skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't bother with bloodless synopses online, or Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

http://coinread.com/lila_an_inquiry_into_morals.503624.html

The essence of Dynamic Quality is that you click on the link now :)
Yawn... Comment on reddit fails to mention the part Netscape played in their own downfall... Ultimately MS were proved right, a browser is a core part of the OS
india was headed down that route, and then some idiots in power got obsessed with the fact that terrorists could be using anonymous cellphones to communicate. it's far more of a hassle to get a sim card there now :(
Yes, this is sometimes the case. I've done some thinking on this in this older post:
http://justinjackson.ca/this-tree-guy-has-good-business-advi...

Sometimes, moving to a new market can help. However, there's still the possibility that there is no profitable market for your product.

This is why I want to get to the customer as quickly as possible (with the idea, or a prototype) so that I can get feedback. If one market doesn't respond, I can bring the prototype to another market.

The danger is building the product solely on your own passion, without doing that research first.
"edge cases like this means I can see why it happens" is what I was trying to say.
35 minutes from Bedford to Holborn!? Do you sleep under the platform and have a private zipline from the station to your office?
Most commonly, this is going to be attributed to a ventricular arrhythmia, likely due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. This has nothing to do with cholesterol, lifestyle, diabetes, etc.
I use DotClear instead of Wordpress for the blog of a local non-profit, and it's nice, and according to them, easier to manage.
I disagree. I think the blog post perfectly shows one of the common rationalizations when pirating software.

I'd even say more -- regardless of the intention of the post, it actually pictures how people act when they are angry / frustrate. We, humans, need to tell ourselves something nice when we do bad things. In this case, it's something like "they were bad to me, so it's OK if I'm bad to them".

I can imagine more sinister reasons for piracy or misconduct of any other kind. This one feels so natural.
No, small sets of 200 tiny round rare earth magnets remain perfectly legal to possess or even to sell. The only thing you can't do is market them as desk toys.
Now THAT is impressive.
> I can't accept that this guy really was in perfect health;

I guess that depends on why you mean by 'perfect health.' He may very well have been in perfect health by every outward appearance. There are a large number of surprisingly minor things that can make you dead in an instant.

A brief primer on electrocardiology... Each heart beat is divided into several phases. An electrical impulse in generated in the two small chambers at the top of the heart (the atria), causing them to contract. This is the first small bump in an EKG, and is called the 'P' wave. After a brief pause, the impulse is conducted to the big chambers at the bottom of heart (the ventricles), causing them to contract. This is the big wave on an EKG, called the 'QRS complex.' After that, there's a period of time where the cells in the ventricles are recharging. This is the final bump in the EKG, called the T wave.

The Wikipedia article on this topic is very good. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocardiography#Waves_and_i...

If the heart is shocked (physically or electrically) during that recovery period, it can throw the heart into a fatal dysrhythmia where all the muscle cells in the heart are contracting chaotically. This is what happens when a baseball, lacrosse, or hockey player takes a blow to the chest and goes into sudden cardiac arrest... The blow happened during that very narrow window or time.

It's possible for your own heart to do that to itself though... It's very common for healthy people to have occasional 'premature ventricular contractions' where some random cell in the heart decides it's pissed off and wants to contract early. These are generally harmless, and happen all the time without anyone noticing. Every once in a while though, one of those PVCs occurs during that recharging phase, which can be very bad... So, a 'perfectly' healthy person _can_ throw a PVC, end up with an R-on-T contraction, and whamo... they're dead. Is it common? No, it's extremely rare. Does it happen? Sure does...
Is being obtuse a sport for you?
Product placement in Skyfall was actually pretty good
I'll ask and see if we have a scheme like that at work. I don't own a license of Office for Windows that I can use in a VM or with Crossover, but I'd be willing to entertain that if the price was right.
See my parallel comment. Aside from a possible genetic defect, it's quite possible that this person is healthy by all normally measured features. In the general case, a hunter gatherer lifestyle would likely have triggered this sooner, if anything.
I've grown to be a big fan of public transport. I've had a substantial commute in both Berlin and London, but public transport in both cases. Obviously I'd rather not have to do it, but it's had benefits for me. It's time every day when I'm "unplugged," and have a chance to read, something I'd found I'd done less of in recent years.

So, yeah, commuting can be a gift in disguise. But only if you're "lucky" enough to be able to use public transport. Not to mention the environmental benefits.
Lowering speed limit saves money(Gas), but thats debate for another thread. Banning thing costs us our personal freedom. Also personal responsibility goes out the door. Reason why we can't have things like chemistry sets like our parents had.
Every time Microsoft releases a new product the Astroturfing goes through the roof and the dishonest message is insulting to experienced system engineers.
It boils down to what factors you chose to treat as fixed. To each his own (obviously) but I think that most people undervalue the long commute and (comparatively) overvalue the hassle of changing jobs or moving.
At this point in the conversation, I believe I'm supposed to accuse you of being oculonormative and suggest that you are blinded by your Visual Privilege. Would this be helpful? [y/N]
The LSAT tests grammar and vocabulary, but not spelling.
It doesn't contradict "systemic racism", it clarifies it. i.e. "a college degree does not equal intelligence"
I made the same decision when we moved to Cambridge (UK). It's a really, really big cycling town and there's a noticable drop off in property prices once you go beyond about a half-hour cycle commute to the science/business park part of the city. The A14 (the main commuter road to that part of Cambridge) is basically a carpark during peak times, and I can cycle to work on (relatively) quiet cycle paths in less than half the time it would take me to drive.
David Mitchell (British Comedian)'s view of Mensa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPMKqyaXtHI
i miss erlang sometimes. sadly, the things it is good for are not the things i tend to be interested in exploring in my personal projects, but using it at work was a truly wonderful experience.
Mystery and theatrics are fun, but please stop. If you're goal is to attract users/developers to this library (cause?) you'll get more response with a with a clear explanation and description.
> But the biggest problem was that the idea of crossing the odd object out seems very strange to me in general. What is the odd object out in this list?

> Cow, hen, pig, sheep.

> The standard answer is supposed to be hen, as it is the only bird. But that is not the only possible correct answer. For example, pig is the only one whose meat is not kosher. And, look, sheep has five letters while the rest have three.

These types of questions irritate the theoretician in me as well, but to play devil's advocate a bit, are they really illegitimate questions? I would guess that your ability to correctly answer an "ambiguous" question like that measures your ability to effectively communicate with other humans, who regularly speak in ways that require the listener to resolve ambiguities that are at LEAST as severe as the farm animal question. If you think hard enough about it, sure, you can come up with a justification for any of the four answers (trivially, a cow is a cow and the other three choices are non-cows), but I would say that if you truly can't come up with the answer to that question that they "want" (barring any possible cultural reasons for not being able to do so), your intuition for pattern recognition could probably use some work.

This is not to defend IQ tests in general; I'm only arguing that ambiguous questions may measure something meaningful about your ability to learn or process information.
This is pretty good! I built a video/audio playlist app myself earlier this year called Muxamp, at http://muxamp.com/. I like your approach to the user interface, especially way you've laid out the top bar.
Why would it be hard to create feeds? It's just a matter of adding a template and letting the static generator create an XML file from the same content.
just to clarify – when it says "hacking a gmail account costs this much", it means "attempting to hack", right?
>I used to car commute that distance from the DC suburbs into DC, and it was hellish. 2 hours of my life each day wasted in ungodly traffic. That's not how people were meant to live. I'd much rather have Biden's 100 mile Amtrak commute into DC from Wilmington than the 20 mile car commute into DC from the suburbs.

I'm always surprised by how many people drive in and out of DC every day rather than take Metro and/or MARC / VRE.

I understand the shortcomings of Metro as well as anyone and better than most, but still consider the time I can spend reading or otherwise engaged while in the system preferable to slogging through traffic.
I was raised in an abusive middle class household. My parents were not well educated. When I took the ACT test in 1975, neither my parents nor I even knew what the hell it was. I made a 23. I went to a unremarkable Tier 4 college because my friend was going there. I paid for it working as an "auger boy" on a gravel drilling rig for a concrete company for five years. I failed college algebra twice. I was put on academic suspension, and somehow talked my way back in. I made a C in algebra, a C in trig, and then took calculus from a handicapped polio survivor named Mr. Treese (not a PhD) who could barely walk or speak clearly. He had zero patience for bullshit but for some reason he liked me. After taking three classes from Mr Treese he suggested that I should enter the Math dept's annual calculus contest (I was a geology major). I actually won the contest (and a $60 check!). Afterward, I never made a grade lower than an A, and eventually moved on to earn an MS in CS. Today I think he was probably the single most influential person in my life.

Today we have two daughters who are both completing science PhD's funded with fellowships. I paid for their undergraduate education at Tier 1 schools but they have done the rest on their own without loans. You can bet your life that they knew what an SAT test was when they took it. All their lives we've told them that they were definitely very smart but that it just doesn't matter, that IQ is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is what you do, not how smart you are.

(I remembered this story because Mr Treese didn't care much for the idea that a "number series" problem has a "best" solution.)
If you don't even know someone in your social network well enough to know whether they'd be qualified for a particular job, then you probably shouldn't be referring them to your employer, since you have no way of assessing how good they are at what they do. Passing someone's resume along to your employer is an implicit endorsement of that person, and if they end up being a waste of the company's time, your own credibility will suffer. Not to mention that when you later refer a really good person, they may get ignored due your past history of recommending unqualified candidates, and you'll miss out on referral bonuses.
Did you actually join Mensa and find this to have been a terrible decision, or are you just looking to score points with a witty jab at an out-group?

(Or some third thing?)
Actually the question should be rephrased to "Which of these can form precarious driving conditions in cold weather?" because that's what they actually want to know.

The problem as I see it is that the test-makers are trying to be overly clever and not ask the question they want the answer to. If I have to "extend" the language to say something it doesn't, the test maker has failed because the test question is the only source of truth.

This is the issue I see most often with these sorts of questions.
Oops I meant Bedford to st pancras the midland mainlines intercity 125 are 35 min station to station.

First capital connect is a bit longer (50-55 min) I normally catch 7:30 and am in the office at 8:40.
Success contains a large factor of luck for sure, but I'd say also a large factor of something not measured by IQ tests.

Charisma? "Emotional Intelligence"? Mental flexibility? Gumption? Who knows.
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Hey, this is a very basic MVP, tech-wise but the underlying business infrastructure runs deep. I have the relationships, my grand picture is to build a portal etc, where independent printers can bid on jobs, text alerts etc, but for now, I am doing things the old fashioned way, via email and phone calls. What are your guys' thoughts?
My experience (MIT, late 1990s) was that there were about 45% females to 55% males (+/- 5%), and in some programs (Biology, Earth Science) there were more females than males. CS undergrad was maybe 65:35, and Physics/Math were more skewed. I'm assuming everyone was approximately the same level of qualified coming in.

I think "med school leads to a great career" was a major factor.

Among people hiring, it's pretty common to actively search out new sources of candidates -- "Australia", x new education program, prior military service hires, etc.

I agree the early stage problems need to be solved by someone other than those hiring in the short term, but it's absolutely the case that a qualified (female, black, whatever) candidate will get a fair shot at many (most?) companies today. In large organizations, there is still some pressure to hire those candidates preferentially, and even in a small startup, hiring female technical employees early is preferred because it makes it a lot easier to hire even 20-30% female employees later, vs. an all-male 20 person company trying to hire its first female technical employee. (Sorry, but I don't count employees as a single class -- if 100% of your engineers are male and you have a female office manager, that's not really the same thing as a company like Quora where the first hire was a great designer and front-end developer who happened to be both from Facebook and female.)

So, hopefully solving the "demand side" also helps people solve the "supply side".
Yes. I thought saying "I think it's unlikely you actually think little kids should get Darwin awards" communicated that he wasn't writing callously, but just hadn't considered the CPSC's side.
This is a very basic MVP, tech-wise but the underlying business infrastructure runs deep. I have the relationships, and my grand picture is to build a portal etc, where independent printers can bid on jobs, get text alerts etc, but for now, I am doing things the old fashioned way, via email and phone calls. I also want to help brands launch, and let them "outsource" the printing process. I have a successful brand (recently had a fab.com sale etc), and one of the toughest parts, was getting ahold of the damn screen printers, along with a host of other ins and outs that I hope to help people with, so they can focus on sales and marketing.

What are your guys' thoughts?
I like TinyCore because it boots in a second or two in a VM, and the VM images can be really small. It's not really any help with RAM usage, if you run Firefox or Apache or the like it will chew up the RAM as usual.

For example, I have a Mint appliance that's about two gigs, while my Tinycore version is 200 megs. It's pretty nice to have that fallback when you have to retrieve it over the internet.
Consider taking up motorbikes, especially if you can legally filter / lanesplit. What would otherwise be dead time can be a whole lot of fun. Traffic makes it far more interesting.
David Mitchell has some insightful things to say about Mensa and those that choose to join the organization: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPMKqyaXtHI
Since most people who take IQ tests are doing it just once, without preparation, I'm not sure I see the relevance of this claim.
Good thing nobody is stealing.
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Sorry to use this channel for something off-topic, but I can't find an email address on your site.

Your bold fonts would look a lot sharper if you included the bold version of the webfont. It's a one-line change, from:

<link rel='stylesheet' id='font-bitter-css' href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Bitter&#038;ver=1' type='text/css' media='screen' />

to

<link rel='stylesheet' id='font-bitter-css' href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Bitter:400,700&#038;ver=1' type='text/css' media='screen' />
My 6yo daughter was upset because she couldn't understand the first clue in one of those kids' word puzzle books.

"My first letter is in TOAST but not in ROAST".

Sometimes, dear daughter, you're just smarter than the guy who wrote the book.
Correct. Tablet computers were nothing new when the iPad was released just as smart phones were nothing new when the iPhone was released. Apple just has the knack of getting them right for consumer adoption.
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How does one get started with developing Mac applications? Are there any websites, videos, or books I should know about and use to get started?
If you want to debate the merits of inferring accomplishment from a person's job, that's fine. To call that my main argument, and countering it with your sample size of three, is trolling.
The only personal freedom being lost here is the freedom to market "any aggregation of separable, permanent magnetic objects" as "a consumer product intended or marketed by the manufacturer primarily as a manipulative or construction desk toy for general entertainment, such as puzzle working, sculpture, mental stimulation, or stress relief".

The government isn't banning magnets, just like they didn't ban darts. You can own magnets. You can own small round magnets. You can own them in sets of 200. You can even sell them! You just can't set up a business marketing as a toy something the CPSC believes will needlessly endanger children.
S3 is fine, except that dealing with anti-hotlinking through bucket policies has been unsuccessful at least for me now. But if that's not a concern, I say go for it.

You'll have to write or pay for a tool to push your posts to Twitter, though. It can also be a bit of a bummer to not have an ID to map to shorturls and such.
what kind of nerdism are you into? web development? then you can look at the people i follow on twitter :)
So? Set up with a VPN that has stateside IPs, or build your own on AWS.

Whether you pirate Mac Office or not though: I've been using it for awhile now and it's pretty lackluster. Most of the programs are stripped down versions. It usually gets the job done, but you'll probably run into a situation at some point where you want to do something that isn't included with Mac Office 2011.
The app looks great, but your site looks awful on the retina iPad! You should really get some higher DPI icons
Replying to myself. I asked Emily Lakdawalla on Twitter. She's a journalist for The Planetary Society website, has great info on all the rover stuff.

Rodney Ramsey: @elakdawalla Maybe you can answer a curious Q for me... Why does Mars dust stick to Curiosity's wheels?

Emily Lakdawalla:
@RodneyRamsey Electrostatic! The dust is extremely fine, Mars super dry.
In my arrogant opinion, if a company will literally not allow you to give them your money, they shouldn't whine later about how piracy is killing their sales, making angels and puppies cry, etc.
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Why not tablets for vertical markets?
The first flurry of tablets came out in the early nineties. The technology wasn't yet good enough to be attractive to consumers, so the talk was about vertical business markets. Insurance claim adjusters, aircraft technicians referring to manuals and diagrams, hospital staff doing the rounds, retailers taking inventory etc., basically everyone who works on their feet instead of sitting at a desk and needs some form of data processing should find tablets handier than laptops.

And the vertical markets never happened. As soon as everyone realized the technology wasn't yet good enough to be attractive to consumers, the entire nascent tablet industry just went into the recycle bin.

Tablets came back in a big way when the technology did get good enough to be attractive to consumers. Vertical markets should ride on the back of that, right?

But it doesn't seem to be happening. All the news is about stores clogged with hundreds of thousands of ADD-inducing entertainment "apps"; the use of tablets for domain specific business software is never mentioned, and it's hard to see how it would even be possible if everything has to go through the "app store".

So - why not? The logic still seems sound; tablets should be ideal for vertical markets; why isn't it happening? Or is it happening and we just don't hear about it?
it's a cute hack, but there is something uncomfortably parasitic about this whole class of "exploit" (building a fuse-based filesystem atop gmail was probably the most prominent example). like or hate these services, they have assumed the status of commons where lots of people are living, and abusing their resources merely raises the spectre of degrading everyone's service if it catches on.

(i agree that this particular hack is more cute and creative than actively damaging to facebook; i just dislike the general culture of appreciation for what is little more than overusing a free, shared resource just because you can)
The people are reacting to the threat that he represents, and not really to the camera he's holding. He sounds like a young adult male and acts like he is either delusional or insane. Humans perceive others acting specifically oddly to themselves as a danger and tell him to back away - they don't know that he is trying to make a point, and to them he could be a pervert, a stalker or any other bad thing. He'd get the same reaction if he stared at them or stalked them.

Stare/stalk situation:

> Threatened person: "Why are you staring/following me?"

> Perceived threat: "I'm just looking/walking."

> Threatened person: "Stop doing it or I'll call the cops."

Surveillance cameras don't get the same immediate reaction because there is no human behind it who could be an immediate danger. Also they aren't literally in your face nor as physically intimidating as an adult male would be.

The only point he proves is that perceived stalkers of unstable mental state freak people out.
I think in this case simplicity does reveal the answer. I would put 30 because the sequence becomes a repeating sequences of 31, 30. Answering 28 requires making the assumption that the sequence of numbers represent days of the month, which has a higher information entropy making the sequence less simple.
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Show me a country that is betting big on education and pushing for investment (preferably local, from savings), even if it has not much politically stability it is a country with a bright future.

Historically that is not true. Countries which increased their investment in education tended to have (slightly) slower economic growth, at least in the period 1960-2000.

Paper: http://econ399.atwiki.com/file/open/21/Where+has+all+the+edu...

Blog post with key graph: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/10/did_nations_tha....