skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from the obvious "this looks like the new myspace and windows 8 mashed together", I would be curious to see how this concept would fare with what people ACTUALLY post to Facebook. People with no concept of image quality or resolution. People I call my friends :)
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It just doesn't work
To save ericb a third relink: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer

The key quote is at the very top:

"The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else." --Eliezer Yudkowsky

I wonder how EY feels when he reads threads like this. Maybe he just ignores them these days?
question for you: how does Kurzweil's role in Google compare to Regina Dugan's?
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> The cause of the discrepancy is largely gerrymandering.

Proof needed.

The discrepancy simply means that democratic candidates won by wider margins than republican candidates, which can easily happen without gerrymandering.
Notice how there are no ads in the layout.
The ads are often what make a layout tricky, as is providing a reliable degradation for low-end browsers and computers.
Algebird looks great! Thanks for mentioning it.
Sorry, I didn't mean design blogs. I am talking about normal blogs and tech blogs.

I believe products that are designed well and polished get more attention from blogs and receive more word of mouth recommendations. I believe one of reasons iOS and the iPhone helped propel Apple into becoming the largest company in the world was Apple's attention to design details. However, I have no way to test or prove this theory. So please disagree if you like.
I keep getting a connection error, I'll try later. Also, you still have the generic Rails README in the git repo.
I totally disagree.

They weren't thorough enough to really bother with much of the text anywhere, given the amount of lorem ipsum and many-gendered John Smiths.

Content wasn't really top of the list of priorities, it seems, which I think is a bit of a mistake if you're trying to 're-design' something driven entirely by content.

Despite that, this concept is pretty much all about an in-your-face layout of pretty pictures that looks incredibly difficult to make any real sense of, and might as well be a collage of 2013's cargo-cult trends-to-come.
Saw this in the release notes when updating the FB Messenger app earlier today. While I haven't had a chance to play around with it yet, it sounds like yet another nail in the coffin for minutes-based cell phone plans (at least for smartphones). With any luck it will allow us to push for more reasonable data plans as well.

I'm mostly surprised that this is coming from Facebook rather than Apple or Google, who are probably both more incentivized to undermine the carriers and move towards ubiquitous data for their respective platforms.
This is useful in a pinch, but transitioning a 100px high element from max-height 9999px to 0 means there's going to be a huge delay while it's transitioning between 9999px and 100px followed by a very fast transition between 100px and 0, which is usually worse than having no transition at all.
This is really pretty.

This is impossible to use.

This doesn't take into account the fact that not all photos are stock photos, not all monitors are good at rendering fine serif fonts on dark backgrounds, some users need affordances for buttons and interactors, and that the fluid grid with no spacing whatsoever between content areas makes some information nearly impossible to scan.
I fully appreciate that perspective, and agree with they're all socially constructed, and it's the people you need to worry about/ I was thinking through similar issues as I wrote my own comment. If I was a victim of one of these crimes I might even be swayed to subscribe to that view. But on balance, I think the damage done to the system as a whole (see angersock's comment for one example) outweighs the upside of getting one or two bad guys that wouldn't otherwise be caught.

tldr: I'd choose system integrity/reputation over catching 100% of the bad guys. Loved Catch-22 btw.
I don't think it is because Buffet is all about making long term investments. Tax incentives that will go out of fashion at some point (probably in next 10 years) wouldn't impact his decision as much as sound business fundamentals and future potential.

However, even if it is a tax play, it's not inconsistent with his POV that the rich should pay their fair share. You can believe that the rules are currently broken, yet play by the current rules. One is about what you believe to be fair and the latter is about what is in the best interest of your shareholders.
Temperature is conventionally defined as the average kinetic energy of a collection of particles.

Many thermo and statmech texts will use this phrase as an operational definition for temperature in idealized kinetic models, but the conventional thermodynamics definition is actually (as you note) T ~ ∂E/∂S.

Negative-temperature systems are perfectly possible in both theory and the lab; all you need is for an increase in energy to decrease the system's entropy. This is the first gas I've heard of with a negative temperature, but systems like electron spin in crystal lattices can have this property. :)

Amusingly, these systems don't transition from positive to negative temperatures by getting cooler and cooler, crossing through absolute zero. Instead their temperature increases towards positive infinity, flips to negative infinity, and rises asymptotically towards zero. Some folks like to think of temperature as the inverse (∂S/∂E) because this seems so unintuitive!
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The only thing that could kill TV? TV itself.
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He posted this link below as an answer to another similar inquiry: http://usetempo.com/learn
Well we (web developers) are trying to make the ad experience as best as we can. A lot of websites wouldn't even exist without ads (Google, Facebook etc...).
If ads are annoying you, use Adblock, but do not remove ads from every user by default!
I work for big startup in the US, and we wouldn't exist without ads.
I'm sure they'll love the absence of the ad space plastering the current site.
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> This strikes me as an exceedingly poor investment. Granted it's an area he's almost religiously devoted to but I have seen no evidence whatsoever of any kind of RESULTS from him in this field.

Sounds like investors talking about Columbus in 1491.
It appears you have not found any good forms of exercise, all numbers aside.
What scary things do humans do, to each other and to lesser species? What amazing things do humans do? What concept lets humans do anything noteworthy at all? Here's a nice essay on the power of intelligence: http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/power
No, it's not... really nonsense--it's just really confusing if you haven't worked with entropy and canonical ensembles before. See my comment above, or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_beta.
Agreed. Also, assuming you could create a successful predictive model the advantage would be short term. All coaches would hop on the bandwagon.
Basic misunderstanding of international law on your part.

A "service", website, or software program is considered to take place where the user is located, not where the website is located. This standard was set decades ago (in relation to services) and extends quite well to websites.

Thus, the gambling in your example would be treated by international law as occuring in NY. Moreover, by choosing to do business with NY residents (unless such business is minor or incidental), the gambling websites would be subjecting themselves to the jurisdiction of NY for criminal law purposes).
This thread is confusing to me so I'm probably misunderstanding a few things.

First Ryan's post says he's saying something similar, except it appears to be opposite to the post he's replying to.

Then you say you can't see the times where YAGNI helped you, but that's neither true literally and also in spirt. Literally because it wouldn't be YAGNI if you did actually need it. But more importantly I have often discovered some architectural choice or unused feature stubbed out from years prior that saved me a ton of time in the here and now.
If the share of incoming clicks to websites is higher than the share of searches, doesn't that imply that it's a more useful product, as a greater fraction of people seemingly find what they're looking for than on competitors?
That assumes that the maximizer has the basic abilities and tools to modify its intelligence and/or launch a paper-clip manufacturing campaign. If you just hook up its outputs to a web server, it's going to take a mighty impressive AI to destroy the world.
No. Temperature is just the relationship between entropy and energy: ∂S/∂E. This relationship can be negative.
i mean if you know the approximate/upper limit of the height, you can minimize that delay.
Worse than the digitask desaster? Just from this talk [1], I can think of two or three worse behaviours by digitask.

[1] http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/Fahrplan/events/5319.en.h...
This is not technically true. X509 contains a provision called name constraints which provides this exact feature, but since no client has ever implemented it in practice you are correct. (There are probably a few clients out there implementing and abiding by name constraints, but they are in the decided minority)
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Where selling liquor to consumers is illegal. It's perfectly legal in Moore County to sell liquor to retailers and wholesalers.
I setup a new router today (ASUS RT-N66u) with TomatoUSB; it lets one run scripts and I installed a script that does ad-blocking on everything / all devices.

I found the script here
http://www.shadowandy.net/2012/11/adblocking-with-tomatousb-...

It seems to be working pretty well so far.
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> I'm happy any time I see web design/development moving into the web browser and out of text files. It feels like the natural progression of things.

I'm often not. I'm not talking about this tool specifically (it looks very nice, and I havn't tried it), but when tools move away from text files, we tend to lose important facilities like "replace image A in all our email templates with image B".
My buzzword detector burnt out on the title slide.

Pretty though.
Your guess? So to clarify, you're sure that the headline is misleading, or you're guessing that it is? Could someone explain in terms we non-physicists can understand?

I'm willing to bet most people (myself included) don't understand the equations you posted. Still, it's the top comment because every top comment on Hacker News is "that headline is misleading."
Double click the cert, then click the disclosure triangle next to trust. You can then select never trust for a variety of different purposes. Screenshot: http://d.pr/i/c8Tx
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I did something like that for an AI class in college. We used FuzzyCLIPS to write an expert system for drafting fantasy football teams. A ruby script pulled the CSV data from some other site that had the previous three years of NFL data, and then converted the CSV to fact files which the system then read in.

When all was said and done it worked, but made some pretty crappy draft picks! I should find that code....
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Personally, I would find the design much more functional if there were padding between individual "items" and each item were in its own clearly defined box. Also, if we could keep the widths/heights consistent my eyes would flow much more easily. Essentially this would be like the Facebook layout right now, except with perhaps 3-4 items per row instead of one.

I quite like the login screen. In the new "Twitter Bootstrap" era of web design I think this design is much more what users would expect/be used to. I just don't like two things: the login button, because that color is not Facebook-y; and the background, because it's obnoxious, basically says "look at all the cool people using Facebook, come join us!", and one thing I've always liked Facebook for not doing). Take away these two and it looks amazing (and functional).

All of this could happen without changing any aesthetically fundamental components.
My thoughts exactly, except my joke was going to be the reverse.
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Prove to whom? The people that issued this cert were effectively (albeit mistakenly) a certificate authority. They could issue whatever certs they liked.
I have a hard time empathizing with the ad companies in this case.

I'd rather pay money for many of these services, but I'm rarely given the option. In the meantime, my browsing is regularly interrupted by ads that I have to click through, ads I have to wait through, ads that pop up and block what I was trying to read, and ads that play noises I don't want to hear.

I think it is fast becoming time where ads as a source of revenue for a site is going away; it's time for people to find better ways to monitize the content they're publishing.
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It goes all along the profit way for buffet. Save TAX , make huge profit , CONTROL (energy, news media, etc) So its not about solar per sè its about profit , most probably Long-Term profit.
I always thought the timeline was the worst thing that could happen to the your profile usability wise ... I was just proven wrong.
If you host a website and are worried about these types of attacks against your users, there are a couple of fairly straightforward things you can do to strengthen your position:

1) There is no reason that your mobile apps need to use the public CA system. You can either generate your own signing certificates and embed them in your apps, or if you must use CA certificates for your mobile endpoints, at least pin those SPKIs in your apps. More info here: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/authenticity-is-broken-in-s...

2) If your website is high volume, Adam Langley is very generous about adding certificate pins for the CA you are using to Chrome: http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/05/04/pinning.html This will mean that a random CA in Turkey can not be used to intercept traffic to your website from Chrome, in the exact same was that Google was protected in this incident with its own websites. Word on the street is that Firefox is now beginning to use the same list of pins.

3) Experiment with and support the development of TACK, which is a way to frictionlessly pin certificates for your website in a dynamic way (rather than having to hardcode them into browser binaries): http://tack.io

4) And of course, make sure that you're advertising HSTS headers, so that your users aren't vulnerable to sslstrip (http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslstrip) attacks.
After thinking about the article's headline some more, I've come to the conclusion that to get a lot of attention and hype you need to:

1. Take a word that has a commonly accepted meaning
2. Redefine the word to a more general case using advanced physics or chemistry
3. Find an obscure property that this new definition allows
4. Shock and amaze!

(See "mass" for similar phenomena.)
Exercising for 20 minutes a day to add 60 minutes to my life sounds like a good plan.

I wonder if other things are reproducible. Is the "1 alcoholic drink" thing been replicated when correcting for income? Lots of rich people may have 1 drink a day, and so this pushes up the average of the "1 drink a day people", but it doesn't mean you can replicate it.
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That is disgusting. ISP have no job of interfering with any traffic to the end user. Their role is to be just dumb pipes that provide bandwidth.

They should not inspect or monitor their users traffic for any reason short of court order.
Am a huge follower of Charlie Munger, and I re-read his writings every so often ( http://www.tilsonfunds.com/motley_berkshire_charlie_speeches... ). What the two of them do is so much of a one-trick pony. They always seek massive rent capture via outright purchase of a corp with a very large moat. Then reduce the fiat risk by converting the cash into non-fiat income producing assets. This way they lock in wealth preservation regardless of what happens to the fiat. When I lived in New Mexico for a bunch of years, there was one constant - the incessant back and forth of the trains carrying coal containers from one end of the country to the other, and on the return trip carrying giant walmart containers shipped from China to the US ports, to their destinations in the rest of the mainland US. Everybody knew BNSF was the coronary artery of the US. One day I remarked to my wife - just you watch, Buffett is going to own BNSF. And then when it happened, she was like - how did you know ?! Its just so obvious. This SunPower thing was on the cards too. Prediction: He'll buy Vestas. Or Nordex. Just you watch...ofcourse you can't time these trades. Nobody knows the when, but the what is fairly well known at this point.
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It's the Haskell compiler they use to compile the GHC ;).
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Interesting, although it only works with TLDs (e.g. "amazon.co.uk" is reported under "co.uk")
I can't upvote this hard enough
Personally, I think this looks awful. It doesn't look organised and I'm not sure where I should be looking. Seems like a complete UI failure to me.
What you're saying is like "This TV channel is against sports because they aired a theatre show last night."

You're mixing metaphysical categories.
I'd eat a Warren Buffett any day of the week.
I cant understand how this design type is liked so much. I find the whole "flat" thing confusing and counter intuitive, and these days not exactly new. Given the title, I was hoping for something original.
I scrolled up and down for about 15 seconds trying to figure out if this screenshot was supposed to be a concatenation of multiple Walls or if it was one long wall view (I think it's the latter):

http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles14/398559/projects/65046...

That kind of visual confusion is a bad thing. I understand the desire to move away from lines and boxes within boxes. But elegant lines should not blur functionality.

Also, how would this design look when trying to accomodate the many kinds of statuses that do not have banner-size-worthy photos? My guess is not very well.
But isn't the property, as described, simply a different way of reasoning about the same physical phenomenon? (Clearly it's not, I'm just not sure where the gap in my understanding is)
> It's similar in spirit to "monkey patching" in Ruby and similarly dynamic languages (but won't allow you to replace existing methods, so not as dangerous).

My understanding is that you can create methods with the same signatures, but which one will end up getting called is completely undefined, making it a worse idea that it usually is.

It can be very handy thing though, I really like it.
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Half of this is understanding the probabilities of certain things happening. This involves estimation of both known and unknown unknowns. The other half is knowing how to keep things flexible without having to write a lot of extra codes. Where are the architectural choke points to apply the tourniquet to allow for later expansion?

Aside from being an expert in abstraction, domain knowledge is also a key component to make these decisions. You're right that it takes years to become competent at it, and even then there's a good amount of luck involved.
I couldn't find a way to change bubble type after dragging it in.
Nah. Their new look should be like this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Barbed_w...
I know I've noticed a boost in the amount of properties that have solar in my area in just the past few years. Solar pool heaters are very common now too.

With companies offering financing for the sell-back programs with solar it's going to improve, I know bungalows in our area that can get a decent sized system installed can make about $2200 a year, pay nothing for the installation of the system, and get tax cuts. Smaller systems are still worth it, you're just not going to get many people paying $10,000 up front for a few kilowatt system that'll take 7-8 years to pay back.

I expect as efficiency in systems go up there'll be a huge improvement in the numbers of people with solar. I know with the current systems I can only get a 2-3KW system on my roof (the south facing portion), which isn't worth it with the install costs, etc required for the sell-back programs. In 10 years when the solar panels being sold are close to the efficiency we see in labs today, it will be cost effective for just about every property in a suburban area to get solar systems set up.

We're literally on the precipice of a power revolution. I wouldn't be surprised if we see architecture change to increase the amount of south facing roof to increase the amount of energy properties can get. Imagine when the majority of power for cities is being supplied by the suburbs surrounding them.

Any abundance in electricity will absolutely fuck the natural gas market. I know running an electric furnace in my area costs about 50% more than natural gas, but when home owners are making more money from their solar system than they're consuming, electric furnaces and hot water heaters will break peoples energy expenses even. Paying $0 a month for all your utilities, or even getting paid per month, will change the entire energy market.
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Are they trying to emulate a walkie-talkie style synchronous communication link?
I was trying to write my post so that it comes across in a way that doesn't require stat. mech to understand (you just need to know how derivatives work). You don't have to understand how the equations are derived to understand what the result means.

To explain what I mean by states, consider a 3-bit string. How many states are there? 2^3 = 8 states. Similarly, if you have a collection of particles, there's only a finite number of "arrangements" (for lack of a better word) that these particles can be in. The more possible arrangements, the higher the entropy.

I added another post on why I think the headline is misleading. Basically, if the article's intent is to explain the subject to non-physicists, they're just going to confuse people by using that word "temperature". Instead, it's better to say what you normally think of as temperature (hot and cold) has a more precise, mathematical definition that doesn't really correspond to intuitive notions of hot and cold any more.

> Still, it's the top comment because every top comment on Hacker News is "that headline is misleading."

And for good reason. That's why the article gets so much attention and discussion. If it had been submitted as "Unique quantum gas has decreasing entropy for increasing energy" it would have no replies.
Oh the AI-in-a-box argument... Ever read this, by chance? http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox
LOL, same here :-)
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We have tried a few - but currently use Fasthosts ( http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/ ). Not perfect but pretty good in my opinion and if you subscribe to their RSS feed you get early warning of any technical problems. You might find that their dedicated server prices are more attractive than a VPS solution. We are currently using one of their Windows Server 2008 machines and it is a pleasure to work with and I do not doubt their Linux offerings are a match.