skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mathematical proof why people get addicted to genealogy. They are almost certain to find they are related to someone famous if they go back far enough. It makes perfect sense why companies that provide genealogy research have no problem finding customers. The lure of finding out that you are as awesome as you thought you should be by way of royal bloodline, etc. is a pretty powerful market force.
As do Google Cache links, I hear.
Yah, I think you're right... we'll definitely have to do that. Also, glad to hear that you're on board with Kickstarter :)
I'll say histograms are useful for certain things.

If you are looking at electronic devices or camera lenses there's the issue that a certain fraction of people get lemons. Some bad reviews are because of that.

Other people have unrealistic expectations of the product and give a bad review.

A histogram gives some immediate insight into this problem, and then looking at stratified samples of the reviews helps there on out.

Now, I will say the star ratings on Ebay are weak because of the fact that a less-than-perfect ranking gets people in trouble. Although "acceptable" performance on Ebay goes a considerable range (It's certainly a worse experience to have a long confused exchange with somebody with poor english -- this person shouldn't be punished, but they shouldn't be rewarded either.)
Back in the heyday of arcade video games, a lot of manufacturers would hide things like this in the code to prevent counterfeiting of the games. PC boards are easy to copy (the schematics were in the service manual), but counterfeiters would just duplicate the ROMs and change a few strings or sprites to give the appearance of a new game. The Easter eggs were triggerable by a certain sequence of moves to show the real authors of the code on-screen.

Here's one example: http://www.digitpress.com/eastereggs/arcaderobotron.htm
Any one know what the Series B valued Typesafe at?
> Today, the scenario is like as if its cool to run a Start-up (and fail).

I think it is great that startups are cool. We need more entrepreneurs, not less. Most people don't have a clue what they are doing with their first company (I sure as hell didn't). Fail, and you won't make the same mistakes again the second time around.
Yes, that's how the ASUS works for 3G sharing. It has a bunch of different modes, but that is one of them.
I use and am a fan of Opera as well, but the features you talk about are UI features. Those are nice, but what matters is standards compatibility and that is where Opera lags behind.

Just to name a few missing things: flexbox (supported by most browsers for years now), no requestAnimationFrame, no IndexedDB, no css calc(), No blob urls, no 3d transforms.
It should be simple enough to wrap that 'after-the-break' paragraph in a style which isn't displayed on the full article page. Simple, but elegant.
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The anti-Apple trolls have never heard of Douglas Englebart ;-)

Apple has made bad ads before and will make bad ads again. I do think the celebrity/Siri and genius ads are disappointing, but I'm not convinced Apple is no longer any good at marketing because it produced some bad ads.
You've absolutely hit the nail on the head. Knowing the rating of a friend is worth so much more than a bunch of strangers. That's what Goodfilms is all about - it puts your friends' opinions ahead.
Serious question: Did your learning about Dawkin's views on religion change your opinion of him as a scientist?
The comment I was replying to said This would be no different than having two histograms side by side. And I pointed out that it is not.

Oh well I'll answer your question anyway. Because 90% of everything is crap (probably more than that on P2P sites). Re-watching a movie can be like walking in the same park more than once, looking at pleasant things with a sense of recognition. You could put a movie in to suit your mood. Sometimes you'd rather watch a good "original" movie again than watch yet another crappy remake or rip-off.
What I am more interested in is: will someone who is alive in 3000 years be a common ancestor of all humanity?
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I knew I had seen a similar XKCD before. http://xkcd.com/937/
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http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/yjmxc/my_friend_has_...
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This patch brings back good memories.

Memories when I was a child and I had to run various "patches" or "resident programs" to run games.

Oddly enough they were phrased similarly and shared that same, excessive, punctuation.

Will the next Pirate Bay patch feature an intro?
It's a low level form of click bait. I.e. "click here and we'll show you the video".

It also makes sense since you don't want the video on the front page, breaks the layout.
Exactly. Also, they already support Windows 7, so supporting Windows 8 is a non-story. (The ARM/Phone versions is the story.)
The problem with ratings are that they are not from a large enough random sample. Rating scores tell me what people that like to rate products think. I don't rate products and in general I suspect that people that are happy with a product don't really care to take the time to go out of their way to tell people about it online (that may change or be changing, I don't know). but one thing is for sure, people that dislike a product WILL go out of their way to tell everyone, thus further shifting the data set to being reviewed by people that are unhappy.

Take a random sample of the true population of the data set (everyone that has seen a movie) and not just the people that logon to rate it.
If I have already seen this movie why would I need ratings of any kind?
Thank YOU, for bringing these issues to light and catalyzing that social catharsis.
I share doubts about whether their "unlimited" truly means unlimited, but I am also dubious of the "nationwide" claim. Don't zoom in too close on their coverage map or those vast swaths of comforting green (strong signal, yeah!) dissolve into pale yellows and whites (hm, maybe 2G, maybe nothing?).
Huh? How could there be rules against that? That seems weird. I'm not aware of any such rules in Germany. If you have a SIM card you can do with it whatever you want.
This just about covers you (search for "Great for video chat, streaming music/movies/TV, playing online games, and more"):

http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans

You still get 100 minutes of talk, but you get unlimited texts and "unlimited" 4G data (first 5GB at 4G speeds, then you get throttled). All this for $30/month pre-paid.
If it makes money it's a business. If it doesn't makes money than it's a problem.
Actually it's much funnier than the article realizes. The patent says "such as" a commercial radio broadcast. What's a lot like a commercial radio broadcast? Commercial TV.

So Apple cuts a deal with the Cable providers, etc., then starts selling AppleTVs as licensed set-top boxes with integrated DVRs that -- like the gizmo in Contact (the novel, not the movie) -- automagically recognize ads and remove them and then make the content available on demand.

Shortly afterwards, TV production companies are much more amenable to "pay for content as desired" model such as found in ... oh look, the iTunes store.

Steve Jobs said he'd cracked TV. Does anyone think his idea of an ideal TV viewing experience included watching ads?
How successful is HP's Touchsmart brand?
T-Mobile already has an unlimited plan that they reneged on, why should anyone trust them this time?
Playground - probbably the best REPL ever (even better than Racket's DrRacket)
A staggering 54% of Americans think the TSA is doing a good job
What use case are you referring to? I don't know anyone who uses ratings sites after seeing a movie.
The purple t-shirt has the logo photoshopped on 100% identical for male and female. Destroys the illusion of actual product photography even for very gullible people.
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If you're interested in a more rigorous analysis of the problem, I highly recommend reading the paper "How to Count Thumb-Ups and Thumb-Downs: User-Rating based Ranking of Items from an Axiomatic Perspective":

http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~dell/publications/dellzhang_ictir2...

It's very accessible for an academic paper.
Nice line from that article:

"Just as we are descended from most of the people alive on the planet a few thousand years ago, several thousand years hence each of us will be an ancestor of the entire human race—or of no one at all."
if anyone is interested i wrote a python script a few years ago that is similar (from the examples it looks like i was annoyed by wikileaks being blocked) - it automates the patching of your hosts file and adds some extra metadata. https://github.com/andrewcooke/GhettoNet
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Please show me any diagram that does not require cognitive effort to interpret.
Really? The country I'm visiting from says nothing definitive about my language of choice. Absolutely nothing.

Choosing google.com instead of google.nl however is a clear choice. Setting the preferred language of my browser is an even more explicit choice.

How can honoring explicit choices be more offensive than assuming the visitor is an idiot who can't think for themselves?
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Aren't Bayesian statistics designed to deal with low ratings counts?

I think there was an article about that a while ago on HN.
Make a real product backed by a technology

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that they tried that with "Cloud Akka". I do not know the details as to why, but I believe that tech is now open source.
> Why would I care about rewatchability?

Speaking as a film buff; this is actually quite a good guide to the sort of movie it is (when combined with quality). If lots of people mark it good quality, but wouldn't watch it again, that implies that you have to be in the right mood for it.

If people mark rewatchability high, even if the quality rating varies, you know it is much more easy going film.

And so on. Combining data points is good :)
Some bad reviews on Amazon are from shipping snafus. If you're going to get any useful info, you have to read the reviews.
There's too much focus here on the assumption that this will be used as a full-time computing input device. I don't think anyone is realistically advocating banishment of all keyboard/mice to the netherworld.

Let's be more creative than that. Think about using it as an alternate input in spaces that a physical keyboard/mouse isn't appropriate, and also 'short term computing'.

Will this replace input on your workstation? I doubt it- but what about a large map that's installed in a public place? What about some sort of restroom or medical computing device where you'd rather not touch the surface that someone else just touched? You're not going to sit there 12 hours a day. You're going to pull up the map in the hospital and zoom/pan around on it. Why do we need another surface to clean? And in 15 seconds- you're done. No gorilla arm syndrome, no pain, and no real learning curve.
But Yahoo Mail has the worst SPAM filter with Microsoft just after. They both never stop SPAM at all. Gmail has the best SPAM filter!
I asked this question before: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4391638 and still wondering:
1. Does Y Combinator then own a stake in Makr.io or Disapora?
2. When a company pivots, does YC own a stake in the pivot?
3. How about side projects?
This is common. I am spanish living in Germany. If you want to change the language the only thing that works is:

- Buy a machine in the contry you want and proxy through it.
Typesafe has a product; the Typesafe Stack. It's not just "a bunch of libraries". Add to this the Typesafe Console that you get as part of it (http://console-demo.typesafe.com/) and I think you have a pretty nice and complete product.
How would you be giving Hulu any of your money when the shows are free to watch?
You could argue that's necessary for change though.
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That is good but I have used Scala before and would not recommend it for an enterprise project. It was rather convoluted and had lots of concepts that just would not make sense to the java programmers in our company.

There would be teams that could have used it and thrived but overall the complexity of the language seemed to outweigh any reasons I could give to use it.

I wish them the best but I think they will have a hard time getting Scala into the enterprise. For smaller companies it probably would make sense.

Ah well not trying to be a downer. :)
most of these "business guys"

who are you talking about? this is a gross generalization.
The simple answer there relates back to UX, just don't show the stars when there isn't enough data. Set a minimum number of reviews as a baseline so that you don't get the result you mentioned.

If there is a written review component, make a note of the review but don't quantify the value of said review until the minimum threshold is reached.
It didn't change my opinion of his science. It tore my feelings towards the person conducting it.
It's $235 which will make people pause.

Another direction is the sub-$100 new generation of dual-core android desktops - just add any cheap 1920x1080 monitor/keyboard/mouse. http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-features/65596-this-dual-cor...

Amazing what android has done for decent, cheap computers.

I expect any HDTV over 32 inches in a couple years will have a full android computer built in for just a $40 premium.
I wonder what this number would fall to if the sample population were exclusively American frequent flyers. I would venture to guess that 'Americans' generically tend to support any authority with whom they do not regularly interact, and only become critical of that authority in the face of direct experience with it.
If I had a iPhone jack in my car, I would listen to my iPhone's music. If I had an iPhone receiver in my garage, I'd listen to my iPhone's music. If I had an iPhone receiver in my office, I'd listen to my iPhone's music.

I don't, so I listen to radio and deal with the ads because there's nothing Apple can help me with on that front. What Apple should be doing to solve this problem is something like the Zune Pass or Rhapsody et al: pay to stream/download music on an all-you-can-eat basis, including preset "stations" that play brand new music or tunes picked for a specific purpose (ala Sirus/XM radio stations).
Scatter plots are definitely more informative, once one gives them a couple of minutes to get used to them. However, I think you're shooting at the wrong target and your solution would exacerbate the root problem: bias.

The first time I really noticed the problem was when I published my own Flash game on Kongregate and started paying closer attention to the ratings. That led me to examine my own rating habits and I conjectured that is probably what happens to everyone else.

The bias I'm talking about is caused by the fact that most people can't be bothered to rate something. Most people only rate something when there's a powerful impulse to do so, so most of the votes will be 5 stars or 1 star. The 4-star ratings come from people who liked something enough to be moved to rate it, but not enough to gush about it; note that the group of people who makes that distinction is already substantially smaller than the 5- and 1-star reviewers. The rest comes from a very small minority, most of whom are people who didn't have anything better to do at that moment and decided to spend some time rating, but don't do it on the regular basis.

By the way, I realize that this is just a conjecture, but from what I've seen so far, it seems to be pretty accurate.

I think that introducing an additional axis will only exacerbate this, by raising the bar for rating. If the act of rating starts demanding more effort, you'll get a distribution that is even more skewed than now.

The two improvements I would like to see are:

1. a system that infers ratings from users' actions

2. better mechanisms for gauging the relevance of someone's review/rating based on my preferences/tastes

The first would help reduce the bias and the second would help me extract more useful information from the biased dataset.
Article says about Starship Trooper :

there’s a lot of disagreement over whether it’s high quality of not, but generally this scores high-rewatchability. So, maybe not the most intelligent movie, but good fun.

What I intuitively deduced from this example is that rewatchability is metric of enjoyability.

On a single 5 stars rating, some people will give 5 stars because they really really enjoyed the movie, some others will give 5 stars because they thought the film was perfect on a cinematrographic-quality (i.e. scenario, cinematography, acting, casting, etc. insert here some academy-award-technical-category) point of view.
Berliner: Sinatra like Framework written in 16 lines of CoffeeScript.
Windows 8 was a good move. Anyone who wants to play 3D games on a mobile device probably wont buy a Windows phone though.
This isn't a study, any scenario where you might have impaired vision is a case where tactile feedback is necessary.

While I do think tactile feedback is extremely important, I won't discount the ability for humans to adapt. Should a compelling enough system be developed, I imagine any person who desires would learn and adapt to a system -- the problem here is getting the gross majority of users to adapt to it.

There's obviously going to be a lot of backlash against a product like this (and equal amounts excitement). I think the problem here is after such a well publicized film, everyone assumes tech like this is going after a Minority Report type paradigm. While they definitley have to (somewhat) pitch it like that, I'm very excited to see different ways that something like this can be used. It definitely seems like a great step forward.
The last paragraph of the article is devoted to explaining why that is.

PHP was still a bit surprising, but the answer might be in the list there, too. Any list that ranks classic ASP, COBOL, and C# has to be working with source data that represents a very particular and non-representative corner of the software industry. Of course with a chance to look at that data costing €5,200 we can probably only speculate. . .
Owning and operating a business does as well. If you don't recruit the best you can for your company then indeed the risk is quite high.
That's a fair point, and some websites have claimed that AdBlock is hurting them. However, to really do some damage, you need to have a critical mass; you need enough people doing it to actually make a sizable dent in your income. AdBlock is popular, but not at a critical mass. Apple products are in position to put this into the spotlight.
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The major thing that MPI did right, and that almost all other models have done wrong, is library support. Things like attribute caching on communicators are essential to me as a parallel library developer, but look superfluous in the simple examples and for most applications.

The other thing that is increasingly important in the multicore CPU space is memory locality. It's vastly more common to be limited by memory bandwidth and latency than by the execution unit. When we start analyzing approaches with a parallel complexity model based on memory movement instead of flops, the separate address space in the MPI model doesn't look so bad. The main thing that it doesn't support is cooperative cache sharing (e.g. weakly synchronized using buddy prefetch), which is becoming especially important as we get multiple threads per core.

As for fault tolerance, the MPI forum was not happy with any of the deeper proposals for MPI-3. They recognize that it's an important issue and many people think it will be a large enough change that the next standard will be MPI-4. From my perspective, the main thing I want is a partial checkpointing system by which I can perform partial restart and reattach communicators. Everything else can be handled by other libraries. My colleagues in the MPI-FT working group expect something like this to be supported in the next round, likely with preliminary implementations in the next couple years. For now, there is MPIX_Comm_group_failed(), MPIX_Comm_remote_group_failed(), and MPIX_Comm_reenable_anysource().
I guess there's not much point responding as the censor brigade came by and downvoted the hell out of my comment. It was a serious question, and I thank you for responding with a serious answer.
It's not randomly. In work I use Iceweasel for private gmail (and Chrome for company gmail), where I have set Results per page to 100 and chose to Never show Instant results long time ago. It simply does not work!

I go to google.com, start typing and Google starts showing me some instant results and hitting Enter gives me only 10 results per page. (The same settings are respected for non-private gmail in Chrome, though.)
JSON is not a silver-bullet. Actually I think JSON-only APIs suck -- an API should have an equivalent XML alternative as well. Let me explain.

Web APIs are not only consumed by client-side Javascript-based AJAX apps -- they are also used by server-side (web)apps where Javascript is much less widespread. If the primary application language is not Javascript for which JSON is a native format, but PHP or Java for example, then its value is much lower.

There are established industries such as publishing that use complex XML workflows -- I don't think JSON will push them out.

XML family so far has much better standard specifications and tool support. Some of the most useful are XPath and XSLT. There are also advanced features -- too complex for some, useful for others -- like namespaces and schemas. If JSON is to expand its use, it will have to go to the same interoperability issues XML addressed, and develop similar features with similar problems. That's why the idea of JSON schemas sounds funny to me.

Let me give an example. I've developed a semantic tool that lets me import 3rd part API data as RDF. If it is available in XML, I can apply a GRDDL (basically XSLT) transformation to get RDF/XML -- and boom, it's there. RDF/XML serves as the bridge format between XML and RDF.

Now if the data is JSON-only, what do I do? I could download an API client, try to write some Java or PHP code, but that would be much less generic and extensible than XSLT.
I could probably try a pivotal conversion via JSON-LD somehow, but oh, bummer -- there's no JSON transformation language? Or is there... Javascript? Thanks, I would prefer XSLT anyday since it is designed specifically for these kind of tasks.

My point is, by offering JSON-only you cut off all the useful tools from the XML world, which is pretty well established.
I see JSON as an alternative syntax to XML, which is easier to use with Javascript -- but by no means THE "right tool" to all data serialization problems.
Had to go look up that book. It's actually available free from MIT: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
Well hush my mouth. The Gallup data blows my assumption out of the water. I guess a generation who grew up with 'threat level' as a baseline has a completely different expectation from someone like myself who grew up flying on planes with ashtrays. You kids get off my lawn!
If you never need to query 'inside' the array, then I don't think that's a violation of 1NF at all. If you treat the entire array as an atomic value, then I would think that's still 1NF.
I believe the initial logic was due to legacy browsers such as IE6. These are browsers that aren't what you designed for, so the webpage degrades. Since you take some steps to mitigate this and optimize it when it degrades, it makes it "graceful degradation"
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I found some good info here and shared it in an answer here: http://ux.stackexchange.com/a/23008/7627
Well, I guess T-Mobile USA ain't the same. One of the rules you agree to when you sign up for this plan is that you won't use the SIM card in a modem.