skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thankfully, if you ever blow away something important, Dropbox gives you an undo. (Create a file, let it sync, delete it, then go check their website.)
The way I did it for my own wedding was to put unique registration codes on invitations so that people could login to respond to the invitation, see the gift registry and then lock in a gift that they had or were going to purchase. Guests also entered dietary and transport requirements so that we could easily export lists and spreadsheets for drivers, caterer, etc.

Everyone seemed to find it really straightforward and it wasn't that time-consuming to add unique codes to the invites manually (e.g., EN8A).
... and when I get downvoted for saying this "you know shit" arrogance, it gets even more Digg-ish.

Please, kids, go play in your room with your toys. Stop bothering the adults.
It is a real form of English. If it weren't, I wouldn't have immediately known what it meant. It's prescriptively not very fancy even in dialects where it exists, but it is how people talk.
I always politely suggest at least one definite possibility when scheduling is required. I append it with "I am also free between ---" so that other options are available.

The reason I do it this way is because if you say "whenever," especially over email, you can get into a trap of back-and-forth where you gradually narrow down scheduling over 3 or 4 additional emails - adding friction and cognitive load to all your communications. You should be trying to move the ball forward as fast as is safely possible, and giving a definite time right off the bat usually reduces the back-and-forth to "That works. See you then."
I don't know a lot about them (learned a little bit in college), and I admit I had to brush up on wikipedia before commenting. You'll note that I explicitly described my (former) field ("the Schrodinger equation") as being narrow in scope relative to the concept of probability. I didn't even bother mentioning exponential asymptotics since it's so obscure that most people need not even know it exists. It's a neat mathematical tool, useful for a few purposes. That's all.

Look, you use probability and the concept of GIGO everywhere - computing, sociology, physics, business, etc. Most people will never have any need for exponential asymptotics, oppression theory or the mechanics of securities markets.

Here is a diagram that most academics need to internalize: http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
pets.com is an amusing piece of Internet history, but it is also a rounding error. For every pets.com there are thousands of companies that lost a (relatively) small sum of money and hundreds that made a small return.
As a global warming noob, I wonder how a controlled environment is simulated to link climate change directly to human activity. Also, how can these claims be tested given that man-induced global warming cannot be repeatedly tested? Is there a formula to calculate the relation of carbon levels to temperature that can be retroactively tested for accuracy? If not, how do we know the degree to which carbon must be curved?
The issue isn't really the city scale then, it's the numbers for the avg house price:
http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/San_Diego-California/marke...

http://www.trulia.com/home_prices/California/San_Diego-heat_...
breaks it down better, my domain knowledge of SD ends there, I couldn't tell you whether they're showing an accurate pic of what constitutes most people's idea of San Diego.

The circle is definitely scaled correctly though, the ratio of area of the circle to population (1306300 people per 1809 pixels, or about 722 people per pixel) is within the margin of error for my numbers for new york (about 662ppl/pixel), and LA (about 725ppl/pixel).
Or to domains that might log your requests and later be bought out by a company that mines your data.

Or to domains that might log your requests and turn around and sell the info to others.

Or to domains that might log your requests and then be cracked.

Oh wait. That describes half the fucking sites on the web.
How about a 960 or similar grid system?
True, however in a fast moving environment, that's only of little consolation if I have to look back 10 days and 20 versions to find the missing content. It becomes a trade off: do I do the work again or aim for the perfect merge. Unfortunately, the first often wins.
thanks. works great.
Up here in the dark north, bright-light sunrise-simulating alarms are becoming commonplace[1]. Mine increases in intensity over 30 minutes and uses a bird tweet as the sound alarm (I have it set to 14/20 final intensity, brighter means a headache). This works quite well.

[1] And seem available in the US: http://www.usa.philips.com/c/light-therapy/hf3480_60/prd/
Hi everyone,

Thanks for your feedback & questions. Just wanted to chime in and hopefully clarify the methodology that goes into Trulia's Rent vs. Buy Index. To make an apples-to-apples comparison, we only looked at the median list price and annualized median rent for two bedroom apartments, condos and townhouses in the 50 largest U.S. cities based on population. As such, this index does not look at single family homes.

To calculate the actual ratio, we divide the median list price by the annualized median rent. Here's a sample Price-to-Rent Ratio Calculation:
---Median List Price: $140,201.37
---Median Rent: $1,871.65
---Price-to-rent ratio: $140,201.37 ÷ ($1,871.65 x 12) = 6

To interpret this ratio:
----Price-to-Rent Ratio of 1-15: It is much less expensive to own than to rent a home in this city.
----Price-to-Rent Ratio of 16-20: It is more expensive to own a home in this city. The total costs of ownership of a home in this city are greater than the costs of renting, but it might still make financial sense depending on the situation.
----Price-to-Rent Ratio of 21+: The total costs of owning a home in this city are much greater than the costs of renting.

By using 15 as our baseline for the interpretation key as opposed to 12 (which would only account for a year's worth of rent), we are able to account for the additional costs such as property tax and homeowners insurance.

Of course, we understand that the decision to buy or to rent is a deeply personal decision based on ones unique financial situation. The Rent vs. Buy Index was designed to be a guide to help folks gauge whether it's more affordable to buy or to rent a home in one of the 50 largest cities.

Feel free to contact us with any additional questions. We love the lively conversation and appreciate everyone's comments.

Cheers!
Daisy Kong
PR Manager, Trulia
pr@trulia.com
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Well, in hindsight Arafat got screwed but clearly it wasn't the author's intent to do so; he wanted to get rich by taking funding and later selling the company, not by stealing money from the investors.
Intriguing question: Will iPad 1 and iPad 2 coexist?
It's because the mass-market appeal is precisely made up of a lot of personal opinions. There is nothing inbetween. A market is formed by millions upon millions of little purchasing decisions, each one commanded by subjective thought. The objectiveness Ebert is trying to will into existance can never be more than an illusion. The market is utterly made out of the subjective. Otherwise, marketing wouldn't work. And $2B Avatar box office sales is an excellent example of the market not caring about what an old wizard holds forth as the objective truth.
available now on 5 year ARMs -- you can always go back to
renting in 5 years, and if rates soar then that means the
economy has recovered, which means your house is worth more..

Rates soaring could also push the real estate prices drastically down.
The circles are scaled by population, and according to the census city boundaries they're measuring LA is 3.8MM compared to DC's 600K, which is a pretty dramatic difference, although it's just an artifact of which data they chose to use for population.

Personally I think they should've measured by metro areas, although unless they have detailed lat/lon for every property they sell working out that data might've been a mess.
One argument against saying "whatever works for you" is that it makes it appear that you don't have anything else important to do. This can lower your status, particularly with alpha male top gun types (VCs, I'm looking at you) whose minds naturally slot people into a pecking order. If you want a hierarchical-thinking person like this to respect you, you have to convey that you too are an important person with important things to do and other important people to see. So consider the context: say "whatever" to your friends but never say "whatever" to status-obsessed people you need to get money from.
I disagree. A high PE ratio in general is not a direct expression of my 'insight' in general. However in this case it probably is. Thanks for pointing that out, I hadn't looked at ARM's figures previously.

I guess I was 'overplaying', although I still think that the average Joe Blogg would be yet to realize the 'edge', hence it would still be an advantage making ARMH more of a very light gray horse.
>if rates soar then that means the economy has recovered

This is not true.

>the economy has recovered,which means your house is worth more

This is also not true, taken independently of soaring rates or otherwise.
As I said in a comment yesterday, go to the author's web site or to his/her university/lab/corp. There is usually a prepublication or slightly different version.
Are we looking at different dictionary.com's or something?

impartial - adj: not prejudiced towards or against any particular side or party; fair; unbiased

neu·tral -adj ... 2. not aligned with or supporting any side or position in a controversy.

How are these not synonyms?

Ditto with Godwin's Law - go and look at the Wikipedia entry:

Godwin's law does not claim to articulate a fallacy; it is instead framed as a memetic tool to reduce the incidence of inappropriate hyperbolic comparisons. "Although deliberately framed as if it were a law of nature or of mathematics, its purpose has always been rhetorical and pedagogical: "I wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler or to Nazis to think a bit harder about the Holocaust," Godwin has written.[10]

Which (again) is the original point: You have one unattributed example (involving Nazis!) of biased reporting, which you're trying to build a whole argument on. That doesn't work - you have an infinity of potential claims (eg. the FSM did it), so unless you have an infinite amount of time you can't possibly deal with them all. But you can give them weight/air time according to the weight of evidence behind them. Framing that sort of judgement as "inherent bias" is specious reasoning.
Very good points.

Actually that's something i started doing too with Node.Js, an HTTP interface to Redis for my personal use.

At first i did go with a RESTful approach, but you quickly hit the limit of commands available versus the numbers of commands in Redis.

The choice i did was the following:

Read command are accessed through GET this way:

GET http://localhost:8124/get/mykey

200 {"mykey" : "mydata"}

GET http://localhost:8124/hgetall/mykey

200 {"hashKey": {"field1": "value1",
"field2": "value2"}}

Write commands are run through PUT or POST :

POST http://localhost:8124/set/key/value

201 {"response": 1}

PUT http://localhost:8124/lpush/myList/1

201 {"response": 1}

Delete commands through DELETE.

DELETE http://localhost:8124/del/mykey
200 {"response": 1}

DELETE http://localhost:8124/hdel/myHash/field

I'm pretty happy with the result, there are some commands i'm not sure where to put though(lpop, rpop, multi, ...)
Yeah, nycresistor comes much closer: http://nycresistor.com
They just pulled the top 50 cities from the census, Cleveland is 43, Pittsburgh is 61.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_Unite...

(Cities vs metro areas, oh the perils of using census data.)
Heck, how are people even going to be paying for Facebook credits in the first place?

Why bother with the middleman, right?
Tim Cook says joining Apple was "best decision that I ever made"
Population of the incorporated city in 2009 from the census.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_Unite...

They probably should've used metro area, but that might've been a data challenge if they lacked lat/lon for each property.

EDIT: Looks like they're using the wrong Kansas City! That 143K population number is for Kansas city, Kansas, which is much less than half of the total city.

The other half, Kansas city, MO is 482,299, and in the top 50, unlike Kansas City, Kansas.

Probably a bug.
A) It's better to avoid using your capability even if you have it.

B) Probably a lot of users prefer Mozilla, though it may defer to the system store on Windows anyway, I'm not sure.

C) For the same reasons it's a pain for FB to use https everywhere, it's a pain for Tunisia to set up SSL interception on their outbound connections. There are certainly off-the-shelf boxes which can do it though.
I don't see how Javascript is to blame here, which is I think what the author is implying with the "game over" link to slides about JS insecurity.

This attack only worked because the attacker could subvert the same-domain origin policy, by posting usernames and passwords to a page at the facebook.com domain (but which was routed to an attacker's host at a lower level.) The security failure happened at a lower layer than where Javascript security would be responsible.
If you're the ISP, can't you fake ssl certs all the way down to the root?

sorry if i'm being ignorant
> forces which are controlling day-to-day work are essentially controlled by value network of the company (social and technical resources within and between businesses) and constrained by resources, values, and processes of the company.

Google's 20% Time could be considered "research" or R&D not constrained by business requirements. 20% Time seems like a clever way to harness engineers' downtime for work that may benefit the company.

But none of the Google engineers I've met had a 20% Time project. They said product teams (like Android) had much less flexibility for 20% Time than people working on google.com properties.
> 30 year ammortization of loan with a 4% rate (available now on 5 year ARMs)

You realize that's how a ton of people lost their homes, right?
Holden, this is a pretty fair response - and I of all people know the difficulty of digging through the noise of the industry. I do think that, intrinsically, there's an implication that comes with that pie chart on your front page and a choice of 10.

There are a lot of NPOs, but there is just as much fear-mongering that justifies that little voice in peoples' head, tipping the scales as to whether they donate or not. This voice stops people from donating to anyone, lest their dollar be the dollar that buys an office supply rather than an air-dropped meal. In this economic climate, the impact of that voice is far worse than the consequence donating to an inefficient charity.

I think that this is something you could deal with by simply rebranding that idea a bit. 'The 10 Best Charities' is such a better sell than "There Are Only 10 Worthy Charities We've Found So Far." I really feel like that pie graph says the latter.

Again, it's not your mission - I'm sincere in saying that. I think it's the presentation. And that presentation alone would never be enough for me to exclude your top picks.

But clearly, we should chat more in another venue. I'm markATphilanthroper.com.
Its download interface is quite nice. You can follow links in IEEE or Web of Science and d/l a lot of related papers + metadata painlessly. This makes it really good for coming up to speed with new subject areas.
<div class="column grid_12"><p>12</p></div>

OFFS, people. You've got an excellent CSS preprocessor with mixin capability here, use it. Do something like this:

#sidebar {
.column;
.grid_12;
// other styling
}

and then this:

<div id="sidebar"><p>twelve</p></div>

It's easy, clean, and doesn't maul your markup.
I am clearly much less qualified to speak on this subject than you so I defer to you on this one.

All I meant by 'yuck' was that in my limited experience with computer science, whenever there is a solution that involves as blunt a compromise as 'cache the first 10 megabytes,' it isn't usually too long before that solution is known as the 'naive' solution.
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The writer confuses buying bonds with trading in bonds. When you buy a bond, you are guaranteed a fixed percentage rate if you hold it to maturity. When you trade in bonds, you will discover that the bond market can be just as volatile as the stock market.

He also misunderstands Taleb's advice, at least as I understand it, about how to use the small percentage of your money you set aside for gambling. In short, you don't want to bet on probabilities of success, you want to bet against the probability that trees will grow to the sky. Or put another way, you want to be in a position to profit when all around you are losing their shirts.
Fully zoomable image here: http://collabo.olihb.com/

Full method here: http://olihb.com/2011/01/23/map-of-scientific-collaboration-...
While I don't agree with you that version control doesn't work well for Word, Excel, etc, I'd say the problem there is the format isn't built for version control.

VC works great for source code because it's all line based with (either by convention or required by the grammar) one statement per line. Diffing is pretty trivial in these cases and meaningful.

Binary formats are a whole different ballgame. Even XML-based formats are problematic. My view is that XML documents require a VCS built specifically for diffing that kind of data as line based will run a lot of false positives with white-space.

As another commentor said: you can always get your stuff back with Dropbox. I'm not sure how much better you can do than this without actually changing the program that created the data.
Hey mate. Interesting perspective.

without knowing your financial situation, I'd suggest to keep working in the U.S. and invest in housing back in Australia.

Both are great prospects but you might be able to buy 2 houses near the beach in Australia (say Perth / Adelaide) for the price of one in NYC. In a way, it gives you diversification that NYC doesn't. Also buying walking distance from the beach gives you that security that land value will never go down.

I agree about the tax system in Australia. But I like it.
Although seismic geology will have a 'language', it's no where near a programming language. Most specialisations say 'we have a language' but that mostly means they have lots of specific terms or common-for-them-uncommon-for-the-rest-of-us words. Whereas a programming language is much more like a real human lanuage than a lexicon.
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Just so, and when you can use all these grid classes and get their benefits transparently in the .less files without touching the markup, it's especially mystifying.
I live in the city and am very curious why the foreclosure rate is shown as 0%.
True, perfect merging doesn't exist. I just think that replacing one file with two files that have different names isn't the best solution to letting me deal with the problem.
SSL certificates usually come with the OS or the browser. AFAIK there's no easy way for the ISP to add certificates.
why not modify your schedule by season? It looks like one can avoid the cons by getting up "with the sun." I might give this a try! I can totally see how this can be motivating!
This works really well on a rooted nook color too. Much better than the stock browser that comes bundled.
This. It is completely against the whole concept of separating markup from styling.

I recently stumbled upon a pretty nice CSS "framework" (it's more of a starter template) that doesn't have all the crap most grid-frameworks have. It's ironically called Less Framework 3[1] (has nothing to do with LESS.js or the parent article).

It basically boils down to a base adaptive-layout body width, and some comments that tell you the width you should make an element if you want it to span X columns on X screen/device width and adhere to a grid

[1]http://lessframework.com/
This is a great infographic idea, but the census 'incorporated city' boundaries/populations is not that good of a data set for this use case.

Metropolitan statistical areas would've been a more reasonable choice here, since in many cities the city proper (as defined by incorporated bounds) is either vastly under or vastly over-priced compared to where people actually live, not to mention throwing off the relative populations.

As an aside, the way my map renders, Baltimore is north of New York =P. Great job though, and kudos to your developers for not using flash =)
The Universities of Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide are generally considered to be the most prestigious institutions in their states. They're sometimes called the "sandstone universities", because they self-consciously mimicked the architecture of Oxford and Cambridge[1].

UNSW started as a technical college, I believe. Much more practical, not the sort of place where gentlemen went to study. Given that the Rhodes sample I chose covers about 100 years, UNSW would be underrepresented versus its current standing within Australia (neck-and-neck with Sydney).

[1] My own alma mater, UWA, has a tuscan feel that most closely resembles Stanford.
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Where "engaging with the ACM" means entering my credit card number into their website to access any content?
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Awesome! I'm also in Seattle- I'm not working for myself yet, but I might be in the future, in which case I'm really thinking about joining office nomads.

Do the people from similar disciples give each other help much? I like the idea of being around other programmers that I could query, but I'd feel guilty about wasting their Work time.
This visualization assumes that a condo for sale is the same quality as an apartment for rent. At least in Seattle, that is not true--there has been a rash of (ill advised) condo construction in the area which has resulted in a lot of really nice two bedroom condos for sale, with new construction and spectacular views. Two bedroom apartments on the market are nowhere near as nice--and, of course, nowhere near as expensive. That's not to say that the condos aren't overpriced, just that the distribution of supply may not be uniform in every city.
Well, you can argue that English devolves.

When a non-word like refudiate merits the title of "word of the year", we all lose.
I think any command that modifies and writes to the DB should be POST or PUT (for editing existing entries), what reads should be GET and anything that delete should be DELETE?
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Your numbers seem to be a little off, unless we are talking about places that are closer to bronx or buildings that are falling apart.

In midtown, that 1BR will run you ~$2,500 to rent and close to $1 million to buy.

Maintenance fees should also be higher, at least $800.
Agree to disagree. The marketing value of 3D effects? How exactly does one market 3D effects when the only displays that can showcase them are in the movie theatres behind clunky glasses?

People saw AVATAR because hundreds of millions were spent on marketing, it had James Cameron's name attached, and it was well liked by popular critics and audiences. 3D was a footnote compared to that attention.

3D effects do no marketing favors for middling or outright-poor movies. The only thing they consistently do, is increase average ticket prices.