skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess the problem I have with everything you are saying is that you still seem to be implying that somehow the wool is being pulled over our eyes. That the restored Proudin-Gorsky images are more fabrication than an honest attempt to faithfully render the data contained in the original images in a way that is psycho-visually accurate.

But one can make the very same case that Technicolor and Kodachrome and every other photography technology that has ever existed, is as much fabrication as reality. What I'm not seeing here is any evidence to backup the assertion that these particular images are less psycho-visually accurate than if they had been rendered in a different common style. Sure, with Photoshop and/or other software, you have a much bigger toolbox for messing with reality than you used to have in a darkroom, and you can consequently do all sorts of things that I would consider to be more fabrication than representation, but I've seen no evidence yet presented that this is what has occurred here.

One thing that we seem to agree on is that the style that has been used for many of the renderings is an HD video style. One of the things that I was taught by film professors is that the reason that video looks "cheaper" than film is that video is actually more accurate in a lot of ways than film, and we've just been trained by our culture to view the less accurate rendering in film as more classy. I don't know if this claim about film being less accurate than video is true, but if it is, then this might explain why an attempt to render the Proudin-Gorsky images as accurately as possible would end up with them looking like HD video.

I wouldn't, however, be surprised to learn that the images were not rendered as accurately as possible, and the HD video style was specifically chosen, but that choice would also make sense, psycho-visually. If we're not used to seeing photographs rendered in a form as psycho-visually accurate as is possible, we might not experience them as accurate due to our cultural bias.

If, on the other hand, you are not implying that the wool is being pulled over our eyes and are only stating that the Proudin-Gorsky images have been rendered in a a modern style rather than in a Technicolor or Kodachrome style or in the style that you would have seen if you were to have seen Proudkin-Gorsky project them with his lanterns, then point taken. (It would certainly be interesting to see them rendered in a form a close as possible to how they would have been seen in the day.)
> Is there a reason mm/dd was chosen in the US

I don't know which came first, but it agrees with the way we say it out loud. "Today is September tenth." So, maybe that's why?

And I think in other countries, it's said the other way around, right? "Today is the tenth of September?" That would actually be okay sounding in the U.S., too, though a little uncommon. Can you say "Today is tenth September"? That sounds very weird to me.
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Well, noticed how Android's own web browser is even worse in HTML5 than Mobile Safari?

"Android's browser"? Care to elaborate on which browser that is?

The one built from source? Which version of the source would that be? Or would it be Chrome? Or Firefox? Or Opera? Or Dolphin? Or Maxthon? or MIUI browser? Or the one included with TouchWiz? In which case, which version of Touchwiz?

And how is it "even worse"? You mean it doesn't behave like Mobile iOS Safari so that sites specifically tailored for iOS-devices doesn't work out of the box on Android? What a shock that is, eh? It's almost like I write sites specifically for MSIE, and they don't render correctly in Firefox. Haven't we heard about this story once before?

I'm not debating the correctness of your statement, but when you start out with something as mindblowingly pointless as "Android's browser is even worse" it's hard to take the rest of your point seriously.
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can anyone explain this?

here's some proof
http://i.imgur.com/axJdD.png

PS: i'm accessing the HN from Hong Kong, hence the Chinese ads.
It has for some... It is pretty easy to find stories and interviews online where this is the case.

Not everyone is affected the same by the same stimuli, but some are affected deeply.
Great essay. Enlightening, actually. A few somewhat provocative questions:

If you could theoretically "randomize" start up ideas, founders, business models, and every other primary ingredient in current "start-up theory", like a giant multivariate test... would we not see similar results to now?

Or similarly, if you closed your eyes and invested "blindly" how would you expect your results to differ (ROI-wise)?

It seems like investing results more closely resemble a lottery than a predictive model, based on your description.

Sort of a scary thought: what if current investment criteria (and therefore start-up goals) are largely irrelevant?

For example, IQ is distributed in the same way as winners and losers in start-ups. What if that is a key factor,(purely hypothetically, of course)?

In theory, shouldn't "good criteria" for investing generate progressively better results within smaller and smaller samples?
Here's one for you: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=grand-desig...
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Cool! If you copy/paste everything that has a -webkit prefix, and replace it with -moz, it will also work in Firefox (with a little stutter).
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Switzerland may pay the most, but it also costs that much more to live there.
The question at the end of the day though is when we are going to pass regulation that a set of chemicals must be used who has the burden of proof to show that this is a safety gain? I think that the regulator has that burden, and if you have a sort of revolving door of chemicals used there (use it for a time throw it out because of health problems, move on to the next without testing) then you know you have a problem.

I know that this is hard, and it means effectively if there is such a burden of proof patents will expire long before it is met, but it's time to stop that cycle.
John, it's a real shame news.usethesource.com never took off. I liked (and still like) the idea of something similar to HN but just for programming news/commentary.
Flippa.com has good volume. Dedicated Exchange for domain names.
Store multiple pointers to the same datum?
Good post. The only question is: are these developers "uncultured" or simply focusing on potential paying customers?
HP Spectre looks remarkably like the Apple Cinema Display
Whenever people copy Apple's hardware design they miss the point completely and wreck it with a giant brand name smacked on.
A quote: "Recent scholarly and media accounts paint a portrait of unhappy parents who find remarkably little joy in taking care of their children, but the scientific basis for these claims remains inconclusive."

Yes, and this study suffers from the same problem -- insufficient rigor, obvious bias on the part of the investigators, no control group, sloppy experimental design. A typical psychology study that discovers exactly what the researchers expected to discover.

A meta-analysis of all the studies on this topic would produce nothing that would contradict the null hypothesis (of no significant measured effect), as has recently happened with respect to depression medications.

It's not science, it's psychological science.
Was it obvious? I always thought DropBox won because of its built-in viral marketing through sharing and the streamlined installation + web frontend. But was that before or after investors began pouring money into it?
How is this at all relevant to the linked article?
I thought the connection to Bruce Ames was interesting. I remember reading Ames' discussion of carcinogens in foods and realizing that by the standards he was measuring, everything would give us cancer and the only thing we could do was ignore all that.

I do think that regulations mandating the use of new chemicals without decades of health testing is pretty irresponsible though.
I'm perhaps an odd case, because I work in academia in the area of government policy on health, but on a day-in day-out basis I see .nhs.uk, .gov.uk, .ac.uk, .org.uk and the occasional .mod.uk. As the parent of two toddlers, I'm starting to look at more and more .sch.uk and in my IT work I quite often see .net.uk and .nic.uk addresses.
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We obviously agree on everything... except the "Dropbox promise". I don't think Dropbox had any competitor when it was founded and I'm not sure it has any now.

Dropbox is not another file sharing software; the application form to YC doesn't even mention file sharing:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27532820/app.html

Dropbox isn't even about cloud storage.

Dropbox synchronizes your files between your different computers -- silently, automatically, without you doing anything except turn those machines on.

Nobody did this before Dropbox and still nobody is doing it now (except maybe AeroFS, which is much more difficult to setup and use -- but certainly not iCloud or any other "solution" that is restricted to one OS or company, and certainly no backup solution either).

That's why it was a fantastic idea... which has since been coupled with a brilliant execution, yes. But the idea itself was amazing.
Great question! Do a search for 'the Bates Method'. I am short-sighted and stopped wearing corrective lenses about 10 years ago when I discovered the Bates Method of natural eyesight improvement. I very soon experienced what he describes as 'clear flashes' i.e. 20/20 vision for a brief moment. When you have worn glasses for 20 years, it is a magical experience. I don't practice the exercises religiously but nevertheless my eyesight has measurably improved (from about -2.5 to -2.0). I still get the clear flashes, sometimes for appreciably longer periods of time e.g. 5 or 10 seconds. I hope that I will some day regain 'normal' vision and I only wish that someone had told me about this when I began to go short-sighted at about the age of 13.
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The Facebook integration in iOS 6 (Beta 1 through 3) functioned perfectly well prior to the launch of the (non Web view) native FB application.
Prediction and forecasting are two different things in regression.

Regression is for predicting a dependent variable based one or more independent variables. It may or may not involve a time component.

"Regression analysis is widely used for prediction and forecasting, where its use has substantial overlap with the field of machine learning."

Exactly. Prediction and forecasting are not the same thing. That's why they had to state both.

I know your bio is impressive, but I've studied statistics for two years, specifically time-series forecasting and regression modelling. Predictions are a lot of the times not made in a temporal context. E.g. if you predict aspects of the population based on your observations in a sample.

>> Only if you don't understand science. Correlation is not causation.

I might not understand science as well as you do, but I have some modicum of ability in statistics, so there's no need to wave "Correlation is not causation." at me in every reply you make.

Prediction are not always made as a result of a causation.
Paul has described the problem very well and he also made a habit of insisting a startup needs to solve a real problem.

Now, I wonder whether the understanding of both aspects is enough to put him in a position to recognize founders on the other side of the table capable to provide a solution to random black swan farming?

Eventually more interesting is the question what would be his best guess from which field of science he expects useful outcome enhancing the criteria to make more educated decisions on founders?

Am I alone with the impression the essay sounds stucked?
September the Tenth, or Tenth of September.

Both read well, and when we use shorthand we use a "/" in place of the/of.

It makes more sense to order consistently by unit. So day < month < year

month > day < year seems a bit silly.
TinyPNG uses http://pngquant.org and optipng.
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It's not just the pizza delivery story lines. Almost everything about porn is fake.

The settings are fake, the lighting is fake, the actors' physical appearance is fake (make-up, post-processing, etc.), the emotions are fake. Often the actors lie about their age, their sexual experience, etc.
1. Do a google search for any keywords in the URL. Or any related keywords. Find the advertisers. And send a pitch email to the advertisers. These are guys who have already shown that they will spend money behind particular keywords. Show them the SEO benefit and they'll pay more than folks on flippa, sedo etc.

2. For domains like use the source, its hard to find advertisers. So hit the social networks and forums. Find someone who runs a Star Wars forum and ask them if they are interested in buying the domain.

3. If that too doesn't work, then list the domain up on sedo, godaddy and all the other networks out there. But private sales will almost always lead to more money than a sale from a marketplace. So try private selling first.
Some more photos can be found:
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Picking on one point: "Well, noticed how Android's own web browser is even worse in HTML5 than Mobile Safari"

The stock Android browser fell behind in late 2010. If you follow PPK of quirksmode.org you know this (e.g., the following article was authored just before stock android fell behind: http://www.quirksmode.org/mobile/browsers.html). After that article he really began hating all over Android due to the fall-behind.

Basically, Google mostly abandoned the stock browser because they wanted to focus everything on Chrome for Android. They accomplished this last year, and it fixed virtually all the HTML5 complaints that have been leveled against Android. Chrome is only supported on Android 4+. Android 4+ devices are on track to become the best-selling Android phones of all time, such as the S3 which singlehandedly outsold the iPhone in August. In a year Android 2 & 3 will have negligible market share, as Froyo does today (15%).

Android with Chrome is at least as good as the iOS browser -- probably better. So this isn't a problem here.
For Linux, Trimage does the same thing as ImageOptim, plus it works on the command line:

http://trimage.org/
But, it is flawed -- simply because its so incomplete. There's simply too much we have absolutely no clue about and we have a lot of gaps that don't neatly add up. Our ignorance is vast. This is partly to do with our limited nature.

What we don't know about the origin of the universe far outweighs what we think we do. This won't ever stop being the case no matter how clever we may become.

Take exoplanets. According to everything we thought we knew about planetary formation by looking at our own solar system led us to believe every other star system that had planets would follow a similar configuration (rocky planets close their parent star gassy giants further away). That turned out to be spectacularly wrong. We've never seen any star systems with planetary distributions even remotely like ours.

The formation of galaxies is even more full of contradictory evidence and we only have the sketchiest picture.

Modesty is a feature of good scientists. Know-it-all attitudes get us nowhere.
Apple has already settled with Nokia: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/14/apple-nokia...
UIWebView on iPhone stinks pretty badly, too. Which, indeed, bears out the GP's point.
I remember asking once what should I do with my career, provided that I somehow feel that I reached the end of it.

Guess what happened to that topic. Likely quora was more open-minded in that regard (although not necessarily heaps more helpful, but I digress).
A niche in the book market, not in the Linux distro market.
It's slightly more complex than that. Google has made an effort to make Chrome the default browser going forward. However this will only affect Jelly Bean (and to a lesser extent ICS as it is an optional install there).

However I believe that apps still have to use the built in rendering engine when using the WebView control.

I'm not sure whether this is a strategic or technical decision from Google but I suspect the latter. Changing the WebView engine would have a major effect on compatibility for existing apps.
Creative wasnt US company... Stop watching.
In Dutch we say: 'ten september' (also, we don't capitalize names of the month, see: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Capitalization#Capitalization...)
12 new programming languages - does it have anything to do with cloud?
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17 USC § 512(f) of OCILLA already allows for damages for misrepresentations. If everyone who got a false takedown sued then they would soon stop.
For anyone wondering if there's any precedent for this sort of thing outside of movies and video games, then the answer is yes. In the Industrial/Cybergoth subcultures (and before that Raver culture), which have taken a great deal of inspiration sci-fi and art by Geiger, it's something you've been seeing for roughly 15 years. It's also something you'll see in Anime/Cosplay circles, and more recently, in Steampunk.

Edit: Fashionable Googler:

https://plus.google.com/+JennyMurphy/posts
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Wrong. See 17 USC § 512(f):

(f) Misrepresentations.— Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents under this section—

(1) that material or activity is infringing, or

(2) that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification,

shall be liable for any damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or copyright owner’s authorized licensee, or by a service provider, who is injured by such misrepresentation, as the result of the service provider relying upon such misrepresentation in removing or disabling access to the material or activity claimed to be infringing, or in replacing the removed material or ceasing to disable access to it. [1]

1. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512
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At no point did I advocate using porn as a model of your sex life, and much less using bad porn. Because of that, I absolutely agree with many of your points about TV drama and family life.

However, I actually am using "real" very similarly to your definition. If porn has an impact on cultural practice, sex that is influenced by porn is real in that way, and so is sex influenced by romantic novels. We probably are less aware of the latter, though, since the ubiquity of porn on the internet is a newer phenomenon.

The quote you use sounds quite sex-positive. But please also note that the article uses "real" in quotes (sometimes even capitalized), so it is fair to assume that Gallop uses that term extensively as well, and probably in a judgmental fashion. Also, her site is called "make love, not porn". I find both quite hypocritical, since, after all, she is operating a porn site.
Someone on 4chan, a forum with many devoted experts on porn, said that most of the big penises are fake (i.e., prosthetics), too. (No one further down the thread contested the assertion).
This makes me sick. It has been conclusively proven that pornography can be harmful to families and relationships. Would child port be better somehow. This is only the first part of why this is so sick. The second being that there would be a legal market for kidde porn? How could this help kids in any way?
Investors like to think they can predict the Market. It happens in Forex, Stock Market, Business ... and Startups. Nobody can predict the human nature. If i was the guys behind YC, trying to figure out new investments, i would try to measure precisely one thing: the passion of the founders for their startups. Because everything else is just luck.
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Bummer. I hope this isn't going to start a "go native" trend. I used the google talk webapp because I don't chat often and didn't think I needed to install a chat app on my phone. I know I'm taking a giant leap here but I honestly fear mobile webapps being dropped in favor of native and only native.
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Dooooooooope. On Android the songs keep playing if the browser isn't active - how'd you do that?
A bit off-topic:

Has anyone ever tried to correlate societies porn consumption with the decline of birthrate? I could imagine different countries would have different access to porn, maybe this has an effect?

Of course, Internet porn is only around for a decade and birthrate decline for much longer, but maybe even cheap color print and VHS had lasting effects, not just the pill and women education. Man might not be as horny anymore as the used to be.
I bumped into this a while ago and it was an interesting read:

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/An_insight_into_child_porn

Everyone take it with a grain of salt according to your personal taste, but IMHO it does more than adequately illustrate the point that the concept of child porn, starting from its definition is anything but black-and-white.
/ users clearly want to have discussions, and not just factual Q&A.

Equally, Quora users clearly crave questions and discussion, but Quora moderation/admins police grammar, content and direction so close people can't type free.

It feels hard to think. It feels hard to question.

Remember kids fight to feel free and talk free, in grown-up good-rooms of adults saying we need talk more appropriate and legal?

Little mind is given to little minds, and big minds in hiding.

What do you do, if someone else networked high tells you to change your mind, online?

Feels really hard typing free thoughts, stacked with questionable questions questioning questions.
But how do you find out if turnover is high?

It would be interesting if you could measure this with LinkedIn - as in looking at the profiles of all developers who worked for company X and determine how long they stayed on average. Of course it would rely on people actively updating their profiles. But if you could it would be interesting to see how much high turnover at a company correlated with bad reviews for said company on sites like Glassdoor.
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