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To answer your first question, he's fit enough to finish 5000 pushups in a week.

http://venturebeat.com/2009/10/02/mark-zuckerberg-the-evolut...
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For a long time we heard the same thing about Google - they have a search engine that makes a lot of money with PPC ads, but what else?

Facebook's time will come. The IPO money could make that happen sooner rather than later (if they don't blow it buying mobile apps.)
OK, I looked at it in more depth than I usually do and I can see that there would be a decent number of use cases. But as another posted said, on one hand it looks like a great platform to build against, on the other it seems really dumb to do so (locked in, etc).

Perhaps someone could reverse engineer the APIs and provide a Python/Rails + DB back-end.
I would LOVE to have information to do that. Sadly, it's almost impossible to actually know how much a procedure will cost. Which is one of the big reasons why things cost soooo much!
Who's going to make a lighttable for the CLI?
I'm pretty sure his point was that running in and of itself (outside of external factors such as other people on the road, etc.) is very detrimental to your health- specifically your knees.

Obviously doing any physical exercise you should be safe about it (wear a helmet while biking, have a light and reflectors if you ride at night, etc., and of course be conscious of your surroundings), but running solely by itself can be detrimental to your health because of the force you put on your knees on impact running on paved surfaces.
Why does it need to draw you in?

If you don't need the information that it conveys, there's no reason for you to study it. If you do want the information, then you'll take the time necessary to understand it.

To me, if your graphical elements are running the show in a conference presentation setting or in a newspaper, you're already doing something wrong. Those aren't the right media for infographics (well, newspapers would sometimes find them useful).

Don't conflate media unnecessarily. If you need something flashy, make something flashy. If you need something informative, make something informative. Don't repudiate something meant to be flashy for being uninformative, nor something meant to be informative for being insufficiently flashy.
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A clinical trial is a medical research study to determine the safety and effectiveness of a new chemical or treatment and discover any side effects. Clinical trials use humans; pre-clinical trials use animals.
Errr, you condemn the use of simple sugars before a workout, but then advocate using Gatorade during a workout? IANAD but I'm pretty sure drinking protein during a workout will be far more beneficial to your overall health (unless you are doing something like a marathon, in which case you will need carbs at some point, but marathons in general are terrible for your body).
Ask LastPass. That's copied from their current interface.

And I imagine it could be useful if you knew another LastPass user and wanted to pass along an account. Though that's probably a fringe case, and I agree that it seems incongruous for a password service to encourage "sharing".
The only reason I don't delete my facebook is because of the pictures...and im not alone.
We have logical evidence that contradicts current models, namely the black hole information loss paradox, a real paradox.
Re-reading this... It's clear what is "a primitive" in javascript. but what does "Too-Primitive" mean? The sense of the word "primitive" as in language primitive is a set, not a quantity. Something is either a primitive or it is not. there's no such thing as "too primitive"
I think a good interim solution would be to have a client-side filter, browser extension or such. Wikipedia content is very well categorized, so it's not a classical content filtering problem.
I'm not one hundred percent sure that this is a problem. Context is important. Pornographic material in Wikipedia's "NPOV" and encyclopedic context is probably not unsettling to children.

If this is a real issue, and pedagogues or parents are offended, how has Wikipedia gotten away with it this long?
No, I don't think it is the difference between savings and investment because the dichotomy itself is an arbitrary artifact of the monetary regime. Saving should mean things like "saving grain for the next season". That's a real thing that one can use in the future. There are higher-order savings as well, such as futures.

Under our arbitrary centralized monetary dictatorship, one that is coercively foisted upon us against our will (whether you agree with it or not is beside the point -- you can't opt out if you wanted to), if everyone "saves," then nothing happens. Economic activity halts. But if savings is in things of value, then to save must mean to cause economic activity.
You know where else kids can see pornographic images? Nearly everywhere else on the open Internet. Like this article mentions near the end, children can easily see whatever they please with a Google Image search.

So should we pour money and time into protecting young eyes? Wikimedia probably agrees with me when I think that this goal is probably impossible and thus a waste of resources.

If parents can't accept that their kids will see a lot of different things online, then they should monitor their children's online activity themselves. Shouldn't parents be the ones who do the parenting?

And last, kids are curious. What is the worst that could happen to curious children viewing porn on the Internet? I think the author of the post has a strong cultural bias against depoctions of sexuality. Wikipedia also contains many graphic depictions of violence. Isn't this much, much worse than pornography?
Signed up from Boston. So there is atleast one other person :-)

I am forwarding information about this to other teams as well.
This is a cognitive problem. I also read you as doing a "double-take", even though you clearly wrote "triple-take". Another cognition issue. The unthinking mind reacting automatically without consulting our conscious. The solution is obviously to augment our brains with computers. :)
Interesting. RandallBrown's was easy to read, but you're wasn't. I read "are the future throughout history" and cracked up :)
I remember creating a hypercard project in college to demonstrate video lighting techniques, allowing you turn on/off the various lights in a setup. Everyone including myself was blown away by that at the time & I think back once in a while how similar it was in a lot of ways to web development.
This is some FUD. See WikiProject Wikipedians against censorship for why most of what this guy says is nonsense, and for information on how Wikipedia already allows institutions like public schools that may require filtering of explicit content to configure it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikipedia...
The debate over share buttons on blogs
The number of parameters to be fit or estimated in a statistical or machine learning model will always be a function of the dimensionality. For example, fitting a Gaussian (a Bell Curve) with a fixed variance of 1.0 to an n-dimensional space requires estimating the mean, which is n parameters. If we want to estimate an nXn covariance matrix for our n-dimensional Gaussian, we need to estimate n+n^2 parameters. For linear or logistic regression, we'll need to estimate n+1 parameters, and so on.

The curse of dimensionality is that if you add dimensions but don't add data, your functions will overfit the data because you don't have sufficient samples to estimate your model parameters. The worst-case estimate is that for n dimensions, you will need on the order of 2^n samples. This comes from the combinatoric increase of relative "distances" as dimensions increase.

This 2^n bound assumes that your data has a high degree of uncorrelated variance across all dimensions. In practice, the curse of dimensionality often isn't a problem. This is because most high-dimensionality data residing in an n-dimensional space actually doesn't have uniform variance across all n dimensions, and can be mapped or otherwise transformed into a k-dimensional subspace where k is much smaller than n with a minimal loss of variance.

Dimensionality reduction approaches include principle component analysis (PCA), minimum message length methods (MML), various feature selection approaches, virtually every clustering algorithm. Anything that removes dimensions while retaining the essential information content will do the trick.
Took a couple minutes to whip up a command-line utility [1] in Python. Doesn't have much use - just looking for something to do!

[1] https://gist.github.com/2841106
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Atlanta is nowhere near the coast.
The Inconvenient History of Silicon Valley
apps that work with content - that is where we're heading.
Ask HN: Recommendations for PR Agency needed
We are looking for an outstanding PR agency

- which is well connected to the Valley and major tech writers

- which has a solid track record or can provide some impressive success stories

- which is excellent at operations

I know that doing good PR is a demanding task and it's not just about the agency but rather yourself, your company and if you have the right story. We are just funded and do not have the time to care ourselves, so we'd really happy to meet some excellent people in this space. Thanks!
I can't read the article because the server is down -- but people should be aware of Larry Sanger's history regarding Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger
How Facebook Is Changing the World for Good
Huh? Part of one tribe of Mexian Indians has a common Jewish ancestor. Which indicated that once, quite a while ago, someone of Ashkenazi origin had sex over there. Nothing more. And considering the expulsion edict after the Spanish reunification (1492, a bit before Columbus first journey), there was a lot of traveling going on, too.

This isn't exactly groundbreaking research. Doesn't indicate a new "Elijah the Viking", doesn't justify any golden tablets.
Black holes are not the only theory which fits the evidence we have. Simply add 2M to the first 2 r's in the Schwarzschild metric (the equation used to confirm black holes), and you get a metric that fits all the evidence but doesn't predict black holes, hence doesn't raise the black hole information loss paradox, and so isn't incompatible with quantum mechanics that way. That's well known in the cosmological community, but ignored.
Why is the shift direction the inverse of C ? Is this an error ? It would be a pretty big mistake.
I don't think the filtering options you link to are realistic for public schools. They amount to configuring your browser to not show images, configure a skin which uses a blacklist of 'limited utility', or use a 3rd party proxy that gets no help from Wikipedia.

> Logged-in users can use personal cascading style sheets to display of images selectively (explained below).

> By filtering content locally, either by configuring their web browser (including the possibility to display no images at all), or by setting up a proxy (such as Privoxy) (explained below).

edit: added limited blacklist option
Try looking up "masturbation" in the Encyclopedia Britannica sometime. On the up side it did teach at least one young boy what the clitoris is, since it gave equal time to male and female masturbatory techniques.

I don't think we should erase human sexuality from an encyclopedia because we are afraid that children might be able to research those parts of human society. It is not being used to exploit children, and such information may encourage kids to actually do research when they are curious.
It is not as though they are being sent to these photos by someone else: they are there if the kids go looking. They are going to find info somewhere; I'd much rather it was on Wikipedia than actual porn sites.

If the articles were factually inaccurate I would take umbrage, but that does not seem to be the case.
Great idea , but i wonder how this would work for other companies:

a) This works for 37s because they have a somewhat don't care attitude. So if a customer quickly wants feature-x, they could respond with "We will look into it but won't guarantee anything". I am not telling that's wrong, but other companies might not have created the same image for themselves

b) Having 'Everyone' work on some other idea could be distracting. Especially Support.

c) Last, and i've heard this from a ceo, if the company dosen't accept the idea to be implemented, by that time employees might be so much interested in the idea that they might want to quit and startup their own with 'that' idea.
I'm thoroughly convinced that without hypercard my career path would have been very different.
There are two types of workflow engines: sequential and finite state machines. The latter is more general and includes the former. In a finite state machine external event let you move through the nodes of a graph. The present node is the state. In workflow.py the creation/update of a file is the external event. The state is also characterized by the files present in the file system. The change of state is associated to the execution of a program. I agree it is a little different than what people are used to and I am not arguing semantics. It was useful to me. Hope it is useful to others. That is all. I will be happy to take patches to improve functionality.
> 1) There is very little chance of them closing their doors in the near future as they raised a large series A and have great growth.

Until/unless they get purchased. As you said, it was a large series A.

> 2) Having personally talked with Tikhon on the subject and it's clear that they plan to make this a stable platform for the longhaul. I would not hesitate to build a project on top of Parse they are a great group and would not leave their users hanging.

If they're bought, it won't be their decision.

> 3) If you're still hesitant keep in mind you can still keep mission critical stuff on your own Servers/APIs and use Parse for Push Notifications/Location etc.. There is nothing locking you into what parts of the Parse SDK you use.

Push, etc, is the easy stuff.

> 4) You can always export your data.

It's the continued functioning of the code that I'm worried about, not the data.
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Even though most A/B testing tools will tell you a variation has "won" in a short period of time, I highly recommend running tests for longer periods of time (few days minimum, ideally a week).

- Consumer/user behavior is different day to day, and often follows trends (like weariness to commit or purchase prior to holidays)

- Even with statistical signifance, I've often seen the winner flip on a daily basis because of traffic shifts.

- The tool doesn't know if your traffic sources are consistent (but you should!)

These aren't concrete by any means, but neither is a short-ran multivariate test. If your winner will be up for over 16 hours, give it some more time to "bake" than that :)
That makes the point you're replying to. "The most straightforward explanation for our observations is that these objects have event horizons and, therefore, are black holes." No, another even more straightforward explanation is that it's just an extremely dense object that's not a black hole. Even in Einstein's theory, an "almost black hole" suffices. Nothing mentioned in the article favors the former over the latter.
When you say "Ship every week " what does it mean ? Is it a feature ? Can a bug fix be considered a "ship for a week" ? . Are there any parameters on how you decide someone shipped this week
What I think would be interesting would be some strongly-coupled CLI-GUI interactions. For instance, let's take Word as a start. What if you could swap to your CLI and say "load letter template" and it would walk over to Word and do that for you in the GUI? Or in Excel, instead of clicking through the charting wizard, instead have a CLI that lets you configure the options at will?

I think that would be the next greatest thing in non-mobile What I think would be interesting would be some strongly-coupled CLI-GUI interactions. For instance, let's take Word as a start. What if you could swap to your CLI and say "load letter template" and it would walk over to Word and do that for you in the GUI? Or in Excel, instead of clicking through the charting wizard, instead have a CLI that lets you configure the options at will?

I think that would be the next greatest thing in non-mobile UI design. (But I'm a heavy CLI user, so I'm kinda biased.)
It's definitely a typo.
It is not a problem. Let's move on.
If you're interested in a Python implementation of some of the core ideas of Swift (task-based parallelism, DAG representation of work-flow, etc..) look here: https://github.com/timarmstrong/pydflow

A discussion of the Swift language can be found here: http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift/papers/SwiftLanguageForDist...
I upvoted btilly's at the top of the thread, considered saying "FWIW: my opinion is this, particularly #2", and then decided that added very little value.
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How is checking a man page logically different than digging through menus? Either you know how to do what you want to do, or you need to find out how, regardless of your interface.
That's sarcasm, right? Military spending outstrips healthcare costs by nearly 2:1, and has for decades.
Don't forget dark energy, also (like dark matter) invented to fit the observations. How many hundreds of $millions of taxpayer money will be spent searching for it? These inventions are keeping many scientists employed, it seems. If they went back to correct the mistakes (like any good software developer) there might be a mass layoff.
It's worse fuel economy though, since diesel has much higher energy content (and co2 emissions) per volume than petrol.

You shouldn't compare petrol MPG vs diesel MPG.
I've seen a lot of articles from 37signals.com on HN but I have no idea who they are or what they do. They certainly seem quite innovative in terms of how they treat their employees, which is great.

Are they profitable? I'm curious if their generosity to their employees translates to their bottom line in measurable ways.
I'm not sure how reliable wikipedia's page on a critic of wikipedia is.
You left out:

* “Equal rights, equal lefts”
* DAE think Black History Month is racist against whites?
* Rage comic about “females” spurning nice-guy redditors
* Image of fat black woman in a motorized scooter - LOLOLOLOL
* “La-dash-a” LOLOLOLOL
* DAE hate females for not letting us rape them?
* etc.
* etc.
* etc.
yep, database indices are created for you automatically. This is one of the details we hope app developer should never worry about.
but people should be aware of Larry Sanger's history regarding Wikipedia

Which boils down to "Wikipedia critic is critical of Wikipedia."
In my neighborhood, it's much harder to bike a long enough distance for a good exercise. You can get a much better workout using a smaller "track" when running.

Running isn't super bad for you. You need medium impact to build bone density, which is a major protective factor in old age.
> Plus one less email/password to have to worry about.

You should assume a highly technical audience already has that problem solved, via LastPass, KeePass, or something similar.

> And what founder doesn't have a twitter account, it's sort of as essential as email at this point.

Some of us prefer to compartmentalize our online identities instead of linking them all together, at least initially.
Additionally, removing offensive images is directly against Wikipedia's goal of recording the sum of all human knowledge. Indecent things and ideas are important to document too.
Reading the background on this Sanger does bring his post on Wikipedia's "problem" into a new light.

Perhaps he still has an axe to grind?
What's with the title change? There's a difference in intent between describing a "porn problem" and a "mature content" problem.
There was a lovely gaffe last year when @neilhimself accidentally did a public tweet of his hotel phone number in what was supposed to be a DM to his wife.

Also, I did not know that about the @reply. Twitter needs to come with a --help.
Why should I use this over http://collectd.org?
"Barefoot" running is much easier on the knees. You land differently and thus avoid the sudden jolting stops.
I think you want Michelin, not Zagat. I don't know much about restaurants, but it seems that Michelin sends anonymous professional reviewers to restaurants, while Zagat aggregates and edits reviews from "normal people". The result is that Zagat will emphasize convenience and down-to-earth-ness (for lack of a better word), while Michelin will concentrate on the novelty of the food.

Ultimately, the point of reviews is to avoid bad restaurants, not to find the best restaurant.
I was going to write basically this comment but had trouble expressing it coherently. However, I think there should be an (optional) filter on search results to prevent mature results being returned accidentally. There's no point trying to stop kids seeking out this kind of content if that's what they're looking for (a losing battle if ever I heard one), but like the example given in the article - a search for 'Human Male' shouldn't give results any more inappropriate than you'd find in a physical encyclopedia.
I walked 1/3 of a mile to the store. Machine down. Walked another 1.5 miles to bank, machine down. I got clever and wrote a check for cash. I swore, I'd never rely on electric money.

If your shrinks/CIA/FBI decide to fuck with you... they can take-over the radio, bank machines, etc.

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He doesn't disagree with you, one of his main points was that Wikipedia hosts very very disgusting porn. The fact that children can find porn if they seek it out does not mean we should be presenting it to them on a very public website like Wikipedia. Should it suddenly be ok to post nsfl images everywhere in society because anybody can find it if they really want to? Because I feel like Wikipedia doing this is a step in that direction