skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know some places where this would become a powerful Rickrolling machine. Other than that, this is clearly useful, thanks for sharing it.
There's a fourth option, where the country gorges on the short term flood of cash and easy access to oil and gas, which keeps taxes artificially low. The UK enjoyed the same benefits as Norway but went down this route instead - to a point where natural gas is now being shipped from South America to boost the reducing North Sea output.
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Cute. Needs a method to return the URL as a 301 redirect so it could be used as a placeholder image. This could be in the image filename.

For example: http://kittens.jpg.to/301.jpg

Another feature could be to return a random result for that image search.

For example: http://ass.jpg.to/random.jpg
Interesting you mention Fire & Ice, I read the first three primarily on Kindle for iPhone.

I did get into the habit of bookmarking my current page to reference the maps and appendix. Generally my biggest problem with "sync to furthest page read" was reading while underground (subway). Usually I just fire up the iPhone briefly so it will sync forward if I want to read on a different device.

There is also the "Book Extras" section which, for Ice & Fire, includes content from Shelfari with some appendix info and does not break the furthest page read. It would be nice if the official appendix and maps were included in a similar format.
And almost did. Until the late 1980s/early 1990s they just squandered the money like the UK did, running large deficits. But they turned things around then.
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Thanks so much for the info. I have been looking for a way to distinguish them long time ago.
Give them a few more years.

There is a group with even higher SAT and IQ scores - the Jews. And they are way overrepresented in Field's, Turing, Nobel awards.
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This is nice. It will be more fun if you show a different image on each reload.
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In addition to performance metrics, this site has implementations of their benchmarks in all the languages they test.

It's not pretty and side-by-side, but it's fascinating.

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
> the levels of weaponry that were deployed were arguably far higher than was actually required to achieve effective mutual deterrence

Hindsight is always perfect. You build a larger than required stockpile of weapons because you don't know if the other side will be able to shot your weapons down.

> one of the actual heroes of the Cold War was actually Reagan

The Soviet Union was already crumbling due to the financial pressure required to maintain their deterrence. The dialog that was started at that time prevented a very dangerous situation that could result in a nuclear strike by either side.
And much more readable, without the parenthesis balancing dance.
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You're welcome; I hope you'll find it useful :).
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It's more a question of the legal environment than culture. No matter what the culture says there will always be people ready to exploit these kinds of situations.
"I don't like brussel sprouts."

Then don't eat them.
It's a good idea. I'm going to implement similar functions soon. Stay tuned :)
Or that pirating books is currently done by some subset that is not representative for general public?
Yeah and there's a lot more out there

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Artificial-Evolution-Evolutionary-... (about graphics as well as music)
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I second what you said. The article is too biased to be taken into account.
That being said, I really would like to understand with more details what exactly happened to iceland. I remember I researched the subject in 2008 and reached the conclusion Iceland was using a carry trade bubble to finance itself. I am not sure how exactly that played out and at what point in their history their economy started growing artificially due to the expansion of debt.
Does anyone know the two following stats:

What percentage of applicants to YC are female?

Acceptance rate in terms of applicant pool for each gender? (ie "10% of all male applicants are accepted vs 14% of all female applicants" -- and I chose to skew it that way intentionally because I am betting if there is a gender based selection bias it is probably in that direction)

These statistical analyses are meaningless outside of that context. If it just so happens that only 4% of the applicants are female, then why should the gender balance of final selections be any different from that?
There are two issues here. The author doesn't really seem to care about distinguishing them, so I will:

1) Shitty rendering engines used in (some) ebook readers. If the ebook original has an em dash and it's being converted and displayed as hyphens, that's just bad rendering. Same thing if it has two hyphens together in a prose text context surrounded by spaces, and it's not being shown as an em dash, bad.

2) ebooks that start out bad. In this case, it's garbage in, garbage out. For this, the blame goes to the publishers, as he correctly noted.

Has anyone done side by side comparisons of the same books, from the same publishers (I'm not talking about Gutenberg books that may have been converted using differing technologies, but major publishers), on different ebook readers from different companies?
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Are you expressing surprise that Russians complain about Russian weather, that Russians complain about Finnish weather or that Russians complain about Norwegian weather?

None of those seems surprising since all those countries are, at least in part, cold, gloomy and snowy.
I have another observation. Some more notes about what an author might learn from and indie game developer.

Seems pretty clear to me is that free games won the war in the App Store. Most of top grossing games in the app store right now are free with in some kind of in app purchases.

I think it's safe to say that free is where the eBook store will be going as well. You might as well be the first and take advantage of it.

Mr Evans tells us that people want subscriptions. I would argue people want free.

So how to you give a book a way for free and still make a living. Some ideas..

1. Make it really easy to buy small short stories in the same world or extra little bits and pieces. $1 or $2 bucks for a few extra chapters?

2. Give your true fans, your whales, something to spend a lot of money on. Don't be shy about asking for $500 for a signed hardcover you bound and print yourself 3 months for the eBook version is available.

3. Sell add space in you books. If you have eye balls, somebody will pay for them.
A bit off topic, but I was always a bit puzzled about how knots are described mathematically. This is a fantastic intro to knots in the mathematical sense.
To my mind, there's a difference in the relative size of the oil windfall. The UK has over ten times the population of Norway, so in effect the sudden cash income just doesn't compare to the Norwegian experience. The UK enjoyed similar benefits in absolute terms, but per capita it was much, much less. For the UK, it wasn't a game-changer, but for Norway etc, it was. The UK did not become "rich through oil", but Norway did.
Hipsters ≠ popped collars. Not to take away from your point too much, everything you've said seems reasonable, but popped collars are indicative of frat boy douche bags. They don't grow ironic moustaches... they pretty much aren't supposed to understand irony. Think the winkelvoss twins in the facebook movie.
ha..i like it. it just searches the internet for images with that search term.
Here is my view on the subject (in the unlikely case anyone cares):

1. Men and women are different, hundreds of millions of years of evolution made them so. Men are more aggressive. Women are better at communication (talk a lot more, learn foreign languages faster, etc.). Men are better at geometry. Women are better at working with sets and groups.

IQ scores of men are more widely distributed than women's. Women's average IQ is a little bit higher. Most of the stupidest people (IQ under 70) and smartest people (over 140) are man.

2. Different races and ethnic groups have different physical and mental abilities, including IQ. As an example look at the different Olympic sports. I'm quite sure different races dominating different disciplines is in big part due to genetics.

All the inter-racial IQ scores I've seen published in peer reviewed journals show the following picture: Black < White < Asian < Jewish.
That's awesome :)

And it's not even limited to jpg, cf. http://drumroll.jpg.to/
In fact, it's set to level off mid-century and start decreasing.

Have these kind of predictions ever worked out?

Last time I checked there would always be an unanticipated war or invention to ruin the beautiful projections...
> we can fix ourself

looking at the history of the human race, it seems unlikely we'll ever "fix ourself".

> wars, fanatical religions, police states, etc. may stay with us forever.

if anything i believe the wars, fanatical religions will stay with us forever since they're a part of human nature. regardless of which planet we're on.
Can we hire their government to come over here and steer for a little bit?
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As someone who went to a new england prep school, I take offense to this characterization of popped collars.
Pixelmator ($30) is a cheaper alternative to photoshop and much more pleasant to use than gimp. It has tools for vector and rastor too.
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He's saying the dev community is predominantly white and male, mooting the question of how he screens.
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Graduating from MIT don't mean you would be beneficial to starting a tech company

OK, now you're grasping at straws.

First it was that there are no black hackers because black people didn't put in the work to learn how to use computers. Now you're claiming that black hackers from good schools may just not be the kind of hackers beneficial to starting a tech company.

When you're reduced to spouting really bad versions of No True Scotsman, you should probably move on. It's just embarrassing now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
I worked around the syncing but it was tedious. Primarily I would read on my phone on the bus during commutes and want to use my Kindle at home. However, having viewed the appendices of families, I could not simply sync. This was tedious, but less tedious than lugging around that tome :) I think annoyances like that are really about the software, though, and I expect it to continue to get better, though the changes in Kindle have not been on details like that, they've been the library lending thing, getting some free books into prime, and lending. I'd love to see some smaller fit & finish.

I haven't noticed the "Book Extras" you mention and will have to investigate - thanks for the tip!
Totally agree. This is tools for the sake of tools and it's detrimental to shipping actual products. Excuse me while I tab back to Emacs and continue editing this Go code...
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I don't think you can argue that the money that NASA spends does not circulate here on earth, NASA spends all there money on things like salary materials and other services that all exist here on earth. Sure its largely a different sector than grandma's pension gets spent on but it still positively impacts our economy.
Recreational: Muir Woods. If you have never seen redwoods before, this is a "can't miss".

Find a good excuse to walk around San Francisco some. Don't just drive through it. Use public transit and walk from there, at least once, to someplace. It's an amazing city.
I think http://ethan.jpg.to/ is my favorite.
Yep, function over form. And the function part is fantastic in this case
Civilization changes human nature. The same way our civilization produces dogs, caws, sheep, etc. it also changed us into a less aggressive, more cooperative being with way way way higher self control.

EDIT: I can give you countless examples. Compare the human reactions in developing countries with those of say a London native. You'll see that just a few centuries of life in big cities have given Englishmen incredible manners and self control.
Do elaborate on how war or inventions will make more babies?

It's something I've certainly thought about quite a bit and would love to study more in the future, but the parent post was correct: The population in developed countries will be declining if there are no significant changes in how life longevity or increased birthrates (which can be affected by a lot of factors).

For more information:

Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Scott Burns (2004). The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future'. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-11286. Description and chapter-preview links, p. vii.

The Age Curve: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&#...
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"Pure Clojure code is, as far as I can tell, higher performance than pure CPython code."

Not so here; the author mentions that the Python version is faster (in his blog post).
For rather small values of "massive" perhaps (i.e. single-server?).

Once you reach into realms where the label "massive" comes into play the importance of per-host performance is usually dwarfed by attributes like robustness and maturity.
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I learned how to code when I was 6. Anomalous, yes, but I'm questioning that one. ;)
Why Emacs?
anybody tried "hahahah" or "lala"? ... those were the first two I tried and it gave a totally wrong impression of what the service is all about :D
This already has a name, it's called brogramming.

Please see the following:
http://www.facebook.com/getwiththebrogram
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi_AAqi0RZM

Anyway, cool story bro.
Yes I had a different perspective going in to this I thought it was going to be more like what this discussion was about: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3168038

The discussion doesn't have as much about it but basically a YC company posted to jobs about looking to brogrammers and getting crunk/partying and those were the type of people they were looking for.
>> [New Technology X] is released and offers a new and interesting view of how to perform [programming chore Y];

X is released, but offers only regressions and there was obviously never any need for it. Who could possibly want such a thing?

>> Reddit / Hacker News announces the release of [New Technology X] and is greeted with tons of enthusiasm and applause;

Reddit / Hacker News should become a Luddite haven. These people should stop their interest in what other people are hacking together.

>> Curious developers check [New Technology X] out – it’s an early release and thus they discover [New Technology X] is missing [Critical Features 1….N] and has [Stability Issues 1…N]; most of the early adopters utilize the technology sparingly in production and only where it’s the right solution for the problems they’re trying to solve.

Real developers should stick to time-proven technologies like mainframes and ABAB. Nothing that hasn't been tested at Facebook scale should ever see any production use.

>> [Group of early adopters A] can’t get enough of [New Technology X] – they create lots of blog content on how to couple it alongside other popular technologies and receive front-page treatment on Reddit / Hacker News.

No technology should ever be documented. This code was hard to write. It should be hard to read.

>> [New Technology X], despite lacking [Critical Features 1….N]; having [Stability Issues 1…N]; and often not being the best business case match is now used in 100% of production projects by [fanboys of early adopters A].

No response to this one. That's just irresponsible.

>> [Fanboys of early adopters A] declare the death of [Established Competitive Technology with Massive Following X]; [fanboys of early adopters A] have now become popped-collar programmers.

Once again, real programmers stick with time proven languages like PHP, Borland Delphi/Pascal and COBOL.

>> [Popped Collar Programmers] begin purchase of ironic / retro t-shirts; growing porn star mustaches; writing blog entries about the challenges of scaling [New Technology X] despite having a trivial number of users on their service; blog entries make front page of Hacker News.

No response to this one. Porn star mustaches are just plain irresponsible.

HN, please tell me, am I half way down the lifecycle of a Popped Collar Programmer :).

For what it's worth, I see what the OP is saying in terms of personality types. I share his annoyance at people who jump on the latest tech for no reason other than someone else told them it was cool. However, what the OP seems to be annoyed with, is essentially the lack of ability on part of some number of developers to evaluate technology before adopting it. That is a skill that takes a long time to learn, but ironically is built fastest upon mistakes being made. Thus your popped collar programmers of today might turn into architecture gurus of tomorrow (unless there is a correlation between the personality type and the preference for cargo cult adoption of technology).
See also Zach Holman's Play, which integrates with Hubot, the Campfire chat bot: http://zachholman.com/screencast/play/
The less time wasted thinking about this sort of silliness, the better.
I wouldn't say emacs is an example of this. Most of the emacs users I know are seasoned veterans, and rather conservative.
why is this relevant?
No, please don't change it that way! The best use case for this is sharing images quickly. If I can't trust that my http://homer%20simpson.jpg.to/ is going to be the same one loaded by my friend, then I won't share it with my friend. This could be pretty handy in it's current state.
Really, who programs like this in reality? Seems to be a very minor issue - aren't most of us too busy making stuff work? I enjoy reading about all the new tools but I'm not going to drop in something new into a full-production site for the the hell of it.
What I'm saying is that I'm not convinced that this would move a significant chunk of the market. I could be totally wrong but my impression is that this is a lot more like the a gold rush with all parties scrambling to lock in business with the factors that are most compelling to potential customers and I believe those factors are things like selection, platform cost, and maybe other functionality of the device. Whether the fonts are beautiful or whether the books are rendered with more than one style of the "-" glyph is probably somewhere like priority #153.

Which is NOT to say that I disagree that it matters.

I just expect it's going to get better, because the platform / technology is relatively immature. And I think it matters a lot less today than people who blog about things like this (or those who downvote dissenting comments about things like this rather than trying to be persuasive) might think.
I like this a lot. Placehold.it features would be nice, too. so like, if I wanted just a picture of Bruce Willis: http://bruce_wilis.jpg.to/

But then if I needed a 500x500 picture of Bruce Willis, because who doesn't, I could go to http://bruce_wilis.jpg.to/500x500

Fun little app. Nice work.
I've recently started a job at a much larger, older company than anywhere I've worked before. Previously, I worked at companies with around ~5 developers, where most of the code was at the very most 2 years old. Now, I'm working at a company with 90 developers (I think, we keep hiring people) and the oldest bits of the code are as much as 6 years old.

I always have been a fan of writing clean code, and especially of achieving appropriate separation of concerns, but previously it has mostly been for aesthetic reasons. When your codebase is small and new enough that the people working on it are the original authors, it's fairly easy to deal with messy code. Now, I'm really beginning to see the impact crappy code has on an organization as it scales. The code at my company is actually mostly not too bad, and the management is very supportive of refactoring, but it's absolutely clear to me that were the code cleaner, we would get more done, faster.

TL;DR; Writing bad code prevents you from writing good software (eventually.)
Note that you can put in spaces by using dots or %2b

http://large.gorilla.eating.a.taco.jpg.to/

http://baby%2belephant.jpg.to/
I second the thought. Popped collar == brogrammer as far as I am concerned.
"And if mathematical ability were distributed as a Gaussian, and genetic, women couldn't be ascending so rapidly."

This is false. It could be that mathematical ability is genetic and normally distributed, but some component of women's underrepresentation is caused by factors other than this (e.g., discrimination, personal preferences).

"It's just no good at drawing conclusions on the extremes of ability. A better guide might be actual performance. The IOI this year had more girls than ever before -- 11... Were the 'standard deviation' explanation correct they should have, instead, had 0.4 girls earning maybe 0.01 medals."

Come on. I know you know better than to draw statistical conclusions from a single event with a sample size of 11. So why do it?

"The fact that g is non-zero can be readily explained by the following simple observation -- most academic subtests, including IQ's, rely on skills that are either practiced as a group, or on skills that are shared between subtests. One example is focus, in general. Another is visualisation. Another is working memory. And so on and so on."

You've come up with a plausible theory of what g is. It might be f(focus, visualization, working memory). This does not make the theory of psychometrics "totally absent of content", it just means they don't understand everything yet.

The fact that pressure is non-zero can be readily explained by the following simple observation -- air is made of particles obeying Newtonian mechanics which impart a force upon a vessel when they collide with it. Does this make thermodynamics "totally absent of content"?

The fact of the matter is that a variety of seemingly unrelated tests are correlated with each other. They are also strongly correlated with various life outcomes in a manner which more or less corresponds to our intuitive intuition about the idea of "intelligence". Stuff like this rarely happens by chance, and it is highly likely there is something behind it.
While we're talking about simple facts, how about the simple fact that 70% of the population has an unconscious preference for whites over blacks? (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090617142120.ht... .) The hard truth is that even if you think you're unbiased, you're probably not. And brain research increasingly indicates that we simply don't know our own minds nearly as well as we think we do (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080414145705.ht...).
You have to hope that this is just a stage that new programmers go through, rather than a specific type of programmer. As they're challenged to iterate and scale with these undeveloped tools, they'll have to learn from their mistakes, and will hopefully grow from that. Still, as programming becomes more accessible (through tools like CodeAcademy) the sensationalism surrounding new technologies/frameworks will probably increase.
Interesting. Do you know anything about the old (and predicted) production costs of AD?