skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(1) Indeed, I am commenting on this particular mode of understanding, where one keeps a journal, waits for a deviation of a test from normal, and then tries to correlate the journal with the deviations after the fact.

(2) "NO published result related to nutrition" is overbroad. Obesity for example is clearly related to nutrition and there are many published results where many variables which could affect obesity are quite well-isolated -- twin studies to isolate genetics, studies of how obesity rates vary based on physical location in various cities, and so forth.

(3) I aim to "discard the results" only insofar as they claim that they have measured an agentic relationship, which these results have indeed claimed to measure. Seth's official conclusion is that this was "data that suggested butter improved my mental function." If the variable is not isolated, then attributing the agency to butter is worthless. It might have been an otherwise random variation at around the same time as he switched to butter -- the data he's describing has a 40ms variance as well as certain long-term patterns and the effect that he's describing is a 30ms improvement, so it's quite possible that in an autoregressive model you would just see one substantial "step down" of 80ms which doesn't get compensated due to hysteresis. Or perhaps the correlation is indeed correct but wrongly attributed -- perhaps Seth has not noticed but he tends to use butter to fry peppers and pork fat to fry meats, and now that he is using butter his diet contains 2% more vegetables. Perhaps now that he uses more butter, he eats more toast and gets 2% more fiber in his diet, without having written that down in his journal.

The problem is precisely the word "makes" in your sentence "butter makes Seth faster at arithmetic." You have absolutely no evidence that it's the butter which is making Seth faster at it. And that is why the conclusion "butter makes Seth faster at arithmetic" is not a scientific conclusion.
Invaluable resource! Long read but so worth it!
"Samwer doesn't like the word clone. "It's a mistake to think that the idea is the decisive factor," he says. "Ideas are nothing special. There are thousands of ideas. But of thousands of ideas, only one succeeds. And that's the real point." He's got a point there, the only real assertion I could see is that the "ideas" they copy aren't things like hey, lets make an online shop, but rather completely hashed out business models that already have an application for reverse engineering, etc. But as dispicable as people might think they are for what they do, I think its about time companies started thinking globally quicker, living in the EU, I don't want to wait years before I can use a service and the Samwer's provide the services the people want to use.
OT/Meta: Please use the reply link to post replies, so that coherent threads can be maintained.
Yea, this points to the commoditization thing again. You wouldn't see "Film Consultancies" renting out entire production teams; actors, director and all. At least not for the high profile films.
Is this a joke? If so, nice one.

"Doing it wrong." Brilliant.
You have many options: stop maximizing your browser window, use a custom stylesheet, use Readability/Readable bookmarklets, etc. I'd guess Groklaw comes from the open source design philosophy, where user freedom (such as to resize the browser window to make the text the width they want) is more important than designer control.
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I feel like higher level organizational stuff could be taught in a codeacademy like format. Just simple lessons for different design patterns:

"This is the delegation pattern, we use it to _________"
"This is a singleton method, it's best used for ____"

"Create an MVC structure using the strategies we discussed"
One of my proudest (and motivating) moments as a programmer was when someone forked one of my repositories.
I think the racing in the Olympics also showed the limitations of this technology. Many times, the boats are what, on television, looks like miles apart, as some of them think they will get better winds by tacking now, and others think it is better to wait a few minutes before doing so. Between such groups 'meters to the finish line' is a bad approximation to 'seconds to the finish line'. Even with this technology, the sailors commenting on races often could not tell who was ahead.

You can diminish that by placing more buoys to round (effectively making the course smaller), but I am not sure it still is sailing, then.
How many shops demand that any purchases related to your product, performed outside of the store months after the initial sale, must give them a 30% cut? That is the evil part.

Wait, then is Debian evil too? Their packages are sign as well...

Come on, you have to be misinterpreting that on purpose. Debian doesn't require programs be signed, it only uses signing to verify official updates. Even if it did require signing that would be fine by itself. The problem is that Apple requires programs be signed with a certificate that is approved by Apple. If they don't want you to be a developer, suddenly you are no longer a developer. Taking control away from the user over what programs he installs on his device is 'evil'.
This kind of shit is the reason I pirate all major-label and big studio content I want. I refuse to help feed their legal machine. I still pay for third-party, independent content. Anything else is fair game. I consider this approach to be far superior from a moral standpoint.

Everyone really ought to be doing the same. Stop feeding the MPAA/RIAA.
The answer, as best as I can tell, is commoditization. In our industry the middlemen – hiring managers, HR people, recruiters, etc. – work extremely hard to commoditize labor.

Why is this? I've seen it pushed to the level where it's clearly detrimental to the company... It seems irrational.
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Disgusting, but not in any way surprising.
Don't see why one would call it a bad question.

A bad question is one to which everyone knows the answer to (or everyone knows that no one knows the answer to).

"It's absolutely impossible to turn an average coder into a great coder." - Sorry all great coders were average at some point. No one is born great.
Excellent post, it's crazy what Facebook is doing to invade our privacy. That's why I use http://mypermissions.org to scan all the apps I've connected with.
Security confirmations are always tricky, because most of the time users aren't able to fully (or even partially) understand the full implications of the response they give.

If I accept this certificate, what does it mean? Is something bad going to happen to my computer?

So they can access my name, picture, gender etc... but what are they going to do with it?

It's quite obvious to see that this new style of confirmation would increase conversion and more people will click 'Play Game' than 'Allow'. Higher conversion means more money.

At the end of the day, for facebook it's a question of who they want to keep happy. Their users by keeping their privacy and giving them the best tools to make informed decisions, or the app publishers - who want to get as many users as they can, and need some way to make money out of those users. Considering that users aren't directly paying anything to facebook, and app publishers are more likely to increase fb's revenue - I think it's clear which side facebook would pick.
Dynamic Time Warping is a pretty neat application of dynamic programming that takes two time series and tries to squish one time series to look like the other, with some constraints that you can't do too much squishing. This is used a lot in speech recognition to normalize away variation like e.g. how long you spend on a vowel sound.
Also have a goal in mind. It's probably easier if you want to build X with backbone rather than learn backbone then try and build something.
The article says they have to be tuned to a specific frequency so it wouldn't work for CCDs. But I think that it could be used for projectors. They probably can't zoom though
Why don't they categorise people into priorities so someone comes in with a broken arm, they get seen faster than someone with a graze?

Perhaps this could be solved algorithmically.
Yeah I have a very specific goal in mind of what to build, friends are telling me it's perfect for Backbone which is what led me here
I think what he meant is that it's impossible to "make" someone a great programmer, as in "transform him by applying external force". If so, then I agree - it's impossible to "teach" or "convince" someone to write for example readable code, one must learn on his own through practice.
...why not just refuse to watch their stuff?
If you actually look at the linked dump, its not THAT CIA. It appears to be a poorly named property management company.
I am totally in favour of removing limits on human life span and think it's an inevitability rather than a possibility (although I don't expect it to happen in my lifetime). Here is why I disagree with some of the objections made to it in this article.

No Jobs for the younger generation - I think the notion of requiring someone being forced to have job to earn a living is another concept that will eventually be regulated to the past. However, that's my post scarcity fantasy and it's very likely life extension will come before that. We're at 7 Billion people now we're still find jobs for them. An economy is about people, and more people means more economic activity.

The planet won't be able to support all the people - This is correct, although the planet can support more than we think, especially with cleaner and more efficient energy sources. Even if it turns out to be a huge problem, it would hopefully have the benefit of pushing us to expand to other parts of the solar system and universe. An extended or unlimited life span it would make it viable to for people to travel the long distances involved.

Evolution will stop - I'm of the belief that mankind's real evolution is now happening in its shared intelligence. We're already starting to gain the ability to bend DNA to our will. Biological evolution through natural selection is not the way forward for us.

Boredom - Perhaps. We really don't know. Hopefully the lack of a natural death would force us to finally create sensible laws regarding the ending of one's existence. It would be nicer to have a choice when to leave the party, rather than be forced out the door.
I'll throw in another one: screencasts.

Peep Code, Destroy All Software, Railscasts... It's like watching over the shoulders of some of the best programmers in the world as they teach you everything they know.
A hidden gem in this post is open(1), which is one of the best command line utilities on the mac, especially because all of the sane default that most Apple apps have. I think

`open -a Mail mydoc.pdf` (open Mail and create a Mail with attachment mydoc.pdf)

is my favorite line of Mac shell magic ever.
Buzz Aldrin, hvor ble det av deg i alt mylderet?
I use m.techcrunch.com when I'm on my pad or phone. Both safari and chrome crash trying to load the behemoth otherwise.
Singleton method? I'm admittedly not a DP geek, could you please tell me what it is used for and point to example reification(s)?
That works incredibly well too. With the added bonus of having time to spare to do more rewarding things.
And ironically the Parkes Observatory in New South Wales was one of the receivers used to get the famous TV broadcast.
This post reminded me of this old (and long) rant: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.co.il/2009/12/blogs-are-godless...

Relevant quote:

"The Hollywood job market doesn't work the way Joel thinks it does. It barely works at all. If you thought Google and Microsoft interview questions were ridiculous, wait until Joel Spolsky has us all dressing up in Catwoman suits just to get a job, after we've established ourselves as stars."
> How many people, with all of our intelligence, could program homogeneous robots that are able to burrow into the ground and meet two tunnels underground from either end by only exchanging rudimentary signals with each other?

Well, this is not far off:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel#Tunnelling
They aren't interested in efficient filtering. Laws such as these are only selectively applied and are meant to give them leverage in negotiations and take-down requests ... after a treaty such as this one gets implemented, a content distributer will not think twice about complying with a DMCA takedown request. And such services will end up paying licensing fees even if all the hosted content is legit, simply because of the risk associated.
You are right not to trust them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes
I don't have an issue with in-app put purchases, it's like the old try-before-you-buy model. I have have spent 100s of hours playing "robot wants kitty" (with in-app purchase called kitty connect to get user levels) and "Solomon's keep" with its addons. Both apps are free (and brilliant), with optinal paid add-ons that make the game even better.
If it weren't for these two games (with addons), I most probably would have traded my iPhone in.
To be fair, there is also Neil Armstrong in that picture ;)
Hey, it actually is a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon - you can just about see him taking the photo, reflected in Buzz's sun visor :)
I think it would be helpful to consider how it is that Samsung became the most successful Android vendor.

Because they make some of the highest performance, lightest, thinnest phones with the best screens?
The proportion of net profits would be more interesting to know - I imagine the margin is quite a bit higher on iTunes Store revenues.
This is a small nit-pick, but I feel like the word "design" gets thrown around a lot these days, until it doesn't even mean anything anymore.

I would expect a "design trick" to be using color, contrast, or typography to achieve a result. If getting rid of the "don't allow" button counts as "design", then I wonder if "design" has become too broad a term to still be useful.
Techcrunch wants you to install their app so they can steal your mobile data while you read about how Facebook steals your personal data...

Everything is an app today! Yay!
" I think you're talking prejudiced and prejudicial BS"

There's a difference between deciding someone represents exactly their stereotype (prejudice), and looking for patterns based on one's observations.

"Some people can't adapt to new ideas at any age,"

These are the people I'm talking about.
This is such an odd advertisement

In one aspect it's self deprecating, crappy, and short. I mean "it's ugly"

But by another aspect, it reminds much of a "Think different" ad especially in contrast with the other "wall of text" ads of that time
Every time, the background on this guys blog gets me.
Thanks. That is very helpful!
The best way to learn something is to use it.
When reading this I could not help but think of Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, from Get Smart: "It's the old .... trick"

Those Facebook guys are just so clever. Pat yourselves on the back you wily "engineers". You guys are so productive. How do you do it?
Just one resource, but Peter Norvig's course http://www.udacity.com/view#Course/cs212 aims at this sort of thing. (I helped a bit in preparing it.)
The "doctoring" of the photo involves cropping part of the bottom away and adding a black border to the top. It was clearly done to improve the composition rather than to deceive or mislead.

If crops, borders, rotations, etc. constitute "doctoring" then virtually every publicity photo NASA releases has been doctored. And if those minor transformations aren't allowed then surely none of the composite photos from the Mars probes are acceptable either, right? Compositing is way more invasive than cropping and rotating.

At any rate, NASA has published the raw version of all their photos and therefore, everything is verifiable.
I use these in objective C, I usually create a data object and stick the networking function in it as well. Some use core data, but I haven't found a need for it yet.

static MySingleton *sharedSingleton;

+ (void)initialize
{
static BOOL initialized = NO;
if(!initialized)
{
initialized = YES;
sharedSingleton = [[MySingleton alloc] init];
}
}
Digital media is going to have a very interesting effect on future generations. Imagine what it would be like if you could watch videos, view thousands of pictures, and read a detailed account of your ancestors actions for generations before you.

We're the first generation to document our lives so thoroughly, history before the digital age will fade away, much like oral history (before written history) has for us.
Actually, it is the other way round - not the journalist has to know how much tampering has occured - I, the reader, have to trust the newspaper to get everything right in their reporting.
Unlike in science, journalists often can not or do not want to reveal their sources and attribute every statement. Therefore, I need to be able to trust the newspaper as a whole that they have appropriate safeguards in place to detect and avoid false information and tampered images.
By being holier than the pope, the newspaper supports this trust.
Musician and audio engineer here...

Skull Candy? Hahahaha! Get a pair of Audio Technica, Grado or AKG K-series headphones and get back to me. After seeing all the snake oil that is sold as audiophile equipment, I immediately stopped trusting that group of people.

If you want a pair of speakers that reproduce what the engineer heard in the studio, get a pair of near-field monitors. They're much cheaper than audiophile speakers. If you want to go over the top, get acoustic tiles for your listening room or just use some heavy curtains and wall carpets. If you're still not happy, get a room correction system and a measuring microphone. As a bonus, this will correct your speakers too.

Some engineer will now tell me that I should not use electronic room correction. I don't care. My mixes sound more balanced when I use it, even after I turn off the correction.
It's super-annoying, but the easiest alternative is to wait that the page has loaded and click Safari's Reader button. It doesn't matter that the page is showing the iPad ad at the same time, the content is still there but hidden.
Not a law expert, so my way to look at it is simply :
- did samsung become number 1 smartphone seller with an original product or by copying apple work ? Obviously, yes ( and i'm talking memory here, the first time i saw a galaxy i took it for an iphone).
- is it fair they pay something to apple for it ? Yes
- is 1 billion $ fair ? Judging by market size and profits made by samsung, it doesn't seem an absurd amount.
That's all we should matter.
In fact, now that you know this picture was manipulated by the source, I’d urge you to have it removed from your photo archives. Permanently.

Uh, Neil Armstrong had a Hasselblad camera strapped to his chest. I'd say excuse the lack of sky composition. Besides, the original picture also captures the lander in the composition. Wouldn't you want more photographic detail in a moon landing operation photo instead of one which is more harmoniously composed but contains useless black sky? But like I said, he's taking pictures with a camera strapped to his chest.

.. And who cares if it isn't a picture of Neil? It is the best representation of the feat and overall project. Besides, he took the picture.
I don't know if you've ever heard of a 'bright line rule' [0] - the idea is you have a simple rule everyone can understand and interpret in the same way, instead of a nuanced rule with lots of room for interpretation.

If you use a simple-to-follow rule like "no editing except to crop and correct color balance" that's easy to understand and follow.

When you allow some manipulation as long as it's noted, editors will composite a celebrity's face onto a model's body for the front page and note it's as a fake in tiny text in a contents list three pages away. Far-fetched? Newsweek have already done it [1].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_line_rule
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/business/media/03mag.html
You can get that out of the Gang of Four book.

The problem is that until you're faced with a real-world software system with real-world problems - and in particular, faced with the consequences of your misuse - you'll be tempted to use them in places where they're not the best solution. It's one thing to read something in a textbook. It's another thing to wrestle with a million-line codebase and try to make sense of it.

Singletons, for instance, almost always turn out to be an antipattern in the long run. You're better off injecting your dependencies explicitly, even if you only think there is one in the whole program. Delegation is used all the time, but can also be overused, and it's important to know when you're better off modifying the original class rather than trying to wrap it with something else.
It's not just the AppStore. Everything involving DRM is the same bullshit: they have to tie content available to countries, and come up with all sort of insane restrictions to cover their legal asses and keep you from consuming... bits. In the end their software is such a hairy ball that it doesn't even make sense anymore. Why is the AppStore even checking which IP you are on? Now you can't update your apps because you're traveling? WTF??!?!

I'm from Brazil and I face the same crap everyday, everywhere: YouTube videos not available in my country, Rdio albums not available in my country, AppStore apps not available in my country, et cetera

Then they ask why nobody respects copyright? It's not only free, but actually more convenient to just crack software and download music on PirateBay than trying to buy it in the first place.
>I always assumed that the poor composition of the original AS11-40-5903 (and many other photos from the Moon which suffer from the same problem) was because every pixel was precious, so they didn't want the uniformly black sky to take up any larger fraction of the image area than necessary.

It wasn't pixels -- it was emulsion film.

Nor was it that precious. What would they do with a photo of more rock/equipment and less space?

I guess the photos was more for a documentation/publicity use than of actual scientific interest.
>.. And who cares if it isn't a picture of Neil?

Editors searching for pictures of Neil? Because he was the one that died recently and they have to write stories about him?
Good job Apple. You fucked the world...
To play a slightly comical devil's advocate, what if Neil Armstrong had intentionally angled the camera down to avoid photographing their flying saucer escort? From the original it's not obvious that the area above Buzz Aldrin's helmet is black.

Yes, I know, it is really, but you don't know that from the photo, and that's an important distinction when you don't know the full context your reporting of the photo will be presented in at a future date. I think the argument is that crops and rotations are generally ok (although the argument about the upside-down footprint is interesting), but a transformation which claims to add information not originally in the photo cannot be ok.
This is a joke, right? Having used three different models of the Palm Treo and the Wince Treo, I can assure you I was desperate to use the iPhone because it just worked. Sure the Treo exceeded the original iphone on many different features, but none of them worked. The software was awful, it crashed all the time, you couldn't receive calls b/c the software would crash, none of the apps worked well, and the internet was completely unusable. It was a total nightmare.

Yes the iphone was shiny and beautiful, but it also worked! This "treo was awesome" straw man floats around alot until I actually ask them about it and then the whitewashed memories come flooding back and people step back and say, you're right, it was awful.
For the record that "youth journalist" is Ali G, a character of Sacha Baron Cohen - the same guy who plays Borat.
Neil Armstrong's death should be a wake-up call