skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are looking at a time-based analysis of the monthly means of PG and the HN community. The null hypothesis is that the slope of a regression line should be 0. Since we are dealing with a time-based analysis of the mean, the variance of each bucket is irrelevant. I re-ran the analysis to make sure that my results were statistically significant:

Anxiety/Confidence
PG: p <= 0.0007
HN: p <= 0.0001

Hostility/Compassion
PG: p <= 0.0005
HN: p <= 0.0001

Depression/Happiness
PG: p <= 0.0067
HN: p <= 0.0001

Note that for the HN comments, even though I used a 2nd order (parabola) fit for the graphs, the p values above are for a linear regression as that is the more appropriate fit for determining statistical significance here.
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I'd be interested to see a write-up on everything you had to do to set that up. Does that allow you to both send and receive calls to standard POTS lines, and can you still use the Google Voice service with your SIP connection to handle things like text messaging, voicemail, etc?
aah.. sort of like the credit crunch then.. it kind of feels counter intuitive because the usual cycle would be:
a) credit crunch with loss of demand leading to deflation
b) governments pump money
c) money loses value pushing inflation higher..
d) Governments try hiking rates and pull back money..

But some how in this case it seems the order is all jumbled up..
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That is quite interesting.

Nginx? cough
I am one who can also get easily distracted by going to other sites. Usually an article like the one posted here would take me about 25 minutes to read because I'd switch tabs after about the first two paragraphs. The only thing that has helped me is if I can catch myself switching tabs. I think it's kind of "retraining your brain."

There are other techniques that you can try, such as having three computers in separate rooms. One is for your work, another is for play (slashdot, TechCrunch, etc) and the last one is for communication (email, Facebook, twitter, etc) although those could fit under play as well.

ADHD drugs work great (specifically Concerta) but the side effects can be quite bothersome.
Yep, keep 'em spatially oriented.

Another strategy is to screw them back in, lightly, into the same holes they came out of (after removing the thing they were holding down of course). Not practical with a lot of gear though.
You are making a huge leap from "this is an effective method of birth control" to "people will use this". See the movie Idiocracy. (actually just see the opening bit.)
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Favicons: This is by far my favorite feature of modern browsers, and I in no way apologize for loving them. They make bookmarks actually useful for sites you visit regularly. Take a look at my bookmark bar: [1] The favicons allow me to fit all of the links I visit regularly in one easily accessible, compact place. I don't care if they look "tacky", they're incredibly useful.

[1]http://min.us/l5aGM
Yeah... this one threw me for a loop while I was reading the post... then I realized it. In OS X the whole top of the window is a continuous gradient (all the way from the top edge to the bottom of the primary toolbar). So the OP's complaint appears to be that that the Chrome window renders as though it's in Window/Linux instead of Mac OS X even though it has the brushed aluminum look. This also goes for the "Non-native behavior, Native look" point. In OS X you can drag from anywhere on the gradient, while in Chrome it just "looks" like it's doing shiny Cocoa things.
Exactly. I've seen the GUI wget example held up as a bad example [1] before, but I've never seen anyone try to produce a "good" wget interface.

[1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/11/this-is-what-happen...
I see the lack of mental arithmetic ability all the time when scuba diving. There are many experienced divers who are totally dependent on wrist computers or pre-calculated tables, and can't do simple things like figuring out decompression schedules or gas consumption rates in their heads. If you have a good sense of numbers then it's really easy to do these things in your head after you memorize a few simple rules. Yet so many divers think it's some kind of black magic, or even that it's somehow "dangerous" to make your own calculations.
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In terms of culture and lifestyle, yeah. Many people call Miami "the Capital of Latin America." Buenos Aires is not particularly representative of Latin America, it's more like a hybrid between LatAm and Europe (you probably agree).

In terms of economic stability, Miami is still part of the US so it's less risky for running a business. Not the greatest place for a startup, but a good compromise for someone who wants to travel to South America frequently.
"AdGrok is a departure from this logic. Why did Twitter buy AdGrok (other then the stellar team)?"

Probably for the stellar team.
"Dr. Volkow said that the latest research is preliminary and
does not address questions about cancer or other heath issues"
Kragen, I agree it is much more Latin American in the social aspect, but definitely not in the way of doing business and it is much safer to live in as well.
Pretty much nothing works if it's done badly. many things work if they're done well. I claim that when done well, exercising skills by hand that can be done by the computer yields insight in some cases.

the fact that when done badly it rarely yields insight does not necessarily mean it shouldn't be done.

I'm about to make a sweeping generalisation.

The problem is virtually no one in the world can teach math properly. Those who love teaching kids usually hate math and transfer their lack of skills and negative attitude. Those who really, really understand math are usually the type of people who would never teach 3, 4, 5 year olds.

People end up doing math despite the system, rather than because of it. They can usually point to one specific inspirational teacher. My specific inspirational teacher gave me lots of mind-numbing exercises and helped me find the insights.

Rote learning of mechanical processes will rarely, of itself, lead to anything other than a hatred of math and a lack of understanding about what math is. Repetition of mechanical processes, guided by someone who really understands stuff, and asks prompting questions, can lead to discoveries and genuine excitement and engagement - I've seen it happen.

How will we ever get really good math teachers?

There I have no answer.
Good research. I don't think this is anything new. I'm familiar with a few YC companies that use CL as a method to get their supply (in this case vacation rentals).
I see. And this is really frustrating unless you change the mindset to take everyday that is gained as a little victory for patients to enjoy life. But for patients of terminal cancers, the quality of life only deteriorates.

Having seen both my parents suffered terminal cancers and passed away, I think any economical way that can make people living to the end without losing quality of life is more important than prolonging life. And IMHO that is a very tough problem to work on.
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Every broken js-only resource is a step backwards towards the client-server hell the web delivered us from, with siloed content that can't be repurposed because there's only one hunk of client code that even knows how to access it. No progressive enhancement support is a severe limitation for any web framework to have, and should at least be disclosed to potential authors if you aren't going to fix it.
I see your point about #3, but to be honest, I've been using Chrome since v1 and I have never once had this be an issue. Not a single time. There is simply never a case where what I'm searching for is in the very top right 10 pixels of a page. In your github example, why would you ever be searching for "dashboard", "inbox", "account settings", or "log out"?

Also I don't really understand your complaint about the bookmarks bar. Why do you have it up at all if you don't like the UI? If I want to go to a bookmarked page, I hit ctrl-shift-b to bring up the bar or, much more often, I open a new tab. I think the thing that separates Chrome from other browsers is the huge content real estate, and keeping the bookmarks bar up there takes away from this in a big way.
I had the same problem with all of my development. My ideas blended local & the web so much and the iOS APIs delineate this so much, it just seemed counter-productive to go through so many hoops. Android has no such BS.
Realizing not everything Google puts in Patents ends up in search, I think I still don't believe you.

http://www.xyhd.tv/2011/05/industry-news/search-engine-optim...
This generation gap doesn't exist in the sciences and engineering, IMO.

For example, even the crappiest students in my class (in Physics) knew how to do a taylor expansion to approximate the sine of something, and they knew power series and all sorts of other stuff. You have to know how in order to simplify algebra in many cases.

If there is a generation gap, it's because professors aren't strict enough and unwavering on their decisions to not use calculators, or the courses aren't doing hard enough algebra and calculus to really merit not using a calculator. When you get into the really hard stuff, not even Maple can help you half the time.
Before the 19th century, gold was used for a very important purpose: money. Money is a commodity just like any other, and some things make better monies than others.

What are some characteristics of a good money?

It's divisible. 1 oz. of gold is equal to two 1/2 oz. of gold. Two halves of a diamond are not equal to the intact whole.

It's fungible. Gold coins of the same weight are, for all intents and purposes, the same. The same cannot be said of diamonds or oil.

It resists deterioration/decomposition. (Self-explanatory).

Its rarity/weight/volume characteristics are manageable. You can buy an iPad with a reasonably sized gold coin. The same could not be said of bushels of wheat, lead, stone, oil, etc.

It is relatively easy to identify. This provides anti-counterfeit measures out of the box.

I'm not a gold bug (I own zero gold... not even jewelry), but I do appreciate that it makes complete and total sense that it was used for money for thousands of years. Should 1 oz. of gold be worth $1500? I don't know; I don't follow the market. I do know that gold is extremely valuable due to how well it serves as a medium of exchange, and due to that fact alone.

tl;dr Gold has intrinsic value: it makes a good medium of exchange.
Correct, however the Bitcoin website has an answer for that: upgrade. The cryptographic methods are not fixed for all time, we can switch to other methods (which are quantum-resistant) when it becomes necessary.
Well, who's the user?
I read this book and although I enjoyed it and found it interesting, I think that the author undervalues the importance of innate talent. According to the author, almost everybody can become great at anything given the right motivation, hard-work, and coaching. I find this principle wrong, based on what I've heard experienced coaches say, and my own experience through 19 years of schooling. In other words, a lot of (non-scientific) evidence suggests that great performers have above average innate abilities in what they do. These abilities are common in the population but in no way general to most people. So, those born with the "extra" in a particular field, paired with great couches, family support, and an emotional fabric that keeps them focused for a long time, will have the chance of making it to the highest.

(I have a friend that thinks otherwise and I tell him: "Remember when you were in first grade, try to remember your classmates, what percentage of them could have become Nobel Prize winners in Physics given the right nurturing conditions?". According to the author of this book, almost all of them)
Thanks for this interesting analysis.

I would challenge the assumption that the symptoms of SND include a decrease in the positive emotion measured in the average HN comment.

Is it not possible that there is a growing segment of the HN user base which posts and enjoys the kind of comment that induces negative sentiment in people like pg? Would that not raise the sentiment of the average HN comment, while at the same time lowering the sentiment of the average "good old days" user?
Wait. Chording is bad? But I use EMACS... How else will I type command-control-meta x?
The solution: divide the community to more specialized subgroups. That's what http://textchannels.com is doing
At the time I posted (before the "dupe" was later posted), the article headline reflected an earlier article (the same URL) about the WHO to report its findings later in the day. My title was reflective of the CNN news alert, and I had no possible way to know what the original title would be.

From the article:

"Radiation from cell phones can possibly cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization. The agency now lists mobile phone use in the same "carcinogenic hazard" category as lead, engine exhaust and chloroform."

As you might notice, that's far too long for a title. Since there are char limits on titles, its up to us to create one. I read the above as "Radiation is the same or similar to other things in the same category, such as lead, engine exhaust, and chloroform".

No need to police this.
"Cloud computing is new, but it's not mysterious"
None of that's really surprising, it's pretty obvious they're just pandering most of the time with all the fluff pieces they churn out.

But still sad to see it confirmed right from the top.
But if you're searching for specific content it seems to fall into two categories:

A) The content _is_ the UI element that's being covered and the search box moves out of the way.

B) The content _is not_ the UI element that's being covered and you are looking to find something else on the page.

I don't leave the "Find on Page" box open when I'm normally using a page. So when searching I'm not really interacting with that UI, and when not searching it isn't being obstructed... so does this really constitute a UX issue?
I was thinking more along the lines of what the total cost might be. There's about a trillion dollars worth of cash circulating, but since it's not all ones we can't just multiply a trillion by $0.042.

In any case, it sounds like the bitcoin cost might be in a similar neighborhood to paper costs.
I suspect Apple will charge a flat rate for iCloud and allocate the royalties proportionally (like Spotify). From the customer's point of view it will be "free" to sync their music into iCloud, but the labels will get paid (again).
Continuing assault on the address bar. (First they came for "http", then they came for me.)

Could you please explain why this is an issue to you?
> All I know is that for something to be true OO it has to have objects with identities. I was told so. ;)

Well, you were told wrong things :-)
Idiocracy isn't exactly based on fact. (It's an OK movie though.) For one thing, there's no evidence, that I know of, that supports the claim that only "smart" parents have smart children, or that smart parents don't have dumb children, or that dumb parents don't have smart children, and so on.

Although genetics likely plays some role in "natural" intelligence, it's far from a simple hereditary relationship, and there's increasing evidence that the bulk of natural intelligence is actually the result of environmental factors during early child development.
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In the same way the car industry harms the industries that could use all that oil we burn in our cars...

Using gold as a store of value is useful, otherwise we wouldn't do it.
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Adding to other comments. Make sure it didn't break. You can try blowing air inside to see. If it broke use an emergency contraceptive.
> Also, as someone else said, where are the error bars? If there really is a correlation between word choice and other metrics, then some simple statistics should give you error bars on your other metrics, right?

Please see my response to the original question about this. [1]

"That joke kills me!" vs. "I'm going to kill you!" (corrected grammar as we do not usually focus on slang)

They do not score exactly the same, though they are both very high on anxiety, hostility, and depression. The former has high marks for happiness and compassion due to the word "joke" being used.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2603946
You do use one of the services, we pull info from (HN) ;)

Thanks for the feedback, though. If you ever do start using the other sites, please consider signing up on workforpie to it a spin.
Big names in the cloud doesn’t necessarily mean big value
I am using MongoHQ to get up and running.

The recommended setup for deploying MongoDB on EC2 is a little too much overhead right now and I am not a sysadmin. If everything is going well and I start to notice performance issues on MongoHQ, I will move off to managing MongoDB myself.
That's very sensible actually, but how do you explain the free cost of automatically generated CRUD and admin panels?
Worst of all is that closing the downloads bar actually makes the browser window smaller!

It actually doesn't -- or at least, it doesn't seem to on the Dev Channel or Canary. If there's enough screen real estate, the downloads panel grows out of the bottom of the window, and shrinks away when dismissed. The viewport retains the same dimensions before and after.

If there isn't enough space below the window, the panel does indeed overlay the bottom ~47px of content, but in that case, dismissing it doesn't change the size of the window, restoring the viewport to its previous size.

That's the most frustrating thing about Chrome: it's inconsistently polished, and in many cases, it feels like its relationship to ChromeOS is akin to the tail wagging the dog.
Not sure I agree with the sequencing. The basic message is that designing your presentation with the expected viewer in mind is really important. For code, it's designing it such that another programmer can grok it easily. For an interface, it's an end user.

To that end, I think it's a good thing that we recognize these are different roles. The fact that each role has a different set of audiences means they can specialize in catering to those audiences, which improves effectiveness. The issue is when we DON'T recognize the difference and try to lump them together.
Honestly, this post leads me to believe you don't really understand how characters work, and have just gotten lucky so far. Do you really think it's acceptable to accept input, process it, and end up with REPLACEMENT CHARACTER because your string handling got fucked up? Sure, it's valid UTF-8, but it's the Wrong Answer.

Plain and simple: by not handling Unicode, you are not handling Unicode. Echoing back UTF-8 when you get UTF-8 input is handling binary, not handling text. Yes, I know this works for your particular application, but it not correct in general. It won't work at all if you ever have any data sources or sinks that are not UTF-8, and it won't work if you actually have to treat the data as text ("match all characters that are whitespace").

Yes, some PHP functions take binary blobs that contain UTF-8 octets and return correct-looking answers. That's all they do, though; that's handling UTF-8, not handling Unicode.

In Perl, characters are abstracted away from their character encoding. Perl strings are not UTF-8 or Latin-1 or anything; they are character strings. That makes producing correct results much easier; if you try to write a Perl character to a file, it will say, "hey, you can't expose characters to the outside world, you need to pick a character encoding, encode, and output that". Your PHP method just assumes everything is UTF-8, which is simply not a safe assumption to make.

(Consider the case of binary data: if you start treating binary data like it's UTF-8 text, you break the binary data.)

Also, regarding LANG, yes, that will change your terminal's encoding. So if you take one of your UTF-8 blobs and print it when the LANG is en_US.UTF-8, it will show up. But change the locale to en_US.ISO-8859-1, and it doesn't work anymore. That's because you can't just print binary blobs to the terminal and expect it to interpret that as text.
I like setlocale() as a central knob that other functions obey. Works a-OK for me on several different websites. Normally my website's code starts with platform defaults, reads configuration early on, and, if need be, issues setlocale(). Should an error be triggered before the config is applied, it would be handled with default locales; I believe that's the only noticeable downside. Hopefully a rare one ;-)

setlocale() can be switched at run-time, even multiple times if you want. You could imagine running most of the code with user's preferred locale to output UI or report any errors, switching to another locale to format and send message to a foreign customer, and then back to normal settings to continue with outputing UI, all in one pass of PHP.
My bookmarks bar looks quite similar. In fact, this is the main reason I'm using Chrome instead of Safari, though I really like the new features in Lion and therefore think about a new way to organize my bookmarks.
What jumps out at me is that the community curves all peak in the months following May 2009, which is when the stock market bottomed. The community was least happy when the economy was at it's "darkest before the dawn" moment.

In other words, I wonder if these graphs are just tracking general sentiment, and would look the same for any site.
What did he build other than BrainQuicken?
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Good read, although, I wouldn't necessarily consider advertising your services to people already listing vacation rentals as "blackhat".

Blackhat insinuates that someone is being gamed, in this case, both the home owners and AirBnB are benefiting (maybe craigslist is losing out?).
The bigger problem is that it can capture air as the condom is being put on. The pressure from that captured air increases the risk of breakage. Ergo, 'proper' application involves pinching the reservoir tip as the condom is being rolled on.
You're assuming the owner has to be willing to draw. They don't-- it's the diffused cultural knowledge that someone might be carrying concealed

I've heard it say that in Miami the criminals concentrate on tourists because locals might be carrying. But despite some of the most pro-gun laws, Florida is not exactly known as a low crime rate state.

And paradoxically, many states with strong laws against guns have lower crime rates that many strongly pro-gun states.

I'm pro concealed carry myself, but do not think the real world evidence supports a connection between that and lower crime rates. Perhaps if some place has a sudden radical change in gun policy some data can be extrapolated?

Similarly, it's not like in violent hell holes around the word almost everybody isn't carrying and still getting robbed and killed.
I posted something similar about Whrrl when they were purchased by Groupon and basically said "see ya" to users.

I too find this trend a little unsettling.
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But that kind of negates the whole attractive sales point of "your whole music collection INSTANTLY ONLINE!"

I think wmf might be onto it. It could be a subscription thing. But as someone highly rated noted above, this whole iCloud thing might just be the developer's platform at this point in time (it is WWDC, after all), and the music stuff comes later in the fall with the iPod cycle.