skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only from a very narrow set of perspectives. There are many perspectives on life and for many of them a 'utility function' would seem nonsensical at best. Economics is not as all-encompassing a discipline as some people would like to make out.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stepheniliffe/6270719804/
matte, all the way. You can get a refurb 30" LCD + MBP for the price of a retina MBP...
I'm relatively new here. Why did this thread disappear off the front page? At 72 points in an hour, it ought to be by far the top post. The current leader is 67 points in 5 hours.

Are things that get up-modded that fast dropped as off-topic?

Thanks!
$500, see http://thatsmathematics.com/blog/archives/102
This strikes me as spammy.
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And what would you do with thieves, people who destroy property, hunters who kill animals illegally, and a million other non-violent categories that get jailed?
You're correct in thinking that a publisher who gives an artist a big advance and ends up making a decent return form the finished work may not share a dime of that with the artist. But given this success, the publisher is also a lot more likely to underwrite new work, which is very much to the benefit of the artist.

Meanwhile, the artist is in a position to increase their demands related to this follow-up effort, so saying that the publisher's success has no bearing on the artist's isn't correct. Yes, the artist has to negotiate well and produce more to realize that benefit, but the absence of a clear path isn't the same as the absence of any path.
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I found the rebuttal fascinating. Neither Roth, nor Oliver, has even a smidgen of compassion for the other party's point of view.

Philip Roth clearly doesn't "get" the fact that anyone can sign up and try to edit Wikipedia claiming to be God if they want, and those edits must be rejected because well they really could be anybody.

Oliver clearly doesn't "get" the fact that some people are so used to being who they are, and so untainted by the deeper deceptions and pranks of the Internet, that they clearly think that simply corresponding should be sufficient. Certainly it was when written letters were taken why not now?

And when two proud people with orthogonal world views disagree, well it just gets ugly and stays ugly sadly.

Wikipedia could do with a way for 'primary sources' to provide them with information that they can both verify and use, so perhaps Philip could write them a letter in his own hand and sign it and they could digitize that and store it as the referenced source. It always helps to know that people who aren't used to the Internet don't realize just how easy it is for dogs [1] to troll you.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_y...
It was a YC startup, but happened at the startup they did before they did YC (a completely different startup).
The issue is not whether the brain is necessary for consciousness, but whether it is sufficient. Like you said, brain damage affects our conscious experience. However, consciousness includes a purely subjective element that, so far, has no explanation in a reductionist sense. That is, why do we experience redness? Why is there an experienced inner life?

Science is a great tool for explaining how the brain works, in the sense of "why did I do that?" or "how are signals from the optical nerve processed?". However, because the experience of consciousness is so subjective, I doubt that science will be able to explain it. After all, science is designed to work on objective reality.
Seeing the brick wall in front of your face is not looking the other way. However, there is only a brick wall if you want to raise money, want an exit, or care if you get sued. I'm actually not being sarcastic here; there's something to be said for building a law firm in the shape of a music startup.
If you have walked a mile in someone else's shoes, you can then say whatever you like. For one thing, you are now a mile away, and for another, you also have their shoes.

(Not meaning to make light of what was an excellent post. Is just that I read your edit, and I thought you might be cheered up by sillyness.)
Not trying to be a hater, and I know this isn't Reddit, but it kills me when people don't know the different between Effect and Affect.

Other than that, great advice and well written article.
I'd say, "don't let the door hit you on the way out."
>USB 3.0 can do 5 Gbps which means 67 Hz would be an upper bound.

That's assuming that it's uncompressed, and if you're talking about using it largely for text, not compressing would just be crazy. For that kind of input, you can easily get 10x compression ratios losslessly. And at that resolution you can get away with extremely aggressive lossy compression, and ratios on the order of 50x are totally plausible. There's no reason for bandwidth to be a problem here.
In one of my apps, which is highly targeted towards Enterprise IT types, we're using LinkedIn and Google exclusively.

In another app I'm writing, I'm only implementing Github oAuth (as it's closely tied in to Github).

In the past, I've written apps that implemented any or all of the usuals, Google, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, Foursquare, Dropbox, Flickr, Instagram and (not oAuth, but) OpenID.

In my experience, it really depends on what you're building. The first site I mentioned leans towards LinkedIn. More consumer-oriented sites lean towards Facebook/Twitter, followed closely by native auth.

I once had a Flickr-tools site (long-since shuttered), obviously, Flickr oAuth dominated that site.

If you're building a Facebook app, my guess is that the majority of your users will be Facebook users, so I wouldn't bother to implement anything other than that. If it's an app that will be embedded into Facebook, then your decision's already made, as you can practically inherit logins from Facebook users. If you're planning to serve apps outside of Facebook, then also make sure you're doing native auth.

Offtopic slightly, what about dailycred didn't work with your site? In all of the applications I've built, I've only used one auth login library, https://github.com/omab/django-social-auth (except for the Flickr site, which wasn't Django.) If you have something like dailycred not working, you might need to reconsider how you're structuring your data.

The typical implementation pattern is to have User objects (like you'd have if they performed a native auth), and various authentication types that all resolve into the singular User object. Users can authenticate via whatever they want, but only one 'account' exists for them, such that you can attach multiple authentication providers to the same user. FWIW, dailycred does this, and attempts to automatically reconcile (by email I believe) users who might use Twitter to log in today, and Google to log in tomorrow, but are otherwise the same user.
Nicely done. I have considered doing these sorts of sectionals on my replicator. Still working on a nice 'low density' internalized structure (solid PLA/ABS is out of the question) which provides the necessary support and rigidity. My last attempt was intersecting triangles.
Stop using XML.
Sorry about the incredibly immature response you got to this. I suppose this is how some people really are when they can be completely anonymous. But it also highlights a problem that you should solve. Making someone submit an email and verify with it when posting (a la craigslist) would probably alleviate some of this and give you something to ban.

Also, I'm not sure how this persuades people away from craigslist, Task Rabbit, etc.
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It looks like the assembly and finishing of a 3D printed group of parts was taken to a whole new level. I don't see any indication that a whole new level has been achieved in the 3D printing itself. Great finished product though.
Wow, didn't know that they rewrote from PHP to JSP. Got any articles/blog post to share? I'm curious.
The Myth of Science as a Public Good (by Terence Kealey):
The same content will be pretty much available on the web in some places. Take a look at the daily show.com, It's almost a carbon copy of the broadcast version complete with five minutes of commercials between sections. Networks will take advantage of the web audience when it's financially feasible. Comedy Central has a young audience so it makes sense for them to embrace the web earlier.
If you're not sure, you could start a Kickstarter. That's what it's for - products which are only viable if a certain number of people put down cash.
We mostly use Netflix and Youtube for things we watch. I don't remember last time I wanted to see something (a show, a move) and then followed through and watched something on TV. Of course I don't look for it and I don't know what is playing. And I don't know what is playing because I don't watch TV to begin with.

Also, Netflix has trained me to not be able to stand commercials. When I am at a relative's house or catch a glimpse of TV in the background, commercials stand out like a sore thumb and irritate the heck out of me.
Somebody learned something on Monday Oct 15th, take a look at the daily price chart from 10/15 - 10/19. It would be a brazen bit of mis-direction to pull this off with a mea culpa, though. But the markets have an echo-chamber-ish thought process, too (not co-incidentally). Something to think about.
To the extent that you've diluted the market for new copies in some small but real way, then yes, you have theoretically harmed the author.

However, the law doesn't recognize that harm as significant enough to be legally actionable. To the contrary, it recognizes that always placing the interests of authors above those of the public would do the public intolerable harm, and that the author is going to have to live with a less-than perfectly controlled market if he wants any control at all. What the author of a desirable work CAN expect is that there will be a reasonable volume of exchanges in which unavoidable obligations to pay do arise. Based on these he (or, more likely, his publisher) can invest in production accordingly.

If your copies and exchanges take place outside this range, then there's no way for the publisher to claim he's being unreasonably harmed by them, since the law gave him no reason to expect that he'd profit from these transactions in the first place. But if they take place within the parameters of demand that the law allowed him to bank against, then the illegal dilution of his legally recognized market constitutes very real harm.
You can do that with client-side rlwrap too.
Running a red light because you're frustrated is a driver bug.
Failing to allow drivers to make a left is a light bug.
No, rich people believe he is costing them money. By far the most heinous crime under corporatism.
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We are currently working on this project for Start Up Weekend gathering feedback.
Horowitz was one of my favorite presentations. He didn't talk about anything too proprietary or different but he was extremely entertaining and funny.
He is, what amounts to, a political prisoner.
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Certainly by eyeballing the graph I'd say that ten is about right and 100 as way too high. However, I wonder if there aren't other considerations. For example, '10 Free Levels!!!' doesn't sound so hot.

The other thing is, if you lower it at all at this point you're going to get at least a few whines in the comments.

Another approach would be to come up with a different kind of level and sell those in a pack.
Interestingly I used JavaScript(Jquery) to generate a majority of the html for a site I did in the past to keep it free from page refreshes. In retrospect I thought it was bad practice, but maybe it will come into style with libraries like this.
This made me wonder if there is a jQuery library that supports zen code, apparently there is: https://github.com/zodoz/jquery-ZenCoding
Did you read the article? He's in jail because his alleged involvement in hacking Logica.
JQuery Zen code
It's odd - this was written in the New Yorker, which, previously, had in my mind a reputation for doing astonishing amounts of fact checking.

If anything, reading the two articles brings them down a notch in my mind. I'd like to see Phillip Roth's response to Oliver.

Nice response though, even though it wasn't an official Wikipedia Response.
There are probably several other use-cases, but the one I've run into was where there is a naive implementation of alphabetic sorting (basically character by character sorting), zero padding allows proper numerical sorting to work:

001

002

010

022

Instead of:

1

10

2

22

If you think you might have a thousand items, you'd probably zero pad by 3 digits.

0001

0010

0100

1000

1001

Edit: of course, one area you're guaranteed to have trouble with numerical sorting is when your number is prefixed by a letter. Zero-padding mitigates that problem: M001, M002, M020, M023.
I would have upvoted your post if you paid more attention to whose posts you're replying to:

When @ntumlin says "it's just a bunch of ones and zeroes"

ntumlin did not say any such thing.
I could be wrong, but I don't think that goes with what hesdeadjim is saying. The point seems to be that player's expect core features to be included but once hooked will gladly pay for more superficial features.

It might be hard to come up with that sort of feature for your game as it doesn't feature tiny people running around and is rather abstract.

I guess hints are slightly less core than levels, but not by much, IMO.

Any ideas for a slightly different kind of level/game play? You could sell that as a pack.
There are different schools of Buddhism. As it spread through SE Asia local peoples incorporated local customs,etc. For example, the 'laughing buddha,' was a Chinese fertility god, IIRC.
Ironically, "Ghost" and "Spook" are synonyms for each other.
Who’s the real bully, Uber or New York?
Cheaper does not mean lower quality. [Insert snide comment about 24 or Downton Abbey here]
"So now, ESPN Watcher, the price you have to pay
to watch the same network you love has to cover
all those lost homes and all that lost advertising."

That's assuming no alternative revenue streams in the "TV is dead" world are worked out. Failure of imagination?
"Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating."
So instead of doing things like drinking, dancing, and live actual human vocal conversations complete with eye to eye contact -- you'd rather have people playing with their smart phones during one of the most important moment in a couple people's lives?

Apparently you're not aware than most wedding receptions frown heavily on cell phone use.
You're not the only one. I put a whole bunch of details here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3898311

The delta.com.tw links in the above are dead. It seems Delta was using
tech from Bridgestone, and Bridgestone got out of the epaper market
last May:

http://www.bridgestone.com/corporate/news/2012051501.html

eink/epaper displays should be up to 40" by now, but with
the exit of Bridgestone, who knows:

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20111102PD209.html
It will be curious to see how significant the glare on the supposed retina MBP 13" turns out to be.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=friendster+rewrite
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There are eInk specific things that a graphics controller needs to know about, like flashing the screen (or a region) after an update to eliminate ghosting.

So it would probably make more sense for the communication between the host and the panel to be at a higher level than a bitmap of the entire screen - something more like the Windows GDI, Display Postscript or Xlib. Sure, you'd occasionally need to blit in the whole screen, but you could limit the number of pixels to update, and limit the number of updates per second.

I'd much rather have a display that doesn't suck up all my USB bandwidth. If you are going to do that, you might as well use the Thunderbolt port. But then you just have a big, expensive grayscale screen with a low refresh rate.
Is it possible ESPN will just make less money? The article assumes ESPN will charge an individual subscription rate such that it will make the same revenue as it would via cable bundles. If TV is like music or newspapers, it's entirely possible ESPN or similar cable channels will just make less money.
> Is a glossy or matte LCD screen better for long coding sessions?

Better for you than screen choice: standing desk - you will code better and faster

Better for you than screen choice: inject 2 minutes of getting up and walking around every 15-20 minutes of your "long coding" session - you will code better and faster

Better for you than screen choice: start your long coding session after 30 minutes of moderate exercise (walk or bike ride) - you will code better and faster

-- after the above is in play --

It probably won't matter which one you choose.
You could try using an iteration that only required 300 MB for a full expansion...
Would you care to come up with such a "perspective on life"? I bet that for any actual, constructed perspective (rather than an a-priori incompatible one like "a perspective on life such that it doesn't admit a utility function") a utility function can be defined.
Thanks for pointing that out. And I apologize if I misread your intent.
It's a little gauche to whine about downvotes. If I were to downvote you, it would be for your style, not your sentiment.

But I think I see what you're getting at. I have a slight aversion to 37signals products for this same reason. We idolize people who do great work, and cut them too much slack. We have a few generations of people who want to be Steve-o simply so they can be abusive and anti-social while receiving praise.

Until recently I found Apple products to be excellent. They're still really good, but the equation used to be good versus great, and it's turning into good and free versus excellent and constrained. I don't know where the tipping point is, but I feel myself getting near it.
Don't start your TDD with code coverage analysis
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Entirely appropriate. We've probably had a minimum of 20-30 reposts over the problems with saving passwords as simple salts+hashes, which is a useful introduction to bcrypt/scrypt/pbkdf2.
That's a great idea, thanks. I'll try "Next" but going straight into the next level would be a bit abrupt. Some people are spending over an hour per puzzle (as I did myself with Nikoli's hand-made levels six months ago), and it seems appropriate to give them a small celebratory moment.
I found three when I had to do this. None of them worked correctly, and the JQuery plugin I found had a very poor API. I ended up writing my own, because the bar set by the existing software was so low.

Filepicker.io was one of the ones I looked at, and I still think my implementation was better.

I wish I had smuggled a copy of it out of that company before I was laid off. :(
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Wikipedia could do with a way for 'primary sources' to provide them with information that they can both verify and use

They have a way to verify a primary source - use a secondary source.

perhaps Philip could write them a letter in his own hand and sign it and they could digitize that and store it as the referenced source

Wikipedia intentionally does not pursue original research, which this certainly is.
Although stated in an assy way, billirvine does have a point -- I'd shoot the person who shows up to my wedding/reception and sits glued to their cell phone.

But there are other ways that people could achieve the goals stated in your video. Perhaps an iPad that sits on a table by the guest book, where an app is running that lets people record their thoughts and wishes on video, or leave a doodle/drawing, a photo, or pick up the tablet and walk it around.

One of the things I hate about weddings and receptions are the camera crews which get in the way of my enjoyment, sticking their camera in my face and forcing me to be spontaneous and well-wishing on command. I'd like a way to maybe take a moment, sit in a quiet spot, and congratulate the couple. And camera crews inevitably miss great moments where people are being spontaneous and emotional -- in my opinion there is definite value to being able to memorialize some of these.
Thanks. I wrote this post in a bit of a midnight frenzy so perhaps the writing could have been clearer. I meant we hadn't put in ads but that we now recognize this as a mistake, and that we do plan to use ads and reminders-to-upgrade in future games.
Sites like Hulu and Netflix generate money from content that has already been created. The budget was found to create the initial content and publishing sites like these create residual income from targeted advertising. Great.

The content providers know the direction things are heading and probably know $20-30 a month for one channel from each subscriber is a tough pitch. So what's the ingenious model to offset the loss of big money cable television advertisements?
Artificial crisis. On digital networks they can control the content even more. if they can't make even more money then they are just not trying.
"Just make less money."

How many YC startups would accept that compromise?

The legacy of the massive broadcast entertainment ecosystem will take some time yet to unravel, but will do so quite quickly when it happens. Then there will be a void for more agile content creators to step in.

Until that void appears, expect pain and horror.
Microsoft is also pretty slow moving, because they worry about all this crap.

MS engineers complain about all the bureaucracy involved in change anything - check with legal, update user docs, update support docs, update the tests, check the internationalization and accessibility. But that's the cost of providing a solid product.

Google has two big products - ads and search. Search is more or less a single text box, and a list of results. There's some bells and whistles, but as long as you can type in a search box it's good enough. Ads are similarly bullet proof (though plenty of people get pissed off at being blacklisted).
I've saved the version number in NSUserDefaults, so anyone upgrading to the next version will be able to keep their 100 levels (unless they deleted the app in the interim).

That should help a little with the 1-star gang.