skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Generation' overgeneralizing is a cousin to decade overgeneralizing, a handy way to generate trend stories and social pseudo-science out of vague impressions. (The categories and qualities remain fluid enough that, like Astrology, anyone who wants to believe can find some support.)

I find it interesting that the 00's have been less subject to such generalization and nostalgia, and I think it's for no other reason than it's harder to say, with no one clear winning decade moniker, compared to the Nineties, Eighties, Seventies, Sixties, etc.

(The Teens may be a little easier to refer to in casual overgeneralizations, and then the Twenties will come a roarin' back with decade-o-centric thinking.)
Here http://qotr.net/Quotes/ the quotes draw less attention than the buttons themselves. You could make the font bigger or more attractive, I guess.

What language did you guys use in this project?
If you like Knife Party, you might like the band's main project (Knife Party is a mini-project by two band members from a group named Pendulum.) They do fantastic drum and bass. Immersion, their most recent album, may be their best.

The Island Pt. II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBIYl88Zwyc
Witchcraft: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AooMCiV2eb4

Their other albums, In Silico (Showdown, the Temptest) and Hold Your Colour (Slam, Blood Sugar) are also fantastic. My favorite band, personally.
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We do have moderation, and you can set admins and mods on your own board, but I'm trying to refrain from using it too much. I hope that downvotes / new quotes drown out the 'does this work' kind of 'quotes'. I prefer a more open form of governance than heavily moderated, but maybe I need to prune some of the bad quotes?
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Yeah, that's a good point. We should tone down the buttons a bit; maybe use colored arrows (a la Reddit) instead of bright buttons.

We used PHP and MongoDB with our homegrown framework (https://github.com/Olivine-Labs/Mint); we're working on solidifying the framework and getting documentation and examples together.
How about.. The interviewee gets to know what languages, libraries, components of the stack you are using a week in advance. They then can implement whatever they like using those technologies. Then, they present what they made to a technical member who can ask them questions which would show they have developed familiarity with at least some parts of what they use. The more specific the position, the more in depth the questions.. The interviewee can also ask questions back to the interviewer from a more level position.
Tyler Winklevoss: "We were there at the beginning of web 2.0.."

Yes, technically you were both alive on earth at the time. So was my Nana, my creepy uncle Hank, and about 6 billion other people.
Would Sassly ever tell me I'm paying to much for Sassly or is that too meta?

Thanks, it's a great idea I'll be leveraging soon! :)
please don't use Godel / Quantum indeterminacy / chaos theory / complexity theory as arguments in religious discussions

Amen to that! Or, whatever, you know what I mean.
Ah, I assumed each senator was placed according to some measure of extremism, though in hindsight that alone should have produced crossings.

To support this interpretation, I noticed that the groups are not aligned - see for example George Allen's swerve in the 108th Congress. I suppose I was expecting it too, from having seen some visualization that tried and failed to find a tea party cluster.
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English may not be his first language but he seems to know the basics. http://i.imgur.com/ADxK3.jpg
It sounds like the manager would see the causation between bowling and resigning and just force a different compulsory activity.
Would working for the Winklevoss'es be a black mark on someone's resume?

For one thing, you'd never get hired at Facebook after that. Then again, Facebook isn't the only game in town.
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Perhaps you could alias a function that pipes like tee, and checks for errors. Like this:

alias myfunc "errorchecker >& /dev/null"
[command] | myfunc

What it does with those errors is up to you, though your main options are "print them" (in which case, just don't redirect stderr), "log them for fetching" (and write a little command to access & manage the failure reports), or "email them to yourself".

I guess basically what I'm getting at is, look at distributed processing backends such as LSF or GRD for inspiration.
Which sets of Senators were facing election that year? As a rule, only approximately a third. It would be nice to see if they were correlated to the group "switching" sides.

Which party controlled the Senate that year? It would be interesting to see if switching is correlated to party control. For instance, I see the Republicans controlled the Senate in the 108th (2003-2004).
Good question. I recall having done a Google search and noting that there were not an insignificant number of people with the last name Null in the US, so I wasn't too concerned about posting this. Probably a HIPAA violation, but not a major one.
> If you assume that something created "existence" then a lot of the rest follows logically. (i.e. such a creator would want people to know about it, would want to be acknowledged, etc.)

This is the mistake of prescribing human-like wants and needs to something that's by-definition inhuman. Godlike power and intelligence would be akin to the difference between us and other animals. Do you think other animals go around theorizing what motivates humans? No, our wants and needs are unfathomable to an animal, just as a gods wants and needs would be unfathomable to us.
All religions have as a core belief the particulars of the creation of existence. Most require that the creation happened as a act of will by a sentience. Not all though, some hold that it was created as reflex of sort. But all claim to know how it happened (and agnosticism holds that we don't know, and atheism holds that it created itself with an additional belief that we will eventually figure out how it happened).

That belief will never go away, so if that's your criteria there is no point in continuing further.

But religion is more than just that, there are all sorts of other things that religions require, and that's where my argument lies. Rites, rituals, prohibited practices, required practices, what is considered good, what is bad, what is neutral. Some religions don't require anything at all - just the core belief in a creator and that's it.

The question is what is the source of these things - are they dictated by fiat, and believers just believe it without thinking about it? Or does every single ritual and belief require rigorous explanation and analysis before being accepted as necessary.

And you got my argument about Gödel backward. I did not argue religion from Gödel, rather that everything also requires some belief without proof. (The interesting arguments about what if that belief was wrong are what differentiates science from religion.) But the need for the belief doesn't go away.
Since people are suggesting online stations here, Notch (he of Minecraft fame) often listens to http://www.di.fm/electro/ and somehow I got addicted to it as well while watching him code his Ludum Dare entry. Kinda high energy though.
Looks interesting. Do you have the original URL for those of us not on Chrome?
A real example I heard of a few years ago was with children putting picture story panels in order.

The "correct sequence" was: Get Up, Eat Breakfast, Go To School while many of these children were getting subsidized breakfasts at school.
I have problems using a data analysis software where the stock ticker data from a company is "NAN"
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Well the app is a packaged app. It's just like software. So it is not hosted on any server. I am working on making it a web app but that means it won't be working in background.
It's not the same data, but I did a PCA with the voting record of Canadian MPs. It's a bit old, so it's in flash instead of html5. You can access it here: http://www.votum.ca
What evidence makes you sure?
Thank you. I definitely shouldn't have to work to find out what this service actually does, and there's no way I'm giving my email (even to someone who says they won't spam me) until I have an idea how the thing works.
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Minard's graph is brilliant.

On my to do list: a graph that shows the loss of voters casting ballots. I needed a way to show how postal balloting disenfranchises voters (what it gives, it equally takes away).

Voting age population -> registered to vote -> voter received ballot -> returned ballot -> elections rcvd ballot -> signature verification -> challenged ballots -> overvotes/undervotes, voter intent, adjudication -> tabulated.
The interface looks real nice, I may give it a try, we've been looking for an issue tracker.

Of course to sell the company on it it'd be nice to know if you have any export functionality?
I'm not sure this would give the same kind of results, it was shown [1] that Kleinberg's HITS algorithm is PCA, and HITS gives [2] hubs (nodes linked to many others) and authorities (nodes linked from many hubs). I have the intuition that this would qualify the floor leaders as authorities, but I'd have to run the numbers.

Anyway, in order to obtain groups from PCA (that is, groups which are not only "visual"), one would have to run some kind of clustering algorithm on the reduced data.

[1] http://www.uclouvain.be/cps/ucl/doc/iag/documents/WP125_Saer...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITS_algorithm
They should appreciate simply due to a growing population + currency inflation right? Beyond that I'm wondering if the average homeowner (not a real estate investor) actually sees a high appreciation.
> I am an Indian living in India.

Unless you were looking for something more specific.
Yah, that's quite true - and I would say the difference is even greater.

But implied in the knowledge of the existence of the creator is that the creator was the one that gave us this knowledge. And since the creator did that, some other things can be assumed.

If the creator never communicated with humans then we would not know about his existence, and then any sort of worship would make no sense.

So if a religion claims to know anything at all about a creator it must also be that the creator has at least the desire to be known to his creations. i.e. this is just another way of stating the core axiom that all religions must have.
Many of the founding fathers of modern science were religious. E.g. Isaac Newton, Max Plank etc..
This theory flies in the face of that empirical evidence. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_thinkers_in_s...)
Thanks for the idea, I didn't think of the reelection aspects, I'll investigate.
Since nobody seems to have actually tried it: you will still get blocked. Though the message has become:

"Our automated system will not approve this name. If you believe this is an error, please contact us.[0]"

[0] http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=212848065405122
Which business has the best margins: hardware, software or Internet services?
You need to have a daughter and name her the same. Then you can be II.

And she can be Jr. III
What "experience" do they bring to the table?
Great stuff. Thanks for sharing.

It'd be great to apply your algorithm per issue.

During Camp Wellstone training (grassroots political organizing), they taught us a tool called a Power Map. The two axis are yes v no and influence. You graph each person voting. Then you draw arrows to show who influences who. It helps to identify where you should focus your lobbying.

One point that stood out is that a Power Map is needed to be done for each issue, because many many votes don't come down on partisan lines (eg local and state, ymmv).
All religions have as a core belief the particulars of the creation of existence.

Buddhism is a counter-example. There are many strands of Buddhism, but in general they do not take a position on the creation of the universe, the existence of deities, or many other things that most Westerners would think are central to a religion.

If all that you're really familiar with are variants on one religion (Judaism, Christianity and Islam share holy books), it is easy to believe that all religions look the same with different texts. But in fact there is a much wider variety of religions in the world than that.
I wonder why they use both, redis and memcached. Wouldn't redis be a decent enough replacement so they could kick a bit of additional infrastructure
This is a great mix. But it stops around the 20th minute for me. I don't know why.
The lead up to the war was very much "you're either with us or against us". It took a lot of courage to speak against the war. Even the media had to get in line - I think all news networks hired military consultants at the time.

Over time some that voted for invasion adjusted their stance. This may be why you felt there were a lot of opponents.
Yeah, good call. We figured we didnt want to confuse users on the "how" while we were trying to pitch them on the "what".

We'll add a "how do we work" link that brings up this information directly on the landing page.
Why wordpress does not support Google adwords as well as Amazon affiliate ads?
I am trying to get ads for my site http://techbiztrends.info/ from Amazon and Google adwords, but could not use it :(
When I see this, I tend to automatically hit Ctrl+L to clear the screen and re-position the prompt. Quick and easy. I scroll up if I need to study the output further.
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> All religions have as a core belief the particulars of the creation of existence. Most require that the creation happened as a act of will by a sentience. Not all though, some hold that it was created as reflex of sort. But all claim to know how it happened...

Well, not all - Buddhism, for example doesn't posit a specific creation story, with or without a creator sentience.
Thank you, I agree the interface really came out well. At the moment we do not have a public export function but that is coming soon. One of the reasons for the delay is we're trying to determine what formats to offer, the primary formats are xml and csv. If anyone has recommendation/preference we'll consider it!
- True, all religions anthropomorphize, and i find that very arrogant on humans' part. Why would a god have will, intention, our time arrow etc? My favorite is that ancient egyptian story where some god created the universe by ejaculating. There's even a metaphysical theory that tries to find its way in Physics called "anthropic principle". How do you back up your claim that beliefs like that will never go away?

- True, Rites and practices may indeed help general wellbeing. So does yoga. (relevant talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/alain_de_botton_atheism_2_0.html).

- True, Almost all religions are moralizing and define what is right and wrong. So do atheists (by themselves or through rational thinking)

- Again, Godel's incompleteness does not mean we hold that "math is true" without proof. We have proofs for when it is and when it is not. Maths is a tool, not a religion.

In general, it's impossible to enter a religious argument without specifying your personal position. I personally never felt the need to see an external force guiding things around or setting things in motion and watching from afar. It just doesn't sound intuitive or interest me, and i feel it would violate my freedom, so sorry if i come off as aggressively anti-religious.
In 2009 I ran out of cash after what I'd describe as a stab at changing the world using a naive & altruistic approach. Now I make money, which is way better :)
I think you might be overreacting. The kazaa thing was kind of common knowledge. Unless your business is very unsavory, I don't think allowing skype to get in your office, like every other office in North America, is any great failing.
Do you have a link?

That seems incredibly shortsighted.
It's very good, but suffers from one basic presentational error: You've placed Republicans on the left and Democrats on the right. While I know your algorithm doesn't attempt to plot people on a particular spectrum, it so happens that stereotypically partisan conservative or liberal senators tend to be positioned at the outer margins anyway. since liberals are traditionally thought of as left-leaning and conservatives as right-leaning [1], I would suggest your diagram needs to be flipped horizontally.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%80%93right_politics#His...
$('[data-behavior~=date_picker]').live 'focus', ->
$(this).datepicker()

So basically every focus on the element creates a new datepicker. If you're not careful this could mean memory bloat and unpredictable behavior as the plugin is attached several times.
Promise you will deliver the refactored code in a week, set out some metrics, ship it.

The other devs will be happy someone improved the code. Like the guy said, it's better they ship what they want than not ship what you want

Brilliant IMO
using a moon as a base for asteroid mining is so Ender's Game. I love it.
I had to look this up its kind of funny the complete list of banned names is here

http://outsports.com/nfl/2005/0301nflshopnaughtywords.htm

There's actually a few in there that could turn up as names. But a lot of humor in that list. "Flogging the Dolphin" is not allowed on the back of NFL Jersey's if anyone was thinking of that. (and if Pud is viewing this thread, don't try getting your nickname on the back of a jersey)
he doesn't. It's just a great quote to give to journalists.
try to find a more obvious thing than the little "inactive plugin" at the bottom... just ignore "click enable" stuff these days, and wait for prompts (like up near the address bar).

hit people upside the face with it
Can it be used in a way similar to the fashion Steven Berlin Johnson uses Devonthink Pro: http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/0002... ?
Looks really great and seems like a useful tool. My only real complaint, is that I use a high sensitivity on my mouse and I found it difficult to highlight a line. If you could make the lines slightly thicker, it would be easier to select them.
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have yall seen Console.fm ? Crawls the web to find the most trending electronic music and sorts by genres.
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Facebook have people in many places, though. There's a Facebook mafia as there is a PayPal mafia.
I've recently run into a couple of:

Them (first contact): "We're really interested in talking with you."

Me: "Okay, tell me more."

Them: {20 questions}
"Operational experience" == "litigation experience"?
Kaggle is awesome! If you like this challenge, you should browse through other current and past Kaggle challenges at http://www.kaggle.com/competitions

There are a whole lot of fun challenges ranging from predicting if a patient will be admitted to a hospital, what will be the trading price of a bond, will a student answer a test question correctly, to if a car purchased at an auction is a bad buy!
Normally, betanews quality is just so so, but occasionally they have some nice columns, this one begins with...

> The direct impetus for this column is IBM’s internal plan to grow earnings-per-share (EPS) to $20 by 2015. The primary method for accomplishing this feat, according to the plan, will be by reducing US employee head count by 78 percent in that time frame.
Sure. I'm just saying that if C# is actually a better language than the alternatives (and it does seem pretty good, but I'm not that familiar with it) and if C# integrates with Linux as well as the rest, then it would be a decent, not-silly choice. I'm sure there are plenty of reasons why you'd choose something else instead though. But I don't think it's necessarily silly to choose C# on Linux purely on the merits of the language, nothing to do with Windows.
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This app also made me smile, but I have to disagree with you - I often can't stop smiling while coding. The feeling of satisfaction when something works out really is unrivalled. Each to thier own though!
So since I have only watched the Social Network I'm very uninformed about the Winklevoss brothers and facebook. Can someone throw up some links to give me some more datapoints on the issue. From my point of view they are the same as normal VCs
As a brazilian, I find it somewhat strange, but not that much.

Not only we have a national ID system (not one, but two systems, both with unique numeric IDs), we are required to photocopy them, along with proof of residence and several other things (for instance, something to prove that you do have an income and how much), in order to perform simple actions such as cellphone purchases (with a plan). You'd have to provide "only" your ID (CPF) with a pre-paid plan.

To be employed at most places, that same info has to be provided, more or less (you don't need to prove income, but you'll probably be required to provide a criminal record).

This is probably because of how trustworthy we are perceived to be. Nothing gets done without at least a proof of identity (sometimes, even using check or credit card purchases at regular stores). Not to mention the fact that we are..."advised" to carry ID papers everywhere, and the police will be somewhat displeased if they decide to take an interest on you and you have nothing with you to prove who you are, even though I am not aware of anything resembling a "Stop and Identify" law. I was never asked to provide ID, though. Were I black and poor, my guess is that it would have happened several times already, along with random street searches.

All that said, I've never had to provide my passport to anyone, anywhere, except US embassies. Most brazilians are not required or even expected to have one (and is not required when travelling inside Mercosul).
Or maybe you could resign for being an uninformed CIO. P2P is 1990s technology.
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Thanks for pointing that out, I didn't play until the end of the game.
Hah! Very true. Very inward looking right now. What's the world coming to when the ROI touted on the homepage is "I saved $45 a month!" Well, that sounds too snarky. I'm sure this will be valuable to a lot of folks.
I'm guessing their datepicker() function checks if the datepicker has already been attached or not.

By using onfocus rather than attaching it on page load, the datepicker isn't loaded until it's required (gives a minor speed improvement I imagine).
Naturally the very first thing I did when opening this discussion thread was search the page for “bobby tables” and “xkcd”. Of course, there were already three separate mentions of that comic in the thread.
What keyboard would they use?
Clearly the patient was an xkcd fan :-)
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> The Internet Explorer Example

This is simply wrong. It wasn't people at home not upgrading that is the main problem. It is a problem, but the biggest factor especially this far in is corporates who won't change no matter what. Some of our clients, large banking organizations, have only just upgraded from IE6 to IE8. And one of them "plans to this year". Silent updates would make no difference here as those environments will be the first to make use of methods to block said updates.
Simple honest answer, its a beachhead. Techies are natural early adopters so it makes sense to start small with them. Trust me, our ambitions are far greater :)