skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why do I keep running into people doubting speed reading is a thing?

I don't think anyone doubts that it exists. What remains doubtful is whether there's any retention of what's read.

"I took a speed-reading course so I could read 'War and Peace'. It's about Russia." -- Woody Allen
Haiku releases package management development branch
Maybe there's a startup opportunity in creating a successor to webrings that isn't Facebook.
What will the app actually do? Anyone?
My first corporate gig-- I had a horrible first week, they dumped me in an office, no assignment, no computer… nothing. They said another guy would be starting in a week and we'd get started then. I just sat there for a week.

I decided when the new guy started I'd try and make his first day better than mine-- I introduced myself and took him to lunch and ended up making a life long friend, some years later he was a groomsman at my wedding. Making a good friend at work has happened twice in my life, and let me tell you there's nothing that eases the burden of labor like working with a good friend every day.
Interesting paradox. I haven't seen that many statisticians using just a histogram when determining whether a certain distribution fits data reasonably. Kernel Density Estimators are a much better choice (for continuous data, like the data in the post), but they are also affected by your choice of bandwidth. When it comes down to it, like going to the doctor, sometimes the best choice is to get a second (or third!) opinion. For what it's worth, drawing a QQ Plot (something I've seen in every statistical consultation I've ever done) reveals the dependent structure of the data immediately and obviously in the form of a perfect linear relationship between any two variables.
Salesforce turbo-charges Mobile Developer toolkits with new options
I always vote every option in any poll that you can pick more than one thing.
Do they really? At start yes, I felt like it was good. All items, free shipping. It was really a good deal.
But these days I ALWAYS see the same item I'm purchasing, much lower, without prime.

Example:

Item A, $100 PRIME

Item A (ie same item..), $80 (no prime available) $8 2d shipping, free super savers shipping.

I'm actually cancelling my prime account because of this. There is none of the last 10 objects i bought over the last 3 month that didn't have this issue.
Dogs are orders of magnitude better behaved than four year olds.
It's interesting to compare the responses here to those. I especially like the "spike" in users over 60 that mysteriously showed up between then and now.
That is just a short term goal. Long term they want to build Lieutenant Commander Data.
Sadly that isn't very true anymore. Databases (and I/O — think SSD) really are faster than most of the dynamic languages these days.
Also curious about the 13 under 10. Some young geniuses.
Chrome innerHTML massive slowness
try the below in IE/ff/chrome

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" class="ims-lvl-1">

<head>
</head>

<body id="pagewrapper" class="gainlayout yui-skin-sam ims-lvl-1">

<form id="theForm" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="test.html" method="post">

<input type="submit" value="Submit">

<script type="text/javascript">
var starttime = new Date().getTime();
for (var i=0; i<100000;++i){
var el = document.createElement('div');
el.appendChild(document.createTextNode(''));
}

var endtime = new Date().getTime();
console.log(endtime - starttime);
</script>

<input type="hidden" name="h" value="012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789">

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the Google search app is what handles the voice actions. it needs permissions to your texts and contacts so you can send texts to your contacts by voice.
Yes, probability density estimation might be fun, but the simplest thing to do when comparing distributions, if you're worried about binning issues, is to plot their empirical cumulative distribution functions.
If ever there were a textbook example of apples/oranges, this would be it.
It helps to remember that:
1. #RRGGBB
2. B + G = Cyan
3. R + B = Magenta
4. R + G = Yellow
5. Equal amounts of all three channels = Gray
6. #000000 = Black
7. #FFFFFF = White

Think of the rgb color space as a cube, with each of Black, White, Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow on the vertices. Then you define any hex color as point somewhere in this cube and it's pretty easy to imagine what it'll look like.
This is nice, and I'm really glad you have both Front Page and Best sections. A link from the chart back to the poll post would be helpful.
looks like we have to wait for google to sort this one out.
Why? Why fuck up the data like that? The thing with HN Polls is you've no way to create polls in which you can select only one option. All you can do is list the options you want included in the poll, nothing else.

On a side note, your personal website is fucking hilarious.
Home Heating with Data Furances
not worth quite as much as 14 hours ago hah
We just noticed this today as the calendar control in our app suddenly became extremely slow after a postback. Using library code, which makes it a bit harder to fix.
Mine: AWS micro :(
Indeed, although Q-Q plots are very unlikely to be understood by people who don't have a good grasp of statistics, whereas a misleading histogram will be (and probably without knowledge of the caveats behind histograms).
It appears Bitcoin's primary function, namely to perform anonymous transfers of US dollars for goods and services, is being eclipsed by speculation.

Welcome to the world of foreign currency exchange.
On another topic (which you brought up):

> I can understand that if you disagree with a comment, you should downvote it ....

I don't. Do we want the top comments to be a representation of the views of the Hivemind, or do we want them to be comments that lead to interesting discussions? I'd much prefer the latter.

I therefore suggest that, for example, we all upvote thought-provoking things we disagree with and downvote pointless, me-too-ish, or impolitely stated things we agree with.

So, have an upvote, O thought-provoking person that I disagree with.
Maybe I didn't have my morning coffee yet, but the video seemed to be too disrespectful of musicians.
A few under 10, awesome. What do you kids find most interesting here?
I have a brand-new bridge over the East River for sale, low miles, navigation package included, e-mail on my profile if you're interested.
I have to admit I clicked both my real age and also on 10. Pg needs to fix his polls, because clearly we can't help ourselves.
I remember reading somewhere about a Japanese CEO who worked from 11-2. You have to be in before your boss and out after him, so add on a few levels of management and this is what he has to do just so the workers can have decent hours at all.
I'm surprised no one mentioned investing. You can make decent money from investing if you have the time to do the research.

And an understanding of how accounting/finance is better than being to do all the math since many of the stock information websites help you out with any kind of information you want to know.

Also using programming you can grab data from sites using Yahoo API or other APIs or simply webscraping(if they allow it) and produce your own tests on market information to prune information for resulting trades.
I was referring to the dig at Christians. Not the vulgarity.
This view is overly-simplistic. There is a difference between being up-to-date on your industry and being distracted.

If you're an SEO, for example, you need to keep up with Google algorithm updates. If you're a doctor, you need to keep up with new drugs and treatments. If you work in marketing, it's important to keep up with your competitors.

I'm not so interested in LinkedIn's news products, but my former employer used them very effectively. Spending all day refreshing Hacker News certainly won't help you be productive, but checking the front page once or twice a day can help you stay abreast of the tech startup industry.

The key is discipline.
Please, please, not the kitsch... respect the original and great...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLocafpLMi0
oh and this gets much much worse the larger the form data
But not old enough to know that there are new users all the time? ( and maybe old users leave too ) The numbers are going to change every year, and it would be interesting to know how HN users are distributed in terms of age.
At the end of the day, you're trying to make money. Transactions are very intimate events and you have to pay attention to what your customer feels when they navigate your site. Copy that conveys distrust is going to lower conversion rates.
But then you would have to choose a certain kernel and assume the data conforms to that distribution which isn't always true.
No font can have complete Unicode support (OpenType supports 65k glyphs while Unicode has a little over 100k code points). So font rendering and layout engines usually pick different fonts for different scripts. The reason why Chrome on OS X (and Windows 8) displays Emoji in the title bar but not in the page is likely that the OS knows how to render emoji (in OS X's case even as coloured bitmaps) while Chrome's rendering engine does not. In both cases the emoji are very likely not part of the font (you ship one font that contains the icons and while rendering you can pick them from that font, instead of having to ship every font with those glyphs).
759 days ago, 1448 days ago and 1867 days ago, respectively.

I think it's OK to ask this question after 2 years. It's great to see how communities change over the years.

Yes, I know it's not scientific at all and does a poor job of reflecting real demographics. But, if you think there's value in asking, then there's value in comparing previous answers.
I think saying please don't abuse makes way for a joke, and may act from the numbers as a planted seed.
Next Steps for Learning WebGL
I think the "Please don't abuse this option..." has had the opposite effect than the OP wanted...
Exactly. It's easy to trick yourself into thinking you're reading, when all you're doing is scanning through a lengthy passage and skipping past words you assume are insignificant.
meh, I hit about 400wpm without "speed reading" techniques; I mean, that's just how fast I read. If I don't really understand the material or if my short term memory isn't working well, I'll go back and re-read it.

The thing is? slowing down between words hurts comprehension, rather than helping it. The bottleneck in my system is short-term memory. The translation of letters to words to sentences to concepts is largely automatic; but if I have a pause there? that automatic process stops. If I'm talking in person with someone, and they say half a sentence, then stop and 'uhm' for a while, I completely lose the thread of conversation.

I find it pretty believable that others are twice as fast as I am at the letters on a page->concepts translation.

That bit about re-reading? that is the primary reason that I think reading would be superior, even if I could speed speech. saying "what?" is /way easier/ when you are reading than when you are listening.

(as an interesting aside, I know blind people often use text to speech software set to run, well, much faster than a normal human can talk. Apparently they start out at a normal speed and then slowly increase the speed. I've been talking for quite some time about getting me some of that gear and learning how to use it, but I have not done so yet. I suspect it would suffer from the same "difficult to repeat just the bit you want" part, but I haven't tried.)
Pro tip since you are new here. Editorializing is usually not done for titles but feel free to not use all caps even though that's what the source does... Also, I could not bring myself to finish the article... and this kind of meta comment I'm posting is also frowned upon... somebody please flag it. :(
If you think Perl 5 is still where it was a decade ago when Perl 6 got started, you might be interested in looking at Moose. It's an awesome, robust OO system, with a fully thought-out MOP and quite clean syntax. It's pretty mature, but still evolving. It's also managed to preserve the ability to play nicely with existing Perl class hierarchies.

Not to mention that every package on CPAN gets it unit tests run against every version of Perl, on a bunch of different OSes (Linux, OS/X, Windows, Cygwin, several flavors of BSD, Solaris, once in a while more obscure Unices), with the test results all readily browsable several ways (see the "CPAN Testers" line, for example on http://search.cpan.org/~ether/Moose-2.0801/). It's not just "more modules", it's being able to read reviews of them, look at their unit test results, even a dependency browser (http://deps.cpantesters.org/?module=Moose;perl=latest) that will combine the unit test stats for all of a module's dependencies.

</fanboy>
As I am writing this, there are 8 under 10 and 8 over 90. I think that's a good clue as to a 'margin of error' that should be applied to the results overall.

Edit: wow that went up fast. Now there are 20+ under 8/over 90... I guess whenever an option says "don't abuse this option" there are those who just can't resist.
21 Under 10 Geniuses ... All hail!
Why are you mounting customer images on your host fleet? Put another way, what do you supply for "kernel=" in xen.conf? A file from your customer's filesystem?

Why are you doing that?
The overlay has changed a couple of times, when they've combined or relabeled the options. The last time I got it, they had removed the "go away" option, so I gave them one of the answers they accepted - "I don't want to use my g+ profile, because X".

Of course, about 30 seconds afterwards, I noticed that the option that actually was most accurate for my situation was Y, but I hadn't clicked on that, so whatever.
It's a honeypot.
> we don’t seem to have new control characters for “begin literal” and “end literal” to mark a range of text that should be interpreted verbatim regardless of context

That is not of Unicode's concern. Markup is reserved for higher-level things and is not done within Unicode. There are historical oddities like language tags and variation selectors but the former are deprecated and the latter exist to serve a particular need. You will never see semantics like those you describe applied to code points in Unicode. That's not what Unicode is for.
Any gotchas moving from RabbitMQ to nsq?

Also, are you missing any features in nsq?
Siri and the Google app with speech recognition are already pretty interesting, but the biggest reason for not using them is that you need to touch the device to get them started.

If there was a way to keep such an app always open and just say "computer" and then ask the question instead of having to press a button, it would be much more useful.
What happens to your data when you die? Google has a solution
Krenov on Compromises
How many of you use voice commands? (i.e. siri, record voice notes with evernote etc.)

The primary problem with copying the star trek computer is the user interaction. One of the biggest reasons all of the star trek's utilize a voice command computer is ...

For directing.

Otherwise when the crew entered a command, recorded a log, etc. they'd either always be shouting it out or making us watch / read the creation of text. It was quite brilliant from a directing perspective, but do you want everyone around knowing how many times you go to facebook/hacker news/gmail all the time? For that matter, personal log entries etc. Yes it has its place when you're in isolation, but its quite difficult when around others.
What did those buttons do? I was always curious, but not curious enough to press them.
Indeed, but that estimate is likely to be less misleading in most cases than a histogram(which is just a uniform kernel that is always aligned with bin boundaries).
17 - and I'd like to note that this is one of the few forums on which I can have that information public and still be able to participate in (mostly) civil public discourse, without put-downs, pats-on-the-head, or pandering. It's a breath of fresh air.
OpenDyslexic: Free & Open Source Dyslexia Typeface
I'd consider the current issue with MOOCs

Every ones keen to sign up but attendance quick drops to 10-15% due to there being no forced attendance.

Paying money for a course gives a degree of making you more likely to attend but perhaps for all people that's still not enough to maximise performance.
This is what you should be doing:

plot(density(Annie), col="red")
lines(density(Brian), col="blue")
lines(density(Chris), col="green")
lines(density(Zoe), col="cyan")

This is the plot you get: http://i.imgur.com/sY2awX7.png
Born on the first january of 1970.
Can you provide a link back to the original poll somewhere on the page?
33 use to tag te walls of Paris before writing some php & java.
Oh man, no wonder many on HN are unaware of how technology on the 80 and 90 was like.
I found his activity graph on github very interesting: https://github.com/will
Mainstream is where the money is at, and I think Twitter is a for-profit company, not a charity.
90% of the current acts in dance music scenes would never be capable of clearing an album because of the overhead in licensing

No, I don't know that. I think it's a far smaller percentage (you should probably see my longer post upthread for some additional context, though).

And really, what makes samples so special over riffs, or even FX?

There's a huge difference between lifting something and making it yourself, even if you are working in an imitative style.
I think his point was that this would be a very bad end result. If there are no desktops or laptops in a household it becomes very hard for a kid to be immersed in development from a young age as tablets and phones are almost exclusively meant for consumption.
> YouTube, etc. has been milked to death and ruined in the process.

Youtube, in fact, is much better in 2013 than what it was in 2007. eg. I have seamless integration with other products I use (eg. uploading a video from my android phone) or I can purchase/rent content which I couldn't earlier.
Can you explain how Youtube has been "ruined"?

> like how they consistently buy off startups and kill them, also annoy the hell out of me.

Then do you also hate the founders who sell their companies to Google (or any other big company)?
Hmm, reminds me much more of Anscombe's quartet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet
Richard Branson, Peter Thiel join in $100M campaign for international startups
Any advice on dealing with de-duping?

Also, how was performance using JSON data format compared with ProtoBuffers & MsgPack?
A lot of HN users dump on any social network that isn't Facebook (or their new version for dogs, of course). Never mind that LinkedIn is quite useful, and the only social network that actually has managed to monetize itself reasonably well...
he pretty much invented the "free mixtape to use a marketing tool"

I find this assertion hilarious, but that's probably because you're 24 and I'm 42. People have been doing this sort of thing for ages.
... So? This still doesn't explain why it can't be a catch all. Just because it's managed by Verisign and falls under US jurisdiction doesn't mean it can't be a catch-all. Someone is going to have to manage a "domain [representing] an internationally-distributed project, not associated with any particular company or organization, nor local to any particular country.", and it more than likely will be a US company.

Just because the US ultimately has jurisdiction over .com doesn't mean that all .com domains are associated with a US company. That's what .us is technically for. That's why there's a ccTLD for the US. .com is meant to be a catch-all, and there's absolutely no reason it can't do that. It's doing its job quite well, and has been for years.

The request for .int is someone being pedantic. Even if it's granted, it probably won't catch on and be anywhere near the popularity of .com anyway.
Should you have co-founders or be a solo founder?
Web game extras get Office of Fair Trading scrutiny
Exactly. Only a few sites don't already notify your visit to Google. And if you already use Chrome every keypress in the address bar is already sent to Google. In some old times Google didn't get a notification about what you clicked after search. Now they do.
I find it hard to take this poll seriously, given the 33+ in the "over 90" range.
Dire Straits/Money for Nothing.
Another hint that Google was using the Star Trek computer as inspiration for Google Now:

The project was originally known as "Majel," after Majel Barrett, the wife of Gene Roddenberry, who was the voice of the Star Trek computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majel_Barrett
Music composed around the iPhone "Marimba" ringtone
Eventually yes. However in the near-term I see almost all NLP advances being implemented on the cloud.
The thing is, you cant really ask them for money too early or you'll be hearing NO too often for the wrong reasons...

What you should be trying to find out is:

1. if they currently spend their money somewhere else to solve their problem

2. if your product is so much better at solving the problem, that they will want to switch.
fascinating video - curious I searched for Amen Break on whosampled.com and it returned a list of 789 tracks: http://www.whosampled.com/sampled/The%20Winstons/
Google, lights!
Absolutely. These things are incremental and at each step we try to be as fair and realistic as possible.

But what do you think about this?

I think there's something interesting in there, though. In some ways, this argument really acknowledges that laws really are tethered to reality. It's not so much a matter that we can simply will a legal situation into reality. What's fascinating, though, is that this idea that things are sort of stuck in the realities of the past-- that people really do like to be monogamous, that kids really are something that people do, that inheritance issues are going to be there--is a very conservative position relative the progressive approach, which really does sort of say 'we can decide how to structure society'. I mean when was the last time you heard someone say that 'we can educate this demographic because there's 200,000 years of historical precedent'.

I don't care either way. But I'm just noting that there is a profound conservatism within the push to state-defined marriage. Why now want to respect historical precedent as more or less permanent and yet disregard tradition elsewhere?