skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention that there is probably a relationship between reliability and impulse control. And parents with poor impulse control tend to have children with poor impulse control(whether the relationship is genetic or learned I'll leave to others to decide). So it stands to reason that children with poor impulse control will also have parents that score low on reliability, even if the reliability in itself is not the cause.
> Unless vertical touch is not going to be used whatsoever in hybrid mode, it's going to invoke a kind of physical strain that hasn't been seen in typical personal computer use.

I don't think so. Switching between the touchscreen and the mouse/trackpad breaks up the repetition, and should probably reduce repetitive stress injuries. Instead of always reaching for the screen or always reaching for the mouse, you can do both, and more importantly, you can do whichever is more comfortable. In a vertical form factor, use of the touchscreen will undoubtedly be lower than use of a traditional pointing device, because it's not comfortable to reach for the touchscreen constantly. It is however comfortable to do so intermittently, and for some actions, direct screen manipulation feels more intuitive (especially on laptops when they're actually in your lap, and the "reach" is much smaller).

I'm sure that some people will get repetitive stress injuries from touchscreens, but it's definitely not a given that it will happen.
Your link is broken, FYI
If people came by their beliefs about the importance or unimportance of writing by the effects of stray cosmic rays, only the ones who end up believing writing is important would bother to write up their belief.

That is what the statisticians call a selection effect, and it is important to keep it in mind when weighing a piece of writing about writing.
Buy, Reuse or Build ETL Software? (2011)
After reviewing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSFET#Difficulties_arising_due... it makes sense to just point you there for a starting point.

tl;dr Current Intel processors are already at the physics-imposed limits for shrinking the size. Every process shrink Intel achieves represents a fundamental change in the way semiconductors are produced.
>Furthermore, it seems unlikely that the variable being studied in the original experiment, impulse control, was actually just a red herring disguising parental reliability as the true factor.

The variable being studied was weather or not the children would wait for the second marshmallow, and that the children who did wait did better in life. I suspect that everyone would agree that this is not an casual relationship, which would imply that the children did better because they waited for the marshmallow. Therefore, we know that we are looking for what factor(s) lead to the correlation between waiting and success in life. In the original experiment it was assumed, I believe without justification, that the common cause was impulse control. This experiment shows that the trustworthiness of the environment plays a significant role in determining how the children make their decision. This result support the hypothesis that the original marshmallow experiment was a proxy for the living environment of the children, not their impulse control. I'll leave it up to researchers to determine how to answer the question of what is going on behind the scenes, however I think the take home message for the rest of us is that experiments and statistics only prove exactly what was being looked at, and any conclusion we draw from that is interperatation that is subject to human error.
Mathematicians can definitely be opinionated, but a lot of the problem lies elsewhere. The "suspicion of empirical methods in the social science" is actually pretty well justified, for example the recent replication studies flap in psychology.

In education, I haven't seen any studies showing a marked superiority of a particular teaching method. Sometimes a new idea shows promise, but the effects evaporate when someone else tries it. So Boaler's results were enormously surprising, and it was reasonable to ask for verification. And then it turned into ugly politics.
Factual correction: Fortress lost the DARPA competition to IBM, I think. So after the competition Sun funded it internally...maybe because it was GLS's project.
I don't have a bone in this fight, but when sample sizes are approaching N=1, you run the risk of evidence tampering, absent anonymity. You also enable political retaliation (ie, principla X supported Y, pull his funding...or oh look at him slip on a sidewalk...woops). Its credible, given the obvious anonymosity (all around), and the politicization of teachers unions (viz, wisconson, chicago, ect) that this consideration be taken into account. Again, this is not a "political point" (partisan sense) as it is a practical one about Naivete, and what desperate people do when they feel threatened.
You assume that systems tend to be well-designed and the basic assumptions it makes are justifiable, and that the systems faithfully implement that design and those assumptions.

It sounds like the author found a bunch of bugs in the process of making a simple code change. That happens pretty frequently, and doesn't mean that the author should let the priests of the cathedral deal with this UNIX thing that is too complicated for the laity to hack on. It just means there is no priesthood.
I believe that's only supported in newer versions of sort.
It just depends what info you desire. I typically use "ls -lh" to quickly find large files to clean up to recover disk space.
The more interesting part of that is that, next to engineers, kindergardeners are the best performing group at the marshmallow challenge. [1]

[1] http://marshmallowchallenge.com/TED_Talk.html
USPS is a national treasure. A fantastically efficient organization and an example of a publicly owned and operated entity running well. USPS needs to be increasing services, not cutting services. Saturday delivery should not be cut. Sunday delivery should be added.

USPS is indispensable infrastructure, and crucial to e-commerce.

Amazon is owning retail, and USPS should be fighting to make every Prime delivery in the nation, even on Sunday.

Local post offices have great reach and location. Right now they are prohibited by law from engaging in other services. That law is obsolete.
I'm not the OP but I'm the blog owner. Whoever posted the link posted the mobile link, and blogger.com has re-formatted the image to maximum width... not sure how to fix it, but I'll take a look :-)
Rather than a textbook, I usually see that quote attributed to Albert Einstein or the ancient Chinese.
Free online Speech to text editor. Needs some work but looks cool.
In the third paragraph, "revisited" is a hyperlink to the original paper.
For anyone interested, here is the URL:
http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/ckidd/papers/KiddPalmeri...
Wikipedia's Dark Side
(Shrug) I just go to other websites and read something else. On the Internet, there really is something interesting to see in every possible direction you look.
That's generally only true on road bikes made for going fast. The rims are deep like that for aerodynamics. Cruisers (like shown in the videos), hybrids and most other transportation bikes tend not to have those deep rims.
Or still have a conventional reflector on the spokes...
Cool story I guess but at the end I'm left wondering how much of it is true and how much is exaggerated just to sound 'cool'. I can't help but pick up quite a bit of arrogance in his answers.
I agree with all that. It will definitely be interesting to see how Windows 8 shakes out: there's no larger real-world test that can be run.
There are quasi-modern-day sci-fi stories like the TV show Eureka or Fringe.

Going backwards just a little in time... Dieselpunk is often set between the two world wars. I loved the style of The Rocketeer, Skycaptain and The World of Tomorrow along with other post-aviation, pre WWII sci-fi/fantasies (even if the non-stylistic aspects of Skycaptain were deeply disappointing).
What specifically is wrong with the definition of a lattice?
Don't get me wrong. My business makes decent money. At least as much as I'd make if I had a fulltime job instead. I'm just not sure that's enough success to qualify me as an educator and model on how to do business well. Hell, most of it boils down to luck. Yet, lots of people in the same boat as me write about their "success." Maybe it's lack of confidence on my part, or maybe it's Dunning–Kruger effect.

On the other hand, there's a lot of value (to other people) of disclosing what you've learned as a mildly successful business person. Most people like to keep their cards close to their chest. It's nice to read exactly how your peers are doing business.
For anyone interested, here is the original paper:
http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/ckidd/papers/KiddPalmeri...

It was hyperlinked in the 3rd paragraph.
Yeah, I shouldn't say "bullet proof". But basically a simple way to not reserve any variable names. You can definitely get around it if you're determined but if you do that you probably want the script to run that way anyways, and that's fine. I just didn't like how existing checks made it a hard requirement for end users to not use certain variable names.
Long-form can avoid this problem, because to put together a cohesive piece, you have to do a little reflection and possibly research. Plus, it is considerably higher investment on the part of the author, so if it has been said before, they'll be more likely to write about something else.
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I agree with some elements of where you are going with this, but caution the general reader to not put too much stake in "new services" or "growth". The USPS needs to shrink, as over 40% of their business is <delivering junk mail>[1]. That was their latest "growth" initiative. Now they overexpanded their overhead, and are facing cuts. New services (not junk) should be added to replace declining 1st class, but the USPS needs to be radically re-scalled and made efficient. This does no mean closing branches, it means cutting overhead. US taxpayers should be subsisizing a communications infrastructure, not be subsidizing a direct-marketing operation.

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising_mail
For a while, I've been pondering how to solve the same problem. I also reached similar conclusions, that parallelism needs to be implicit at the language level. I've even been working on an implementation that will run on the JVM (it's all of a week old for writing code for it, but I've been documenting the how it works for months in my notebooks). The language is based around the idea of stream processing. By using type signatures, function calls can be parallelized based on how the are called.

As an example, given two functions, A(Item) and B(List[Item]), if you call them like:

B << A << List[Item](x,y,z)

the A should be called once for each item in the list of x,y,z, the results of which are collected into a list and passed to B. If you add in a function C(Item) and call it like:

B << C << A << List[Item](x,y,z)

then at any given point, A can be processing a list item, C can be processing a list item and the total results of C are being collected. Which leads into, what if it is order dependent?

B << serial { A << List[Item](x,y,z) }

will guarantee that A is called serially and the order of the List (and results) is preserved.

I really shouldn't advertise the link to the language at all here, considering I have zero documentation and there's almost no comments in the current code, but I'm going to anyways, https://bitbucket.org/ismarc/muster . It currently will parse a single file, generate the AST and generate the symbol table. I'm working on a non-parallel interpreter right now, with the intention of using the interpreter to write the compiler so the language is fully exercised to work out any potential issues with it. And on a final note, I'm targeting the JVM mainly for existing libraries, but I'm open to discussions about it.
> 1. WP marketshare is increasing very very steadily

Source? I seem to recall it decreasing in some quarters.
+100 for the personal journal idea, for the same reasons. I started keeping one just a couple years ago, and even with that short timespan I found it's fascinicating to look back and remember all the interesting things that I've experienced.
I think thats a good point. Simply put: for this product to be beneficial to its users they shouldn't have to use it for a long time. The goal is to find out quickly whether or not people want to buy your test product. It's not something you want to pay for long term. Unless maybe it's an agency or someone that launches multiple products regularly. But I think the people that fit into this category are pretty limited.

It might not hurt to look into a higher one-time price point or I suppose you could base expected revenue with the assumption that most people may cancel after a month or 2.
Agreed. Don't write because of the audience. Write because it helps you process your thoughts and feelings.
Laws for lights on bicycles are generally separate from laws for lights on motorized vehicles. For instance, in California, the law requires 5-9 reflectors and a white headlight, but only disallows a blue light. Any light of any kind other than blue is allowed.

http://dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d11/vc21201.htm
If he actually did do all of that then that kind of tone is not arrogant at all, since it matches reality.
To a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
hhmmm ... not sure, seems they are really bad in English (e.g. "JuuuuubtghyAujkykkik﻿").
Some are obvious spam or I guess she just want's to meet guys:

"meet me at fb gyz...
ankit050@yahoo.com﻿"

;)
The final comment is an allusion to the article it links, which is only tangentially related (in that it's also about tacos): http://www.kmjn.org/notes/specters_of_tacology.html

My goal in that article was to connect some comments I'd been hearing from philosophers, about taking things seriously in themselves (as opposed to only reducing things to their cultural roles) with an offhand comment a professor I know (Ian Bogost) had made about his hypothetical future career studying "tacology", the science of tacos and burritos, which he argued were woefully understudied.

So, I wrote a half-satirical "literature review" of the current academic study of tacos and burritos, surveying tacological references I could find in the literature. It really is a literature review, but many of the references I turned up are strangely ominous, discussing "mass psychogenic illness", violence in the parking lot of Taco Bell, and other such things. Thus, I weave them into a Lovecraftian hypothesis, which proposes that there is a hidden evil at the heart of tacology, which leads academics to study tacos and burritos only superficially, shrinking back at the instant they realize they have delved too deeply.
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You make some valid points. I am undercharging. Most projects I go into, I end up doing the work of 5-10x of their engineers. I know this. I've known it for a long time.

It is the reason I went into consulting in the first place -- that and the fact that I don't want to deal with the politics and bullshit that goes with the standard corporate environment. I build stuff and get out.

That said, I think we're still talking about the single revelation of just "raising your rate". I'm not sure I need a book to do that, and you haven't sold me on the examples, anecdotes, worksheets, and other practical advice. I think it really, singly comes down to just raising your rate -- am I wrong?

Quite frankly, the reason I haven't raised my rate is that I live a comfortable lifestyle. I can afford the things I need and the things I desire. I have a family - I provide well, and we are far ahead of the curve on retirement. I plan to retire early, and I'm on track for that. I also live in a geographic environment that has been hit significantly hard economically. Doubling my rate would be a hard pill to swallow for local clients -- albeit most of my clients have been on the coasts.

The question I raised, and still do raise, is this: is it really an ebook that made you that extra income, or is it just having the balls to raise your rate? I'm arguing it is the latter, and questioning the value in an ebook whose main point is summarized in the title...
Variable assignment is not strictly necessary, what is necessary is that one loop iteration can modify the initial state of variables in the next loop iteration. This is the second alternative to setting the current value of a variable presented in Flow (specifically, recurrence relations, e.g. x' = x + 1, which are syntactic sugar but allow "variable assignment" but only allow assignment to variables accessible in the next loop iteration). So the Flow Manifesto doesn't cover the hole in the Böhm-Jacopini theorem specifically, but that doesn't mean this computational model is not Turing complete.

As far as proofs or working implementation, sometimes life gets in the way of progress :-)
The reality that "the tippy-top, of the economic pyramid who have been most effective at capturing government support" is canon in my opinion.

I'm not insanely liberal or anything, so I don't want to go too far down the road of "who does the government REALLY serve" - but the Constitution was built around building a state that could enforce contracts. And for good reason, but that reason was NOT that they were worried about serving the poor.
I think it's pretty hilarious that you think I've hustled like crazy, considering most months I don't spend more than 10 hours on Freckle… and that's being generous. In addition to it no longer being my main focus (for good or ill), I have chronic fatigue syndrome. If I work a 30-hour week, that's extraordinarily high output for me.

How many blog posts? Easy to find. Look at the Freckle blog and how it's been neglected for months and months until we hired somebody recently.

How many interviews? Google http://www.google.com/search?q=amy+hoy+freckle+interview --- looks like the number is, practically a la the center of a Tootsie Pop, 4. I rarely talk about Freckle except as a story in my podcast interviews, which happen oh, maybe 2-3 times a year in general but never solely about Freckle.

Freckle is nearly 4 years old so, 1 podcast a year on average.

You can ask leading questions, a la Fox News, or you can use facts, which are more persuasive. Unfortunately the facts are not on your side, so leading questions it is, I suppose.

Interesting that you & the other newbie HN user have ways to "counter" every argument. "Nobody could make more than $5k" "I make $30k" "Sure, it's easy to make $30k off suckers, selling a sexy quick fix" "What proof is there that my customers are suckers, and who thinks time tracking SaaS is sexy?" "Oh everybody could make $30k if they worked their asses off like you have" "I barely touch it at all" -- what will your counter be this time?
You state that:

A lattice is a partial ordering with a single unique "top element" (least upper bound) and a single unique "bottom element" (greatest lower bound). Every node in the lattice is reachable by following some directed path from the single least upper bound, and there is a directed path from every node in the lattice to the single least lower bound.

A lattice is a poset where binary joins and meets exist. You define a bounded poset not a lattice. In general a lattice need not have either a top element or a bottom element, although all finite lattices are complete and thus do have top and bottom elements. The second sentence is also redundant, because for any element x of a lattice x ≤ ⊤, so why talk about paths?
I received a lot of value from Patrick's lifecycle emails course. I hope he creates more courses/products like that.
Right, a loop is a morphism (or sub-lattice) from the state of loop variables at the beginning of a loop iteration to the state of loop variables in the next iteration. Iteration represents unrolling copies of the loop body sub-lattice in a linear string until termination. Recursion represents expanding sub-lattices inside sub-lattices until termination.
Now we need a "PiPy" (I suggest it simply be python implementation of the algorithm to calculate decimal places in pi) and PiPi (not idea what it would do). (Sorry about fluff comment, couldn't resist. We digress.)
Revenue. We have one very very part-time developer (my husband Thomas) and the occasional freelancer.
You should expand on what you're trying to say, because you've said nothing but started with a very interesting premise. So I'd like to hear more.
Pundits vs. political scientists, I’ll take political scientists every time
The iOS 6 maps reference is incredibly forced
That assumes your end goal is actually using the provided models in your application. It sounds like this is using them as pure data only.

I can think of a couple of reasons why you might want that, maybe if you wanted to create a relationship graph like django-extensions 'graph_models'[1], or build some sort of introspective API scaffold generator or something.

[1] https://github.com/django-extensions/django-extensions/blob/...
From the actual paper:
"To be clear, our data do not demonstrate that self-control is irrelevant in explaining the variance in children’s
wait-times on the original marshmallow task studies. <snip> Rather, an unreliable worldview, in addition to
self-control, may be causally related to later life outcomes..."
"the libertarian writer Charles Murray blames the hollowed-out middle for straying from the traditional family values and old-fashioned work ethic that he says prevail among the rich"

"Following the June Seventeenth uprising
the secretary of the Writers' League
had leaflets distributed on Stalin Allee
where one could read that the people
had forfeited the confidence of the government
and could regain it only through redoubled efforts.
Wouldn't it be simpler under these circumstances
for the government to dissolve the people
and elect another one?"

- Berthold Brecht
I noticed. :) The arguments among the "green" accounts all have a similar incoherency. Looks like astroturfing to me.

But I still can't bear to let them stand because if you aren't privy to underhanded "argument" techniques, they sound mildly persuasive. I'm not arguing trying to convince the "greens," but rather the silent majority reading.

I don't say anybody ought to buy my products or Brennan's, but the unfounded accusations flying around are hilarious.
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