skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely agree that it's an interesting view point, but Brooks makes no effort to really show that things have ever been different. He defines the good old days as the opposite of today, rather than actually describing them.

The question of whether or not someone earned their place in society is one that people have and will always wonder: it gets at the nature nurture question and thus is totally wrapped up in our identities.
That's exactly what Steve would have done.
What makes you think he wasn't in on this breach? It's far more profitable than running a bitcoin exchange.
YC says they are looking for the next Steve Jobs (http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html). The most oft-cited reason for Steve Jobs' success was his ruthless attention to detail in all aspects of design, even when others didn't think it mattered (e.g., http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...).

I doubt that "the next Steve Jobs" would spend $200 at 99Designs for his company's first impressions.
Snark if you want to, but I believe what I said.

I wish a successful product launch just meant you had to have a great looking website! That would make my life easier.
That paper has two main points in its conclusion: Our result provides insights into the trade-off between diversity and ability. An ideal group would contain high-ability problem solvers who are diverse. and also But, as we see in the proof of the result, as the pool of problem solvers grows larger, the very best problem solvers must become similar. In the limit, the highest-ability problem solvers cannot be diverse.

Here's a paper (linked from my earlier link) that quantifies some of the benefits of diversity for problem solving. https://www.sciencemag.org/content/254/5035/1181.full.pdf and here's one that demonstrates that diverse groups get "highly nonlinear and universal increase in performance" http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/01672789909...
I've made account for Hall and the desktop app, but I'm not sure how to find contacts with details.
http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/

http://blog.kenperlin.com/

http://blog.vixra.org/

http://www.nature.com/

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/science/publicati...

http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/

http://lwn.net/

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/transcriptions....

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki if you're into seeing how the Elders thought about computing

http://idlewords.com/

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/papers

http://graphics.ucsd.edu/~henrik/papers/
I'd argue that government is more pervasively corrupt today because it pretends to be clean. We aggressively try to stamp out "transactional" corruption, but pretend that systemic corruption doesn't exist.

In 1960, a salesman would give a government buyer a bottle of whisky for Christmas. That's a serious crime these days. But today, we eliminated to a large extent the "upfront" influence and instead launder it through "lobbying" firms. A $30 bottle is a crime, $30,000,000 of advertising through a PAC is ok.
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Mind sharing what OCR software you used? I'm working on project which has just this need.

Thanks!
That chart is largely irrelevant to the discussion in several ways. Your question is specious.

It shows population correlations. In a general population, where a range of bodytypes may be assumed, there will be a correlation between BMI and body fat percentage. There's relatively little argument over that, though as I mentioned above, the actual utility of BMI for epidemiological / population studies is being question.

- The question isn't "is there a correlation?", but "is the correlation between BMI and body fat stronger or weaker than for other estimators of body fat?". For which you'd want to look at the r^2, RSS (residual sum of squares), and perhaps plotted residuals to determine the appropriateness of the model, in comparison with other estimators: waist circumference, height/waist ratio (most people also have a pretty good idea of their waist size), circumference and caliper estimators, etc.

- To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, in epidemiological population studies, you conduct research with the data you have, not with the data you want. Height and weight are widely collected and reported, even from sources such as DMV files (though they may also be wildly inaccurate). For large-scale or national studies, this makes for large datasets. The relevance and usefulness of the data may not be as high as, say, DEXA analysis, or even waist to height ratio (http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20050606/waist-heigh...), but it's there. And for at least some purposes, useful.

Extending the use to individuals, where in most settings (home, gym, doctor's office, clinic, health fair), availability of necessary measurement tools (tape measure, calipers, even the wildly inaccurate handheld electronic bioimpedance monitors) is readily facilitated, there's really no call to rely on BMI.

- The problem with BMI is that it's essentially saying "if you fit our model of body fat relative to height and weight, then here is where you fall on our model of obesity". Again, for a general population this relationship holds reasonably well, but for an individual, where the question specifically is "what is my body fat percentage", BMI is the wrong tool for the job. It fails notably for specific populations of interest -- it will consistently underreport obesity in less-healthy populations, and overreports obesity in more-healthy populations. It can also result in nonsensical intervention recommendations: most unfit people will benefit by efforts to increase lean muscle mass, despite the fact that for those with lower BMIs this will decrease their putative health score by increasing overall body mass. I suspect this is among the reasons strength training is under-recommended for increasing fitness (most literature addresses "diet" and "exercise" generally, but makes little or no distinction between cardio and strength training, or focuses virtually exclusively on cardio).
That's fair, I would agree - the landing page is lacking. I did use Bootstrap for the dashboard, but I've neglected the landing page. I may have to consider that.

I noticed you picked some of the earlier templates I developed, I either need to improve them or push them out. I really do appreciate the feedback. Thanks for giving it a shot, I will definitely work on the landing page.
Was anyone in it? How did the car know to pull over? How was it able to find a safe spot to pull over?
Tens of thousands of views and many answers and comments later, most everything that's happened in response to the question has been edifying.

There's simply no evidence there of a flamewar having been averted. The closest thing I've seen to an unreasonable insult that I've noticed in relation to the topic is an unfounded comparison to 4chan.
I am surprised no one has liked to ncomment's rendition of the how the digg vs reddit war went down.

Part 1: http://ncomment.com/blog/2009/04/08/war-13/

Part 2: http://ncomment.com/blog/2009/12/17/war-23/

Part 3: http://ncomment.com/blog/2012/01/06/war-33/
Think Atennagate. It’s pretty similar.

I’m also not sure why you are worried about that. Not everything Steve did was gold. Some of the things he did were pretty toxic, and I think being unable to really admit you were wrong in public is one of those things.

If this is indeed a change in that direction (and I somewhat doubt it is) it is to me unquestionably a positive one.
I hadn't seen the roadmap changes. They address a lot issues I had, especially the argument modes.

I'm sure camel casing will be controversial, but it makes sense given that Rust's primary audience is Mozilla, where camel case is the enshrined naming convention for its C++, Java, and JavaScript code. Python's standard library is an ugly example of what happens when the language community can't settle on one convention.

Also, I wonder why 21st century languages still use "&&" and "||" operators. Python's "and" and "or" operators are easier to read (for English speakers) and type. They don't require shifting of distant keys. "and" has two home row characters. "or" has fewer keystrokes than "||". :)
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What are some cases where you've been asked for a password in an iOS app? I've only ever seen this for initial login with like facebook or instagram, and when updating apps (very annoying, I agree).
I think we all understand how selective memory works, but thanks for the reminder.

Let me restate that the pro-microsoft trolls were the reason I left Digg in disgust.
malkia, by signing up with your work domain (ex: @intuit.com) we auto-connect you to everyone is in your company. To then add contact, you can click "Contacts" in the left nav, and then "Add Contact" just like Skype. Any suggestions on how we could have made this easier?
If I'm on page 1 for an hour because I'm reading other stories or - gasp - doing actual work, and I click more, I should see whatever the hell is on page 2 at the time, not get an error about my specific version of page 2 no longer existing.

Whoever came up with the expiring "More" link idea is a goddamned idiot.
Download a template from Themeforest and use that instead of what you have now. Also, you need to describe what is the website about. Add some Header text.
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>Actual return on investment for any stock or fund is completely non-deterministic, and therfore it is gambling.

I could not disagree more. That is not a definition of gambling. Does that mean that investing in a large-cap index fund for a period of 40 years is gambling? What about putting your money in the trust of a bank? Even the bank's returns are non-deterministic. The government could collapse. Even keeping money in your house under the mattress includes risk (what if your house catches fire?). What method of saving or investing wealth would you say is deterministic?

A better measure of whether or not something is gambling is how much risk is associated with it. If I bought a US government bond, nobody would call that a gamble, because it's very unlikely that the the government will collapse. Similarly, if I bought a mutual fund comprised of a mixture of large, stable companies and various bonds, it is unlikely that it will go down in value over the long term. "Over the long term" is the key here. If the US economy has an overall downward trend for the next 40 years, then think about what that would mean. That government bond isn't looking too great, either, in that circumstance.
Our Elites have always stunk. Even during perhaps the most creative, innovative, and groundbreaking period in the history of political science (the time around the American revolution), our leaders ran smear campaigns, created laws to freeze out their competitors[1], and even killed each other[2].

But, those great men actually realized, at least to some extent, how much they stunk. They crafted a limited government because they recognized how easily corrupted people in power are.

This fantasy that everything will be okay if we simply pick the "right" elites has been persistent since FDR's administration. There's no such thing. Brooks argues that we just need to inject some ethics into the process. Good luck. If you can figure out how to do that, we don't need prisons, we don't need 99.9% of the laws we have, and we don't need 99.9% of the government we have. Of course, humans don't work that way. Which is why our government was set up the way it was in the first place.

[1] Our beloved Ben Franklin became postmaster just so he could scoop other peoples' stories for his own newspaper.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_burr
There's something about writing "in digust" in italics that makes me laugh uncontrollably.

Looking through your past comments it is clear that you have some sort of grudge against Microsoft, so perhaps I am not surprised you were downvoted after all.
fair enough - it aint pretty. I need to refine the signup page too.
AFAIK Bitcoinica was the only site offering BTC derivatives, so presumably some people figured the potential profit was worth the risk. More generally, all Bitcoin exchanges seem to be run by amateurs, so people have to deal with them to cash out.
the famous McIlroy vs Knuth story
http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg... here it goes
I see it pretty much the same way. All of the talk is just putting too fine a point on it. The benefit to society for having banks so large is negligible compared to the costs.
The market might be young, but IT security is not. Unix has had salts on passwords for decades.
I don't agree with the assessment that NYC startups are more "smoke and mirrors". I will concede that there seems to be more of an engineering culture in SV and more of a design culture in NYC but if you look at NYC it's to be expected.
Also, having a conversation is pretty much impossible if there are a lot of comments, mainly because the comments are linear. If you want to catch replies to your comments, you need to read everything or search for your username (hoping they included it).

I always hoped that Mefi would go threaded, but the current way is clearly the desired mode. It's also the reason I don't really look at the comments on Mefi anymore.
Om writes, "Not all Macs Apple currently makes have EPEAT certification, including the latest MacBook Pro with Retina display introduced last month."

This is contradicted by HN comments on the Apple announcement itself: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4240841

Other than background that HN is mostly familiar with, I think the only thing Om adds is that Mansfield is retiring from his position at some point in the near future.
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Banking, as regards regulation, is a special case.

If a taxi company or a pizza company goes belly up, people shake their heads sadly and move to a competitor. The free market is the best arbitrator.

If a chain of banks goes belly up and people's life savings are gone, you get rioting in the streets. That's the kind of situation that let Hitler into power. For the sake of preserving civilization, governments act as the de facto underwriters of bank deposits. This free insurance is an effective subsidy, and people don't give you free money without demanding control to go with it, so it's inevitable that governments end up having a say in how the banking business is carried out.

People put their fucking life savings into Bitcoinica. If that starts happening on a large scale - if Bitcoin becomes a major currency, and people have the opportunity to put their life savings into bitcoin banks - then bitcoin banks will start being regulated, just as fiat currency banks are. As a libertarian, I'm not entirely happy about this, but we have to deal with the world as it is, not as it should be.
I can't help but feel that much of the criticisms here are semantic in nature and result from zeroing in on sentences and phrases rather than the central idea of the article.

'Who the elites are', 'how they got where they are', and 'what their natures are' are the kinds of topics that people tend to think of in quasi-religious terms.

Breaking through the semantic quibbling and getting past the default set of political assumptions isn't easy -- even on a reasonably contemplative forum like HN.

Like you, I don't know the answer. Brooks' conclusions are a little weak since there isn't any way to gather statistics on the subject that would mean much. Interesting to think about, though.
Even just a thread like this is full of an insane amount of value.
"Apple is dead silent for a few days." - Why is this special or even worth mentioning? You expect a multi-billion dollar company with 20K employees to discuss something like that happily in a public forum or so?
And people who like to throw around the word "fanboy" said it was because Apple is contemptuous of everyone but themselves and don't care about the environment at all.

I wonder the same thing about them.
> Apple fanatics have similar brain patterns to religious people.

Any fanatic does. Find someone passionate about Android, or model railroading, or knitting, and they'll show up the same way in a brain scan.

If you think Apple is unique in having over-the-top fans, that may be a sign that you're some sort of a fanatic yourself.
This isn't much of a story.
Congratulations on your launch. I like the design and concept. Who is paying for the paypal transaction fees? Does it get added on to buyers total? Good luck and Keep it up.

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What percentage of Apple's budget do you imagine was spent on marketing in the pre-Apple II years? I bet it was pretty small compared to what was spent on product development.

The Apple I didn't come with a keyboard or a case. It was not much to look at from a visual design standpoint.
Indeed... We need to go back to feudalism where we can sell our hacking skills in exchange for slavery to our VCs for 8 years. After the 8 year mark we can finally start drawing a salary instead of just getting room and board and catered lunches.

The reason for fiat money is to allow for venture capital and allow new people (immigrants, new births) room in the economy. Granted what has gone in recent times clearly gives certain people more leverage and ability to escape punishment when they play outside the rules. Something should be done about that, but going back in time to feudalism isn't going to solve the problem.
I actually have and think Salesforce is a great CRM solution. But that's not the point of this piece. The core argument is that CRMs are not sales software and not the right interface for sales reps as core user group. If you look at the UI/UX the closest thing to most CRMs (including Salesforce) is Amazons' AWS backend panel.

Think about that. The interface for engineers to manage servers is almost identical to the interface we give sales people to manage customers :)

We think there's something wrong with that and have tested it already with many sales reps and seen great results.

Just as a bit of background: we are currently running sales campaigns for many venture backed startups in the valley and are very familiar with the space.

Would love to invite you to visit our little "sales lab" in Mountain View and hear your feedback :)
As long as your browser does not pin certificates.
Are you referring to the landing page or the site templates?

The landing page might work, but for site templates that could be a potential issue even if I pay for a theme. The concern I am selling something, as the prices for themes go up when you resell someone else's work.
"All eligible products" is a key, the new iPad with its glued in battery is not among them.

The "more efficient and longer lasting" case materials he brags about are irrelevant in their disposable products made of low quality components that are not user serviceable or upgradable.

It's like bragging you made your automobile frame out of solid titanium with a carbon fiber shell, but ignoring the fact that you built the engine without any way to change the oil, so you're going to be throwing it out or sending it in for major costly service after a short time. Such planned obsolescent designs are certainly not environmentally sound, and claims of the longevity and strength of the frame materials, and even of certifications, are just PR to distract and hypnotize the marketplace into believing the opposite of the reality of the situation.
"On Linux, by default, there isn't even a real Bourne shell anyway; it's a symlink to bash."

For a lot of Linux users (Debian/Ubuntu) /bin/sh is a symlink to dash.
"[Brand] Apologist" and "[Brand] Fanboy" are the kind of ridiculous, loaded terms which shouldn't appear anywhere on a site like HN. When people praise Apple it's not because they're fanboys. When people criticise Apple it's not because they hate everything Apple does with a passion.

EPEAT is outdated. Horribly outdated. By EPEAT's own admission.

Apple made a mistake by opting out of it rather than working with EPEAT to try to improve it. I think that's what they are doing now.
I second Stripe, Twilio, Tokbox, Dwolla as leaders in good implementation--then add Full Contact, Iron.io, Etsy, Factual and Foursquare to that stack.

But definitely look at the oldest developer areas with eBay, Salesforce and Amazon. They have been doing it a while.
We're defining two different things here, elitists and elites. An elitist is defined by their state of mind, and how they classify themselves and others. You do not need actual power to be elitist.

Society's elites, on the other hand, have real influence (and may not even have an elitist mindset).
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Sounds a lot like Postmates' "Get it now" (http://postmates.com/getitnow), but less useful, since it's only for one thing.
One additional possibility is making packaged NodeXT extensions that can be plugged into any website and configured. Here is an example:

http://search.npmjs.org/#/nodext-create
I think this is basically right. PowerShell is what you'd get if you started writing "the perfect shell" from scratch. But comparing to bash in isolation is sort of missing the point. Everything in unix is designed to work in the shell, and that's not true in windows.

So you have tools like ssh and nc and curl at hand, designed to feed each other via pipes and do one thing well. Want to push a file to a server behind a VPN when all I have is ssh access to a host on the network? Trivial. On windows? No clue. It's not a shell problem.
interesting hack. And the todo's, iou's part : elegantly simple and intuitive!
You would think it’s not special or worth mentioning, wouldn’t you, but it actually kind of is. Many companies respond to a crisis with very confused initial communication before they get their shit together and can internally agree on a message and strategy.

Apple has been pretty consistent in being able to just stay silent until they really have something to say. (I think that has more to do with their general lack of chattiness than anything else, though.)
I think it is pushing it to say Steve's approach (which would probably have been to say nothing, then back-track 3 weeks later) was a PR technique. Having read the Isaacson biography, it's clear Jobs was 100% sincere in his belief that he knew best and was surrounded by bozos who hadn't earned the right to question his decisions. That's the attitude that made Apple great - twice - and it could now be gone.
It was simple -- apocryphally because Larry or Sergei weren't familiar with HTML -- but I don't see what makes it crude compared to the competition at the time (http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/popular-search-engines-in...).
I would also add to your list:

* http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/dbpl/

* http://arxiv.org/corr/home

* http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/index

* http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/

* http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/

* http://scientopia.org/blogs/goodmath/

and the like
The entire thrust of their response - perhaps even half of the text - is that EPEAT remains outdated. So not really, no.
I heavily prefer it for simple sites. Once you start needing all the bells and whistles, you can look elsewhere. Right tool etc... Don't need twitter bootstrap for every blog or repo site out there.