skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that the curve on the left passes through zero rather than one.

I've always been inclined to think 1x = x, and think of one as fundamental. But the pattern shows that rather than 1x being fundamental, rather there is the issue of x exists or x doesn't exist. x doesn't exist => 0. I wonder if 1*x = x is really a distraction away from a better type of thinking around existence.

Also, I've always been wary of the part of the rule that says that 1 is not a prime number. Why is that?.
Do not take it literally. Being "dead" doesn't mean there are no users anymore. It means that it's a walking corpse.
I maintain a buildpack for lua if anyone is interested: https://github.com/leafo/heroku-buildpack-lua
Lest we forget SixDegrees.
But sometimes completely unanticipated problems come up and you need stackoverflow... I'm not even sure how I did any work pre-internet. I know troubleshooting took me significantly longer back then, but I was also less experienced.
What is it with the “war” on everything? How about you just make a great product that people want. Easier said than done, I know, but it’s not war.
...except on price and on the broad software ecosphere Auttomatic/WP has (which for the self-hosted option pretty much crushes everyone else unless you are doing a full corporate CMS, where Drupal and Joomla might come into play).

It's a nice proprietary option (maybe even and exceptional one) but the article byline is still very linkbait.
Roughly : local grocers ~75-80%, farmers market ~10% , big superstores ~10-15% .
I'm not sure who "we" are, and why "we don't want to know" things despite wanting to be smarter. In any case, Chomsky certainly wasn't secretive about his education and parenting. Did you look it up?

"My father was, professionally, a Hebrew scholar, and worked with Hebrew grammar. And my mother was a Hebrew teacher. My father sort of ran the Hebrew school system in the city of Philadelphia, and my mother taught in it. He taught in Hebrew College later. There's a Graduate University of Jewish Studies, Dropsie College, which he taught in."

"Actually, I happen to have been very lucky myself and gone to an experimental-progresive Deweyite school, from about the time I was age one-and-a-half to twelve [John Dewey was an American philosopher and educational reformer]. And there it was done routinely: children were encouraged to challenge everything, and you sort of worked on your own, you were supposed to think things through for yourself -- it was a real experience. And it was quite a striking change when it ended and I had to go to the city high school, which was the pride of the city school system. It was the school for academically-oriented kids in Philadelphia -- and it was the dumbest, most ridiculous place I've ever been, it was like falling into a black hole or something. For one thing, it was extremely competitive -- because that's one of the best ways of controlling people. So everybody was ranked, and you always knew exactly where you were: are you third in the class, or maybe did you move down to fourth? All this stuff is put into people's heads in various ways in the schools -- that you've got to beat down the person next to you, and just look out for yourself."

Ok, raised by teachers/scholars who even ran a school system, and went to a school which cultivated critical thinking. Surprising that he turned out to be such a successful academic...

No need to turn to racist theories, or cultural mysticism. Answers are quite simple, but not everyone wants to hear them.
"This strategy follows Christensen's disruptive innovation to the letter. Interesting to see Apple on the brink of disruption in a consumer category it principally defined."

Sorry I'm not seeing it. Who's to say Xiaomi doesn't end up eating Samsung's lunch instead of Apple?

I mean people in the market for "a cheaper iphone" or "a more open iphone" traditionally that's where Samsung and company have been making money right?
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There are two concepts "laser" here. They have 192 lasers and manage to combine their beams so that the resulting beam still is coherent. Because of that, they call the combined device "a laser", too.

I guess that "any other laser" similarly may be made of a bunch of other lasers. So, tha factor 100 is more "a hundred times as much power as any other coherent beam ever produced"
I have seen the same thing in mayoral declarations or the like.

Whereas John Q. Doe is an upstanding citizen who has contributed to the city, and
Whereas aforementioned Mr. Doe is an awesome dude, and
Whereas some people who happened to contribute to my campaign are fans of Mr. Doe,
Therefore, I, Mayor Wile E. Coyote do hereby declare Octember 31st, 2012 as John Q. Doe Day in the city of Acme, CO.

In this context, the UN resolution is actually similar to the comma-style used here by Twitter. We don't want the statement/sentence to end, so we use semicolons/commas to make it continue, and end up breaking browsers/non-lawyer readers.
It's highly unlikely that the income will be perpetual without additional work put in to update the application and keep it fresh.
While not explicitly stated, it's implied that the team built a "good" and innovative product. Sure he never said good but he did say that the team is great in every respect going on to list a few.

The most explicit way to say it would be, "We got in this one for the money. It's a terrible terrible product in terms of adding value to society but that wasn't our goal on this one".

He's entirely entitled to do just that...but don't spin it into something different by skirting the original points he's responding to.
Accumulo is so similar to HBase, that its major feature sets is merely an application that can be implemented on top of HBase.
" Alas, it's the harsh reality: most app developers face serious struggles and the 59% of app developers don't break even from their apps."

This is bull crap. Angry birds have made multi million dollars. Finance in itself is a dull category. They should start something like "paint your mouth" kind of app :-)
ACLU: “reasonable suspicion” not good enough for GPS tracking
I don't know. If you read the article, they specifically keep mentioning HBase and Cassandra as the alternatives that the NSA should have tried to build upon rather than build something from scratch.

edit: I will say I'm not familiar enough with the timelines for all 3 projects to know if that is possible, however, I'd imagine Wired would have had been a bit more vocal if there were specific corporate interests they could have tied to the story.
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Do commitment devices like this actually work for anybody? I've never known anyone who struggled with procrastination or any other vices that prevent them from getting work done and had their problems solved by a tool like this.

The pomodoro technique seems like it would be more effective for motivating you to work since it immediately rewards your efforts with a short break from your tasks.
Indeed the title did not stand. The title was recently changed, just as you asserted it "should" be.
You're right that it is not a safe bet. A lot will depend on how the market shapes itself in the future. Though the income from my own app has remained fairly constant over the years, despite the lack of updates and declining rankings.
My point is that humans are much more intelligent than squirrels. Is this because of environment? Not at all, it is because we have the genetic programming to develop huge brains. The difference in intelligence between humans and squirrels is determined almost entirely by heredity.

The reason I point this out is that it is very common to see comments about heredity not being a factor in human intelligence. It may well be that heredity does not explain differences in intelligence between two humans, or it may be that heredity almost completely explains any differences in intelligence among humans. Science will eventually figure out the truth of the matter. However, heredity plays a very dominant role in determining intelligence, the only question is whether humans are all so genetically similar with regards to intelligence that environmental factors dominate genetic factors.

EDIT: The way I phrased the first paragraph sets up a false choice. Intelligence differences among humans could be hereditary, environmental, or most likely a complex combination of the two.
You're right, for sure. It seems like a less likely scenario. That being said, the abstract at the bottom of the article makes it sound like the patent involves profiling your normal movement patterns and then using that to determine if the glasses are being worn by someone else. If that's the case, and it actually works, then this might actually cover pretty a broad range of thefts. Anyone had a chance to read the patent yet?

Edit: Thinking more about it, I don't think that could work. Even assuming people had identifiable walking patterns, there's always going to be things that unexpectedly change that (e.g. injury, or heavy bags while shopping).
They already make these products. They only don't design them. ;)

Anyway, on a sidenote...
The Apple of yesterday had to prove itself everyday in order not to get killed by bigger players; today Apple has to prove itself every single day in order not to be overtaken by any player. How crazy is that?
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Those would be grammatically correct around here, I don't think I ever seen anything like that in the real world. In actual math classes people will usually just put parenthesis around numbers: (12, 3), (7, 6), (3,2). Sometimes people will actually replace the comma for the dot to avoid confusion (there's no hard rule set on stone, as long as you're being clear, it's ok). Sometimes people will just space them differently like you did and hope that's clear enough. For dictating, I don't think anyone would dictate the commas between numbers, you would just space them when speaking "twelve comma three.... seven comma six".

If you think that's confusing. It's funny to know that we often also use the dot as a multiplication sign. So "12.3,7" actually means "twelve multiplied by 3.7" in english. Btw I'm curious, does other countries also use dot for multiplication or is it only us?
You didn't speak about the amount and reliability of prediction of IQ in your kind reply. I have referred to that publication. The publication by Deary and Johnson you link to was published in 2009. I was quoting a more recent publication by Wendy Johnson, a frequent co-author with Deary at Edinburgh, in one of my other replies in this thread. Here are a couple of publications by Deary, Johnson, and various co-authors with more recent publication dates than what you have kindly linked:

The review article "The neuroscience of human intelligence differences" by Deary and Johnson and Penke (2010)

http://www.larspenke.eu/pdfs/Deary_Penke_Johnson_2010_-_Neur...

"At this point, it seems unlikely that single genetic loci have major effects on normal-range intelligence. For example, a modestly sized genome-wide study of the general intelligence factor derived from ten separate test scores in the cAnTAB cognitive test battery did not find any important genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms or copy number variants, and did not replicate genetic variants that had previously been associated with cognitive ability[note 48]."

Johnson, Penke, and Spinath (2011) "Understanding Heritability: What it is and What it is Not"

http://www.larspenke.eu/pdfs/Johnson_Penke_Spinath_2011_-_He...

"Presuming this is correct and, as Visscher and Keller appear to have implied, applicable to most behavioural traits, this indicates that literally thousands of genes are likely involved in each trait, with no single polymorphism having substantial effect, which is the quasi-inﬁnite model to which Munafo and Flint refer. Whatever would we as psychologists do with such information?"

There are more publications on the issue where these came from. I am familiar with the current literature on the subject, both from an online discussion group hosted by the Behavior Genetics Association and from a weekly "journal club" during the school year (at which I met Wendy Johson, the co-author of the publication you linked to, and of other more recent publications I am linking to in this thread). The hope of many behavior genetics researchers was finding a simple genetic model of normal allele variation in just a few genes having a large and consistent influence on IQ in the normal range. That hope has been dashed by the data as further studies have been conducted, and as researchers attempt to replicate the studies of earlier authors in new data sets.
To rank academic papers you'd need a way to establish certain people as authorities within each field or area, and make their vote stronger. This authority ranking would surely have expert input initially, but I would expect that Citeseer and Google Scholar may be good places to look for inspiration on ways to crowdsource authority rankings.

For starters look at the Page Rank paper (named after Larry Page, not web page). Academic papers need something richer than page rank, but since tens of billion of web pages can be ranked for arbitrary queries, the volume of academic papers should be fime.

Ranking algorithms are one of my favorite subjects, and they are as challenging as they are important. "Search" has little to do with actual searching, it's really a ranking problem. Google's search was the first good ranking scheme for internet search, and their "I feel lucky" button was a way to show that off.

Happy to discuss by email.
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He said he liked the team. I have my issues with Paul Graham but I'm inclined to believe him when he says a startup has an excellent team.

Apparently, he owes you some deeper explanation about how every company YC puts money into --- it's more than 100 every year now, isn't it? --- is managed.

Sorry, I didn't mean to get in the way. By all means: cross examine the witness.
I declare war on...dill pickles. Now come buy my sweet pickles. yawn

Also, a nit: it is sad to see a journalist refer to the "lead" of his/her story.
"patent shows" -- crazy stuff is tossed into patents all the time just to cover all possible bases. This in no way means that the actual production Glass units will have this feature.
I saw a couple of tweets today by Chrome users who were wondering where the 'new tweet' input form field went. So not sure if this problem is limited to Opera. (I am using Chrome as well and didn't have any problems but still.)
Where do you think your iPhone is made?

China has been at the forefront of quality manufacturing for quite some time now. It was only a matter of time before some of their design companies started to make proper use of them.
Retina scan?!?
I think Thomas is being sarcastic.
While I feel you might be mocking the folks that use this when calling pirating a movie "stealing", your point is still valid. Saying "stolen" serves only to sensationalize what happened. Saying "rips off" or "copies" would be more accurate.

As to why some people apparently feel more comfortable saying "stolen" in this case versus people sharing MP3s: There's an obvious qualitative difference between people sharing files, and someone passing work off as their own, especially when profiting from it. From what I can tell, it's the whole plagiarism part that really pisses people off.
Angry Birds is far from "most app developers." It is among the most successful mobile apps ever, so you can hardly use it to indicate what things are like for "most app developers."
Yup, there will always be bugs, many of them not important enough to ever fix.
$80,000/yr. of perpetual income for a couple of months worth of work seems like a great deal.

It is doubtful that any software could provide "perpetual income" for no further work.

Despite the fact the bits themselves remain the same, software requires maintenance as much as roadways; the underlying OS changes, user expectations change, security flaws are discovered and urgently require attention, etc.

The update/replacement process is very unlikely to disappear unless the world suddenly begins changing much more slowly. What may happen is that users jump from app to app if the apps are priced too cheaply to account for maintenance.

Edit: Also, the infrastructure one might need for "maintenance mode" is significant. One of the other ironies of software is that there a considerably smaller ratio of effort-to-result for "small updates and bug-fixes" compared to new feature implementation.
My apologies, I can't seem to put them side by side, but I'm pretty sure when I checked some time ago that was the case. I clearly isn't any more.
I did this for a while but I just ended up editing my hosts file every time I wanted to stop working. Maybe I just need to practice more self discipline.
Remember, this article is from Pando, so it's not surprising that the headline is, um, a little excessive.
Nice work! Now only if there were an equivalent for developers.
SICP should be on the suggested reading list for basically all CS classes :P.
Surely you're aware that a tremendous amount of ink and (social-)scientist hours have been spent doing "science" with the presumption that there "are no genes for IQ" etc., so it makes sense to be on guard against biased writing (at least by publication/file-drawer bias) on the topic.

You have gwern wrong. He's an unbiased scientist on this topic.
This was what I was served and was referencing when I wrote that:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/21496507/t1-more.f1f23c393561.js

I don't feel like digging through minified javascript though, so I have no clue what the discrepency is.
Great job scoutzie!
I think his comment is tongue-in-cheek - noting that when it comes to piracy we like to get pedantic about the difference between infringement and theft, but when we're holding the short end of the stick we'll gladly assign whatever label we please.
I have a great example of serendipity. I was visiting a former coworker in San Diego and she setup a lunch with another one of our buddies from work. We hadn't seen each other in years and of course I was excited to tell them about our new startup. A week later I got an email from the guy, asking for a product deck. He does technology resale to the Fortune 500 and wants me to pitch to all the north america sales leads. :-o
Stackato rocks!
Maybe, maybe not. I signed up for a throwaway Gmail account today and along with it came a Google+ account. I didn't click on the G+ link, but how may people have, only to never visit again?
GMail numbers weren't broken out, but YouTube rivals Facebook at ~150m uniques monthly.

There's been a lot made of FB (and other social networks) primarily being photo-sharing networks. While I doubt video will ever quite have the same impact (they're deeper but not as casually shared), it probably will grow as a social element, and Google are beautifully positioned in this regard.
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One layer (open-source kernel w/security extensions) does not a stack make.
I'm not sure that analogy works because the Higgs boson was not a surprise. It was predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. I also worry that you're abusing the word "obvious."
Calculating the value of human tissue donation
Hotmail never ran on Linux, it was all FreeBSD.
I notice that they're actually looking to do faster turnaround on phase 2 - less time for giving a block of greater than /16 and less time for the ranges to clear up after they've been given back.

I wonder if this is because those request for ranges larger than /16 now have to go through a team (read:committee)? Does that somehow offset the gained time above?

Does anyone have any good resources for what's projected to happen when scarcity hits? Surely, prices are going to be raised everywhere (Comcast Business, AWS, etc.) due to supply and demand, right? What happens with an IPv4 for comcast business that goes from $10/month to $100/month? Does the business just decide to go with a static ipv6 and a dynamic ipv4? Do then then start hosting their mail with gapps or similar since they can't host their own IPv4?
Lots of people commenting if your code is fun you shouldn't have to restrict yourself, blah blah blah. That's not the problem. The problem is how easy it is to instantly distract yourself. Taktaktaktaktak "Oh hey, I wonder if so-and-so replied on my Facebook, let's just to a quick look.." 5 hours later "Oh snap, the time just flew by!"

If you're serious about blocking yourself from parts of the Internet, do it comprehensively. Here's what I do.

Most of the advice on this page is blocking from the browser-level or OS-level. This is easy to bypass, and you have to configure every device. You need to work at the router-level.

Let's talk blocking. A complete blacklist is wrong, you still need some Internet to Google or ask for help. e.g. stackoverflow.com, etc. Similarly, whitelists don't work because you can't possibly list every site you may need access to -- you may not know they exist yet. You need a keyword-matching blacklist.

You need two things:

1. WRT54GL router ($20-$50)
2. Tomato firmware: http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato/

Vendor firmware usually has access restrictions, but they usually limit it to like 10 websites, and it usually doesn't have pattern-matching. You need a 3rd party firmware like Tomato.

Install the firmware per instructions from its website. It's really easy. The firmware has a page called "Access Restrictions". It does keyword blacklists/whitelists. You can block yourself for only certain hours of certain days. Here is an easy video tutorial from their website to guide you: http://www.polarcloud.com/v/screst.htm

For example, one keyword I use is "news". BAM! All URLs with the word "news" instantly blocked. Good. I don't need to be reading news when I should be coding. Resources like stackoverflow.com don't usually put "news" in their URLs, so they're safe.

There is the problem of unplugging the uplink from the router and directly into your computer (bypassing the router), or simply reconfiguring the router without restrictions. If you lack that much self-control, which I can understand (as I do too!!!), I recommend locking your router in a electrical enclosure and throwing away the key. Ok, not really. I made a cron job for the router that changes its login password to gibberish at some hour of the day, and X minutes prior it sets it to my normal password. Thus, I have X minutes of access to the router per day, should I need it.
Awesome. Will take that into consideration as well :)
Why would people use this instead of Twitter?
Squarespace's last reported revenue was 2010. WordPress's $45 million is projected this year - a two year discrepancy.
Any privacy we could had using Skype was dead the same day MSFT bought them. It was just a matter of time to make it official.

What's gonna be from now on? Stay put, and watch it.
"Larger" is a relative term. How many people pay monthly subscriptions to LinkedIn vs Google+ ?
Liking it :) Good work
How do you prove that you did not infringe?
Every time I click "show more designers", it brings me back to the top. I think you forgot a "return false;"
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I can almost guarantee that. It is always another vendor that pulls the strings. It comes with litigation threats, lobby efforts etc. It happens for small stuff, it definitely happens for multi-million dollar items.
Seems expensive for existing template and little customization.
There's a computer vision class offered already: https://www.coursera.org/course/vision.
MSFT used Linux for DNS servers for a while, its unclear why they did that since they had so many other FreeBSD acquisitions anyways. Some loadbalancers returned BSD/Linux fingerprints when scanned, but its unlikely that MSFT actually used Linux in the direct path anywhere.