skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. It's longer but quite well documented.
It retakes most important points of the first part so I if you choose to read only one, read the part II.

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=5393442&m...
I think memorizing the seeds used to generate random numbers would be almost more impressive than having psychic powers.
He could've done even better by announcing his resignation and then selling on the Fiorina-like bounce it would have engendered.
To solve this mystery you would need to know who traffics the cocaine. Your search might lead you here - http://www.google.com/search?q=cia+drug+trafficking
Suggest HN: what do you think about the UX of HN  
I have joined Hacker News only a few months ago, but I am already totally addicted to it.
I find the minimalistic layout really great.
The priority that is given to text over images and video is remarkable. I have even noticed that some posts linked to videos do not attract any attention.

There are some minor suggestions that I would like to share with you:

- The orange asterisk is of the same color as the headline box and some times my eyes are making it unconsciously difficult to locate my post(not many)

- I usually have the site minimized all the time but I want to check (I told you that I am getting addicted to it) if somebody has replied to my posts. It would be interesting if the minimized tab was showing the karma number and refresh itself once in a while.

- I find the background having a very close color to the text and it makes reading a bit problematic

- The down-voted comments literally cannot be distinguished from the background. I understand that this is a choice of the administrators, but what do you think?

With respect,

gsivil
- Enable Strict-Transport-Security:

Header set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=86400"

- Let GoogleFrame do its magic:

BrowserMatch chromeframe gcf

Header append X-UA-Compatible "chrome=1" env=gcf
to me it sends the wrong signal to other share holders. Sell now while the share has a temporary peak.

their up and coming smart-phone business and being able to integrate that with their other online products like Bing will decide whether MS will grow or die. They are late in all domains, so they are gonna have to impress by pushing the experience to new heights.. which I doubt they will pull off considering they have a poor product development culture compared to apple and google.
I don't think your Google analogy is quite the right example.

* Google indexes information that is public, that I (or others) have chosen to publish. The data on Facebook is personal data.

* Other search engines, or even yourself if you wanted to code a crawler can index that same info because there is no 'lock'. No-one besides Facebook can access my personal info (because they have put a lock on).

* This is about (one caveat - see below) being able to access my personal data and being able to port it elsewhere. It's not about ad targetting or other business aspects - ie I don't expect FB to make their ad data exportable, just my personal details.

The Caveat (which is related to your thought experiment): With regard to your thought experiment - I think the answer is both - Google's action is both a 'striking a blow for openness' and' a self-interest action to 'negotiate a favorable market position'.
DNA Fingerprinting Traces Global Path of Plague
"The sequencing of the pictures on these trials was randomly determined by a randomizing algorithm … and their left/right target positions were determined by an Araneus Alea I hardware-based random number generator."

http://www.araneus.fi/products-alea-eng.html
Startup Quote: James Cash Penney, co-founder, JCPenney
The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

- James Cash Penney

http://startupquote.com/post/1501109891
They will get it at some point though - not only are there a lot of programmers who would love to write something as complex as that, but they can afford to pay very, very well.
Google App Engine is now much faster, after latest maintenance
As this article points out, the problem with these studies is not statistics. The issue is non-reproducibility, and the ever-present possibility of deception (fraud, incompetence, cheating participants, etc.) Studies "demonstrating" ESP are probably as old as science itself.

On the other hand, I've heard one eminent psychology professor at McGill tell us that "there's something there", and that he had personally tried a few seemingly conclusive experiments. Unfortunately, there have been so many ESP cranks before, that no modern-era psychologist would dare touch that field for fear that their career be forever sidetracked.

Also relevant, regarding the claims of homeopathy:

What about a memory of water? Is it possible? In 1988 the scientific journal Nature, had received an article written by celebrated French scientist Jacques Benveniste. He claimed to have found the evidence that made a homeopathy scientifically credible. Benveniste experimented with very dilute solutions. To his surprise, his research showed that even when the allergic substance was diluted down to homeopathic quantities, it could still trigger a reaction in the basophils. Nature's editor Sir John Maddox decided to publish a paper, but under one condition, to be allowed to Nature's team of investigators to inspect Beveniste's laboratory. When Maddox named his team, he took everyone by surprise. Included on the team was a man who was not a professional scientist: magician and paranormal investigator James Randi. Randi and the team watched Benveniste's team repeat the experiment. They went to extraordinary lengths to ensure that none of the scientists involved knew which samples were the homeopathic solutions, and which ones were the controls - even taping the sample codes to the ceiling for the duration of the experiment. This time, Benveniste's results were inconclusive, and the scientific community remained unconvinced by Benveniste's memory of water theory.

http://www.wavemagazine.net/arhiva/12/science/homeopathy.htm

http://www.wavemagazine.net/arhiva/12/science/homeopathy.htm
Hmm. Without any thought given to computability:
Rearrange the words of every document into alphabetical order, then sort the whole list of documents into alphabetical order. Now, start reading the documents, and for each one make it a tree with each word a leaf, BUT if there is already a tree with a fragment of the same phrase, then that tree is linked to as a node of the new tree.

So for the document 'christmas day' the tree

______d1______.

__/_________\__.

christmas___day

is formed. But for the document 'chistmas day special', the tree

_____d2______.

___/____\____.

d1_______special

is formed. Note: word order doesn't matter. For any given document, how will it know if there's already a tree that uses some of the same words? When a tree is created from a document, give it a hash for the full set of words, plus hashes for sub-strings. These can be stored in a big lookup table, so new documents know where to look for relevant trees (or -- use whatever solution is well established for this sort of problem). Might also need to algorithmically redefine older trees as we go along, ie. divide a tree into smaller phrases

For each leaf let it keep track of what trees its part of (including grandparents and above). Then to find the top-k, for each leaf object (if it's in the vocabulary), print out all the other leaves of all the trees its part of. Like

if leaf.__str__ == 'day':

___ for tree in leaf.trees

______ print tree.leaves

Then do a simple frequency count to find the top-k associated words.

(sorry for the n00b answer... IANACS)
Indeed, it seems to have gone out of fashion at the same time as the mechanical typewriter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_spacing_at_the_end_of_se...
Your statement is inaccurate.

I was in Atlanta.

I was at the original private party.

The party moved out to a nearbye bar.

The assault took place in a public bar. An expensive downtown Atlanta one.

Maybe 30+ people from the conference in the bar.

Regardless, it does not matter the physical location of the assault. It was wrong. It is unacceptable anywhere.
Yes, but they are properly on the unofficial payroll.

And they are properly payed through Chiquita, since they own a pretty big favor to the CIA from back when they was called United Fruits company and they got the CIA to instigate a coup for them.
Given the prior expectation of approximately zero, the posterior remains approximately zero. Fantastical claims require durable evidence that can be repeated by different people at different times in different places.
Online (at least on the margin), the cost of resources is already sufficiently close to zero so as to not matter.

If that's the case, why does StackOverflow need venture funding? VCs investing money in such sites are surely looking for returns in money. So, what's the OP really trying to say?

I must be missing something. Can someone please explain?
It is possible, but that would not easily explain why they only varied for one type of photo. Non-chance results should have been observed for all trial types, or with an obvious pattern of the human getting better over time. Though I can't prove that didn't happen.
9 - yeah though thy compiler hath longer variables beware the fashionistas who call their variables.
com.sun.java.variable.main.graphics.coordinates.point.x and com.sun.java.variable.main.graphics.coordinates.point.y
Some other discussion here: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/315/goertzel_on_psi_in_...
The GPS antenna could be encased in a very small inflatable opaque brown (same color as seeweed/kelp) buoy, attached by a cable to the sub.
http://portablecontacts.net/draft-spec.html
Frankly, I consider it a "win" for all of us that people who try and buy political seats from their own cash fail.

I don't know what it is but I find it deeply unsettling when the likes of Jon Corzine pump so much of their own money into these things, particularly when they're former business types.

You have to expect that if they're putting in $60+ million of their own money they expect to get that back at some point.
And because of the tendency for a browser to strip whitespace from HTML to render pages readably, those two things look exactly the same.

If you want consecutive spaces in a bare HTML page, you have to use "&nbsp;" which doesn't work here because pg isn't a moron.
I consider myself a true skeptic, in the sense outlined in that article; no, I don't really currently believe in systematic psi effects, but yes, there is a threshold of evidence that will convince me.

That said, to engage in a bit of meta-skepticism, I see an article like this about every three years or so, and so far nothing's come of any of them that I am aware of. And by "like this", I mean the whole article, appeals to skeptics to be "true" skeptics and not just unthinking unbelievers (which is a real thing, certainly), acknowledgments of the poor history of the field but assertions that it's different this time, trotting out various people with various credentials who assert there's something there... I'll wait for the consistent replication.
I agree on the minimal layout being great,
and on your points

1. You can change the color of the title bar with enough karma (50 I think)

2. Notifo will send you an email alert when a response to your comment is posted http://notifo.com/hackernews

3/4. If you highlight the text as if to copy, then you can read it
I suspect the average 30 year old in the US is probably worse on a standardized math test than the average 15 year old. Back in collage I took Differential Equations, but at 30 I really don't recall the specifics. In many ways I was probably better at math a 17 than I am today. Now take the average person that can't recall how to use %'s correctly and they may have been better at 15.
Even if the controls were simple, I think you'd probably want to have experience flying just so you're practiced keeping your cool in similar but less dangerous situations. This thing looks like it's about three seconds of panic away from killing anyone.
The second link, I think.

Note that it's also available in an HTML version, at:

http://pweb.netcom.com/~tjensen/ptr/pointers.htm
This headline should say "GETs to the datastore are now much faster".

EDIT: I neglected to see the other datastore figures.
USDA sells cheese while warning against eating it
How does he land?

Edit: Parachute. Of course.
Hi, I'm you from two years ago (loving jQuery, moving more code from server to browser, never used Closure Compiler). I'd like to take your advice, but I'm confused about something.

It sounds like you said (1) you had a great experience with jQuery, (2) writing Javascript is a much worse experience with Closure Compiler, (3) therefore use the Closure Compiler and not jQuery.

Could you please explain why you like the Closure Compiler, so I can understand the jump to (3)?

(1) "running circles around fellow devs", "JS, with it's loose typing and object notation was just a fast place to write code"
(2) "now, I'm writing typed code, in a non-typed language, and there's not much to really like about the language"
(3) "Start using the Closure Compiler, and use less jQuery"
He sold 12% of his MSFT shares, not 20% like stated in the title: 49.3 million shares out of a total of 408 millions that he owned (SEC link: http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/000119309910000081... ).

He said he might sell more by end-year, but didn't guarantee that he'll do that ("He said he plans to sell as many as 75 million shares by year's end"). That would bring his sale percentage up around 18.3%.
I am a senior right now graduating from a program that is somewhere in between MIS and Computer Science. I didn't really know what I wanted to do when I came to school so I chose my major almost purely based on the fact that I "liked computers and stuff". I discovered that I had a strong interest in programming during my Junior year from working an internship as a PHP developer. From there I have worked in another PHP role for a startup and I have done a few projects with Ruby on Rails. I have also had lot of Java experience from my classes and I am currently taking classes on threaded concurrent programming.

I have learned a lot about managing software projects, testing, design, and development methodologies but I feel like I am really missing the fundamental knowledge that I need to be a great developer and really understand the nuts and bolts of my profession. I am at a crosswords right now because I have not been able to find a job post graduation yet. I have a strong interest in doing startups at some point on my life, however I want to have money to support myself because I am going have bills and I am broke. I also don't know if I have enough skill to really be successful programming a high tech application or freelancing, at least for a few years. I guess my decision right now is between getting any job to make money in the IT field to support myself or working a part time job to pay bills and going back to school somewhere and trying to get CS degree. I really think that I want to understand how computers work and pursue knowledge but at the same time I am getting kind of burnt out with school and I want to make money.

I would love to hear any opinions you have on this because it seems like you went through a similar process.
You should also check out the latency for Put, Update, Delete and Query on that same page.
I wonder why she ran with the Republicans at all. She could have run as an independent; plenty of California voters are equally annoyed with both parties' poor legislative and administrative record.
Put, Update and Delete are much faster too.
I missed that part. I only saw the part about the programming language's RNG - which set off a red flag for me.
I expected something more than a graphic.
Is anyone else highly skeptical of the bar chart indicating that just > 50% of professors in 'natural science' disciplines believe in ESP and that social science (except psychology) and humanities professors are even worse?
If you stopped hiring blacks, specifically, because the Chilean subsidiary missed its numbers on account of an earthquake and now you have to make budget cutbacks, your black non-employees are not being inconvenienced by an earthquake. They are being inconvenienced by the fact that you took circumstances you had no control over and decided to address them with a policy you could control, and your policy was racial discrimination.

CC: American universities with a pallette swap.
Ask HN: Work standing up and heel pain
I have tried to work standing up for about two weeks. I feel great except heel pain. Does anybody have some experience to lighten heel pain while working standing up? Thanks!
HTML ended that. I have followed all periods with two spaces in this post. How can you tell on the screen?

In fact I just checked, and HN is honoring the two spaces, in that they are output to the actual HTML sent to your browser. And of course, yes, there were other trends that would have ended this anyhow, "two spaces" in meaningless in a non-monospaced font and ever more stuff is going proportional as the computing power necessary to do that continues its steady march from "prohibitive" to "trivial", but the WWW certainly beat the corpse to death again.
Interestingly, certain pages (such as the reply page I'm writing this from) don't pay attention to the title bar colour you've set.
This move is a little strange. It's a big chunk to sell all at once and some will interpret it as a de facto vote of no confidence in MSFT.

The smoother way for executives to sell their substantial holdings in a company is to say they will sell X shares per year for Y years (typically in the name of diversifying one's holdings) and then put some independent third party (with no access to insider information) in charge of the exact timing of the individual transactions.
Call me paranoid, but I'm wary of Listia. Who regulates the issuance of credits which are used to purchase actual goods? (answer: Listia) What legal repercussions are stopping them from issuing credits to whoever they want? (answer: none)
1. I like the orange for the title bar. But I still think that the orange asterisk is not so easy to spot.

2. Receiving emails for the responses it a bit annoying. (We have Facebook playing the "Big Notifier" role in our inboxes I am afraid so as to have patience for another one :))

3/4: You are right and this is exactly what I do sometimes. But marking text so as to read it is still a bit inconvenient
I love HN's less-is-more interface, but there are a couple things I would like, in a perfect world:

- There's no way to change a vote on an article or comment. (Misclicks happen.)

- I would love love love a way to flag an article or comment for later review (similar to reddit's "saved" feature).
Gosh. So from the one experiment that article described, people had premonition/precognition about an upcoming event when it had 'psychological valence.' Ie. when they were about to see an erotic picture, but not when they were about to see a picture from a less remarkable category (in the control experiments).

What I'd be interested in is if the level of premonition success showed any difference if the next picture was being selected in real time by another person, and not by a random computer algorithm.
Ah, thanks for the hate, ordinaryman.
As information begins to flow freely, it's monetary value approaches $0. Forgive my insensitivity- but based on that sentiment the content of this course is worth relatively nothing.

I am of course not speaking towards the instructors ability, time, or guidance. Granted, $350 is a steal compared to formal education; but if teaching 20 people how to AJAX is worth upwards of $8,000... I need to move on to teaching.
There was actually prior expectation. To quote the article:

"Bem was unable to find any fatal flaw in Honorton’s work. He became more and more interested in extending his research focus from personality and social psychology to psi research. In 1994, Bem and Honorton co-authored a landmark article on psi in the mainstream psychology journal Psychological Bulletin. The article described the results of a thorough statistical meta-analysis of eleven ganzfeld studies. (A meta-analysis involves combining data from a series of similar experiments conducted over a period of time, to come to an overall conclusion.) The result of the meta-analysis was striking: subjects obtained overall target “hit” rates of approximately 35 percent, far above the 25 percent that chance performance would predict."
The topic you're looking for is

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363
I was expecting a trendy javascript-instead-of-flash game. Thankfully, I was wrong.
If I'm reading this article correctly, it claims that there is statistically significant evidence that:

1) Precognition (at least when it comes to guessing where erotic photos will show up on a computer screen) is a real phenomenon

2) Precognition abilities are related to changes in the Earth's magnetic field

This certainly sounds hard to believe, but IF these experiments do turn out to be repeatable in the future (that remains to be seen), what effect would this have on our fundamental understanding of how the world works? It's pretty mind-blowing.
Thanks for the comment, Sam.

I couldn't find your contact information on your listed website.
Not me. And, even if I wanted to, I can't.

Also, I guess Google folks would post about the performance boost later.
Did you ever notice how some jobs are considered less desirable than others or at least in some ways unpleasant because "you have to be on your feet all day"?

I suggest (not as medical advice, just common sense):

Avoid holding yourself in any one position for most of the day. Move naturally, instead. Sometimes sit. Sometimes stand. Etc.
Apparently he has a throttle but no other controls, and steers using body english. Sounds like skydiving would be slightly better training for this than piloting.
They basically need a GAVIA[1] system with an extra couple of battery modules and one of the dvl/ins modules to allow for long travel distances with less accumulated error. Build a payload module and screw them all together and you're there. [1]http://www.gavia.is/Products/Gavia-Technology/Payloads/
The point the article was making was that it is illegal to sell kits which test for levamisole and other harm reduction 'paraphernalia'.

Some people are going to use drugs no matter how dangerous they are perceived to be, and that is why prohibition does not reduce the overall harm drugs cause to society.

Yes it would be better if the externalities of drugs on society could be internalised into the price of the drug - but that doesn't justify government interventions which achieve nothing but stop drug users from protecting themselves against serious harm.
I think so. Logic is only as good as its premises.
And that's very different from paypal freezing accounts and keeping money arbitrarily how?

Paypal has the incentive to keep your money of, well, your money. Listia the company has considerably less incentive to mess with the credits. They are the government issuing the currency. Mess with it too much and they wreck their economy.
looks like they took a 1hr write outage at deployment time, so presumably a fairly beefy change under the hood.