skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd call it more of a dual than an opposite. They're both showing you things you cannot see with the "naked eye" due to time limitations.
Thanks for the references. I am somewhat familiar with the second, and I look forward to diving deeper.
FYI, the less/man-db issue is tracked here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=695361
who is gwern?
What are you up to? Did I state something wrong?
Thanks for the term. It looks like there is one nearby, in Ann Arbor, MI. http://workantile.com/
How is this different then human memory? Why can't recordering something in my augmented brain be my choice and have nothing to do with you? You don't get to choose what I remember. Why should you get to choose how I remember it or why should I have to inform you that I'm remembering it in a certain way?
If this is the case, dibs.
As someone currently, as in, right at this moment, converting their blog to Jekyll/Octopress. Is there any reason not to simply use Octopress?

From my research over the past couple of weeks, it seems like Octopress is basically Jekyll with a bunch of plugins and niceties.
Very neat idea. Reminds me of birding (finding and recording birds seen). If he were to find a radioactive item, presumably the bottles (glass, with polypropylene and polyvinyl tops) wouldn't work. Wonder what he'd use then. Also calls to mind the Elements exhibit at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles (http://www.griffithobservatory.org/exhibits/bhallofsky.html).
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"They will not be able to engage their sense of empathy and imagine the possibilities where that new thing might actually benefit someone in a really meaningful way."

"Bigger minds will look at new things not as a product or the "next thing all the cool people gotta have" but an opportunity to better ourselves, and our relationships with each other."

Are you seriously invoking empathy and "better relationships with each other", in defending something explicitly designed to distract us even more than we already are from the people around us?

And can you elaborate on how Google Glass will benefit us in a "really meaningful" way? As this comedy sketch drives home, if the value proposition is for Google Glass to be less distracting from human interaction, that's a pretty self-evidently farcical position. If there's Google Glass between you and the person you are talking to, you have every reason to believe you are not receiving their full attention. At least with a phone you have to pull out to look at, there is some kind of social signal that you are paying attention to something else right now.

I'm sure there are good use cases for Glass I just haven't seen yet, where it can provide a better UI experience than a phone. The ones I've read so far, however, sound awful. Getting spammed with advertisements walking down the street? Getting background on that person you are talking to who's name slipped your memory seems like a nice thing. But I think it just sets a new baseline, where remembering your name doesn't indicate any human connection, as you assume the Glass wearer just Googled you and got a heads up display on how to steer the conversation.

So I really do believe there will eventually be some positive use cases for technology like Glass. What this comedy sketch shows is that most of the use cases proposed so far are not it.
Seems pretty doable if you want to run a custom plugin - probably more challenging if you are on GH Pages.
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http://arinsurance.blogspot.com/2013/04/insurance-companies-in-egypt-cairo-and.html
Well this definitely looks interesting, going to check it out asap and test on my projects.
Stephen Colbert coined a word to describe this...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness
Someone who writes interesting things (often with a lot of statistical analysis) on http://www.gwern.net and Less Wrong.
I'm such a Gwern fangirl. Pics or it didn't happen!
Good ol SNL. They haven't been really funny lately, but every once in a while they will come out with something hilarious like this.
This is so awesome. Wonderful stuff. Props.
Over the top? Sure, but the take-home message is that there's an alternative to Facebook and that is Diaspora. We should use it and invite others to as well.

You won't ever look like a moron recommending Diaspora (like you most certainly do recommending Path or Facebook).
The important metric is wealth creation beyond the wages the immigrants themselves capture. The picture right now is that immigrants to the USA clearly do produce wealth, however they capture all the benefits for themselves and it winds up a wash or net loss to the society at large.
Especially if there are all indications that someone's failed to do any work, or they're operating under either gross misinformation or exceptionally faulty logic.

Occasionally this can present a teachable moment. More frequently, the effort's wasted (or very annoyingly repetitive).
No, but you have to download the blockchain before you can join the network. It's in everyone's interests to keep bloat out of it.
I met Gwern once or twice at a Less Wrong meetup. I don't think he particularly stood out from the other folks there.
This was interesting to read. But I would have liked to have learned a bit more about the "politics" involved in an academic career.
The 'blog-o-sphere' seems conflicted on Glass.

Personally, it seems like a step towards the inevitable "Entire History of You" future:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2089050/

I'm excited about it from a UI-design perspective. It'll give us practice designing the head's up applications of the future.

Here's an interesting video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8xgYcoH0tA
I think he's simply saying that genetic algorithms may be based on nature, but come nowhere close in complexity, as to serve as some sort of rigorous "proof" that our theories are true, as the parent suggested.

Put another way, genetic algorithms are derived from our theories about nature, not the other way around. That they can effectively model solution sets to (much simpler) problems that we identify or create, neither proves nor disproves our theories about nature.
I really wish this were the reason behind other people saying "dumb shit". I often find myself trying to reinterpret something so uninformed into an interesting angle. Example: guy trying to impress me says he's working with a programming language that "isn't even Turing Complete". I reinterpreted this to mean that perhaps he was doing some domain specific stuff, say, with Regexes or something, but I was still confused about what use he'd get out of a limited programming language like that. When I asked him about this, he became embarrassed and admitted he was just throwing the word around because he heard it somewhere and wanted to impress me. Not the best move to pull on a CS grad student.
The writing staff at SNL are prolific creators of works that capture the zeitgeist in a poignant and relevant way. I'm not really sure why you'd consider them to be clueless purveyors of circus instead of timely and informed critics. Apart from being preachy, your comment embodies the unqualified smugness of Silicon Valley, whereby every tool with a Github account thinks himself a world-changing entrepreneur cum artiste. There are a lot of people elsewhere doing amazing things, and a lot of people here are working on utterly banal tripe.

Some shit is just stupid, and I'd sooner trust the SNL writing staff's opinion on that.
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For a start, you could remove the 6 or so 3rd party scripts from the homepage that record IP address and other personally identifiable information. The social media scripts may be useful for spreading word of mouth but unfavorable to true anonymity.
There is a game called "satoshidice" that is basically clogging the network with ridiculous amounts of tiny transactions. So far, there's plenty of room for "normal" traffic. Here's an opinionated explanation that sums up people's dislike of the practice: http://buttcoin.org/satoshidice-is-killing-bitcoin
Oh? And what is the correct pronoun in that case?
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Not true. Lot's of applications use generic abstractions and look good at the same time.

Firefox, LibreOffice, VirtualBox and etc. If you don't know how to make good GUI using generic toolkits it doesn't mean it's not possible.

Anyway, if you buy application for its "looks" - there is something seriously wrong already. It should look good, no doubt, but it should be functional first.

>as is the case for most productivity and design apps

Completely the opposite. They tend to provide completely custom, not native looking UIs, and therefore using cross platform toolkits for them only makes more sense.
You can often tell how much research a prof does by the size of their group. If they have 2 grad students and no post docs, they're probably active in a lot of research. If they have 45 grad students and 15 post docs, they're probably sitting on committees, writing grants proposals or are travelling to conference for 99% of their time. That's not necessarily a bad thing either, there is plenty of good work done by profs in a management role.
The other end of the spectrum also has a name:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis
I really enjoy working with ST2 and I would be super happy if there was a faster workflow for file / folder creation. I would really like to see something that helps me Cmd-Shift-P and type "New Folder" or "New File", type the name and be able to do tab-completion in it (and thus also map it to some keystrokes).
Discussion on this from a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5659251
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The OP does sound like an ass, but I assume you either haven't watched SNL before or you have a really, really low standard for "capture the zeitgeist in a poignant and relevant way".
It's half-way there. It could go a lot further. I'm really surprised there isn't a single (featureful) editor that follows the OSX/GNOME aesthetic of "convention over configuration; no preferences/options/modes if possible". Key-bindings are the same everywhere you go. Every command is available on every instance of the editor on everyone's machine, everywhere in the world. You never have to re-learn anything; you can just sit down and use all the features.

I would personally imagine something a bit like Sublime, but where all the "plugins" were actually just code contributed to the central codebase, and delivered by updates. (Specifically, I'm imagining it would work like Cloudflare's https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs for plugins.)

Given that the editor would then have "everything" in-the-box, it'd then probably have to have emacs-like modes, as well, to allow all the plugins' various key-bindings to live together.
Sure... here is an example (there are others):

Finance is in the crapper, but I still know people getting research gigs with hedge funds. In those jobs, you get to do all that chalk talk/intellectual masturbation, but you also get to test ideas in real-time... very cool when they work out.
Here are a few plugins I rely upon that make Sublime much easier to use (that weren't on that list).

* GitGutter: Adds symbols beside the line # on modified lines. A feature widespread in other editors with Git integration. I haven't found a plugin to mark modified files in the sidebar (which is also another common feature). - https://github.com/jisaacks/GitGutter

* Missing Palette Commands: Adds a few commands like setting the indentation for the specific file only. You can see a full list in the link. - https://github.com/fjl/Sublime-Missing-Palette-Commands/blob...

* Open Folder: Open up the selected folder in explorer/etc.

* Terminal: Open the selected folder in the terminal. - http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/terminal
Unless you're suggesting that there will be robots with no owner? I don't have to point out the problems with that, do I?

That's actually what I had in mind - we build some robots doing all the work, maintaining themselves and what not. They would happily continue building iPhones even after the last human died. And they are owned - if you want to call it that - communistically by all humans. From time to time everybody can vote if he prefers to have more iPhones or more Android phones, vanilla ice cream or strawberry to actually produce the desired goods and that's it.

You are hinting at some problems with that scenario but I am unable to see them - would you mind to elaborate on this?
As a modification to tyre's protocol, the way I typically try to learn something is:

- Find a standard reference. If the subject is controversial or unsettled, the reference should note these facts but not take sides (if it's taking sides, it's by definition not a standard reference). In many cases, Wikipedia is a good first source.

- Track down a few additional references. These can be short survey articles, if necessary. Get a sense for the field.

- Find a discussion or discussions on the topic. Follow these. Unless your need is very pressing sit on your hands for the first week or so and see both what is being discussed and what cultural norms are. In particular, how are newbies and fools treated?

- If there's a FAQ, read it.

- At this point, start asking clarifying questions as to understanding, or for learning methods (depending on the topic).

Often starting with small clarification questions or references to what understanding you have may is a good way to enter discussions.

Dropping elementary questions on most groups is highly frowned on. It gets very old, very fast, and shows a lack of preparation.

I'm also self-taught in many areas, and my methods have afforded me well. Though there was that time I retorted back at Alan Cox that he was wrong regarding some aspect or other of kernel processing, according to a programmer I'd had a brief prior conversation with. Before I was fully aware of who Cox was (#2 linux developer for many years).

I did immediately apologize, and he took it well.
I am an IITian, specifically from IITB. I can say for sure that the level of research in general is quite pathetic, except for one or two groups.
The only thing IITs used to be good were, (in their early and mid years) to gather some good minds together and give them quite a bit of freedom and a nice environment (in the hostels and such) so that they can discuss their ideas, which they used to implement not while there in IIT, but after graduating.

However, in the recent years, the quality of these minds has become a bit questionable (this is purely anecdotal, no concrete proofs). One thing is for certain though, the amount of discussion which was there in years when each hostel room did not have its own computer was quite high, which now in the age of facebook and multiplayer games has reduced by a huge margin.
As far as copying assignments is concerned, that is a pretty common phenomenon in case of general course assignments, unless one is really interested in that course and wants to learn.
1) Use Disqus/LiveFyre

2) Using GitHub issues (or some other role-your-own system): http://ivanzuzak.info/2011/02/18/github-hosted-comments-for-...

3) Go without comments - your blog is YOUR space on the web, if others want to respond, let them do it in their own space
From what I get from reading around, it seems like pretty much all parties involved agree that most sound way to diagnose mental disorders is by being able to actually measure the physiological causes of the disorders, whatever they might be.

It's just that the group pushing DSM5 believes that we really need an updated set of definitions to guide diagnosis, that we have no reliable tests to look for physiological signs of mental disorders, and are unlikely to find and flesh out any in the near future (as in few years to a decade time frame), so we may as get DSM5 out for now, which does appear to update the various definitions and groupings to more accurately reflect our current understanding of the disorders - for example the groupings for various previously distinct diagnosis into spectrums.

There are certainly other issues with DSM5, such as exactly what thresholds are used and what not... but I certainly think that many of the issues (like omg! big pharma is trying to define everything so they get more sales) won't go away even with 'reliable' physiological tests.
It's sad that our personal info can be used with such malice in this day and age when we're supposed to celebrate the accessibility and transparency of information. That people still cannot be freely outspoken under their real identities because some spiteful person who disagrees with them might call up their bosses to try to get them fired (or worse). When people on the Internet cross the line and make things personal because they feel a sense of power in hiding behind their anonymous computer screen and having someone else's vulnerable and real identity in their hands.

Gwern, thanks for the humble reply and all your writings. Maybe one day we will be able to celebrate your talent as part of your identity.
I find the reddit crowd isn't as helpful as HN and kind of rude. Not sure if it's just me... But they have crazy traffic.

Is Quora considered a forum?
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Your choices are: dudette, dudess, or dudine.
iPod invisa.

http://www.maxmouth.com/view_video.php?viewkey=f4cc0ad3819a3...
I started out using Octopress but in the end chose to go just plain Jekyll and borrow from Octopress only the things I needed. I'm pretty happy with my decision.

Ultimately, you just need to look at the feature-set of Octopress and decide if you actually want those things (custom theme, Disqus and GA integration, etc). If you do, great, if not, it's probably going to get in the way more than help.
Difference of opinion I suppose. I think Glass actually looks pretty cool. Not inconspicuous by any means, but cool.
I see what you're saying, but I really like it for various projects to control stuff with the computer. Like this one: http://www.jcopro.net/2013/01/30/servo-light-graffiti-pixel-...
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You know, one of these days we'll mature enough to put a "don't show me notifications for anything less urgent than a phone call" mode in our phones, and we'll all be better off.

I already feel much better that my work email account isn't on my phone.
No its not. When faced with a scalability problem, they decided to ban certain uses rather than fix the root cause. Bitcoin isn't going to be able to grow beyond a niche currency if Satoshi Dice's level of activity causes such large problems.
I believe I know which Moglen talk the article is talking about (it convinced me to close my Facebook account and eventually switch to Linux from Windows).

I believe what he means is that Facebook makes it easy for you to share information on not only yourself, but on other people (photos, tags, places, relationships, etc). Not only that, but Facebook makes it "feel" like the good thing to do: sharing is encouraged, even if you give away your and your friends' privacy. I believe that's where he's coming from.
For sure, they are much better during political season. But yes, a lot of the things they create are hillarious and relevant. I sense that their clips are very frequently shared, although that's just anecdotal.

The point is that it seems bizarre to come out with a "we're creators of magic and they're plebeians" argument when talking about the people behind one of the longest running shows ever.
Windows Phone 8 app downloads and paid app revenue growing fast?
I'd suggest you should download every plugin for ST and see how bloated it becomes, you'd end up with something as slow and ungainly as Eclipse.

To me, one of the largest benefits of ST is having a very powerful editor which is fast, simple, and very usable, and wouldn't want to see the core become much heavier than it already is (although I'm loving the code navigation functionality coming in ST3).
I don't think the experience he's describing happened on YouTube, but rather on NBC's site.
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>An argument from authority is fallacious if, and only if, the authority cited is not an unbiased expert in the matter or there is no expert consensus on the matter.

I'm not sure the "appeal to authority" is about that though. If it was meant as you describe it, it could just be called "appeal to a biased authority" or "appeal to a non-authority" and everyone would agree it is fallacious to do so.

Take your example: "Trusting your doctor when you are sick is not an instance of fallacious reasoning".

According to the "fallacy" people, this IS actually a case of fallacious reasoning. It amounts to saying:

"His opinion on this medical matter is correct because he is a doctor"

whereas (they maintain), his opinion could just as well be wrong, and you can't tell without examining the individual specific case thoroughly, through actual examination, not quoting past expertise.
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For the Ctrl-F people like me

Edit: And I can't reply to raldi for some reason but Adblock stopped the ad playing on NBC for me.
Gotta love what passes as a story nowadays. I'm glad AllthingsD is so deeply embedded in tech reporting that they caught this gem. Imagine that - SNL did a skit. About something technology related.

Really, it was news in 1994 when folks were reporting on cyberspace and the information superhighway. Now? Now its just a bit tedious and sad.

Can't wait to see what AllthingsD has to say about the next time Homer Simpson uses a smartphone.
Adult sees an advertisement for McDonald's Healthy Salad. Kid points to it and wants to go to McDonalds. Parent likes that kid responded to ad for salad.

But the kid was really responding to an ad for deep fried processed chicken and potato.
Again, how is this any different than just letting the user enroll a key? Or using one signed by a supported key, or using one with a shimloader already ready to go?

I mean, I guess as a convenience mechanism, but then again, why not just disable it and be done with it. Maybe a chance that would make more sense to me would be to have an option:

* Extract SecureBoot keys from bootloader/kernel whatever

and be able to specify your own kernel or what not.

But then again, that's basically what you get via your own key enrollment ;)
Remove the pay wall so I can see the guide
I made https://github.com/ggreer/jekyll-gallery-generator because I couldn't find anything. It's rough around the edges but good enough for my usage. With some tweaks to the templates and CSS, it can look nice: http://geoff.greer.fm/photos/
How will this affect octopress?
pastee doesn't work here (hk), I guess time out?
> Fine. Why would a normal person need this

You sound just like someone in 1980 talking about a personal computer.
They have their moments (more in the early seasons than now), but it mostly follows a hive-mind, laugh-track recipe that re-tells the established, popular socio-political narrative and doesn't at all challenge anything or anyone.

I actually think some of their low-brow toilet humour, or the absurdist stuff is the funniest. For the record, I don't think there's anything wrong with being all about toilet humour and absurdity, but I cringe when someone pretends they are doing "intelligent", political satire and ends up making a mildly funny skit out of a New York Times article.

The saddest thing of all though, is that this is exactly what's expected of them.
Huh, never considered this before. If I had a placeholder username/password on my login box, should just clicking "login" take the user to a demo/guest account, or should it bounce them and tell them to fill it in? What would be more expected there?
This video taught me a ton of stuff I had no idea about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ-bgcJ6fQo

Quite long, but definitely worth it. Not affiliated with whoever did it.