skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? There is going to be some correlation between the times that people are most likely to commit sexual assaults and the times that people are likely to be drinking.

I'm sure people spend a lot of time doing things like commuting to work or sleeping at night, but it's highly unlikely that they will commit sexual assaults during those times. People are just more likely to be drinking at times when they are looking for sex (e.g. at a party, at a bar, etc).

You should probably be following something like the following line of reasoning:

1. How many sexual assaults happen on dates?

2. How prevalent is drinking while on a date? (Maybe you'll have to divide the data up regionally or something for it to make sense)

3. How many sexual assaults happen when there was drinking on a date?

Then you can start to look at how likely it is that alcohol is really the cause of sexual assault (at least for the dataset that you're looking at).
You're not concerned about people looking over your shoulder?
W3 web is professional web technology users
upvoted it (at this time, it cancelled out a downvote).

No idea why it was initially downvoted, it's good information to point out. So long as you don't make money off the shirts, it's ok to use xkcd comics.
This is a prime example of dogfooding.
Physicist, pastor and mathematician on the top of a skyscraper. They are asked to jump precisely into the swimming pool on the ground.
Phsycist calculates wind, distance, perspective, jumps and lands in the pool.
Pastor meditates, prays, focuses, jumps and lands in the pool.
Mathematician calculates a beautiful parabel, jumps and goes straight up to the sky. What happend? Oh well, he made a sign flaw :)
A sahillavingia original:

Q: What did the difficult cartesian-coordinate system tell his problem-solver when he wanted to visit Antartica?

A: You should go polar!
here's one from the last decade.

Q. what did the math teacher say when she saw tennis star monica seles?

A. isosceles
Now they are only allowing me to export my data to people who play by their rules. That's not really open at all.

False. You can go to gmail right now, click on contacts, and then choose export in the upper right. You can export your contacts all you want, then give the exported file to whoever you want. Google isn't letting Facebook access your contacts. It's not Google's fault that Facebook doesn't have a CSV importer; or maybe they do, I don't know -- either way, it's not Google's responsibility to get your contacts into anywhere else. Google isn't hoarding your information, you have full access to it.

Sure I'd like the choice to export my contact information from Facebook, but I'd rather Google compete with Facebook on the merit of their products rather than making things harder for Facebook users.

It's not Google's job to make things easier for Facebook users, that's Facebook's job.

One could say that Google is competing on the merit of their product: you can export your contacts from Google and you can't from Facebook: if access to your own data is important, then Google has the stronger product.
This is a great resource, but yikes is it difficult to navigate.
I was probably being a little pedantic, but 'vi' can mean:

- The original 'vi' editor

- The entire 'vi collection.' By that I mean vi + clones (i.e. vi, vim, elvis, etc).

- The Vim editor (being the most popular vi clone)

I'm never sure which people mean (though they usually just mean Vim), and I've come across many people that are confused (especially if they aren't too familiar with the Unix/Linux ecosystem and/or are Emacs users) but the inter-changeable usage of terms.
Math Club

then put a picture of a hot chick, and some MDMA

then Transcendental Numbers
This is a wonderful resource, despite the difficulty of navigating all of the content. Where did it come from? Are there others?
She was trying to go to the goddamn toilet in a pub! Exactly what did she do wrong here? The drunken twat asked her to come have a talk, she thought it was a professional thing, since they were at a conference, it's what you do. He tried the kiss, she pushed him off and said no. He shoved his fucking hand into her pussy. After she said no.

I am getting sick and tired of "it must be her fault".
Q: what did the zero say to the eight?
A: nice belt!
But the non-mathematicians will JUST give you a weird look, rather than laughing and then giving you a weird look.
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As any ops guy will tell you, this is the finest form of graph porn there is.
Math Overflow had a joke thread a while back: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/1083/do-good-math-jokes-ex...
It is important to understand that albeit it's not proper https, this is still an encrypted connection that will make eavesdropping impossible.

If it's a self signed certificate, how can you tell between a certificate self signed by the website owner and a certificate self signed by the eavesdropper?
An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. The third, a quarter of a beer. The bartender says "You're all idiots", and pours two beers.

more: http://www.metafilter.com/76377/Two-mathematicians-walk-into...
First of all, I haven't used apache httpd in production for years and I'm happier for it. It's inefficient. .htaccess only compounds that inefficiency.

General:
1. I've found using anything but GMT/UTC on servers is a recipe for confusion.

4. Great idea, but like most of the recommendations, it's not .htaccess specific. Websites should either redirect www.foo -> foo or foo -> www.foo. Presenting a consistent hostname that way can prevent some cookie-related headaches, and will avoid having search engines index different pages under different hostnames.

8. That recipe inadvertently deletes Cache-control: private
It is okay to use POST - Roy T. Fielding
I'm sick of religious arguments about the merits of PUT and HEAD and DELETE, and the use HTTP status. Hopefully the author of the landmark paper can clear things up.
It even works on ipad! Level 52 and counting...
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2040
Well, considering that he is innocent until proven guilty, he can sue for libel until her charges have been proven.
Deep Link Directory List
Submitting to deep link directory is one of the most effective ways in improving the ranking of your sites' inner pages. Here are some list of such directories.
Whoa... Delhi/Jaipur in May/June? That's probably the worst time to visit the north. I was there this year in May, and the temperatures were regularly over 45C (113F) during the day. It's hot, Hot, HOT in May/June. If you're not accustomed to that level of heat, you'll have a tough time.
i wasn't trying to wing it. just rather looking at the different types of definitions and wording such as discounts, caps, etc.
I am going to Mumbai and Goa for 2 weeks in December, would love to meet up with some hackers.
Mathematicians do it in groups, rings and fields.
Q: What the integral of (1/cabin)dCabin?

A: Beach Hut

(Log Cabin + C)

[Maybe just the formula would fit on a T Shirt, and you get to explain it to people who ask?]
How Jesus saved my Butt
Getting Ruby up and running is different for every major OS out there.

Quite frankly I don't have the resources to document how to do it on the Mac.

Windows is...well I don't know, just a few months ago it was almost non-existent, now I hear it's not to bad?
Request emails from everyone; send out an email announcing the beta to each individual whose address you have collected.
I love the people in this thread giving jokes that are aimed at five year olds, rather than a math team who's previous joke was "don't drive and derive".
What do you think of Microsoft Research?
Wow! I'm surprised by the framerate, I'm getting ~50 in Chrome.

I really didn't think these sorts of speeds were possible using Canvas, especially when you're completely redrawing the screen each time.

For what it's worth, I unminified the source (from frozendefense.compressed.js) and posted it as a github gist. It makes it easier to peruse.

https://gist.github.com/665991
From Socks to the Internet
Just to clarify, it wasn't in a private hotel room, it was in the pub adjacent to the conference hotel. It was in a public setting.

I know Noirin and I've helped with ApacheCon for years (first time in years I wasn't there).
whats a chefs favorite triangle?
isauceles

how did the abelian group get to work?
it commuted

why do addition and the integers carpool?
because theyre a commutative group
What the hell kind of headline is this?

It's a webpage that looks like a legitimate warning. It's basically a play on traditional phishing. Saying that it's "malware based on chrome" is fear mongering and by implication is inaccurate.
No, but Fortune 500, so almost the same thing.

The stuff that's locked down is not what bothers me about a Blackberry. It's the core functionality; the hardware keyboard is harder to use than a software keyboard (because there is no autocorrect), and "push email" is much slower than IMAP on my Android phone.

The worst feature is the keylock -- it doesn't work. Unlocking involves pressing a key, which is why the keylock exists anyway. The thing makes a ton of calls in my pocket, often to 911.
In Firefox it always reported >40 fps, however I could see that it was dropping massive amounts of frames, to the point where creeps would be coming in the entrance and then be halfway across the screen.
AFAIK - This is not about the user. It's about other web services interfacing with those APIs.
I know Noirin and I also know her ex-husband (they spent time on their honeymoon with my wife and I in Hong Kong). I've helped plan and run ApacheCon for years. Noirin is not one to exaggerate, she's one to call it like it is. So quit with the antagonism towards her. She's the one who was assaulted.
Doggy Dreams
If you want to incorporate ideas from xkcd without using any of the published comics, you could come up with your own nerd snipe and put it on the front of your shirt. Then put something on the back like "You've been nerd-sniped!"

Make sure to hang out near busy streets and train tracks when you wear it.
It is unclear what you are trying to accomplish with this post. If you want to talk to PG, perhaps an email would have been better; if you wanted to start a discussion about startups in India, the title could have been rephrased.

As you might have guessed, this is my personal opinion - so feel free to take it, or leave it.
I've always wanted a system like this, but I've never been disciplined enough to setup and consistently follow such a system, like you say.

I've thought about wikis, and taking notes of things I read, but those things take too much effort to do. At the moment, I'm searching my Google Reader items and using http://historio.us to catalog articles that I read and think are valuable. It works well because it takes just one click to add an article, but I don't always remember to add what I read.

A few thoughts about what I would want for a system like this:

* It needs to find a balance between in-your-face and hidden away. It needs to be displayed prominently enough, that I remember to rate and review it, but it should not get in the way of what I want to read.

* It should have a rating system of some kind. Maybe on a scale of boring to interesting to changed my life forever.

* It should be in plain text, or able to be exported into plain text. Maybe make it YAML formatted as well. That way, if I want to run an analysis to see which domains have the highest-rated articles, or search them for a certain keyword, I can.

* It should support tags and categories so that I can somewhat organize them.

* Add a field for a summary (and allow me to decide whether I want to require a summary or not). That way, I end up with a very useful annotated bibliography that I can reference to later. I could determine what the key points of the article were without having to re-read it.
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I found it here

Most such quotes on the internet are fake. I'm fascinated by how catchy lines get attributed to famous people, so this is a bit of a hobby.

Secondly, he did speak of the sacred very frequently in fact

The article you link to doesn't include the word "sacred". I think the word is significant. It doesn't quite seem like a word Einstein would use. Especially in the context of a "sacred gift", which implies a gift-giver. Einstein's deism was resolutely impersonal.

As you doubtless are aware, Einstein's religious views or lack thereof are the subject of perennial quarreling among camps eager to claim his name for their own. It's all rather tedious. But it's at least a credit to Einstein's open-mindedness and tolerance that he wasn't a finger-wagging scientistic scold of the likes of Dawkins.

Regardless, it's a good quote either way, don't you think?

Not quite, no. Certainly my sympathies are all with this line of thinking, so I ought to like it, but it feels like it hits the nail askew. I mean, if the intuitive mind is a sacred gift, why isn't the rational mind also? Presumably there can be more than one gift. Also, the implied symmetry between "intuitive mind" and "rational mind" seems slightly facile. I'm a big relier on intuition but I'm not sure I'd call it a mind. But I'm just rambling out loud here. Thanks for an interesting discussion.

Edit: do you know Eugene Gendlin's work on intuition? One of these days I want to read him in greater depth. But I'm familiar with his book Focusing which was an original contribution to psychotherapy. He speaks of intuition (actually, he uses the phrase felt sense) as a kind of bodily knowing distinct from cognitive knowing.
Important safety tip there, thanks Egon.
Agreed. However, I feel it's way better than a "traditional" system of footnotes and annotations.

It's difficult to navigate due to the sheer amount of information it contains, most of which can be ignored. That being said, it can certainly be improved, but I empathize.

I bet there are literary critics who would kill to have a nice system to generate documentation in multiple formats... Do any exist?
enterprisey.
Unrelated question: how are you doing those cron jobs.

I tried using the task queue, but it kept timing out on me, even when I broke my tasks into smaller ones (couldn't figure out a threshold as the behavior of the datastore was totally unpredictable).
No take off, No demonstration of control and speed variations, No landing. Am sure secret prototypes at NASA or elsewhere are much better.
mathematicians do it in theory

(pretty old one)
But to be fair, this is the only thing that makes sense for him to do: if your portfolio tilted into one company like his, you should diversify like crazy irregardless of company performance, otherwise one day you can find yourself unexpectedly and significantly poorer.
I make it 5. Never created an account with them.
I've been doing this for the last eight years with pencil, paper, filing cabinets, and archive-boxes. It's reliable, flexible, and easy.

However, it's not sustainable in the long run. I currently have five filing cabinets of notes and around a dozen boxes. Most of my colleagues have been at this longer. Their offices (at home and work) are crammed with cardboard boxes and cabinets of well-organized notes.

I'd love a technical solution, but I haven't found anything that works for me.
According to statistics, a normal person has one breast and one testicle...
There's always the old donut and coffee mug being topologically equivalent.

Or the integral of e^X (write it down)

Or Pi telling i to be real and i telling Pi to be rational.

Or your mom so ugly I had to use the Fourier transform to solve her (just made that one up, probably doesn't make any sense ;p)
Here's a link to the main page: http://world.std.com/~raparker/exploring/thewasteland/explor...

I am studying a course in digital culture, part of that involves studying electronic literature, part of which involves studying hypertextuality. There is as yet no literary exemplar of the hypertextual realm, it is curious that we have to go back to a poem that predates the hyperlink to find a good fit.

Thank you ever so much for posting this, I really appreciate it and know quite a few others that will find this very intellectually stimulating.
What's the square root of 69? Eight something.
Why Do You Need a Windows Password Recovery Tool?
Wordpress display the number of posts in a category
I've never heard of Hunch before, but just yesterday I was actually thinking that it'd be nice if a tool just like it existed. However, the first thing I thought when I saw their website was "this looks like too much work" (bearing in mind that I'm a little short on sleep today, which is probably why I'm writing this rather than code right now).

I don't want to sign up to stuff and I don't want to answer 20 (unknown) questions to build something (a "taste profile") that I don't understand. After I've seen (and used) some benefits then certainly, but not as soon as I hit their page. I guess this is because every website on the web seems to want me to sign up and invest time and effort in them. I wonder if there is something they can do to lower this initial barrier a little.
Love this one : http://spikedmath.com/325.html
1. I don't think all the posts are important.

2. I don't think any programmers think there's a problem with how the majority of the world doesn't get the beauty of C#.

3. There's practical value in dissecting new programs and programming languages. Practical in a way that I don't think you can say about literary criticism. That doesn't make it less valuable, necessarily, but it is a big difference.
At a party, all mathematical functions are having fun, except the exponential, which is standing lonely in one corner. Another function approaches it and says: why don't you integrate? And it: oh, because it's the same...
Make that 10 hard problems.

Similar to - There are 10 kinds on people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
A physicist, a biologist, and a mathematician see two people walk into an empty building. Five minutes later, 4 people walk out.

The physicist says "Obviously our initial observation was wrong."

The biologist says "They must have multiplied while they were in the building!"

The mathematician says "However you look at it, if two more people walk into that building it will be empty again."
collect email addresses.
I used to save all my favorite links in delicious before but recently moved to historio.us.
Pretty awesome for 1780 lines of code. Especially when 250 of them are just the maps.
"how to appropriately ask your friend to introduce you to his friend, FAMOUS GUY"

Well, to turn this around: After attending the first few Ruby confs (though I missed #1) I was pleasantly surprised to find that matz not only recognize me when he saw me, but remembered my name.

At some point I was attending Ruby conferences with coworkers or friends who were going for their first time, and when I would run into matz I made a point of going over to say hello, and also introduce these conf newbies. And I would try to do this for anyone else I thought my cohorts would be interested in meeting.

For the longest time I had been a horribly shy person, and I still often have to force myself to do certain social things, so I figure if I can help someone else get over that initial hurdle by doing a few introductions then the world is a better place.

So, all you people who have already established assorted acquaintances, help broaden the circle.

BTW, most of the time FAMOUS PERSON is pretty nice and happy to meet people who say how great they are and how cool their work is. :) So in the absence of a formal introduction, just go over and introduce yourself. That's kind of the point of conferences.
There is no limit to man's dream of flying .
Mathematicians do it with LaTeX
Q: Integral dCabin/Cabin?

A: natural log cabin
Not sure you can copy it, but I've always wanted this shirt (not sure why, but I found it hilarious):

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/generic/60f5...

It reads:

2 + 2 = 5

(For extremely large values of 2)
+1 for Pi telling i to be real and i telling Pi to be rational
I just tried a high traffic site that runs on App Engine (appbrain.com). It used to feel a bit slow, and now it really flies.

It definitely makes me reconsider using App Engine for new projects.

Disclaimer: I have no connection to Appbrain aside from meeting the developers once.
Hmm, the graphics part works smoothly for me, but it seems to be dropping input events. Attempting to upgrade a turret when there's a lot of action happening on screen requires clicking a bunch of times before it finally registers. (Chrome 9.0.572.0)
You basically said what I was coming here to say.

Money is any mechanism to store value that can easily and quickly be exchanged. Anything with sufficient durability and value per weight can be monetized if people choose to accept it in payment.
A simple request: change the location for the up and down arrows, in order to minimize misclick-voting (especially on mobile devices):

[up] 3 points [down] by author n hours ago

This way, the up and down are unambiguously tied to the point value on the post, but separated by much more distance than at present.
Below is my favorite math joke (copied it from http://www.onlinemathlearning.com/math-jokes-calculus.html as I didn't remember the exact wording). It's a bit long for a T-shirt, but a simple comic strip version could be made.

--

A constant function and e^x are walking on Broadway. Then suddenly the constant function sees a differential operator approaching and runs away. So e^x follows him and asks why the hurry. "Well, you see, there's this differential operator coming this way, and when we meet, he'll differentiate me and nothing will be left of me...!" "Ah," says ex, "he won't bother ME, I'm e to the x!" and he walks on. Of course he meets the differential operator after a short distance.

e^x: "Hi, I'm e^x"

diff.op.: "Hi, I'm d/dy"
How do you redirect traffic?

Say I have tomcat running on port 8080 but I want people to just go to www.site.com/tomcat
While we're on the subject, have you ever been to Israel? Great startup scene here too.
In maps.google.co.in it's not marked with dotted line .
There is no such thing as the "best" software environment, anymore than there is the best car. It all depends on what you're trying to do and what your priorities and constraints are.
I always heard "houseboat".
I guess to something like this could be leveraged to provide a much better "what should I read?" aspect because people have curated it in a way to indicate what is really valuable under different tags.

Of course you would want public/private, people wanting to use it purely for their own benefit can choose to stay private and not have their interactions aggregated.
The new HN ranking system is confusing me. Why is this not on the front page?
Don't know whether this fits as a joke, but:

exp(I*pi) + 1 = 0
Its an innocent, curious question. Don't see why it has to accomplish anything.

That said I would be interested in PG and other peoples response on this question.
The sense that the app store has been a neglected, second-tier priority is deep enough now that it will take them a while to regain significant developer trust.

AWS is very close to a de-facto standard now.

Edit: I mean app engine, the hosted web service. Not the app store. Thanks.
I'd recommend digging through the spiked math "best of" list and looking for something that suits the math team's fancy.

(x,why?) can also be quite entertaining.
There is an even inspired by startup school in India. Its by IIM-A called CIIE. And they do not concentrate just on web startups. Maybe you can visit that sometime
It's still too early to tell. This would not be the first time that speed improves after a maintenance and then it slowly gets worse every week until it looks almost like before the maintenance.
Mireles likes startups
Hiding Behind the Screen
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