skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, the not staying disconnected issue is a pain. I've gotten so used to it being an annoyance that I don't even think about it anymore, haha.

Battery drain is a bummer.
You can't try to refute only some of my points and not others.

I meant to say your example of course implied a cause-effect relationship, since you added the word 'cause' to it. (of course it wasn't a cause-effect relationship, do you think I am stupid?)

>> My dried gourd treatment "predicts" that the cold sufferer will get better -- always.

If your treatment is indeed correlated with a cold sufferer getting better, significantly enough, then yes, your treatment does in fact predicts it, even though it might not have been the cure. This is consistent with the definition of prediction being only related to correlation.

>> Rain is a predictor for bumper crops, but bumper crops are not a predictor for rain. Teenage driving is a predictor for car crashes, but car crashes are not a predictor for teenage driving.

That is correct; since bumper crops were only aided by rain if factors X1, Y1 are true, bumper crops are not a predictor of past rain unless X1, Y1 is true. Car crashes are correlated with teenage driving if factors X2, Y2 are true, car crashes are not a predictor of teenage driving unless X2, Y2 is true.

X1, Y1 = (Crops are water dependent, crops were not also thoroughly irrigated by other means)

X2, Y2 = (Teenager was intoxicated, teenager riding in car with more than 3 other members, all male)

>> But the marijuana use did not predict the IQ drop, it was only correlated with it, and the researchers included this fact in their article.

Yes it did, correlation means you can use the statistics to predict it, even if it wasn't the cause.

Predict means correlation, and correlation means what you think correlation means. You have the meaning of predict wrong. It has as much to do with causation as correlation has. i.e not much (though some nonetheless, since if there is a causation it is likely to be correlated).

"In statistics, prediction is a part of statistical inference. One particular approach to such inference is known as predictive inference, but the prediction can be undertaken within any of the several approaches to statistical inference. Indeed, one description of statistics is that it provides a means of transferring knowledge about a sample of a population to the whole population, and to other related populations, which is not the same as prediction over time."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction#Statistics

If you are talking about prediction and correlation in the same sentence, you are in the realm statistics and therefore should abide by its use of language.

You also did not address my two examples of use of predict in laymen sentences showing the word "predict" did not have anything to do with causation.

>> "to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization."

>> "to declare or indicate in advance; especially : foretell on the basis of observation, experience, or scientific reason"

Neither of those definitions have any semblance of implying causation. Observation, experience, or scientific reason can all be instances of correlation.
Although I predicted the iPod would fail (...!!), I strongly disagree with you about Dropbox.

I dreamed about something like Dropbox before Dropbox existed; I always have had many different machines that needed to be "synchronized" by hand. I carried around hard drives, and Iomega disks and whatnot, and used "Beyond compare" to sync all of those and it was a nightmare.

The recommendation model of Dropox had nothing to do with me adopting it -- I didn't receive a recommendation and didn't send any. But I was very excited when I was first able to use it, and still find it amazing.
YC is looking for companies that will be home runs. The essay should have made that pretty clear!

The footnote you quote is saying is that if a YC company doesn't turn out to be a home run, but instead becomes a lifestyle business or a small acquisition, YC will be happy for you and supportive of your decision. This is because they are nice people who know that these outcomes are meaningful for the founders, even though they don't really have an impact on YC's bottom line. But that's not the same thing as deliberately looking for founders who are trying to build "lifestyle businesses" from the outset - in fact, that's the opposite of what they're looking for.
"That actually doesn't matter."

Why? Aren't lawyers supposed to be professionals who are held responsible for their mistakes?

Filing false notices can ruin lives too.

PEs and doctors lose their licenses and/or have to pay massive malpractice judgments for mistakes all the time. Why not lawyers?
> On Android, you can install updated browsers like Firefox and Chrome.

But these Updates won´t affect UIWebViews :( (hybrid apps)
I really like browserify, but what do you see as the drawbacks and challenges to get more adoption, especially among non-Node.js developers?
It's not so much social training as it is the exposure time (which you also mentioned).
Exposure time was so long that it was nearly impossible to smile in pictures. See for example the picture of the photographer himself at the stream - the running water in the river is a blur.
I'm surprised the exposure time isn't that high in these pictures though. The shot of the workmen in the woodshop is distinctly modern by showing 'action'.
It´s mobile safari. I can´t understand, why chrome on android performes this bad compared to mobile safari. :( On desktop it´s the opposite. :?
My first comment on this thread was down voted to -4 quickly. That post did nothing seriously wrong on the HN rules. Since only a few users are able to down vote, that down voting had to be heavily or entirely from HN mods.

For more evidence, the down voting was well before any responding comments. That is chicken sh!t behavior from the mods.

So I was attacked, and not for anything I did wrong. Then I responded and defended myself and called names, and that was justified.

For your claim that later I violated the HN rules and, thus, engaged in childish behavior, here is a close analogy: It's against the law to hit someone on the street. But if you do hit someone, then they may hit you back just in self defense, and then they are not violating the law. All I did was to defend myself against a wildly unjustified attack.

It was the HN mods who misbehaved and started the fight, not me.

For my writing, it's clear enough and well organized, for a technical Ph.D. or anyone else. But most blog comments are just really short with little content. Many of my posts to HN have had some content.

And my main post here was of length comparable with the PG post I was responding to.

For making my posts shorter, responses on this thread have shown that even when I explain carefully, number points, give headings, give examples, provide summaries, etc., still many readers don't get it. In part the problem was mentioned by PG in his post -- people can willfully respond critically. Then, as PG mentioned, it can be good to have written enough to be able to point to the part of an original post they just didn't read.

In being so critical of me, you are just doing a playground thing of joining with the majority to form a gang to attack me as a group. It's mob behavior. The posts have not been at all thoughtful about what PG talked about and I responded about on evaluating projects and, instead, have just been gang hostility.

So why was I down voted? Not for length, some use of all caps, some use of sarcasm to try to raise interest and avoid being boring. No, I was down voted because I presumed to mention research to venture capital and, thus, rubbed the ego the wrong way on the VC community and, thus, also the HN mods.

If you don't want to read what I write, then don't.

But HN and I are done. HN is run by some nasty people, and I've had enough. PG has already indicated that he believes that HN has become too big to be easy to manage.

In particular, my UID is dead: The HN mods are angry with me, hostile, making me a target of gang hostility, and down voting just anything, e.g., my little line on the strong law of large numbers and utility functions you responded to.

The shame here is HN's. I'm leaving nothing of value.

But on leaving HN, sure, it's run by some nasty people. That's the shame of HN, YC, and PG.
My Partner started up a FB Group for Lab owners to post pics and share advice, as we learned people have opinions and big egos.

These people ended up getting removed from the group because it just turned into a flame war, they then took some initiative and set-up their own group and then followed up with the Do Not Join Crap,

For me I don't use FB or Twitter any more, these people know everything about me.(Companies I own, Websites I've registered, Linked in etc.)

Sadly every update to my company website get a going over and report made of my mistakes, they seem to think I've failed as person but for me being 27 working full time and having a business on the side making money, I'm not so sure.

My main concern is I'm working on a new Web App and I don't want them to damage what I've built or am I over reacting?
at least building failed http://travis-ci.org/#!/twitter/bower
I prefer this TEDX talk to Gallop's on a similar subject. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU
Career advice from a Sushi Chef
That would be great, but it assumes a writer with marketing and promotion skills. Even if a large potential audience exists for a book, reaching that audience can be very difficult, which is a big part of the value large publishers offer.
The frankness of the question caught me by surprise. I don't think I can help you though as I'm not one of those poeple you mention. There's tons of better programmers around the office and most of them are my friends so I'm quite at home with not being the smartest person on the planet. There's more to life than solving problems, as long as you enjoy your time together who cares.

It bothers me though when people try to invent different types of intellect as some sort of consolation prize. Accept that people are different, life's too short to be comparing penis sizes all your life.
They could be lower if the posters weren't unique and I would be able to do offset printing in volume. Since they are unique, which I think is good, printing comes at a hefty price already.
Insync: Power up your Google Drive with More functionality.
How The Cast of Friends Would Run a Marketing Campaign
That's actually... exactly what GPLv2 enables?

Which is still completely irrelevant because this document is licensed under the GFDL.
"Fu** not again: I just had another billion dollar idea"
Saying no to money…to avoid Kodak moment
64bit memory spaces are pretty hard to fragment to that degree, but it could be a concern on smaller embedded systems still.
Because it's a format rarely used outside of an engineering context. If your users are 100% from a technical background, and always will be, fine. Otherwise, a lot of your users will find it difficult to parse dates in this format.
Special niche?

According to distrowatch it's the 7th most popular distro. Hardly niche.
Ask HN: Best way to sell a domain name?
What's the best way to sell a domain name? I have some domains that I've had for years (such as usethesource.com) that I'd like to dispose of.
For you it is, for others it is not. You would be disappointed, others would be contented.

(I'm not picking on you btw, I have a tremendous amount of respect for you. But I don't think your desire for debate on what you write is suitable justification for other people putting up with the same, especially when it's discouraging them from writing.)
Let's say that most people learn about families only through watching 1950s live-action TV; Ozzie and Harriet, The Donna Reed Show, Leave It To Beaver, and even I Love Lucy. Can I not say that those portray an idealized version of family life, rather than a real one? And that they should not be use as a guide for how a real family should interact?

Yet your logic would be that "the moment you try to judge what 'real' families are, you have stopped being reasonable." I do no think I am being unreasonable to say that Ozzie and Harriet does not portray a real family. Yes it was very popular, and that show is still used as short-hand expressing a longing for an idyllic bygone American life, but the situations and reactions were only valid for a very small percentage of the US. It took another 15 years, with shows like All in the Family, for more realistic themes like miscarriage, impotence, and racism to be included as part of the issues that families might deal with. Roseanne would also fit into that category, as Barr included a lesbian main character because Barr sought "to portray various slices of real life, and homosexuals are a reality."

Why can't I also say that most pornography does as good a job of portraying real sex as Leave It To Beaver does at portraying a real family with husband, wife, and two sons?

Our disagreement could be a simple as a difference in what 'real' means. I use it as "more likely to be characteristic of the general culture practice." You seem to interpret it as "whatever can happen in the physical world."

In which case, sure, I Love Lucy could be a perfectly accurate portrayal of a real family - unlikely, but it could. And it misses the point. That being: “The issue I’m tackling is not porn,” she said. “It’s the complete lack of open, healthy dialogue around porn and sex.”
That's also pretty much part of the Beats Audio success. They are featured in tons of music videos, movies and celebrities are spotted wearing them all the time.
I think there are probably two reasons depending on the company:

1) They see communication preferences as part of your account details and therefore just lump it in with the rest of them behind the username and password. I think where this is the case they're naive or stupid rather than malicious.

2) In some cases (I think relatively rare but they exist, they actively want to make it harder for you to stop the mailings and know every extra click and keystroke does this. In this case I think they're naive and stupid as well as malicious.
Either you are or I am. ;)

"We'd have to be willing to fund 10x more startups than they would."

The contracted 'we would' is key. They WOULD have to be willing to do that IF they were going to pursue that goal. They aren't. He's positing the idea that if they were properly optimized for the black swans then they would see a much lower funding rate. Not that they should aim for a low funding rate for it's own sake. But, as he discusses, actually performing such an optimization is hard, not to mention the fact that making money isn't their only reason for running YC.
Yes, there a number of assumptions and simplifications made due to the easiest-available data from Stripe. Pull requests welcome: https://github.com/zapier/stripeboard
Let's face the reality. THe HTML5+CSS3+JS is over complicated. It's not going to stop lagging for the same jobs that native apps can handle well. Not even your computer is sped up 2x. Because native apps will always make it look bad.

However it should be fast enough for ebook production, if the typography is done right.
Has anyone else noticed an increasing instance of mails that have an unsubscribe link, which takes you to a proper unsubscribe page but when you click on it you get an error.

The joy I suspect of ignorant bug prioritisation - seen by some as no big deal where in fact it means that the organisation is violating both US and European law as well as causing brand damage (either of which would usually make a bug priority 1 in any normal organisation).
http://digmydata.com added Stripe support, too.
I'm not opposed to what you say, the big problem I expect you agree with is mixing (and thus equating) the "urinators" with the rapists.
Good list, and interesting how at least half of the points are about localisation/internationalization. The date point was good I find that one very annoying. The easiest way to work it out on forums is usually to look at the previous post and see what number goes down (day).

I didn't realise the mm/dd format was only officially used in two countries. I've never understood why it's use at all, it makes much more sense going from day-month-year. Is there a reason mm/dd was chosen in the US and Belize?
That doesn't mean he can't charge for it though. It just means he can't stop (via copyright law) someone else doing exactly the same thing and not giving him a cut.

Amazon aren't taking action on this so of thing because it is legally wrong (because it isn't) or because it is morally wrong (that argument could go on for some time and isn't relevant anyway so I'll not start it by expressing my opinion either way!).

They are cracking down on that sort of thing because it is irritating their userbase, and they think that the damage done by having the content there is much more significant then any cut of purchasing fees they would take. Taking more selective action (i.e. not dropping the few works where significant effort to nicely format the content for Kindle like devices, while getting rid of the great many hasty "copy, paste, done" jobs) would likely be far too much hassle too, relative any possible benefit (i.e. cut of the proceeds, and the less tangible "library completeness").
This can actually be useful if you want to make sure your interface works with images turned off.

Some people, especially mobile users concerned with bandwidth, might have images turned off but CSS turned on. I had icons for some buttons, sprited and set as CSS backgrounds. Inside the same element I put an img tag with a minimal gif and an alt text with a fallback (a text label, or a single unicode character). The invisible image would be shown for users images, and the alt text for users without images.
This was an ad-hoc project because one didn't seem to exist. Recently, http://digmydata.com added Stripe support and certainly supersedes this project.
.io domains are currently pretty useless because Google webmaster tools won't let you target a global audience. So no one apart from those who live in the Indian Ocean states will find you via Google, which is a bit of a disadvantage.
Maybe I'm wrong and the recent strange observations (such as the one commented here and the ones linked below) don't stack up and are explained as fast as they appear?

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/101125_galaxies.htm
http://www.universetoday.com/10974/distant-galaxy-is-too-mas...
http://lsiblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/some-galaxies-look-too-o...

Or maybe theory of how galaxies form is not the part of big bang theory?

Or maybe I just got downvoted because I triggered some peoples cracpot-filter by using "big bang" and "flawed" in the same sentence?
Realistic porn is an already existing subset of porn. A maybe counter-intuitive effect of filmmaking is that well-produced films in the likes of x-art.com appear more realistic and cute than what amateurs upload. A good director will make us forget that the camera is there and that it's all staged.
I'd love to hear how off they were, and even any guesses about why that may be. It would certainly help improve the project.
It's also unsurprising that FB would rather not benefit the Android platform more than strictly necessary.
Continue to grow, learn and progress. Don't get stuck, keep moving forward. Be worthy of respect.
I have nothing against people who oppose abortion by helping people.

I have everything against people who oppose abortion by trying to send people to prison, as if it helped.

Organized religions fall in the latter bucket.
How much is Facebook worth?
While valid and useful in specific cases, I think that this approach is short-sighted in general. In-place algorithms can lead to significant problems as it is typically hard to enforce strong invariants during the game update loop. In many cases, you wouldn't be erasing elements except as a final step in your game update loop anyway, and you can normally do this as part of a loop where you'd have access to the non-intrusive iterator which can then be removed O(1). I see little benefit to using intrusive linked-lists in this context.
Crackpot filter. Mine's still on.

Some findings are slightly surprising, but none so far have had big enough deltas to call the big bang theory "flawed". There's way too much data confirming it.
I had a really exceptional girlfriend (extremely smart, successful and beautiful) - and married her.
In general you should see it as a success. Most people only date the next-best-fit, you found someone you admire.
Ask her what she admires/ loves in you and you'll surely find out some truly exceptional facts about yourself to soothe your self-esteem.
Once Apple will announce LTE on iPhone all hell will break loose. HTC has two related patents, Samsung - 79. Source: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/042612-lte-patent-wars...
Thanks for the quick response. I'll join the list at doorkeeper to make sure.
As with most internationalization problems, blame the British. We used this middle-endian format around the time we colonised North America (I guess it does kind of make sense when you're reading aloud). The USA standardised on it, whereas most of the rest of the world (including Britain) moved on to a more logical format.

See also: power plugs. The British came up with a new British Standard plug seemingly every few years, and all the places we colonised use a different British Standard. We are the reason you need to spend $20 on a universal power adapter with 10 different attachments.
> If it's perfect what use has iTerm2?

1. alternative
2. hardcore usage
3. opensource

BTW your precious iTerm2 does not handle ICC color profiles, whereas Terminal.app does, and on calibrated screens it shows.
Wish they would just show the real pictures in the article rather than an artists depiction, kind of gives an unreasonable expectation of how well we can see a galaxy 10 billion light years distant.
That actually makes a lot of sense. Ive been having some of the same thoughts, as almost all the profits from my own portfolio is from Apple stock, even though i also own, Amazon, Tesla, Arm and so on.

Perhaps thats why index investing is so succesfull, because you get the benefit of the outliers.. the bad ideas, or long shots, that suddenly skyrocket..
oh, really ? you was think you're smarter every people if him not be engineer? or women?
Many people are smarter you or me and it not surprise and it normally, dont worry, enjoy...
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