skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a nice ad hominem collection there. Not one point I could find about his actual claims. He didn't file his taxes properly? Bad patient review history? These things are not relevant to the scientific claims he puts forth.
Sure, but the Mac came out in 1984. And don't forget the Apple II and C64.
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I'm glad that there will be that 1% or so of people who pick up this article and have it change their minds. :)

That dietary cholesterol necessarily causes heart damage is taken as a matter of faith. :(
This is pretty sweet, I could imagine using this for a media center.
I remember zipping the game on cca. 30 floppies at friend's place, then going home and trying to unzip. Of course 27th or so would be corrupted. Sometimes it took me 3-4 round trips to friend's place and back, to get the game transferred :)

BTW, does anyone remember having to enter no. of cylinders in BIOS to make the HDD work :)
IE11 -> Tools -> Compatibility View Settings.
Remove check on "Use Microsoft Compatibility lists".
I found the same thing. This occurs on forgot password as well. I refreshed to re-signup and it said email already exists. I went to forgot password and it didn't give me any kind of success/error messaging. I opened my Chrome dev tools and could see the AJAX requests being processed but there was an empty response on forgot password. I didn't receive emails for registration or forgot password, so I'm dead in the water.
It's work in progress but this book seems interesting so far: http://www.manning.com/zumel/

(Disclosure: written by a friend.)
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My old company made an uptimerobot app a couple years ago, https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/uptimerobot/id549265163?mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tw.mowd.uptime...

No idea if it still works, assume it does!
Same here. No feedback at all after clicking Signup. Clicked repeatedly.
Agreed on this one, HTTPS is not so hard.
Well I disagree here, I managed to pull through 4 years without maintenance loan, income, or much support from my parents. You can live on £2 or even £1 a day if you organise well and eat things way worse than takeaway.

Back on topic, it depends what year are you in. If youre going for an internship between 2nd and 3rd year (and you should), you can easily spend most of 1st and 2nd year socialising and intern/3rd working hard and still get a solid 1st degree
It's not able to do full quantum annealing; it's only able to use stoquastic Hamiltonians on a fixed topology. Even if truly quantum effects were present (which is unclear at the moment, see Smolin and Smith arxiv posts), it's not known to be a useful quantum computing model. So it's not just an issue of "optimizing output".
Upthread [0] someone mentioned these transactions are being processed as 'refunds'. Perhaps these transactions are not required to use the same fee structure?

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6560373
Haha, yeah, there was this thing that was advertised as a "disk doubler", and all it did was drill a hole through your 3.5 single density disk. In retrospect it was quite the ingenious scam.

I'm guessing that 3.5 disks were binned, so maybe you could get away with it once in awhile? Of course, the only way you could find out was to actually lose data...
Too funny -- I diagnosed this to L3 on my home net this morning and I found myself saying "I wonder if anyone else has this issue?". When it comes to the backbone providers there is no Twitter account or status.level3.net or status.theinternet. Hard to do when everything is decentralized. I usually go hit NANOG when stuff like this happens but you're not guaranteed to find something real time there.
"Well,smokers perhaps, but at least they made that choice willfully." He knows very little about smoking.
5 minutes seems to be a pretty wide time interval IMO. If you are serious about uptime, you should check your servers at least every other minute.
It could be. If someone spends money digging holes, it adds to the GDP, but is it good? Hardly so, because no one else profits from it and no additional value is created. The money are wasted, but it looks good on the paper. So why is GDP so important?
iPhone 5 worked really well. However, on myiPad 2 it's really choppy?

To the GP - if you think of it like a game controller you don't have to continuously keep swiping - just drg your finger lowky through the "levels"
Speaking as an artist, if you know someone with provable expertise in analysing what sort of art I should produce, I would very much like to hear from them.

Making art and making stuff you think people will like are not mutually exclusive.

(I am very serious about this, by the way - if you have expertise in analytics for storytelling, or even just interesting ideas for same, please shoot me an email.)
> IE11 -> Tools -> Compatibility View Settings.
> Remove check on "Use Microsoft Compatibility lists".

That's the solution posted in that thread. It's an IE problem.
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Maybe for certain applications we're used to saving in, but unless there are revolutionary changes in computing I'm betting that you'll be able to save in notepad for a long time coming.
Why do I have to enter a password? Use OpenID so I can login with Google, Twitter, GitHub, Facebook, etc.
You're part of a system/society which depends on force to maintain its existence. If you don't like that fact and don't want to be part of that system, stop paying taxes and go live in the woods. After all, your tax money is contributing just as much as your source code to the military.
Yea, same here. I took this traceroute (mtr): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/v5k29jnfkhz0ggu/2013-10-...

Not sure what was going on there, I wish I did, but seems to be related?

Edit: that was going to an nyc digital ocean VPS
Confirm. Woke up this morning to limited connectivity, realised I was getting to some sites and not others. While on hold with TWC (where they said there was an 'outage affecting service in your area'), loaded HN to see if, well, HN would load, and this was the #3 story. Thanks HN, GFY TWC!
Oh god, I'm glad I didn't have coffee in my mouth with some of those. However, there are a few on there that I actually think are pretty good, if unconventional (like the senate voting visualization, which does a great job of showing polarization).
I thought this is only associated with my routers "DNS Amplified DDoS vulnerability" on Asus RT-N56U router when using Level3 DNS "209.244.0.3 and 209.244.0.4" but after upgrading my firmware the issue continued. So I've changed my DNS to "8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4" google dns and everything started working normal for me. Good to know that this is not just me ^_^
My takeaway from most of these "why I moved to X" stories is generally not "wow, that seems like a great place to live", but rather "living in SF or NY sucks". (I happen to live in a town of about 200 people in the mountains of Washington State and couldn't be happier)
I do not make money from software components, but when I browse http://codecanyon.net, I find a few developers who seem to be doing relatively well. They basically sell more or less sophisticated scripts.

You could regard themes for WordPress as software components. Or theme frameworks such as Genesis (studiopress.com).

The really successful ones (such as Genesis) seem to bundle software components with something like subscriptions to future updates, a paid membership site, additional content like ebooks, live seminars, training, support etc. to get additional income streams and be able to upsell or cross-sell customers.

Game engines or mobile development frameworks (KendoUI, Sencha) that can be licensed also fall under selling software components. Again, the successful ones seem to offer additional resources or they sell their components in a one-year-license model, where customers have to renew the license every year. That would be more or less the same as SaaS in terms of recurring revenue and keeping customers in the loop.
I'm a developer, I remember one time I needed to have a particular piece of functionality in an app. I could have built it, but I found that someone was selling what I wanted for $3.00 on the internet, it was a no-brainer. I paid with something like gumroad, downloaded and plugged it in within a matter of minutes, vs the few hours I would have spent writing/debugging.
If anyone else is curious, numbers for Park City that seem to be floating around: 40% nonreligious, 35% LDS, 15% Catholic, 10% other religion.
You might want to read up on Ponzi schemes again. I don't see a connection with declining production rates of a product.
I used an Xacto knife to create an extra notch in Commodore 64 5.25" disks back in the day so that I could take the single-sided disks and make them double-sided.

I would take one disk flipped over the other, mark the notch with a permanent marker, then cut out the outline. Most disks, like Elephant Memory, would work fine. You just flipped the disk over and inserted back into the 1541 to read the reverse side.
It was the right decision if you had been counting cards and you had information that the next card would be an ace.
why would you be looking primarily at physicists if you are trying to find data scientists??
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These issues have been around for at least a couple of weeks now. I too have been monitoring Internet Pulse and what I see is not only Level 3 puking on a regular basis but several of the other backbones also. Quite honestly, it's either a gross lack of competence or the feds are beginning to condition the net as they are in the military.
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You quote selectively from Jobs. Here's the part that's actually his claim:

>> "That switching power supply was as revolutionary as the Apple II logic board was," Jobs later said. "Rod doesn't get a lot of credit for this in the history books but he should. Every computer now uses switching power supplies, and they all rip off Rod Holt's design."

Jobs wasn't just claiming Holt's power supplies were built like those in oscilloscopes, but that it was practically the ancestor of all modern PC PSUs.

The article conclusively dismantles that claim.

P.S. The oscilloscope reference seems to be a Red Herring. From the article:

>> One puzzling aspect of power supply discussion in the book Steve Jobs[1] is the statement that the Apple II's power supply is "like those used in oscilloscopes", since oscilloscopes are just one small use for switching power supplies. This statement apparently arose because Holt had previously designed a switching power supply for oscilloscopes,[82] but there's no other connection between Apple's power supply and oscilloscope power supplies.
Well, if you assume economic growth, a fixed number of counting tokens will have to represent larger values over time.

The real trick is to read 'deflationary' as 'will create deflationary pressure', not as 'will inevitably cause deflation at every moment in time'.
> That's the Anchoring Effect. It's not just about 3.99 appearing cheaper than 4.00. It appears cheaper than 3.00 because the 9's make the 3 look small.

Compare http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21588057-scientists-t...
You're making an assumption that Microsoft are the blocker. Let's just say that it's a two-way street when it comes to communication.
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I remember laughing at my instructor when he mentioned carrying a box of punch cards. Boy do I feel like the old timer now.
What's wrong with profit? And what does their cost have to do with value?
Mount the microphone/headphones in something like these? http://www.necomimi.com/

You might have to follow through on that "I would cheerfully sacrifice a good deal of social standing" part, though...
The metasploit exploit was possible only thanks to the release (see the tweets of metasploit maintainer @hdmoore), IMO they could have waited until Monday morning to release it.
I recently came to this point of view. What surprised me is how much more natural and organic fields feel to me. Much much closer to our perception of the world than some geometrical abstraction you start with. Almost wish school taught that first.
I feel compelled to defend myself as I don't live "a life of self-gratification and night clubbing" & your generalizations / stereotyping have hurt my feelings.

1. I went to not one, but two blue ribbon schools growing up, in a city where the income per capita is $25k/yr. It wasn't in Miami but it was in South Florida.

2. I volunteer regularly, donate regularly & I'm vegetarian. Hardly the life of a self-gratifying heathen.

3. Our interns at 1Sale.com have come in from Dartmouth & we've received applications from kids that are at Stanford. There are MIT grads at startups down here too (don't want to put anyones name out who doesn't want).

If I was seeking self-gratification I'd be out every night drinking & partying, not in my office working on features for customers or optimizing processes for the company. I really didn't appreciate the personal jab, MattsterToo.
You should have actually said that to them. It would have most likely helped you get the job.
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Sad that a 1 year old has "all her shows" to watch.
It wasn't really shown to be faster; see http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1400. To focus on the "3600 times" issue, I suggest searching for the strings " Ising" and "CPLEX". Don't miss the extremely thorough discussion in the comments, which includes comments from Cathy McGeoch (the author of the "3600 times" work), Peter Shor (as in Shor's factoring algorithm), Scott Aaronson, Greg Kuperberg, and many others.
Head over to kaggle.com and participate in a few competitions. It will look good on your cv and some companies have begun to require that candidates have a "kaggle-score"
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native german from boring berlin. just fascinated by the stories here in the comments -.-
Does signup work for you guys?

I get this in the console:

Uncaught TypeError: Object #<error> has no method 'call' jquery.validate.min.js:2
Compare Crash-Only Software (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash-only_software or https://lwn.net/Articles/191059/).
Wrq ZpPnyro with high probability. Look at what he has done, where he lives and how he writes.
I wish I could read it, but I'm on Roadrunner... 9 out of 10 links don't work for me, including that one.
No problems here, been using google extensively on IE11 8.1
This name isn't tasteless at all!
That'll crash it when he has the time to look into it, and has backup handy. Not at a random time.
That's interesting. As you say, it's a no-brainer. I wonder if some kind of micropayment market in functions could be pulled off... The kind of thing Ted Nelson or Jaron Lanier talk about, only for small pieces of reusable code rather than small pieces of reusable text.
If you read the comments then you'll realise it's actually Google sending down crap:

I opened up Wireshark and found that IE was sending a user agent string of "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; Trident/7.0)".

Making Firefox use that string causes Google to mangle the page exactly as shown in your screenshot.

It's apparently the "Trident/7.0" part that throws Google off, because if I manually change just that part to Trident/6.0 it works fine.
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You mean Statisticians.
This is pure quackery. The cholesterol -> heart disease framework was developed by the Framingham studies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framingham_Heart_Study) that showed a strong correlation between cholesterol and heart attacks and strokes. Now correlation does not equal causation but decades of subsequent studies have shown that cardiac event rates drop linearly with decrease in LDL (a form of cholesterol) (http://www.nature.com/nrcardio/journal/v8/n12/fig_tab/nrcard...). It has culminated so far in the JUPITER trial (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JUPITER_trial) where people with "normal" LDL levels and no history of heart disease were able to decrease their heart attack risk with statins by driving their LDL even lower. The whole inflammation stuff came into play because JUPITER also looked at an inflammatory marker called CRP. Now, that angle is still controversial but could play a role. However, it does not invalidate the dozens of studies linking cholesterol to heart disease. Plus there is nothing linking this guy's quack theories on nutrition to inflammation/CRP or ultimately to heart attacks.

I'm surprised that it made it this high on HN. Maybe people just love feeling that "freakanomics" feeling of mental superiority that they're willing to swallow any alternative hypothesis that challenges the norm. Maybe people just don't trust medical science.
I found that if you go into "Tools" on the "Menu Bar" and click on "Compatibility View settings" and then un-check the "Use Microsoft compatibility View" the problem goes away as noted below by Chirael.
same here. don't know why everybody loves berlin so much. 200 ppl in the mountains of washington sounds so much more relaxed.
I can't say for sure, but I think CPH as airport code comes from the common abbreviation for the city, rather than the other way around. KBH (København) is also used in Danish fairly commonly, and isn't any airport's code. It's possible that KBH is a backformation from CPH, though, come to think of it. Might try to dig into that if I have some spare time.
20% and 14.5% are not comparable percentages here:

You charge 20% VAT but then you pay 14.5% of the 120% total (i.e. 17.4%).

This may be a good deal if you have relatively few VATable expeneses, and you are charging customers who are insensitive to VAT (you are paying their VAT for them). At best, you're making £52pw rather than £110pw.
I had actually expected something for "real" code. (e.g. Scala, Go, younameit)

While CSS3/HTML5 definitely made web design somewhat closer to actual coding (esp. on the CSS end), I still find it difficult to call renderer instructions in a markup language true "code".

However, this looks like an interesting tool! Too bad that you only seem to be aiming for OSX. Are ports planned?
+1 for copperegg. Their free plan is much better than uptimerobot. My only comment is that their UI is not overly intuitive, but you don't really have to look at it after you've set it up.
To be fair, HPMoR!Harry does call the people he refers to in the quote above "NPCs".
Me too - I expected something about sketching / visualising how a programme works before you write it. :)
nice palette!

where is that big red button for start?
Well, if that's what your craft is all about Slashdot did an in depth analysis on the subject here:

http://slashdot.org/topic/bi/can-big-data-prevent-hollywoods...

Here is a white paper on how to roll out you movie based upon "data scientist" analysis.

http://www.google.com/think/research-studies/quantifying-mov...

I have no idea why you are seduced by this? Whistler likened painting portraits (which he was paid very well for) to prostitution and on his own time & dime gave us his nocturne paintings which ultimately inspiring Monet in the process.

http://www.stargonaut.com/trialog.html

Analytics tells you where you have been not where you are going. Novelty changes everything and analytics can't predict innovation. That is why Hollywood and the music industry suck.
Me too! I will tell you why...

The off the shelf services will only get you so far, even with keyword search. Sometimes you just have to roll your own.

With a complex ecommerce build you can run into situations where something has gone badly wrong with the pricing, e.g. everything is marked up as on sale, price £0.00. With a roll your own solution you can build an XML tree of the document, go through your HTML tags and put in some rules to make sure that all the prices are greater than zero (for instance).

As for keywords, you want something on the page in the footer, however, that can change. Eventually I ended up using the content between the <noscript> tags as that really did not change (even though they were at the top of the page).

Sending out an SMS is not hard to do, however, now that people have email on the phone it is not really that useful plus your credits can run out.

A 'roll your own' solution with advanced content checks can be used with a standard 'Uptime Robot' type of service. Clients can have the 'Uptime Robot' and manage it themselves, they will get great peace of mind. Meanwhile, the homebrew check can give a developer a heads up on things going wrong before they go wrong (as far as the client is concerned) and pick up on more subtle failings that a client really doesn't need to be told about at odd hours of the night.

Depending on your traffic levels you may also want to remember to take the IP address of your check program out of your stats.

If anyone does want a very simple PHP script to iterate over a list of URL's (and their respective search strings), do the CURL thing and some DOM parsing, with SMS mailout of whatever the 50x fail is then I can find you one.
Profitable corporations would see VAT as adding 0 cost, since they would otherwise have to pay the same amount directly to HMRC.

It depends who your customers are.
That's slowly changing. And trees are awesome.
All of the Apple trackpads are pretty incredible. Coming from the PC laptop world, I used to hate trackpads and thought of them as highly inferior devices. I thought the epitome of mobile mousing was the ThinkPad TrackPoint (to keep this discussion PG rated...) and I detested trackpads with a vengeance.

Turns out no one had made a good one yet. I got the first unibody MacBook Pro and started to prefer the trackpad over any mouse.

That thing is a glorious input device and incredible proof that the fine details really do matter in HCI. The difference between a standard PC trackpad and the Apple Magic Trackpad is slight, but the improvement in the experience is exponential.
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I am wondering what sort of demand is here among HN'ers for renting 24 and 36 drive servers (supermicro 4U with enterprise drives and hardware RAID) in Netherlands (Amsterdam), on 1gbit (expect 300mbit average outgoing) or 10gbit (expect 1500mbit average outgoing) connections.

I am currently looking to pivot to selling dedicated servers but wanted to get a feel for demand, there seem to be very few dedicated providers catering for bulk storage servers.
ahaha thanks :) I checked on LibreOffice and naively assumed that anything else would have a more modern icon set.
Stackoverflow is close, but the only currency is karma. But you can offer it as bounty to answer your question.

Throwing money into that dynamic is opening all kinds of worm cans.
I generally agree that people need better tools. However it is also very difficult to give people the right sort of visualization and analysis tools. If you pick a very, very specific niche, then doable. But people have tried for years and years for more generalized tools and they still mostly suck in general. This doesn't mean it is hopeless just that it is much harder than many people realize.
hhahaha, this question is so ironic!! It's a Quantum Computer and it's not, at the same time. hahaha :)

hang on: I know that they proved that it's a quantum computer, so this article only criticizes the degree of it's Quantumcomputerness.
In general, and especially for people freelancing in Germany, I'd add: Not getting a tax consultant.

I'm pretty sure this is the same everywhere, but regardless, it's the first thing I tell people which they have to get in order so they don't get screwed later on. ;)
Tweaking Firefox to send the same user-agent string "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; Trident/7.0)" causes the exact same problem. It's a Google problem.

ETA: In standards mode, IE sends "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko".