skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah. The hypothesis is false, but the script already has that covered via loop detection... nice :)

panhard

Auverland
Panhard

uh oh... found a loop

panhard -> auverland -> panhard.

So far the longest trail I've found, at 25 steps, was from 'ED209' via pottery, through minerals, states of matter, knowledge, finite sets, mathematics... that's one heck of a wikitrail.

[edit] Scratch that, 'Horst link' is longer via one step, going via transport, commerce, San Juan de Dios Market, Mexico, Romance languages, Precambrian, Chronology, etc...
Have you got any good advice on building passive revenue streams? I for one would love to read more about this; the only people I know doing it are really just putting out MFA pages. Actually creating software and selling it, well that's not exactly passive either :-)
It seems like it might be perfect for LivingSocial. Still far from a household name with a somewhat awkward domain name (what does living social mean?), and lots of cash. I think they'd be happy to rebrand as social.com.
By extension, you also will always end up at ...
Existence
Sense
Organism
Biology
Natural_science
Science
Knowledge
Fact
Information
Finite_set
Mathematics
Quantity
Property_(philosophy)
Modern_philosophy
Ha, they posted the instructions for the different OSes (but Linux) here: http://heartbeat.skype.com/2011/05/problems_signing_into_sky...

I wonder if all users will have to do that, because it would be a huge pain.
'Celebrity spokesperson'?
I've gone back to the standard desktop on Ubuntu 11.04, because the Unity UI is everything I despised (and disabled) in Windows 7.

I don't want a damned cell phone UI on my laptop or desktop, and I sure as hell don't want a damned web browser as my desktop UI. My computers aren't "appliances".
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So is "Potato" and "Caen", and the majority of other things I tried. For Godwin points, "Hitler" is only 14 steps.
I don't think it works correctly though... it uses "Author" as the first link whereas the first link in the text of the article is "webcomic" ("Author" is in the summary pannel on the side)

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Xkcd
Interesting stuff, but I'd really like to know the before-and-after numbers. You've talked about a lot of optimisations, and metrics, but how much did the optimisations actually optimise your workflow according to the metrics?

Lots of good advice, nonetheless - and an actual reason to look at using Vim!
Because having Twitter followers and some cash doesn't make you a tech expert, and the media loves to portray him as both that and a social media guru.

Furthermore, there's a big difference between making an investment and "joining the team."
It seems to take a while to search; are you querying wikipedia each step instead of a DB snapshot?
Would definitely be interesting, given that they do live.com, docs.com, and office.com.

(is there something else that I'm missing out on..?)
What about Bruce Willis?
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If you ignore it, it will disappear.
The same happens for cities or locations, where there is usually a "Coordinates" in the upper right corner. Still, I did it manually in text bodies, and you eventually end up to Science or Mathematics, which leads to Philosophy.
Wait... is this a novelty account on HN? I feel like I've just seen the first horseman of the apocalypse.
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But... it's useful. :o
Downgrading to Skype 4.2 seems to solve it. http://blog.alertfox.com/2011/05/mysterious-skype-crash-down...
Nice tool :-) It seems to also take words between parentheses though I think. For example on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland I would expect it to follow European not Icelandic.
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I think this is pretty much spot-on. I've always called it 'removing the pain-points' because any time I get sick of something, I automate it. Sometimes that's after 3 times, and sometimes it's 100. But if I start to hate it, I automate it.

I do choose to remove some of the pain points differently, though.

I write things in the newest languages at home, rather than at work. Anything I do at work should be re-usable by anyone on the team, and that's hard if it's in some fancy new language that nobody else has looked into yet.

Rather than sort through email manually, I set up filters. Then I scan the subjects of all the new emails in that tag, read the ones that are important, and then mark the rest read all at once. (I don't have to archive because I set my filtered email to never hit the in-box.) GMail has some nice shortcuts as he noted. I use this to mark all unread messages as read: UIN (Select all unread, mark read, unselect.)

I also streamline anything I'm asked to do repeatedly, like add new fields to a form. I know I'm going to be asked to do this constantly, so now it's just a matter of adding a little metadata and the rest happens automatically.

And I also put everything I can into the hands of others, so long as it doesn't involve changing code. If there's a list of Titles that change a lot, I give the ability to change them to whoever requests it. (Business rules are what stop them anyhow, not me.) Then I don't have to do that any more. (That's rather simplistic, but I can't give more elaborate examples for fear of breaking my NDA.)
This image shows how things end up in Philosophy, by XKCD forumite arotenbe: http://forums.xkcd.com/download/file.php?id=29727&mode=v...

Looking at these stats shows how viral this meme/trivia got:

http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Philosophy

http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Mathematics

http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Reason

I posted these stats on a FB status a couple of days ago because of the sudden spike. Now that sudden spike looks small compared to today's sudden spike. Funny how there's different levels of viral, almost akin to different levels of infinite. What would happen if this hit mainstream media?
Something to keep in mind with Tufte's ideas is that, while he has many wonderful ways of thinking about visualizing data, often it's hard to generalize his concepts into a simple set of general purpose visualizations, suitable for use on a variety of problems. Instead, you find yourself seeking to find a way to display data in as "Tufte" a way as possible, which more of than not means a discrete visualization for every kind of data you have.

This becomes a problem in data visualization software, where the number of data visualizations is far less than the number of possible datasets of interest. So many datasets will tend to map to very few visualizations: bar chart, scatter chart, both with a time series, relatively uncomplex graphs of low connectivity density, etc.

You can see Tufte has this problem himself, with his singular "invention" the sparkline really just being a form of a tiny time series line graph. Which is cool, but it's not particularly earth shattering.

My takeaway has always been to be mindful of Tufte's analysis, but don't be slavish to it unless you can produce a unique visualization for each kind of data.
As a wealthy individual, my rights would seem more protected with a luxury hotel than a short-term house rental.

Does airbnb indemnify property owners from lawsuits by renters of their homes? If Ashton, slips in a beautiful private mansion's wet marble floor and shatters his hip, who is liable? The mansion owner? Airbnb?

In the hotel situation, the hotel is a business and has insurance to protect from such catastrophes.
Too bad there's no Philosophy in http://xkcd.com/435/
"Beans" is 28 steps..
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I think this used to be called celebrity endorsement.
I have more respect for Donald Trump than Mark Cuban.
OTOH this makes TS videos even worse.
30 for "Howard Hughes"

uh oh... found a loop

mathematics -> quantity -> property_(philosophy) -> modern_philosophy -> western_europe -> europe -> continent -> landmass -> landform -> earth_sciences -> science -> knowledge -> fact -> information -> finite_set -> mathematics.
> The differences between Android/Dalvik and Oracle/JVM are few and far between (that's why they're getting sued :P)

Not really. They are being sued because it's a threat to Oracle's control of Java. Dalvik may very well look a lot like JVM, but reason alone doesn't have any influence on Oracle's legal department.
Ironically, it doesn't work from "Spark Plug".
http://codebiatch.com/ .. the file is still uploading if it's not in there yet. Good luck with your project!
If there's any interest I'll happily do a more in-depth follow-up post with my specific numbers and scripts. My metrics (bugs fixed, commits made, functions changed) all jumped by roughly a factor of 10. Yes, really.
I went to VIM because of the powerful things you could do. Search and replace is usually tedious on IDEs, involving windows that popup and disappear, and retyping things a lot. Experimentation on changing is usually quite time-consuming.

With VIM, you try it, and if it doesn't work, a single keystroke gets you back where you were and a couple more retrieves the last thing you tried, which you can edit.

Similarly, moving or changing chunks of text is much easier on VIM than any IDE I've ever found.

And finally, you can have all that power on any system. I've yet to find a server that didn't at least have VI, and usually VIM.
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Excellent. Saved me some clicking resulting in more efficient use of procrastination time!

I hit loops a few times - you could drop to the second link in those cases instead of stopping completely.
Sponsored celebrity tweets can be obtained for a fairly reasonable fee.
F-111 is 45 steps.
It seems to be taking the right panel first. Same thing happened to me with Trade[1], leaded to San Juan de Dios Market

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buying
How did they come up with the estimate? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eixjRLlvtk (full documentary can be found on YouTube)

Having had some business interests in the same region I can tell you from first-hand experience that people like the Russian gentleman living in France are VERY common.

Lots of criminals with business interests are considered to be businessmen.
My gf and I just found an amazing place in SF for only 60 bucks a night, right on golden gate park. It was 10x better than anything we could have gotten for even $200 a night at a hotel. Don't write off the site because of one bad experience.
Moved shared.xml out of the way, everything works again, thank you!
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How can we corral data to reveal the big picture?
This could use some CSS - its amazing how much that impacts on feeling the material is high quality/correct/still valid.
Post-Soviet countries tend to be more corrupt than other Western countries. (see the nice gradient on the corruption map you linked)
Wow, ok -- I thought I was crazy for about 40 minutes this morning as I tried launching Skype on 4 of my computers (2 Windows 7 machines, 1 Ubuntu machine, and 1 MacBook Pro). It crashed within seconds on each and every one.

It's good to know it wasn't just me.

BTW, thanks to those of you who posted potential fixes.
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Oh, right - you can vary the shape of the diagonal lines, provided each "arm" has rotational symmetry about its mid-point.

OK, so we've got three infinite families and the trivial solution (only one piece - is that your sporadic solution?). I think that might be all: each piece can contain 4, 2, 1 or 1/2 of the original square's corners, since (lacuna) all pieces must contain the same number of corners and further subdividing the corners (into 1/3s, say) would mean some pieces don't touch the centre (another lacuna).
So, a better HN post title may be: Wired article implants false memories of what actually happens study.
While (I believe) you're right about Apple adding the 3D cube effect for multiple logins, X was explicitly designed to allow multiple concurrent users on the same machine. While many Linux distros did not have that configured by default in the early days, some did and it was certainly doable on the rest.

(That's one of the things that display managers like xdm/gdm/kdm do -- handle starting and stopping of X servers for user logins.)
Wow, someone just modified Modern Philosophy (now first link is Western Europe), Science and/or Knowledge pages, which makes most previously things tried by me kick into a 25 loop. I'm wondering if it's intentional.
While I was serving in my country's army, I had access to both night vision and thermal goggles. When I asked about their costs they told me that although most of the components (lenses, energy units & wiring etc) were produced locally, the chips that converted light & thermal signatures to vision were imported, and they cost a lot. So they're probably the reason that makes these equipment so costly.
Modern Philosophy now goes to Western Europe rather than Philosophy. And since everything seems to go through that, nothing will reach philosophy anymore.
Many of these ideas are already present in picolisp
I guess I was approaching it from a technical debunking perspective, but what you say makes a lot of sense. I'll ponder this.
It isn't that he is a celebrity, it is that he is Ashton Kutcher (Michael Kelso).

This isn't Natalie Portman we are talking about....

or even Dolph Lundgren:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolph_Lundgren#Education
The only issue that requires proof is identity.
Once established then is it really necessary that this man go through an expensive trial and subsequent imprisonment?
I think he should be publicly executed in Srebrenica. Wouldn't that send out a better message to others tempted to follow a similar path than the courtof justice does?
Today, coincidentally, is the anniversary of the last public execution in England
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He cherry picked on example of an industry (drugs) that is illegal. You can do thousands of other things, but becuase 1 is illegal we are going to equate the two? That is patently absurd.

Whether you believe drugs should be legal or not has absolutely no impact on what a poor example this was. Next are you going to argue that since America bans Doctors from providing assisted suicide we don't have a country open to entrepreneurship?

Unless we have anarchy, some things will be illegal. We still have a free market/capitalist society. I don't think you can be a pot dealer and act shocked, SHOCKED! when the police come knocking at your door and arrest you. Everyone knows it is illegal, and it is illegal in nearly all forms. Whether that is a good or bad decision is besides the point. Now, if I made an iPhone app and the police came knocking at the door, I would truly be shocked.

That is a completely different scenario than all businesses breaking some laws and the constant threat of police locking you up no matter what industry you are in. It's the difference between living in a society where you go to jail for grand theft auto (obviously illegal) and one where you can go to jail for vague reasons at the whim of the state (did you even do anything illegal?).

Put it in perspective, the guy in the BBC story sold milk.
In the final screenshot, I wonder how Sophos think that the unsophisticated user is supposed to figure out which of the two scare boxes claiming to have detected malware is lying, and which is telling the truth?
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"Gut feeling" is not intended to be a source of evidence, here -- he's trying to describe a sensation that the audience feels. The sensation that, "this isn't as good as it used to be, but I don't know why."

He's proposing that the cause (or at least, one possible cause) of that "gut feeling" is that movies are poorly lit.
Looking at that file, I see another case of severe XML misuse. If you have that amount of binary data to store, you probably shouldn't be using XML.
But there's a high cost to this kind of "usefulness".
While there are many choices that all people make in the sphere of sexuality, choosing who lights your fire is not one of them. I can no more choose to find men sexually attractive than I can choose to not find sugar sweet.
Or, in other terms: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/hgkdl/mindblown/c1v8fy...
Why is it weird? All the 'piracy' or lack of quality content has led to decreased profits through traditional movie and music products.

Did you know 50 Cent publishes a series of ghostwritten fiction books available on Amazon.com(http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_nr_p_n_feature_browse...
)?

..or his Twitter pump-and-dump for OTC penny stocks?

These celebrities have a certain lifestyle to maintain and need to keep the cash-flow up.
Totally -- but it takes balls to acknowledge that. I'd certainly feel betrayed if I had been a loyal SproutCore user: templates for the user interface is almost a complete 180° from the prior gospel.

But from an outside perspective, I think this could make SC truly competitive, and that's going to be a good thing for JavaScript-heavy web apps in general.
An article[1] from the Xamuel.com's blog predates the xkcd stripe by a few days and states the sames things but with mathematics instead of philosophy. Also their's some fun with second links.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2573038
Other great blog post on the same subject: http://timothyfitz.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/cycle-eaters/
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Strange, it did for me yesterday.

Edit: Modern Philosophy seems to be missing the link to Philosophy, which should be there according to the edit history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Modern_philosophy&...).
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Somewhat OT, did they do that thing yet where they were going to synthesize his voice from past reviews?

I'm very curious to hear that.

Haven't been to the movies in years but last few times I was there what really drove me crazy was the messed up sound - way too loud and the quality sucked. If the picture is also poor now, well I guess I am staying home and waiting for the bluray release. Everything is out on disc for rental in less than six months now, not a big wait.
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Most things were getting stuck in a loop around "Indo-European languages" last time I checked. Someone is definitely playing silly buggers.

I was tempted to see whether I could somehow engineer an all-roads-lead-to-goatse situation, but I couldn't think of a plausible pathway.
You don't reach Philosophy from Philosophy.
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"its nut a bug, its a feature", right?
Valleywag's take on Ashton and Demi:
http://gawker.com/5793552/ashton-and-demi-are-the-horsemen-o...
I thought it was an excellent summary. What kind of cost do you perceive/predict?
Maybe that's the secret strategy.
Last time I downloaded Wikipedia, it was 4.5GB. If I were to knock up this hack, I would definitely scrape pages instead.
I think you're nit-picking at my choice of words a little too much rather than the points I was trying to make. For instance, when I said Scala was not worthy of your criticisms, I meant in effect, your comments aren't accurate! :-)

I can understand your criticism of well-defined ground rules. In Scala, it always feels like there are multiple good ways to accomplish a task. But I don't think that is necessarily a terrible thing.

Also, I disagree with your comment on OO and FP being at odds with each other. OO is at its hard encapsulated message passing. One of the things you can do with that is manage state, but that is NOT what OO is about. OO and FP can actually go very well together.

A great example of this is the Scala collections library. The OO features of Scala have allowed the language designers to create some powerful abstractions on functional data structures that makes the them a real pleasure to use. I haven't seen a collections library I like better than the one found in Scala.
I had to remove the file from the server because of bandwidth issues.
I obliged you with a downvote.

Almost the entire article is devoted to explaining that there is an empirical (the word I think you intended when you used "pragmatic"? not sure) degradation in film projection and why that is.

He then relates that to the comments he's had on his blog and in email about how movies look better on blu-ray than at the theater, as well as other comments from professional movie critics. This doesn't seem unreasonable at all.

I'd like to hear more about your contentions with the article, because I don't really see how what you wrote corresponds to what Ebert wrote.
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thanks. that helps explain why many people i know who are vocal fans of his work produce such poor interfaces - there is nothing simple for them to learn from in a constructive way.
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"This guy seems too intelligent to buy into half-assed argumentation of this kind - so what makes him write it?"

He's a Mormon! Two of the core dogmas of that religion are that (1) procreation is a duty, and (2) raising children well in a family is a duty. What you have to understand is that Mormons have remarkably low hypocrisy and cynicism. They give a lot of public lip service to procreation and family values, and then they go home, when nobody is looking, and make lots of babies and raise big families.

So they take it rather personally when a fringe political group (the tiny but loud homosexual lobby) tries to indoctrinate kindergartners that "it's my body and I can do whatever feels good", or hands out fisting kits in high schools. Mormons don't object to this because they are so fearful that their minds are diseased (phobic), but rather out of the belief that those activities do not make a strong basis for a society. (And they have a point. San Francisco's inverted population pyramid has even the secular authorities alarmed. If SF wasn't fascinating enough to attract enough a flood of immigrants, it would be Detroit with queers.)

Mormons are also very big on conscious self control of all appetites and lusts in the service of long-term goals. They don't just say "smoking is bad, mmmkay", they don't smoke. (The tobacco lobby does not diagnose this as the disease of tobaccophobia and hold My Lungs, My Choice rallies.) I suspect that this is the actual reason the Mormons and queers are so allergic to each other: the Mormons tend toward a very low time preference (long planning horizon) and the queers a high time preference (live in the moment). It is almost a law of nature that someone with high time preference will throw a hissy fit when lectured on moral choice by someone with low time preference.