skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is explored to a degree in a pop psychology book by Daniel Gilbert called "Stumbling on Happiness". There are certainly better sources, such as the papers Gilbert uses as his primary sources, but the book is an accessible way to learn about the high degree to which our happiness depends on subjective interpretation of our self-comparison to others.

There's a theory out there that we evaluate ourselves mostly against people we can reasonably consider our peers (e.g. college classmates or the kid who grew up down the street, not Barack Obama or Steve Jobs) because they are the best proxy for what our lives could have been like had we made different choices with the same starting point (e.g. medical school instead of starting a business). These peers represent our best experimental data given a world of singular outcomes.

The double-edged sword of you achieving success is that those hundred or so people you compare yourself to sit high up on an asymptotic curve of outcomes. That is, if your peer group all has advanced degrees and decades of experience, the outcome-difference between the least and most successful will be extreme. "Low success" peer groups sit at the flatter part of the curve, so peers you compare yourself to will "look more like you", thus avoiding the unhappiness of comparative failure when you judge yourself.

I'm forgetting whether this particular idea comes from Gilbert's book or another source, like perhaps "Status Anxiety" by Alain de Botton.
You can do it in iOS world too. But the iOS7 is little different. I recently updated my app with iOS7 support. Many places in the code I had to write something like

if(version >= 7) {

// some code which only works on iOS7
// or some workaround for iOS7

} else {

// code which works in older version

}

Previously I never had to write such code to support iOS6 and iOS5 together.

But the situation is much better than Android world. I also have the Android version of the same app (http://www.avabodh.com/lekh)and I have to write lot of version specific if-else in the code.
With such incisive and reasoned slogans as "taxation is theft", how can it be that libertarians are so widely considered a target of derision and loathing?

Taxes are your just dues for living in a society. Tax evasion is theft from the commonwealth.
BTW, making a coy remark about his 'intelligence' and speaking for his future actions are blaming statements in themselves. It isn't helping the conversation much by doing that.

I admit, that part of my response was intentionally provocative, though, just to clarify, I wasn't being sarcastic when I regarded him as intelligent, my intent was to highlight the fact that intelligent individuals like the GP who are convinced they can conclude the definitive future of bitcoin will continue to do so because their intelligence drives a hubris that less confident (i.e. intellectually honest) individuals lack. The people who are used to telling everyone how finance really works can't help but bash all the fanboys over the head with their intelligent conventional wisdom.
What does that mean? 37signals is a business. Savvy businesses create superficial communities for marketing, and 37signals is especially adept at doing that; they've even created a genuine community (Rails) which bolsters their bona fides. But they are at the end of the day a business. What information do you feel that they owe you that they haven't shared?
Wake up your iPhone, go to slide to unlock, the screen times out and goes to black as you're typing your passcode. Happens to me and everybody I know, even after four OS updates. There's a heap of little bugs like that.
Is this actually true in practice?

People do not pay detailed attention when evaluating two sets of plausible and highly technical claims, when there is emotional loading attached. We get "teach the controversy". This makes it quite easy for the determined and self-interested to manipulate public opinion.

It's like spam: people have long since ceased to argue with spammers, they just remove the spam. "Sunlight" has no effect on it; rather, it risks blocking out the light to other messages.

A valid argument for not banning viewpoints is that it prevents accurate dissent from getting through, and results in the status quo drifting into being wrong because it cannot be critically re-evaluated. But in this case it has been evaluated often and thoroughly enough that we can be confident. They should nonetheless put a sunset date on the policy for future review.
Only if they're jerks. Perhaps you didn't read the article?
I don't know, maybe some people who lives there might find some sense in the story, but to me it just doesn't make any sense (I'm east European living in London). Seems just like another try to blame someone else for his own choices how to live a life.

In the end, if you want to be equal with other employers, maybe it is time to consider what makes them being more equal and try to reach it yourself instead of just telling the world how unfair the world is.

But that just my personal opinion, maybe now it is considered O.K. to act like that.
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They're both nearly identical cryptocurrencies with a lot of the very same problems.

> it's much more profitable to mine Litecoin.

Only because its younger than bitcoin. Making bitcoins was trivial a couple years ago. Considering both have a maximum number of coins, this dicussion is academic. Once that max is hit then its just traded as any ugly market commodity.
"remove one* of them. ". And seeming a bit desperate shouldn't be that important. What is important is : #1 how great your site is valuable to your user : give them great content/tools/functionality #2 user experience and, and #3 monetization.
GPs claim was about the 5s, not the 5 or 5c, so I'm not how your reference to your experience on the 5 or the similarity between the 5 and 5c is supposed to rebut it.
but the sad reality is that the costs of compliance for a full-time employee are just not worth it.

My heart bleeds for these poor, hamstrung corporations.
Let's not forget the principles though. Programming isn't magic; you still have to at least specify the intended behavior, even if without specifying the how. You could even specify approximately (or incompletely) the intended behavior of your system (and let another hypothetical system fill in the gaps), but that's not viable for every application in the future due to reliability.

In the end this can't lead to something much different than saying "Sort this list" -- isn't that simply calling a sorting procedure?
Control for temperature doesn't mean "control the temperature". It means to set up the experiments such that you can detect the effect of temperature. Basically, how did they decided that 20-26C was the right range? If it wasn't by testing differences between mice at colder and warmer temperatures, then they weren't controlling for temperature.
When the global warming scientists can actually use their theories to predict something, then I'll pay attention.

For now, the only thing they seem to predict is the number of government grants, conference invites, and headlines they'll get from their unproven, dire predictions.
Definitely something to do with 64 bit software. It has been rock solid on iPhone 5/4s. I heard similar crashing problems on iPad Air/retina mini.
Surely mice live outside as well. I mean, I assume there were mice around before humans evolved enough to build houses, and heat them.
So because you can't sometimes remember what you were doing in a file you would never want a feature that would have undos even for files that were closed? Ok.

And what does the file being open have to do with remembering what you did it in it? You could have a tab open for ages in ST and I bet you are as likely to remember what you were doing in it as you were in a file recently closed, so why should that impact whether undos were available for it? No need to answer, these were just rhetorical questions to point out the flaws in your reasoning here. I actually don't want to read any more of what you have to say about it.
I'm maintaining a micro-framework for Clojure called Luminus (http://www.luminusweb.net/). The approach I'm taking with it is to provide a standardized template that generates all the common boilerplate.

Even when you don't rely on a traditional framework approach you still have to address the problem of finding libraries that are actively maintained and work well together. It's also helpful to have a standard for how an application is organized.

While somebody who's already experienced with the ecosystem might not get a lot of value out of this, it makes it provides a much better experience for newcomers.
or... it may increase people's interest in you, you know, for national security.
Seems like more of a red-herring to me.
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She was obviously guilty of CWB. (Chemistry While Black)
The core issue is that the iPhone 4's CPU and GPU performance are only marginally better than the 3GS it replaced, but it pushes 4x the number of pixels around.

A lot like the first retina iPad.
You can definitely split a window into multiple columns/rows in Sublime (View >> Layout). Possible I'm completely misunderstanding you though.
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That's a flawed argument. The only reimplemented the runtime to get better performance, for their humongus needs. The PHP semantics and language remain the same.

So, them re-implementing the runtime is no more an argument against PHP than using PyPy instead of CPython or JRuby instead of MRuby is.

Not to mention that have they been using say Ruby instead of PHP, they'd have the same, or even worse, problems regarding getting the most performance out of their runtime.

So this is totally orthogonal to the issue of PHP's merits -- only has to do with performance, so the same things could have been said for Python or Ruby that are in the same ballpark as PHP in this area.
Knew about most of the stuff but "Cycling in Kolkata" was a new for me.

What they don't understand is that, the more you restrict/ban stuff, the more people get fascinated and attracted by it.

Most of the stuff does not make sense either. However, it is not just India. For example, gay sex is banned in Saudi arab too.
> I'm still on iOS 5 so I can keep diving directions from google.

Google maps on iOS6+ is far better, IMO, than the Google-powered Maps app on iOS5- or the Apple Maps app on iOS6+ (the last of which has literally never given me correct directions the handful of times I've used it.)
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I dislike the implication that external contractors are basically second-class employees that are being exploited by the hiring company. Google has no idea what this person makes. Google hired a security company to perform a service. Event/site security is not Google's core competency.

I am well aware of the external contractor dynamic. I work at a small company that provides services to $Fortune_500_company. My access badge is a different color than $Fortune_500_company employees, and I am not allowed to partake in certain employee perks. In fact, $Fortune_500_company is very clear that despite working on their computer, having their email address, having an assigned seat at their campus, and being on their phone system, I am not an employee of theirs. I am OK with this.

There are plenty of ways to be screwed in your career. Your contractor/staff status should be considered an unrelated byproduct.
A happy narrative, but an unlikely one. Our brains are not designed to be end-user modifiable. It's naive in the extreme to think we could keep pace (in terms of intellectual enhancement) with minds that are.
Certainly they do, those sneaky "highly placed people in AI" know perfectly well that it will be quite easy to hide from the strong AI in some rural area. Its not like AI could access real estate databases or build some flying droids to find those people. /s
> Plonk!

Ahh, the sweet, sweet sound of a Usenet troll landing in your killfile.
Wait, indentured trafficked workers are used to grow marijuana?
The question is "What is the question?"

- Would you rather be on $24k/p/a in Tijuana?

- Would you rather be in the bottom 10% income bracket in Tijuana?
Check the IP, if you are windows phone and your phone is syncing with exchange via the cellular data network your IP may be showing somewhere completely different than where your are. Check the owner of the IP and you'll probably see that it's your cellphone carrier.

I see the same logs, but in Washington and the IP is T-mobile's (my provider)
Reddit isn't run by the /r/science mods. If you want to create a subreddit dedicated to emotional vitriol on subjects which already have scientific consensus, there's an easy way to do that: http://www.reddit.com/subreddits/create

Might I suggest the subreddit name, 'butthurt'?
In Europe I think your consumer rights would be affected by this. I think it may be within your rights to demand a phone from them that worked with iOS 7.

Class action suit?
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Sublime is missing support for vim actions when used in combination with / or ?

For example:

d/abc (i.e. delete forward until the text 'abc')

or

c/abc (i.e. change the text going forward until the text 'abc')

I can workaround most of the missing functionality, but this one is a deal breaker for me. Unfortunately since / just uses the built-in Find feature in Sublime, fixing this is probably non-trivial.
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Or you could buy another $10K worth of bitcoins now, then when you break even on the first set, you'll be up $10K.

But can you stomach the possibility of throwing good money after bad? After all, other states could start following China's example.
I have been finally able to download and read their full paper and it seems to answer this question: they observe that grounding thru AC charger does increase SNR of measured signal.
That's factually incorrect. For example, several months ago I was owed some money (around 500 USD) by a friend, and we decided to exchange the funds via Bitcoin, not for speculation or your delightfully pejorative "crypto-anarchist fetishism," but because it was by far the easiest and fastest way for us to do so.

Cue your reply, justifying your original universal quantification by retroactively redefining it with new exceptions.
It's a science discussion subreddit. I think "your statements must be within a standard deviation of reality as measured" is not an unreasonable requirement for posting to a scientific discussion. It actually is quite nice to have, say, young earth creationists denied a chance to show their views when you are trying to have a discussion about reality.
Nokia has already stated that the Nokia Android phone (Normandy) was cancelled, even before the Microsoft take over.
Lifehack question: How do you read a business book?
I'm looking for tips, tricks, recommendations and methods. Do you use a highlighter? Do you have a coding system? Do you use Evernote? Do you post-its?

My objective is to read more business books to expand my horizons as well as pick up new ideas to implement. I'm in the middle of reading "18 Minutes" by Peter Bregman and am feeling inspired. But there are so many ideas, I find myself frustrated because I'm not sure how to keep track of them all.

In general, I like to read business books both on my Kindle and in my hands with a physical book. Recommendations for both would be awesome.
Interesting point on deflation... the 2008 economic collapse was marked by a brief moment of deflation. Just little deflation nearly destroyed the world economy.

A preference for deflationary models is one of the reasons I don't take libertarian economics seriously.
Reddit has not banned anti-science denialists. A scientist run sub-reddit about science has banned anti-science denialists, after attempting to talk to them.

People interested in hearing the various view points of climate change scientists and campaigners and denialists could set up a sub-reddit.
In response to your last sentence: people who can hijack systems to gain power, money and influence tend to end up running things. It's pretty much inevitable.
The 2 things that stuck out for me in 2013 is

1) Carving out time and sticking with it - not rescheduling it for someone else, totally agree you need to lock your self down for making it a priority and finishing an idea

2) Which you mentioned is underestimating the time - 3 weeks was really 3 months for you. For me, I totally do this and work hard semi-launch something, test it and before I know 2 months have passed. Need to iterate faster and go hard.

Great stuff - super excited for 2014 and JFDI :)
Ah OK – thanks for the information!
"PS: We think this project would explode it kickstarter funding, if we could use it. But unfortunately we can't."

Use Indiegogo instead
Sure, but people use nonstorable electricity just fine, so I disagree with your first sentence.

Biogas rather than biodiesel might appear as a farm fuel in the future, either from manure or wood gasification. But not while underground gas is still cheap enough to flare.
I tried the whole "never close anything and fuzzy match to change", it never worked. I always end up thinking "what was that file i was editing 2 minutes ago called?"

I tend to cull open tabs when I have more than ~10 open. I guarantee I can look at my tab bar, move my hand to the mouse, and click on the tab I want faster than anyone can switch using fuzzy matching
Interesting.

I could see pair programming being a good fit where you have say one backed developer, and one front end, and you want both to be able to code both.

Is there anywhere to read more about practices, or is it simply a matter of sitting down side by side? I have done that with less able developers, but it often feels like I am doing the work, and they are watching, whereas I imagine pair programming to be more interactive.
How is this nuts? These are all smart moves as the personal pc landscape is changing and moving toward mobile devices.

Making your desktop users happy with ye olde start menu and giving away WP are very smart moves. MS still will make a lot of money of its patent portfolio via android and its own WP app store. Selling an OS is an outdated concept and everyone knows it.
No, it does not mean only build for iOS onwards.

It means give primary focus to iOS7 in terms of performance, UI, design idioms, usage of underlying technologies etc….

It means don't build apps targeting prior iOS and just reply upon backward compatibility of iOS7. Use iOS7 as your main target OS.
Almost, modulo the fact that the police are called into situations that may/may not involve crimes, but either way involve something bad enough that the police are called.

The CPD in Englewood don't spend a lot of time giving directions or registering bicycles or helping get cats out of trees.

Either way, my point was clear. If you disagree with it, I'm happy to hear why. But I'm not interested in this semantic argument.
> Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Jenny McCarthy and Andrew Wakefield prove this not to be true in all cases.
What exactly is wrong with that statement?
> Google has no idea what this person makes.

They can certainly find out. Just like ethically sourced coffee beans are a thing; ethically sourced menial labour can be a thing. It's hip and cool to use ethically sourced labor that isn't toxic to the society you live in. :-)
But would they have known to look there?
Radiation from fukushima is about to destroy the world's oceans and the fake environmentalists are still whining about carbon. Science is truly in the service of the State. Anybody who uses the word "denier" to denigrate their political opponents is employing dishonest tactics that only a fool would find convincing.
Some counter-points on this narrative, with which I'm very familiar.

1. Philosophers and AI theoreticians have a hard time defining what they mean by the term "intelligence". Talking about systems millions of times more intelligent than a human is nonsense unless you can define what it is you're talking about.

2. Whatever intelligence is it only makes any sense within the context of some environment. Environments impose a multitude of constraints. In the "intelligence explosion" scenario the environment is assumed to be constraint free, or something close to it.

3. Be wary of people trying to sell you ideas based on fear. It's usually snake oil, concealing some other agenda - such as trying to obtain or maintain grant money for projects.

4. That many top AI people have "bug out" houses is simply false. An exaggeration, intended to add drama to the article.

5. Historically, the predictions of top AI researchers have not proven to be particularly accurate, although that does not mean that this will always be the case.
Perhaps I just don't know the correct terminology, though you can have multiple control groups, no? That is what I was meaning, I realize I wasn't very clear.
Remember they were still selling the iPhone 4 up until the day the released the 5s and 5c.

It would be very un-Apple-y for an OS to drop support for a product you were selling 2 days ago.

I'm sure that's why it was done. You're probably right that the 4 didn't have the GPU to support it and that from a technical perspective it didn't make much sense.
Giving a specific example turns the discussion from "a group of people do this thing, and we've banned them" and whether that's a good or bad idea into "here's an example" followed by bitter discussion of how that example should or shouldn't be allowed in the sub.
Does this affect Phonegap and Ximian?
Frequency increases haven't held. Strictly, Moore's Law is about transistor density - and it's holding so far.
Relevant here is the corollary, that transistors per unit cost doubles every 1.5 years (also held), which in 5 years is approx x10 (10.0793684), so x1,000 in 15 years.

Assuming this simulation is largely parallelizable (likely, because matter acts locally), then for whatever the hardware it ran on cost, in 15 years it should take 5 * 60/1000= .3 seconds per frame (not 0.04s, for 25 fps). In 20 years, it would be .03s (33 fps). But consider that fakey shortcuts that look OK will be assiduously sought.

Moore's Law (and especially this corollary) have a few years left, but maybe not 15 years... However, I'm optimistic about another technology taking over (as has happened previously). There's plenty of scope, considering what brains and cellular machinery can do. (I think the quantum stuff is BS. Probably.)
Litecoin uses scrypt, a memory-intensive hashing function, whereas BtC uses SHA, which is merely computationally expensive. It was specifically designed to be difficult to mine with ASICs, so as to lessen the advantages of professional ASIC mining farms and give relative power back to all the guys who built GPU mining rigs back when that was cutting-edge.

The unfortunate side-effect of this is that LtC botnets are far more viable relative to the total network hashrate than BtC botnets, as the difference in power between commodity computers and ASICs as far as hashing is concerned is far less for LtC than BtC.
>> binding the transactions to an ip and via that to a person

Naive question: since IP's don't map 1:1 to people (proxies, the tendency of people to use lots of devices in lots of places), how does this work in practice? Does it really work in practice?
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One of my favorite hard takeoff scenarios: the AI quickly figures out how to manufacture nanobots and does so at a scale to blanket the planet, thus becoming instantly omniscient with a global field of sensors, giving it a coherent view of everything in the world at every given instant in time from that point forward.

Also see: "metamorphosis of prime intellect" and "mind war: the singularity" and to a lesser extent "a young lady's illustrated primer"
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