skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are impatient you can try designing your own experiment that will use a shorter battery. The answers: 1. To stop a test in the middle, just click on the Quantified Mind logo and it will take you out of the test with no negative consequences. 2. That actually depends on the experiment - for most experiments we need complete data so you should complete all tests, but for some, you will see an "end session" button show up after you complete the first test, allowing you to save a partial result.
Apparently an unmaintained C++ app using deprecated libraries and making false assumptions about Google's internal architecture was able to handle it too, albeit with poor performance. So I disagree that this move says anything about Go's capabilities, positive or negative.
I agree that a lot of things are messed up when you are tired or recovering but after brain surgery she was in perfect condition except functions located it the region of the brain that was operated on and her speech. After all the youtube videos I watched to prepare myself for this I came to believe that impaired speech is one of the most common side effects of any brain surgery.

Anyway, my point is that even people in perfect condition have very hard time speaking. Even if you are well rested, healthy and calm you and the people you know mess up a lot more words than you think.
Technically, the goal of this service (whether the owners describe it this way or not) is to find the unit elastic point on a product's demand curve. In theory, assuming a linear demand function, profits are maximized at the price and quantity associated with the point where price elasticity of demand = 1 (or equally, where marginal revenue = 0). If your current price is higher than the unit elastic price, your total revenue increases by lowering your price. If your current price is lower than the unit elastic price, your total revenue increases by raising your price. These topics are covered in any intro to microeconomics course (as well as any MBA economics course).

That being said, I like the idea, and I wish you guys luck. I'm actually building something similar (YC application in the pipeline) but with a more specific focus on a particular set of markets.
Perhaps you would enjoy one of our super-quick batteries: try creating your own experiment and choose "Telepath" under "Special". It has three tests in two minutes total time and doesn't give you much time to relax.
Not seeing this as link bait at all - more method for than what was being learned. Great read that gives a lot of interesting insights and methods - definitely not for everyone. A lot of the same information and ideas have been discussed on Study Hacks though it is great to see the provided examples.
I'm sure the Wall St types see a great opportunity here.

Thanks to horrific governance, you have water-rich places (like the Northeast of the US) with local governments that operate on the brink of bankruptcy. At the same time, you have fifty years of massive government-subsidized buildout of suburban sprawl and industry in the South and in the desert.

So instead of treating water resources as a public commons, we'll let some financiers borrow cheap money (courtesy of the Feds suppressing the interest rate market), buy up munipical water companies and rape the public for all time.
How does carrier unlocking figure out into DMCA? Is it in any way related to copyrights?

I'm sure the librarian has an opinion, but how can they have jurisdiction?
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I'm not an economist - can you explain why a resource being necessary makes it involve market failure?
At least as far as the en-US an en-GB versions are concerned for a European like me. I can't check what other countries they work for, so report back if your country/language is not supported.
Thanks for the suggestion, and I agree - it's definitely something I'd like to improve, but since I do this for fun in my free time I have limited time and try to focus on the science / data-analysis side. Thankfully Sina was kind enough to make it look much better.
Where exactly in that article does the author make any sort of argument that would support his thesis?
Pitching for the first time, i am introvert, candid and blunt
Asking for advice. Its my first time. I am going to incubators and VCs to show/pitch my prototype.<p>One of them whom I am approaching is kind of a new incubator itself, and have promised to help me use their client and will do the sales stuff for me.
Is it okay if I mention to them, that I am going to other incubators as well?

I don't have a co-founder and am doing all stuff alone. From equity POV and other challenges, general advice? What not to do?

I don't have any ex in pitching. I have worked hard on documenting and simplifying "what my app does and what it is" (as in x of y, eg. yellow pages of newspapers etc.) Just that, I am not sure of revenue and did not put any imaginary number.

Awaiting Your opinions/advice!
They did say, in a post entitled "External Beta News" [1], that a private - but again, external - beta is to be expected in October.

[1] http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/beta-late-than-never-3/
Maybe in some time more people who want a large web framework will be using Go, but right now the reason you don't see traction in that area is because there isn't a desire. I think if you squint your eyes while using the standard library's http templating and http libraries along with some popular libs like Gorilla's sessions and cookies, you'll swear you're using a framework. Of course, this isn't going to give you the same re-usability you get from a framework that's as compartmental as Django.
As long people are still buying big screen TV's the consoles will sell well. The XBOX and similar devices will evolve into home-entertainment hubs -- hopefully replacing the long-outdated cable set-top boxes.
> welfare state nations have always tended more towards dynasty type dictatorships

Living in Denmark, it's a surprise to hear that we're living under a dynastic dictatorship!

Well, technically, we do still have a Queen, but she is not exactly exercising any sort of dictatorial powers.
In the U.S., our politicians get rich(er) after they leave office. Same for appointed government officials. Still a degree of corruption, but not as bad.
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I've used Tomato.es for quite some time now (relatively speaking) and have found it 'better' for my flow than pen and paper/mechanical timer (though I have one as well).
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The key is to mobilize people in a way that makes an impact without going to the well too often. In the case of this proceeding, we knew that the Copyright Office does not necessarily respond to numbers of people simply saying "do this do this." When we put out a call, we asked for (and received) specific stories from people explaining why they themselves wanted this exemption.
That is very different from the kind of action you want to take when Congress is considering something. As I mentioned before, the next step in this process is to push Congress to make it absolutely crystal clear to everyone - including the Copyright Office - that non-commercial personal copies of media are well within the bounds of fair use. We need to wait until after the election and the new Congress is in session next year, but once that happens we are going to be making a big push to get just that type of legislation. At that point I hope that you will rally around the push. Unlike the Copyright Office, Congress tends to be much more responsive to numbers of people simply telling them to act.
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This is fantastic. Opens up all kinds of new ways to use maps when you can have this much location specific data without cluttering or slowing the UI.
Cal Newport has the funniest definition of "mastering" and strangest definition of "world’s most efficient studiers" (another blog post of his from a couple years ago)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2658927

I have ever seen. The shtick is getting old. Gee-whiz posts about a dilettante ramping up to a beginner's knowledge of a subject with little time and effort have nothing to do with the really challenging learning tasks in this world.

I'll be impressed when I see a headline like "Middle East diplomatic issues resolved by undergraduate who completed one course in international relations" or something like that. Show me someone who has solved a genuinely hard problem before proclaiming a new breakthrough in learning. For a refreshing change of pace from the usual blog post on quick-and-dirty learning, see Peter Norvig's "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years"

http://norvig.com/21-days.html

or Terence Tao's "Does one have to be a genius to do maths?"

http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-to...

for descriptions of the process of real learning of genuinely challenging subjects.
Creating a system where a complex, active system is required to deliver something as essential for life as water is by its nature a problem.

Also, China is the 60's was more than a failure of central planning economics, it was Maoist political stuff as well.
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Our app was approved first time, but we had a few 'pre-reviews' where they gave us early feedback so that when it came to the actual review, it went through smoothly, took less than 5 days to get approved.
The problem is that the market has all sorts of failure modes, and allocation of something like water is going to hit all of them. Vague analogies to the effectiveness of the market in doing completely different things (allocating steel production to bolts versus screws) is wildly irrelevant.
Didn't know about tomato.es, but it seems like a cool tool.
I used to use an equivalent, but stopped because I try to stay away from my browser when working (to avoid ending on youtube, or here . . . :)).

I actually use pomodroido (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.artifix.po...). As I set up my phone to not receive notifications at work, this is the only thing that makes my phone vibrate :).

Thx for the link concerning the music. I think I tried it some time ago, but found it to "relaxing".
I'll give it a new shot :)
They don't want crap? Have you seen some of the apps on the Windows Store?
There's actually not much agreement among modern economists on whether market-type policies for allocating life-critical resources work well, and in which circumstances. It hardly requires hard-left 1960s views; see, for example, the contemporary debate among generally mainstream market economists in both Europe and the U.S. over how to provision health-care services (I'd hardly consider the German ordoliberals, architects of the post-war West German economy, to be commies!).

There is also a lot of work in the emerging subset of economics based on dynamical systems theory, which looks at markets from the perspective of feedback and stability. There's probably no agreement there, but it's a much more open question than in the old-style equilibrium analysis, where you just assume axiomatically that markets clear and respond smoothly, instantaneously, and with no system-internal dynamics to supply/demand changes. I.e., sort of like analyzing mechanical systems under the assumption that turbulent fluid flow is impossible, and catastrophic resonance doesn't happen. It's at least an open question whether a securitized market in water could increase volatility and failure modes, especially given that it's very time-critical (you can't generally go without water even for temporary periods of allocation shortage, so even a short-lived "financial crisis" in water could be devastating).
I'm well aware what market failure means. And I'm referring to it in the technical sense. The economist response to water privitization is not uniform, and the consequences of market failure in the area would be catestrophic.
I find this discouraging:

To install Windows 8 Pro, customers must be running Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, or Windows 7. If you would like to upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 8 Pro, click here.

What if I want to install Windows 8 in a VM ? Do I need to install an older version of Windows first ?
Or we could just stop federally subsidizing water. The whole southwest was a mistake to begin with--the government never should have irrigated it.
For what domain ? how is performance ? open question, I'd like to have data beside the languageshootout benchmark.
I started with a mechanical timer also (mainly to get away from any device that could distract me), but stopped because it was noisy.
I solved the problem by switching notifications off in my phone during work hours.
I'm inclined to agree that by itself, this doesn't say much about Go at all.

That said, I'm not sure how much a non-open-source program can really do in terms of marketing Go or any other language. This isn't so much politics as logistics: you need to be able to see the difference in code to get a sense of the advantages or disadvantages of one language over another, and if the program isn't open-source you can't do that. The author can say it's "more readable" (and does, in fact), but that's not something that can be quantified, and so there's really nothing but one guy's opinion to go on.
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An official group is yet another milestone to having Steam on Linux. Also, there's a prominent `Join' button for them early adopters :-)
Is it possible that the governments of poor countries don't value water enough? If they were willing to pay more, surely they would try to ensure their citizens have access to it. Given that they haven't been able to provide it, I'm not sure how they would be able to operate in a market that does not recognise that the need for water is far greater than a financial need.
Clearly markets are the problem and not wasteful government programs that e.g. subsidise water given to farmers in desert areas.
Thank you! To be honest the idea isn't ours: Apple does it already in their Photo apps. But for some reason they never opened this up in the SDK, so we decided to write and publish our own solution.

I'd be curious to see how Apple's code would handle 100'000 photos though :-)
Yeah I'd read that. Kasparov was pretty freaked out by Deep Blue. He wrote this:

"I got my first glimpse of artificial intelligence on Feb. 10, 1996, at 4:45 p.m. EST, when in the first game of my match with Deep Blue, the computer nudged a pawn forward to a square where it could easily be captured. It was a wonderful and extremely human move. If I had been playing White, I might have offered this pawn sacrifice. It fractured Black's pawn structure and opened up the board. Although there did not appear to be a forced line of play that would allow recovery of the pawn, my instincts told me that with so many "loose" Black pawns and a somewhat exposed Black king, White could probably recover the material, with a better overall position to boot. "

about a move most computers of the time would find pretty quickly, and most decent human players would intuitively have thought OK at first glance.

http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/chess.html

My theory is that a significant part of his game was based around human psychology, so he found it hard to grasp computers. He played computer-friendly risky openings as if to taunt the machine, and heavily talked up the influence of the programmers on Deep Blue to an almost paranoid extent.

The result was that he lost against Deep Blue when he should have won fairly easily if he'd been more disciplined.
I used to have cheatsheets also (see here for the last version[1]), but I end up never use it because Google is simply faster . . .
I'll probably write some lines on FreeMind in a future post :)

[1] http://www.lengrand.fr/programming-tips-2/
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Angela Merkel isn't exactly rich (certainly no billionaire) and neither are many other European leaders. Even US presidents don't necessarily turn into billionaires.
I agree with the first comment: "...so in other words the companies themselves are fine and a bunch of asshole investors are playing with the market."
Updating my parser's rules.
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Why would someone do this to themself? I find I enjoy life much more when I take things slowly, but maybe that's just a difference in personality.
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As long as water is sold for far less than it's value, there is no incentive to conserve and the future looks grim as our aquifers dry up and rivers run to their maximum.

And no, your low-water appliances aren't helping much, as consumers only use 11% of water in the U.S.

As water prices are set by municipalities, there is little incentive to raise prices, the politicians who control them don't have any interest beyond their next election.

There is likely to develop a semblance of a "Market Price" for water in the U.S. which will inevitably be higher.

As far as selling water rights, the biggest danger here is that the governments that currently own them will sell them for less than they are actually worth, primarily because there isn't yet a true "Market Price" for water. Or, of course, corruption.
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This could be amazing...
Which is the standard human excuse for intervening in everything deemed essential for life. It doesn't even begin to address the real possibility that humans can't actually improve upon the market solution.
Of course you're right that pricing is not easy. Your list of other considerations is also very good (sounds like you've taken a course in industrial organization). The only other main idea I want to add is that price is just one of the ways that firms compete with one and other (Bertrand competition). Firms also compete with each other over quantity (Cournot competition), and among other general dimensions like quality (i.e. product differentiation).

In order to have good estimates of price elasticity via a derived demand function, one would also need to consider the price and features of competing products in that demand function (which would enable the use of other economic measures of marginal effects like cross-price elasticity of demand). Your competitor's price is just as important as your own price because of substitution effects.
That's the impression I got from the IRC channel too. The equivalent of a microframework is definitely in the standard library, but big frameworks like Django just save you so much time...
We have an even more complex and active system delivering something as essential for life as food. And no generation before us, at least in the West, was as well fed as we are.
Is it possible that if you create a capitalist market for water, poor countries without any coveted natural resources will never be able to pay enough for water?
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The best way to induce conservation of something is to raise it's price. If the price is artificially low, than the existence of a "Market Price" for water will raise it, and result in conservation and the development of more water-efficient technology.
There is only so much mindshare that can fit in a headline, but don't forget that there is also a 28k logic cell FPGA on that ARM processor.

This board has about everything you could want in a hardware hacking board.

• Normal, well supported, ARM processors for the easy stuff. USB and HDMI in case you want to interact.

• Gigabit ethernet. Most ARM boards you find are 100mbit.

• Sanely programmable array of processors for bulk processing.

• FPGA for heavy hacking. Also very handy for interfacing to devices, let it handle the low level timing sensitive stuff.

• About 40 GPIO, but since they are connected to the FPGA you can turn them into higher level interfaces. It appears that the HDMI output is built this way.

• Community momentum. There are 3400 people behind this already. 5 signed up while I was spell checking this comment.
I'm not the poster you're replying to, but I'd guess (given "It's the healthcare problem writ large") s/he is thinking of the notion that the demand for products genuinely essential to life (such as life-saving medicine, or water) will be very price-inelastic, and as such, allowing a free market to determine the price may lead to a price that is cripplingly high for consumers at the low end.

In my mind, it's nowhere near as simple as that in this case (although I'd say it is nearly that simple for, say, the life-saving medicine case (but I'm getting side-tracked here)) -- there's a lot of non-essential uses of water, and those sources of demand would be price-elastic, which may be enough to prevent that sort of market failure. I suppose it would depend on what proportion of the demand for water is "essential".
Languages such as Go would interest me more if they were not controlled by one company. I've had bad experiences with corporate languages in the past. This is one reason I'll stick with C++. It has an ISO standard and many different compilers from different companies. I feel more in control and less likely to be shafted by Google, Oracle, Microsoft or whoever owns the language de jour.
Not really, they just need to keep selling satellite launches around Earth to help pay for the eventual Mars shot. Sometimes companies do stuff because they or their founders just want to. Musk has made no secret that he plans to walk on Mars.
I do generally agree that the price of water should go up, and that can be done in part by reducing the special subsidies currently given to agriculture (e.g. in California, farmers pay much less than anyone else, and generally less than the cost of even maintaining the state-owned aqueducts). But that's a different question from whether thoroughly securitizing water and trading it on futures exchanges would improve the situation. We could at least try the less radical change of "reduce the massive subsidies" first and see how large water users respond to a ramp-up in prices.
Meh, I was making the point to try and raise concern for the other side of the perceived "coin" of product creation, as it applies to software. I would never hire a programmer for $5 - I program everything myself, just like I design everything. It's fun and I'm actually committed to excellence in both domains of my product.

No offense, but the logos you received aren't that great, and definitely on par with what I'd expect for paying $50 or less. All I'm saying is, that in your post you talk about how it is the one symbol that defines your brand, and I feel like the quality of logos people get on sites like that end up looking like Acme Corp. It's all plug and play with no feeling, or emotional investment into the product. Of course, some are good, but the logos need a kernel of an idea. Notice how pretty much everybody put the wifi signal. Of course they did, that's the first thing I would think of too - but good design goes further than that. It truly takes some deep thinking.
The link to www.getworkdonemusic.com by itself makes this article worth an upvote. Looks like a good resource that I wasn't aware of before.
Can't join from the Steam Android app either. Kinda pointless.
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How are they getting it now then? Who's subsidizing them?
Can you give some examples of countries that have no natural sources of fresh water that currenly benefit by importing water at "below market" prices?

Such places may exist but I am not aware of them.
Well worth reading. "The House of Intellect" is excellent, also "Teacher in America".