skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice. Also, The Perl Script That Powered The Alan Turing Petition: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/07/perl-script-powered-alan-turing....
When you have profit maximizing contractors for an organization spending lots of Other People's Money, that creates all kinds of bad incentives.
> there's one big difference, though. To shop at Costco you have to buy twice as much (plus typically pay membership fees). That step could be too steep for the people most living hand-to-mouth, even though it would save them money within weeks. So there could be sample bias here too.

See the article Why Can’t Walmart Be More Like Costco?[0] for more on this.

0: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/26/why-can-t-w...
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It's glorified SMS in that the designer of the feature has explicitly said that they changed the design so that it would basically be glorified chat:

> What it looks like, really, is a slightly oversized version of Gchat. And that’s no accident. Google’s actively trying to make email less fussy and formal--or, in other words, to make it a little more like instant messaging. And as Jason Cornwell, Gmail’s lead designer, explains, one of the ways to do that is simply to "give you permission to write shorter messages." [...]

> "It was a space that was sort of intimidating, I think, to write a message like 'Hey, wanna get lunch?'" he explains. "We wanted the new compose to facilitate these quicker messages. Or at least make it a space where that felt appropriate."

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672250/how-a-tiny-new-compose-w...
Interesting story.

So ghost has been around for a while, its a filesystem aware dump and restore utility. Its very useful and can do differential dumps. It no doubt needs relatively small amounts of development/support.

One might guess this would be like 'free' money for a company like Semantic. And yet they can't recover the cost of an automated email support system and a fractional engineer.

What does that say about their overhead as a software company? Google is (in)famous for 'support by peer group' types of things. Might work here.

So this is a way in which open source can 'win' in the Windows world as well I think as a way of lowering costs and getting the fractional engineer out of the volunteers that maintain it and the perhaps run the faq. I find those to be interesting business questions.
It would be nice if CostCo allowed people of low income to apply for a financial aid in the form of free membership if their income was low enough. It's unfortunate that only the people with greater purchasing power get access to the lowest cost per item unit.
> Third, you need to constrain text width. It's a lot of work to scan 1000 pixels for each line.

It's funny you criticize that, because it's one of the only parts of my site design that I actually have A/B tested: http://www.gwern.net/a-b-testing#max-width The smaller widths did not do well.

> Books are also not backlit. If you want to recreate the experience of reading a book, use a slightly off-white color and a dark colored ink (for example, a very dark blue or brown).

Hm, this sounds plausible.

html {
background-color: #FCFCFC;
}

html, a {
color: #303C3C;
}

Done.

blockquote {
font-style: italic;
}

No; I use blockquotes too much and they're too long to make them italics. The background shading seems like enough for now.

#header {
margin-top: 50px;
margin-bottom: 30px;
}

I'll try it.

#content {
width: 550px;
margin-left: 200px;
padding-left: 0;
line-height: 150%;
}

Duly stolen. And the TOC changes look like an improvement too.
I use Drive Snapshot, http://www.drivesnapshot.de .

Tweakhound recommends Acronis True Image, http://www.tweakhound.com/acronis-true-image/ .

I have noticed that Symantec (the owner of the Norton brand) often buys good software from other companies and after the acquisition the quality declines. Ghost was bought by Symantec from Binary Research, a New Zealand startup, in 1998.
You're thinking of Exxon.
What happens the night i stay up late with the nest and want the heat turned up?

Put on a sweater? But yes, what you describe is exactly how many people with Nest thermostats end up disabling the "intelligent" functions.
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So you add an extra radio button at the bottom of the form, with an <input type=text> instead of a <label>. You will want some javascript to select the bottom radio button when the text control receives focus.

Then on the backend, if the extra radio button was selected, instead of incrementing the vote count for that answer, you create a new answer in the database with a vote count of 1.

I assume you have your answers stored in a table like the following (pseudo-sql, my sql is rusty):

CREATE TABLE answers (
question_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
answer_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
answer_total_votes INTEGER DEFAULT 1,
answer_text TEXT NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (question_id, answer_id)
)
$20/m is too high.

There was another posting recently where a guy co-located his RPi (or Beaglebone?) for less than $20 total over a period of 18 months.
Aha.

If passive email is what your product is for then you need to:

1. make the bottom bar slightly bigger
2. allow me to be able to add a picture of the lead magnet im offering
3. the bar should slide up after after 1-2 seconds

This will result in a 3x bump in conversion(if i remember correctly), when compared to the side bar opt in form on most blogs, so if you were getting 50 subscribers a day, this will increase it to about 200.

You are essentially a saas version of http://instantslideup.com/ and your target audience is BLOGGERS.
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I can understand an irrational feeling of disgust, but the OP specifically said

>"I don't trust it. "What if it's poisoned?"

Implying that there is a rational thought process behind his actions that is based on flawed data.
I am going to insert this piece into my pitch. It touches on the basic and salient rationale that access to resources is a given to derive inertia for for certain ideas
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Greylisting is of marginal utility at best. The only thing that it accomplishes is slowing down all of your regular mail. SPF/DK don't slow down your mail and actually do a pretty decent job of getting rid of unsophisticated mail spammers, but do nothing for "marketers".

"Spammers don't retry" was something that happend in the 1990s, they figured out they could fill their MTA queues full and get actual delivery a long time ago. There may be proxy mail spammers out there that don't retry still, but they're amateurs at best, the pros have all this stuff figured out. Don't kid yourself that you're wasting their time, your server is a small speck in the ocean of mailservers, and what they really care about is delivery to all of the big MSPs like gmail/yahoo/msft/rr/etc.

That all said, if it makes you happy to feel like you're "messing with spammers", I'm all for it! I derive great satisfaction in running my own boxes for vanity so I'm hardly one to deny that feeling to anyone else :)
It's not a Lisp, but there aren't many probabilistic programming languages, so you may be interested in IBAL (http://www.gelberpfeffer.net/Papers/ibal-ch.pdf).
Become a hero
>>I don't think so. He merely invented some low hanging fruit in early computer science, like OCR and text recognition. Things on which other people worked and had results too.

It only looks like low hanging fruit after it is done.

>>And it's equally easy to be a "visionary", if you don't have to also achieve those visions. Visionaries are a dime a dozen, especially in California.

What exactly is your overall point? Most visionaries will fail because that is just how things are. Leonardo da vinci was a great visionary that could not fulfill any of his visions. Visions that were fulfilled hundreds of years latter. Eventually somebody will fulfilled those visions. Again, I don't understand what you are bitching about.

All this irrational hate against the guy for daring to dream what would be one of the greatest achievements of human history is unnerving. Eventually we WILL have strong AI, we are living proof that it is possible just as birds were living proof that things could fly.
If you want to find cheap housing, you can.

Citation, please. Cheap housing in the Bay Area is like $500/mo to share a 7x5 laundry room.

http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Startup-dreams-meet...
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I would guess that the "successful entrepreneurs" category is sufficiently diverse to resist pigeon holing. I'm personally not a fan of anything that implies that you have to jump into a fast and loose market right out of high school to become an entrepreneur.

I'd wager there are plenty of folks that got fed up with their jobs after reading any number of self-help rags-to-riches articles or books and went on to have successful self-employed careers, some of which probably ended up in the millions of dollars.

Maybe it's because I'm corporately employed, thirty, sick of the grind and working to get out, but the "this is who I am; this is what works, and if you're not this, then you can't get it anywhere else" implication rubs me the wrong way.

On a different note, I can tell how little I've replied to this sort of article over the years by how many times I had to spell check entrepreneur (got it that time. boom. little victories, amirite?)

[edit: I also want to say that this isn't an attempt to try and slam the OP. Seriously, congrats on your success so far, and I hope you do just as well and better in the future. I just think there are a lot of paths and destinations in success, and even the cliche market of motivational memoirs and self-help guides can kick someone in the ass occasionally and get them to make the move they need to.]
The first round of the UK Maths Challenge * is multiple choice, and does often include questions with "not enough information provided" as one of the available answers. However, this isn't a mechanism for identifying badly phrased questions.

* (the feeder competition for the British Mathematics Olympiad, and then the International one)
> There isn't a country with enough police to protect everyone from physical harm caused by others at nearly all times (statistically speaking)?

Note the last two words (in parentheses). That's the point being made: There aren't enough police to guarantee everyone protection.
Thanks for the ideas. We've had all of these ideas come up before. 1 is a clear possibility in the near future (or possibly the ability for it to be configurable) and 3 is configurable by the user (I also want to add a scrolling trigger to it as well, but that's not on the schedule yet).

The one that's the most problematic is the image. I've struggled with a way to implement such a feature and avoid it from being gimmicky-looking. Or, rather, some up with mechanisms to prevent the user from making it look gimmicky. I'm open to any ideas/suggestions around that.
But even with your picture the answer can be 20 seconds. You're assuming the person is starting at the top of the line and cutting all the way through the board to the bottom. But they could just as easily rotate the board 90° and cut across a different axis. Assuming a 1" thick board, this means they're cutting through 1" of wood on each cut, meaning both cuts take the same amount of time.
That's why we have a representative government, and not a direct democracy. People tend to make dumb choices, and sometimes the government needs to make the unpopular decision.
I ran into someone who worked at the IT department at Mass Gen Radonc, and they use Fortran for the software delivering the radiation doses.
Supporting newer OSes (UEFI secure boot, Win8, etc.) requires more than a small amount of development, hence the move to Symantec's product.
The joke would be that if you don't know the answer, the "I don't know" answer is completely correct.

More seriously, yes, I think the open source books (actually teaching materials that include books) will eventually replace commercial materials in almost all cases except those tertiary (college/uni) level classes where the book is written by the teacher. Financial pressure, if nothing else, will have this effect. Many of the open source books could be primarily the work of a single Benevolent Dictator For Life, of course.
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Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government?
I hope you're not insinuating that every internal memo that Kara Swisher gets BCC'd on isn't actually worthy of some smartass blog post.

Seriously though, it's funny to see Swisher post every lame email from Yahoo corporate and write about it like it's the second coming of investigative journalism.
Unless you have some kind of vice holding that piece of wood together, you're making 3 cuts.
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What's the advantage of Norton Ghost over rsync?
I think it's fairly safe to assume that the drug trade didn't significantly change over night and that the sources of drugs are largely the same. Which means that a lot, especially of the harder drugs, come from south america. I'm obviously not going to go through the problems the drug trade causes in south america, as I assume this is public knowledge. Of course there is similar problems with manufacturing in the US.

Also I don't think its hand-waving when I base my opinions on the available information. I'm all ears if you can show that drug production has significantly changed (or at least what's is available on SR), that there's a significant overlap, and shift, between buying on SR and buying from street gangs and that this new distribution channel won't have largely the same victors, and therefor problems, as the rest of the drug trade.

Like I said, if someone comes up with a way to locally manufacture smaller amounts of drugs and give the control to the users, than you might have a theoretical case.
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Are there any simple blogging platforms that are posterous simple, that is, email it text, documents, images, etc., and it makes a nicely formatted blog post for it, complete with image or document gallery?
Another (And better) alternative..
http://www.fogproject.org
Or even a monthly installment.
Relatively cheap housing can be found if you live in bad, uncool and/or inconvenient neighborhoods. I just looked at a number of < $1500 apartments in Oakland (1200+ sq feet). In-law apartments in the outer Sunset and outer Richmond can be found for less than $1500. If you are buying, it seems like Alameda is where all the non rich engineers I know end up moving.
I agree, our brains are good at recognizing patterns. So some amount of rote memorization of data can help us see these patterns.

I remember learning the 9 * table as a child and suddenly realizing that n * 9 = (n * 10) - n , thinking "hmm, does n * x = n * (x + 1)
- n" why yes it does!
Maybe they wanted both answers?
You get 6 apples per big Mac.
It is actually a better meal.
You mean this isn't Reddit, where we've already posted the teacher's address and phone number to send death threats?
> You probably haven’t gone to Stanford and MIT.
> You probably didn't work in a major successful US startup.
> You probably don’t have many mutual connections with the investor.

That would seem to apply to most people in the US as well.
http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
As I stated downthread: If you ask me to make these cuts I am plugging in my chop saw (or mitre saw if you prefer) I am making 1, 2 and 2 cuts. Where one cut is defined as pulling the trigger on the saw arm and pressing the handle down.

Your "vice" will be my left hand pushing the wood against the fence and towards the stop block. Do you do a lot of woodworking?
Wow. Henry Ford or Steve Jobs. So, the discovery of the nature of cognition, a scientific endeavor that has stumped tens of thousands of the most brilliant people who ever lived for thousands of years, is on the order of setting up assembly lines and setting up shiny packaging for other people's engineering work. I learn new things here everyday.
Hence asking about per-capita, not per date, numbers. :).
Why should the residents of San Francisco be the only ones who have a say in how it is developed? San Francisco is not a sovereign entity. It is merely an administrative subdivision of the State of California. Do you think San Francisco would be more built up if all the other people in California who wanted to live there got a vote?
check this out, if you like g4l:

http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4l.html
I love his writings!
>Ghost is like dd, but with Microsoft Windows filesystem knowledge,

And limited or no support for other filesystems. It was very convenient if you were a MS-only, and could be troublesome if you tried to do anything fancy with another OS. In versions after 2003 Norton began adding some support for other filesystems.
Open-source utilities running from livecd.

dd if=/dev/sda bs=16777216 | gzip -c9 > /path/to/sda.img.gz

If you have the pv utility installed, you can get progress bars:

dd if=/dev/sda bs=16777216 | pv -c -W | gzip -c9 | pv -c -W > /path/to/sda.img.gz

To restore (WARNING: THE FOLLOWING COMMAND IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, USE IT ONLY IF YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE DOING):

pv -c -W /path/to/sda.img.gz | gzip -cd | pv -c -W | dd bs=16777216 of=/dev/sdx

Of course, you can use your favorite compression program instead of gzip; on Debian-like systems, bzip2 or xz should be drop-in replacements available by default.

If you want a compressed image which you can mount read-only without uncompressing (e.g. if you want to be able to reach into the backup and pull out a single file or directory), you can pipe the dump to a FIFO and then use the pseudo-file feature of mksquashfs [1]. E.g. something like this (commands not tested, there may be typos):

mkfifo sda.fifo
echo 'sda.img f 444 root root cat sda.fifo' > sda.pf
dd if=/dev/sda bs=16777216 > sda.fifo &
mkdir empty
mksquashfs empty sda.squashfs -pf sda.pf
mount -o ro,loop sda.squashfs /mnt

You then have an uncompressed image visible. If it's a whole-disk image (/dev/sda instead of /dev/sda1), you need to use a program called kpartx to make device nodes for each partition.

I recommend reading the man pages and playing around with these utilities in a Virtualbox VM with a small disk.

Of course, this approach doesn't pay any attention to filesystems. Which means it works with Windows partitions (unlike LVM or btrfs snapshots). But there are limitations; it reads and stores "empty" space not occupied by files (I recommend making a large file full of zeroes beforehand to make the empty space compress better), restoring to a smaller disk is difficult if not impossible, restoring to a larger disk requires you to resize manually afterwards if you want to use the extra space.

[1] It's a little easier conceptually to make a squashfs directly from an image file, but that approach requires you to store the image file, which requires temp space equal to the size of the disk you're backing up. The pseudo-file approach has a benefit of not needing temporary space equal to the size of the disk being backed up, you just need enough space for the compressed result.
There are a few options when your life is negative sum:

Take on debt to amortize against future positive sums.

End yourself.

Change the weights in your utility formula.
Elaborate on "better"?
Ahh, I think I see what my problem was. I originally read the blog entry and looked at your website on my iPhone 5, and the control didn't pop up then. Now that I look at it again on my desktop, I immediately get it.

This, of course, does seem like a major problem, though. I'm actually in the market for something almost exactly like this, but 50% of my audience accesses my site via iOS devices.

Also, take a look at how Hello Bar explains their product: http://www.hellobar.com

good luck!

edit: I think your blog should use your product, too.
Do you think San Francisco would be more built up if all the other people in California who wanted to live there got a vote?

Nobody in California outside of San Francisco really thinks or cares much about The City, so nothing would be different. It's always been it's own weird microcosm of reality, and will likely stay that way forever.
I've long loved the Fibonaccis and the Golden Ratio; here are some of my more-readable notes on what exactly is going on in their connection, and why the golden ratio is the most irrational number:

https://github.com/drostie/essay-seeds/blob/master/misc/fibo...

I might expand it into a proper document at some point, but until then, here is how you draw sunflowers with the golden ratio; you can do it with any spreadsheet document that lets you draw scatter-plots:

http://tmp.drostie.org/sunflower.png

You have an index k which goes from 1 to N, and you define a radius R for each of these points as R(k) = sqrt(k / N), which keeps an "even spacing" of the points as they spiral out. (It's a simple argument: the sub-circle has area proportional to R^2, so to get the number of points proportional to the area, the radius must go like the square root of the number of points.)

You choose a ratio `s` and define the angle as `angle(k) = 2 * pi * s * k`. Finally, the actual points are located at `x(k) = R(k) * cos(angle(k))` and `y(k) = R(k) * sin(angle(k))`, which you scatter-plot as points. Then you can play with this graph for different values of `s`. Indeed, the "spirals" which you count correspond to the denominators of the best rational approximations to those values; try using s = pi and you'll see 7 branches at first, then 113. It gets this magical appearance when you choose s = phi, where the points don't "stack on top" of each other, because the golden ratio is the most irrational number. You can also use the Python scripts in the document above to search for other "highly irrational" numbers (ones with low numbers in their continued fraction representations; the square root of 3 is pretty good for example).

If I turn the above document into a proper essay, I'd probably also create an HTML5 canvas which draws parametrized sunflowers, to save the effort of creating that whole darn spreadsheet.
17 years later, Perl still seems to be the go-to tool in bioinformatics.
I think people are mostly mentioning the "sanctioned" stories to avoid the potential for incriminating anyone. Besides, a mild rebellious streak might be a good thing for a scientist, kids are smarter than people give them credit, and excessive deference to authority is probably more harmful than a little curiosity gone awry. I think smart kids need to do more without asking, especially if they come from a restrictive environment that wouldn't give permission anyway.
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I used to be a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP), and Delphi was popular among small shops making Windows desktop applications. I never was a Delphi programmer, but it's adherents loved that it produced fast code with a small footprint. It combined a RAD environment let developers easily do low level coding when needed. When VB6 was canned by Microsoft, I think Delphi had an opening that they could have taken advantage of, but the various owners (Borland, Embarcadero) have always seemed to mis-manage the product. The latest Delphi has multi-platform support, but the pricing is still too high to get wide spread traction in my opinion.
Fuck you. The Newton was a HUGE(!!!!!!) loser. You are just too fucking lazy to look it up. I was working in the 90's. I remember this and I'm not going to waste my time learning you easy to find information. FUCK OFF AND DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK.

OT: I wish their was a way to delete my fucking account. This site is a bunch of armchair CTO's who don't know their eye sockets from their assholes.