skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"""To evaluate brain activity in players of differing ability, Ognjen Amidzic and colleagues measured so-called gamma-band activity in the brains of 10 grandmasters and 10 amateurs, using a new magnetic imaging technique known as magnetoencephalographic recording. While test subjects played against computers, the researchers studied which parts of their brains experienced gamma-bursts during the five seconds following the computer's move. They found that whereas the amateurs' brains exhibited more gamma-bursts in the medial temporal lobe, grandmasters had more gamma-bursts in their frontal and parietal cortices.

The team proposes that the use of the frontal cortex by the grandmasters�who have memorized thousands of moves� indicates that they recognize known problems and retrieve solutions for them from their memories. Use of the medial temporal lobe by the amateurs, in contrast, suggests that these players are analyzing unknown moves and forming new long-term memories."""
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=brain-study...

I think what your parent meant is that at some point Chess becomes a glorified dictionary lookup. An exercise in memoization.

Many, but not all board games end up being about memorizing which strategies work and which don't. This is especially true in case of deterministic, turn-based perfect knowledge games. Tic-tac-toe has been solved, period. Checkers has been solved. Chess will be next, because it's next in terms of complexity. Go is also a solvable game, but it will take a while.

I think this is the more true the more rigid (deterministic) a game is. Legos and Minecraft are at the opposite end of the spectrum. They even lack a victory condition, but they're all about making new combinations.

Chess may boost analytical skills and foresight up to a point, but as a war game it has become very abstract and detached from reality. It seems to be inspired by the era of melee combat, specified battlefields and powerful rulers.
Winston is still teaching and doing research at MIT. In fact I took two of his classes a couple years ago, and he's exactly who I had in mind when I mentioned researchers with experience and knowledge from decades past continuing to work :) Even if some previous research wasn't fully fleshed out, we can be confident that it hasn't been forgotten.
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I hope Firefox gains more momentum. I don't trust Google, I don't want them to control everything. FF 13 is fast and modern browser. Installing Ghostery, AdBlock and Firebug makes it perfect.
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This is just a single process on a Joyent SmartMachine. It's the first time I've used them and I've been pleased!
This should be a top-level comment.
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As everyone has an opinion, here is mine:

From teaching programming, my take away is LOGO works best as a first programming language. The visual feedback helps with understanding commands, procedures/functions, breaking down larger problems (house) into smaller problems (square) and helps with understanding reuse (square).

Used Java, Perl, Python and C as alternative first languages, LOGO worked best.
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Great to hear your story, an excellent answer from someone who has gone through similar experience and is also successful.
(I would like you to blog about your experiences so far and document it, as I would love to hear your whole story).

But I have other few questions -

Isn't it really hard to convince yourself at that naive age to risk yourself to drop out of college?

Going this way, the path to Success will be very hard. Can everyone sustain it? Well I don't think so. There are few exceptionally talented guys out there who did it and probability is 1 in 10M. Not all. Period. So generalizing it to everyone is not correct.
Concur that a switch to either Chrome or Firefox is a win. Both have been competing with each other after Chrome raised the bar. In either case winner is the user.

Personally, I have been using Chrome and Firefox both. Firefox being the primary browser for browsing the wild web and Chrome for development and for using Google's services.
well, my intention was asking why such small things,
i think mvp is overrated, people can put together a meaningful set of features and produce a real product, probably not in a weekend but in a month or two or six... then it makes more sense for the audience to check the featureset and give more meaningful feedback. That's my opinion at least. Don't get me wrong, i appreciate and support all the efforts by these bright people, but...
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The Russian "Pochemuchka" is a portmanteau. "Pochemu" translates to "why" or "how come" and "chka" is a common ending for something small or someone little, usually a girl. Its not really a word, just a use of a suffix. You can modify most words like this. For example car is "machina", little car is "machinachka". There isn't an English word for little car but so what?
Of course everyone must know someone who has attended Uni/college and dropped out. I know a guy who I would classify as smarter than me. Dropped out in his third year, didn't help that he was dyslexic.
> And I *do* know that the real world simply isn't simple enough that we could
> ever do a perfect job, so don't even try - instead aim for "understandable,
> maintainable, and gets the main issues roughly right".

It's striking that his manner is blunt and over-general... and his technical content is also blunt and over-general. He's known for his pragmatic and effective engineering decisions.
You are not mistaken, and XSS can also lead to CSRF.
Yahoo should take the money and go private. Yahoo has a market cap of 19 billion so they should be able to easily borrow the money.

They need to make some big changes to remain viable and imho the only way they're going to be able to do it is out of the glare of the public spotlight.
Another Microsoft "me too".
I visited Samsung Headquarters in Suwon, just south of Seoul, last year.

It's a scarily 1984-esque walled-city with airport-type security, heavily regimented work times, where it's not uncommon to find people still working through 2AM. Workers are often given apartments by the company as part of their package, and consider a low salary in such a package with the probable security of long term employment as a good career prospect and a valuable position.

On a human level, the various departments I saw felt like there was little to no room for innovation or creative thinking on the part of individual workers.

Most impressive was their QA department.
Don't get me wrong, the title is put together because of the character limit. I truly appreciate and like the idea of putting together bootstrapped apps, i work for one of those ideas going into maturity, but then don't you think you lose one silver bullet you have. Other people's feedback is important, especially on HN, so i was thinking of using it wisely and show them a developed feature-set, at least some level of maturity. I am sure, twitter's thing is not the idea of micro blogging and following and such, but rather the feature set they have put together and served and scaled for the long time they are alive. Otherwise competition would crush them, remember Google Buzz...
Snowboarding and rock climbing improves your health, so it's absolutely not wasted time. You get the benefit of doing something fun, while also making you a healthier person.

You're still right, though. Play chess if it makes you happy.
So Yahoo without Alibaba is worth about $4.6 billion (18.8-14.2), subtract the $2.1 billion cash and short term investments and you get a price tag of $2.5 billion for all of Yahoo's other operations and assets.
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Pretty misleading.

The whole point of your experiment was to see how people would act if completely anonymous, right? They aren't. So your experiment is flawed.
Yahoo! doesn't have Hadoop anymore. Key people moved on and formed an independent company Hortonworks.
Offtopic: with all these ipython/bpython's only thing that bugs me is need to do pip install -U ipython bpython (which downloads significant portion of bytes) in every virtualenv. I wonder if there's something like "pip install -U ipython --local-cache" option to copy existing ipython inside this virtualenv.
maybe the problem was that you need to do pip install -U ipython ?
By the same logic 'Hello World' isn't programming, but I agree with you to a point. A simple one-line hello world or ellipse drawing program is little different from typing in DOS or shell commands. 'Real' programming is implementing logic.
I am actually, the issue here is not that i don't like these projects, but i cannot give meaningful feedback on them... When you develop any sufficiently big project, most of the assumptions and specifications change over time. This is evolution. And what i criticise is, whether it is a good idea to show a half-baked app and make people think that it is useless. I believe waiting a bit more and developing the app and then posting it makes more sense. For all the learning practices, i agree it is very valuable experience, but just let them evolve...
I would say the developer has thought about their own requirements and knowledge, much like you have in your comment by thinking only of Europe whereas pretty much every other country/region in the world uses metric.

Whilst creating an application that deals with different units is not a massive amount of extra work, launching a minimal viable product to 300 million people in a country that has a major obesity problem is probably not a bad start. And when I say not a lot of extra work, 2-4 hours depending on experience of units, server side and client side, data store, would be very optimistic, hundreds if you are moving towards a more complex project. Quite a bit on top of what was only a weekend project.
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No but if you're caught with a hard drive full of pirated material AND the encryption keys for those releases then you're gonna have a hard time in court. The keys need not be government issued to prove you're responsible.
Yep, definitely agree!

And a lot of the things pg wrote. Not a single essay, more the overall picture he discribed.
Your post doesn't address not debunk the sheepskin effect, which is the observed phenomena where, among people with equal years of education, a person with a degree is paid much more than a person without.

I don't think you're incorrect about mathematical maturity, but we should tie it into the theme of the thread here: the returns to a college education. In technical fields, college is akin to job training. Consequently, it's not surprising that engineering degrees have the highest out-of-college return. This is unlike obtaining a degree in the liberal arts, where the on-the-job training supersedes the importance of a college education.
No one, actually it's the character limit for the title. :)
I didnt mean to be hostile or disrespectful. I just believe that they need some more time in the evolution process, make the app better and then ask for feedback, which at that time more likely to produce more meaningful feedback from the community...
What is this about?

I mean seriously you need a Facebook account to long into this? To do what? Discover information you easily can on Facebook?

Doesn't that sort of totally defeat the purpose of this? And don't tell me about 'sharing information'. Because twitter solves this problem already by letting you follow people you are interested in.

I'm on Facebook because most of my friends and family share pictures, stories and jokes online on Facebook. And not being on Facebook means missing out on many things. I am on Facebook because everybody else is on Facebook.

Please don't invite people to Ghost towns, to do what you are already doing else where.

If this is radically different idea, its a different story. But a "me too" social network is the last thing I need now.
Oh, and the site is running on AWS free instance. Node + Redis app. :)
How does this demonstrate that CSS is Turing complete? I really doubt you as much power to simulate a stopwatch as a Turing machine has.
Simply a brilliant read. If the business does not work out, perhaps you could get a publishing deal. Hope things turn out well, and looking forward to the next episode in what would make an amazing reality TV show.
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I hear pin.net.au are attempting just this, FYI.
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step 2 sounds like the business model of a cable company (kind of).
I thought the same until I saw that it was a research product/experiment. I think that makes it interesting and harmless rather than sad and misguided.
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> Why get approval in US,Europe,China but not somewhere else?

Google is getting approval everywhere with relevant laws that affect them. Otherwise, well, that'd be illegal.

> Can someone explain why Google must have sought Chinese approval? Both companies are American, so what's the problem?

If just the nationality of incorporation mattered with respect to merger law, then companies would just start devising even more complicated workarounds than are already employed for non-repatriated income.
They exist NOW because of their extended feature set, and that they were able to monetize all the data they found that they had access to.

They existed originally because they had a dirt-simple microblogging application that people liked. If they had spent a year developing it and people didn't like it, they would have wasted that year.

The goal of an MVP is to do exactly what you say is so valuable -- get customer feedback. If you're solving a problem that people have, it doesn't matter if your application is ugly or has all the features it might have a year from now -- it only matters that it exist in whatever minimal form it can exist in that solves that problem.

If you wanted to compete with Twitter, then yes, you'd have to release a better product. But then, you're not building an MVP. You're not 'testing the market'. The point of an MVP is to see whether or not people even want it. To see if you're actually solving a problem. To see if anyone will pay for it. If you're testing out a truly new idea, then that's what you need -- to get it in front of customers ASAP to find out if anyone is willing to pay for or use your app at all.

Dropbox started out with just a video[1]. No working product whatsoever. He figured if he could show people what his software aimed to do, then he could find out if they'd pay for it. The alternative was to spend a year or two building a product that he couldn't sell. Why waste a year of his life?

[1] - http://youtu.be/7QmCUDHpNzE
I used to play lots of chess, then stopped when I thought the game was taking too much of my time and couldn't give me much more.

Still I think I learned a lot by going to chess tournaments. Most of that you'd probably learn by playing any competitive sport. I transformed from someone who resigned inferior positions easily into a stubborn player who didn't give up. It was a good experience to learn to handle the pressure at tournaments when the time on your clock is running out and there are lots of people around you watching.

Moreover, I find it very interesting who can win when there are many players of the same skill level competing. That's very psychological. Some people are better at it naturally, but it's amazing what you can learn.
True, though there are better ways to improve your health if that's your goal.

If you want to be truly good at either one of those things (to the level that the grandparent talks about where he's a "walking database"), you're going to do all sorts of things that are not particularly beneficial to your health.

Next time you meet a really dedicated snowboarder, have him do a couple deep knee bends and take a listen. If you ever meet me, have me show you my knuckles, which I can no longer straighten nor bend completely after 15 years of dedicated finger training for Rock Climbing. Watch me do a one-arm pullup, then laugh as I fail to run a mile because I'm not actually, in any normal sense of the word, in shape.

Pretty much all the hobies I mention above, and most you could think of, require you to specialize in ways that make them unsuitable training for the general case area in which they improve you. Just like Chess sorta makes you smarter and piano sorta makes you more dextrous, training for a sport just sorta makes you healthy. But mostly it makes you a better snowboarder, climber, etc.
> What is this about?

A research project from MSR, not a competitor to Twitter, Facebook et al. How the press seems to have ignored this is beyond me.
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It's exactly the same for me!
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For what it's worth, the author is filtering critical comments.
They're anonymous in the context of the conversation. Anytime you visit a website, you know your IP is being logged.
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Processing removes a lot of the verbosity associated with Java. I'd say it's less accurate to call Processing a subset of Java, and more a preprocessor that write all the boilerplate for you along with a set of very high-level beginner-friendly APIs.
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This is a really hard post to try to comment on, but here's just a thought. The first thing I felt reading the story was impressed. It's a good article on HNfp. But are you asking too much out of "work"?

It is great to hone a skill, apply it, create great things with it, and ultimately survive and thrive off of that skill. I think that's incredible. The internet has certainly help open more opportunities for those with disabilities.

You're fighting an inspiring fight against your disability. Give your co-founder and your co-workers some major credit too. It's not every startup/founder who would make the hire.
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If they are to keep the asian assets, they may as well become an investment bank because right now, asset management is the only thing that seems to be working for them. If they still wanna be a technology company they really have to get rid of the stuff that's getting in the way of them doing what they're really supposed to do, which is tech.
My first major project is GitHub, Redmine and Jenkins CI. There are hooks for GitHub and Redmine, and I'm trying to find a way to bring all three applications into some form of synchronization. That said, when Git came along, I knew I was never going to use another source control app. When GitHub came along, I know I was never going to use another collaborative source hub. Good choice on your move.
I've used bpython a lot in the past - mostly for it's instant syntax highlight and autocompletion, but I recently discovered ipython qtconsole and I can say it's much better (yes, it's not in the console, but I'm ok with that). Its syntax highlighting is as good as bpython's, but allows me to use it like a text editor and go up a few lines, edit, execute. Bpython cannot do that.

Also, bpython is a bit buggy when it comes to pasting about a page worth of code/string. In the nice case the syntax highlight gets confused. In the not so nice - it becomes completely unusable, so that I have to kill it.
"The only good access service I’ve ever gotten is Cued Speech. In a basic sense, Cued Speech is a system that uses signs for sound. It was invented to battle the spectacularly low deaf literacy rate. (The average reading level of deaf 17- and 18-year-olds is at the fourth grade level.2) "

Wow. That is seriously depressing. I can't even imagine being deaf and not reading a lot. (I actually don't think my life would be seriously negatively impacted by being deaf; it would be an excuse to take meetings on IRC and via email, which would improve productivity for everyone; I already largely prefer subtitled video content. The only thing I'd really miss is listening to audiobooks while driving.)

(I've known several deaf and a few blind people who are amazing software engineers; over the Internet, it's pretty hard to tell.)
You forgot about the pretty high valued shares they have from Yahoo Japan.
On chrome I have a bookmarklet that disables stylesheets I suppose you can easily modify it so you can use a userscript.

javascript:var%20i=0;if(document.styleSheets.length>0){cs=!document.styleSheets[0].disabled;for(i=0;i<document.styleSheets.length;i++)%20document.styleSheets[i].disabled=cs;};void(cs=true);
It is you. Since 2005 (early days of 2.6), there has been four to five major releases per year. 3.4 is the second release for this year, so it seems to continue the trend almost perfectly.
That's a play on words. You can authenticate yourself to something and then be tracked for other reasons.
Interesting. I was not aware that this was contained in the draft and then removed. Tnx for clarification.
From what I read, it partly is a google wave clone...
"he was told to go buy them himself, so he did."

Which is a problem in itself. I understand he needed another monitor. But buying it himself shows the management that they have absolutely no need to invest in that, if devs are ready to buy it themselves in the end.
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I can't reply to you so I'm replying to myself.

I honestly thought you were going for full anonymity. In fact, my first thought was that you were taking it a step further than 4chan and that it would be interesting to watch.
Before people jump on the "M$ Sucks" Bandwagon, please read the About page [1] and note that this is a Research Project. It is not intended to be a competitor to Facebook, Twitter, and such, but an experiment as to how social search can be used to enhance learning and education.

[1] http://www.so.cl/about/faq
> everyone knows the only way to make money out of flight search is to add hotel search.

Errr, is this true?
Then why do the flight search as the main thing.

Recently I have been trying to find a holiday bolthole for my family. Find me the perfect holiday and I will accept a higher than usual flight - I just want to fidn a great hotel for two weeks not a nice flight for six hours
Actually, it's because it shows the logo effectively.

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Byzantine imperium brought greek script to Europe, so if not for latin, we would probably write in cyrylica - still good for printing.
Google has an "Incognito" mode which provides an even better tool against tracking than DNT, because it doesn't depend on the merci of the websites you are visiting.

Also note that almost no other browser are supporting such a feature out-of-box, at least not when this feature was added to Chrome.

So while I'm not a big fan of Google, either, I find it hard to argue that Google doesn't care about privacy features in Chrome.
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