skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correlation's don't have to be linear. The correlation could easily be negative at the high end of the IQ scale and positive at the low end of the IQ scale. Great writers don't expose their minds they shape the readers mind though both elegance and fnord.
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British grammar traditionally refers to companies in the plural form (e.g. Apple are releasing the iPad 3 this year), but the American style, where companies are referred to in the singular form (e.g. Apple is releasing the iPad 3 this year) is also acceptable in Britain.

The article you linked to is, I think, a little misguided. If I heard "the government are killing people" I'd assume it meant "the people who make up the government have collectively decided to kill people", which is really no different to "the government is killing people". The collective decision of a group is the individual decision of the entity that group represents.
Fitness is easily the trickiest part of both projects so far. We're using co-operative co-evolution so elements of the game design are evaluated separately as well as together. For the Metroidvania, the key bit of the FF is "the play should have to collect all the powerups, in a mostly total order, to reach the exit". What this does is create segmented levels that have 'stages' which you access through powerup collection.

For the arcade games it was a lot more general. We did a lot of very rough heuristics like "maps shouldn't be too cluttered", "you should have to explore most of the screen to win" and things like that. I want to go back to arcade games becuase it's a much harder problem to design games without genre staples.
By the way, the fun part is learning the technology. The hard part is working with people -- which is why it's about a million times more important.

That's very interesting, and indeed seems to mark a certain personality type. Most people would see that exactly the other way around, that working with people is fun and easy, but the technical stuff is hard and extremely frustrating.

It depends completely on your skill and what you're used to. Almost all people tend to think their own area of expertise is easier compared to others and don't understand why other people don't get it like they do (which has a simple answer: years of experience).

There are a lot of guys spending thousands of hours on code in their spare time that might help 3 people -- who are also programmers

Nah, helping 3 people in your spare time is more than helping no one. You're right, if your goal is to help as many people as possible, programming isn't the right time sink. Better to sign up for some volunteer job. On the other hand, you could also be reading a book, playing a game or watching TV and helping exactly no one :)

Edit: and don't forget many non-programmers also spend their spare time on very trivial stuff. The problem is not exactly limited to technical people...
This is absolutely horrendous in Firefox 7. About 60% of the bottom of the screen is completely black, leaving only about 300px high of contents, in any of the views.

This isn't IE6, it's FF7, which is 5 months old!
Screenie: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/wmSzaq9yag_BXWSeUCPeel...
Bullshit on implying this is in any way due to ignorance.

Open Street Map is very clear about attribution [http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright], and Apple has decades of experience involving aggressive IP protection.
With a degree in biology, even with no PhD, it's still vastly useful when paired with programming skills. You have a good high-level overview of the problems in the industry, and that's an important first step.

But it seems like in today's competitive market (especially when it comes to doing a startup), you need 2 degrees. Computer Science is not enough. It's just a set of tools but if you don't have a domain where you can apply those tools, it's useless. It's like knowing how to write. Great! if you don't got anything interesting to say, or expertise in a specific area, it's almost useless. Of course I guess you can write about writing, which is analogous to writing developer tools.
Well, 'real creativity' is a tough thing to pin down or talk about at the best of times. I think it can be achieved with conventional computing, but I think many people would reject it as creative even when faced with it.

As you say, though, creative or not I'm just happy to be producing software that can make fun(-ish) games!
I may be missing the point of this article, but shouldn't we be comparing the SAME APP on two platforms, rather than two different apps?
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Well I was just wondering, how many voices are raised in defending a coop, that is known for its love of details, but forgets to mention these tiny little humans, that gathered the data in the first place. </sarcasm>

It seems to me, that the Apple-Folks in Cupertino knew exactly, what they were doing. Who would sue Apple in a case like this anyway?

Being from Germany, I have no idea, what the US-System would look like, but I believe, that suing Apple would mean, that every one of the contributors to OSM would have to sue on his/her own.

And who would do that?

Apple would calculate this. And even, if some people would walk this way, it might still be cheaper, than paying Google.

Just my two cents.
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I find fascinating the "open source" view we get into manufacturing here. No "real" real company will throw out there the "oh, we mucked up, your products are coming a week late" and then go on to explain exactly what, and why.

It's nice to see the real side of how things are made, and to develop an understanding that usually nothing ever works out on the first go. It really enforces the lesson of "don't be afraid to fail, and don't get discouraged" As I know many people who have tried, do.
I prefer to skip the watered-down PR-speak, if you don't mind.
To be honest, I'm still not sure if the post was because the blog was hacked.
While it is true that editor work costs money, I think it's important to make clear that Elsevier is not the entity who's paying that money. It's still the universities who pay the editors - since they typically work pro bono. Well, OK, there are non-monetary payments that Elsevier does. Like establishing your name by mentioning it often and making sure you get a nice room and nice food on the next editors' board meetup - if the journal does hold these.
diceware is very good for these sort of passwords. I have no affiliation, but would use it for passphrases if I needed to. http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html
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To claim Apple is incompetent in regards to IP is ignorant at best, and disingenuous at worst.
Now it's 16 characters at Hotmail.
It is a mix of sarcasm and being feed up with big cooperations, screwing people who dedicate their own time, contributing to projects like OSM.

So it might sound passive/aggressive.

But wouldn't Apple be active/aggressive, if I would use their IP? Wouldn't they srew me for all I#m worth in court?

I really don't know, but I wouldn't want to find out...
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Fully agreed here. It's amazing how many people could be replaced (or freed up to do better things) by very simple shell scripts or excel macros. This is where someone who knows a little programming but understands the business process really well can be highly effective.

The danger, in my view, is that these first simple solutions tend to have more and more bolted on to them and over the years maintaining them is more time consuming than the job they were designed to replace. This is when you hire a good programmer or two to fix things.

The trick is figuring out when to pull the plug on the prototype and make things good. I'm reminded of this quote from Mike Lesk about the early days at Bell Labs: "He wouldn’t issue long speciﬁcations; he’d lash together some combination of shell scripts and awk code that did roughly what was needed, tell the customers to send him some clerks for a few days, and then have the customers come in and look at their clerks using the prototype and tell him whether or not they liked it. If they did, he would say “you can have it industrial strength so-many-months from now at such-and-such cost”."
I believe there's room in the local space for a service that combines check-ins with reviews. In other words, only real people, who've physically been to a given restaurant, are able to review it. While you'd still suffer from selection-bias problems with this model, at least the self-selectors would be people with a propensity to try a lot of restaurants and review them -- not population-representative, perhaps, but at least dedicated to the task.

Of course, there are plenty of ways to game such a system. (You don't actually have to be at a restaurant to check into it, but you do need to be within a certain geographic radius -- so this would cut down on bogus or fraudulent reviews from people nowhere near the location). But those methods are harder to pull off, and they necessarily apply to a much smaller subset of potential gamers -- thereby making gaming a smaller-scale proposition.

Collaborative filtering would lend itself well to this model, too. Toss in some sort of karma system, as well, and you've got a check against system gaming and low-quality reviews.
Something like this: http://www.nikonmetrology.com/en_EU/Products/X-ray-and-CT-In...

It weighs slightly over a (metric) ton, and despite being marketed as "low cost" model, it's not something the average hobbyist can afford. Or even needs :)

And yes, it's lead-lined, completely enclosed and safe to use as long as you don't put your hamster in it.
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I guess that's why baseball players are encouraged to remain even-keeled, and not be stuck in a high, or low. Just focus on execution, and forget about the drama, and mental noise.
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Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0):

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
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I tend to judge people poorly when they use bad grammar. Then again, one of the most brilliant guys I know regularly sends out email messages that are barely decipherable -- much less grammatically correct.

In general, bad grammar makes a bad first impression. I allow them to prove otherwise with the content of what they're saying.
Your explanation would suggest that the writer's cognitive abilities (whatever they might be) don't carry over into chaotic or stressful situations (i.e., he falls apart under pressure).

I would submit that this in itself ought to disqualify him from an important position in an agency as putatively critical as the TSA. People working there, especially those in positions of responsibility, ought to be able to work effectively under pressure.
Then congratulations Apple, for making a not so great map even worse. I can't really judge map quality in the US, but in Germany it sucks. Cities show up twice or are missing completely, labels are often small, unreadable and ugly. There is no consistency in the placement of lables.

OSM has its fair share of inconsistencies but it's not that bad.

The map is ok for what it is: Just for presentation inside of iPhoto, not for browsing or finding your way. I really hope that Apple doesn't plan to use this anywhere else and hat they just didn't go with Google because they can't customize their maps any way they want.

(That missing credit is also shameful. I was looking everywhere inside of iPhoto but couldn't find it. Stuff like that sould at least be moderately easy to find.)
"The fact that we even have these problems is both amazing and wonderful.
The fact that there are cartels within computer games hiring low cost foreign workers to manipulate a virtual experience for real monetary gain, and there are investigative units trying to track them down is fucking awesome."

From one point of view, sure. It really is a bummer to the player experience since the reality of it is that a company can and will protect itself better than it's users in aggregate will protect themselves, so you just end up with the current WoW situation of a huge stream of hacked accounts draining resources of the game company and destroying the play experience of the players. I'm not sure where any of this is wonderful, really. It isn't like the myth of the gold farmer where they hire out warehouses of employees to play the game building up "new gold" in the player economy, it's just key loggers and trojans and ten million potential victims.
There are two things that Apple should do in order to avoid being viewed as a jerk once again. Put in the credit to OpenStreetMap and make a sizable donation to the OpenStreetMaps Foundation.
Cool idea! I hope it never gets popular at the same time.
Perhaps the difference in style is due to the legal status of corporations as persons in the US. In any event, "Apple is a thieving bastard" does not quite work.
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This sounds very impressive and interesting. Synchronized distributed applications without deadlocks, while worrying only about client-side code? Sounds amazing, I'll have to play with it.
I assume not. Pete does component work for Broadcom (I think) as his day job. This equipment was probably theirs, to which I'd wager >$100,000.
If Pinterest was mostly music tracks instead of photos then it would be equivalent to a web-based Napster and we all know what would happen under current copyright law.
Nit-picking, but you could have just mentioned where you disagree without quoting the whole article.
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Does anyone have recommendations on specific models and/or places to purchase?

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Not only credit to OSM. They would have to credit every single contributor (whos data is used).
The primary difference, health care is other people's money. We shop where the government policies hide the true cost of our care by minimizing or eliminating out of pocket expenses.

Being on a HSA program now at work really brings home the costs of health care. It shows quite quickly that there is no free ride.

Long term health care will never be free, there will have to be minimum payments/co-pays and the like. Otherwise people will simply abuse it, showing up for every real and perceived problem. I am not saying we do not offer free care to people who cannot pay, but damn, I see people claiming a need for other to pay all the while having eight dollar a month cell phone plans, high speed internet, and car payments that are in some cases what my rent used to be.
For offline encrytion that is true, but if you rate limit the login attempts (to something like once every 3 seconds after 4 tries) then even a password with 20 bits of entropy is going to take a riddicously long time to bruteforce.
Apple must give attribution, not to be nice, but to avoid being guilty of copyright infringment.
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"Correlation's don't have to be linear."

True.

"The correlation could easily be negative at the high end of the IQ scale and positive at the low end of the IQ scale."

This is conjecture, though. And, while entirely possible, it doesn't necessarily seem to be borne out by available evidence.

"Great writers don't expose their minds they shape the readers mind..."

This is a false dichotomy. "Exposing" one's mind, and influencing someone else's, are not mutually exclusive activities. Furthermore, shaping a reader's mind is not the sole province of the "great" writer. Terrible writers are often capable of influencing people. While I would agree that stronger writers are probably more capable of influence, influence itself is an after-effect of writing and an observational artifact. It is not intrinsic to the written product.

My point is that, since writing is necessarily an act of expression, the strength of one's expression reveals something about the strength of what one is trying to express. It's hard to cleanly separate the two.

Now, I'll readily concede that intelligence is probably not the most important variable in the quality of one's writing. Things like training, education, practice, exposure to other writing (via reading), etc., are far more important. But intelligence is in the equation. Exactly how significant it is is up for debate.
The terrible acting aside, this is a good way of pointing out how pricing models are totally different and specific to certain industries.

Some people can really take the piss because its standard in the industry but totally adhear to normal payment standards in another industry.
As a business owner, I have also seen the extortion for advertising model. Businesses that advertise with Yelp have low star reviews filtered, while businesses like mine that do not, have reviews from valid customers (often with friends and other reviews) filtered, to lower star ratings.

I have also seen reviews that are blatantly fake (e.g. reviews from Santa Claus, comical reviews, etc.) persist, until a significant amount of time passes. This indicates manual removal, and no actual Yelp filter.
Probably using the code for SPDY that they contributed to Netty: http://netty.io/blog/2012/02/04/
Oh wow. I didn't realize until postrank told me that my post had made it to HN. I'll answer some comments below (and I have another post in the works.
Then you move the key back afterwards?
You may run into race conditions when two processes end up saving an object with the same hash_id. The check and the object creation should both happen inside a transaction.
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Well, Bob (original author) -- as if the situation couldn't be more magnified, your post has simply added to the impression that the TSA is mostly public hand-waving in the place of real security.

"Crude" attempt? "you know… things that go BOOM"? I sincerely hope you take anyone's claim seriously, public or otherwise, that they can circumvent any security measure put in place by the TSA. The tone of your blog post smacks of disregard; if you thought it would invoke confidence on the part of the reader, you thought wrong.

The biggest defense put forth: well, we have other security detection methods so, hah!

Don't you get that the point about the body scanners is that they can be beaten? That they're superfluous to the security regimen? That if you can't defend them directly, they serve no real purpose? That's the point of the video, and it's completely lost on you (and obviously others for whom you speak.)

As is the impression among so many travelers, the TSA confuses "feeling safe" with "being safe" and it appears your post simply reinforces that view.

Visions of the SNL parody skit from years ago come to mind.
Objective C isn't hard. Ruby isn't hard.

Building a great app is hard. Building and running a great service is hard. Building and running a great company is hard.

Most commonly used programming languages aren't hard.
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Believing the device's idea of where it is isn't going to help against any kind of serious criminal (get root, hook API, profit; and what about people without smartphones, anyway?). Triangulating a phone via cell phone towers might work, but that opens a whole new can of worms: you need the carriers to cooperate; it's a privacy nightmare; conclusively linking a Yelp username to a physical SIM card is not easy; and so forth.
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I also built mine with same version of jekyll that github is using since I want to host my site in github pages however the build is broken when I commit a post that has {% raw %} tag. So I cant write a post with that tag anymore.
I mentioned it only because their copyright page says they do use OS data.

United Kingdom: Contains Ordnance Survey data
© Crown copyright and database right 2010.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

(I agree with your other points)
> The very first four-star filtered review this business has mentions the waitress and host by first name (she goes on to sign it). Many of the other reviews for this business are similar and come across as fake or by people who mean well, but go overboard on behalf of their friends.

Or they actually really like the business? It's not staffed by 30 different no names, and you never get the same server? The owner will actually be present and greet customers?

That's not gaming the system, that's providing great service in a fast food lifestyle.
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You keep finding this mythmaking pretty much up to present-day, and permeating through other parts of the computing industry as well. It'll take a long time to untangle this and separate the myths from reality.

My "favorite" example is the hyped up reverence for Apple's role in the early days of the home computer, and the "cult of Woz", when they weren't first by a long shot, and largely priced themselves out of the race for many years, with sales a distant third after Radio Shack and Commodore.

Meanwhile a bunch of early guys at Commodore who directly influenced a lot more people are pretty much ignored, not least Chuck Peddle (the father of the 6502 at MOS Technology without which most of the 70's and 80's home computers would've looked very different, and of the KIM and Commodore PET computers, the latter which outsold Apple in the beginning, until replaced by the VIC 20)

To an extent it is down to who writes history - in this case Apple is the only survivor of the home computer wars, combined with being the only one of the larger players who were a predominantly Silicon Valley company (Commodore had offices there, but moved East, and never did as well in the US as elsewhere).

But as an old Commodore / Amiga user who's very aware of how short-changed Commodore has been by modern day mythmaking around the home computers, I wonder how much else of early computing history is twisted or forgotten that shouldn't have been...
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Judging by the number of Wordpress blogs that become unresponsive when they hit the front page of HN, it doesn't seem like it's too easy to keep them running with any traffic (or at least, people seem not to be doing it).
With OSM, just start mapping! It's a wiki! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_guide
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They are using OSM data, that's 100%. I checked some tracks that I myself entered in OSM, and they are in Apple's map.
Not really. Yes the Licence is CC-BY-SA, but "OpenStreetMap Contributors" is accepted form. (cf. http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright )