "11 more people graduated high school than did not", but he/she didn't. Tried to obfuscate it.

"19 percent less likely to have been arrested more than five times."

They obviously tried to find something that reinforced their point instead of looking at reality. They didn't say "19 percent fewer arrests", they said "less likely... more than 5 times". Because the real difference in mean arrests is probably much smaller.

Again the study is behind a paywall so I can't read it, but I suspect they're not even wrong.
I think Microsoft's ill-fated experiment with menu bars that automatically hide what the application doesn't think you're using was an example of how not do do this, and it may have scared everyone else away from the idea in general.

Microsoft's problem was probably the reliance upon this as an easy alternative to actually reducing the number of entries in menus and better grouping of functionality.
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They are called "fossil fuels" to distinguish whether their combustion increases the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere (on timescales less than tens of thousands of years). That's a pretty important distinction to keep track of...
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