skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I put in my 778 area code phone number to test. You should detect this area code is on pacific time, and adjust accordingly. The time you told me was 3 hours off.
That sucks, I'm sorry to hear. I wasn't there back in the "good 'ol days", so I can't comment on the past. What I can tell you is that the team we have working on IE8 and IE9 is really serious about shipping the best product out there, and we're really serious about standards-compliance. We truly are making an effort to capture feedback too ... I see it walking down the hallways, the efforts each guy is making to ship the best thing out there ... sure, we're not perfect, but we're trying really damn hard, believe me. Unfortunately, try as I might, there really isn't much for me to do to help if your argument for why IE9 sucks is that the previous IEs sucked :(
I've randomly thought about this and one thing i can say is that if you want to build a successful long-term dating site you HAVE to cater 90% towards the women haahha. that means making it easy for them to filter, having a safe place where they don't feel hit on by creepers, or provide an arena where they know that the men are "quality", etc.

You will always have enough male signups. So for the men it's about balancing the ratios somewhat so that it's not just completely ridiculous. Dating sites know this and probably don't care at all because they're getting revenue from any warm body.

While i agree that it just takes 5 minutes in person to do a quick BS/weirdo filter, that's not feasible online, especially for women. Women are spammed much more and have a tough time filtering, let alone meeting many people.

The only way this will work is if the matching algorithm he's proposing is extremely accurate, otherwise all it'd take is like 3-4 weeks of failed group dinner meetings to write the site off.
Did you look in totality.txt?
$ python -c "import this"
Those 'testable consequences' have only been verified to within experimental accuracy. However small the deviation: when scaling up, consequences of small deviations soon start overshadowing the original guiding principles. The unsolvable three body problem, the flow of sandpiles, turbulence in water. Chaos has been far from solved. Your argument will hold when you provide an actual, experimentally verifiable reduction of macroscopic laws to microscopic principles. Until then, it is all handwaving and make-belief.

In short, your argument hinges on reductionist assertions that are easily debatable. They may even turn out to be impossible to prove correct. The hard problem of consciousness has not been solved and you should not pretend that it does not exist.
How is Godel's incompleteness theorems an issue here? AI does not have to model the human brain by simulating it. And it need not be rigorously/axiomatically defined as a decidable formal system nor does it need the ability to prove its own consistency. Nor does it need to be consistent, making the GITs inapplicable. Heck the AI could use paraconsistent logical reasoning or couple bayesian inference with a suitable multi-valued logic as its base.
Yeah, seems to be working now, although he had seen my previous comment so he just gave me a dirty look when his phone started ringing. He did answer though, and I heard him mutter something about "pickles and tomatoes" trending on twitter.
Is this legit? It doesn't look like it -- it just hammers (20 parallel connections) BinaryAge's ecommerce provider's site searching for all permutations of coupon codes.
Sorry for almost jumping to conclusions. I'm always overwhelmed with people asking me "do you know anyone who can be my CTO" but what they really mean is "do you know anyone who would program my app for free." This definitely doesn't sound like you.

I hate to be completely unhelpful, but I'm in Phoenix, AZ. Talent here is also few and far between.
Watson is completely amazing. The differences between Jeopardy and chess are staggering. I'd even say that in the chess challenge, they could kind of cheat, Deep Blue had every 5 piece board configuration in a book and so if it could play to 5 pieces left then it knew how to play from there, humans have their look up optimized differently. If this technology can be generally applied, it just seems like a radical tool, radical for medicine, law, and probably revolutionary for other professions where access to information hasn't been as important.

That being said, a really really clever jeopardy playing machine just doesn't seem "intelligent" to me. Huge bounds forward, we're making progress, I'm not denying that but Watson isn't going to slurp in the works of Shakespeare and write down some original thoughts on it, comparing it to current events. Or contrast Wordsworth and Keats. Or suggest a new experiment to further identify envelope proteins on a virus. Or invent a new way to etch semiconductors even smaller than we currently are. Will we get there? Maybe, hopefully, maybe even in our life times, but this is comprehension and search, it's not inventing or creating yet. It seems like half the problem, maybe the easier half.

Still awesome, maybe in a few years we'll have Watsons we can access from our phones or something.
I think it's a bit more nuanced than this. It's like the example given in the Mythical Man Month. If you want to grow corn, you can pretty much be assured that no matter what you do, you can harvest the corn more quickly if you put more people towards harvesting it. This is because harvesting corn is a partitionable task (in other words, you can easily divide the work up amongst an arbitrary number of workers). Of course, productivity per person will go down, but the overall rate at which you're harvesting corn will still grow.

Programming isn't easily partitionable. Programmers need to communicate with each other to do their task. Thus, adding more people makes you progress faster up to a point. At a certain point, adding more people starts to slow you down. Therefore, individual worker productivity will go down more quickly faster than it would for the corn harvesters.

Lumping all the different positions from all these different kinds of companies ignores these differences and really makes it difficult to apply the idea in general. For technology companies in particular, I'd say that the productivity loss can be even higher than 3/2.
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Perhaps encouraging people to unplug and go for a walk in the park?
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Seems like this python code is generating "working free licenses" for TotalFinder.
It will be much harder to do analytics based on users' past history.
I think you need to be even more granular than that. For instance, I doubt the same standards apply to startups hiring salespeople as well as startups hiring programmers.
Ran it for sometime & went for coffee, got this 4RFZ http://sites.fastspring.com/binaryage/product/totalfinderfre... ... omg free!
This solves one of my largest annoyances when using Github as a Rails developer, namely, "Oh yay, time to walk five levels up and four levels down to find the place in the code of this gem where the function caused in the line causing the problem is actually defined."

Previously if I had to do it more than once I would copy the gem to disk, import to Netbeans, and then use Netbean's equivalent function. (Which I use so frequently during development I should really map it to, I dunno, tab.)
Poll: Rank math-blog's recommended math books
A list of math books wase provided, but only in the order submitted. This is slightly more useful than alphabetical order, but only in theory. I also threw in some stow-aways from the original HN comments.
(original post -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2202216)
A Mathematician’s Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form by Paul Lockhart
The Mathematical Experience by Phillip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh
Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays: Volumes 1 and 2 by Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John H. Conway, Richard K. Guy
Fourier Analysis by T. W. Körner
Tools of the Trade by Paul J. Sally, Jr.
The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Rotraut Susanne Berner, and Michael Henry Heim
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos, and Annie Di Donna
Geometry and the Imagination by David Hilbert and S. Cohn-Vossen
Mathematics: Form and Function by Saunders MacLane
How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics by William Byers
The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century by David Salsburg
Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imagined History of Algebra by John Derbyshire
Here’s Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math by Alex Bellos
Real Analysis by N. L. Carothers
Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities by Ian Stewart
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition by Edward R. Tufte
Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers: Asymptotic Methods and Perturbation Theory by Carl M. Bender and Steven A. Orszag
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods by Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins, and Ian Stewart
A Mathematician’s Apology by G. H. Hardy
The Cauchy-Schwarz Master Class: An Introduction to the Art of Mathematical Inequalities by J. Michael Steele
Calculus Basic Concepts for High School by L.V. Tarasov, V Kisin, and A Zilberman
Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham
Geometry: a High School Course by Serge Lang and G. Murrow
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics by Timothy Gowers, June Barrow-Green, and Imre Leader
Mathematics for the Million by Lancelot Thomas Hogben
Number Theory: An Elementary Introduction Through Diophantine Problems by Daniel Duverney
Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times (Vol. 1) by Morris Kline
“Calculus on Manifolds” by Michael Spivak.
Information Theory Inference and Learning Algorithms
Apostol's Calculus
Linear Algebra Done Right by Sheldon Axler
Mathematics: Its Contents, Methods and Meaning by Kolmogorov, Alexandrov, et al
Shafarevich's Basic Notions of Algebra
Arnold's Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics
Brieskorn and Knörrer's Plane Algebraic Curves
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
I agree to an extent, but one useful byproduct is people who have Javascript disabled (Noscript or similar) are perhaps the type of people that really _hate_ sites opening in new tabs/windows, so they get what they wanted with this method.
479 area code here, the time was off by one hour (18:49 rather than 17:49).
Not if you use the HTML history API: http://html5demos.com/history

Admittedly, you need a modern browser for that. But you can always present full-page-load HTML to users with older browsers and then provide AJAXy history-ified goodness to everyone else.
IE9 RC has a ton of bugfixes and improvements over Beta. Compatibility rates are higher. If you liked Beta, you're gonna love the RC! And we did take in feedback and refactored a bunch of our dialogs & notification system for RC too ...
Yeah, it looks like it goes through each possible permutation of coupon codes for the BinaryAge Total Finder online store [1]. These codes seem to be in the format THANKSXXXX, where X is a random number/letter.

It generates a set of possible codes and then queries the website for each one of those codes. When it finds a correct coupon code permutation it outputs the code to the screen and writes it to a file. (Presumably so that the coupon can be reedemed for a free, illicit, copy of the program)

[1] http://sites.fastspring.com/binaryage/product/totalfinderfre...
anything is linear if you use a log-log scale and a thick marker pen
The streaming api is extremely limited, it is only good for getting real time tweet feed.

The biggest difficulty with twitter is that there is no way to get the social network, and the REST API was the only way of getting it.

Thus any deep social network based analytics are difficult to perform.
Here's a poll the rank the submissions

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2204319
I think 80 characters is getting a bit narrow, but some people like to be able to open several files (e.g. the code and the tests) in VIM or Emacs, with the buffers vertically arranged next to each other.
I looked at the pictures and immediately thought that Zappos looks like a place where people chat (customer service) and 37Signals looks like a place where people think (programming).
Next (desired) feature in the pipeline: online vim on top of github.

And no, I don't think Bespin/Skywriter/Ace is good enough right now.
The test script just takes an existing alarm and reads it out. Signup asks you for a timezone.

1) An area code may span over multiple timezones
2) A user may have a google voice number

Area code does not necessarily indicate timezone
I'm so blown away by this it makes me want to ask for another one, ack in project? :)
REST API and Streaming API are like apples and oranges, a lot of things just cant be done with the streaming api.Esp. accessing past tweets, search results, social network etc.

A good thing about twitter was that their social network was more open than the facebook's social network, with newer rate limits its going to be really difficult to crawl it.
It's possible that it's only 4 TB. If it's only processing text and it stores a character in two bytes, that means 2 trillion characters. At a generous 8 characters per word, that's 250 billion words. There are only 560,000 words in War and Peace, which is a very long book, and 44,000,000 in the Encyclopedia Britannica, meaning you could stuff in ~500,000 of the former or ~5000 of the latter. That seems sufficient for Jeopardy.
Honestly this depends on the company because its a question of confidence. Do you have confidence that the company will be generating real revenues and how bad to you need the money.

If you have a family and need to have guaranteed income at set levels, then you should be conservative and pick option 1.

But, to put it in perspective. To see what the back-of-the-napkin calc is for the maximun annual total income.

1. 140k no matter what
2. 140k Max (60 x 2 = 120k plus the max 20K) This option sucks balls.
3. 150k Max (50 x 2 = 100k plus the max 50k)
4. 160k
On the other hand, I prefer not to have all of my desktop taken up by my editor. Usually, I dedicate half of it to my editor and half to a command-line. Now, 80 characters might be a bit too small, but I think it's a good goal to shoot for as long as you bear in mind that it's a guideline and not a hard rule.
I love the characterization of the current solutions in this space as "just too O(n)". A poignant, elegant, delightfully nerdy description.
The best data is just hard to collect online. Photos of person in their social group to deduce personality type would probably fail since there are so many variables.

Lab scientists can measure biological or physical properties http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGfznq9OgdU&feature=playe... like sweat scent which reveals immune system compatibility. They're getting very good correlations for long term relationships from these simple physical metrics.

Some of these metrics can be collected online, high testosterone or estrogen is visible in the face. Has any dating site used them seriously? Because most approach the problem from a psychological perspective, with surveys, bios, chatting, etc.. But long term couples have a very high proportion of physical compatibility, which happens to be easier to measure.
I would strongly suggest Jerry Shurman's Calculus and Multivariable Calculus texts, which are available for free on his website:
people.reed.edu/~jerry/
Considering that so much of the technology is still built on landlines and mechanical sensors the home monitoring market is ripe for innovation. Broadband and SMS are the right direction, I believe. But a reduction in service level probably isn't.
From an Engineering + Compatibility point of view, we just can't take the hit. There are way too many third party apps that host Trident, and having multiple copies puts those apps out of wack. It's simply impossible to have multiple copies of mshtml.dll on your box and have all of the IEs and all of the third party apps out there behave nicely. Even if we broke a measly 0.1% of our users, we're still talking a really huge number ... we don't have some solutions rolled out because it breaks a bunch of users, and that is not acceptable.

Disclaimer: Even though I work for Microsoft/IE, this isn't an "official" response. It's just my own opinion :)
once we figured out the trick and started a nuclear reaction, the thing blew up in a fraction of a second

Please, never use this metaphor again. This level of magical thinking is just embarrassing for all of us. It's like saying that building a house must be a really fast process, because burning the house down goes really quickly.

Nuclear weapons blow up easily because, for (e.g.) plutonium, "blowing up" is thermodynamically favorable. A brick of plutonium has much less entropy than a giant fireball and an expanding cloud of radioactive fallout. In a thermodynamic sense, the plutonium nuclei want to be fissioned. All you have to do is find a way to coax them out of their metastable state.

A human brain is massively thermodynamically unfavorable. If you put a bunch of proteins in a box the odds that they will self-assemble into Einstein's brain are, literally, astronomically small.

That's why the brain is a miracle and a nuclear reaction is, frankly, pretty commonplace. There are a lot of stars. Stars are easy to explain. Brains are hard.
I'm saying it's also the Scheme manifesto.
It would be interesting to see an online dating site which treated users like mailing service providers do: "We really want you to succeed with this, but our priorities are to the ecosystem first and you a very distant second. You're guilty until proven innocent, we're going to invest a lot of effort into educating you in how to suck less, and if we catch a whiff of you being a nuisance you are banned for life."

(It would take some serious guts to say "Your presence in our community is a net negative. We wish you the best, as long as the best is found elsewhere.", particularly if you do that in a data-driven fashion. My intuition is that people's revealed preferences in dating are very, very, very far from socially acceptable.)
Liberals outnumber conservative academics - Unbiasing Academia
Milne's notes are an awesome resource.
TMI: If all data were CD stack, it would pass moon
I'll be there! Any other HNers going?
You can't change the amount with ARB? I thought you could.

Store their card data in Authorizenet CIM and run a nightly cron job to make the charges you need. You can charge whatever amount you need and never have to ask for payment info twice.
I had thought about this idea earlier this year, and immediately killed it, realizing most people would just use smart phone for this.

So we developed the idea further in some other use cases: eg. 'take medicine pill' reminder call for your old parents etc.

I still think, just an alarm for myself may not be very useful, but there can be some interesting use cases to remind people with useful info.
If you're really worried about students from "all majors" being unqualified, then it seems to me that the answer is requesting a small coding project ala FizzBuzz to seperate the wheat and the chaff. Those who can, do - those who can't... do something else.
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"Eric Ries has a posse"
with contestants of this skill level

Do you see what you're saying.. "contestants of this skill level"? It's Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter, and WATSON. Discussion over. The fact that there is a computer that can answer questions in 3s that put it at the level of the two greatest trivia players in history is THE story.

Some jeopardy answers:

Anagramed Animals -- A furry little pet: the rams

Some say the Bush administration's domestic spying conflicts with FISA, the Foreign Intelligence this Act

"R"2"D"2 -- More rubicund

Half the people in the US probably couldn't answer any of these at all, much less necessarily even know what the answer was referring to, period.

The fact that the computer may have an advantage at pressing the buzzer against the two best buzzer pushers of all time is a pretty small deal. IMHO. :-)
Authorize.net's CIM to store the payment data, and a nightly cron job to charge whoever's monthly subscription fee is due. It's not that hard, everyone managed before these subscription-as-a-service companies popped up in the past few years.
if you want to build a successful long-term dating site you HAVE to cater 90% towards the women

Of course. Seems like one obvious way would be to limit the number of emails that men can send per day/week/whatever, so women don't get spammed quite so badly.
Autonomous Vehicle using Visual Landmark
I came across that site earlier today : potentially interesting if their data is accurate and you are trying to find a hosting/cloud service nearby where you are.
It appears that's exactly what it's doing. Legit, no. The weakest thing I've seen on HN, yes. Come on guys, really.
Startup help...YoungMillionaires.com
Wanna see what people think about this concept and if I should go route of members only club like millionaire matchmaker or make it more like a sugardaddie.com ? help!
Was this on the test, or did you make an account?
Technology makes a lot of manual work unnecessary. But the salaries that are saved are available to be spent on hiring people for other things.

Which is why mechanizing the farm didn't leave 80% unemployment in its wake.

The market for labor is like any other market. If prices are allowed to fluctuate, supply will continuously adjust to meet demand and vice-versa.

But if prices are kept artificially high, there will be a surplus. More workers will try to get the higher wages and jobs that are unprofitable for employers at the high price will not be filled.

You may not like, you may not even want to understand or acknowledge it, but this is how people behave in any market.
You know, the Zen of Python makes a for a really cute thing to read, but even Guido himself has admitted that it requires quite a bit of interpretation and doesn't apply in all cases. Generally, I feel that applying it directly to code is tricky (except for trivial pieces of code like these). I think it's better to treat the Zen of Python as a broad vision for how Python code should look rather than as a concrete set of rules for code.

For example, explicit isn't always better than implicit. I mean, by that standard alone, the idea of a garbage collector going around implicitly freeing memory would be terrible.
It's a better syntax than Python's 10-year-out-of-date notion of lambda. For example, this is what a more modern language does with lambdas:

numbers.filter( _ % 2 == 0 )

This document is old, so we can probably excuse it... but how many Python folks know that?
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And what's even more wonderful is that you might expect that this trait would been tempered with so-called "experience" - but they continued being "overly-ambitious" throughout their next decade at Naughty Dog and into their ventures beyond.
Pleasing things work better
Actually the content of my one big file is made of "sections" (I wrote a tool to extract them, http://simpliwiki.com/sections.html)

"Search" is my friend to move around in my one big file.

I think of it like a the same shift introduced by Google Mail with their "label" thing. At the time it was quite disturbing, we used to classify mails in hierarchical directories. Nowadays, when I want to retrieve a msg, do I navigate a directory structure? No. I just "search".

Same for source code.
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