skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> followed by a (north-centric, vs. vehicle bearing) map.

Isn't north-centric map confusing for you in such situations? I know it is for me. Vehicle bearing maps take away one quite expensive mental step of translating and rotating your world to fit the map (or vice versa) in your imagination. I personally always prefer maps oriented in the direction where I'm heading, to the point that I always rotate paper maps in my hand so that it is constantly aligned with the direction I'm looking at. I wonder if anyone else does the same?
More red/yellow before, more blue/violet in recent history. Cool data set, but the question is "so what?".
Shouldn't the REAL question be:
How much are you willing to pay in order to be deleted from all of Google's databases (and start with a clean slate)? (Your personal search-history, what sites you visited, your e-mail, contents of your Google docs, your personal wifi and passwords that were scanned by the Google maps cars, your entire profile...) How much would that be worth?
I am not sure, I did not know it and just found it on a blog and I did not see any timestamp
From that link: "Really what x86 needs is a PREDECODE instruction, a code equivalent of the PREFETCH data instruction, which takes a code pointer as an operand and hints to the CPU that it should start decoding that code."

I'm not sure this makes sense as proposed. Where is the CPU going to put these pre-decoded instructions? The instruction decoder is the first stage of a pipeline, and the decoded instructions are usually fed directly to subsequent pipeline stages. When a branch is predicted, the stream of instructions continues to be decoded and executed in program order from the predicted branch target, and the pipeline stays full. But you can't use this "PREDECODE" instruction to keep the pipeline full, because you can't speculatively execute instructions unless you have already executed all of their dependent instructions (ie. all the instructions prior to the branch that will jump to the target we are feeing to PREDECODE).

What would make sense (to me at least) is if you could have an instruction that tells the branch predictor "the branch at address X will most likely jump to address Y next time." The predictor could then update its tables to adjust the prediction it will make. It seems like this should be pretty straightforward; since the branch predictor and instruction decoder both live at the head of the pipeline, there shouldn't be any danger that the hint is registered only after the branch has already been predicted.
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Using monotheism and polytheism as a metaphor here was a poor choice. I really get tired of the myth that the polytheistic cultures of antiquity were much more religiously tolerant than the later monotheistic cultures.

This is a myth caused by an appeal to common sense that is not supported by the evidence. Let's take Roman society as an example. They may have had plenty of gods to worship, but there was an official state religion with compulsory worship, and they were hardly tolerant of deviation (see the ancient Christians for examples).
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I'd be interested seeing someone (not fit enough in this topics to do it myself) applying color psychology and mapping it to the years / events / industry.

Could explain the shift from warmer colors to more technical ones (just speculating)
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Well, it's interesting to see that Teal and Orange filters are used just as prominently in promotional material as in the films themselves. It's a terrible trend and annoying as hell. See here for more:

http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com.au/2010/03/teal-and-orange...
>But it’s the only place in the world where most rich people don’t really flaunt it.

Wow. Someone needs to travel a little bit.
Maybe they couldn't use some colors in older times due to technological limitations of chemical/print process?
> Gun is also a tool designed and optimized for
> self-defense.

So, how many shot back at the attacker in that movie theater?
Interesting that there are no black columns ie no colors which consistently wouldn't be used. Green is represented very little though
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The UI on these is seriously awful. It is unreal. Spinning a knob to type something in? Uncivilized.

I have a BRZ now and you can type on the screen as fast as you like. It is unreal.

(also, someday I am going to go bonkers from looking up stuff on one computer (phone) and typing it into another (car).)
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Have a read of my other comment on the page (search antjohnst to speed up finding it) giving an example in the pharma industry.
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I read through this entire article and came to the conclusion: this can be summed up into a tweet.
While I think the monotheists are the most outspoken (and easier to get behind), I don't know whether the overall point is true. Continuing the purely anecdotal style of the OP: I know a lot of people that might fall into the monotheist camp at first glance, but once you start talking, it really isn't true. In my circles, I can quickly name the following configurations:

* The all-out Mac/IPhone user that is constantly eying for B2G and some Linux desktops to finally hit the point where he wants to switch.
* IPhone users complaining that Windows Phone hasn't taken off.
* Windows users using OS X at work and being pleased by both...

I could go on and on. Once you start talking to all of those people, they will happily admit many advantages and flaws of their platforms. The problem is that once you picked one, people automatically assume that you dislike the other. You won't talk much about the nice little things of a platform that you don't use on a daily basis.
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I bet your prediction is wrong. I've expanded on it elsewhere, but fb is sitting on a couple enormous businesses.

1 - they can launch the first serious adsense ($10B/year pre tac) competitor because they see most people move about the internet on fb connect;

2 - the ad exchange (fbx) is brilliant: you can bring your 3rd party data in and run ads on fb properties. This allows everyone to reuse their retargeting / behavioral targeting data and target in a guaranteed brand safe environment. But no data leaves: fb is a data sink.

3 - adding to the above, they have real demographics for brand advertisers, so they can diversify from the dr people.

4 - adding to #2, they're even better positioned for 2nd screen. Tons of people want to connect desktop/laptop display with mobile, but fb doesn't have to do any guessing or prediction: fb knows all the data because of the shared login. Thus they'll monetize mobile better not just because they know dems, but because they can extend online 3rd party data to mobile via fbx. If nothing else, buckets of dirt cheap impressions for your targeting/bt lists.

edit:
5 - how could I forget gambling? Zynga moves into real money gambling / poker (some relevant court cases have apparently been recently decided) and fb continues to collect a 20-30% tax.
The difference is that RPG leveling systems don't care about you passing a specific challenge - they just care that you've spent a certain amount of time in an area. In Metroid and Zelda, if you know the solutions to the puzzles, or are just really good, you can blaze through them and get to the good part in a fraction of the time spent before. That's why there's an entire subculture of people who speed-run Metroid-style games, and not so much for Final Fantasy.

I think that that kind of progression is a more accurate indicator of a) whether the player is ready to handle the complexity that the new ability brings, and b) the value the player has received from the game, so far (if we're dismissing the notion that time spent is necessarily proportional to value).
That was a very interesting link, thanks a lot.
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Which patent?

Sorry, don't like to identify myself.
So regexp is easy: the Lua authors assert that their irregular-regular expressions (match library) cover the 80% use case for regular expressions while maintaining excellent performance and avoiding the hell that regexps can all too easily descend into. Based on some of the regexps that I've come across in my time...I'm inclined to agree with their decision.

As for unicode, I also rather like their approach: we give you the low level tools, and you are free to implement whatever sort of encoding support you like on top of that. I used Ruby 1.8 when a string was just a bucket-o-bytes, and now I use Ruby 1.9 where every string MUST HAVE AN ENCODING OR ELSE! Based on my experience with both, I'd much rather not have encoding forced on me. That said, it would be nice to see a unicode implementation "blessed" by the core team (but the seem loath to "bless" any libraries).
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Sorry, yeah that's an important distinction. No I do not own it. The company I work(ed) for does.
The problem for journalists is that they have to write about things that they do not know and frequently do not understand. They don't have a choice but to rely on experts - real or fake - and they usually don't have budget or stuff to check them - because for that you'd need to hire another set of experts! So unless the journalist works for some publication that is obsessive with fact checking (I've heard New Yorker is like that) and has budget to do it, they are at the mercy of the sources. So when you read some random quote in the press, the first instinct should not be "it's true because New York Times says it" but "some guy I don't know said something to some other guy I don't know who probably didn't bother even to verify it".
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Looks like "Peak Oil" back in 1977 made people feel blue or resulted in different chemicals being used in films. The blue band is much wider for that year all of a sudden.
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"In the long run of history, do the conclusions of science get overturned more often than the conclusions of other fields?"

This would not tell you anything about bias, though. It leaves out the possibility that scientists are simply right more often.
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Hmm, I wonder about causation here. Does the loud fast music make people drink more, or does it just turn away teetotallers and attract drunkards? Reading one of the actual studies cited (http://www.icd.go.cr/sitio/downloads/uploads/web_icd_pdf/pub...) it seems they just used passive observation, so that might be the case. In which case the headline is unjustified. Shock horror, online blog misuses science in headline!
This is very common practice in large business, where the payment terms to suppliers are sometimes much longer periods than the time to purchase. Amazon, for example, have the same strategy, where they can sell the majority of their stock before paying for it. It also happens in the recruitment industry, where large companies who hire contractors can wait up to 6 months before paying the recruiters (to pay contractors), who end up in cyclical debt trying to pay the contractors on time.
Does this removal of incentive trouble you at all

The public good is usually best served by healthy competition.
Problems occur when r&d for an invention is very costly. This is not the case for software patents.

Can you point me to a software patent that is protecting something of value (in term of cost of the invention)?

And, personally, no, it does not bother me. Both me and the companies I worked for would have been better off without software patents.

Like the author I do believe that copyright is a very important and useful legal construct (even open source software would not exist in its current form without it).
Not only is it comically villainous, it's the technical term for waste water from toilets. That is, sewage. Whoever is picking their names needs to be, uhm, shot.
6th most important means "not very important".
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>Science can test hypotheses, even if individual scientists fall in love with their own theories.

The scientific process is incredibly useful, but I grow tired of the near religious reverence for the nebulous "Science."

Science isn't monolithic. It isn't an object, it can't do anything. Science is merely a process practiced by people. Science is the scientists.

Science has hierarchies like any other human institution that can wrongly prevent the spread of dissenting ideas. All it takes is enough people in the right places to keep a bad idea firmly entrenched for years. As research becomes more and more specialized we may become even more vulnerable to small entrenched groups with incorrect conclusions.

Many of the incorrect theories overturned through the years, where done so, not because the scientists who make up "Science" changed there mind after seeing contradictory evidence, but because they died off.
I doubt that Zynga's decline has anything to do with their flawed mechanics (I'd argue that it's flawed too), and everything with Facebook effectively killing it (specifically, 'Requests') in feed.

There's no feedback loop in there anymore for Zynga's cows.
And not even that is necessarily true. I'm a physicist, and I would be wary of trying to prove any commonly accepted theory wrong - even if all my data points that way. Contrary to popular belief, getting data that is too non-mainstream and trying to defend it is often academic suicide in science. While science is one of the most rational fields to be working in, this is still a sad but true fact about the human condition.
Your Advise reminds me a Quote from the movie God Father Part-II.
"Hyman Roth always makes money for his partners. One by one, our old friends are gone. Death, natural or not, prison, deported. Hyman Roth is the only one left, because he always made money for his partners. ". Anyway good Advice.
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To be fair, most car interfaces are so horrible that they must have been designed by people who don't drive ;)
Its passing data consisting of something like a shortened URL at the effective maximum rate of 140 chars in 2 seconds = 70 bytes per second.

Being able to actually hear the extact point when data is transmitted is something that existing systems like bluetooth, wifi etc. don't have, and could be an advantage.
Bash also supports set -o vi.
It is unusual how many people still believe in this hoax. Dudes, this never happened. Only the Soviet robots did really something on the Moon. Check the regolite story, check the Stormwind icebreaker mission story. No, you do not want to see the truth, you just like to please yourself with that warm and fuzzy feeling of being proud.
According to Steve Jobs, it's a tech company:
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Ctrl+R definitely works that way with bash, but I think he may be referencing tab completion:

> ell<TAB>
Completing external command
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Completing shell function
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I like the message, except for the fact that it limits itself to young entrepreneurs.
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The Soviet rouble, and the Latvian rouble before the LVL currency established.
Just curious, will you still have access to your stocks if the Internet collapses?
I wonder what happened in 1921. It was out of control!
It is a bit light on detail, but still there are significant subsidies which are paid to the oil, coal and gas industries. There are some fairly detailed numbers released by the Greens: http://nonewcoal.greens.org.au/coal/speeches The basic gist is that solar gets ~1/20th of the subsidy that coal does.

All of that overlooks the built in subsidies though, namely that fossil fuel power plants can dump pretty much whatever they want into the atmosphere. The health impacts of that alone are immense, and there's no other industry which gets away with that.
Go tell this deep observation to the people whose pensions were invested into Freddy and Mac ponzi thing.
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At last, someone solved the great mystery! Now I can be successful, after being a loser my whole life!

Seriously, who puts such stories on HN?
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Getting hired is as much a skill as programming is. What many people never grasp is that learning to present yourself in your CV and your interviews in such a way that people want to employ you is a skill in and of itself.....which means that the ability to code well does not equal the ability to get a job that requires you to code well.
And all you need to be an olympic runner is a pair of shoes and some clothes.

The tech industry, like many other industries, uses simple filters (such as work experience or a college degree) to pick the number of people they have time to interview. The skills required to be a talented programmer, and the skills required to get and keep a job (or earn a living programming without a job) are not equivalent.
"You won't be able to drive during the update". I love technology and have from the earliest of ages, but that's a little bit eery.
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I skipped over this on HN due to the link-baity headline, then saw it on the BBC site. Actual title is "Chirp app sends smartphone data via 'digital birdsong'". Mods, please update title here.
It did. You are nit even 40% close now to the living standard we had in the USSR. Top notch education for everyone, the best public transit almost for free, more than enough cheap energy, and tech even now beyond your imagination. We even had the better Internet, although not for civilians. And man, our robots had really been on the Moon :-)
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In the associated blog post he says:

Methodology:
I downloaded ~ 35k thumbnailed-size images
(yay wget -- “The Social Network” inspired
me to not use curl)

Could some who's seen the film enlighten me on why wget is better than curl?

Thanks.
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Maybe I'm misreading your first sentence, but both relativity and quantum mechanics did require a generation of physicists to retire before their acceptance reached consensus. Even some of the proponents of quantum mechanics questioned its validity.
You lost me at "it's".

Perhaps standard grammar is not, as you argue, the best measure of semantic correctness. Then please, let us violate standard grammar wherever it improves accuracy.

Writing something different from what you mean because the two sound alike does not qualify.

I'm fond of Bertrand Russell myself. Does your argument stand on its own?
I'm impressed with the premise of these articles and want to see more of them -- removing the glitz and glamour added by the media to entrepreneurial stories is an important service.

I must have been out of the loop -- I never knew that Tom Preston-Werner founded Gravatar[1] or that he worked at Powerset.

He mentioned in his blog post[2], as he was labelled a "flight risk", he was offered quite a sum of money to stay at Powerset/Microsoft.
Money is quite sticky and to pull away from it requires both guts and determination.
Even though I'm early in my career I've already come across the "flight risk" pot of gold and avoided it -- though as opposed to Tom I don't yet know if I made the right decision or not ;)

[1]: http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/10/27/looking-back-on-sel...

[2]: http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/10/18/how-i-turned-down-3...
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There are a bunch of tools available:

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We sometimes have a tendency to err on the side of whatever has the strongest emotional pull. It's important to protect your daughters from becoming victims, but don't forget that your sons can also be victimized by false accusations or even false convictions. Don't forget that what you think is "appropriate punishment" from hearing one side of the case may actually be far too much for the actual crime, or perhaps even a non-crime where someone plead guilty because the plea deal let them get on with their lives sooner and with less risk.

Criminals should be appropriately punished. But those decisions need to be made in light of all the facts, preferably within the legal system. Dumping the names out there on Twitter is, as an above post said, dangerous. Maybe these guys deserve it, but maybe "twitter justice" will give these guys -- or some innocent kid in a similar case -- punishment far beyond what they deserve.
I agree. Parties are fun. It provides a nice break. The models and tigers can distract, but they also provide a way to talk to strangers easily.
Lets see how long this stays up on HN