skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, they show that temperatures have plateaued for the last 15 years despite models that the IPCC was 90% certain said that temperatures would continue to increase.

http://suyts.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/image_thumb404.png?...

We know so little about how the earth will react to higher CO2 levels. It seems that we don't at all factor in solar and other cyclical factors that may just show that we're in a typical warming period.

As a developer who has worked with physical world models before, if a model doesn't predict the future better than random guessing then it is worse than useless. In RF modeling, if we showed a customer software that predicted signal strength the way that the IPCC predicts temperature gains - we'd be laughed out the door.
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I suspect a decent percentage of those 25 million CNN RSS subscribers actually don't use RSS. They opened google reader one day, added CNN, and later forgot about it.
>Once I moved in with my SO and we started sharing a Netflix account, the suggestions became useless.

That explains it then. Much of my account's viewing history is stuff watched with the SO. Apparently the recommendation engine puts a lot of weight on this viewing history. (Until today, I had assumed that recommendations depend only on those 1-5-star ratings.)
Not sure CNN is good proxy for RSS - many folks not using RSS for CNN because they get CNN via Twitter etc or visit it x times/day anyways?

Seems like much (half?) of RSS market is folks monitoring streams of websites that they don't visit regularly or monitor w/ non-RSS solutions?
>Just as a side note, and to get a sense of how dangerous the area is for journalists, four Italian journalists were recently kidnapped and then released by an Islamic group in Syria (they got lucky it wasn’t the regime, as they shoot journalists on sight).

Oh is that a fact? How many journalists would you say were shot on sight by the "regime"?
The EMH applies when there is a robust market, as there is in bitcoin. How assets get their value to each participant or what valuation methods are used is irrelevant -- the point of the EMH is that the market price is correct because of the market. I don't believe the EMH is accurate, but it's worth understanding exactly what it is if you're going to say it is wrong.

The EMH is routinely applied to currency trading, as well as asset trading (i.e. gold/silver/natural gas). It doesn't matter whether you view BTC as a medium of exchange or a store of value -- the EMH is reasonably applied against BTC because there is a robust market.
wow...im in Mid TN, the Smyrna/Murf area. I am not in the Metro area at all.

I also use my own modem. My speeds are nowhere near your results, it is actually closer to 15-20mbps down and 2-4mbps up.

I need some more info from you on this, I'd love to find out where they have this speed out here...

I only pay for internet and regularly go over my 300GB/month data cap as well
Those are clients you probably don't want to work with anyway. The best clients are usually the ones that have a problem and need you to solve it for them, it's then up to you to use your expertise to deliver that solution. You are the professional and similar to lawyer or doctor it behooves you to do what's in the best interest of client when it comes to your technology choices. Plus if they know the technology they want to use (and often how much it should cost) there's an entire race to the bottom market that addresses this--freelance/gig boards.
What CISPA purports to do is not comparable with monitoring all phone calls. Where, in the text of the bill or any of its amendments, do you find support for the concern that the law would be used that way?
I believe we all make this mistake, event outside of startups. Think way back to middle school when you had a crush on that girl or guy and everything seemed perfect, and you were in love, but they didn't know it yet. All the signs were pointing to, Go for it! But you still waited months and months developing in your mind a perfect moment where you would ask them out, and they would say, "Yes!! I've been waiting for you to ask me forever!!" Then, you finally get enough courage to ask the question, just to get shut down.

A 10% positive response is often enough to ignore the other 90%. It's something we're all working on.
wow what's old is new again. Same reason back in the 90's, all the new web agencies became obsessed with "branding" and "strategy" and pushed hard to make the technology / programmers invisible.
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And a follow up here: http://blog.framebench.com/how-to-manage-client-feedback-our...
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Or, in Bislama, "hang you who". Approximately.
For those of you who need your RSS fix: I made a little thing yesterday that sends you an email (I have it running daily via cronjob) with whatever news/information is relevant to you -> https://github.com/mheld/daily-digest

It's not pretty, but it sure as hell works for me (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/63726/Screen%20Shot%2020...)

Please feel free to fork it!
Yes, it's wrong. It means at least one integer point more than the two integer end points (which of course have to be on the line).
Does Monthly Curation Subscription work on Crowdfunding
Currently, I launched http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/monthly-chocolate-box-from-around-the-world/ ; I have yet to find another monthly discovery business started off on crowdfunding. We launched roughly 2 days ago (marketing on facebook right now), I just curious what can I do to relieve the barrier for people to "purchase"?

1. Possibility fear of not knowing what you will get. (This is our 1st month so we do not have reference for a previous month curation.)
2. My price is too high. (We want to value high quality chocolates as well as good quantity for those to enjoy with friends and family.)
3. ??? Need more marketing to demographics. (We think its early adopters female 25+)

Love to hear feedback on how to make this campaign a success.
And to that end, even the snarkiest snarker should be able to agree that it's been fascinating watching it change as different persons, interests, and ideologies interact with it.
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I understand the missing square puzzle with the triangles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_square_puzzle) but I'd be interested to see how Freer's puzzle works.

I'm having trouble finding Peter Tappan's "FuTILE Subtraction" from the citation
This would allow the USG, which operates the largest IT department in the world and the largest computer security team in the world, to share malware samples and vulnerability data with private companies, instead of the current state of affairs, where we can safely presume the USG often must sit back and watch as people get owned up by attacks they've been aware of for months.
Unless I'm missing something here it looks like there were a total of 17 responses (8 yes 9 no). Are you really making a major business decision on a survey with an N of 17?
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This was one of the key points in Brennan Dunn's 'Double Your Freelancing Rate' - sell the solution, not the technology. http://doubleyourfreelancingrate.com/
Anyone else find this surprisingly low? I'd imagine your typical web service holds a few thousand objects in S3 for images etc, then backups and anything else. Then you have your big players like netflix, dropbox etc that use the service. Who store data for tens of millions of customers...
That was in Finland. I think the next iteration of that would be to add a cat with a web mouse-controllable laser pointer.
"tl;dr: it's hypocritical to support one amendment without supporting all of them completely."

More specifically without supporting every "constitutional literalist"'s interpretation of them. Because, obviously like any proper religion, there's only one possible interpretation and it's held by the person who has it right. All others are heresy and lies.
It starts at 10 cents a response I think, so at most he got 1000.

I do agree though if you're right, that is incredibly insignificant data.
I agree that Dan is very talented, though I think the Fake Steve blog was the best thing he's done, and it's creative writing rather than reporting.

I don't know what happened at RedWrite but I do know it can be hard to step down the ladder, in terms of support. I spent most of my career on a national newspaper. Having left, I miss the phalanx of subeditors, graphic designers, picture researchers, lawyers, programmers and other staff who did so much to turn stories into impressive packages.

I imagine there's gulf between Forbes, Newsweek etc and ReadWrite, though I have no personal experience of either.
Thanks for the tip, that works in the app too.
It should be noted that while the screenshot shows only 17 responses, the actual survey* has 899 responses. Looks like only 17 responses fit the filters on the sample set.

http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/view?survey=b...
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Actually Congress cannot pass a law regulating it per the 10th amendment.

Have you read the Constitution?

Here is the 10th amendment.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

If you read Article 1, Section 8, clause 3 you will find the Commerce Clause that grants Congress the following power.

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

When a manufacturer is in one state, and a customer is in another, the power to regulate business transactions between the two is clearly given to Congress by that clause. The 10th does not take that away. Therefore Congress should have power to regulate that commerce in any Constitutional way it wants.

(Note, your suggestion of selling liquor goes the wrong way. The 21st amendment expressly gives state laws supremacy in that case. But if no liquor is involved, then Congress should have authority.)

I am not a lawyer, but my lay understanding is that in this case the interpretation of the courts fits my reading of the text.
Man, global system-wide installations that require admin rights by default? That's certainly something! Quite the stark comparison to Node.js and npm, where everything is installed locally into the current directory (under node_modules) by default, and "global" installation is actually a per-user installation. Tricking pip with virtualenv seems to get you pretty close to what you get by default with npm, albeit still somewhat more clunky. But to be fair, most other package managing solutions seem to pale in comparison to npm :-)

Either way, nice article. Now if only most packages weren't still for Python 2... PyPI says it has 30099 packages total, but only around 2104 of them are for Python 3 (according to the number of entries on the "Python 3 Packages"-page[1]).

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=browse&c=533&sh...
Journalism is just like any other desirable creative field with no shortage of talent willing to work for free -- allowing the owners of outlets to take value from both their customers (in the form of ads) and their workers (in the form of underpayment). Once the romance fades away for most who don't make it big, they all come to Dan's conclusion and a new young person takes their place.

The thing is though -- media hasn't died yet, nor advertising. In fact the market has only gotten bigger. The significant change is that Google and other aggregators are able to steal the most valuable part of text content (headline and nutgraf) and place their ads in front of it w/o investing in production.

Advertisement isn't dying -- its been abstracted away from media production.
Wow, thank you! Much better!

Your ability to make such dramatic improvements in such a small amount of time is a testament to learning Ember. You've certainly inspired me!
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Did he tried with men?. I defenitely would give my measures to be able to buy clothing online, tshirts, hoodies, pants, even caps.
I don't buy online right now unless is a bramd I already know and I go directly for my size.
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freaky moves in the last part
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Vim - Would you like to see your code highlighted when you edit a Markdown?
Because it's the cheapest foods that are the ones that cause obesity.
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Excellent tutorial, new to python, and I always hated when things just install without letting you know where it's going..and next time there is some upgrade all sorts of weird errors keep coming..Thanks a lot.
Hopefully Namecoin will see some more development out of this: http://reddit.com/r/namecoin
If you click on the google survey results image he links to the results where you can look at the male segment as well.
Huh? Oh.

"Betta (pron.: /ˈbɛtə/) is a large genus of small, often colorful, freshwater ray-finned fishes"
"Mining bitcoins" is the most egregious wastes of planetary resources conceived by man. The energy pissed away, the materials used to construct the machines, the housing and maintenance, and for what? Imaginary points in an imaginary game.

I cannot believe there isn't a better way to create wealth, than to consume some enormous carbon footprint. I'm very, very disappointed in the way way the whole 'bitcoin' fiasco has played out.
The author talks about missed opportunities a third of the way down - then puts one incredible picture of a grassy hill and windmill, and then talks about how it isn't that awesome to wake up and start on his to-do list. Hey! You're missing a really big opportunity! Wake up an hour earlier and go outside and enjoy that amazing scenery. The incredible benefits of being in the middle of no where Japan/Norway/etc is that incredible landscape you can walk out of your door and visit within 5 minutes. Stop living like you're in a city, and start living.
In my experience, from day 1 it was clear no one cared about the technology. Sure you'd get some asshole know-it-all types who thought they knew how web design and development worked better that you did but most of the time people would basically say "hey, I need a website that does this and that and the other thing". The technology used was never discussed. All I'd ever tell people was "yes, you can update all of the content and a good portion of the design yourself". People who mentioned technologies were usually just parroting what some other uninformed person was saying.

I'm really curious, it seems a lot of people here may have made this same mistake, talking about technology rather than problems. Is this because you thought it was a selling point or because the client brought it up? Maybe I've just had unusual clients but this entire "problem" never really cropped up for me during my time working as a solo designer/developer.
This looks terrific! I'm a big fan of Carcassonne and the theme of this is very appealing to me. I hope you make it to the explorer meeple stage. Anyway, I pledged.
I forgot where I found it, but someone uses | and _ to split windows in vim, which I find more intuitive and easier to use:

" Split window vertically
nnoremap <Bar> <C-W>v<C-W><Right>
" Split window horizontally
nnoremap _ <C-W>s<C-W><Down>
" Use tab to toggle between windows
nnoremap <Tab> <C-W>w
He filtered on Female and 25-34, while comparing on income. That shows the same chart as his screenshot.

However, that tendency holds at higher age groups which do have more data. I noticed the charts also have what I believe are standard deviation bars, which show that the results are not even close to being statistically significant.
This still doesn't prevent you from having a bunch of lookup tables if ever want to query your dynamo db data on anything but the primary key =(

I wish it was more like the Google App Engine datastore where you could have indexes on any column and then fetch objects based on that.
Why would it only be for women? I live in Europe and would love to get some thinkgeek tshirts. The shipping cost is high however, so I'd order multiple at once, but I have no clue whether "small" or "medium" will fit me better. So I don't risk ordering them, or they could all be the wrong size. I'm male by the way.
Any advantage to this plugin over mapping one key to ':tabopen' and another to ':tabclose %'? I have this in my .vimrc and it seems to get the same results:

nmap <F4> :tabedit %<CR>
nmap <F5> :tabclose<CR>
It suggests that, if you want to get truly pedantic.
https://www.thinkgeek.com/help/sizing-info.shtml
This is why I left the right-left paradox a long time ago.

Look, either you believe your right to self-ownership, or you don't.

Self-ownership includes the right to protect one's self and property and the right of free speech. These are not mutually exclusive.

Anyways, the way to decrease 80% of 'gun violence' - whatever that is - is to end the war on drugs.
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Quite an intriguing article. Just wanna add that the opportunity cost of 1 year is way more than 40 grand. Back to biz school 101, market research is always step 1.
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> "This process naturally leaks memory unless you're very, very careful."

Yes, and you can do this natively without ever leaking memory. You can refresh/delete/create new UI elements day in day out indefinitely without crashing once.

Having to tiptoe around memory leaks (that you don't even control since you don't control the runtime) for complex UIs makes a platform pretty darned unattractive.

> "Mostly they just need to do is display profile text and a few images inline. A mobile browser can display text and images perfectly fine"

LinkedIn is also a communication platform that also needs user engagement to survive. A mobile browser does not support push notifications, nor does it allow people to quickly bounce in, reply to a message, and bounce out (not without waiting for the entirety of the UI to load via browser).

There is an overabundance of apps that really should be websites - but LinkedIn is not one of them.

One of the chief problems with the mobile web is that you must load the UI every time, and there is a baseline performance impact (both network and client-side) regardless of how simple and optimized you make your app. You can launch a native app, do something, and be on your way before your browser can finish loading the UI, even assuming much of the UI is already cached (which for storage-constrained mobiles, is far from a safe assumption).

You can optimize a web app by a pretty wide margin, but the baseline means that there are a class of interactions that just aren't realistic.

> "Was the old app ever released? Did anyone have a chance to use it?"

Yes, and it was remarkably well done. At the time the canonical hybrid app was Facebook, which was crashy, slow, and awful in every single way. LinkedIn's app was at the time remarkably stable and not even awfully apparent that it was web-based.
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Sounds like the only reason you're in that place is your wife. Is this the only possible location in the whole world (or country) for her to be reasonably happy? If not, start working together to find a better place, no?
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Well deserved, congrats guys!
Exactly what is the point of obfuscating single-purpose API keys at all?
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People often have a hard time getting the terminology right. 16 billion visitors is synonymous with 16 billion uniques, so not possible - by quite some way.

If you load the site, then click a few links (say 4 pages in total), then close your tab/window, then load the site and click a few more links (another 4 pages) then you are 1 visitor, 2 visits, 8 pageviews.

From the wording I would imagine they mean visits, but from that number pageviews seems easier to believe.

Related: I blame Google Analytics for much of the confusion, as they are one of the few places (at least that I've come across) that refer to unique users as "visitors", and I've found that trips up many people when compared with "visits".
I agree with you that perfect sizing is the future of fashion retail--especially online. However, I completely disagree with your methodology.

This demographic is going to be won over by marketing, and you didn't have the correct marketing play in hand when you ran this survey. I'm going to give you an example:

If you ask people: "When shopping for clothes on the web, would you submit your email address if...?"

Most people would probably say no. "Submitting your email address" sounds like you're about to "submit to" a bunch of junk email!

However, if you ask them if they want a perfect fit (you'll probably need a better way of saying this than you have right now--you'll want to do demographic research to find out how high-income women actually would articulate this), you can find a demographic that will say "yes". As a bonus, you'll have the lingo they use and be more easily able to sell to them because you are speaking their language.

tl;dr: Given the word choices and copy you could have used, "submit your body measurements" was almost guaranteed to bust, but it doesn't mean you have the wrong idea. It just means you have the wrong way of saying that idea in a way that appeals to your market.
When you've been living with the same amazing scenery for two years, it just stops being quite as amazing.

You definitely make a good point, though, in that there's probably something out there that he could be doing. Problem being it probably won't involve many other people, as there just aren't any nearby (particularly any that share his interests), which seems to be his most significant problem.
He was deliberately targeting the high end, designer stuff; the demographic buying >$500 clothes is overwhelmingly female.
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My exact same first thought as well. I'm surprised that this post isn't a "no duh," but I guess I forget that not everyone understands that what a customer wants isn't a bullet point of features: they want a solution to their problem.

Eons before I got into web dev, I was hocking HP printers in brick and mortar tech stores. One of the things I was taught that I would never forget is that you sell the experience, not the product. It's not an all in one printer. It's a way to get the photos from your vacation off your camera and onto paper. Or a way to privately print your own photos. Products don't exist to be a list of features (if they're good products). They exist to solve problems. The best ones don't even need to be "sold."