skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd peg it at over 90%, depending on how your define terms.

One of the difficult parts of being a teenager and young adult is that you learn the rhythm and gist of how things operate without actually learning how they operate. This is one of the reasons "being cool" is such a big deal at that age -- the idea is to learn to mimic and fit in with the rest of how society works, not actually to be able to manipulate it. Faking it is much more important than actually doing it. That's what everybody else is doing anyway.

Somewhere in your 30s or 40s (perhaps sooner or later) you realize that much of life is like that: you don't really understand how a car works, only that most of the time you can get in it and go places. When it doesn't work, you take it to another person. She may also not understand what's wrong. But most all of the time she does. If she doesn't, she takes it to another person, and so on. You keep getting closer and closer to total understanding but you never reach 100%. That same pattern applies to medicine, advanced physics, and most everything else. When there's a billion areas of knowledge, even 99% knowledge leaves a helluva lot of holes. There's this surface layer of generalities and half-truths that work so often that it's just not worth diving down into the details on everything else.

On top of that, other people are very happy to share their own generalizations and heuristics, so we're kind of operating in a rumor-of-a-rumor mode. The vast majority of the time it doesn't matter, but sometimes, like when you ask questions about how startups work and most of your surrounding culture gives you bad answers, it does. Most of life isn't a geometric proof built on the linear progress of science; it's a bunch of heuristics strewn together to make something practical that you can use.

What we "know" is a product of generalizations and communications about half-truths from the environment we're in. This is one reason why it's so critical to spend a lot of time challenging the things you think you know, especially in areas that make a big difference to you personally. It also means that you must accept a deep and abiding peacefulness in not knowing very much at all about most of the stuff you actually work with in your day-to-day life.
Errr... the NSA is specifically charged with monitoring communications that cross US national borders.

Using a mailserver in a foreign jurisdiction makes it more open to legal interception by the US government; not less.
It's an emerging technology. It's got a long way to go, and fortunately people (yourself included) are moving the technology forward.

But your article makes it sound like the shortcomings of 3d printing exist because the people before you were idiots. That's clearly not the case.

If it's so bad, why don't you already have something better in production?

I assume the answer is that it's a hard problem, and you are still working on it. Just like everyone else. The difference is that they aren't writing posts about how terrible your current prototype (or whatever you have) is.
You are being naive -- it really depends on the service. For trivial online services, a disposable email might be fine, but for anything that costs money, you're doing your users a disservice by letting them register with an email address that they won't be checking (and which could potentially get hijacked, if someone knew the address).
I am not sure if this is what you are looking for but as far as NYC tech events are concerned this should be relevant enough - http://betabeat.com/2012/12/best-tech-events-this-week-happy...

Though I am not in NYC but I often visit BetaBeat and this is something which I've remembered.

Hope this helps. Have fun in Big Apple.
> You are making an awful lot of assumptions of the way we think and what we believe with absolutely no evidence to back it up other than this is what you think we think.

> Liberals want to force everyone to be taxed more, conservatives actually give their money to help people.

Just going to leave this here
It's not only Chrome, Firefox blocks it too: "This web page at www.plosone.org has been reported as an attack page and has been blocked based on your security preferences." Still works on Safari and IE.
You can also just add +domain to the local-part of your email address and do that without needing a disposable email service. Theoretically some sites may strip them out, but I doubt that many go to the trouble.
Consumer reports found that E15 causes a drop in fuel economy that's more than 15% [1], meaning you're burning ethanol with your gas for no apparent gain and to the detriment of the environment in the form of increased emissions.

Ironically, on top of it all you're actually increasing your dependence on fossil fuels since since e15 requires more fossil fuel to get you the same distance as e0.

Can someone explain the argument for ethanol-based fuels?

1. http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2011/01/the-great-ethanol...
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not that i agree with the top comment, but your reasoning only works for a static view of people (i.e. they cannot learn something and at the same time forget something).
The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes.

I first heard about it in Michael Lewis' Vanity Fair profile on Obama (Obama was reading it - http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/10/michael-lewis-pro...), and then my cofounder Omar mentioned it as an engrossing book whilst he was reading it, specifically because of the topic it handles: the malleability of our memories.

Anyway, it was a pleasure to read, captivating, and the imagery jumping out of the pages was brilliant. I frequently had to stop and re-read parts. It also made me laugh.

A personal favourite sentence:

"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation."

It won the Man Booker prize last year.

More:
http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/15657664-the-sense-of-a...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sense_of_an_Ending

On the non-fiction side, probably "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Kahneman, though I haven't quite finished it. It's dense, but filled with insight after insight.
It's Christmas; whatever is going on is temporary and will likely be resolved before you wake up tomorrow.
To be fair, a lot of laypeople use "exponential" to mean superlinear. Not to mention that the "logistic function" you cited is essentially exponential until it hits saturation.
That's true. This is really weird. I wonder what kind of malicious code did they find there.
And here is the reason given:

http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnost...

"5 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent."
That only works with gmail.
These graphics driver exploits seem to be fairly common.

Here's an older one for linux, which was posted some months ago: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Aug/4
I really don't think young people think/care much about equity until you're one of the hotter startups, at which point 1 year doesn't seem so long. If you're hiring on at Dropbox now, you're working that year. If you're hiring on at some company that's 6 months old that nobody has heard of, the equity is just a batch of lottery tickets.

Put another way, I doubt anyone has ever said "I would have worked there if the cliff was only 6 months".
An interesting idea but there is no way stuff like this should be patentable.
Chrome & FF use the same safebrowsing API I think.
He wasn't making a case for higher taxes. He was simply stating that the taxes and programs that went into our military having good medical facilities for themselves, spouses and children. The taxes that go into grants and education (and school counselors ), and the taxes that go into providing food to the least fortunate. All had a very positive effect on allowing him to turn himself into a successful and happy person.
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If a service prevents me from signing up with whatever email address I want, I won't be using it. It's one thing to discourage weak passwords, as that's a common mistake for people that don't know any better. It's another thing altogether to deny signing up with something like this, as they clearly will know the ramifications of doing so.
> Everyone has a worldview/belief system, no matter how scientific they are.

Except some worldviews aren't based on beliefs, if you define 'belief' as 'blind faith'.
And, if you're a consultant, with few exceptions, taking an equity stake rather than cash is not a good idea. Happened a lot in the dot com bubble. Not pretty. Sure, if you're looking for work and a genuinely intriguing opportunity that only takes a couple weeks comes along, why not? But bad idea as a business model.
It does work on gmail, but is definitely not gmail specific. Used to do that trick on my college email account.
20 year old here who learned the two space rule in elementary. However, they didn't teach us how to properly type until high school, so all (or most) the bad habits I learned beforehand, including the two space rule, went out the door as a result.
It works for many mail servers, including Gmail.
That runs quite smooth, tho it displays the same problem as most other webgl/html5 games that is driven by the mouse - no mouse lock. Its impossible to play in the browser when after a while, the mouse leaves the browser screen (especially easy if you have dual monitors).
I think sarcasm is hard to get for most of the geek community, and I wonder why, I tend to not get sarcasm until all logical understanding of a statement falls on the side, then I realize, "ho right it's sarcasm"
What's being patented here? It seems like it's just automating a standard gift receipt process by adding a few rules.
You might not be naive, but you are probably mistaking the value of allowing sophisticated users to try in this way versus the value of getting an email that you can send weekly updates to.
That would violate at least RFC 2821, which says that the local part must be treated as case sensitive.
although generally not talked about in sci-fi scene, probably because of the lack of 'action'... "The time traveler's wife" has been quite a charming interpretation on time traveling!
Is anyone else seeing the "site's security certificate is not trusted" warning in Chrome?
Running your own mailserver is so basic of a technical skill that it is neither esoteric, nor is it something to be egotistical about. The name of the site is "hacker news" for Gods sake.

Second, there's nothing I'm asking you to "listen to". My point was that a lot of the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth has no legitimacy without having taken the simplest, most elementary, first order step towards fixing this problem.

Come back and complain about your bad roast after you've actually ... you know ... turned your oven on.
Well, that's not exactly going to help the SEO
I think Dreaming in Code is a pretty good book for a newbie programmer.
Show HN: Yammer client for Mac lovers
Looks like a lot of sites were hacked. Clicking through the safebrowsing link above reveals ~1600 other domains.
News is defined as either newly received or noteworthy.
This ties into my own philosophy: We define what the universe means. Intelligent life. We're the only ones that care, so it's up to us to decide what the universe is all about. That's frightening, but freedom is always a little bit frightening.

We get it wrong, as we have in the past, but, over the past 500 years, we've been, overall, getting better and better at it over time.

There's no guarantee we'll continue to improve. But, on the other hand, there's no, or very likely no, external grader, imposing an arbitrary standard on us. Our standards are our own, which means we have a chance at measuring up to them.
I'm also interested in "3. Visualization". Can you share how are you going to approach it? I'm interested in knowing what topics to cover, which books to consult, which tools to use.
Also any Google Apps servers. Seems like a lot of extra work to look up a domain's MX records to figure out if it's safe to strip anything after + from their email address, which will only serve to annoy your users anyway.
In that case, I think you mean "irony", not "sarcasm"
Do you mind sharing which singing course? Is it online?
Real Men and Intentions
(way to go to prove my point of not understanding sarcasm) :(
This is a pretty pathetic piece of journalism. They don't have a copy of the actual complaint (and may not have bothered to see it), and finish with:

> Let us know in the comments if you think Funes' case has merit.

Finding out whether the suit has merit is your job, Madam Journalist. Try interviewing lawyers at some business and consumer groups.
In this case, it is both sarcasm and irony. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm.
Largest social network in the Western world. It's been in all the papers.
Some might argue that the less than obvious steps listed here are evidence of the OP's point.
Latest version for Android (on a Nexus 7) lets it load just fine. Maybe it's already resolved, or maybe that version does things differently?
and then build it into Emacs.
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"Django, the most advanced Python framework for web applications is yet to come at par with it."

In what ways is Django sub-par compared to Rails?
Question for the lawyers:

How is it illegal to utter the words [XYZ]? A hyperlink is informational gibberish, its not a work of art in any way, not sure it should be copy-rightable (you cant copyright a public street address, for exampl). Its not a trademark (not public mark). Its not a trade-secret (once I know it). Or is it one of these things? Is this TOS some sort of confidentiality agreement?
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This app was made by my classmate from college. I think it is a great idea that is well designed and introduces a whole new concept of communication and social media. What do you guys think?
So here's an interesting legal question- do you 'own' the full URL to a website by registering the domain?

I have never been to the Victoria's Secret website, so I have not read their TOS. Yet, if I see a link on a page (say, these comments) and I re-link to it (http://www.victoriassecret.com/shoes), am I in violation of their TOS?

Do they have any legal ground to stand on to stop me from posting this link? If millions of others post similar links, and they don't defend against those, does it show that they have less of a case?

This all seems absurd to me. My guess is that its posturing on VS's part, and while they might send out some nastygrams from their legal team, they probably wouldn't get far in court if they tried to press the issue more.
But Outlook lets you mark an email as "do not forward". That makes it safe, right?
Sadly I don't really read quite as much as I used to; but following are the books I read this year (though none of them were released this year).

- Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Problem...

Excellent book covering interviews with founders of companies that became really big. I thought this book was really insightful and inspirational.

- Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

http://www.amazon.com/Coders-Work-Reflections-Craft-Programm...

I just started this book, but already like it - the format is the same as the Founders at Work book but on the developer side of things.

- World Changers: 25 Entrepreneurs Who Changed Business as We Knew It

http://www.amazon.com/World-Changers-Entrepreneurs-Changed-B...

It was a good book, but not as inspirational as the Founders at Work book. Some of the stories are good, but since the majority of the people are not in my sector, the book just wasn't as interesting to me.

- Ready Player One

http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/03078...

An excellent story that really made me nostalgic to my younger years - definitely recommend this one.

- The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death: A Novel

http://www.amazon.com/Mystic-Arts-Erasing-Signs-Death/dp/034...

I have a weak spot for Charlie Huston books - he's not the best author (sorry Charlie), but his books are really easy to approach. This is one of his best ones and is about crime scene cleaners - a nice departure from all the Joe Pitt vampire novels.

- World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

http://www.amazon.com/World-War-Oral-History-Zombie/dp/03073...

It's OK... I read it half way through and then once I got busy I just couldn't get myself to pick it up again. I will finish it eventually.. just not yet.

- Hyperion

http://www.amazon.com/Hyperion-Dan-Simmons/dp/0553283685

A friend recommended this book to me - I could not get past the first chapter.
Without getting too much into any sort of philosophical or religious discussion this is a really touching story. Merry Christmas everyone.
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Or as Chris Sacca once put it in "The Trouble With Libertarians":

> I think, sometimes, like, arguing with libertarians can be really frustrating because, I think, it can be, um..., I think it can be intellectually lazy. And I think it can be convenient, and, in the same way that, um, you know when everything is going right it's easy to attribute it to your own success and when things are going wrong, it's because you got fucked or because you were unlucky etc., like, I think sometimes, like, the libertarian point of view can be, um..., can be rooted in a limited set of circumstances where you give yourself a little more credit than, um.., than you want, or than you are due, probably.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViHuU6-CFDo

I recommend watching the entire Chris Sacca Pando Monthly Fireside chat.

It is extremely awesome.

Just a teaser of what you'll see: $12 million is gained and lost, bankruptcy makes an appearance, the dot com crash crushes everybody, the rise of Google, playing with $4 billion in cash at FCC poker, running a billion dollar hedge fund, being a ski bum whilst simultaneously graduating near the top of his class at law school, then going on to live in poverty and working his ass off just to stay in the game and getting really, really, really fucking lucky :)

Yes, that awesome.

Entire talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqUG2_cmZ6I

Both the above article, and Chris Sacca are actually referring the the just world fallacy, a derivative of the fundamental attirbution effect, which in combination with cognitive dissonance, allows people to do the following:

> As a simple example, consider a situation where a driver, Alice, is about to pass through an intersection. Her light turns green, and so she begins moving forward when an ambulance blows through the red-light with sirens blaring and lights flashing, and cuts her off. Despite knowing that there is a good reason for the driver's behaviour, she is likely to form a negative opinion of the driver, e.g. "what an inconsiderate driver!".

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error

You will not believe how many things in life are, ironically enough, a derivative of the fundamental attribution error (e.g. republicans/conservatives/religion/start-up conferences - so many others).

And another video on what entrepreneurship feels like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3NC_w9AOSA
Learning the names with the dinosaurs seems harmless, as long as he also learns that sometimes they change, or were based on an erroneous assumption and the named creature didn't actually exist.

Dinosaur names change or get dropped, only because of more information becoming available. Extant species' names are more settled, but mostly because we have so much more information. I expect that the dinosaur species with the most fossil evidence aren't going to have their names change any time soon, unless some sort of new, general approach to naming sweeps the field leading to rethinking the whole thing.

What should be avoided is unintentionally creating the kind of mind-set that could have a hard time dealing with corrections later on in life.

Worst-case scenario, years later he finds out a favorite dinosaur of his youth was a misnamed individual of a different type, and ends up deciding that scientists are frauds and becomes a young-earth creationist.

Basically, as long as there's understanding that scientists are generally doing the best they can with the available information; that scientists in the early years of a new field may have made more mistakes due to the limited knowledge framework (early misconception of the iguanadon's thumb spike as a nose spike, etc); and that scientific errors made in good faith are a sign of science's strength, because they can be corrected by sufficient contrary evidence.
What provider doesn't violate that part of the spec? I see plenty of sites/services that uppercase my email address for whatever clever reason they feel is necessary; not violating that part of the spec and actually making the address case-sensitive would be a detriment to the users.
I still prefer to use two spaces after a period.

(Genuinely asking) Are modern typesetting software applications able to tell when a dot is really an end-of-sentence marker and when it is not? I know this is not too hard but getting it right everytime is.
If they were there four years without being let go, the company was clearly fine with the performance.
It sounds like British American Tobacco's ToS is more about hotlinking or embedding. Note this particular portion:

> you may not make any part of the website available as part of another website, whether by hyperlink framing on the Internet or otherwise

By their use of the example of "hyperlink framing," it's obvious they mean you can't embed the site, not that you can't share links.
Method and process for avoiding bad gifts:

1) Ask for cash only like a rube.

2) Spend it on whatever you want.

3) ...But on teh intertubes.
The point is that regardless of the basis of the worldview, those underlying fact nodes in the cognitive framework are terminal nodes. There isn't any rationalization that goes on to reevaluate them, except under very rare circumstances which aren't motivated by a rational process.
"I don't suppose there's any harm in loading your children up with trivial knowledge, but I would certainly put more effort into teaching them thinking skills than specific knowledge."

I find that kids are like sponges for details like names. They'll soak them up whether you're teaching them intentionally or not. Or if you're trying to get your kid to learn animals or stars or whatever, they'll be memorizing scores of baseball statistics, or Pokemon, or airplanes.

Teach thinking skills; the trivia will take care of itself.
A classmate from college built this app. I think it's a great idea and very well designed app and introduces a new concept of communication and social media. What do you all think?
For the PPF, I meant to say that the job for humans may be to figure new ways of doing things that can make the economy more efficient. Unless singularity is achieved, I presume machines can only do what humans have designed/told them to do. So machines would be limited to following known methods of making things where humans may ultimately be out of jobs.
Regarding your last point: possibly technical ignorance on my part, but is there some reason signing up for, say, a gmail account doesn't suffice?
has latency between ca and norway always been constant as the chart displays?