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You are asking, gwern, a question about what people like about your writings. My answer, I hope, will be taken as a friendly suggestion about how to make your writings even better and more likeable. One area of research interest you and I share is the nature of human intelligence and what might be possible to do to improve human intelligence at the individual level. Having read extensively about this issue since 1993 (arguably since 1989, when I began extensive research on early childhood education), I been collecting bibliographies of the best sources on this topic for a long time.

When I started editing Wikipedia as a registered Wikipedian a few years ago, I soon discovered that many articles there on related topics are compiled in complete ignorance of the best sources on those topics. To do something about that, I have been compiling a bibliography in Wikipedia user space on IQ and human intelligence,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Intellige...

and I encourage you to look there for recommendations of up-to-date reliable secondary sources. (I am updating that bibliography as I do more research, so there may be new entries added there fairly soon.) It would be interesting to see what new paths your writings will take after more digestion of the previous literature on our shared topic of interest.

Another friendly comment is that many of your readers are glad to see your statistical approach to some of the issues you write about. I too like well writings that apply statistical analysis to data once they are gathered. I like even better writings that apply statistics to examine whether data are adequate to the task of answering the question posed by a researcher, as statistics is the science of data,

http://statland.org/MyPapers/MAAFIXED.PDF

and what I have found out by participating in the University of Minnesota's journal club in behavior genetics with leading researchers on that subject is that many findings on human behavior now need to be reexamined as statistically astute psychology researchers reexamine the quality of data in old studies. Being aware of issues of validity of inference

http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6hb3k0nz

and how researchers can fool themselves

http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.pdf

is even more important than applying statistical manipulations to a data set after the data set is gathered. In their best use, statistics can help show which data sets need to be reexamined to make sure that a study inference is really warranted by data.

http://www.p-curve.com/
I'm fairly confident this is Path's ultimate business model.
The problem is that this minimum transaction size may change in the future. So, lets say you set 10 X MIN_VALUE to equal one stock certificate. If the MIN_VALUE adds a couple zeroes in the future, anyone with less than 10 certificates just lost their property.

Also, maybe you want to allow the user to transfer fractions of your property issue. Stocks can go up 10000x in value and you don't want the issuer to have to perform stock splits. If there is no minimum transaction value, this is easy. With minimum transaction values, the value of a single certificate in bitcoin becomes much more important.

The point is, there are valid reasons to transact small amounts of bitcoin that do not involve micro-transactions. If the user is willing to pay the transaction fee, these should be allowed. The developers are limiting the useful (and profitable) application of the network to fix an issue that can be solved by other means.
If you have to explain this to your boss, why is that person your boss?
So the U.S. can only take action against entities who cause a discernable direct major impact against the U.S. now?
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I think people who go to work to coffee shops are there to be noticed. There's plenty of places you can work at without the bother. Let's be real about this.
this is a damn scary perspective
Word already has this capability through their track changes feature. You can even use it to open two documents and see a third document showing what has changed.

How does Draftable improve on what Word has been offering for years?
Well, everyone is Wrong sometimes, so let's talk about Wrongulence, which is the matter of whether a person is consistently Wrong. Technically speaking, there's a lot of Wrongness on the Internet not because there is something wrong with the Internet, but because of the persisting Wrongulence of people who use it.

Back in 2008 I applied to Fog Creek and was rejected. I turned out to be awesome, not that one would have known that 5 years ago, because at the time I was a n00b with a capital zero and wrongulent about many technical things myself.

Add this to a noninformative prior of Beta(1, 1) and we get a posterior of Beta(1, 2) on the Wrongulence distribution.

If we interpret x < 0.5 as "Not Wrongulent" and x > 0.5 as "Wrongulent" then we get a 95-percent confidence interval of...

[Not Wrongulent, Wrongulent]

Conclusion: hell if I know.
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Or combine with Google Glass and code while walking in the woods :)
nic.io must be tickled pink. Queue the land grab!

In other words, I'm not sure this is a good thing or sets a good precedent. I understand the rationale as they're just reacting to what the industry is doing (I'm looking at you GH) but I imagine we'll see more of this in the future.

I say all this as a (legitimate) .io domain holder.

Somewhere there is a bailiwick just waiting for the crafting community to jump all over it.
My node.js setup wants to thank you for your attention to our kind. I think I'm also hearing some Django persons hissing on this.

But thanks, reading your "We are so much better than Heroku because X" auto-congratulatory post to then see you stumble on the issue of multiple languages was funny :)
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If you follow the link to read the rest of the article, you'll see it takes you to The Daily Mail. We don't ever believe The Daily Mail, do we boys and girls?
The iOS 7 Power User Challenge
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Pardon my language, but do we have to get this narcissistic shit from you in every thread? I know the "I'm awesome" stuff is supposed to be tongue-in-cheek and all, but still ...
Discontinuing Reader was one thing, but there are certain services that Google couldn't discontinue without it irreparably damaging the company among either consumers or business. Reader was close to being that, but at the end of the day no ones business depended on Google Reader, and mainstream consumers barely read Google News. Reader wasn't mainstream.

App Engine? If Google ever wanted to discontinue it, they would likely spin it off in some way. A company like Rackspace would surely be glad to take it off their hands.
Heroku Europe[1] is a better solution in that case.

[1] https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/4/24/europe-region
The tests were ran from a Hetzner server against Shelly Cloud and Heroku EU, so that shouldn't affect the results.

We are however targeting EU customers, we have servers in EU datacenters. We have plans to expand to the US later.
There is not much of Atlantic between Germany and Ireland ;)
I hope prices stay "high"; maybe $55+/yr is enough to keep the domain squatters in check to some extent.
Thanks!

The enterprise integration patterns links are interesting to me; thanks for point those out. I can definitely see how they could use a connection to reality. I can look at a random one and see what it is, but understanding why you'd use it is a mile above my head.
Why does this matter? Who cares?
Once I was looking through rent-a-coder and the pdf spec attached was a homework assignment with the class and professor's name on it. Emailed it to the prof as my good deed for the day.
Your not syncing anything your just overwriting it and making it available elsewhere, while versioning is supported in some free cloud environments, noone uses it, because they arent syncing they are just overwriting.

This is where iCloud runs into major trouble trying to do database syncing between various devices which go from being online to offline very quickly. No transactional support, messy messy stuff for consumers.

You are NOT syncing you are saving. Get it straight.
Rick: What ya got there?
Laptop Thief: A Macbook Air
Rick: How much ya want for that thing?
Laptop Thief: $900
Rick: Wow. It's a tough economy, best I can do is $90.
Laptop Thief: Wait, there's Ruby code on it!
Rick: In that case I don't even want to do it, but I can go as high as $91 if it helps you.
I remember back in Windows 95, Microsoft had the "Briefcase" icon on the desktop, which could easily sync files across non-networked computers via a floppy disk.

I never used it because back then I was too young to have more than one (still very expensive) computer, but it sounded nifty. Not sure why they killed it off.
Interesting, Seems like the Haskel benefits but implemented in mortal technologies.
Seriously. I avoid technical discussions on reddit because they're inevitably full of comments like the parent comment. It's disheartening to see them here now too.
As far as I know, you should still use document ready. Putting javascript at the bottom does not ensure the dom is loaded before the javascript executes. Most of the time it probably is, but it's definitely not a certainty.

And not all javascript goes at the bottom, only deferable javascript belongs there. The problem caused by scripts is that they block parallel downloads. To prevent that we put as many at the bottom as is possible. But some still belong at the top if they're non-deferable; in otherwords if they should load before the dom (e.g. modernizr).

As an added fun fact: In every scenario all external CSS should load before all javascript because CSS doesn't block parallel downloads. And page display should be top priority in the load order.
> From the looks of it, real world SPDY performance increases are non-existent for most websites due to how they are organized and served.

That, and the sites that care to implement it probably were speedy already.
A 21 Word Solution to False-Positive Psychology
> In the end the only important figure in solar energy is Watt-hours generated / $invested over the lifetime of the panel.

Are there any meaningful differences in the toxic byproducts of manufacturing, transport, and/or disposal of the panels?

I might care about that, too, but I've heard very little about it.
Sort of surprised .ly is missing. Maybe related to the conflict over there, because it was/is pretty widely used by startups
They are aware of the issue. There is a long discussion of it in the linked pull request comments.

My interpretation is that they do not see this application as important enough to take into account in their updates. This is a perfectly valid stance, and they are the developers doing the work; I just don't agree with it.
Pardon my language and metaphor, but you are wasting the fire-breathing dragontits off of my goddamn time and I don't fucking appreciate it.

Your score: 3/10. I can give you heckling lessons and bring you up to a 7-- not good enough to take down a Steve Hofstetter, but good enough for the Internet-- but I'm booked until August and my rate's $275 an hour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_law_of_headlines

It's quite hard to argue against commoditised hardware codecs, particularly when the decoder is a low power mobile device. It's one of the main reasons h264 is going to be around for a long time...
The Just Do It attitude towards life
What's the point of revving office

So you people at Microsoft can sell the same software to the same customer multiple times.

And if it takes "innovation", by golly "innovation" will happen - even if it means putting in then taking out that stupid dancing menacing cartoon paperclip.
We're not saying that Shelly Cloud better than Heroku in general, we're just pointing out that focusing on one language has it's benefits. There is a market for generic solutions like Heroku, and specific ones like Shelly Cloud, Nodejitsu, etc.
Will Bitcoin adoption be drien outside the US?
Government-sponsored monopolies produce economy-wrecking effects. National health systems are that.

How to fix the American health system in several easy steps, from a governmental perspective:

* Stop all current governmental subsidies

* Outlaw medical insurance

* Purchase expensive medical equipment, and most importantly the means of production of such equipment, and resell to new medical enterprises at a reasonable price (most likely resulting in a severe loss)

* Provide a matching program on qualifying doctors' medical school debt

* Radically reform and/or remove medical licensing programs to focus on apprenticeship more than academics

* Reform pharmaceutical patent protections to allow drugs to proliferate freely

This will get us to a ground-up, self-sustainable medical system that is based on ordinary rules of supply and demand, without giving a blank check to the administrators of the current system, which is already irrevocably corrupted by paper-pushers. The whole thing just has to be torn down and started over.
Have a cookie.

You're delirious.

United States being in the top five capital punish-er list conveniently masks the fact that the top culprit, China, is in a league all by itself.

Its several orders more depraved.

Its several orders higher than the rest in the list, combined.
You need to read a book called The Millionnaire Next Door. The "American Dream" is very much a real thing and it rarely involves luck or exploitation. At the time of the book's writing, 80% of millionnaires in the US were first generation millionnaires and a large part of them first generation American immigrants.

> Capitalism means a huge chunk of people literally have to be poor, other wise costs rise, inflation goes mental and capitalism fails.

Of course "poor" is a relative term and the standard of living for the poor continues to rise as new innovations, efficiencies, and wealth enter the market. A poor person can walk into any supermarket and buy food that would have been considered and absurd and extravagant luxury 100 years ago. They can buy cell phones that let them communicate with anybody in the world instantly. But yes, there will always be someone who has less than somebody else, but what does it really matter if everyone's standard of living is rising?
We have 15-20 apps that all run different versions of gems (including Rails 1-3) and it can be a nightmare. Nobody ever decided to use RVM or anything like that. A while ago you could update a gem and break 3 apps.

I can't imagine wheat it'd be like on a shared host with 100 apps all made by different people.
Mods, please fix the completely bogus title. This is about cooking the books on inflation, not copyright.

Everyone, enjoy feeling 3% richer today!
This is pretty cool, I have been a huge fan of .io domain names for a long time. I even tried (unsuccessfully) to sell a, checked daily, list of the available three letter domain names for $19. There are currently 40 three letter word domain names left, there are a couple common acronyms like CST.io that are available too.

If interested http://andio.herokuapp.com

EDIT: was.io and mph.io have been purchased since posting this comment, now 38 left.
Would really like to see this happen with .ly domains too.
all of the above (yes to all seven question marks) except for number four receiving funding (from a vc), as in check clears, no that hasn't happened yet.

going through this process now - and I can tell you, if I fucked up with one VC I would fuck up with them all. everyone talks.

On the flip side, when you're hot everyone wants you, you don't have enough equity to sell to everyone!
You might have a problem.
Are you willing to team up with a dev. to build your dream start up
How Social Networks Drive Black Unemployment
And then you become the PM and integrator too? That overhead will start to stack up. Don't forget Brook's Law.
I was making fun of the OP for the open-ended question. I thought that was more clear, but some people have a hard time with subtle tea.
I disagree. Those are the stories you hear about, but the silent majority of successful businesses out there do it the old fashioned way by slowly growing a profitable, modest business into a larger and larger concern over time. Don't get wrapped up in all the hype.
I prefer to think that pivoting (as opposed to minor tweaks to business plan) is indeed, "screwing up", but that making mistakes is not a bad thing... as long as you can learn from it and move on to do better. Failing to screw up ever means you're not taking enough risks.
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Don't be boring.
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Ask HN: Any great blog posts discussing results of A/B Testing?
I am working on an article to compile research from designers, developers, and Internet marketers who have tested various SEO/UI tweaks. I know there are lots of writers on here who like to report what they find and share with the community.

If anybody has any great blog posts or case studies they could share, I will definitely peruse the bunch. Thanks in advance!
What you've just stated is, essentially, the business equivalent of the lottery. You could almost replace any reference to business terms in your post with "lottery" and have the same amount of truth applied.

The whole point of a "model" is that it's repeatable and definable. "Getting acquired because they fear us" isn't a business model.
Oh, whoops; I won't do that again. It's the first time I've done a Show HN and we're still setting up our blog. I can't seem to edit it to change it into a link with URL.
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It his hard and unreliable to get G Drive to sync files. Google does backup from your PC to web, and it downloads bookmarks from web to PC.
Based on their reluctance to put Google Code out of its misery, its sometimes hard to believe they might be aware. :)
If you're stuck using a software decoder, I guess it's cool that you can use WebGL?
I've posted about small parts of it in various places, but not the whole experience. I no longer work there (since April 2010), so while I know they still use quite a bit of the serving infrastructure that I built, my knowledge is now quite a bit out of date.

One fun bit that I built is called the cockblocker (as you can imagine, we used all sorts of fun names for internal projects). People who repeatedly attempt to hack the system (usually through various forms of abuse like failed login attempts) would automatically get their IP address routed to /dev/null.
I'd like to see that "Bug per 1K LoC" drop down list. There could even be an ISO rating and you could fail coders for not meeting their minimum bug counts. As a dev I could just skip over problems as long as I was on target for my bug count.

Genius!
We make the future in the same way: We extrapolate as much as we can, and whenever we run out of imagination, we just shovel the present into the holes. That's why our pictures of the future always seem to resemble the present, only more so. -- Corey Doctorow [1]

Dropbox just happens to be a part of the future Spolsky didn't invent. Then again, neither did Alan Kay.

[1] http://www.informationweek.com/how-hollywood-congress-and-dr...
How Al Gore Got Romney-Level Rich
But the point of logs is to put them in a place where they can be observed. That means I/O pretty much by definition. You might put those logs out to the network, where some dedicated logging machine could handle storing them someplace, but that's still I/O.
The bandwidth in the centre of the network is way higher than the bandwidth in the access network, because to increase the bandwidth in the access network you have to do very expensive stuff like digging up the road to lay optical fibres.

Result: The internet will always be centralized. Deal with it.
Great article - it's a great thing that now people need to compete to give out their work for free.
One thing might be missing in Step 1 (get ready your project) is that show your dedication to the future of the project. That's a very important factor for me considering use or getting involved with an open source project.
Downfall of Internet anonymity (Penet anonymous remailer, 1996)
I'll use regular expressions.
Since when a noun pronounce should be obvious?
Will Bitcoin change how kids learn to count?
Turning Off: We built an app for that, then obsessed about download counts
Similar experience here. I use Chrome and made this extension yesterday: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/comments-on-hn/ehj...

With this extension, I can open all of the article tabs (skip the comment threads), and jump to the comment thread when needed. It's very much WIP.
Hell in one of our apps we just put the damned logo as an image with nothing behind it. Does anyone notice? No. It's a totally bogus feature. You may as well claim "free sex for purchases".
It's more than usual, but most people don't stop reading small bits of text mid-sentence. Plus, serendipity is a wonderful thing.
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Registration required, didn't read.
Fedora 19 Installer: root password input shown as clear text
Re: telegraphcottages.co.uk

How is that a security hole? It's actually .Net having a bad default configuration for ASP.Net MVC, a lot of us made this same mistake when doing our first MVC projects. It's not actually exposing anything dangerous (in fact it's hiding the actual error like it should do).

The actual error will be something like this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5967103/a-potentially-dan...

It's .Net disallowing at the root level and if you don't know about it, you can't code for it.

Or am I missing something? Given it's Troy Hunt who's usually quite knowledgeable about this stuff, I'm confused?
I NEED THIS FOR EXCEL!

There's been a few discussions about Excel on HN recently and it's such a major tool in so many organizations and keeping track of changes is a nightmare.

Here's a classic example:

- Budgeting model for company with ~10 employees and 8 departments. Model has 30 or so sheets. Tracks all assumptions on the revenue and expense sides. Great model, built well, works excellently.

- CFO goes in and changes the conversion assumptions for the year.

- I go into the model after the CFO, notice that net income increased by $500,000 since the last time I looked at it. WHAT THE HELL CHANGED?

Now take this example and imagine you're on a late night call with the CEO, CFO, and CMO. Ideas and thoughts are going back and forth. "Hey, what does it do to revenue if we change assumption A from X to Y?" ... "OK, I like that. What about changing assumption B from W to Z?" ... "Nah, let's not do that."

At the end of the call I have our updated model that everyone is happy with... but I have no way to easily and reliably see exactly what was changed.

The only thing I currently do is setup a reconciliation sheets on the income statement. For each version of the model, I create a new sheet and copy/paste values from the income sheet then I can do a diff and see what numbers changed. This works well, but there's got to be a better way.

PLEASE FIX THIS.
If you liked Millionaire next door, let me recommend Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "Fooled by Randomness" for counterpoint.
http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx_mobile.html

100 million account (including me)

4 million paying customers.

Which means, almost none of MS's customers.
How a former Apple exec drove JC Penney to the worst quarter in retail history
And the part where you sign an NDA
The velcro yes, but please, please no on the other idea.

Next time I can't find a table to eat lunch at Panera the guy entrenched at a 4-person table for hours with a laptop and single coffee cup is going to try and make me read ADS? This... would be unwise.