skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> For psychology to become a science, it would have to study an empirical organ like the brain.

> >No, it could just study an empirical thing like behavior (which, incidentally, it does.)

Anthropologists study behavior. Psychologists study behavior, then come to unsupportable conclusions about the mental sources of that behavior. It is the second step that (a) distinguishes psychology from anthropology, and (b) prevents psychology from taking any claim on science.

In a nutshell, psychology studies the mind. The mind, not a physical organ, cannot provide empirical evidence, evidence gathered from reality in a way that forces agreement about its meaning between similarly equipped observers. Science requires empirical evidence. Therefore psychology is not a science.

> Some branches of psychology study the relationship between other empirical facts and people's self-described experience of mental states, but both the other fact and the descriptions are empirical facts.

So which part of "Psychology's topic is the mind" are you not getting? No mind, no psychology. Everything that psychology studies relates to the mind, the field's topic of study.

"Why psychology isn't science" : http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/13/news/la-ol-blowback-...

Quote: "But to claim it [psychology] is 'science' is inaccurate. Actually, it's worse than that. It's an attempt to redefine science. Science, redefined, is no longer the empirical analysis of the natural world; instead, it is any topic that sprinkles a few numbers around. This is dangerous because, under such a loose definition, anything can qualify as science. And when anything qualifies as science, science can no longer claim to have a unique grasp on secular truth."

"That's why scientists dismiss psychologists. They're rightfully defending their intellectual turf."
Is 2% good? 9% (soon moving to 12%) is mandatory in Australia. Yes we are an evil socialist state with good healthcare.
No, DCA is continually buying in "small" chunks to amortize the cost per security across a number of transactions which "smooths out" the noise of the purchase price into an average across all of the purchases.

This process is a 'rate capture' process, which is that a fixed amount of principle captures a moderately proportional fraction of the change in price. With a capture limit (in this case 50%)

I built a simple spreadsheet for you [1] which can illustrate this. In the spreadsheet there are two scenarios, one the person "pulls the trigger" every time their investments have grown by the target amount, pull off the growth and take it out of the game, and then go back in with their basic investment. In the second scenario they just let it grow and grow and grow. After 5 rounds with a growth target of 50% they have $35K if they regularly pull the trigger, and $75K if they let it ride (more money is in play so the same percentage increase in the market gets you more money back). When the bubble bursts, if you lose all of the money in play, you end up with $25K and $0.

You can play with the spreadsheet and make some other choices to see how they work out. The smaller your trigger point the closer you get to having identical returns because you're not getting any amplifying effect of the money allowed to grow, the larger the growth target the longer in time (generally) you have to wait before you can pull the trigger and like musical chairs find yourself losing out because you waited to long.

An interesting diversion is to run different investment strategies against the historical record from the bubble to see which left you with more money. If we are in another bubble that could be useful information.

Or not. See other posts on the randomness of it all.

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Atwe7dq6iPQHdGx...
Robocoin Exceeds $1,000,000 CAD transaction volume on 29th Day Live
Teenetwork: A social network integrating both the professional and personal life
I suspect you are right, and the high qualifications just serve to filter out anyone who has compunctions about boldly lying to a small organization about what they've done and what they're capable of.

The ideal candidate is a dedicated, single 20 year old sysop/developer/con artist aspiring to turn a fake resume into a real one in 18 months.
just talk to your peers and break the barrier of 'taboo' talking about salary. that taboo is /only/ in the interest of your employers.

transparency wins imo.
Black Friday or not, there are deaths and injuries everyday...
Time POY: Snowden's 200,000+ votes go missing, now behind Cyrus
Smaller Than Your Phone, This Device Could Keep You Healthy
Germ-killing nanosurface opens up new front in hygiene
You mean filter stuff like this? (. 人 .)
NanoSatisfi open sources some of its satellite code, enter atmega2560-xmem.
The US GSM model appears to trade WCDMA on Band 1 (2100 MHz) for Band 4 ("AWS" 1700 Tx/2100 Rx). Global GSM includes Band 1 since that's a very popular band internationally, but doesn't have Band 4.

Keep in mind, T-Mobile USA is predominantly Band 4 for WCDMA and LTE, and Band 2 (1900 MHz) with at most a single WCDMA carrier in markets for roaming, iPhones, and improved in-building coverage.

So no, it isn't useless to T-Mobile, and won't be limited to 2G speeds. There's no Band 1 (2100 MHz) deployed inside the USA. Band 4 tried to align itself with Band 1, but manages only to align some of the downlink (tower->handset) spectrum (2110 to 2170 MHz for B1, 2110 to 2155 for B4), the uplink/duplex spacing is entirely different (this is the 1700 MHz "band"), 400 MHz below downlink for B4 as opposed to 190 MHz below it for B1.
HTTP Live Streaming JavaScript realtime converter
What's this?
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This is Apple HTTP Live Streaming JavaScript player created by performing realtime conversion of MPEG-TS video chunks to MPEG-4 in parallel thread using Web Worker and playing them one by one in main thread.

How does it work?
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Conversion is done using jBinary library (high-level I/O for binary data in JS - http://github.com/jDataView/jBinary) with programmatically described data structures according to ISO 13818-1, ISO-14496-2, ISO-14496-12 and ITU-T H.222.0 specifications.

Where does it work?
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Works best in Chrome (stable branch), having more noticable lags when switching videos but still working in latest Firefox versions and IE10+.

Disclaimer
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Please note that demo uses 3rd-party HLS demo source and service http://www.corsproxy.com/ for proxying it with needed Cross-Origin-Request headers for browsers to allow chunk downloading, so it may be unstable.

Where I can see that?
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Check out http://rreverser.github.io/mpegts/ for live demo.
you do need context... a million things a second is not a great metric. these are small numbers compared to a lot of things. e.g. how many pixels your graphics card is pushing right now.
Rubyists, It’s Time to PRY Yourself Off IRB
> There are bosses that will genuinely go out of their way to help you through a family crisis. There are co-workers and organizations that feel like family.

Sure, I know such people. The difference that these people won't write a psychopathic job ad, and they certainly won't expect me to work >40hours a week for below market salary.

If you believe work is family, do you think your family would be OK with you working 60 hours a week for below market salaries? Of course not! Your family doesn't want to screw you over while selling you shitty psychobabble. They'll actually pay you what you're worth and make sure you work reasonable hours.
Anecdotal n=1 response, but I worked for a civil engineering firm where the owner of the company did mortgage his house to keep as many people as possible on staff during the housing market crash.

I don't expect that level of commitment to employees from my employers, but it does exist.
According to [1] and [2] I can sell 100 bitcoins for $88,631 or $96,805 at Bitstamp and Mtgox respectively - or 10,000 bitcoins for $7,155,446 and $8,797,257

As I understand it those are offers to buy that are on the market right now, so you could execute the trades instantly.

[1] http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/bitstampUSD_depth.html
[2] http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/mtgoxUSD_depth.html
NanoSatisfi open sources some of its satellites code, enter libohnoes.
yeah lol M$ am i rite

Have you tried one?
Comedians tend to offend once in a while, it's part of the gig. And PA is smack in the middle of the comedy/video game business, sometimes they might trample your delicate sensibilities[1].

As someone who isn't easily offended, that sounds a hundred times better than working in a constant state of fear that you're not being PC enough. But, to each his/her own. At least they're upfront about it, so potential candidates know what they're getting into. Doesn't sound like the environment you want? Don't apply.

[1] http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/09/penny-arcade-expo-dic...
They make comics. Lots of comedy is about trying to find a balance between what is offensive and what people are willing to laugh at.

If you're creating humorous content, then you by necessity cross the boundary into the offensive (but you don't necessarily publish it!) as part of the creative process. Otherwise you'll never strike the best balance.

Consider this Onion post (NSFW) - http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-one-murdered-because-of-...

Now try to imagine what their work environment must be like.
Articles like this are proof that there isn't a bubble.

The defining characteristic of bubbles is irrational exuberance—everyone feeling that the sky is the limit.

Instead, we have an environment where articles like this come out on a regular basis and I probably hear "when this bubble pops" daily. Everyone is afraid that we're in a bubble. So we're probably not in one.

Be greedy when others are cautious. Since the pundits are cautious, it's probably a good time to invest.
Are you so sure?

http://codepen.io/i0z/pen/mFLCw
The MacBook Pro used to be an easily upgradable device which was a great choice for developers. It had superb build quality and you could easily develop for Mac, Windows, Linux, Web, iOS and Android on a single machine without too much messing about.

I walked out of the store in 2009 with a device where you undid a few screws and the whole back came off giving easy access to upgrade ram, hard drive, replace dvd, fan or battery. My first stop was to buy a bigger hard drive and double my memory with reasonably priced commodity parts. Replacing my battery when it ran out was cheap and trivially easy.

I look at the new MacBooks and the RAM is soldered, the SDD is proprietary, the battery is glued in place. I don't know if they have gone downhill but they have certainly alienated some customers and forced them to look elsewhere. If you aren't looking to develop for the Apple ecosystem I think the justification for buying a MBP has diminished considerably.
Since Comcast is handing out /128s, now you get to enjoy the thrill of IPv6 and NAT!
Correct. I like the idea.
100% agree. I wasn't saying anything in support of the PA job posting. And seeing as it's just about 5pm here, I'm signing off from work for the day :)
Agreed. Republic really raises the bar on cheap plans. Though I'm kind of pissed that they went from a super low end phone (with a 3 year old OS) as their only offering, the Defy, to a moderately high end phone, the Moto X. Not to mention the the plans are cheaper for the expensive phone. I was an idiot and bought the cheap phone before I realized the Moto X was coming out.
Huawei makes pretty good (Android) phones in that price range too, if you spend ~250 you get a "high end" (spec wise) one. From what I can tell, their build quality is good too.
You Could be the Next Blackberry CEO -  Most Of Its Top Executives Fired
Some people like working many different roles. What's that thing the startup folks always say about early hires- "You get to wear many different hats"?

Some people like creative/potentially offensive environments. I'm guessing they aren't saying "We are all assholes and will treat you like shit", they are saying "We don't worry too much about political correctness" or something along those lines.
Acquire and Release Fences Don't Work the Way You'd Expect
I was recently profiling some R code for a friend, and this is a useful summary. They don't show the data on their website, but their white paper (http://r.cs.purdue.edu/pub/ecoop12.pdf) shows the times for R vs Python vs C for some of the code on a popular language bencmark: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/

Summarizing the summary of their summary of things that probably shouldn't be summarized:

On average across their tests, Python is 1/50th the speed of
C, and R is 1/500th.

R frequently uses 100x to 1000x more heap memory than C.

R code size (number of lines ignoring comments) is usually about 1/2 that of C, which is about the same as Python.

As a second set of data, the site for http://julialang.org/ has some timing comparisons for some similar programs. On their tests, Julia comes out about 1-1.5x slower than of C (frequently equal), Python 3x-30x slower (usually in the middle), and R 4x-500x slower (fairly even distribution).
Good advice from the Notorious B.I.G. minus the homophobia.

Seven: this rule is so underrated
Keep your family and business completely seperated
Money and blood don't mix like two dicks and no bitch
Find yourself in serious shit
It already surpassed $1000 last week, on BTCChina (world's largest Bitcoin exchange): http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=75
I think so. Bitcoin is too global to be interesting to a domestic agency. It's more likely to be CIA.

If it's part of a policing effort, then it's obviously part of the UN, which according to Tim LeHaye, rules over the United States with an iron fist and is where the shadow government of totally-not-Jews would do exactly this kind of thing.

The only name I have for that is New World Order.
I think you can get some of what you want by stretching the fourth as it stands, but not everything you'd want in a privacy amendment. But whatever you can get will be undermined by tech companies creating these anti privacy norms.
Not sure what you mean by 'poorly researched'. Whatever it's flaws, it produced a hell of an innovative idea (or rather, a conglomeration of ideas into something innovative), and it has grown into something undeniably huge. Something people are building businesses upon. Something that is trading at over $900 USD/unit right now, despite countless rounds of naysayers decrying its intrinsic worthlessness and foretelling it's doom.

Meanwhile these guys are merely riding on the huge waves which that 'poorly researched' paper left in its wake, trying to catch some press-coverage-by-association with their shoddy research. I'm failing to see the irony here, this is apples and oranges stuff. Really seems like you just wanted to sneer at 'Bitcoin supporters'.
Couldn't agree more. As I (poorly) tried to point out in my earlier off-the-cuff comment, requests-per-second is a meaningless measure without the context of the size of those requests. The Forbes repost and the original google marketing article are both vague on details, and appear to conflate requests-per-second with throughput.
You can't use USD on BTCChina!
I assume what they mean by that is the work environment will resemble what they've put on camera in their PA TV and other series. It will probably be both more mundane and more "offensive" than what is shown on screen, so the goal would be to find someone that can handle the situation.
> In a nutshell, psychology studies the mind. The mind, not a physical organ, cannot provide empirical evidence

The mind is a name given to a collection of epiphonemena of various physical sources, included, but not limited to, the brain and other physical organs. As such, it is no less a valid subject of empirical investigation as any other collection of physical phenomenon.

> Science requires empirical evidence.

And psychology gathers empirical evidence from environmental facts and their relation to physical behaviors.
Well that is impressive.
However I don't know if there's a way to check for collisions that don't include the mouse pointer in CSS. (and I would like that if one drop falls over another they both merge)
Link to original thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799033
Just to clarify, you're asking him to prove that the rich aren't genetically superior to the poor?
I would believe NSA before CIA. The FBI gets involved in the internet space, but it doesn't seem like the CIA does all that much.
> Finally we sleep quietly, and don’t fear that mongodb will drive out redis to swap once again.

Well duh, Mongo was designed to live on its own server as it tries to claim all of the free memory available. Putting it on the same server with Redis makes no sense.

The case that caused you sleepless nights does not apply to 99% of projects out there.
Russian bots invade America, absorb Android brains
> That's a great idea.

It's a failed idea. Aggregation protocols (RSS and ATOM) abandoned, Friendfeed died. Because gulping from every source possible without digestion (!) means diarrhea

Are there any good digestion algorithms or content filtering service out there? No. For every new merged info, the only thing increased is noise, not signal.

In separated channels, like Picasa, Blogger, Youtube, you can prioritize them, you can reply blogger comments while ignore youtube trolls, but in a merged timeline, you will have serious management troubles
Don't forget this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799033
Yeah probably.
Though still can be done with good enough results without WebGL I believe.
If I really want to find out who satoshi is I would have lie to all and wait until the actual Satoshi to come out and call me a liar. Anyway, life goes on - I do want to find out who Satoshi is really...
Litecoin is Taking off: Litecoin Faucets for the Uninitiated
Hahahhah this is great
There are a lot of people here who are creating jobs.

I just have one request for you:

Create dream jobs.

Make it your mission to think of 'dream jobs', and then find a way to make them happen.

Don't start by thinking about what tasks need to be done. Don't start by thinking about how to get the most bang for your buck.

Start by thinking, "what would be a reallly-damn-cool job to have?" Then find a way to make it happen. Once you've thought up the dream job, go back and find a way to pay for it. Figure out the path you'll need to take in order to make it happen.

Create dream jobs.

Please :)

If you succeed, I promise that it will be one of the most gratifying things you ever do.
Will the real Satoshi please stand up?
If I were willing to make those hours for that pay, I'd start my own company.
The blog post says 1 byte responses excluding HTTP headers. Since it was a standard Apache configuration, the headers would probably be something like 200-300 bytes.
Some people estimate his net worth to have been not 20,000, but 1.6 million bitcoins. That adds to over a billion dollars.

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/who-is-satoshi-nakamoto-the...
How not? It's mostly just plain text. Easier than most other sites.
why are there all different prices? which one is correct?
Fair enough, re Black Friday being a single day per year. There are around 2.5MM deaths per year in the US, which works out to around 47,000 on the Black Fridays during the time period (assuming the numbers are average).

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/deaths.htm
"Work is family" is a line used by companies that want to pay their employees less money. Let's see how long you remain "Family" if you have an accident/stroke and your productivity goes down.

I don't know about you, but my mother and brother are still my family, regardless of their work output.
PS: It uses Pandoc, which is big plus for me and might be for you too.
>> (the DSM only lists symptoms, effects, not one cause is listed).

> This is false.

Check your facts. Here is what the sitting director of the NIMH had to say about the DSM and the issue of symptoms, as he announced his decision to abandon it:

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...

Quote: "Unlike our definitions of ischemic heart disease, lymphoma, or AIDS, the DSM diagnoses are based on a consensus about clusters of clinical symptoms, not any objective laboratory measure. In the rest of medicine, this would be equivalent to creating diagnostic systems based on the nature of chest pain or the quality of fever."

Circle the word you didn't understand and raise your hand.

> Neuroscience doesn't differ from psychology in tieing causes and effects ...

That is exactly, precisely how neuroscience differs from psychology. Psychology does not address causes, only symptoms, as the above quote demonstrates, and as any honest appraisal of modern psychology shows.

> OTOH, its unlikely to replace psychology ...

Yes, I agree with this. Neuroscience won't replace psychology, for the same reason astronomy didn't replace astrology: stupid people who need to believe in things that have no empirical basis.

But in the future, unfortunately not any time soon, neuroscience will become the preferred treatment for non-imaginary ailments.
The poster above me added the stuff about state programs in an edit, which he pointed out.

All you're saying is that state programs work, which is a right/libertarian position and probably not what you're going for.
The question is will it retreat into the sub $500 level like it did a week ago. Nonetheless I'm seeing stronger support even at the $800 level.
I assume you're being sarcastic when you write legendary, right? Peanuts, Pogo, Calvin and Hobbes, Krazy Kat, Little Nemo... those are legendary comic strips. Penny Arcade is a comic strip focused on a narrow subculture (man children) within a subculture (video game fans) that largely consists of jokes on videogame news cycle topics. It's the sort of thing that will be entirely without value in 40 years.

That being said, I'm sure someone out there really does believe it's a legendary comic strip and will want to be a part of that.
Well, he said that the research was funded by Citi bank's 'philanthropic' foundation. Is he mentioning that to insinuate that a bank is trying to produce de-anonymizing scare research about Bitcoin, which need not be true so long as it shakes consumer confidence?

I suspect it's just very easy to get funding for Bitcoin related research right now because it's a hot topic, but that would be a much more fun explanation...
It's a reasonable strategy, because it's the same one other prestige companies use, particularly in gaming. Blizzard, for one, doesn't pay market rates for developers. It's a 15% difference or so, and you accept it because...well, it's Blizzard, and you really want to work there. The same may hold for a few other prestigious companies, like Valve, Bioware, etc.

Does it hold for Penny Arcade? Unknown.

Does it have any implication at all for the general profession? No way. It's funny to see how upset people are getting about a job ad. They are "insulted". But really what they are experiencing is, at worst, Penny Arcade misattributing themselves so much "juice" that they'd be willing to let someone grind themselves up in a job.

(That is, perhaps, the only narrow way in which this job posting is immoral, is if it describes working conditions so horrific that no-one could escape without deep emotional scarring. And no, I don't think it's quite that bad.)