skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
amen brother, shalizi explains this problem well:

Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of gzip:
http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/cep-gzip.html

I think one of the limitations of the traditional formulation of information theory is that the entropy of a signal doesn't obviously tell you how much useful information is in the signal.

This paper provides an interesting perspective on this issue. "The Information Bottleneck Method" Bialek, Tishby and Pereira

http://www.princeton.edu/~wbialek/our_papers/tishby+al_99.pd...
Haven't we just rediscovered that "money management" is basically pseudoscience? These are the kinds of people who promise to beat the market using their special models or skills. On average they fail. When they seem to be doing well for a while, it is because they are playing the Martingale.

When someone says "These people manage $2 trillion", it seems like we should take it in the same light as "These people are among the most successful peddlers of perpetual motion machines in the world". Your reaction should be to trust them less, not more, about economic and financial matters.
The enthusiasm for tunneling everything over HTTP comes from that being easier than getting firewall rules changed, not any intrinsic properties of HTTP itself. It's port 80 people are interested in, really.
Cute. Please leave it on reddit, though: http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/7wuz0/linux_trovalds...
Norvig's little experiment shows...

Norvig's experiment doesn't show anything at all. Turning bits at random for any string at all, be it DNA or Shakespeare, will increase the amount of "information" towards the maximum, that is, a completely random string.

DNA is code. Imagine that I compressed mygame.cpp and mygame.lisp with LZW and claimed Ah-ha! The C++ version is more complex because it has more bytes!

And then I'd change a random character in the code, and claim that the information content has increased.

Nonsense!
Wealth is being extracted in the form of +trillion dollar bailouts. The loss comes from the taxpayer (and eventually, dollar holders), so it isn't quite what the OP meant, but there is one hell of an extraction taking place.
I'd like someone who can do a lot of things, such as properly form the corporation, manage the books, do some branding, get us some PR and has an eye for great visual design. Oh, that and get us some funding. Really good funding. At least I need someone who has the network or drive to find those people to do it for us.

I'll write the SQL, do the SEO and find great coders to help us build the darn thing. I'll even manage the projects as needed. In my situation CEO that codes would just be another programmer. I really do need the business skills.

Oh, and one more thing. The catalog site he built, hiscatalog.com is neat looking, but just looks like another affiliate catalog site. I'm not sure (aside from some clean design) what it offer beyond that.
An article about foreigners in Dubai managed to get written without interviewing a single Indian - amusing. I was under the impression that Indians constituted a large portion of the foreigners in Dubai.
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Is there really a difference between "extreme income tax" and "government pays for everything"?
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I hereby announce that I have jumped the shark. I used to be so original and relevant, but now I just make stupid meta jokes about myself. It's sad, really, but there it is.
You suspect wrongly, I'm not having a go at anyone, at least not with that sentence. The use of "all" is hyperbole, of course, and I intentionally said "money" instead of "wealth" because there is a limited supply of it, and being wealthy usually implies you control more of it than other people.
They're pretty confident in its successor, though. And I wouldn't say that they've rejected it so much as fleshed out the details.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_evolutionary_synthesis
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(I couldn't find a decent post on this without having to subject you fine gentlemen to tons of blog spam)

"Internet Explorer Collection contains multiple IE versions, which are standalone so they can be used at the same time."

Homepage:
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Download:
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I know I've been looking for something like this for ages.
That's what I like about this news, they haven't gone over the top with it .. saying it IS the cure for HIV(though the title is misleading).

The doctor seems cool with saying that it was something experimental that they did and it seems to have worked, but they still are unsure of it, because the virus may be hiding.

All in all they have covered it like a proper scientific story.
So what mechanisms are in place to ensure that governmental types are better informed than the average person?
Headline should read "63% of Americans reject Darwin's Theory of Evolution"
Dubai always looked to me like it was some sort of Las Vegas without gambling, alcohol or sex. i.e. a hollow shell.

Now it turns out that it isn't even that.

Can't say I'm sorry.
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So why do I get modded down, and then you get modded up for confirming what I said? I don't understand this site sometimes.
And it looks like they aren't willing to live with the caps:

Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley may decide after enduring yesterday's Congressional hearing that the old Troubled Asset Relief Program is more trouble than it's worth.

Eight chief executive officers of the biggest U.S. banks heard lawmakers in Washington criticize their bonuses, underwriting fees and perks. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Missouri Democrat, read questions from angry constituents asking what banks had done with taxpayer money they’d taken from the $700 billion TARP fund, and Rep. Michael Capuano, a Massachusetts Democrat, said he "cannot believe no one has prosecuted you."

{snip}

Frank told the bankers if they don't like the restrictions on the government aid, they should return the funds.

"We will take it," Frank said. "If there are any obstacles to you giving it back, we will undo those obstacles."
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aP6x...
That chart reflects most places I've worked, especially the larger ones. It's good in some ways, because those if there were no inefficiencies in organizations, startups would have it that much harder.
Just went through this presentation. A valuable read for anyone who is not quite sure what Web Hooks are. I never had the chance to really look into them and this told me tons.

Also bookmarked a few cool services mentioned within it. Awesome stuff
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Honestly, I'm not sure it's worth your time and effort to try to engineer a turnaround of "Big Dumb Company" from the lower runks of the inside.

The chance of success (meaning a full transformation to "Not So Dumb Corp") is so unlikely and life is way too short for that.
Good thing science isn't a democracy. Even if 100% disagrees with "fire is hot", they'll still burn their fingers.
I think you should back up your original comment with reasoning. In what sense does mainstream science (whatever that means) reject Darwin's theory of natural selection?

AFAIK (and IANRD) Darwin's theory has been extensively updated (especially by discovering the work of Mendel on the mechanism), but it has not been rejected.

IANRD = I Am Not Richard Dawkins
"OK that's shocking but not too surprising"

I think you've stumbled across a contradiction, considering those two words are synonymous. =]
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Why there was a need to make a thick abstraction over HTML and HTTP I'll never really understand.

How could you want to obscure what are very easy and simple tools still baffles me.

And having talked with some programmers who use nothing but ASP.NET it's amazing how in the dark it has left them.
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Fine, do nothing to the guys Greenspun was talking to. A deal is a deal. But there were also guys selling insurance on those mortgages (in the form of CDOs). Let's think about them for a minute.

Suppose you start a small company to sell earthquake insurance to people in California. You make a lot of money, more and more as the years go by with no earthquake. When the earthquake comes, you can't pay the policy holders. Should the government bail you out? Is it just too bad for the policy holders? Or did you commit fraud?

I don't like regulation but fraudulent activity should be illegal. You certainly can't get away with this with earthquake insurance because the insurance industry is "regulated". The financial industry needs the same kind of regulation. Right now there are huge holes.
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ASP.NET is a very flexible environment but, like any anything, it takes time to learn. You can tweak view state settings, manipulate caching, tune sessions, adjust markup, and exercise fine control over web control settings.

The fact that most novice developers won't know how to do these things without a learning curve is not the fault of the framework.

In fact, most of the observations the author makes here are equally applicable to other "quick start" programming environments. For instance, I'm sure there are plenty of bloated and poorly implemented Rails apps that resulted from inexperienced developers hacking up applications generated 100% by scaffolds.
I've flagged this because there are few things stupider then debating Darwinism on the internet.
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"In what sense does mainstream science (whatever that means) reject Darwin's theory of natural selection?"

Darwin basically said that species compete for scarce resources, and the organisms that are the best at competing win. This is entirely wrong.

In reality, the organisms that are the best adapted for their niche win-- almost always because they are the best at cooperating, not competing. (With a few salient exceptions such as the deer locking horns on the discovery channel, which make for good TV.) This was Wallace's theory, which was rejected because Wallace was a social reformer who took shots at the aristocracy. Whereas Darwin was a well connected socialite, and his model was favored by the aristocracy because it provided a justification for oppressing the masses. When you embrace Darwin, you're not embracing science, you're embracing fascism.

Some quotes on this from Alfie Kohn's book No Contest:

Pter Kropotkin: "Competition [...] is limited among animals to exception periods. [...] Better conditions are created by the elimination of competition by means of mutual aid and mutual support. [...] "Don't Compete" -- competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!" That is the tendency of nature, not always realized in full, but always present. That is the watchword which comes to us from the bush, the forest, the river, the ocean. "Therefore combine -- practice mutual aid!" That is what nature teaches us." -- Mutual Aid, 1902

Marvin Bates: "This competition, this 'struggle,' is a superficial thing, superimposed on an essential mutual dependence. The basic theme in nature is cooperation rather than competition -- a cooperation that has become so all-pervasive, so completely integrated, that it is difficult to untwine and follow out the separate strands."

"Not only do animals seek to avoid competition, but their behavior is overwhelmingly characterized by its opposite -- cooperation."

"If biologists have been saying this ever since Darwin, why does this seem so surprising to us? First, cooperation is "not always easy to see, whereas competition can be readily observed." Quite frankly, the bird sitting in the hippopotomus's back just doesn't make good television compared to two deer locking antlers or the bear catching the salmon as it tries to jump up the waterfall."

"Second, the metaphor of "survival of the fittest" suggests a type of combat, since warfare and struggle is such a salient feature of the human species."

John Taylor Gatto's new book, Weapons of Mass Instruction, talks extensively about this as well. Even this week's NYT give Wallace a nod:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/science/10essa.html
The Indians usually work in more menial jobs and aren't in a position to flee.
Maybe people thought you were saying that evolution is bullshit and that we should all be good boys and girls and do what the priests tell us.

There was an article on HN recently about why we should talk about "the theory of evolution" as opposed to "Darwinism", I suppose that's what you were saying?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/science/10essa.html

[edit: heh, you replied again while I was writing this, so yes - that's what you were saying]
Don't confuse "menial" with "low paid". I'm sure there are many Indians working in Dubai that do just as much non-menial labor as others and simply get paid a lot less for it...just as in other parts of the world.

Also, try not to degrade "menial" labor unless you've spent a few years digging ditches yourself. Your perspective may change.
FYI: your numbers are wrong.

http://www.teslamotors.com/performance/perf_specs.php

Tesla Roadster
Range: About 220 miles (based on EPA combined city/highway cycle)
Full Charge: About 3.5 hours using the Tesla Motors High Power Connector.

One of the better suggestions I have heard was an all electric car where you could use an external generator for long trips. 95+% of the time you don't need and save a lot of weight over a hybrid but it but it's still an option for long trips and you could even add extra storage space.
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Although I have no interest in stifling debate here, I do agree with you that HN karma has little to no influence on policy and does not counter-balance monetary influence on policy makers.

So I hope that the strongest opinions here, regardless of which side they take, are also being citizen-lobbied.
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec1.html#sec1.4
"HTTP only presumes a reliable transport; any protocol that provides such guarantees can be used"

UDP does not guarantee packet delivery, thus HTTP cannot ride on top of UDP.
Facebook tipped to outshine MySpace
Anyone who has used both Facebook and MySpace over the past few years knows why Facebook won: much less intrusive advertisements and a simpler design for non-technical users.
Because it seems like you're being purposefully ambiguous with what you mean by "reject."
Why do we have to debate it here? It's news, and I thought people here would be interested to know the stat.
The headline might just as well read "This article is designed to make Americans look foolish no matter what"

What they did was to omit one important fact in order to get their desired results. From the article...

63% of Americans say they believe that humans and other animals have either always existed in their present form or have evolved over time under the guidance of a supreme being

You can still be religious and believe in Darwin's theories. This article attaches atheism to Darwinism and uses that unnecessary attachment to make its flawed point

(For those who needed it spelled out what I'm saying is there's no reason why people can't believe in evolution and think it was designed by a supreme being. But when you put "have evolved over time under the guidance of a supreme being" as an alternative to "Believe in Evolution" you force a person who believes in a supreme being to vote against evolution no matter what)
http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=55704

It's the great escape by Indians who've hit the dead-end in Dubai.

Local police have found at least 3,000 automobiles -- sedans, SUVs, regulars -- abandoned outside Dubai International Airport in the last four months. Police say most of the vehicles had keys in the ignition, a clear sign they were left behind by owners in a hurry to take flight.
I think that you'd time the launch of the "cleaner" to be just before the insertion of your satellite.
I read this a while ago - http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/1124/034.html

Symbols SQM and POT from the article are relevant if you want to invest in Lithium.
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Stupidest thing I've ever heard. Man, people just get so focused on their own narrow ideological view that they can't see the big picture.

He downplays the most important phrase in the whole essay: "investors are afraid of a prolonged depression". And damn well they should be. As should the rest of us - very afraid!

He (and the investors he refers to) toss off that prospect like, oh, yeah, boo hoo hoo - we should all just let the market play itself out, if a depression comes so be it, and we'll all be better off for it on the other side. But a) I doubt very highly that we'd come out of it on the other side anywhere near to as good as we are now, and b) they never give any thought to the actual social consequences of that kind of policy.

Let me tell you, if the government does nothing, lets foreclosures just run their course, and lets the banking system collapse it will destroy this country. Tens of millions of jobs will disappear, tens of millions of people will be homeless and/or in poverty. Crime will skyrocket. And the risks of the country descending into either anarchy, revolution, or embracing right-wing totalitarianism in a misguided effort to restore "safety" will be tremendous.

Duh. Use your head, people! God I'm so tired of jaded rich people dishing out their out-of-touch laissez faire B.S. It's primarily the fault of laissez faire government policies that we're in this situation in the first place!
you do realize that I'm not a moderator?
Considering the value of a transferable good is based on what others are willing to exchange for that good, yes, inflated house prices means they are worth more. It does not mean that houses are worth more at any point in time, but it does mean that they are at that point in time.

Falling housing prices are not an example of losing money. They are an example of losing potential money, since there is no actual loss until sold. That's simplified--interesting things happen with valuation, property taxes, exotic mortgages, etc.

Edit: removed redundant paragraph.

As someone who dodged the housing deflation (not because I'm a genius, but because I got strangely lucky) by getting out before the value went south and moving to a rental at an attractive price as new lots started to idle in my area, I am sympathetic to what you're suggesting, though.

Housing prices were not artificially inflated. They may have been inflated, but there's nothing artificial about the fact that the demand side of the equation was willing to pay the high rates. Everyone agrees the housing prices were inflated, but I'd suggest it was a feedback loop involving government policy, a need for financial institutions to create value w/o necessarily creating wealth for competitive reasons and a desire on the part of investors to turn a profit on a sky-rocketing asset without a full understanding of the reasoning and the risk involved. I might be missing some factors. But I do generally dislike everyone who calls in to C-SPAN in the morning suggesting that only one thing they already happened to dislike for some specific reason was the culprit.
I guess there goes the "end of the politics of fear"
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It must be nice to be so rich that you can afford to think this way.
A new draft media law would make it a crime to damage the country’s reputation or economy, punishable by fines of up to 1 million dirhams (about $272,000).

That'll inspire confidence.
> there is no simple comparison on efficiency between the 2 different technology battery vs gasoline.

What's wrong with "km/J" ?
or, you could've submitted the homepage instead.

i tried this package a while ago and it didn't work for my purposes. its great if all you're doing is backwards-compatibility testing designs.

more complex apps broke things for me, though, that shouldn't be breaking.
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I have created reminders in my PIM to check this post again in late June of this year and May of next year. It's fun to speculate and debate this, but I'll be extra interested to check back on this and see which, if either, of the models proves to be more accurate.

What is lacking in a lot of these macro-economic discussions is the presentation of evidence that any of them are correct or incorrect based on past historical events. It may be out there, and I just don't hear people talk about it. Leads would be awesome. My fear is that it's all so complex you can't get beyond loose correlation. If we have a rebound this year or next, even if it's the stimulus, how will we know? Could it have been that almost all of the money was a complete waste, but the green industry investments hit out of the park? I'm really out of my area here :-)
I think your interpretation is wrong. Darwin's theory is that of evolution through natural selection.

Evolution through guidance of a supremem being is different and antithetical to Darwin's ideas.
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Nice soundbite, but which parts of Darwinian evolution have been rejected?
By my reckoning, if the law passes it would immediately apply to the people who wrote the law. Now that's leading by example.
So to answer the earlier question in this thread, you wouldn't have been modded down had you provided this the first time.
its more like Darwin's theory is that of evolution through natural selection and small changes or mutations in traits

and that is where many people believe guidance from above comes in
I'm no Computer Science major, but I've easily wasted a lot of my time rewriting algorithms for n.

http://www.cs.iupui.edu/~jschleut/n341/labs/#proto

It took awhile for me to understand what O-notation really represented until I found this primer: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~ped/teachadmin/algor/algor.html ; these 5 bullet cover a lot of ground if you want to approach algorithms head-on, that is given you don't have a Masters in CSCI, but being of the self-taught taxonomy I went ahead and tested a few out on my own. . .in my browser. . .where n is 27. . .using 2^n, which is essentially what a bubble-sort measures out at.

This is a bad algorithm, but I was curious how something like this would look in a browser. 2^27 = 134 217 728, which is roughly 130 MB. Firefox is willing and capable of running this while it could even run 2^28 = 268 MB. Anyways, don't delve too much into the topic, after awhile you'll recurse anything just to see what it looks like. . .worse than heroin.
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As long as you don't mind getting a loan instead of straight funding, apply on, my brother.
Haven't we just rediscovered that "money management" is basically pseudoscience? These are the kinds of people who promise to beat the market using their special models or skills. On average they fail.

No. While they may fail on average, they certainly don't all fail. There are some money managers who are truly brilliant and have consistently had great returns. Granted, these people are few and far between, but that doesn't negate the value of the entire field.

Using your logic, you could easily make the case that entrepreneurship is pseudoscience, since almost all entrepreneurs fail, therefore no one should invest with them or trust them.