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Anyone interested in relative ratings should look at Dan Areily's[1] Predictably Irrational. He is an economist who writes about behavioral economics and decision making.

I've often thought about some start-up ideas around relative ratings, and this book was the reason

[1] - http://danariely.com/
That's about the same risk for a 43 year old woman to have a baby with Downs. So where are all the "biological clock is ticking" articles for men?
that wouldn't make them fat enough.
Based on Brad Larson's GPUImage, amazing OpenGL based image filters library, very hackable if you learn GLSL :)
Maybe. But it's a pretty critical role, and if no one on the team is filling it (or even aware that the role is needed), you're losing out on most of the benefit of agile. To the point where it's not really what people mean when they refer to the Agile process.
What? It seems that there is a mechanism proposed, that is increased mutations in older men.

Secondly, I think it's hardly useful to state that discoveries without mechanisms are useless. Certainly, having the mechanism is more useful, but having the correlation itself is valuable data. Or else the "law of gravity" would have been useless for a couple centuries.
The 5000AD date is admittedly just an estimate, but I am extremely sceptical of any such prediction. It just depends too much on what new uses for lots of energy we might come up with over the next thousand years. How many people will there be to use it? What standard of living will they demand? And that standard of living actually require more energy, or will other technological advances make us far more efficient with the power we generate?

The article even states that different groups estimates of how long Earth's uranium could last vary by more than a factor of 2.
Animals do not grow as fast on grass. Also, they do not taste the way Americans like their animals to taste. Land availability also plays a factor as it takes more acre per animal using grass vs corn/sugar.
GPUImage can't work with full resolution images on an iPhone 4, only iPhone 4s, iPad Retina.

Texture size limitation.

* One possible explanation.
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Have been working on this for months, hope you guys will like it. Feel free to share your own side project in the comments.
Awesome. Sorry about the xib thing, should redo programmatically, but to be honest we kinda did this over the weekend while waiting for apple to get us approved
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I'm no farmer either, but I assume grass doesn't have the effect they're looking for (weight gain), and they'd probably need much more of it.
Come on, if you're going to post a joke here, at least do a quick check to see nobody else has posted the exact same text.
OK so what I'm attempting to say here is that it is not possible to compare scientific discovery with that religion. Science grows from its failures. I understand that. While I'm not a scientist, I am an Engineer and I have a solid (albeit not exhaustive) background in science.

Science does not inherently deal with morality. Thus it can't truly be compared to religion. Honestly, the religious should stay away from explaining the natural world, but they don't so we get some crazy stories.

>This is false. Religion punishes dissent and doubt. Science encourages it. The most reliable way to earn a scientific reputation, a Nobel Prize, is to cast doubt on a theory and produce evidence to back up the doubt. In religion, that can only get you expelled or killed.

This is the only point on which I disagree with you. If you study religion, you will see that they grow and adapt naturally. An example would be Vatican II. Did you know that the early Catholic church did not believe that Mary was "Assumed" into heaven? Now it's as good as a "religious" fact. That change came about non-violently from inside the church.

Power is something people try to find anywhere. The atom bomb was a tool to be used against populations, and so is religion. Many people are dissilusioned by religion because they see historic bad behavior and want to stop it. Hence, lets get rid of religion. This is not the case. "Evil" or acts that you and I would deem in breech of basic human rights come from other people and they will use any tool they can.

Yes, many Catholics believe papal decrees to be infallible, they are idiots. A church should never be considered above it's own laws.

They are two different models for belief and inquiry. I think that much can be learned in religion from the scientific model, and that science needs to stay pure (i.e. away from religion).

That doesn't mean that we can throw moral standards aside and begin human testing, but it does mean that the religious should try to stop scientific exploration for fear of a loss of "faith". If their faith is so weak that it is centered around how the universe works, then they have a problem. I.E. Kill Galileo cuz he's going to ruin our plans.

That was a power move by a corrupt church, not a religious move where "God" said to the pope, "That dude is going to make all sorts of trouble for the Catholic church, we better of him.. oh yeah that one commandment I taught you, I'll ignore it."

This corruption is peppered anywhere there is power, even in science. I know some grad students are asked to falsify data... I don't constitute this as proof. It's really just to show that the notion isn't out in left field. http://ctscanhollywood.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/workplace-bu...

Does that mean that science is bad? No, it's the person wielding that power.
"How can we afford to put our business on hold for a month to "mess around" with new ideas? How can we afford not to?"

Taking advice from today's 37Signals on how to build your company is like taking advice from Michael Phelps on how to become a competitive swimmer.

They are both FREAKS of nature: a perfect combination of natural talent, decades of hard work, expert coaching, and unlimited resources.

I love being an observer to their dominance, but you have to look hard at these "lessons" to take away what's the signal vs. what's the noise for your average start-up!
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I think this has great potential for use in conjunction with wearable computing such as Google Glass. I'm not sure how the current interface for Glass works, but I imagine it's based on voice input and possibly some buttons on the unit itself.

Imagine wearing a smaller Leap controller on your wrist - you would be able to use gestures to control the Glass and mostly likely interact much more intuitively with your surroundings as seen through Glass.
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Nah it works, his issue was because I used xibs. To be fair, the front camera is buggy because of this sometimes though.
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Pair programming reminds me of the issue of trying to pair up for video games. Either you find somebody much better than you, or much worse. Because the spectrum is large, the chance of a good match is nil.

In programming the spectrum is larger. When I've been asked to program with somebody, its always been a terrific drag on my productivity. I crawl thru the day, trying to be nice, and when they go the hell home I stay late and do my real work.
From the first sentence: "because of random mutations that become more numerous with advancing paternal age".

From the sixth paragraph: "The research team found that the average child born to a 20-year-old father had 25 random mutations that could be traced to paternal genetic material. The number increased steadily by two mutations a year, reaching 65 mutations for offspring of 40-year-old men."
Lots of developers, myself included, prefer Mercurial over Git for this exact reason.
Great post! Just wish there was more detail on Android
The article doesn't directly mention the risk to a man in his 20's or 30's... just that up to 30% of the cases of autism has to do with the mutations associated with "older" sperm. Obviously there is a lot more work that needs to be done to understand this, but it would be nice if they presented this information in a more actionable form.
Bad article - what the title calls an "eye bath" and the article calls a "cellular bath" is really a "bath of hyperfine nuclei with 1/2 spin" (aka molecules?) which the electrons are interacting with.

Basically, many bird eyeballs can entangle electron pairs for much longer than human scientists can, and we want to know how. We believe the electron entanglement gives these birds some kind of sensory data about the earth's magnetic field.

ArXiv link from bottom: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.2558v1
Obviously that's an option from Rhapsody, Spotify, etc. I use the Zune Pass (since I have a Zune). My point was that Apple can only help me if I have a reason to upgrade my stuff to handle Apple's products/services. If I don't need to upgrade (if my hardware can handle an iPhone), why would I bother listening to OTA radio?
No, you pose this as an argumentum ex silentio instead of a simply asking for a link to the reference or even a copy of the article. So why should I be bothered to dig this thing out of my library?

Well, at least I gave you a reference to the article. Finding that reference should have taken you no more than two minutes.
Deploying the C++ version is a lot of effort on our part. We would need to configure it to your build settings and your environment - which are highly variable in C++ environments.
We don't want to provide a bad experience and therefore can not yet make it free for C++ teams.

If you are interested we can make something work for your situation.
Feeding your cattle a mixture of second-hand chocolate, ethanol by-products and minerals doesn't sound very tasty, from this beef consumer's point of view. There is the saying of "you are what you eat" and I wonder if any of those flavours will come out in the final product.

But more importantly, IANAFarmer, but I don't understand why cattle need to be fat in order to be profitable. Don't the farmers want their cattle to have high protein/muscle content versus high fat content?
Also, check Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan for an in depth look at America, corn and other food.
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What about "Because drought affects all living plants not only corn"?
Wow - Idiocracy was such a prophetic movie. Just waiting for the news that we're hydrating crops with Brawndo.
It seems to me to just be the HN version of the "SO BRAVE" post. http://reddipedia.com/So_Brave

We invent a "startup culture" archetype (and strawman) to which to ascribe things that no one actually believes and are easy to disagree with. We then disagree with it. And then we, and everyone who upvotes us, feels like clear-thinking contrarians for pointing out the obvious flaws that lots of people (read: no one) believe.
agreed. also, why (for the most part) the religious try to avoid addressing science. There are some crazies out there tho...
Amen. That was the standout sentence in this very well-written article.
Yes! Exactly. This is the problem, not Scala being complex.
Fortunately they are improving fast. FSC support in Idea is pretty good. If you have a decent processor, compilation is no longer an issue.

Scala is really very easy to start for someone who knows mainstream languages like C++ or Java or C# - you just start writing in it like in a better Java, then slowly learn new concepts... For me it took two weeks to feel comfortable with it. Actually much faster than with Python.
Very good point, it isn't always easy to work on tools or documents or cleaning things up when you are required to produce 'deliverables' at a certain pace
You've got ranchers in places like Wyoming where the forage is barely sufficient to keep livestock alive. Cattle raised under these conditions have to be fattened up before they can be sent to a slaughterhouse. Typically these cows will be shipped to another ranch that specializes in this before then being shipped to market. It sounds like the guy quoted in the article is running one of these secondary "fattening" ranches.

Since grain (or in this case candy) has a much higher energy content than grass, cattle can be raised to market weight much faster than if they were fed a grass diet.

Edit: I accidentally a word.
Completely off topic, but pigeon toe is a developmental disease of the shin.

I think you mean pigeon holed.
Main reason is 'speed to fatness' the second reason is that he doesn't have corn because of a drought, which also affects not having grass (or more typically hay/alfalfa)
This makes me happy and relaxed.
Personally I would really like for Typesafe to be successful with their Scala products and consulting. It would only make Scala prevail and have more support for people like me (who have Scala in their development stack).
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You completely missed the point. The point is, the only reason I listen to radio instead of iTunes is because sometimes I can't get iTunes playing over my stereo where I currently am. If I can get iTunes through the stereo, why bother with radio, and if I can't get iTunes through the stereo why is Apple's system worth investing to make this work?
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What would happen when a space elevator cable breaks:

http://gassend.net/spaceelevator/breaks/index.html
I'm currently learning Blender. It's an open source 3D-modeling program with one of the most non-intuitive GUIs ever created. It's like the Vim/Emacs of 3D-creation.
Being able to just grab a 3D-object with your hands and kneed it to the shape you want would be freakishly amazing.
This has been "known" for years with autism, based on observational data. Normally, I don't put much into observational data, since it can be so wrong, but in the autism/paternal age case, you have a HUGE, HUGE leap in likelihood of autism based on father's age. A man in his 40's is thousands of times more likely to have an autistic child than a man in his 20's, as a I recall from previous observational data.
Yup. I made sure the second line in the repo readme was "The majority of the praise should be directed towards BradLarson for his GPUImage library."
Attributing 37Signal's success, partially, to "unlimited resources" seems off. Except for a small investment by Jeff Bezos after they were already bootstrapped they had to make due with what resources they could get in exchange for their products and services. Twitter, Facebook, Zynga... those are the kind of start ups that can be accurately tagged with the "unlimited resources" descriptor, for 37Signals to get the resources they currently have they had to execute in ways none of those other "start ups" have been expected to.
Love this. I think the most important thing outlined here is understanding your objectives when you go to launch. A lot of people just do it, and think that the main objective is getting the product out the door.
No problem at all, this is fantastic. I'll be sure to contribute back any enhancements/fixes.
Well the user searched news not the general web. Not sure how big of an issue this is. AOL site delivers their search results from google anyways.
Cattle is buy/sell in auction-like markets with price set per kilo.
Bah, I'm stopping this thread cuz I did a better job of explaining in this other conversation.

Also, it is not a failure at all, it is a datum to be added to the experience that we base our observations on.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4417531
I don't see that happening. With Google+ around and Google still pressing on it, I don't see facebook allowing google searches from within their app.
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Came here to mention this. I would absolutely make a few donations to make it happen. Understandable to want to make a couple bucks off a great idea though.
Beef cows are sold 'by the pound' so farmers look at the cost of adding pounds to the price per pound and solve for the greatest $.

As for the feed vs the taste, I literally put chicken shit on the ground my tomatoes are growing in and it makes them both larger and tastier. Biological transformation is a magical thing in many ways.
Should you gift your products to celebrities?
And seemingly it's the default attitude of people who perpetuate the use of things like Spring as part of their core stack.
Most of this didn't make sense to me, what resources could I use to get a better idea of the topics discussed in the post? Book recommendations?
We thought we did a good job but obviously can do better! We're working on making it more clear. Thanks for the heads-up.
This reminds me of the article about Valve from a few weeks ago. They seem to take this type of approach all year round in which employees aren't shoehorned into specific roles and they are allowed freedom to work on the projects they want.

I can speak from experience that there is a lot that the team I work on would like to get done that gets trumped by management. Our first foray into this is an overnight hack-a-thon scheduled for next month. Not quite as creatively inspiring as a month long hack-a-thon.
Religion (if that's what you describe) offers coping mechanisms that pacify the existential stress. While this is rewarding (and psychologically beneficial to most people) it also acts as an escape from the drive to discover the true nature of the world. Naturally, we may assume that there may be many entities outside this universe (but should they necessarily be undetectable?), as our imagination is boundless. That doesn't mean that these ideas should necessarily be considered valid by everyone. It's a personal choice to believe or not. The appeal of science is that it provides a universally applicable test (empiricism) to determine whether a belief is false or not.
Hey John, thanks. What else would you like to know about Android? We might do other posts focusing on specific platforms if that helps.
And it isn't even true. 'Agile' is appropriate especially for young people who need an entertaining and motivating environment to be productive. The 'social' aspects make Agile appealing to most of them.
I think learning a new language might be a big gateway too
I'm really rooting for wider adoption of Scala. I think the language hits a real sweet spot and I've been trying to transition to more scala for my android development. It's frustrating when I'm told by colleagues at work that they're basically not interested in doing projects in scala because "our clients sometimes need to be able to understand the code" or whatever other lame excuses.
It's an achievement of a sort. It's kind of like winning a medal: the metal disc in itself is unimportant, but it matters because it's a sign someone was impressed with you for something.

As with medals, how much it matters depends on who was impressed with you and for what. Later rounds converge on measuring revenue, which is what people who think companies shouldn't be celebrating fundraising usually think they should be celebrating instead.
Overview of past discussions:

"How not to sort by average rating" (2009): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3792627 For thumbs-up/thumbs-down systems, suggests using the lower bound of a Wilson confidence interval for a Bernoulli distribution, which is what Reddit does now. Convincingly refuted by 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... by Dell Zhang et al., which argues for simple smoothing with a Dirichlet prior (i.e. (upvotes + x) ÷ (upvotes + x + downvotes + y)), which was also suggested by several people in the comments.

In 2010, William Morgan wrote http://masanjin.net/blog/how-to-rank-products-based-on-user-... partly in response, applying Bayesian statistics to the problem of ranking things rated using 5-star rating systems.

Perhaps related: HotOrNot started out displaying the mean of the rankings as the rating of each photo (after you clicked on it). But they found that there was a gradual drift down in ratings: they started with around 1-5 (out of a theoretical max of 10), then ended up around 1-3, etc., with the predictable damaging effects on egos, people's willingness to post their photos, and the information content of the ratings. The solution they adopted was to display not the mean of ratings but the percentile: a photo rated higher than 76% of other photos would have its "average" displayed as "7.6", even if the mean was 4.5. This trained the users to flatten the histogram!

http://www.nashcoding.com/2011/10/28/hackernews-needs-honeyp... suggested that fake "products" to attract ratings could distinguish intelligent ratings from unintelligent ones. Although written about thumbs-up/down systems, it applies to multi-star systems as well.
I'm not sure I understand the relevance of your point. If you're saying that there is no single common ancestor, but multiple common ancestors at the timespan of 3000 years, then yes that is true. But that doesn't invalidate the fact that any of them is the (perhaps better stated as "a") common ancestor.
Exactly. Once you really understand that it's way easier to have everything else fall into place.
I like curves in all the right places!
What was actually released? The github page seems to have a single non-forked repository: http://github.com/gobackspaces
As a developer i get a weird feeling about people who understand moving a folder and renaming a folder as distinctly different actions. I totally understand where they're coming from and there's really no point in explaining it to them, but my brain enters a strange state of "I will ignore this for the benefit of others even though i feel like the understanding of it is also to their benefit."
Pair programming's biggest win is that it keeps me on task & not arguing online about whether or not Agile practices work.
You don't typically see F# adoption in the enterprise either -- it's in use in specific business domains like finance, but rarely for writing general-purpose line of business apps.

Really, the "unsuitability" of Scala for the enterprise says as much about the common problems with enterprise development (What, expect developers to learn something new?) as it does about Scala.

I say that as someone who currently does C# work in an enterprise environment in which there is a ban on using "var" to declare variables with type inference.

Apparently

Dictionary<string,List<string>> dictionary = new Dictionary<string,List<string>>();

makes it really clear what the variable type is, but

var dictionary = new Dictionary<string,List<string>>();

makes people's brains hurt.

Sigh.
Biological clock is more about absolute fertility vs. healthy fertility.
95%...for Ubisoft. I read this as: Sales are down 95% and our investors want a reason. Could it be the always-online draconian DRM you force on everyone? Could that be the reason for the drop in sales?
The advocates of this idea clearly aren't thinking it through:

1. A space elevator is necessarily located at the equator.

2. A carbon nanotube is a conductor, indeed a rather good one.

3. For practical reasons the tube needs to be as thin as possible consistent with its other requirements.

4. The structure will last until the first major thunderstorm, and thunderstorms are common at the equator.

The same kind of analysis could have been offered about the Space Shuttle (on which I worked), if anyone was willing to think deeply enough about the system's vulnerabilities. But no one was.
I don't think it's an unfair way to express the estimate though. Sure, it might not really last until 5000 AD, but to me it simply implies 3000 "years of fuel", with a "year of fuel" being how we use fuel now. If energy consumption goes up or down it doesn't really matter - I still have a sense of how significant this energy source is.
Thanks, I did and I updated. :)
Does anyone have tipps about where to perma-freeze sperm?
Seriously, shouldn't be too of a problem?