skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. How do you define a strategy to get people more engaged with each other if you don't like people in the first place? Sure, you could be a genius marketing person who never leaves the house, but if you're designing a product, and a company, that requires intimate knowledge of the human condition, you need to practice what you preach.
Snippets from the comments below the article reveal all:

Jose Pedro 22 Sep 2011 4:06 PM #
Having in mind that any open source operating system or bootloader would probably have to provide publicly their keys, thus making it hard to have these validated, how could secure boot be made to be compatible with these, or these to be functional with secure boot?

Steven Sinofsky 22 Sep 2011 4:10 PM #
How secure boot works with any other operating systems is obviously a question for those OS products :-) We focus our boot loader on Windows and there are a number of alternatives for people who wish to have other sets of functionality.

Drewfus 22 Sep 2011 5:36 PM #
@Steven Sinofsky: "How secure boot works with any other operating systems is obviously a question for those OS products :-)" Agreed. It is up to other OS vendors to get their acts together regarding secure boot, and if this causes conflicts with their licensing models, that's their problem. The onus is not on Microsoft to compromise system security to be 'fair' to the GPL, or whatever.

etc.

The original revelatory article was not FUD, Microsoft seem to be trying to 'accidently' lock out un-certified OSs. Ubuntu might go for it, Puppy probably will not. Crap.
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There's a flip side to the IKEA effect. I don't have a name for it but it has happened every time I've built something from IKEA.

Basically, it all goes together nicely... except for one defect. Sometimes there's a hole drilled in slightly the wrong location, a hinge is crooked, or there's a small gap between two pieces that should be flush against each other. No one notices. But I do. And it drives me crazy every time I look at those pieces of furniture: I walk into the room and ALL I CAN NOTICE is the tiny DEFECT in the piece of furniture that I built from IKEA.
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How's this for some ideological heresy?

> Humans are poor data gathering machines. We have numerous biases, cognitive flaws, and psychological errors that prevent our unguided minds from grasping reality in any accurate way.

What if we're not supposed to always be "data gathering?" What if I just want to do human things?

Sometimes (in my more depressive moods), I wonder about the ultimate utility of "grasping reality in the most accurate way possible." At those times, I feel more able to see things, and yet, am less happy. Studies confirm that happier people have a larger 'shield' against reality, maintaining cognitive biases that aren't necessarily true but abstract over the difficult realities. I'll be the first to say that a dark cloud is over my perceptions then, so they cannot always be trusted. But there's something to the notion that the more you know, the less happy you become. And it isn't that we should be happy all the time, but there's a balance that must be struck. I see people insisting on living this 100% logical life...as if they needed to make it perfectly defensible on Internet discussion boards, or something.

(I'm interested in talking about it from a purely worldview perspective, not from the viewpoint of 'human progress.')
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I feel the same way. That is why after reading Marco's piece I (tried) unsubscribed from BI's daily Newsletter. "Shockingly" enough, when you click on Business Insider's unsubscribe link they send you to an inexistent website/404. Shameful
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it seems to me that you're doing 2 factor on the ssh key decryption. That's not so useful IMO from the security point of view.
The factor should be an alternative to the ssh key itself aka server side aka via ForceCommand as suggested
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What I meant is that if it has to be sent outside of the protected stream, it could be also exchanged with mitm. Unless the hash itself is somehow related to the stream in a visible way. That kind of implementation complexity, rather than the signature/hash complecity.
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Docs at

http://readthedocs.org/docs/django-merchant/en/latest/
and

http://agiliq.com/docs/merchant/
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You're right, they are Apple employees now. Apple bought Intrinsity in 2010:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/technology/28apple.html
There has been some nay-saying on the other thread (and some here too). One of the main objection seems to be that they used video stream to calibrate the subjects brain and that they essentially eavesdropped on the brain.

Brains of different people are not in a one to one correspondence, they do not have the same number of cells and even if they had, it is not known if the same information will get encoded in the exact same cell. So some form of calibration on test images/video seems unavoidable. However, in spite of the person to person variation there might be some common ground that allows some level of extrapolation from one person to another.

On a different note, artificial intelligence has always had this PR problem. Whenever it becomes possible to solve a problem that has been labeled AI it appears less impressive, because now we understand how it can be done. This has happened with computer vision, reasoning, chess, now jeopardy. AI is a moving frontier, and consists of things we do not understand well enough, and whenever we do, it is taken out from AI.

Another PR problem has been the difficulty to acknowledge the fact that solving an AI task and replicating how a human does it are different tasks. The former may be approached via the latter but it is not necessary. That said, It would indeed be more impressive and fair if the AI problem solvers (vision, chess, Jeopardy, etc. etc) are solved with systems that consume no more power than what a human brain does.
Yes, I think it would. I don't have a reference right now, but I remember reading a study a few years ago about how they detected V1 (primary visual cortex) activity during dreaming very similar to that when awake.
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Maybe they are trying to create something big that is not a copycat.
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There are very many such stories, but most of the people are not very fond of writing (the examples above are people with a lot of written output).

If you get to know some of the people personally you will find a lot of successes.
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We've observed the bottleneck to be an upper limit on packets/sec for a given instance type. On an m1.large this is about 100k/sec. I believe it's due to the virtual NIC just not being fast enough to handle high traffic loads.

The rightscale folks found the same thing:

http://blog.rightscale.com/2010/04/01/benchmarking-load-bala...
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The only way they have to sustain $277 million in expenses is if those are fixed costs. I suspect that a lot of them are variable costs that are dependent upon a few scaleable independent variables. That being said, their profit margin does seem unnervingly low.
I am a single founder and running Indefero http://www.indefero.net (code hosting, project managemnt) I consider it a success. Maybe not a million user success, but at my level a success as together with my consulting business, I pay myself a good salary since 2008 and enjoy what I am doing.

The real question is: what would be a success for you? If you want to do something, when would be the point where you could say: Success! If you can really answer this question, the path to reach this point is not that complicated, but the question is hard to answer and you will change your mind quite often (at least, this was/is my case).
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Brains of different people are not in a one to one correspondence, they do not have the same number of cells and even if they had, it is not known if the same information will get encoded in the exact same cell.

This is true, of course, but irrelevant to this work. At the level they're working at (fMRI scans, which have a resolution on the order of 0.5-4mm or so depending on the temporal resolution, etc.), you can't resolve individual cells anyways so you don't have to be concerned about those kinds of individual variations.

Visual activity in many parts of the brain follows a retinotopic map, where activity in nearby locations on the retina are processed in nearby regions of the brain. So, while you would have to calibrate some details, a lot of things would be constant between brains.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retinotopy
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You can easily shut down any kind of activity. I clicked on the settings for an Rdio song I auto-posted and the option of "Don't show this kind of activity from Rdio" (paraphrasing) showed up.

I hate to single you out, but the amount of blatantly unresearched, inaccurate statements in this discussion is really disappointing. This is a powerful, well-implemented (easy to opt-in/opt-out of any broadcasting on an app by app basis) feature.
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It's hard to say that something is going to scale smoothly up an order of magnitude until you're there. 900K requests is a lot of room for things to go wrong.
That article doesn't debunk the claim very effectively, IMO: of Bazaar, Git, Mercurial, SVN, and CVS, Python-dominated Mercurial is the smallest by a healthy margin (~50k SLoC), whereas the more C heavy CVS, Git, and SVN weigh in at ~2x, 5x, and 8x that amount.

Sure, we throw in the almost 100%-Python Bazaar, at 200k, which CVS beats. But CVS vs. any of these other source control systems is not really a fair comparison, IMO, and it's still blown out of the water by Mercurial.

I'm not saying that this proves that Python code is smaller (comparing source control systems to each other is completely unfair, since they differ so much in feature set, platform target, and code quality), but it certainly does not disprove it.
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Would Agile Licencing work for other "Technical" courses, or do you think that there is a good reason for holding onto the reigns to make sure certain quality is maintained?

For instance, was thinking about certification - is it useful to be "certified" (!!), or is it better to have attended (or run) a course with materials that have evolved to be better each time the course is run?
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That is a great roadmap. I'm a new Ruby dev, and am grateful for this info.
Sorry, your future self was faster and already got the job. He also claimed to have a larger accumulated experience :-)
> The only downside to this is it is for all users

Look up the Match command, you can limit ForceCommand and many others to a specific "User, Group, Host and Address."
Not quite the same. I'm not complaining that the ads are there ... that's something that he needs to determine using metrics. I'm just providing one reference point on a viewer's perspective, hopefully without negative or positive biases.

I guess I should also add that the ads I'm most likely to remember are those that appear on the page before the content I'm there to read actually loads. I'm assuming this is intentional.

Most importantly, by responding again I'm making your first comment on this thread seem prescient.
Even in C++, C# and Java this choice makes no sense.

In both C++ and C# it leads to ambiguous constructs and parsers beyond the realm of yacc & friends.

The Java syntax was carefully designed to avoid those ambiguities, but still...

Simply using [] or {} for template arguments would have been way, way better for everyone.
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Presumably both the Ikea piece and the origami were built from plans.

The study should look into whether this applies to building one's own designs, or whether that triggers an opposite effect: builder's remorse.
You can buy a kit, for $30^H^H79. Looks like the attention of the project made him change his mind about cost...
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Turns out it's actually harder, because we can't locate any 'lie signals' or 'lie areas', while the visual cortex is very large and organized.
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A single standard deviation is not enough, normal procedure is to allow up to three standard deviations (or more, sometimes five), which puts the measurement in a range consistent with models.
Could a user bypass this by using: ssh user@host.com -Tv 'bash' ?
SPDY is over port 443 because of network discrimination against unusual TCP port numbers - good luck using an entirely different IP protocol number!
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The claim is true: QuickCheck is surprisingly more effective at finding problems (and documenting expected behavior) than unit tests. When I first tried it, not long after the QuickCheck paper came out at ICFP 2000, it found problems that I never would have thought to test for. [1] (That's why I end up writing something like QuickCheck when I code in environments that don't already have one. [2] It's worth it.)

The key to its effectiveness is that it doesn't suffer from limited human imagination. When I write test cases by hand, it's up to me to think of all the things that could go wrong and write test cases for them. But, being human, I have blind spots. Even when I try to be systematic about detecting edge cases and writing tests for them, I miss some. But when QuickCheck-like tools write the test cases for me, they can dream up corner cases like you wouldn't believe.

And, even better, when I use QuickCheck, my test code doesn't end up looking like an enumeration of corner cases. Instead, it becomes clear, concise, and formal documentation. (For a good example of QuickCheck properties as documentation, see [3].) I just specify the intended general properties of my code, and QuickCheck generates the messy test cases behind the scenes, where they don't become visible noise.

[1] http://blog.moertel.com/pages/seven-lessons-from-the-icfp-pr...

[2] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-LectroTest/lib/Test/LectroT...

[3] http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Text-...
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They are not using brain waves. This is fMRI.
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I noticed this when for the first time when I was playing with small children. Practically the only way to keep them from destroying Origami toys is to involve them in building them and help each to make his own toy. I had the impression it also raised their respect for similar things that others build, but the research suggests otherwise.
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I just did it yesterday - 20 minutes and I was tired.
Indeed and this is more true for the retinotopic map. For cognitive there seems to be quite a bit of variability. In fact its not a trivial task to distinguish a cognitively active brain from one that is in a waking but resting state.

The comment that you quote wasn't made with reference to their work specifically but to any sufficiently accurate technology that can read through your eyes via the brain.
An average image leaves you with the abstract features common to all the matches, which tells you far more about what the brain-traffic is up to than showing a single match. And being able to look at that is astonishing in its own right.

It's easy for laypeople to misinterpret things they don't fully understand, but I think they can be disabused of misunderstanding by careful explanation. And we can get from here to there without invoking slipperiness.
I'm always amazing by how many people like this are able to buy into their own bullshit. Not only is intuition important for coming up with scientific hypotheses, but it's essential for sound decision making. That is, when making good decisions you don't exactly what the science says, but rather you make the best guess you can based on the information available. And you use deductive logic to make sure that your ideas are logically consistent with what you already know to be true.
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Yeah, this is unfortunately in the same bucket as all the other awesome things we could do if NAT didn't exist :(
My friend Angie created some great products and new life for herself when she started http://www.byrdandbelle.com after being laid off in the last economic bump. I agree with Loic - what is your definition of "success" though? Angie and I disscussed that exact topic over lunch this week.
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Not that inelastic. The problem was that in the 70s Nixon instituted price controls, so there really wasn't any reduction in gas use as gas became more rare. And there were the sort of huge lines outside gas stations that we're used to thinking only occurred outside Soviet markets.

Nowadays, when the supply of gas goes down a bit the price goes up and people carpool a bit more, don't drive to far away stores when there's a nearby store that's almost as good, and drive a bit more slowley. And it does really bring supply and demand into equilibrium - we didn't see huge lines outside our gas stations when Libya had its civil war.

Demand for gas is indeed fairly inelastic, but that just means that the price swings much farther due to a change in supply than, say, the price of a diamond ring does. It would have to be perfectly inelastic for no adjustment to occur.
See also:

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I am the single founder of Electric Function, Inc. (http://www.electricfunction.com). We have a few software products: Hero (http://www.heroframework.com - an open source PHP CMS and web app framework built on CodeIgniter), OpenGateway (PHP billing engine for many gateways), Membrr (subscription billing plugin for ExpressionEngine), and EE Donations (donation plugin for ExpressionEngine).

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I humbly consider it a success because, at 23 years old, I've been able to delegate the everyday stuff to a hired developer/support tech, take a nice salary, and do my PhD in Cognitive Psychology!
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The reconstructed image would also be in terms of the abstract features of dogs and cats: the shades of color, contours of their bodies, their position on the screen. And the abstract features could be recombined into an average image that's completely unlike any dog or cat but resembles what a person is looking at.