skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing I am most improved at at 31 vs. 17 is satisficing or half-assing anything unimportant and non-core (but doing it quickly, and ideally with as little ongoing involvement as possible), and focusing on what is actually core.

aka pick your battles.

And, relatedly, only fixing problems as they become necessary to solve vs. trying to do everything in the order of how interesting it is, or how difficult. A lot of problems just go away if you're successful, and almost all problems go away if you fail to complete earlier goals.

aka "I'll burn that bridge when I come to it"
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Being risky without betting the farm.

Nothing wrong with betting the farm at 21 & single.

Now, 27 & married, I've found that I'm much better at taking calculated risks without betting the farm.
Even more core, it is "will users pay me/appreciate/etc. if we offer this feature." You can simulate features in a high-per-transaction-cost manual way for a while, just to see if people actually like it, before even developing it.
sorry too brain dead to read anymore tonight.
Aw man, I highly anticipated upon clicking to see the Tesla Model S Sedan's glorious 17" touchscreen display. Ironically enough, this is actually an useful thing for the Model S, for the darn thing aims to replace all knobs and whistles with a touch screen.
Shouldn't the opinion of developers in the trenches have more weight than some ivory tower analyst or newspeak press release?
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Actually, with swype, yes I can. (I have to look at the beginning of input, but I do that on my 8800 too). Vastly better than a regular soft keyboard.
please dish. esp what version of MongoDB you used when you had the corruption issue.
Most interesting to me, it sounds like Best Buy will own the support role instead of punting to Google like T-Mobile did with the N1.
Nice to see you're back at it again and weren't afraid to publish your first iteration. I prepared some feedback for you at http://www.sparkmuse.com/feedback/Invincibilitee, I hope you find it helpful.
Don't be, their engineers have better things to patch up at the moment than write a detailed post. They will, hopefully, though like foursquare did with their mongodb outage - http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/1265191137/foursquare-mongod...
MathJax is the secret sauce behind the pretty math typesetting at The Tau Manifesto (http://tauday.com/). For what it's worth, Davide Cervone, the lead developer of MathJax, is incredibly helpful and friendly. In the process of writing The Tau Manifesto, I was running into some weird problems; Davide realized that there was a subtle MathJax bug when used with HTML5, and pushed a fix within hours of finding the problem.
Expedia had a similar problem (http://www.silicon.com/management/sales-and-marketing/2010/1...) with a different datafield, but the message is clear - use thy analytics well :-)
A very good talk & slide -- unfortunately the audio seems to be unavailable (and the iTunes link is giving me a "Sorry, this clip isn't available to those in US" message) -- if someone has it, can they please put it up somewhere?
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A guy in my lab played has been playing with something like this off and on for a while, for a different application. My understanding of the technology is that it requires fairly high voltage but extremely low current to work, so the power draw is rather low.

A bigger concern is what happens when you get it wet. This changes the conductive properties of the skin, so you go from a barely noticeable 'tingle' or 'friction' effect to a noticeable shock (think static shock). Thankfully, the current is too low to be dangerous in most cases, but defective circuits could still be a problem in production runs.

I'd be interested to see how this technology deals with such issues.
It's probably that the upvoters all read the Mythical Man-Month.
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Wow, thanks for brining that up.

PoF is always trotted out on HN as a scaling success and a model way to run a business. I'd say it's more a story of reaching critical mass and doing a mediocre, but good enough job to keep people from leaving.

It's on my a short list of sites I find actively irritating to use. Given that they trade in potential partners, something I and most others find extremely interesting in and of itself, that's quite a feat.
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How much time people spend on the site is just one part of the calculation.

See, this feature is something that makes GMail very attractive, which results in a high user influx and loyalty. More users, more views.

Additionally the web interface of the GMail is made so well, that I for instance stopped using my IMAP synced local eMail client, effectively watching their ads more (not really, I'm ad resistant, but I'm exposed).
If you got a 99.9% confidence, why do you say 94%? Is that just what it was when you reached the original sample size?
I wonder how people would react if Wikileaks engaged in this practice.
i wonder why cars.com and edmunds.com?

a) either they all were by the same people

b) there's a referral stuffing attack?
I use 33mail.com, it's fantastic.
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Ask HN: Anyone use a project package service like Atlassian? 
We are looking around for something to replace our homegrown issue tracker and time management system and are also considering making the plunge from SVN to a DVCS (liking Mercurial for this). We are also chaffing a bit at the shortcomings of services like Basecamp. Given all of that we were looking at Atlassian pretty closely as they could help us resolve all of these things in one package. That said, what do you folks do regarding project management, code reviews, version control, IDEs, issue tracking/assigning, etc. in your shops? Any tips?
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Haha, isn't it "corporates and governments want a modified internet"?
37signals have always raked other companies across the coals for not being sincere enough in their apologies. It's impressive to see that they really do put their money where their mouth is.
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This was "addressed" by the Mozilla folk back in March [1] in a blog post, a fix will be deployed with Firefox 4, which will be long overdue by then, in my opinion.

[1] http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2010/03/31/plugging-the-css...
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I took a class on networks with Ozdaglar and Acemoglu and tried (unsuccessfully) to apply this paper to a more special case of networks whose interconnectivity is influenced by geometry (actual physical positions).

The short story is that this is a model of "herd" behavior, where observing enough (wrong) decisions by other before will make you choose the wrong thing as well, even if you know better. The next person after you will do the same, resulting in an "information cascade" of wrong decisions, even though everyone "knows better." The paper studies theoretical conditions for whether such information cascades happen or not.

The slightly longer story about these types of models is that you have a bunch of agents that decide A or B one after another. It is assumed that either A or B is "better." Each agent gets to see the decisions of some subset of the previous agents. Each agent also has their own belief. The agent will then make a decision based on observing the decisions of others (assuming something about their decision making process to try to estimate what might be the true answer).

The punchline is that even if your personal belief is biased toward the better answer, if enough people make the wrong decision by chance, everyone after them also will, despite knowing better, because it turns out to be optimal.
I'm relatively certain they will be combined with gyroscopes for dead-reckoning [1] so that location-based services can nail you down to an exact office and floor indoors.

All this technology and I bet its primary use will be to check into conference rooms on foursquare.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_reckoning
Yet another opinion on the Wikileaks incident(s)
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Least amount of calories required 
Just a thought. What could be the least/optimal amount of calories required for someone to function well, in terms of physical and mental fitness. Like, everyday, we consume certain quantities of food, but what exactly do we need to function reasonably top-of-form yet, without an ounce of over-consumption.
Hmm, I see. I'm guessing it creates a WiFi hotspot you can connect to and access the internet? If so, my stock Desire HD does that already, since I'm not in the US. It's pretty shit that your carrier would disable that, our carriers don't mess with the phones at all...
Bad analogy: everyone has to eat something, not everyone has to get high.
I meant that you'll have a copy on all of your machines.
Here's part 2, there's a link to part 1:

http://www.korokithakis.net/node/119

Also, because everyone is going to skim the post and say "you were using the 32-bit version":

1. Only for some of the corruptions.

2. IT SHOULDN'T CORRUPT DATA ANYWAY!
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A rather sensationalist headline given that the scientific method already recognises the problems of human researchers and not only offers some mechanisms to counter those problems, but is eager for more.
This bug report claims that it was fixed in Chrome 6, over the summer: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=40312
That is not necessarily sufficient, because there are many, many variations on this attack.

For example, suppose my target site has an asset at a well known URL, such as:

http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/srpr/logo1w.png

I could execute Javascript on your machine to load that in a standard IMG tag, in a div with display: none set on it. I could then, via a variety of fairly unobtrusive methods, time how long it takes your browser to load that image.

If you have been to Google recently, that image will be cached, and your browser will load it almost instantaneously. If you have not been to Google recently, that image will not be in your cache, and my Javascript will trivially be able to tell the difference between "presence of a network request going through the Internet" and "absence of said request."

You don't even really need the asset if you want to be tricky about it. (I can time your DNS cache, too, it just takes a little more work.)
This makes me wonder if there is a market for that. Idea: a newsletter / email marketing solution complete with an ad network. The content of the newsletter could be used for targeting ads. Some kind of mail chimp + adsense looking product. Thoughts?
There's a great essay in there trying to get out. Someone needs to write about the romantic vs. classical perspectives on startups.
> Java on servers will always be free

Great, so I'm free to take a server implementation and port it to mobile phones, right?

Free as in what?
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probably not.

I have read my fair share of porn magazines and I am pretty sure they did not have pages with hairy inserts or skin-like spots, even if that would have been trivial to do.

I've seen that a lot in children books though (touch-feel inserts, not porn) and I guess that would be an amazing use of this technology.
So buying it unlocked in the UK will work out to £200 more expensive?? Here's where I ask if any HNer coming to London from the USA would be willing to bring one down here :)

Is there something technically different with the phone that prevents this arbitrage? What do they mean by "optimized for T-Mobile’s network"?
This is a good question. I am also curious if it will be in Canadian Best Buy stores, and if so, how much and when?
Hail Internet/Globalization.
But what is the secret algorithm to small talk?
"as little as 8 Volts to generate tactile sensations" from http://www.teslatouch.com/technology.html
> Oracle understand the significance of the Java developer community.

Really? How, where, when?
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eBay had some really long outages, and multiple. I'd say a site which has had one 20h outage is way more likely to have similarly long outages in the future -- it demonstrates that neither the technical nor procedural measures are there to prevent them.

Of course, once you have enough 20h outages, you dont have to worry about the problem anymore.
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What if this is caused by inflation. Meaning that 1$ per day is not comparable between years.
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I was thinking recently about how a similar technique could be used on DropBox. Government employee uploads "sensitive" data and sees that no actual data is transfered. They now have a person of interest in a leak or possession case.
You obviously have never been to the Western suburbs of Sydney.
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At Posterous we use MySQL as a main data store but MongoDB for simple analytics and Redis for set operations around contacts and subscriptions.

Redis is also great as a backing store for the Rails queuing system Resque.
Is it ego or the "human spirit" that makes people try the summit anyway?

Some things I'll never understand in this world.

How about just running a marathon instead?
"Salesforce.com's biggest differentiator in this commodified market is its decade-long track record of providing a solid Software-as-a-Service."

Freudian slip? I guess the two interpretations ("the market has turned into a toilet" and "the market has become commoditized") aren't too far apart ;)
Take the following advice with a grain of salt as I am not a lawyer and I have not had the privacy/security/TOS for my startup[1] reviewed by a lawyer.

I don’t believe you’re required (by US law) to have a policy statement or legal page, although things may be different depending on where you are located. That said, I would suggest outlining your privacy policies (e.g. who can see their data under what circumstances, how long the data is stored, etc.) and establishing a jurisdiction for any legal issues at the very least; if you store sensitive data, I’d suggest talking a bit about what you do to keep the data secure. Depending on your site, this might be something that hardly anyone looks at or something that is important to users before they use the site.

[1] Iron Money: https://ironmoney.com/
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This is not so much a problem with the scientific method as a problem with self-interested applications of statistics. F still equals m*a hundreds of years later, and that's not about to change.
Sadly, you can't say "anyone" here. I'm quite certain some people will find Microsoft more free than Oracle and, given the surface-level similarity between the two languages, will chose C# before they move on to a different language.
He's writing about results that were validated through replication. That is the scientific method. If what he's saying is accurate, the problem isn't a few bad apples (that's the proverbial reflexive defense of the status quo anyway).

But now all sorts of well-established, multiply confirmed findings have started to look increasingly uncertain.

I have no idea if it's accurate, but Lehrer's a credible journalist, less prone to the sensational than most. If he's writing about this, it's probably because serious scientists are concerned about it.

(On another note, when I pasted the above, the following text showed up appended to my selection: Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_... How can such a venerable publication as the New Yorker resort to such tackiness?)
That's the main reason I love that video, it shows the "messiness' and chaotic nature of the molecular processes involved: they're not intelligent, just stupid molecules colliding with each other until something sticks by accident.

Haha, they went overboard with all the popping. The one during the caspase sequence started to get a tad annoying.
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That requires the data the government employee has to be byte-for-byte identical to the one already in dropbox, which is unlikely for an unintended leak.
"If harder drugs find their way onto the legal market that means greater accessibility."

[Citation needed]
As a longtime Tumblr user, I can tell you serious performance/ frequent down blips/ bugs/ issues have been there for a long time, way before Marco left.
I'm not saying they're his fault (he seems awesome), just that they don't correlate with his departure.
As outlined in other comments, a pretty dreadful article.

This literally just dawned on me while watching TV 5 mins ago and I felt compelled to step in here and write it up…

It shows.
This is another example of an electrotactile (or electrovibration) display. If you'd like to read more, I did a writeup about a competitor called "Senseg" from Toshiba a while back: http://www.hizook.com/blog/2010/08/11/electrotactile-arrays-...
Yet I wonder if "the" scientific method has in fact been overapplied way past its sweet spot of mechanics and so on. It's by no means obvious that it works as well in, say, medicine, let alone psychology, let alone sociology, let alone economics. The fact that it's the cult of our age perhaps blinds us from asking the interesting questions about its limits.
I think you mean your basal metabolic rate. Wikipedia has a pretty good entry about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_metabolic_rate
Thanks for the feedback - I've updated the post to reflect the fact that it only relates to runtime.
No offline maps?! The Google boys need to go out more and see how the real world uses their phones.
Very often, I found myself needing maps the most in areas with poor network reception (e.g., the Swiss Alps) and in places where data connectivity was not an option (e.g., London underground). I was very excited to hear about HTC implementing such a feature in their latest Sense builds and I hope Google will catch up and make it a native feature.

Edit: Okay, it seems they know about the problem and apparently the new version of Google Maps for Mobile will have some sort of offline caching capabilities. Hurray!
You could argue that poverty drives unhappiness, which supports his original argument.
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This was going to my reply, as well. The provision of a legally-drafted contract is quite a service to the community. You'll want to modify it to fit your product, but it's a great place to start and hits all the high points.
As long as you base it on OpnenJDK and don't claim it's Java (you would need the TCK for that) you would be perfectly fine. Just remember not to step on additional patents Oracle may have for the mobile space.
>16GB of memory

Not the clearest phrasing. 16GB solid state, 512MB RAM.
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I'm going to go with mental illness.

These people arn't proving themselves, they're abandoning their humanity. It's not something to be celebrated.
> JVM languages are too close to Oracles reach for comfort

Not at all. All of them run on the OpenJDK and the GPL makes it Ellison-proof. He can scream an threaten all he wants.

OpenJDK is not as cool as all the Sun-invented niceties in their own VM implementations, but it's good.
Although in their white paper, they write that it is further amplified up to 120Vpp.

It shouldn't use much power though, they note that the panel is only supplied with 0.5mA max, lower than many LED currents. They also say that it's the same amount of current used for conventional capacitive touch panels.

Finally, the paper describes the sensations produced. Users have described various settings as feeling sticky or waxy, feeling akin to touching a motorcycle handle or rubber, or running a finger through a viscous fluid.
technically shouldn't you be able to unlock it and use it on any network?
Oh yes, there are definitely some problems with over-zealous applications of the scientific method (or rather, over-zealous discarding of other methods of reasoning) - but this article doesn't really cover them. Not everything of value can be measured in a double-blind experiment.
Probably nobody is following this thread now, but:

Sometimes medication is necessary for treating mental illness. (I'm on medication right now.) A combination of therapy and medication can be very powerful.

Now, I too would be distrustful of anyone who prescribes medication without any accompanying therapy. If your doctor sees medication as a replacement for therapy--get a different doctor.
I'm left wondering if both Wired.com and PerezHilton.com are going to be subjected to the same sort of lawsuit.

Related: http://techme.me/ANFk ("YouPorn, Perez Hilton Exploit Bug to Obtain Your Browsing History")
Then again, remember that Google's objective with their original search home page was to get users OFF of their page as quickly as possible, and they did this by streamlining their engine and serving the most relevant content. In Gmail, the most relevant content are the "priority" emails. I can think of a few ways in which users spending less time in Gmail can earn more revenue for Google both directly in the Gmail client and in the long run across all Google products.
Driving a car is probably safer than driving a bike.

But, being on a motorcycle, it's safer to stay invisible (and drive accordingly) than to be "visible" and incur weird reactions from car drivers.
True, but if you have to move for whatever reason that just becomes a cost of the move. It would be a shame to have to get a new phone on the other end of the move (in addition to the early termination fee) if you've got one that works perfectly fine now, no?
Is there any non-paywall way to view the article? This looks like it might be interesting but I can only see the first couple paragraphs. The title makes me think of three things: Paul Feyerabend, Bayesian inference, and the increasing effectiveness of placebos. I'd be curious to see if any of them are in the article.
Incidentally, they function by stimulating nerve endings -- either through electrical pulses (electrotactile) or vibrations (vibrotactile). Much like the Senseg device I spoke of, the linked device is probably a variant of vibrotactile where the vibrations are generated by electrostatic forces (think "capacitor forces") via transparent electrodes on the front of the display.
Oh please. A new account, just for that?