skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I joined Facebook because everyone I knew in college had a Facebook account. There was no culturally charged avoidance factor for my MySpace account. MySpace was ugly and felt like a spam website (and when I started receiving fake requests for friendship from random good looking women, it was a spam website) whereas Facebook was clean, usable, another good reason why I switched. The primary motivating factor was simple: "What are my friends using?" I now have a pretty substantial network of friends on Facebook and don't have the /luxury/ of switching. THIS is the issue. You cannot migrate all of your data and still interact with your network of friends on MySpace when you switch to Facebook, so you don't switch. The digital ghetto exists not because of choices made by users, but because of the lack of choices users have once they're effectively locked into a service. I'm sure you could craft a clever analogy to show how this is just like white flight as well, but it just doesn't make sense IMO.

By the same logic we could say that all the hotmail users live in a "digital ghetto", and all of the white upper class folks got the hell out of dodge and went over to that sweet homogenous GMail service where everyone has a PhD. It's ridiculous.

There's no barrier to entry, but there is a barrier to /exit/.
I think you'll have a lot of tedious work ahead of you but if you succeed it will definitely be a useful thing.
But keep an eye on the TOS of the different services, they might cause you trouble.
And if you ever release something, please name your releases "John" & "Sarah" :)
A detailed (maybe too detailed) look at the interaction between Hierarchies of Memory and CPUS. Memory Systems: Cache, Memory, Disk [ http://www.amazon.com/Memory-Systems-Cache-DRAM-Disk/dp/0123... ]
Thunks can be arbitrarily bigger than their evaluated value. (Say, the value is an Int.) So expanding and replacing thunks usually even saves memory and gets rid of live references.
There's some real hardcore domainers online at www.acorndomains.co.uk they have their own for sale section. You may get some action there...
Does anyone have some good scientific links for what a quantum processor is? I am a bit familiar with quantum physics so the more in-depth the better.

All the stuff I read so far contains some magical descriptions by journalists who don't exactly know what they are talking about.
loved this line: "Core is what you have to do really well and do in-house. Everything else you can and should outsource"
The Prisoners’ Paradox
Interesting idea, but why does fiat currency have any value in the first place? Largely because the government collects it in taxes.
...That you should do only a bare-bones implementation for one part of the program, while simultaneously making other parts ultra-sophisticated - presumably because the other parts are more interesting or more necessary for a wishy-washy long-term goal.

Now I've realized that the #1 thing is that every piece of code should provide good user value and justify its presence, even if the code itself is written in a simplistic or unattractive way.

(My second longest-held assumption is that I should be "efficient" and write great code once and forever that will solve all my problems for some domain. It never happens, and these days I'm more patient and happy to see possibilities for improvement down the road.)
Nine years to the Singularity
In light of how embattled Jackson was by the media and forgotten by the public until recently, it's interesting to see how his death has changed the discussion - words like 'freak' and 'pedophile' replaced with 'genius' and 'work ethic'.
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Hi,

One thing that we were worried about and need advice on is who owns the semantic connections, though all networks have some workaround to get the connections. In essence, the data on who is related to who is data, nonetheless, and we wanted to know what licenses it follows.

Thanks,
Seriously? Fear? Are we rocking this Focus on the Family style now?

It was a 50's housewife throwing up after seeing her husband's goat-fucking porn, as 100% up-front ad for IE8's porn mode. Maybe I have a juvenile sense of humor, but I thought it was hilarious.

And, yes, every other browser has porn mode, but at least Microsoft had the balls to advertise it for what it is.

"It's for banking security, honest!"
asmallworld.net was started by a Swedish aristocrat, and retains a largely upper-class feel to this day.

How networks start out matters.
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They think a tool named SIMPLEtest should have all the bells-and-whistles of EVERYTHINGbutTHEkitchenSINKtest?
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Yeah, except it's pretty obvious why there is a switch to 1/2 from 1/3 in Prisoner's Paradox and it's not obvious in MH.

What I understand happened in Prisoner's Paradox is that the very field of probabilistic distribution of pardons has shrinked from 3 to 2. It's like binary search. You cheated your way by knowing where _not to look_.

Another simple analogy: you can increase the value of rational number both by increasing the numerator and decreasing denominator. In this case you decreased denominator.

Monty Hall requires a slightly bigger leap of logic.

Actually, here's a more directly linked problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Prisoners_problem
Limewire is a bunch of hypocrites
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For those interested, I posted an expanded post on this on my blog: http://www.trickjarrett.com/web-design-primer
Is trustworthyness strongly related to success in business? It seems that, more often, successful people are characterised by their ruthlessness. Further, capitalism thrives on the selfishness of the invidual.

Ruthlessness and selfishness are two character traits that are found in people who are unfaithful.
Starting pay is pretty damn high for what they have to do and the teachers' general competence level.
One thing I get from this article is that the US is missing out on a lot of tax revenue by keeping online sports betting illegal.
Laptop Design Concepts
Blow your mind a little.
If your answer is a url shortener you are asking the wrong question.
"conn'r" pronounced the american way will sound like "connard" to French ears, which means "asshole". Doesn't sound like such a good name to me...
Supposition they'll get more money from the government in a continuous wave of "assistance for the next x months."
Cool, but I wonder what benefits it gets above a tiny helicopter (no... not those ones from Costco...)
lectures by David Deutsch

http://www.quiprocone.org/Protected/DD_lectures.htm
I agree that it is a stretch.
Sam Sethi Talks About Why He's Suing TechCrunch
Looking good so far. Thanks.
This quote stands out:

Although most of you call these sites "social networking sites," there's almost no networking going on. People use these sites to connect to the people they know. In other words, even if they could talk across the divide, they might not anyhow.

I'm curious, what about Twitter (which I still don't really understand, but wonder about)? By keeping an eye on trends, it seems that users read comments from everyone, regardless of class, ethnic, or cultural background, or follower status. Or is Twitter's user base too limited to tech early adopters (as all the "most Twitter users post one message and leave" articles suggest), so it makes up a kind of "ghetto" by itself? Alternatively --- even if people use the same system, they just follow their interests and so inherently talk about different things, and therefore do not intersect?

EDIT: Looks like the author discusses this closer to the end, noting that people who followed the Iranian election on Twitter probably do not follow celebrity gossip trends, and vice versa.
> Do it (right, right now). Forget about documentation, big analysis, big plans. Just do it, do it now, do it right.

I take umbrage at this mentality, and maybe I just don't yet understand, but how in the world can I start something without doing some analysis and planning? And that's even if the product manager is sitting next to me while I code.
I found that this talk about ways to do entrepreneurship to 'make the world a better place' transmits a lot of optimism and I hope it will be on topic here.

Recently I read and think a lot about finding practical ways to live AND work more in adequateness with my political, ecological and ethical beliefs. So even it for a CS guy like me those are more dreams than reality, I'm wondering how I could live contributing to/creating something good...
Now if only there was something like this for Opera!
Using Erlang, CouchDB and RabbitMQ at Smarkets betting exchange (video)
Clickable: http://mychipper.com/

I like it. Nice and clean, the charts are exactly what I'd need and the options to view daily and monthly reports are good. Maybe it's a bit too minimal: use a bit of a gradient on buttons, use alternate background colors for the expense list; get a bit of color in there. And I'd change the "Reason" label to "Category".
Is Bicycling Bad for Your Bones?
"Follow the money" is Deep Throat's famous line in All the President's Men:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074119/quotes

Great article, by the way.
It is always weird to see a large company try to take something viral and just miss the mark in some weird way.
That means that at least one of my cellmates is still sure to die. Give me his name

Prisoner A rejoices that his own chance of survival has improved from 1/3 to 1/2. But how is this possible? The guard has given him no new information. Has he?

No, Prisoner A still has a 1 in 3 chance of [edit: not] dieing. If he asked if Prisoner B had a pardon then you could argue his odds became 1/2. But, now he still only knows that at least one of his cellmates is going to die.
Because the analysis will be wrong, and you'll be planning for something that will most likely never come.

Do the smallest thing that can work, and then add on the highest priority thing, and then find out what the next thing to do is, and carry on adding things, piece by piece, refactoring as you go.

Planning 6 months into the future is pointless - and producing 500 pages of analysis is even worse. Because neither of these things are actually helpful.
I just recently read an article that discussed this phenomenon. Took me forever to dig it up:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601057&sid=anOM...

in summary, many stocks go up after declaring bankruptcy, and it's probably due to short-covering.

Edit: but then the next question is, why cover your short-sell at all if we know it is going to 0 eventually? It may be that they are trying to release their money tied up in 'margin'
http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/shortmarginrequir...
So it shows videos corresponding to Twitter's trending topics eh??? Hmmmm, I didnt strike me as something I'd use. I can't exactly pin point why, but I think it's because it's going to be very rare that trending topics have any appropriate related videos. Also, a lot of twitter trending topics at a lot of times are memes or spam.

And about the design, I really think you should stick to using a single colour for the entire text (on the about page), as opposed to using a different colour for each word.
Inflation is a tax on holding dollars (and fixed income securities). This tax would be pitifully easy to dodge: simply don't hold dollars. This would drive savings rates to zero.

However, it might be temporarily sustainable if a large entity (e.g. China) behaved irrationally and decided to hold dollars in spite of the tax.
Bros before hoes.
That's how powerful the casino lobby is...
I like the simplicity of your app, it's nicely done, love the logo especially! I would suggest a few things though:

# Drop the bouncy effects on the summary hover as they're just distracting

# Show more than just 3 recent entries, if I'm writing a list of expenses, I need to see what I've already put in

# Maybe put a category field so I can choose from food, travel, etc. Maybe a select box in with the "what are you spending on?"

# A date range selector so I can see what I've spent over a particular period
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As non-intuitive puzzles go I think the hat guessing game (http://www.relisoft.com/science/hats.html) takes the cake. I still remember a dailywtf thread where 19 pages worth of people claim that the correct solution is completely bogus (http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Riddle-Me-An-Interview.aspx).
I think you've got it backwards. Only one is pardoned. His chance of survival is 1 in 3.
"reason" seems like a strange entry name. item/service seems more appropriate.
The first thing that struck me was the clean, simple interface. The demo is quite nice, and viewing expenses as graphs is quite handy. Since you are aiming at making it extremely simple to use, I suggest you combine all those 4 text boxes (reason, amount, note and date) into one text and use a date time and currency parsing script to get the details.

As to getting users, you could try viral marketing on twitter, facebook and orkut. A large number of Indian users (me included) are migrating from orkut to facebook, so it would be good if you had a facebook app too. Create a facebook fan page or an orkut community and encourage interaction. All this will require a significant amount of time though, so make sure you are willing to spend your weekends on it.
> Do it (right, right now). Forget about documentation, big analysis, big plans. Just do it, do it now, do it right.

That's just plain wrong; it's a gross misinterpretation of the Agile Manifesto. The Manifesto doesn't say "ditch documentation and planning", it just says that Working Software and Responding to Change should be regarded as more important.

Jim Highsmith tries to clear it up (+):

"The Agile movement is not anti-methodology, in fact, many of us want to restore credibility to the word methodology. We want to restore a balance. We embrace modeling, but not in order to file some diagram in a dusty corporate repository. We embrace documentation, but not hundreds of pages of never-maintained and rarely-used tomes. We plan, but recognize the limits of planning in a turbulent environment."

(+) http://agilemanifesto.org/history.html
Just another fad.
It's rounding my cash up / down to the nearest euro/dollar. Now while I could multiply by 100 to put in 751 instead of 7.51 ... I think it'd be great not to. Maybe that's the engineer in me :)
judging by the 70+ year old grannies on their bikes here (nl) and in china I think that bicycling is great for your bones, if only because it keeps the rest of your body in good shape as well.

Falling of a bike is bad for your bones, no doubt about that, and so is running heavy gearing while you are still growing.

The biggest risk to a cyclist is other traffic, falls are rare (unless you are inexperienced, but if you've learned how to ride as a kid you are not going to fall by yourself).

Cycling is probably one of the healthiest forms of transportation that we know of, as well as pretty efficient in terms of energy required to travel a certain distance.

Oh, and like everything else there is such a thing as 'too much', if you're on a bike more than several hours every day you are probably going to be wearing out a few joints, then bicycling is 'bad for your bones', but so is any other activity that you do altogether too much of.

Disclaimer: avid cyclist here.
A's chances has not changed.

But the chance of C being the pardoned has doubled to 2/3.
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He wasn't forgotten, it's just that people paid attention to him in their own way in their own time. (He had been in the news for the London concerts, after all). His death gives everyone a chance to share thoughts and pay attention all at once.
I started writing down some critique, but I think I can summarise: polish it. UI elements are not aligned, buttons don't work and "mm" doesn't seem like a valid entry for the month-field.

Oh, and more information about your product and less asking for information (phone nr?) might make people more inclined to register.
This entire story smells like hogwash. The first line of the story disagrees with the HN headline:

"Apple may be working to fix an iPhone vulnerability that could possibly allow an attacker to"

Notice the wording: "may". Apple hasn't said anything to these researchers or the press. Overall the article has nothing more to report on the situation than we already know, and is simply rehashing what we already know about the vulnerability -- with one extra [telling] tidbit:

""I don't have a working exploit for it, just a suspicious looking crash," Miller said. If so, the malicious code could theoretically include commands to ..."

So actually, it looks like they haven't even managed to root an iPhone yet.
Many mint money from MJ's death, michaeljacksonglobaltributes.com for $9,999,999
Looking at this makes me both nostalgic about asm and thankful that I don't have to write any enterprise applications in it.
The initial chance of survival, after hearing that there is a chance, (for Prisoner A) is 1/3, since any one prisoner dies out of three. If he now knows, after consulting with the guard, that Prisoner B is sure to die that means that it's death for either A or C. Hence the chance of survival (and death since P(Death) = 1 - P(Survival)) is now 0.5. This results in a smaller chance of death (for him) 1/2 rather than 2/3. Hence the rejoicing.
I also disagree with most of her arguments. That's not to say she's wrong though. I wouldn't have expected the Atlantic to be objective in any case. It's a bunch of editorials and letters wrapped up in glossy paper.

I disagree with you about the gender gap. I guess she also made that point among others. I don't think there is a gender gap, at least not significant.

The most important point that she makes is about society turning individualistic and away from communal activity - which is true. She is just exploring another effect of this happening.

Putting in tech terms, I find it hard to see every member of a family in the 1950's to carry cell phones - if cellphones existed back then. There would likely be one cellphone that the family shares - kids take it when they go out... Technology is definitely accelerating the move to more individualism. Not sure how far it will go though. Will each member of a family have a separate mailing address and mailbox even though they live in the same house? There used to be 1 television in the house and now that the cost is much lower there is one in every room..
It's pretty sad that people have to have something so simple spelled out for them and given a catchy motto like "The Five Whys".

Even sadder that it would be hailed as some revolutionary problem-solving technique.
Oh dear. So this is an implementation of the Monty Hall problem but now is crossing over into Metaphysics.

There are several different ways to consider the ontological reality of probabilities (i guess wikipedia only has two listed, Frequentists and Bayesians http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_interpretations ).

The thought experiment in question probably should be answered with a Bayesian world view, and does not appear to be.

Prisoner A's chances of being executed is not materially effected when he learns new information, because the decision as to who has been pardoned has already been made.

Finding out new information, does change a probability, but not the probability that he'll be executed. It only changes the likelihood of whether or not the assertion that he will be executed is true. The nature of the universe has not actually changed, merely the state of belief of Prisoner A.

The point being, he's got no cause to celebrate, upon merely discovering information, because learning more information does not actually change the state of the world, in this case.
One of the top researchers on the topic of self-esteem being snake oil, along with Roy Baumeister, is Jean Twenge. She has a couple books: Generation Me [1] and The Narcissism Epidemic [2]. The online presence for both is strong:

[1] http://www.generationme.org/

[2] http://www.narcissismepidemic.com/
Incredible collaborative music video
I'm excited for Smarkets to launch. Nice to see new startups in London as well.
Very good interface, idea, style, and flow.

As for the purpose of the website, I believe it is a bit painstaking to sit and enter all the values in as anyone would on excel. This is just a better looking excel.

Reason why I am saying this is that you need to help improve on the idea, perhaps have a goal chart, where the user breaks down into percentage what they want to be spending on what, and you compare everyday to the goal chart. once they hit the max in their goal chart, they can choose to cut down spending and meet the goal or spend more and miss their goal.

I don't quite see the benefit if you get what I mean. Here is a tip, go to livestrong.com it is a website that helps you track your daily calories, look at their tracking system and draw some ideas that will make the users Want to use your system. They have an awards system which is also interesting, no physical reward, just badges your profile earns.

Good work & good luck.
You mean it's pretty obvious why there is no switch to 1/2 from 1/3? As the Wikipedia article you linked points out: "The answer is he didn't gain information about his own fate, but he should switch with C if he can."

This isn't the same as Monty Hall. Monty Hall only increases the odds after switching doors. This actually seems like a trick meant to fool people who know about the Monty Hall problem but don't really understand it.
Oh my! Thank you for pointing that out. Any other suggestions for a name? :)
I got a PHP error when I went to the home page

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: Undefined variable: timezone
Filename: geoip/timezone.php
Line Number: 941

Otherwise it looks great.
Because of the way the information was gathered, the chances of survival for A and C are no longer equal (C is twice as likely to survive)--having only two possible outcomes does not guarantee that the probability is 50-50.
-4 already eh ? Did I offend someone ?
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But, did he discovered new information? What if the guard had said "Prisioner C is sure to die"?
He did discover new information. The probabilities of survival switched from:
A: 1/3, B: 1/3, C:1/3
to
A: 1/3, B:0, C: 2/3

He just didn't discover any information to change the probability of his own survival.
Came here to post this same link.

That prisoner should immediately switch name-tags with the other prisoner who's fate is in question :)
To make a mistake requires a goal. I don't think evolution has goals. It's simply an after the fact observation we can make that particular species survived and others didn't. This is not the result of any intention or goal in my view and therefore it's no mistake when a species doesn't survive.

But I don't mean to be nitpicky. I know what you meant and it's a good question. I believe what you refer to is the reason why extremely virulent viruses like ebola don't spread all across the world. They kill their host and themselves very quickly.