skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people don't really care about having a "presence" online (if they did, they'd already have a blog out there). Facebook is about your friends and social network; your mom is on Facebook because her friends and family are, not because she has great opinions and stories to tell the world. Facebook's success has very little to do with being a platform to post things on, those are simply features it evolved into.

Although I do find it humorous you would mention profile customization as something people want or care about. I personally hated the disorganization and tacky pages on networks like MySpace.
If it's money you need (would you stay on if someone offered you an angel round?), consider asking for funding, kickstarter style. We're all very impressed, and we think you should stick with it.
Interesting, however, when we get to the argument concerning IQ and productivity, the author conveniently ignores access to capital. You could potentially have a high IQ but living in a particular locale (say a rural 3rd world village) and due to lack of access to capital, you don't have the ability to be productive. Unfortunately, don't have the time to come up with the best example, but imagine a high IQ web developer working in rural Kansas off a satellite internet connection. They are most likely not going to be as productive as someone working off a fiber connection in a major city. They don't have enough money to run fiber to their house, so this lack of capital is a detriment to their productivity score.
Chrome on Mac.
I stopped reading as soon as it complained about controlling for education. Yes, achieving a level of education is often correlated with IQ, but if IQs vary within an education level then we can obviously isolate it separately, and we should.
"BluRay. It's the next generation of a dead technology."

Slightly off topic, but you just nailed it, sir. Upvoted accordingly.
Using Kinect to make autostereograms (Magic Eye pictures)
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probably speaking about Europe

conservatives in Europe would be considered commies in USA

and for the liberals in Europe, they'd have to come up with another term completely...super commies perhaps?
Maybe you could reuse this code to preview how a color scheme would look through the eyes of a color-blind. Or through a color-blind filtering software.
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My understanding is that cjson is not recommended or maintained.
Twitter removes Quickbar from iOS client
I only partially agree.

I'd say that most people are not on Facebook to express themselves, they are on Facebook to interact socially. When people are on Facebook, they primarily are looking at other people's information -- not their own profile. With a personal site, you typically spend time customizing it and creating content, not interacting.

This leads to much different design goals. With Facebook's homogenized appearance, it is much easier to keep track of everybody.
well, if you want a site that is basically facebook but allows you to customize your profile, i hear myspace is up for sale.
I can guarantee it. I was thinking of an actual computer I had, and the read speed of the drive alone was slower than the time it takes Mongrel to serve up a page with Rails.
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And if you're determined to get rid of it, you should not give it away- you should sell a chunk of it off for a substantial amount of money just so the incoming party has the same interest in making it work. In otherwords, who ever you give it to will not have poured sweat over it, and will likely not give it the love it rightly deserves.
lol thats the funnest game ever
I think (I'm not a conservative) they see a difference between a moral obligation and a legal requirement. Between them deciding where to donate their money, and having big government make the decision for them.

My sense is that conservatives tend to be good about that as individuals, but they don't notice that corporations are resistant to moral obligations. And corporations have a far larger (and more coherent) effect on society than individuals do.
> PHP sucks, but there are a ton of profitable companies that use it because it is wicked wicked fast. In my mind, that makes it suck less. :-)

I think in this mini benchmark, it's not so much that "PHP" is fast (as a language, it isn't, really), rather that Ruby + its various frameworks are pretty pokey.

In any case though, while I remain a Ruby fan, the grandparent sort of misses the point: by being more efficient, you have a wider range of things that can make you money. If you have to have a huge amount of resources to get some pages up, doing ads or some other low-margin activity might not even be feasible like it would with a faster solution.
This sounds a lot like "Now that we have color film, it's time for B&W to find it's true place - in the history books. It's time to move on."

Which is not to say that 24p won't get largely eclipsed. I suspect it will. But not because it's universally 'better'- just more appropriate to a growing number of things.
I think it's an April fool's profile :)
Don't you care if _every_ call to render does ~20 unnecessary checks?
Complete disconnect with reality. Plenty of mainstream US conservatives, at least in recent years, tend to increase spending on social programs. See Bush, Romney and Huckabee as examples of this.

But lets ignore that for a moment. The fact that conservatives occasionally reduce the growth rate of spending on social programs does not mean they oppose said programs. Similarly, I might advocate ending the war on drugs, and reducing spending on police. That doesn't mean I'm against all policing. It merely means I believe the optimal level of policing is less than what it currently is.
A video comparing 24 fps to 60 fps
(In video games, where the difference is higher)

http://mckack.tumblr.com/post/3535190601/60fps-vs-24fps
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Artists rendition of dessert survival:
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This is going to be for digital projection. Running the film at twice the speed would need new projectors, new film handling and so on - the physical film size would be twice as long and moving twice as fast.

Interestingly movie projectors do show 48fps - they simply have a shutter which exposes the film twice and then advances a frame. It would be trivial to project it more times but you wouldn't gain any more motion - just reduced flicker.
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That's all well and true but honestly, how many currently unprofitable sites would become monstrously profitable if they could increase their requests per second by a factor of 5?

The study you link to shows a decrease of in rev of 5% by adding 2 seconds of load time vs. 50 ms. There are very few businesses whose costs are dominated by servers. Most spend more on a single developer than servers. Yes, Google, Twitter, and Facebook could probably do well by doubling their requests per second but the average companies costs are dominated by employees, that why it's called Ramen profitable and not EC2 Micro profitable.
Facebook taught the world what's social networking - now it's time for interest groups and niche SNs. It's just natural progression.
Python 2.7 on Ubuntu:

$ python -mtimeit -s "from json import dumps;
d = {
'foo': 'bar',
'food': 'barf',
'good': 'bars',
'dood': 'wheres your car?',
'wheres your car': 'dude?',
}
" "dumps(d)"
100000 loops, best of 3: 6.89 usec per loop

$ python -mtimeit -s "from cPickle import dumps;
d = {
'foo': 'bar',
'food': 'barf',
'good': 'bars',
'dood': 'wheres your car?',
'wheres your car': 'dude?',
}
" "dumps(d)"
100000 loops, best of 3: 7.78 usec per loop

So `json` seems faster than `cPickle`. Right? Wrong!:

$ python -mtimeit -s "from cPickle import dumps;
d = {
'foo': 'bar',
'food': 'barf',
'good': 'bars',
'dood': 'wheres your car?',
'wheres your car': 'dude?',
}
" "dumps(d, -1)"
100000 loops, best of 3: 3.59 usec per loop
Sorry, the "Bonsai Kitty Plush" mops the floor with the iStore.
I actually liked it.
You're right. Think of all those poor slobs making in the mid six figures....
I think people interact socially by expressing themselves. We are inherently social creatures and our self-image is shaped by the judgement of others. To improve our own self-image, we try to influence other people's perception of ourselves.

Facebook is great (popular) because people have a blank slate for creating a public persona, then can instantly see feedback from other people reinforcing their created persona.
I think you are on the right track that the author of the post has not equated productivity to an accepted definition. He seems to fail to take into account capital. The relevance of which probably best makes sense to the layman via looking at marginal rate of substitution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_theory_basics#The_ma...
Cutting social programs seems is in line with a moral obligation towards those less fortunate if it's a personal obligation. I know many people who dislike any kind of government welfare programs and many private organizations that do what those government programs are supposed to. They believe in helping those less fortunate through charity rather than being forced to pay.
I like it. I've never actually sent a fax out in my life, but for those who have one would probably enjoy the anonymity of this.

It would be fun to read love notes, breakup letters or random hate notes this way.

Great job!
Braintree looks interesting - would I be able to get rid of Freshbooks + Authorize.Net + our merchant account with this service?

Also, is it US only?
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How so? They were negligent. Beyond that, you're also assuming the client didn't have lawyers--there's no way this contract gets signed off on without the vendor absorbing the risk.

If all the legal work was done properly, the vendor would end up in court with their insurer.
This is logically just nonsense. So the php compiles to C++ now? The devs still write in php, they don't move to another language (well they use a somewhat restricted set of php, but a lot of places do that anyway for various reasons).

It is as silly as saying anyone programming in a JVM language is just programming in Java, or anyone using a language which compiles to machine code is just using assembler. (implicitly of course!)
We tried this technique out last week for, memorizing new words on a foreign language.

The interesting thing (besides that it is working fairly good) was that you don't have to come up with your own familiar places, routes, etc, but a site can do this for you and it would still work. I can show you a new place on streetview with some visual cues and you will still remember the places there.

And it is actually easier to get started, than when you have to do that on your own.
The entire point of social networks is that they personalize the information stream that the user sees, making that information more valuable (this raises the SNR). At least that's how I see it.

I guess the ease and ubiquity of Facebook has lowered the barrier of entry to publishing content to the Internet. Consequently the average quality level of content decreases, despite its added value of being personalized.
Excellent link, thanks.

His other pages are worth a look too, you can find them in the upper-left corner under FAQ.

It is nice to see that I'm not the only hacker with an interest in video technology.
Well, it is usually in the sense that people are more likely to discuss issues they are pissed off about (proof is available of such if needed, but just think of how much more likely you are to contact a company if they pissed you off, as opposed to just marginally satisfied you). Thus, controversial issues such as this might go left undiscussed if they didn't rile a certain crowd.

That said, I'd agree that it would be better to refer to it as being 'roused' to discussion.
Seems like you wouldn't count on the TV to do this work. Instead, you'd shoot at 48, then convert to 60 before delivery, in the same way that TV shows shot on film and edited at 24p subsequently convert to 25 for PAL markets and 29.97 for NTSC.
> We're a small startup

Was the article talking about small startups? I've worked for (more than) my share of small startups - most of the "CEO"s of small startups are closer to owner/proprieters than CEOs.
You should be using key authentication anyway so that shouldn't be a problem :-)
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So I have a few app ideas I'd like to implement in the next month or so. I'd like to purchase some VPS hosting and I've heard some good things about Linode but I'm curious what other hackers/entrepreneurs are using these days. I'm hesitant to ask here because I know it's something I can research on my own but I trust the HN community more than I trust random people who leave angry reviews from 5 years ago, aka the things I find when I Google for this.
Facebook initially had many important distinctions from Myspace--exclusivity, better privacy control, and no potential for flashing neon design abortions. The first two are gone now, so I think you're pretty much right.

I do wonder if it will be replaced by another actual social network or if social networking features will be turned into a basic protocol that can be shared and distributed from any number of unrelated non-commercial servers or services.
Does the data this author provides contradict his assertions? From NLSY79 data, the gap for wealth between low to high IQ is very large compared to the gap in the Terman data where the difference is much smaller. To me, this agrees with Gladwell's conclusion that IQ above a certain point stops being very relevant in predicting wealth.
When I work on a large piece of software I use techniques like this to build a model of the software in my mind. The various layers seem like physical objects or places in my mind. It is a hard point for me to articulate but when I know a software code base really well I am able to immediately answer question about whether certain things are or are not possible. I always thought of this as the "topology" of the solution. I know that is why I have a preference for certain design decisions. Some software seems like a well designed house with layers that do one thing really well and can offer strict guarantees about the state of the system.

Sometimes I am asked to do things to the software that conjure up images of mobius strips or klein bottles and I cringe. Only because of what it is doing to my mental model.
meh...

for h in host1 host2 host3; do \
echo -e "\n$h\n===========\n"; \
ssh $h 'ln -s /some/path /path/to/link && ls -l /path/to/link'; \
done

edit: woops, left out a couple semicolons...
Do I understand correctly: With DNSSEC the bar will be raised because the registrar of a specific domain will need to be compromised to change the DNS entries? So some misc country's CA that ends up trusted for whatever reason will not be able to sign records for another TLD?
I used to feel this way, but I've had a change of heart.

Why shouldn't someone be able to express themselves by having bright pink text on a bright rainbow-unicorn background? It's not my cup of tea, but I bet it makes a bunch of people happy.

The best solution, imho, would be to have user-styles enabled by default (these could be as ridiculous as people wanted), and then having a standard site-wide mechanism for reverting to the standard style (this would also shut down any background music or videos).
Trying to find remote opportunities in today's post is difficult, since many employers put "no remote" in their posts. Same issue for H1B ("sorry no H1B at this time"). However, I'm sympathetic to employers who might not want to post in both threads if they're looking for both local and remote, and I'm all for not cluttering up the front page with too many job threads.

Perhaps we should implement a more easily-searchable remote keywords, like REMOTEOK, H1BOK, etc.
Except that, in order to be meaningful, "dangerous" must indeed be relative. Anything that happens to anyone at any time in their life is strongly correlated with death within the next 120 years, so your "absurd variant of that kind of logic" is also an absurd variant of the statement "drinking water is not dangerous."

At any rate. patio11 doesn't appear to be claiming that it would be safe if you went right up to the sun and sat there. The point he's making, AFAICT, is that the mere existence of a nuclear reaction or radiation somewhere is not cause for alarm, and can be quite beneficial. If you look at outer space and single out stellar radiation as the thing that will kill people, you must just be grinding an axe.
Do you expect people to "look into it further" with everything they think cannot be true? I would not.
Perhaps he meant "are controversial" and thus "likely to spark discussion."

If he literally meant "piss people off", then I agree with you...
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Your claim "But although the grain effect is available for digital photos, it is seldom seen." is a fallacy. I'm sure if someone wanted a grain effect in their photograph they would be more likely to actually use film rather than use a digital simulation of what film would have looked like had they chosen to do that. I don't see wide spread use of the 'water color' effect either but people still make water color pictures. It is just that they start out with water colors.

I was rebutting the claim that shooting film on celluloid would 'go away' because there were higher frame rate technologies available. I don't believe that conclusion is supported by either current or past experience the art world. It was not a 'lament', it merely challenged the reasoning that 24 fps celluloid movies would be replaced in their entirety by higher frame rate ones.
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What I said is rock solidly true. I hold a Ph.D. in operations research, was Director of Operations research for a major airline, have worked with a good list of some of the best optimization people in the world, and have attacked several challenging combinatorial optimization problems. I've seen people interested and not interested in optimization and concluded with solid evidence that in general, for the problems I mentioned, for optimization, people don't want to be bothered. Here I'm not lacking "imagination" at all. Again, operations research is a dead duck because people don't want to be bothered.

I don't know your field: If you are looking for some 'exact fit' in the sense of, say, the famous NP-complete problem SAT, then the techniques of optimization may be less powerful. But with very different techniques, there has been progress on SAT.

However there is a large body of research with some solid practical power; maybe some of this research would do well for your problems. At least get good with linear programming and, say, C-PLEX. Then look at the old Gilmore-Gomory column generation where the linear program can have many millions of columns, most not even written down yet. Look really hard at nonlinear duality theory -- for a minimization problem, the dual is always maximizing a continuous, concave function! Then look at Lagrangian relaxation. Of course, finish off with branch and bound. Look at the work at Georgia Tech of G. Nemhauser and E. Johnson. Also note: In practice, a large fraction of integer linear programming problems are in fact least cost network flow problems or closely related, and there we can get optimal solutions very quickly and integer optimal solutions for no extra cost. Look at W. Cunningham's work and also D. Bertsekas's. In general, for really large problems, there is a powerful theme: Continuous approximations work well. Your field may not have good knowledge of such work.

Besides, even if what is known is not good for your problems, history shows in solid terms that for progress on your problems, f'get about anything having to do with P versus NP. For getting the solutions you outlined, for years, P versus NP is a fool's errand.

Here I'm giving you good advice in spite of your insult.
That is a good point. We assume the radiation is from Fukushima because it's the simplest explanation for the recent increase in observed radiation.

...But if someone wanted to conduct secret nuclear testing that leaks a little fallout, this would be an ideal time.
When I tested cjson (~6 months ago?) it had bugs with escaping - strings containing quotes and/or backslashes would be encoded/decoded incorrectly. Not recommended, unless there have been fixes since then.