skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judging from the demos, it feels like this code is treating each point with an equal weight, regardless of velocity. My mouse is configured to send 500 events per second, so the smoothing doesn't smooth all that much.

Depending on the latency limitations of the application in question, it seems like it would be better to use a curve simplifying algorithm similar to the one used by Inkscape, or maybe just dividing the curve into equally spaced points on the plane (instead of equally spaced points in time), taking care to preserve obvious changes in direction (perhaps by adding a point anywhere the locally smoothed first or second derivative crosses zero).
Who exactly decides how to allocate these grants? Professional federal government bureaucrats? Fellow professors in the field? Do you have any insight on why they choose to allocate the grants in such an inefficient way? Is the classic "no one ever gets blamed for buying the name brand" dynamic (where the famous professor is the "name" brand)? Or is it more sinister insider dealing and back scratching?
It's like most libertarian style ideas, fine when applied to the educated middle class but a disaster if you tried to apply it in a ghetto.
This was my favorite book growing up.

I can't trace it exactly, but I feel like it gave me permission to create my own version of a lot of things that we usually just have to live with.
That's a short-sighted selfish view that fails to take into account the responsibilities of the organization at large.
I like this notion of the desktop metaphor being extended to bookmarks. Actually I was quite disappointed to see that Google missed this trick with their new Chromebooks, preferring to stuff app links into a bar at the bottom of their desktop. Your approach makes a lot more sense.

Quick bug report, there is a display issue when one's browser window (or screen) isn't wide enough, it chops off whatever is meant to be at the right hand side at the top: http://i.imgur.com/GfNtJcv.png

Another issue is that sub-memorypools with identical names can be created. Not sure if that is intentional or not.

Also a suggestion, I think that dragging a bookmark icon on top of a memorypool icon should move it into there.
Master's degrees have no detectable impact on teacher effectiveness.

http://econpapers.repec.org/article/eeeecoedu/v_3a30_3ay_3a2...

It's easier to pick a good teacher than to train one: Familiar and new results on the correlates of teacher effectiveness

Matthew M. Chingos and Paul E. Peterson

Economics of Education Review, 2011, vol. 30, issue 3, pages 449-465

Abstract: Neither holding a college major in education nor acquiring a master's degree is correlated with elementary and middle school teaching effectiveness, regardless of the university at which the degree was earned. Teachers generally do become more effective with a few years of teaching experience, but we also find evidence that teachers may become less effective with experience, particularly later in their careers.
| Because it tastes good

Ah, but in a vacuum of other considerations, I hear that human flesh is very tasty. Would you fancy a go with cannibalism?
Yes, the tooling that's required if you're actually collaborating instead of working in personal silos.

There are better options than Github's overpriced virtual machine-based mess of an 'enterprise' offering.
I'd just like to add my voice to the others to say I love IPython. It's absolutely essential for my daily work, and it freed me from the shackles of Matlab. Python is a lovely language on its own, but it really shines when you add a good interactive prompt.
Strings are immutable, but bytearrays aren't and they support most string methods.

g = bytearray('Do this')
g
>>> bytearray(b'Do this')
g[:2] = 'On'
g
>>> bytearray(b'On this')
The US economy is in such dire straights because of consumption, not due to the lack of it. The Keynesian economics fraud of the last few decades (see: Japan, half of Europe, the US), which has been pushed 24/7 at every level of government and media, is massively to blame.

Ask yourself one simple question: how does higher consumer spending help the US economy when all that money flows back to eg China? Right now the US is merely a middleman, with service workers that take a small cut for distribution.

China as you'll have noticed is getting wildly rich, at breakneck speed, without the need to constantly push over consumption (their savings rate is doing just fine).

America needs a lot more savings, capital investment, and production, and a lot less spending. We had this algorithm decades ago, and we were extraordinarily rich accordingly, and were far better off with a lot less consumer spending as a ratio of our economy.

To paraphrase Warren Buffett: you get rich producing things, and you get poor buying things.

China figured out how it works. Their economy more closely resembles the US economy of the early 20th century, in terms of production vs consumption. The arguments being made for China to consume more, are arguments in favor of China handicapping itself to allow others to compete more easily.
Interesting :-) I didn't know about his article, but nevertheless that's roughly how I've currently implemented the sorting algorithm in the discussion system that powers http://www.debiki.com/demo/-71cs1-demo-page-1 — I'm using the simpler Agresti-Coull interval though (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_proportion_confidence_... ), not the Wilson interval. (And I've largely forgotten all about mathematics since University, 10 years ago.)
Did everyone forget about this? http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-wood-behind-fewe...
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There was some 3rd party development of applications, and presumably there would have been more if the Newton had thrived. But, fair point, it was mostly a product, and just potentially a platform.
Hey ryiytrye, thanks so much for your feedback. I will make my possible to figure out how I can solve that bug. Also, I'm currently implenting the icon move, copy and paste. Stay tuned (it's for tomorrow) ;)

edit: good remark. Memorypools are links too. So if you create two memorypools with the same name, they will "point" on the same "desktop" as expected :)
So Google Keep, a freenium product with Takeout, is evil, but Evernote, a paid product with lock in, is good?

Oooookaaaaay.
You missed the point, the idea wasn't to pass a test. The idea was to follow the course for the sake of learning.

As for the option of taking a real test at a testing center, I don't see the point since it would be US only.
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About 250 million people per year apparently. And for the next decade desktops are likely to continue to be sold to the tune of 200+ million units per year even when taking into account a sales decline.
Doesn't work exclusively with the Chrome Inspector. Having the downloads bar at the bottom sets this off as well, for example.
This has inspired me: if I have a daughter, I'm going to name her Diesel.
That's not true anymore, the average 2BR cost has gone up to $1800-1900, even higher in places like Lincoln Park.
Why I have planned to move to Apache TomEE, the next-generation Java EE server
Don't universties and Fachhochschule discriminate between the Abiturs of different Laender? Bavaria has the most difficult and highly regarded one, right?
But you'd still need to have a computer to go to the website right?
Doesn't work even without the downloads bar. ( Win 7 , Chrome Beta )
Having a non-standard window zoom also sets this off.
Also doesn't work on ubuntu (at least not with scrotwm)
Thanks for the bug report. The downloads bar bug is fixed.
Ubuntu 12.10 with Cinnamon works.
Where does Krugman state that Big corp is evil?

The title of the post is, "The Economics of Evil Google." It's not written as a question, but a statement. Nowhere in the article does he give any indication that it is sarcastic.

Krugman doesn't state that Google is a monopoly and he certainly isn't disingenuous here.

He doesn't state it, he implies it [1]. Otherwise, what does being a monopoly have to do with Google? High fixed cost and limited ability to price discriminate are not characteristics exclusive to monopolies. I don't see the reason to refer to "a monopolist" unless he is implying that Google is a monopoly.

When I read the article, I concluded:

* Krugman believes Google had a monopoly on RSS. [1]

* Krugman believes that RSS is a crucial public infrastructure [2]

* Krugman thinks the solution is a government-provided RSS reader. [3]

Just curious, what did conclude from this article that is different?

[1] "First, it’s a well-understood though not often mentioned point that even in a plain-vanilla market, a monopolist with high fixed costs and limited ability to price-discriminate may not be able to make a profit supplying a good even when the potential consumer gains from that good exceed the costs of production."

[2] "It seems hard at this point to envision search and related functions as public utilities, but that’s arguably where the logic will eventually lead us."

[3] "So what’s the answer? As Avent says, historical examples with these characteristics — like urban transport networks — have been resolved through public provision."
False. http://i.imgur.com/7keR7aL.png (Ubuntu 13.04, Plasma/KDE, KWin, Chrome 27.0.1448.0 dev. It says that no matter what I do...)
John Hunter was instrumental in IPython's development too. FPerez, stated his credits in this note: http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/ipython-dev/2012-August/0101...

Congrats Mr Perez.
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I'm actually using the algorithm that Evan Miller writes about (i.e. the lower bound of a binomial proportion confidence interval), in the discussion system that powers the demo in the linked article. I'm using the Agresti-Coull interval, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_proportion_confidence_..., however, because it seemed easier to implement. (I didn't know about Evan Miller's article (or any other).)
Well if it turned out that they could tell apart human faces that would be an interesting result. But it certainly doesn't prove that they can't distinguish members of their own species, if that is what the researchers were claiming.
I could change my post to say the didn't make any money that way, but the point is the same. The problem is access to a user's content being at the mercy of revenue. An API from a single vendor that has to be paid for is not a type of open ecosystem and 2005 was not a magic time of possibilities that have since died.
Thanks for reporting all of the issues.

I'll continue to improve and update https://github.com/adamschwartz/chrome-inspector-detector/is... with the issues reported here. Thanks.
No problem, it's been fun playing with it :)

Two more issues: http://i.imgur.com/uBpTr0m.png - somehow managed to get two links superimposed ("meteor" and "j"), and moving blocks of links took a rather long time.
Everything has protein in it. I've gotten over 100g in a day without trying and little to no nuts. Your body will naturally combine different types of amino acids to form complete proteins. You just need to eat a variety of foods and you'll be good to go. The issue with a vegan diet is eating enough calories, not getting enough protein. In fact, many people in the US eat too much protein which is very bad for you! It's easy to undereat accidentally on a vegan diet because you have to physically eat more. Hard to complain about that though.

And effort, in my opinion, isn't enough to justify eating animals. Think about the specific efforts you go through to prepare raw chicken: you have to wash your hands in between handling it and your other foods so you don't risk contaminating them with salmonella. Way more effort than my dinner, where everything can safely touch!
Well the Siri name makes sense considering how it treats Japanese people:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiU8GPlsZqE
Every experience I've had with Magento and Virtuemart has been horrible. I always got the systems to do what I wanted but it always felt like hacking. Too many hoops to jump through. If you have the skill, I would make a system that does exactly what you want.
Do people really care about where there comments are. This sounds so ridiculous.
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Yeah, I just tasted it because I'd forgotten what it tasted like. Obviously taste isn't a reason to stop eating meat for everyone, and it's certainly not as compelling as animal welfare/personal health/environmental concerns.
I really love where you are going with this. Overall idea is pretty solid, I would say unique even though it is like win8.

As for feedback I saw in comments so far, first thing would be search and organizing in groups like win8 does. Then tagging as alternative way to organize would be good. Overall really nice.
Works fine to detect the inspection window, but a false positive (as "open and docked") if I change Chrome window state from maximised to normal.
Scan for iPhone (the one they recommend on their site).
I'm starting to think that maybe you don't really understand what the embrace, extend, extinguish (hereafter EEE) strategy is. The whole purpose is to intentionally provide something that others can hook into such that it's unfavorable for competitors not to adapt to what you're providing.

The pedantic distinction you're making—that, in order for it to be an extension it has to be embedded into the original spec and that add-ons don't count—just doesn't hold water either: one of the most prominent cases of EEE was Microsoft's development of ActiveX done allegedly done specifically to break compatibility with the plugin system already in place by Netscape et al.

But more directly, modern browser add-ons aren't EEE because they aren't billed as a spec and no one add-on implementation has become the de-facto standard. Firefox, Chrome, and to a lesser extent Safari all have add-on implementations that are relatively competitive with each other.

Features implemented as part of an EEE strategy are always billed as "just a feature". But they have real consequences to a competitive marketplace. This is why the loss of Google Reader is so impactful: companies like Feedly—who is still just working on a Google Reader API-compatible implementation of sync and other Reader features—now have only a few months to fill the void that everyone in the space took for granted for years.
While this is more sophisticated, I doubt it's the "correct solution". The underlying assumption of independent draws from a Bernoulli distribution is vitiated, as the order in which the siblings are read usually affects their proportion of upvotes to downvotes. It still significantly penalizes late comments, because the 95% confidence interval is much wider for them (and its inferior limit consequently lower). Last but not least, it brings down comments that are at all controversial; whereas an opinion with 1000 upvotes and 500 downvotes is probably more interesting to read than one that only gathered 50 upvotes within the same interval. In short, this sorting algorithm seems ideal for quickly placing on top bland comments, that nobody really disagrees with but will upvote anyway because they haven't yet seen the much more incisive discussion below.
Oh, the evil things I could do with this to coworkers who try to debug my Javascript code. Oh, the evil things I could do...
Chromium / Ubuntu I only get it with greater than 100% zoom, zooming out doesn't trigger.
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I'm glad that nobody has mentioned it.

Land value taxes are among the most evil possible. It's no coincidence land value taxes are so commonly related to extreme Socialism and Communism ideologically.

Modern property taxes are a pretty horrendously vile tax on average people as well and are extremely regressive. The notion that you can work your whole life, pay off your average house, and still owe $2,000 per year in property taxes should be an outrage. $20,000+ over ten years? That destroys all the value return a typical home owner can ever expect to earn on their house. For most people, a house is the largest investment they'll ever make, and property taxes help destroy that. Not to mention the terrible idea that your paid for house can then be stolen because you don't pay the tax.
don't know why you're being downvoted. if my parents named me "Deisel" I would cherish it forever. not even kidding here.
It fits the meme of "entrepreneur saves the world with a simple hack that revolutionizes a stagnant market", so it gets upvoted by people who aren't as familiar with academia (i.e. most people here) and thus can's see past their biases and through the platitudes.
I totally agree. A humane death, to me, is a natural death or one that relieved you of inevitable suffering (I.e. incurable painful disease).
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Getting sufficient nutrients on a vegetarian diet is not difficult. It requires no particular thought unless you're doing a lot of exercise and need a huge amount of protein, but even then, it's pretty easy to get unless you want to avoid eggs, milk, soya, tempeh, nuts, mycoprotein, beans, lentils, protein supplements, etc.

Iron is more difficult in theory, but no other vegetarians I know have actually had a problem with it.
It's like Wolverine's healing factor that went crazy once Magneto stripped the adamantium off his bones.
So, there are some that require offline calculations (I can't really get into more than this for various reasons).
I'm 30 and at the top of my game! I'm currently a developer with ambitions of a startup. Honestly, I'm in no hurry. Everyday of real world experience makes me smarter and more prepared for my own startup. Do the bootcamp, unless you have to pay, then forget that.
Because eating some animals is necessary for human survival.

Non-animal sourced diets are hopelessly unhealthy in the long term no matter how many supplements you take to try and take to make up for it.
i'm pretty happy with http://www.slashdot.org/

the number of upvotes is limited.

the karma is actually useful.

the level you browse at is configurable.

the algorithm is simple

thus, top comments don't get all upvotes, AND you actually get a lot more useful comments. I like it. (the article submission and approval process however is far too slow for today's fast paced news systems, this is where HN excels)
I'm not sure, but you may be misunderstanding the article. As far as I can tell, they _are_ following semver, and the discussion is about why they would go to extreme measures to maintain the same major version for 13 years an avoid a binary incompatibility. In other words, it's not that they don't recognize the value of semver, but that they are also considering the cost to users of the varying types of version bumps.
I've never participated in the grant process, so I don't have the full information here, but I do know that grants are scored by other professors in the field.

Part of the problem is that the grants are numerically scored, and this scoring is primarily based on the merit of the proposal and the publication record of the lab. The lab budget isn't taken into account, and no one actually checks to make sure the project hasn't already been funded (see http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/science/study-suggests-dup...). There is additional funding for young investigators, but otherwise, the funding agencies treat a process like they are funding a project, when in reality they are also funding a lab. The assessment is with regard to scientific impact, not scientific impact per dollar.

The "no one ever gets blamed for buying the name brand" dynamic is probably a factor, but I doubt it's a very big one. If you win a Nobel, it seems that you're guaranteed grants for life, but otherwise, your research still gets defunded if you don't produce anything for a while, even if you were once at the forefront of your field. People are probably more likely to vote to give grants to their friends, but I don't think there's systematic manipulation.
I live in Oregon, although this might limit some of the funding for certain schools, when I was moving between school districts for my son, I could not start him in the new school district until I was a resident. The only public school we looked at that actually followed this method was Riverdale (www.riverdaleschool.com), and it was about $3k/year. Most of the public schools won't let you attend unless you live in their boundaries.

There are a lot of public schools in Portland that have special programs, and you enter via a lottery, so that's kind of cool. However, it's my experience that Portland Public Schools are crippled vs. the surrounding suburban school districts. I don't really understand it, since PPS has a higher funding per kid. Also the facilities in suburbia (sports fields, buildings, etc.) are generally newer and bigger. If I had it to do over again, I'm not sure what state I would try and move to for education.
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Hey thanks desireco42, I'm glad you liked it. I feel the same about the feedbacks and it's going to be a lot of fun to code those amazing suggestions.
I've built my own js lib to help with this (https://github.com/threepointone/twain) Couple of demos - http://threepointone.github.com/iso-gol/ and http://threepointone.github.com/beam/ (might not work on ff19)

still experimental, but I'm learning.
I've made the docked/undocked an experimental feature since it was causing the issues you were seeing. Please let me know if you're still seeing any issues with false positives for open.
Awesome =)
Life is unpredictable. You never know. So don't listen to guys saying you can't reboot. You can, whenever you want it. Just sit in the morning with a fresh mind and ask yourself what are your short term goals (make a list on 43things.com). Jot them down. Now concentrate on just one goal. Remember only one. Now work on that. You'll begin to feel a new life within 30 days.

Trust me. It has happened with me before.
Can you provide any other information?
console.profile = console.clear = function(){}

That's all you need write in the console to stop this annoyance.
Looks okay now!
Indeed it has -- for those less familiar:

http://www.northernsun.com/images/imagelarge/Bake-Sale-Bumpe...
No, production is fundamental to economic growth. Consumption is a secondary dependency.

Before you can consume anything you have to first produce something (unless you have credit, and that won't last very long unless you have produced something or are going to).

Try consuming before you produce. It's a logical failure that modern economics tries to pretend doesn't exist (and we can see how far that has gotten many economies today).

For obvious examples of production over consumption, see: China, or the US before hyper consumption took over a few decades ago. Savings + capital investment + production = wealth. Lack of savings + spending + lack of production = poverty and debt (aka modern America).
Funny to see that there is more than one company that was formed to go after the ".app" tld.
I do. In most RPGs there are much more complex relations at work, not a simple single-path progression of coins/equipment. I don't think it adds anything to this genre.
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