skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting! If I didn't misread, a better title would be "In 3000 years almost everyone alive today will be a common ancestor of all humanity."

From the story: "In fact about 80% of the people at that time in the past will be the ancestors of everyone in the present. The remaining 20% are those who have had no children, or whose children have had no children, and so on - in other words, people who were genetic dead-ends."

This puts a whole new perspective on the often quotes statistics about Genghis Khan's progeny.
> In that case there should never be a proof for or against God.

More to the point, there can never be a proof for or against god. It's not possible -- one can always argue that god lives in a parallel universe, pulling puppet strings in this universe. Maybe true, maybe false, but quite untestable.

This is why scientists (for the most part) try to avoid addressing religion at all.
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BT Templeton! Give us the guile-emacs[1]!

The only ports that are going to actually get emacs users are ones that can eval elisp.

However, good luck with this! It's like Yi.. could turn out great, or could turn out to just be a neat small project :)

[1]: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gs...
I agree with you, but personally I'm a little torqued at the 'over 50" comment. Hrmmm.
Makes me wonder if this guy has ever had a real, long term relationship.

To each his own, sex just seems like a fun activity you do with someone that you really like and have feelings for.
Hey Mizza, you read the github page here https://github.com/gobackspaces/DLCImagePickerController#rea... for more info.

I think open-source obj-C has a long way to go, and I want to help as much as I can.

As for "fake-shitty" I assure you, these are not shitty, nor are they meant to be straight copies. Check out this high res version of the output http://i.imgur.com/0OncO.jpg
can you load images in as well, or does it always have to be from taking a pic from the camera?
Why is your work relevant if you've created the results?

The mentality that carefully-documented work is a substitute for results is the bane of almost all professional managers. It's crazymaking when you set out to achieve a result and receive instead a detailed log of steps that failed to produce it. That happens often enough that I might not want to signal that particular "survival skill" to a prospective manager.
Any more details? I recently added a device check for flash and didn't test on iPhone 4. Will look into it.
"After years of trying, I finally learned how to budget when I was about 25. One of the most important lessons I learned then is that budgets are often a time when people imagine the life they want and try to prescribe it to themselves instead of taking an honest look at the reality of their behavior."

Excellent. There are two parts to budgeting, you mention the first one which is understanding where your money is going, the second part is prioritizing where your money should be going. Part of the latter is understanding what is (and what is not) withing your means.

So if you are making $70K and you're hanging out socially with people making twice that, you are going to be at a disadvantage in 'expensive' activities. Someone with $100K in income which is taking home over $1K/month more than you after taxes, might decide they are going to spend $500 a month on track time at the local race track (driving fast is very fun of course) that is way too expensive for someone who is only making $70K. As a person budgeting you always ask "Is this valuable, or is it expensive?" [1] understanding the difference can really help clarify what you want to spend money on.

But lets think about the social aspects for a minute. Young people especially (although it is present across age groups) have a tendency to 'brag' either subtly or not so subtly using money. Called 'conspicuous consumption' back in the day, you can recognize these people right away, they always have the latest tech gadget, or a car that is less than 2 yrs old, or this seasons fashion accessories, etc. Why they are like that varies but how it affects you the $70K earner, and more importantly your budget, is key. You have to resist giving into that way of validating yourself and your friendships and instead actively pursue other paths. So if you're budget is being warped by those kinds of influences you might seek out ways to avoid them. It is tough since nobody likes to say "I can't afford to do that stuff that you are doing every day" even when its the truth. However good friends will figure it out and adapt.

Under no circumstances pretend you are something you aren't, I knew a guy in the dot com days who was pretending to be a lot more well off than he was in order to 'hang out' with some actually wealthy people. He got the bar tab once at one of their events, it was a bit over $12,000. He had to call AmEx to get them to approve it. I personally would not think the access was worth that sort of shock to the budget but recognize different people value different things way more differently than I.

[1] One of the engineers here at the office who has a background in economics introduced me to that phrase and it really captures the essence of budget prioritization.
While this may not be applicable to goodfilms, a 2-dimensional system is harder to brand. As in, "Two thumbs up," or "90% on Rotten Tomatoes." There's value in a single understandable number.

I wonder if there's a measurable value for the system. I care about discovery, so I want a site that can recommend me movies that I wouldn't normally think about. How many more movies would this system recommend to me?

A lot of times, I don't care too much about accuracy as long as the system isn't too far off. This is simply because the cost of an inaccurate recommendation isn't too high when I can stream it on Netflix.

I like the idea of providing more data for people to make more accurate assessments, but I don't necessarily believe optimizing for accuracy optimizes the value provided to the user.
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Curious to see what their proposed solution to the old people problem is going to be...
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Sorry should have added that to begin with!

012-08-22 13:41:27.291 DLCImagePickerController[759:907] Application windows are expected to have a root view controller at the end of application launch
2012-08-22 13:41:35.036 DLCImagePickerController[759:907] * Terminating app due to uncaught exception
UIViewControllerHierarchyInconsistency', reason: 'A view can only be associated with at most one view controller at a time! View <UIView: 0x1ed53f50; frame = (0 0; 320 480); autoresize = W+H; layer = <CALayer: 0x1ed53f20>> is associated with <UIViewController: 0x1ed53cb0>. Clear this association before associating this view with <DLCImagePickerController: 0x1edcd370>.'
What the kid developed is pretty interesting, but the title seems to be completely irrelevant to the story. The fact that he used Google to do his research seems like a uninteresting side-note. He used Google? Of course he did! I would have been amazed if he didn't use Google.
I had heard this before but only with schizophrenia which always had me a tad worried. But I never heard:

> "The overall risk to a man in his 40s or older is in the range of 2 percent, at most"

Which is much more comforting to know. I never heard any risk percentage from earlier articles I've read.

My father was 48 when I was born.
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Well as long as the reporting structure at work is the same as the reporting structure at home I'm sure it can work. When they are reversed its a recipe for disaster.
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If had everything you need to make, design or build anything? What would it be?
woops, didn't see the reply button for some reason, but yes you can, see this screencast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYWTMEbrqWk&feature=plcp
If you're already on emacs and org-mode, there's the memacs project:

https://github.com/novoid/Memacs
The Elements of Statistical Learning, by T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani and J. Friedman [1] is also a very good one. Plus, the book is freely available on the authors' website.

[1] http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/
I think you may unintentionally be implying that there aren't lots of people in the "startup culture" that do in fact consider getting funding to be an intrinsically important achievement. That seems like a meme worth quashing.

I agree that the comment has become very boring. It is especially annoying to see it injected into conversations that don't really involve VC funding.
Give Skim.Me (http://skim.me) a shot when we release.

Integration is the hard part but it's the next step in the evolution away from widget based dashboards to better designed experiences that display that info. I think the experience should be multi-tiered - from quick glances to deeper functionality for repetitive actions. You might just want to track some things but you should also be able to do X or Y without going to another destination.
How about have kids? My kids are constantly challenging me to reexamine why I do the things I do. More so challenging me to explain why I make them do the things I make them do. Not to mention introducing me to new music (I get to introduce them to my music too) and shows.
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You're right. I typed Clojure the first time, then for some reason uncorrected it.
I agree. I was heavily involved in couchsurfing a few years back (sadly circumstances haven't let me do more than meet up occasionally now) and anything that was ever organised was done by volunteers and the site was run through donations. It was 100% about the community and about the cultural exchange and it was fantastic in every way - some of my best experiences and I made a few really good friends through it too (hell, just last week, a uni friend of mine got married to a girl he met through couchsurfing).

While having VC's run it into the ground won't destroy the community that's already built around couchsurfing (who don't completely rely on the site but on their own personal network), it will certainly make it dificult for new people to join in and take part and that would be a terrible shame. I hope that the VC's stay on the side line and don't meddle with it too much...
"Sometimes, sitting there twiddling your thumbs to relax or recharge is just as beneficial as reading, learning, growing, coding, building, shipping, etc."

Exactly.
I'm one of the guys that uses Emacs, so this is purely anecdotal, but I'm really waiting for an Emacs with updated fundamentals. At this point I don't really care whether it is using Guile, Common Lisp or Clojure.

I do like this guy's goal of making Emacs 24 the target and shedding akk the baggage of the earlier versions.
Just tested on an iPhone 4 and it works http://i.imgur.com/r3i7t.jpg

If you can let me know where it goes wrong, or submit a pull to fix it, I would be a very happy guy
with you on that it was not a month off.

On the second part, I'd say you were not sure it would make money. If you were sure your idea would make money why didn't you do it. The exercise that 37Signals did was to provide a safety net for their team to experiment with wild ideas at the company's expense, the monthly paycheck. I'd take that deal any day.
I feel that showing the ad afterwards is vastly superior.

When I deliberately press a youtube-link I do it because I want to see the clip, any distraction then is annoying and is going to be associated with that. But afterwards I am far more likely to passively let the ad run. Having patiently to wait 5 seconds before being able to disable it is like a blow to the face (as well as those infuriating popups after 10s).

Afterwards I am way more receptive to an ad. Ted.com does this and I have seen waaaay more commercials after a ted video than on youtube (and I watch more on youtube than on ted).

(I have seen youtube clips where the ad is played afterwards (or in some cases, both before and afterwards) but it is extremely rare)
I guess pirating really isn't because it's "too expensive". Oh yeah, 99 cents is too expensive for some people.
what version of xcode are you using? I used IB so maybe inconsistency in xib format?
the homepage of skim.me totally confuses me... just 3 bullet points and you want my email address. No demo, no pictures. Asking and getting email ids from users shouldn't be so cheap.
That was my thought as well. However it spent a great deal of time under foreign rule: under the Greeks and Romans, the Turkish / Ottoman empire, and later under British occupation. And, I just discovered what boxer Muhammad Ali's referent was.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt_history
Besides seeing what other people are watching I simply do not see much value in the top 10 shows on TV in the US.
I'm not sure if you're misunderstanding this intentionally or unintentionally, but the issue here is not whether companies should make money, but when. There are plenty of valid strategies that defer profitability. Paypal for example spent tens of millions of dollars before they reached breakeven, and if they hadn't, all other things being equal, they would have lost to a competitor who did.
Deprecation of Swank Clojure, long live nrepl.el
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>Though a scatterplot conveys less information

A scatterplot conveys objectively more information.
In the article it sounds like they improved a lot of internal stuff, so perhaps they took the time to improve what they found as their biggest pain points in their day to day work. I do agree that my truest interests do not entirely align with what I'm doing at work.

Also, if I had a company and were to do this, I would implement a bonus system so that employees could receive additional compensation for putting forward their best ideas and efforts.
That might be it - xcode 4.5 DP4 - i'll try with 4.4

Edit: Yeah, works fine in 4.4. Thanks!

Thanks for open-sourcing this... I was about 40% into the process of building the exact same thing on top of GPUImage and this looks really well done.
> Do you have a link or any kind of substantiation?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/health/03asperger.html?pag...

The above is just one of the many links to this topic -- here's another:

http://www.npr.org/2010/12/29/132407384/whats-a-mental-disor...

It's important to say that DSM-V (the new edition of the diagnostic manual) is being compiled in secret, contrary to the open nature of science, and demonstrating that the psychological community are circling the wagons against what is certain to be a storm of criticism once it's published (slated for May 2013).

One of the tidbits that has slipped out of the secret process is that grief over the loss of a loved one will qualify for a depression diagnosis, which will allow the prescribing of drugs to treat this new "mental illness."

Further reading: http://arachnoid.com/trouble_with_psychology
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Point well taken. I should have probably said, don't watch primetime TV or something? I agree though, the medium isn't at fault. Tons of good stuff on TV if you hunt around.
"Putting some videos of poor quality (technically and from the teaching point) does not "great stuff" make."

That's ridiculous. Sure you can find some errors if you look hard. But overall, the videos are excellent. Many, many people have left comments saying how much the videos have helped them learn things they had previously struggled with. You want to label the whole work as "poor quality", which makes it obvious you're not being objective or rational.

"Care to qualify, what those 'great results' are and how the greatness is determined?"

Real people, who say they previously struggled with a concept or a topic, and now, thanks to these videos, they've had breakthroughs. (I'm sure there are other measurable results we could list as well, but this one is enough to shoot down your claims).

"I am just sad that KA is so overhyped and will have very little impact on education."

I completely agree that it is overhyped. I'm not sure it will have a huge impact on education ... only time will tell. But it is a fantastic asset that the world did not have until recently, and it has a chance to turn out to be significant.

"when the problem is not technology, you won't save it with technology"

True. But technology makes new things possible, and allows disruptions to occur. It is often a catalyst.
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This is a wonderful suggestion. OP listen to this.

When you put such an option to people, they will not tell you how much it's worth to them. They will only tell you how much they are willing to pay... if at all they had to. Expect the numbers to skew heavily towards free.

Actually, I'd say, once you get the data you should generously double the price.
Great work on this. While I love jsfiddle, I do like Plunker's 1 click support for bootstrap and the "live discussion" feature.
How many people use touchscreen monitors for desktop computers, anyway? They make sense for tablets, but mice and trackpads are easier if your using a (physical) keyboard.
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I doubt this is as big a problem as you think. If you have any interbreeding at all the general conclusion holds. I would guess that even extremly low estimates of interbreeding rates wouldn't change the result much.
IIRC Costco takes Amex (and not Discover) and Sam's Club takes Discover (and not Amex). It's been a while since I have darkened the door of a Sam's Club, but at the time I thought that was a pretty big win for Costco...
> Old people: Agile has the smell of death on it. If you go to an “agile” event you will see few people under the age of 40 and many over 50.

This has the smell of ad-hominem on it. How about a little evaluation of the ideas?

> Most organizations which use the word "agile" are using the word precisely because they are NOT agile, and want to be more agile.

Again, this is basically just saying, "It can't be cool because the cool kids aren't in on it." How about an evaluation of the ideas, not the marketing?

> I don’t think values have anything to do with productivity or collaboration. The Americans and the Russians didn’t share many values, but they teamed up into a mighty fighting force during WWII because they shared a goal.

I abhor this attitude. You meet people who are all about "making use of you" at "startup weekend" type events. Values aren't so necessary for productivity in general, but shared values are necessary for productivity in areas where quality and attention to detail are paramount.

> If you are a vendor selling “pairs”, you have an awesome situation where you can charge twice as much, and you can easily churn guys on and off the pairs, one at a time

So you are evaluating a practice by the scummiest abuse of the practice? I think this reveals something, but not so much about the practice.
But won't it work better in case one has just a couple of candidates to deal with. Pick 10 from 100 as per their regular boring format resume, then use these kind of detailed profiles to pick 3-4 to call in for an interview.
I do not think the launchrock pages 'sells' me enough that your product will be much better than current geek shirt offerings because the site itself is worse than most other websites. I know you don't have much control because it is just launchrock, but the quick answer is that i'm not sold.

beyond that, I think you shouldn't worry about this much because your products will sell themselves if the website is appealing and easy to browse.
We might, by studying the human brain, figure out that as it functions it starts philosophizing and asking "why", even generating religious ideas. To me that would be enough to demystify and explain them away in a scientific (and falsifiable) way. In this sense, philosophy, religion, and science itself is subject to empirical examination.

That's also what i meant by "expanding to the other realm", i mean using brain research to explain the biological basis behind major philosophical concepts such as free will [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will
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Hmmm, why don't they feed them grass? Isn't that what they are supposed to be eating? I'm no farmer, honest question.
No; you get an option to create an account when you try to do something, like vote or comment.

(I did it to discourage spammers. It worked for a few weeks.)
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Another likely explanation is that wether we like it or not, wether we are believer or not, christian values and expectations still permeate society to the point that it still influences our behaviour and reasonning.
yeah, I hear you. we're working on a new homepage with a demo video. we initially threw something up quick so we could focus on the product.
Hey I am trying to recruit good devs in Sao Paulo, but I am kind of clueless where to start. If you get a chance I would love to chat. Cheers. My e-mail is stephen@lightboom.com
Why can't you store the social content as JSON?
Mine was 44 and having lost my (adopted; non-biological) mother to Alzheimers, I've seen firsthand how that goes down. Needless to say, I'm pretty freaked out about that possibility.
space elevator again? oh...man... try launch loop next time.
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As far as I know they haven't implemented disabling parts of the syntax in the compiler, yet. There were plans to do it, due to the fact, that for application coding there, the most controversial features are not used very often, and because of the posts like yours, that Scala is too complex. However, these features are essential for library / framework type of code. Scala collections library could not be that easy to use, powerful and clean if these powerful features like implicits were not in the language. Things like Squeryl could not be implemented, without adding special support in language (like in C#). Scala is pretty simple - just a few, very generic, powerful features, instead of thousands of special cases and compiler quirks.

As for verbosity: I coded a lot in Python, in Perl and then in Scala, and found Scala code to be sometimes even shorter. Note Scala is statically typed, it is harder for statically typed language to be terse. It does pretty well in this area, for a statically typed language.

As for doing things in different ways: in Python they say there should be one obvious way to do it. But it really isn't. Lots of things in Python could be done in different ways. This is inherent to programming, and it is a good thing, making programming more art than craft.
MIDD - multiple independent drug drops :-) I was going for a pun on MIRV but didn't quite get there. One of the things is that payload value is linear with volume and delivery platform cost is inverse exponential with size. Seems like the ultralight as a 'platform' hits a sweet spot. The rail gun the navy is looking at should be able to lob a projectile 200 miles so perhaps we can look forward to artillery delivery of drugs into southern AZ.
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True, I should have been more clear on that aspect. It would have the potential to make money for myself rather than the potential to make money for the company.

As an employee, I think it would be hard to get back into the rhythm of the day to day after a month like this. Similar to being on a really nice vacation.
Hey HN,

This is one of those weekend projects that took a couple days longer. Would appreciate any feedback you have. It's built in Flask/Python with the source available on Github (https://github.com/xta/GIF-Explode).

Thanks