skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good article (sent link to my daughter). Unfortunately, 500startups and many VC's in general don't accept/seriously-consider direct online applications without referrals from someone they know like YC does.
I'll take this as travel advice. Eek. Best of luck to your friend.
My understanding is that the approach of coming up with a hypothesis and testing it is called "frequentist inference", in opposition to "Bayesian inference". However, I'm not terribly well versed in the subject and was hoping somebody could give a clear explanation of the difference between the two.
"The company says it is reviewing how personal information came into the hands of a private firm."

I thought that was pretty clear from the article - they asked.
This is so true ... I lost a cousin at a young age due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy induced cardiac arrest and he could have been saved with an AED (simply restoring a normal rhythm). If you're interested in helping to promote the availability of AEDs in the U.S., check out http://gregaed.org/. If you do nothing else, learn CPR, artificial respiration and how to use an AED. You don't know who you'll end up helping (and hopefully you'll never use it) but you might also save someone's family a lot of suffering.

Thanks!
Using the Google index as a compressor, as per Normalized Google Distance [1]

"cow" "pig" "sheep" 10.800.000 results
"cow" "pig" "hen" 5.040.000 results
"cow" "hen" "sheep" 4.810.000 results
"hen" "pig" "sheep" 4.480.000 results

Using Hackernews search API as a compressor, computing indexation distance between terms:

Cow + Pig 0.4843358722880948
Hen + Sheep 0.5328799348807779

Principles from Kolmogorov Complexity (Compression Distance) can give many approximate answers, even in the context of an IQ test.

Multiple choice is particularly easy, if you are allowed to note the result counts on queries like "Answer A + Keywords from Question" and "Answer B + Keywords from Question"

Speaking of cultural differences mentioned in the post -- You could even search locally on these terms and notice a difference in the semantic distances. If cows were to go extinct, in a 100 years, the search index would probably reflect on them being the least fit candidate for a set of three farm animals.

[1] http://homepages.cwi.nl/~paulv/papers/amdug.pdf
You are projecting.

Just because that is your approach, doesn't mean that it's true for him.
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Kafka and Einstein had white collar jobs when those were rare and Wittgenstein gave away his (inherited) fortune.
Eh? First, I made no argument connecting seat belts and drugs. Perhaps you're just skipping around my comment, reassembling sentence fragments in an arbitrary order?

Second, given that most people have insurance, and that the ones who don't are free riding on emergency care for any injury, but yet you're saying that you would support deillegalization of non-seatbelt wearing if one were to sign a specific waiver (which the cartel of insurance companies would then prohibit you from signing anyway, no doubt), I don't believe your argument to be sincere. I can only infer that your real viewpoint is that universal mandatory seatbelt usage is a good thing, and you're just making yet another specious justification for dictating individuals' behavior.

FWIW, I've held up starting to drive for people who weren't putting a seat belt on, and I think it's pretty ridiculous to not wear one. I just don't think the government has any business mandating such behavior.
I believe they were reacting to competition, either the GridPad or the Momenta (I remember the Momenta getting lots of press for its innovative GUI - you can see it on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0XE08BjQDQ)
I see this issue from a completely different perspective. I see it as, we have a social problem: Some people use drugs that ruin their lives. Rather than using a lot of counseling and trying to actually help people get off their habit, we use the criminal justice system to put them and those who help them in jail, and providing windfall profits to criminals who are willing to ignore the laws. Economically, these are equivalent to a high tax on illegal drug use; they raise the street price. But instead of providing tax revenues, this tax is extremely expensive to enforce and provides no revenues. Under this perspective, the current system is pretty much unjustifiable. You could just ban advertising and tax it heavily and use the tax money for anti-drug rehab programs, and have the same effects as we currently have without all the drug violence and mass imprisonment.
Anyone at an Ivy League law school might have more lucrative opportunities than teaching LSAT classes.
It would be better if it would be a single page app with the player within it.

What if the video is 120 minutes? The song should be 2-10 mins. Should have kept the recently listened song in the front page instead of keeping it empty.
Ask HN: Please review my startup project
Hi Everyone,

Here's the theory: take match.com (instant results) + eharmony (hundreds of matching criteria) + craigslist (completely free and beyond dating), and bundle it in a way that lets you find people for just about any reason. Whether for dating, friendship, housing, etc.

I've written an engine to do it at http://www.buddybuilder.com and I would really appreciate HN's feedback on the entire experience (UI, usability, enjoyment, flow, improvements, ideas on how to bootstrap a user base, etc).

There is no user base yet, so if you want to see a match result, make sure to enable the 'Friendship' goal, and center your search in Cary, NC for a male. You should see me (beaglehoster)!

Many thanks HN!,
Justin

* Canceling your account after signup is easy (look under Account/Help) and, I assure you, is a complete deletion of all information your have submitted.
"Savages" by Dyad Souls: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bOOcgNEHiw
IQ tests are just like anything else in life: If you practice enough, you will get good. If you are motivated enough to spend 10 hours a day practicing taking IQ tests, you will eventually get a high score. If you are motivated enough to practice the guitar 10 hours a day, you'll eventually become a guitar virtuoso. If you are motivated enough to spend 10 hours a day writing code, you'll eventually become a Rob Pike or Rich Hickey. If all you want in life is to be seen as smart by other people, then in my opinion, you need to re-examine some things in your life. I'd rather spend my time getting better at things that actually matter.
I'm not sure why Microsoft doesn't put it up on the App Store. They will probably get a lot less customer information, but things would be so convenient. Apple will stand to make a cut, but then there are several companies which sell both on the web as well as the App Store - why not do that.

Adobe was hesitant at first too. They brought several smaller apps to the App Store at first, then followed by some big ones.
it's probably a combination of the two that makes it so unpleasant for the "victims". If he was there without a camera this would be immediately seen as aggressive behaviour. If he was filming them from a distance, they'd either not notice or probably not really care, he'd come across as a non threatening weirdo. But by getting up close with a camera, the unfortunate subject simply doesn't know how to react, the weird middle ground is deeply unsettling.
"Is Office even necessary anymore?"

Can't speak for OP but for many people, yes, it is. My sister works in arts admin. Dealings with funders are done using Word files with macros and protected areas. Works ok on Mac Word (they use Apple at work) but not with Open/LibreOffice.

When I set up an old thinkpad for my sister to use at home, I suggested Ubuntu and got an earful. So an OEM copy of Windows 7 and she got a licensed Office 2010 under her employer's licence agreement.

Also William Gibson...

"Word is, I'm told, horrid, but it talks to publishers, which is really all I use it for."

http://william.gibson.usesthis.com/

I really hope the UK government can stick to this...

https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/11/01/the-uks-new-open-s...

(It was posted to HN some days ago)
I think Motorola put their money behind PowerPC, a RISC architecture. I think it was a smart move on their part, because, while PPC didn't do so well on the desktop, it got into embedded products like video games and network hardware.

Today, the main CISC competitors to Intel are AMD and VIA, both who clone the Intel.
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Yes and no. This is a very personal, very delicate subject, almost impossible to be expressed in or understood from a single random post at a random blog. Sadly, constant repetition of this particular appeal usually leads to cheap, bleak, even personally and socially irresponsible substitutions like YOLO movement that have very little in common with the level of awareness and appreciation of being alive that OP has acquired (and lost, and acquired again).
I think the LSAT is a pretty good... well whatever it is.

It has the salient quality of being almost completely unambiguous. Out of 1000+ of LSAT questions I saw when studying for the test, I found maybe half a dozen that didn't have one unambiguously correct answer and four unambiguously incorrect answers.

Of course, it assumes a level of familiarity with formal logic and English grammar/vocabulary.
As discussed in the comments of http://plover.net/~bonds/purity.html, a loop of importance/purity rather than a straight hierarchy makes more sense (or assuages more people).
Bayesian uses a broader prior -- a distribution over possible prior distributions of facts, instead of assuming a single possible prior (Gaussian). In that sense you could sort of squint and say that that's the contrast.
Unfortunately, it may cost you quite a bit of time and money to convince said court that what you did was not grossly negligent should someone press the issue.
On average they reject 98%. Mensa's cut off is the top 2% of IQs
You are assuming that votes are randomly distributed, they are not. In fact the majority of votes are fixed (reliable Republican or Democratic votes).

Even so, you really want to consider the 'pain' associated with the unlikely event not the probability of the event itself. The pain associated with the recount within a single state is much less than the pain associated with a recount for the entire country, even if the national recount scenario is less likely (even much less likely).
Pirsig actually came up with an entire metaphysical system in response to this. It's in his book "Lila". Basically it deals with what "good" (as in a good theory, or answer) is, and the different kinds of goodness or Quality, as he calls it, there are.

It's quite detailed, but his first distinction is between 'static' and 'dynamic' good. A test-writer values static good more highly than dynamic, and while this is justifiable in the circumstances, in the big picture, dynamic good is the real deal.
Yet all of these (but scaling) could be subserved by a dynamic website. Static sites have drawbacks too:

- Hard to create feeds

- Search is left to google

- Mostly impossible to use for photoblogging and anything that requires mobile

etc.
Says someone who's never had to do data cleansing for a living. Try telling me you're "passionate" about that.
I dropped out of HS, then dropped out of college. Ask me how my career has suffered!
http://youtube.imomin.com/
You get the card and can officially list it on your resume.
Yes, every time the subject comes up, this whole crowd of relatively intelligent people go into a moral dance about how stupid IQ tests are.

They were never meant to predict genius. The point is to organize people efficiently when you're slotting them for guard duty or heavy equipment operation or officer candidate school. Someone who points out BS about non-Kosher pigs and obscure integer sequences is being clever for the sake of it. IE, "Look how smart I am."

And, as you say, the military considers about 100 million Americans dangerously too stupid for the army. They didn't do this out of arrogance.
I wonder, though, if there is a software business in Singapore that is on the same level as Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, Google, Apple, VMware, etc, as well as the Linux foundation and FSF being present in Singapore. The US may not have the best education system, but I wonder if it is the lax education that has fostered the software industry (as well as engineering, HP, anybody?) in the US.
Yeah I agree and with improvements in the technology it will get even worse. Cameras can already have pretty decent microphones and speech-to-text technology is pretty damn good so I wont be surprised if soon they start recording sound and analysing it in realtime. It wont cost all that much compared to a lot of other things.

However I was only trying to explain the behaviour of the people.
That's true, if the video is big it would really take a while, your suggestions can really be implemented but that was just a fun side-project which I designed in two days.
the beauty about celery is that it handles a long list of tasks nicely without crashing your server.
if your song is taking a lot of time, just come back later and resubmit it and you will get from cache within a few seconds.
Zucker is being a little misleading about this. His firm did indeed have a long relationship with the CPSC, and throughout that relationship, no matter what their firm did to mitigate the risks their magnets had to children, reports of life threatening injuries not only continued but increased. The CPSC didn't kill their product for sport; they acted based on the empirical evidence.

You'd wonder, reading this article, what problem CPSC had with a simple magnetic toy set. After all, nowhere in this article do the words "surgery" or "intestinal perforation" occur. The problem is simple. A child can swallow a penny, or even a nail(!), and the ER doctors will send them home to wait for it to pass. But if you happen to swallow two tiny rare earth magnets, what can happen is that they latch together on opposing sides of loops of small intestine, gradually digging their way through the tissue and spilling gut bacteria into the abdominal cavity, which results in sepsis.

"[W]hen these high-­‐powered magnets are swallowed, endoscopic or surgical intervention is required in nearly all cases to prevent bowel damage." - Nerissa S. Bauer, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine

Skateboarding is probably statistically more dangerous than tiny rare earth magnets. But parents know how to mitigate the risks of skateboarding. My guess is that 80% of the parents on Hacker News don't even know that swallowing a tiny smooth round magnet is more dangerous to a toddler than swallowing a nail. Certainly teenagers don't understand this, because they were using Buckyball magnets to hold fake lip piercing studs.

Zucker's firm attempted to address the problem with warning labels. But how do you put warning labels on a set of 100 tiny metal balls? Even if the label read "DO NOT EVER LEAVE THESE OUT OF THE BOX", which they don't and can't because keeping them out of the box is a big part of the point of the toy, what good is that going to do when a teenager buys a set and leaves it on his desk in the house he shares with a 4 year old? Because that is not an uncommon scenario.

In the end, the issue here is not that the government thinks it should be unlawful to sell small rare earth magnets. It's that the government thinks companies shouldn't be able to profit from selling them as direct-to-consumer toys and novelty items. If CSPC is seeing marked increases in injuries due to magnets now, when the products are in their early-adopter infancy (there are, according to Zen Magnets, only two companies selling sets like this as consumer products), the CPSC can reasonably assume that the damage would be much worse as the products mainstreamed.

Buy the magnets online, or from a lab supply store, and give them the respect they deserve.
Remember things like this when people complain about "modern Health and Safety red tape". "Oh we need to have a this and a that and failed out inspection! Get off our back, let me create jobs."

This shit saves lives.
I work for Google. My highest degree is a high school diploma.
I suppose if you think it's better that the person dies than you get sued...
Some thoughts on why a legal precedent probably isn't enough: http://www.3scale.net/2012/11/the-case-against-api-copyright...
It might be that my standards are too high - I'm accustomed to reading how-to-write books written by the likes of Orson Scott Card - but I'm a bit worried that the article itself isn't as well-written as it should be. Maybe you need unnecessarily pollysyllabic linguistics for scientists to pay attention to you at all, but it's still a bit worrisome when it comes to my deciding how much to trust the advice.
Yes it is. Downloaded Office for Mac Demo exactly because it's the only tool I can use.

(didn't try clicking the email link, I'm gonna probably order the box online)

Why exactly I need Office? Word. For publishing. OO or other will mess the styles, formatting, etc.

Apparently the publishing tool doesn't accept other formats.
You'd be surprised ;)

On an hourly basis, you can earn more teaching the LSAT than as an Ivy League law grad. Mind you, I don't work 80 hour weeks, so I don't make as much on an absolute basis, but the work is more interesting, and I've branched out into LSAT books and an online LSAT course.

But mainly, I wanted to point out that the instructor is unreasonably arrogant. By comparison with his reference group, he's far from exceptional.

By implication, the Mensa cut-off is also far from 'genius'. Top 2% is 1 in 50.
It's a great post, but to me there's another message that Dustin - understandably - hasn't focused on: "perfect health" is often (usually?) an illusion.

Given what I've learned about health in recent years, I can't accept that this guy really was in perfect health; if he was, he wouldn't have suffered a major cardiac arrest while simply jogging on a treadmill.

I think it's mostly a failure of modern medicine and modern attitudes towards health that most of us walk around feeling and looking like we're in "perfect" health, only to find all too late that a severe condition was lurking undetected.

The answers may lie in fields like Quantified Self [1], or PG's suggestion of Ongoing diagnosis [2].

But whatever the case, we're only just starting to scratch the surface of an area that I think this post demonstrates is hugely important.

[1] http://quantifiedself.com/

[2] http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
If your experience with Office sucks, just don't buy it. There is not justification for pirating. It's a free market, and Microsoft's monopoly is long gone.

I haven't used Office in years and I've done just fine. The few time people send me `docx` documents, I can either open them up with Preview, Pages, or simply not open it. Most of the time, I don't care enough about the contents. When it's a resumé, sending anything other than a PDF or a website is an instant fail.
It's also interesting that some people thought he was impeding one of their rights when really it was the other way around.
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This is constantly overlooked in debates over IQ, SAT, etc.

In most cases where these tests are used, it is far more mportant to separate the above median from below median, or +2 STDDEV from median, etc, and not to pick winners in the Krelboyne Super Bowl.

Even assuming there is a total ordering of intelligence, how would a single 300-question test rank 300 million people?
Why fill half the test with questions that 99% of takers will get wrong, just to differentiate among the top 1% of scorers?
Nice rant, but I think you missed his point. He wanted to buy the software, tried to buy the software, but ended up getting this: "We’re sorry. The site you are attempting to access is restricted in your region."
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I've taken controversial/unpopular views on plenty of issues, including monetary policy and the financial crisis, as well as religion. Yet in my entire comment history, I only have one post that's below 0 (I deserved it).

Your posts get downvoted more than mine because of a difference in the way the two of us behave. I tried to explain this to you over a year ago, and someone else quoted it in this very thread: you include an "unreasonable amount of emotionally charged language in your post[s]." You seem to have trouble staying away from name-calling and cheap shots.

I propose an experiment: for the next month or so, before you hit the "reply" button, carefully read over your post and remove anything that could be considered name-calling (that is, any label applied to a person that they wouldn't voluntarily apply to themselves -- such as "haters", or associations with "creationism".) Remove explicit comments about others lacking intellect or having inappropriate motivation. Compare the number of downvotes you get, after removing these non-insightful statements, to the number of downvotes you get now.
""Most authorities feel that current intelligence tests are more aptly described as 'scholastic aptitude' tests"

Hence the S, A, and T in "SAT".
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Thanks for this script, I'm following and found it very useful with links provided.
Definitely, there's really no excuse if you're a company. If nothing else it's a moral booster for the employees. I really wish AEDs would get even cheaper so they became ubiquitous outside of work.

In Stockholm there's this system which enables emergence services to send out alerts to people with the proper training and/or equipment in the area of a heart failure.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4740974
I work with a few hundred cameras over my head each day I'm used to it and I know the people who control the cameras, maybe that's what bugs people the most; not knowing who controls the cameras?

The equipment, from Pelco, is pretty advances for being almost ten years old. Supposedly you can see the date on a dime from a camera 30 feet away. They can also view the digits on gas pumps from a kilometre away on the other side of a river.
Try getting some points on your graphic design footprint.
While Singapore may not foster a startup culture as it can be found in many parts of the USA, a population of 5 million (with 1/3 immigrants) is certainly hard to compare to 308 million.