skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, IF there's any future-reading effect to be found, and IF it diminishes over time, then shorter delays would show a stronger effect.
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More evidence of Evil Google?
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If facebook generates more than $100b of revenue, where would all that money come from? Google's money came from a pie of media industy, Apple's from entertainment (in a broader sense), and eBay's money from retailing. According to the rationale of its latest aggressive investors, who would become the victim of Facebook?
There's also the 30% to Apple that is going to keep them out of the App Store.
Does that imply that startups are bad at reaching undergrads? It seems like offering good salary, awesome work conditions with smart people, and some equity would compel at least some grads to run the calculation.
To me, it appears to be more than just Jobs vs Ballmer (though that would be a hands-down victory for Jobs, no doubt).

The product was fascinating; it is well worthy of thunderous applause instead of the smattering of claps it received. The way the presentation ended: "I got 10, you got 10!" was pretty cringe-worthy, if you ask me.
for an internet based (but "tangible" service) I get about 6.5% engagement (sign up, email, or call) and of that about 50% converted to customers.

This is from fairly target people (people coming to our website find us through organic search almost exclusively)
Assuming each trial is independent and the experiment is a Bernoulli experiment (e.g. akin to flipping a coin 700 times), the probability that you will get a result within 5% of the expected mean (50%) is 81.4%. Remember, though, that the probability of getting EXACTLY 50% is only 3%. The probability of getting exactly +/- 5% is about 2.5%.

So, you have about the same chance of getting that result as the theoretical. That by itself wouldn't mean anything, though - we need more information on the experiment. The best impromptu way to tell if it was significant would be to look at the distribution of the success rates of individual people.

@Parapsych - What kind of data are you logging and would you be willing to release that?
like is the wrong word. LOVE would be more like it but still...

"Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it."

or another way... a slur is a slur. some are just more acceptable than others. I find it 'amusing' which ones are considered acceptable or 'not really offensive' by many who wouldn't use lots of the 'big slurs'- you can see them below ( or wherever the comment moves later... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2078517 ) where mr. edit decided to try to slander me in a way that i don't take as slander. i look forward to his future edits, more justifications for slurs and awesome pinboard features and honestly, none of that was ironic. i firmly believe in agree to disagree especially when it comes to language and what is and is not acceptable. if pansy was used to make a point like ( o o o topical ) 'nigger' and 'injun' are used in huck finn, i would have no problem- the author would be making a point rather than just having a tin ear ( i assume the best in people ). but... as it is, i am going with at best... tin ear.

EDIT: btw... 'nobody' is a strong word and i call bullshit on that. if you think nobody means pansy in a derogatory fashion then you are either naive or have you head up your ass or live on big rock candy mountain. and if live on big rock candy mountain, can i get on for the same pricing as pinboard?
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I don't think that's true.

public class test {
public static void main( String[] args ) throws Exception {
int boys = 0, girls = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) {
boolean isBoy = (Math.random() >= 0.5);
while (! isBoy) {
girls++;
isBoy = (Math.random() >= 0.5);
}
boys++;
}
System.out.println( "Boys: " + boys + "\nGirls: " + girls );
}
}
Do you honestly believe they were sitting there thinking "Hmm, well, I could buy a family rice for several days, or I could register this amusing but ultimately useless domain name..."?

Don't bring false dichotomies into arguments. They discredit you and make the argument less interesting.

[Edit: spelling]
Dictionaries are historians of usage, not legislators of meaning. I take pansy to mean either idiot or weakling or coward and some variation of those. Would you prefer the title be "Stop being stupid and do something", or "Stop being weak and do something", or "Stop being a coward and do something"?
Um, what? I didn't call you a pansy. I didn't make the original post. And, no I don't use those words, but hey .. nobody claimed that making an assumption was wise.

My edit only added an additional sentence so that you, being the sensitive little thing that you are, wouldn't get offended. Quit being such a pansy.
"Your personality is just a strategy that was devised by your two-year-old self in order to keep you safe and get attention"

...And now I've got another hour of lecture in my 'to watch' queue.
I must say your posts are incredibly hard to understand... I'm still a bit confused.

Anyway, WRT to "slurs", I'm among those who believe that people should focus on the meaning of a person's speech, rather than the words they chose to use. If they want to use words like faggot, nigger, spic, etc, so be it, so long as their intention is not derogatory.
You know what's missing from this review?

It doesn't have any "I tried this and it worked" or "I tried this and it didn't work" or "This goes against XYZ scientific study, so I'm hesitant to try it."

In fact, I don't see any substance at all really, aside from gathering that the guy doesn't like Tim Ferriss.
Their email to customers and FAQ is atrocious. Good example of how to suck at communication.

http://www.dimdim.com/faq.html
'The most important thing to stop the concentration of wealth taking over the government is to limit the government powers.'

Completely agree. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The best way to defend against that is to distribute and decentralize power as much as possible. The original intent of the Constitution. A nice fringe benefit is that that also creates more agile, adaptive organizations, as the military and most modern businesses can attest.

Unfortunately, the reality is that the US government is massive and top-heavy and growing, and it doesn't seem anyone is able to change that. I personally don't think the politicians are even in control of the government anymore, rather the massive defense, security, and other beauracracies, combined with corporate pigs suckling at their teats and funding the entire political process are.

'In any democracy a revolution isn't going to happen while the polling booths are still taken seriously. Someone might lose their political head but not their actual head.'

I didn't mean to imply a revolution would happen in America, I don't think that will be the case either, at least not a full scale violent one. But lots of people are nevertheless pissed off and feel like they're getting screwed. I don't know where that will lead.

'The problem with arguing against wealth disparity is that you can only end up arguing for wealth distribution,'

Not necessarily. Things looked better in this regard 30 years ago. Something changed. Or either it's the nature of the system. Either way it's worth understanding and devising more sophisticated solutions than wealth redistribution.

'And most people make the mistake of introducing the 'fixed pie' idea of wealth into their thinking at some stage.'

True, it's rather unfortunate that even in this day and age so many don't understand how wealth is created and steady economic growth achieved.
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I don't know. Some of those nonerotic photos are doing it for me :)
That's really ridiculous, actually. Why wouldn't a billionaire just do whatever the fuck they want? Do they think that everyone is going to notice that Sir Richard isn't rock climbing this weekend and never fly virgin again? Does this go for all billionaires or just the more extreme ones? Would bill gates and Warren buffet rather be climbing everest and running marathons on the great wall of china than playing bridge online, but can't because of the shackles of their personal-coach-inspired fake personalities?
I nominate Atmel, Microchip, Micrel, Micron, and NXP. I'd suggest prioritize strongly based on what Sparkfun sells because I bet they dominate the market among early adopters.

Also, footprints for as many standard JEDEC components as possible.
It works on apps that haven't implemented the DRM correctly, yes. Not on most.
Transcoding is a pain in the ass because it requires another computer with a decent CPU to decode in realtime (which means you can't run it off a NAS or some other server-based disk backup, unless you want to shell out the bucks for a really overpowered backup solution).

If I'm going to go through all that trouble and cost, it makes more sense to buy a low-cost ION GPU HTPC ($300) that can just run the video (even HD) without transcoding.
only in that they are promoting what they are offering. :)
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I have absolutely no idea what it is or how to use it. It's a web page editor right?

I clicked on the image of a web site on the landing page which loaded what looks like a designer/editor, but clicking around and trying to type things (assuming its an editor) had no result. I 'added a page' or something, but this just confused me even more: now there's the text 'this is just an example page' and I've no idea if I'm supposed to edit it, or what (but I can't anyway so forget it). I looked into the DOM tree to find a text area or anything I could use to interact, but no luck.

I tried, honestly.
Re "this only works for straight males" - the research that I have read indicates that females are aroused by a much broader range of visual images (even images of monkeys), whereas males are focused on the images which are in their sexual preference realm.
[I believe I read this in "Sex Before Dawn", a book I quite enjoyed.]

So, anyway, it might work for females too.

I was going to try it out, but after the first picture, I realized I should probably wait until I get home. :)
>Some sort of ethnic autonomy that says Indian rule of India is better regardless of the lot of the common man?

I'm surprised you find this hard to understand. People throughout history have fought and died for self-rule.

Hell, anyone who's been a kid knows how much it sucks to be told what to do, especially when the person doing the telling thinks it's "what's best for you".
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They probably won't give a damn. The power is highly unbalanced. Try talk to Google for a deal.
Christ, seriously? Do have to stay up all night and argue this...

Do people really believe that 'pansy' is not still a slur? Is 'faggot' not a slur? Really?

Come on...

Christ.. I started with an observation and now I am wrapped up in this crap.

And yes...

i think stupid is less offensive to many than pansy. are you as, what i assume is in an intelligent person, arguing that you think pansy is consider a slur by fewer people than stupid? really? seriously?
> I don't think suicide is ever the only solution.

What do you base this on? Wishful thinking about the capability of modern medicine? Or a belief that it's a person's duty to live through intolerable pain for the sake of others?

> It fills me with so much sadness to think that there might be one who reads this and thinks .. 'yep, that was the right thing to do'.

It annoys me that so many people will take a person who finally found peace from a life of intolerable pain, and have no thought but 'I would prefer they hadn't done that, to satisfy my abstract beliefs about right and wrong.'

I think the whole thing is very sad, but I feel very gratified to know that he is free of his demons forever.
I don't know what output you're getting, but this is what I got:

$ java test
Boys: 1000000
Girls: 996931
$ java test
Boys: 1000000
Girls: 1001605
$ java test
Boys: 1000000
Girls: 1001656
$ java test
Boys: 1000000
Girls: 999473
$ java test
Boys: 1000000
Girls: 1000645

Looks pretty even to me.

Besides, if you compute the girls/boy ratio mathematically, you get

0/2 + 1/4 + 2/8 + 3/16 + 4/32 + 5/64 + ...

which does converge to 1.
I'm also a woman and like iuguy (above) had difficulty figuring out what she meant. My best guess: By 'spending down capital', I think she means that if sex is used as a weapon, then every time you put out, you lose some of your power because the power you have comes from withholding rather than from satisfying -- which is a pretty grim view of the whole situation but I have known at least a couple of women who did apparently withhold sex in their marriage, which is partly what I am basing this inference on.

I did think she meant pregnancy and the myriad consequences tied to it when she talked about women being at a disadvantage to begin with and at risk of greater loss.
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So how does it handle blocking io? I doubt it's using async io. If it's single process, single thread does the whole program block on io?
By the sound of the article, I don't think the author even owns a blackberry smartphone. I do. It's garbage. Think companies will stay loyal to BB? Think again. A tablet device that nobody has touched yet is a non-product in my mind.
Not sure if this is a sleight on myself or to the study, but I did not realize there were non-erotic photos in this study until I read your comment. I was confused with the nonerotic stat being presented below the erotic ESP stat during the study iterations.
My feelings exactly. Sure there was always Serial Box or whatever it was called, and [k]racks back in the System 6-9 days, but this new breed and their methods have really taken things to an extreme... I mean a pirate App Store FFS??
So Google invest huge amounts of money in building a killer search index, the author wants to then mine all of that data, putting extra load on their infrastructure, Google blocks him. That's evil?
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You might be interested to know that this is not unique - Baidu's PE ratio is almost 90 at the moment. (Not to say that both aren't overvalued.)
And there you go again, aren't you witty...

Let us see how the chain went...

I pointed out that pansy is considered acceptable now despite its meaning and you said, don't take it personally.

I responded.

You CHANGED your response to seem less ass-ish.

I responded.

You try to explain and then... try once again to insult someone who doesn't care about your slur.

High road you are on there. I can wait to see your next 3rd grade playground response ( perhaps a little EDIT revisionist history? ).
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Oh wait, these things are a net-negative for society and those involved. Never mind, argument is null.
It seems pretty cool, but I broke it, so I assume you'll want to know how. :)

I added a new page named butt.html (I usually pick a random word when I don't care what I'm doing with it. I would have just pretended that it was test.html but you might have logs somewhere to help you track errors so I'm being honest.) I went back to the first page that shows (demo.html, I think) and went to code view. I then changed the href of the anchor tag surrounding the logo to butt.html and when I went back to the design mode and clicked the logo it attempted to take me to browsedit.com/butt.html. When I clicked back, only butt.html was in the editor.

Hope that helps. Really great progress so far.
It was funny, but not that funny...
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I think your reply here is disingenuous as you still are refusing to state what your real, honest, actual problem is.. that it is a slur, or the specific slur.

Quit redirecting to you're bullshit fake bafflement and just answer a simple question about what your objection is.
Ah, I get it now. There's a two-button toggle: 'code/design'. Pressing 'code' allows you to type in HTML. I think 'design' should be renamed 'preview' because I can't edit in design mode (on Chrome but should that make a difference?).

So yeah, if I'm going to be typing HTML, I'll likely do it with my own editor.
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I know what you mean, but I think maybe understanding the risk is better than avoiding it entirely. Sure, Facebook and Twitter can change their APIs, Google could shut down Gmail, and the world could end tomorrow, but in the meantime I think there are cool things to be done.

EDIT: Oops, I didn't see your follow-up until after I made my reply. You said what I am saying, but better.
I have a similar problem. I use non-prescription sleeping pills occasionally to maintain my regime and it works pretty well.

(the active compound for the medication I use is diphenhydramine)
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This was the OP's solution to a hair-on-fire problem.
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I've had a whole litany of issues with Twitter doing stuff like this... but ultimately I've found work-arounds. It just depends how committed you are and how much time you have to make the fixes! More info here: http://pluggio.com/blog/
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Looks fine to me. What did you dislike about ti?
The way around API limitations on how much data can be read is to resort to scraping. However, Twitter probably blocks individual IPs that access too much data. The solution to that is to convince enough users to install software that lets you access their website - preferably via forwarded SSL so your users can't compromise data integrity. Users get some reward, presumably quite small, for relaying the requests for you.

The scheme could be opened to provide unofficial paid APIs for Twitter and other 'walled gardens' that make data available to unauthenticated users on the Internet.
Pure speculation:

Price the computers, figure a healthy markup and list them on your sales sheet to see if anyone bites. Worry about the logistics of volume later if you have it. Don't eat any costs.
Thanks for the link. This is interesting. Why aren't more schools adopting it?
My relationship with morning alarms is like Douglas Adams' relationship with deadlines.

I wish I was a slave to my alarm clock.
Are you really trying to claim that all slurs are the same? Different ones have different levels of offensiveness, and that is by fucking design. If I call someone an idiot it is more insulting than calling them foolish. If I call someone a prick it is less offensive than calling them a douche. There are levels of slur.

For instance I think you are a disingenuous prick, but I probably wouldn't call you a douchebag hypocrite, as that might be a bit over the top in this situation.
Hell, anyone who's been a kid knows how much it sucks to be told what to do, especially when the person doing the telling thinks it's "what's best for you".

It is not uncommon for the kid to eventually grow up and come to the understanding: "my parents knew what was best for me after all".
Some words do have derogatory meanings -- as a fundamental point of them. For instance, if I walked up to some guy and said "Hey douchebag, you are a fucking idiot", the meaning is much different than, "Hey guy, you are acting foolishly". While I tend to be forgiving of word choice based on context, the meaning of words and their connotations are pretty important.
Over the past year, I've kept Airbnb in mind while doing my travel planning. I've made numerous inquiries to book for multiple trips, but am always rejected. One example would be a trip to NYC I took two months ago. I sent out 10 inquires to hosts but they were all rejected. The typical response is a curt, "No longer available," but in all cases I filtered based on availability.

So, it's not as easy as this video implies. For me, it has been something of a headache and a time waster, which is unfortunate because I think their idea is excellent.

(Maybe it is easy if you're a hot hipster waif?)
Is anyone actually taking this _really_ seriously?
I am still waiting for the prank to be revealed...