skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The various feynman "fun to imagine" videos, one of which is linked by the answerer, are amazing. I advise you to watch all of them as soon as you can. They're all up on youtube as linked on stackexchange, or you can see them on the BBC's site here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/feynman/

Also, feynman's explanation is much more intuitive and more easily understood than the one given on stackexchange. As you might imagine. Also it comes replete with the inevitable feynman tales of intellectual dickswinging that we have all come to know and love.
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nice try, feynman
Something must be there in their product that everyone is willing to pay top dollar. And these are all smart people who are ready to pay btw, not any average joe investor
works on my iPad and iPhone with iOS 4.
Mirror's don't flip left and right. We implicitly compare a mirror image to the original by rotating the object, and naturally we maintain top/bottom orientation, this gives the appearance of "flipping" the object left to right. However, if you use vertical rotation to super-impose the object on its mirror image you'll see that it seems to have been flipped top-to-bottom instead.
> Now he's pushing a technology that indeed looks as if it belongs in 1999, as though he's completely oblivious to the ongoing evolution of HTML5 and Javascript

I don't think you looked very closely at CDF. It looks like it has a very large fraction of Mathematica in the player. You aren't going to get anywhere close to what you can do in CDF via HTML5 and JavaScript without a truly ungodly amount of work, and it would still be unusable for many things due to performance issues.
Congrats to the Fridge team on being hired by Google!
The world IS out to get the DPRK. They just propose different reasons then we do, apparently we don't like their freedoms and are terrified of the Juche idea. We say we don't like them because they execute minors, the mentally retarded, start wars, proliferate nuclear weapons, maintain torture camps, and jail large amounts of their populations for personal choice issues, and refuse to sign simple treaties like land mine bans.

I'm not saying the DPRK is good, I don't think they are. Just remember that gov't will give you whatever reasons you need to support whatever they want to do no matter how silly or tenuous the connection is.
Well lets be frank here. Yes, other governments are worse then our own (US) government. Yes, the governments dealings generally negatively effect much less of the US population then most really realize. That all said, the United States of America is supposed to be the best, most fair, most democratic and most self governed (by the people.) This just isn't the case anymore, what with the massive amount of people we have compared to what we had when the founding fathers first drafted our governing systems, the ridiculously up and down economic situations we seem to get ourselves into (by the way this ones just as much the people's fault as the governments. If you don't believe me start spending your money better and you soon realize life isn't that hard on a low income.) and our biggest fault of all, arrogance in thinking we have it right and trying to enforce our democratic ways(that obviously aren't working.) on other people, wasting valuable money and resources we could be using for say, better education, better public transport or maybe even leveraging technology to alleviate common problems. (that's an entirely different subject I won't get into.)

In Summary, we (the American government and people to an extent) think we are better, our hubris is our downfall and we use the excuse of we aren't as bad as A to justify an act of B. Sure North Korea's government is straight up tyrannical, but we aren't the best, if we were this wouldn't be happening.
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I guess that explains the valuation.
> I guessed in this case

With the amount of travelling that investors do these days, I'd be surprised if they could be caught at any time inside their home timezone. We also have internal people strung out from Korea to Hawaii, so we all use EST to time our calls with the market. For us, it's proven to be easier than a timezone back-and-forth. My two ♙.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted, I agree with you that the touch interface is probably the largest leap technologically that the iPhone presented to the market.

Modal interface, nothing that needed a stylus, intelligent button centering, usable gestures. It all added up to a very usable package. The stylus-based phones were just so unusable to me.
Right. It was just a randomly chosen example. Perhaps it was a poor one.

I'm aware of the size of the Brassica genus and the B. oleracea species in particular. I was not, however, trying to make the point that B. oleracea is a species without a lot of variety.

I was trying to make the point that the food industry consistently simplifies the genetic variety of foods, sometimes alarmingly so. Bananas are definitely a better example.
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Reading your comment is just depressing and is a prime example of the Dunning Kruger effect. I have a PhD in economics. No other country has been responsible for lifting more people out of poverty than the U.S. For instance, China and India are eradicating poverty at record levels because of the open borders for trade with the U.S. The Four Asian Tigers became developed nations primarily through trade with the U.S. Iraq is seeing rapid growth rates in its GDP, as its own government openly embraces us and wants our troops there to stablize its country, so they can safely build its country. And guess what? It's working. Iraq's death rates are tumbling, and now it's even lower than ours. I wish you would rely on actual data and facts for your responses.
Yeah, you wouldn't want to lose all those sweet royalties from the journals that give academics their enviable incomes.
Nope. It's sadly true.
Did Google dupe Sequoia and other VCs into thinking that Color was actually worth investing $40million dollar into even though eventually when they launched it turned out to be vaporware?
This is one of those Feynman questions where understanding the question requires a certain way of thinking that discards common sense. Similar to his "Why is the wall not see-through?" question.

The way I think about is: "When you are looking at a mirror, and you blink your left eye, mirror-you blinks his right eye. But when you are laying on your side looking at a mirror, and you blink your top eye, mirror you blinks his top eye."
Actually, with almost every publication agreement, you sign over any right, title, and interest in the copyrighted work to the publisher. So, the law isn't protecting "your" copyright; it protects the publisher's. But, a published academic like yourself probably already knew that.
That's good enough for me, since it makes more sense.

A followup question: It is indeed best when the button gets out of the way. What assumptions are safe to make about the computer literacy of your visitors (i.e. they know to hit Enter to submit)?

I realize that this depends on the target demographic, but we should have a set of standards, I think. It influences everything from UI streamlining to what content goes below the fold (can we assume visitors know how or when to scroll?).
The US's transgressions were much longer lived (e.g. butality against Indians for 100s of years) than the DPRK's, which has only existed for ~60 years. Furthermore, the US's have had much more influence on many more people.

Notwithstanding, I'll bet the real reason is that the DPRK hasn't been actively trying to stop Anonymous and the US gov has.
I'm sure his lawyers have lots of good ideas. But we're not in the third world here... legal remedies exist, and there's no call for murder.
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Because windows are grouped into app bundles. In each bundle, windows are stacked on top of each other. Thus smaller hitboxes, obscured content, harder to select a particular window.
I too feel like there something there people think has value but the average person doesn't see. But maybe there is nothing and this is really as irrational as it looks.
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Where is this stack of money located? I'd like to visit it and take a souvenir.
The name is confusing. I thought this would have been an Objective-C version of OpenCL.
Thanks for this. I really love "revenue report" type posts, especially when they're so open about where the money comes from and what the actual numbers are.
No, the problem of misdirected anger is unsurprising.

To be clear, the gp is describing correctly directed anger, so the rest of your post addresses a different (although also important) issue.
I guess I have fewer windows open? The hitboxes are huge for me and so far the tradeoff seems to be well worth it – at least for the way I use it.

It’s certainly a tradeoff but for me personally certainly the right one.
If there were a person who looked like a version of you who was "flipped" left/right they would look exactly like the mirror version of you. However, it's equally valid to consider such a "mirror-person" as being flipped top/bottom or inverted front to back. However, these are much less intuitive transforms.
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Visualizations are never meant to be rational. What they can do, if effective, is over rule other irrational judgments. For instance, I'd contend your view (that the debt is no big deal) is irrational. Had this worked on you it would have at least gotten you to admit it is a big deal.

Just so I don't get accused of making ad hominems let me explain my contention above. You seem to think the size of the debt isn't a big deal because it is small compared to GDP. That would be an effective argument if the question was "will the U.S. go bankrupt"

But when people are assessing how big a problem the debt is the question they are asking is how much it will impact our overall standard of living when we inevitably have to start paying it off. So how big it is in comparison to GDP isn't all that relevant. The question is how much of an impact it will make.

To give an example 10% of your income isn't that big in comparison to your whole income. But if someone were to take that 10% away every month it would have a sizable impact on your overall life.
That's true for carnivorous fish like salmon, but an omnivore like catfish will eat pellets made of grain and produce meat at a 2 to 1 ratio, on par with poultry. It's a matter of the consumer being aware of the difference and being able to trust the labeling (and the implied farming practices).
Well, technically, doing experiments to gather data or distinguish between theories is science. This "experiment" isn't an experiment, it's a demonstration. And it is usually misinterpreted.

If the interpretation is right, where does the oxygen go?

In truth, the oxygen is replaced by CO2. Pretty much every oxygen molecule that's burned (i.e. combined with carbon) becomes one molecule of CO2. Therefore the amount of gas should remain unchanged.

There is another effect at work. When you put the bowl over the top the air is warm, and being warmed, but the flame. Some of the air trapped is pushed out - if you do this you can see bubbles around the rim - and then the remaining air cools. It's that cooling that sucks in the water.

The demonstration is, indeed, really poor.
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services like youtube and flickr have adverts corresponding to a user's tastes and the particular media. How would you suppose doing that with scientific journals?
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Apologies to Jason for posting a link to his temp/staging folder. The files will be available at the Internet Archive soon.
FBI did not break any federal laws.
Was I downvoted for math errors?
I suspect there might be some pretty heavy use of computer vision as related to those images -- perhaps to pick out brand preference or otherwise personal/private information that could be rolled up/anonymized such that marketers would buy in aggregate.
Adding to that: 'modern' apps are doing away with menubars completely. Chrome has a single button for options/settings, Office has the Ribbon, etc. OS X requiring a menubar for apps, even when they don't need one, is a huge barrier to UI innovation.
Agreed. Either Color has value, or it doesn't.
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Investors act irrationally all the time and it doesn't help when their coffers are so overfull with other people's money that $40 million becomes chump change and not even noticeable in the ledger.
I guess my point was that even if 'Cisco' has corporate-personhood, surely that doesn't cover the people who work there from performing illegal acts?

If a Cisco employee murdered someone in the pursuance of Cisco's interests, it would be the employee, not Cisco, who would be liable I think?
With that $200M they might afford to buy a vowel, specifically a U.
We got a few positions open over at The Boston Globe/Boston.com, you can find them on monster.com or the NYT's job section.
I wonder if the Demand Media algorithm could predict which themes people are searching for but not finding?
still don't get it: when i blink my left eye, mirror me blinks his left eye.

maybe this question would make sense, if i would see myself as the center of the universe, all creation and all there is - but there is a pretty high chance that i ain't. (and even then i'm not sure if this question would make sense)
How is the U.S. government specifically opressing them?
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> intellectual dickswinging

Yes... but not just intellectual.
iOS has had Emoji support for a while now, I remember my co-worker texting his wife with them.
It's because mirrors are magic.

On the serious side, this would be an interesting question to ask a child. We can all reason the answer from our knowledge of physics and the rules of the world in general (where there are no cool explanations for this), but a child has no such constraints. Their imagination runs free, and they fill in the blanks from their own knowledge of the world, which may include magic, super powers, or whatever realities they came in contact with in their short life.
If the product was released differently, it very likely could have been successful. It seems to me that once they got all that VC funding, they were desperate to release something to prove their worth. But, since their product depends on tons of people all using it in a geographically tight area, it crashed and burned. I think had they started releasing at events (ala twitter @ sxsw), they could have had some success.
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It shows up as http://xn--ls8h.la/ in Chrome.
absent some sort of regulation from the government

Surely there must be laws against this already. I have a hard time imagining that claiming that you're selling X when you're in actual fact selling Y is legal. If no one is being prosecuted it must be because the government doesn't care enough, not because they lack laws to prosecute under.
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If he's a publishing academic, then I am spiderman. Every researcher's dream is to have their paper read by as many people as possible.
Last I heard we were estimated to be spending $533 billion per year in 2015 and that estimate was from 2009 (we've spent a lot more since then). So assuming that's brought us a little closer you can assume we'll be paying $500 billion in the next year or so. Meaning you can look at the One Trillion Visualization and cut it in half.

Only source I could find for this: http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/19/news/economy/debt_interest/i...
Yep. The New Journal of Physics has a lame name, but it has a 3.31 impact factor (high for physics) and all published papers are available for free in PDF and, impressively, HTML.
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Good overview of practical considerations for IPv6. No FUD OMG NO MORE ADDRESSES! Refreshing...
I like Chad and feel comfortable with him in this position. It's just sinking in for me how awesome this is compared to having the previous occupant in this seat.

I don't think Etsy needed more techies or investors in control, though: Etsy needs someone who understands what it is like to be an individual who is supported by an art or craft business. The best thing that could happen at this point would be for Chad to take a year off and try to make enough money to pay his rent by selling ceramic mustaches from an Etsy shop.
If you're like Facebook and started out with PHP, built your own compiler for it, and have a brilliant engineering team that regularly comes out with products like Haystack or Cassandra, then go ahead use PHP.

But you're not Facebook are you? You're not the go-to source for graduates in the top of their class. You're seeing incredible traffic, and the original source is not a wet pile of spaghetti mushing up every improvement you try to make.

Perhaps then its fair to say you shouldn't have used PHP, and instead used a language that was a better fit for your organizations structure and practices at scale.
There are always 3 things: idea, team and execution.

Color had a genuinely interesting idea: make a social network via implicit information rather than deciding whether or not the a person is a "friend".

I can see this being of particular interest to Google as they built themselves on a similar premise: ranking web searches via implicit data (links, etc.) rather than a hand built index.

So, with an interesting idea and a strong team they secured both acquisition interest and a huge funding round. The idea being that they would release a series of applications and products that would deliver on the promise of implicit social network creation.

Then their PR got ahead of them (no doubt purchased with a chunk of the $41 mil) and expectations got built to a level that could never be delivered on with the first iteration of their first product - an iPhone photo app.

So, now there is a big backlash as people feel "duped" by the gap between the hype and the product and it is crushing the company.
You can be arrested in the middle of a court testimony? That just doesn't make sense.
True. But fortunately that doesn't come up in the BBC interview. Also I don't think swinging is quite the right verb for that area of his pursuits.
>If there were a person who looked like a version of you who was "flipped" left/right they would look exactly like the mirror version of you.

if the left/right switched person would stand where mirror me is standing, loooking in the direction where mirror me is starring, he would not look like mirror me, he would be switched left/right.
This is not an especially detailed article. A few points:

+ Terminal.app has a significant, long-awaited update that they don't mention: 256 color support. (They have a link to Apple that says it explicitly, but then what's the point of the article.)

+ Python is 2.7.1 (pretty good, I think, but I'm not a Python person, so others may disagree and wish for 2.7.2).

+ Ruby is 1.8.7-p249. This is a real shame. I can only guess that they consider 1.9.2 unstable. In any case a real shame, though I suppose most Rubyists use rvm now.

+ Rails is not actually installed. There's a stub at /usr/bin/rails with this content:

#!/bin/sh
echo 'Rails is not currently installed on this system. To get the latest version, simply type:'
echo
echo ' $ sudo gem install rails'
echo
echo 'You can then rerun your "rails" command.'

I thought that Rails was previously installed out of the box, but maybe I'm misremembering. In any case, this may be a smart move, given how fast Rails moves

+ Vim is 7.3 - persistent_undo is enabled, conceal is not (normal feature set). Emacs is GNU Emacs 22.1.1. (I don't use it, so I'm not really sure what features I might want to check for).

+ /bin/bash is 3.2.48(1)-release.

+ He seems to imagine that Apple might have chosen to ship with (only?) Perl 6, but they avoided it because Perl 6 makes no promises to be backwards compatible with Perl 5. I think that this is either a gross simplification or an outright confusion. Most people expect Perl 5 to continue a healthy life, no matter how stable and efficient Perl 6 becomes, for some time to come. (Btw, if you wish to build your own, more recent Perls on Lion, see here: http://www.perlbrew.pl/FixLion.html.)
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Obvious troll is obvious. 7 people should not have fallen for this sub-4chan-level stupidity.
What were the goals?
I feel like I live in a different universe. Can please someone explain to me what rational thinking might be behind such offers?
Another way of thinking about it is mirrors swap what is near and far instead of rotating. If your twin was standing on the other side of glass without rotation you would see their back instead of your front. If the mirror is above you then you see your head. If you twin is standing above you then you see their feet.

Flipping thins inside out sounds strange, but it also works. If you take a mask with the same face on the inside and outside and look behind the mask you see the same thing as what you see in the mirror excluding depth perception issues.

Finally, you can think of mirrors as swapping both left and right and top to bottom. If your twin is rotated so their right hand is touching your right hand and their left hand is touching your left hand then their feet are up in the air. (Easiest to visualize with two action figures.)
What specific issues do you have that can't be taken to your local congressman/woman? We have them for a reason.
This is not always true. Plenty of founders who spend time working instead of networking end up with a sparse network and very few people even aware of their success.
D'oh, I always forget about those ads because I have adblock. blushes
> We have services like youtube and Flicker that provide hosting for movies and pictures for free. The data requirements are far greater for these

Don't be so sure. Some experiments can produce large data sets, which ideally should be made available alongside the published paper.
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Yeah, it could have been a cool thing-- like "This Conference with Color" or at certain trendy clubs. Get some celebs on there too.
ALA is adequately converted to DHA, you didn't read the article you linked. Studies on rats are far from conclusive... but then why claim it's a human-health fact?

"While there is discrepancy in ALA conversion rates in rats, these studies imply that dietary ALA could sufficiently supply the brain with DHA in the absence of exogenous DHA intake."

This is consistent with all other research I've read, debunking this myth has become a hobby.
How much would Google have to spend to hire a complete team to add and expand fridge-like features for Google+? It's got to be in that same ballpark.

Surely it's worth the premium to hire a cohesive, motivated team that's already learned the domain and has a proven ability to execute.

Particularly considering the benefit Google can realize from getting a better solution to market faster.
I work for PLoS, it's great to see Open Access become such a high profile subject after the aaronsw story
Not many people know that.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/01/07/my-name-is-michael-caine...
The point is that this action and aaronsw's action make JSTOR look like the villain while JSTOR are rather sitting on the good side of the battle.

(On the other hand, these actions do contribute to create public awareness so I still haven't decided if they are good or not)
There's no violence in forced rape? News to me.
I'm sorry... what? A person wishing another person is raped daily is not violent? Did somebody plan another Opposite day and not tell me again?