skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems to make sense simply for the sex part of the study, the author even admitted to such in the original study, saying the equivalent of text messaging is correlated with increased sex among youth. However, he never implied that it was the cause of it. I think that would've been the equivalent of career suicide.

What I'd like to know more about is the link between texting, social media and the other factors presented that didn't have clear cut explanations. People who are generally more social are bound to be more promiscuous etc. but why was there a link between texting and socioeconomic status, and why was the trend reversed for social networking compared to texting? Also why was there increased rates of obesity for this same group? Aren't larger people usually less social? It's not as simple a study as it seems.
The performance is much better. I’m getting sub-one second app launch times, page load is much faster than safari, page render is comparable.

The app is still a bit of a bad citizen in that it doesn’t have any of the native text views allowing for system spell-check or any of the system services, and the app’s cpu usage still runs at 4% with no windows open (expected behavior is that windowless apps use 0)

And to be pedantic, there’s something still Java-y about the interface. Fonts are just a little bit bigger in places, and the main bar, despite being 7px smaller than safari’s (amazing feat, firefox dev’s) still feels chunkier.

Weird things in the interface vein: The feedback button’s dropdown hangs left automatically. Proper system behavior is to drop it down to the right, and then push it left based on the monitor’s viewport. The textfield resize grab changes the mouse cursor.

Weird stuff like that. Since it’s a beta I can understand the rough edges strapped to the oversized V12 engine. I still have nightmares about trying to run Firefox 2 on Tiger in 2005 or so.
I did the puzzle you guys had a couple years ago when I was a grad student, and I just finished doing this one. I was sorta disappointed the secret hadn't changed, so if I were to email you it now, you couldn't tell if I had solved the current puzzle, or just archived the previous secret.
Not sure I'd take "dominant" and "forceful" as complimentary in this context.
Gee, some sock puppet wreaking havoc on Wikipedia induced some Wikipedia administrator to block thousands of IP addresses, one of which my home IP address (at least it was within the banned block). I'll gladly donate once they lift the ban.
This isn't just a 10 year problem, it's a 100 year problem. And at 100 years exponentials swamp everything else.
You're wrong.

No, you can't just split a picture into three channels and say "Hey, blue looks dark," because blue might actually be dark.

You can, however, make a picture grayscale, then turn that same grayscale picture into redscale, greenscale, and bluescale. The luminance would be exactly the same for every pixel, the only difference would be the pixel's color.

I did that, in fact, and you know what? Your eyes really do suck at blue: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jemfinch/sets/72157617048178001...

We do have a clear enough picture of how our eyes work to know that the blue receptors are far fewer than the red and green receptors. Your eyes suck at blue. My eyes suck at blue. All of our eyes suck at blue.

Every time this story comes up, someone brings up this point. That's why I did it right: so I could reply to arrogant comments like yours that assume because an experiment is flawed that the theory it tried to prove must be wrong.
There have been significant advances to the underlying code, see this post here by Josh Aas, Gecko platform software engineer with Mozilla Corporation:

http://boomswaggerboom.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/firefox-4-fo...
I've never understood how it's possible to be offended on someone else's behalf, particularly on a perpetual basis, as your tone leads me to believe you must be.

Your pejorative reading of "complicated" is far out of proportion to the original comment. Like it or not, gender differences extend beyond just having different sex organs. Men and women differ in lots of ways, including in typical emotional response. It's entirely reasonable to point out that women may respond differently to visual depictions of nudity in the same way that it's reasonable to point out that they tend to be less hairy.
Yep, it's about 2.9 trillion per year globally, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dio... and my calculator.

That's for the most aggressive option though, which they estimate will stabilise CO2 by 2030. There's a $20 and $50 option, but sadly no link to the actual paper, so no idea what those options would get you. Lomborg's proposal apparently takes until 2100, but it doesn't say how he arrived at that date, or how he knows that'll be either safe or enough to halt emissions.
But not mutually exclusive ...
Well written post, and I agree that C# has come a long way. It's one of my favorite languages now!
In my defense: it's a very stable prerelease copy.
To be fair not all covers of Wired feature a person. I did a google image search to check though, and ran into this:

http://mrmagazine.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/wired.jpg

...which seemed a bit more of a stretch than putting up breasts for the tissue article (albeit this is a back cover).
Well, either that or they could work on providing more and more unique non-remunerative employment benefits.
Pop-up Video for iPad! This is seriously cool.
1000% eh? So you hire 9 slaves to approve alongside you? Interesting. Are they on your contacts? Hmmmm?

Much much much more wiery when people give out their email password to any other service period. Plus why would you care if you can't get the info out of facebook? You already have it in gmail. I dunno, I feel like I dodged so many bullets by not using facebook.
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> I don't have much sympathy for the shameless use of breasts argument, as that's just American prudery.

Where's the prudery in Cindy's article?

> How many women did you see at Startup School this year? I'd guess the number was under 5% ... How many women are in YC? Based on these number, women may be over-represented for their digital accomplishments on Wired covers.

Actually no. Wired and YC both have < 10% women, far less than the broader tech field -- or society as a whole.
Question 21: Who let the dogs out?

Oh, I've got this one:

Ask not who let the dogs out, ask who the dogs were let out for.

Smithers...
This caught up with me once as a young teenager; I was driving home on Halloween (totally sober) and I completely didn't see a stoplight. The red just blended in with the darkness.
I think this is wrong.

Reading does help, but it has to done in the correct way, like much else to do with education in general.

The Success For All study done in 2006:

"Conclusion
The quantity and quality of research on Success for
All, and the positive outcomes found in almost all
studies by more than fi fty investigators in eighteen
different research institutions worldwide, clearly
establish that Success for All is highly effective in
increasing student reading. The effects can be quite
substantial, averaging more than half of the national
white-minority achievement gap and almost a full
grade equivalent by second grade (see Slavin et al.,
2006). In a time when educators are increasingly
being asked to use proven programs, Success for All
is the best demonstration in existence of the idea
that rigorous research on practical programs can
be done and can show substantial positive effects.
Every child should have a right to participate in a
program with this level of evidence."
Sneaky of you to hide b and c there.
Your point being? CO2 emissions have been growing exponentially too:

http://www.skepticalscience.com/images/co2_vs_emissions.gif

and the longer it gets put off, the more expensive it will be to fix.
was.

It's missing a few features, like the ability to easily choose a genre, or the ability to see the songs that that my friends and subscribees discover and listen to (they've all left the site since the redesign.) Also, I'm still not sure the best way to find out what I've just played so I can remember it or even heart it for later is.

Yeah, they look cool-- both t61 and Aweditorium-- but my vision of music is clearly different from James'. After the initial bit, I don't need or want the flipboard experience. My eyes are not transfixed to music, but I still love music. Music is something that is with me while I'm working, in my car during commutes, and at home, none of which really leave me time to burn looking at my music player. I respectfully disagree with him in the video: it IS about the "beats" for me.
Feds stored thousands of checkpoint body scan images after all
Well, what if the news source only published a summary, and not the original?
This was 2 points earlier tonight. Can who ever down-voted it please tell me why?
Well said!

Guys, if you don't want to give the wrong impression when you're talking about stuff like this, it's a good idea to reread your posts to see if you're projecting your own experiences (and privilege) in situations where it doesn't apply -- or implying that the way men approach things is better than how women do.
That may be true, but strategically, the information in the memo was good press for Google, and the firing of the employee for leaking it is bad press for Google.
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That strategy works best when the firings cause previously happy people to become unhappy.
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Great job taking into account you learned along the way...but most of all, kudos for sticking with it. Sometimes, that is the most difficult part.

Love the simplicity of the site, as well. Good luck.
It's not about being rejected every single day. It's about learning to accept rejection more easily, which it sounds like you're doing fine on with part-time canvasing. (Or perhaps you could cope easily before that.)

I'd take a bet that you're not the type this was designed for. For some, being rejected at all is a huge blow to ego, confidence, and self-esteem, which can have serious effects on mood and productivity, for instance.

For these people, getting rejected more often means that each rejection is less significant and reinforces the knowledge that rejection happens. That is much healthier, and I'd hypothesize that it can increase one's average level of happiness. (It also gives an individual much more control over himself -- or takes it away from others, at any rate. Same thing.)
Semi-spoiler: http://imgur.com/h4UBS.png

Fun puzzle
African-American Harvard economist Roland G. Fryer did that with monetary incentives and found it worked for getting children to not only read, but to do homework as well as achieve higher marks on tests.
It's true. Unhappy people can poison a culture and be a drag on everyone. The big question is whether they're unhappy because they're just unhappy people in general, or if they're unhappy because the company truly sucks.
That's the goal, anyway. Some of us aren't there yet. Rejection of any kind, even for something that wasn't expected in the first place, can be painful.
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CentOS people are saying 4-6 weeks.
Obviously it is just speculation but, I think it means that Apache sunsets official Java, takes there own path and diverges. Without the TCK there is no way to guarantee that it works. Which if it happens, will fragment the market onto two separate JVM's. At that point, why not call it something else and move on. I know if it happened I would be hitching to the Apache trial as opposed to the Oracle one, if they diverge I would feel more comfortable on the Apache side. I have already been bit by two Oracle decisions since Acquiring Sun (Killing OpenSSO, being the one I am most PO'ed about). I would not stick around for a 3rd if they push Apache out. I have to imagine there would be quite a few others that feel the same.
You're not alone; I tried doing the exact same thing when I saw "Reply back with the next packet in the handshake sequence as parameter 'msg'"
There's only so much that a company can provide until it takes over an employee's entire life 100%. That's a limit they can't break, no matter how creative the company is. Monetary compensation, however, has no limits. It can just keep going up and up and up, assuming the profits also do. Obviously, profits can't keep going up infinitely, but I bet you employees have higher capacity/bandwidth to accept more pay than they do to accept non-monetary benefits.
My first gen iphone is just way too great of hardware to justify upgrading just because Apple wont update the iOS for it.

If there was a reasonable way to use a non-dated OS (like android froyo). I imagine I could eek a year or two more of use out of the thing.

That said, power management needs to improve substantially. Anyone know if the Market is available in this release (last I looked it wasn't)...

downloading and installing now. Dual-boot makes it testable with limited worry on my part.

Thanks. and thanks. Keep up the work. As this becomes useful I may switch (although i love instapaper soooooo much it may be hard).
people's general lack of understanding.
Eliezer: "Did anyone else glance at this, think "rationality level too low, I cannot trust anything these people say" and give up?" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1755741)

My response is to quote Nassim Taleb: "Be gullible in the small, and skeptical in the large." http://akkartik.name/blog/9400292 It's an extremely rational strategy.
> I've never understood how it's possible to be offended on someone else's behalf . . .

This may be true (that you don't understand), but I doubt it. If you have ever taken a stance on the wellbeing of people other than yourself, particularly a political stance, or if you have ever defended a friend or family member against an accuser, or any number of other normal human social interactions, then you do understand what it feels like, although perhaps to a different degree than me in this case.

And, I also have to point out that whether you understand why I argue about this has precisely nothing to do with the validity of my arguments.

> It's entirely reasonable to point out that women may respond differently to visual depictions of nudity

Only if it's backed up by evidence and relevant. It is neither in this case. Observing that women are less hairy is a fact, provable, and does not play a role in the argument at hand. Observing that women react differently to nudity than men is wrong on two fronts. First, it may not even be true. Second, in the context of a woman making a political statement about the depiction of her gender, it is a rhetorical device based on a premise of unknown veracity whose primary purpose is to discredit her beliefs to a male audience. It's a variant of "women are irrational, so we don't need to listen to them," albeit less transparently foolish.
> Where's the prudery in Cindy's article?

"Your covers aren’t all that friendly to women on a regular basis..."

This implies that showing women with a sexual bent is somehow "unfriendly" to women, or that it limits them to being sexual objects, neither of which is true, and both of which are products of our obsessions and shames regarding sexuality.

> Actually no. Wired and YC both have < 10% women, far less than the broader tech field -- or society as a whole.

I have to assume you are trying to contradict me, although your statement doesn't seem to. The proportion of women in tech is higher than the proportion of women among tech leaders, which is what I was referring to. This is likely because women don't seem as likely to play the founder lottery.
"I prefer languages that you don't have to get used to."

Is there such a thing?
Take a look at WireframeSketcher. It's an Eclipse plugin for Eclipse, Aptana and other Eclipse-based IDEs. There is a Mockups Gallery website with templates for iPad and iPhone apps that you can make use of.

http://wireframesketcher.com
Can anyone elaborate on the XPCOM improvements? I thought the plan was to get rid of XPCOM all together in firefox 4.

Very nice set of improvements though. Not sure about firefox 4, but firefox 3 was a memory hog.
I hope the standard version of Python is upgraded beyond 2.4.X.
> On a properly calibrated display, the display of RGB[0,255,0] and RGB[0,0,255] should have identical luminance values.

It does, and your eyes still suck at blue.

Why do you fight so vehemently against the scientific fact that your eyes have fewer blue receptors?
It's their toys, and hence you play by their rules.

For over a decade Sun has been saying that Java is some kind of open, community-driven standard. Apache is simply calling them on their own PR.
errr, not sure why the downvotes... I like Pop-up Video, and I like the way that they have basically re-created it for indie artists in a beautiful app. I was trying to be complimentary and supportive. Perhaps I should have been more explicit in my first comment :) To be clear: I've played with the app, I like it it a lot. Well done.
I ran the tests on my Ubuntu 10.10 laptop running Firefox-4.0 Beta8pre and Chrome 9.0.570.0 (64571) and Firefox actually beat Chrome 2943 to 3645 (or a 23% improvement) averaged over two runs.

Gotta love browser competition!
You could write your own by extending OSS like hexdump or hexcurse or any other hex editor. It shouldn't be to big a deal to add that functionality. It's just beautiful what you can do with open source code! Don't forget to share.
My first thought too but then I figured I'll go for broke and try the simplest thing possible.
Interesting. Best of luck!
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Camera and video doesn't work. Also it seems like you can connect to internet only via WiFi. As for the speed, it runs ok on iPhone 3G
I think it just depends on the hour.
You should have added about what is coming up for C# soon - async: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/async.aspx

It's a very interesting feature.
I think the site looks nice. Can't wait to try out a deal. Seems like an interesting concept... really the first "different" type of site I've seen of these deal sites.
What the hell dude? Why are you ruining it for other people?
A brute force GPU crack took about 1.5 seconds.
Wow this is amazing! In the real world data can be messy and this looks like a great tool to transform it without an extensive custom ETL process that requires code
This is fantastic news for virtualization:

1. Memory deduplication on kvm machines: matching memory pages are COWed. Hopefully there is a re-spin of the virtio drivers too (which rock, btw).

2. Way newer kvm/libvirt (the old ones sucked)

3. Python 2.6. They skipped 2.5 entirely, which is nice.

Just keep in mind, they'll be supporting it for a VERY long time, so RHEL6 will be looking pretty tired in another 3.5 years (the current age of RHEL5).
You're exactly right. This has zero effect on Joe Programmer working on a website or and enterprise app. It's only about people who want to embed Java in mobile devices (which they will get for free then sell for $$$). Like, hmm, Google.

Can't help but feel the Apache guys are being used by Google as pawns.
I think the idea is to ask for things you want.
True ... you might not want them badly and the rejections might not bother you, but I look at it like a vaccination ... little doses of rejection make it so you are not afraid to be rejected when you go after the things you really want
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> I've never understood how it's possible to be offended on someone else's behalf, particularly on a perpetual basis, as your tone leads me to believe you must be.

I'm not the person you are replying to, so this is from me: It doesn't take "being offended" to hold very little tolerance for sexists.
Yea so Lomborg is basically arguing that we don't need to be quite that aggressive and that it would be cheaper to stabilize slowly in 90 years rather than doing it for a high cost in 20. Sure it will cause more problems for people to do it slowly but if we want to HELP PEOPLE it's better to put that money towards other programs which will help people much more on a 'per dollar spent' basis.
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Since they are ripping off the chrome UI part and parcel, I wonder why they still haven't switched to a unified search and location bar.
Er... micro instance for 3 yrs is $85. Per month is about $2.36 a month.
When you put a puzzle online, people who solve it have to somehow say "I am not stupid. I demonstrate my non stupidity by solving that puzzle".

On that note...I too solved that puzzle! I, too, am not stupid!

Though seriously puzzles like this need to not underestimate the takers. I think many, when met by the syn bit, immediately started going down the process of actually constructing a custom handshake with their server, before perhaps thinking "Nah, not worth the trouble".
Probably because if they do, they'll be accused of being unable to code.
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Hmm..If only Yahoo had followed (or would follow) such a procedure!

[there used to be confidential VP-only meetings and information and that would also somehow end up on blogs..imagine that].
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I want a page to see the total number of "complaints" Google has collected so far. Just curious as to how many people actually picked that option.
I still prefer the Firefox's Awesome bar over Chrome's unified bar. I like having the drop down list of my most visited sites.
Not quite any physics questions. Feynman imposed a rule that he would "not take any question the answer to which did not match the impedance of your knowledge." So a freshman asking "What is quantum chromodynamics?" was gently nudged into a simpler answer that they might learn something from.
I'm having a really hard time reconciling the headline with the picture of the $2600/night Frank Sinatra Twin Palms Estate.
I can verify this claim for myself. I am saturated on the non-monetary benefits I can absorb at Google. In fact, I think the line has already been crossed where, in order to enjoy the benefits I have, I have become less productive at my actual work.
Good point. I forgot that internet anonymity makes 20 something males into chest thumping chimps.
I prefer the more intuitive method. After some success, take a break. Then when you feel lazy, do something. Repeat.
> Most geeks love women!

Yet so few respect them.
Overkill but I'm interested in how you did it.
The redesign was absolutely awful for artists and power users. Where there was once a thriving artist/listener community is now a giant generic band photo.

I'd like to see how many artists they lost after the redesign. There is a thriving Facebook group (about 230 active users) of ex-t61 users that are lamenting about the fact that there isn't another music site like the original t61.
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Wired is a geeky magazine with sensationalist headlines that nevertheless can be interesting most months.

You make it sound like Reddit is a perfect fit for the Condé Nast family.
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To restate your first sentence: The author of the article (angry woman!) earned your dismissal of any points it had to make?

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