skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This.

And even when you're the only game in town, a ten minute conversation can do a much better job of helping the genuine prospect choose the $700/month plan over the $250/month plan than a couple of bullet points on a feature list. And a clients that wouldn't quibble at a quote of $2000/month for the version that does everything they think they need are a lot more likely to do so when a brightly coloured matrix points out they could get away with paying $200 if they didn't want the Excel export...

Frankly, if customers are choosing their plan from a price/feature list rather than receiving a quote based on an assessment of the level of service they need to maximise their returns on using your product, the service isn't really priced on the basis of value.
Scientific American Explores How the Internet is Changing Your Brain
On the code side, I love what I'm doing right now with Neo4J and the DoerHub badges and topics. I am trying to use graph database searches to surface people who are strong in areas you are weak in and weak in areas you are strong in when you do a search for a topic. Also trying to apply NLP to ensure the system recognizes related topics (cancer and healthcare for example). My latest work is usually my favorite.

On the non-code product side I hypnotized NBA.com users with the Social Spotlight product you can see on its homepage now. It used to generate higher duration of stay than any page on the site including video. I did it by re-created the "Monument to Change" Stanford GSB flipping tiles effect with an unending river of the most interesting images and tweets from the NBA conversation on social media. There was some FOMO mixed with good content, mixed with a mesmerizing effect.

On the brick and mortar side I created a forge-detecting technique for printing coupons for a bakery in Bulgaria by mixing Inks with different reactions to water. Had to do it because competitors were trying to forge the coupons and put the bakery out of business. In the end though, the hack ended up getting an employee of 10 years arrested, because, as it turned out, he was swapping cash for his own home-printed version of the coupons.
Broadchurch was aired on ITV[1], not BBC. (And in typical fashion, when bringing it to the US, it needs to be a remake because US audiences are apparently too stupid -- according to the television network execs -- to watch British television without heavy localization -- by Fox Networks in this case).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV_%28TV_network%29
What place on the planet gives best chances of surviving impact and its consequences?
Indeed.

...except that Marx was concerned with "mere" capital while we're talking about automation, robotics, etc.. It turned out that capitalism on its own did not create the social unrest Marx predicted (at least in societies which didn't already suck for other reasons), but it may be that automating the workers out of being able to earn even a subsistence might in fact do so.

Another way of looking at it is that while Marx identified a real problem, his solution was essentially a bunch of wishful thinking which, when pitted against free market economics did rather poorly. But, free market economics is all about managing scarcity; automation points the way to a post-scarcity society (at least post-material-scarcity). Free market economics doesn't have anything to say about how to handle this -- so we're all in the dark.

It seems to me that as the marginal value of material goods diminishes relative to say the marginal value of not being beaten and robbed we should see a natural progression towards some kind of redistribution of wealth -- driven as much by enlightened self-interest as anything. ("We'll pay you welfare as long as you keep taking your contraceptive pills...")
I'm still a huge fan of Vesper. It's the perfect TODO list. It just works.
HTTP 301 ?
IIRC, ARPA at some point was more interested in funding projects based on Mach than based on any other kernel.
Commercial Application Imagination Time:

Mix & combine foods, chemicals, and drugs without contaminating them or using beakers or containers by floating them around the warehouse on tracks of sound imiting assembly lines. I'd imagine a huge factory with minimal moving parts and sterilized air where liquids are floated out and mixed. If you're afraid the liquids will evaporate into the air while being mixed you can encase the assembly line in Anti-microbial glass vents (or black ones that don't let UV light through). Basically floating chemicals through really clean tubes without touching the sides.
Also, though not directly related to your question, Torbit (later acquired by Walmart Labs), used Go, due to its combination of productivity and performance. Josh Fraser, Torbit co-founder, told me that.

http://www.torbit.com/

http://www.onlineaspect.com/about/ (Josh's site)
I think it was David Beazley who characterized metaclasses as "infecting" an inheritance tree. If `class A` has a metaclass, then all subclasses of `A` will inherit the metaclass as well. This behavior is not shared by class decorators, which only affect the decorated class.

So, I think this is a pretty reasonable place to use them -- getting magic behavior from class decorators / metaclasses is bad enough, but getting surprised when losing it upon subclassing is even worse!
The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism
I think you are discussing different interpretations of probability (classical vs bayesian), which is causing the disconnect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_interpretations
Not sure I got that - why is cable different in this regard from DSL? I'm pretty sure there is such thing built into adsl/vdsl routers or modems, at least not in Germany.
It's not about making the engineer's job easier. It's about the millions of man hours that will be lost over the lifetime of the road, and the additional safety issues that arise because the road has unnecessary turns.

As we're also seeing with this project, roads are not just for cars. The pre-negotiated right-of-way is also used for utilities, mass-transit and who knows what else in the future? It has negative effects on safety, the economy, work efficiency and other factors.

Because somebody doesn't want to be inconvenienced by a move that they'll have years of notice to make, or some farm doesn't want to shave off some fraction of their road-side property, lives will be lost, work will be wasted, pollution will increase, maintenance costs on keeping the roads and other right-of-way inhabitants will be magnified and more.

A new road isn't about just going someplace you've never been a minute quicker. Most roads are about making the time it takes from getting to a place I already go faster or at higher capacity. It drives development, decentralizes and spreads around economic activity, increases national productive output, stimulates the economy, it can increase educational and employment opportunities, make consumers of productive output more accessible and efficient to reach. A good road can be the difference between abject poverty for a region, or a new city.
Not sure. I'm too busy seeing all the gray lines that would be created by Google giving preferential treatment to those deemed more "important" when they could have stayed black and white.
What's good for Google is doing what made them successful, providing the best search results. We now know one type of search they're no longer doing that for.
How Scarcity Trap Affects Our Thinking, Behavior
http://www.samba.org/~jelmer/dulwich/
I taught myself how to pick locks my final year of high school - in France, high school students have to take the "baccalauréat", a set of exams that cover everything you've studied in high school, in all subjects. It spans the course of 2 weeks or so, and you get 1 week to prepare before it.

I hadn't been doing so hot in high school (writing assembly for my TI-83's z80 was more fun than reading Shakespeare and doing derivatives), so my parents locked my laptop in the attic for me to focus on revising during that week.

Of course, I spent a few hours reading at the local library on lock picking, and managed to get my laptop from the attic on the first day (the lock was a fairly old model too, which helps). I spent the rest of the revision week writing C and hanging out in IRC :')

For the record, I did pretty well on the baccalauréat :)
> What should Google do in this situation? I fully understand them murdering Rap Genius in their indexes, but it also hurts Google since Rap Genius actually has the best content.

It helps them in the long term, as it dissuades sites from using blackhat SEO if they know their company can suffer severely for it
Hi Carl! I think we're in agreement, I can see gists being ideal for many people, I just didn't plug in that mental "for me" in the title.

I have used todotxt in the past and it served me very well. It was originally developed as a simple bash script by Gina Trapani (of Lifehacker fame) and became such a hit that a strong community of developers formed around it, creating interfaces into the todotxt format in a variety of languages and environments.

The fact that it stores all of its data in a single (or series of) simple text file(s) is what makes it really great, as it becomes portable, human-readable, and modifiable if you should find yourself needing to interact with your todo list without any of the tools or scripts handy.

Unfortunately I haven't had a very good track record of keeping up with any of the many todo list applications or variations that I've tried, but every time I decide to try again I start with todotxt.
My favorite so far is "Viral Plague Gay & Lesbian Movies". For a random generator it sure seems to have an agenda.
There was a reddit thread asking to share org-mode workflow, maybe you can give some details on your ways.

http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1u52eu/can_people_sha...
I love that:

"MVP does NOT mean Minimum Shitty Product." - Ben Yoskovitz, VP of Product at GoInstant and founder of Montreal-based Year One Labs.
> people searching for lyrics right now are being given the huge disservice of using the ultra-spammy lyrics sites from days of yore

AZLyrics is a lot more appealing to me. Much lighter weight.
conspiracy nuts have been screaming all sorts of stuff from the rooftops for years.

if i say 'twenty' every time, eventually i'll correctly predict the outcome of a d20. this doesn't make me good at doing so, nor does it mean that you should have listened.
> Do you really think that tailored custom devices for spying on particular people of interests exceeds their constitutional grounds?

Do you really think that an agency that practices unconstitutional mass surveillance (or unconstitutional anything) would never use these recently revealed capabilities unconstitutionally?
Is 1. really that trivial? If I recall there's some really weird convention about usernames across both platforms (assuming *nix) having to be identical, in addition to fiddling around with the RSA keys.
they say that most praise are violent speech

I think any system that twists words so ridiculously to make a point is highly suspect.

It is ridiculous to claim that praising someone can be accurately described as "violent speech". It holds as much hyperbole as saying you were "raped" at the grocery store because Apples were $2 each.
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Give me just 20-30 million dollars, legal protection from any patent claims, and (providing my search engine works well technically) make it the default in a small percentage of all Firefox installs.

What I'm trying to say is, Google doesn't have the monopoly because they're the only ones who can build a good search engine. The have the monopoly because they do have good technology, but also because of path dependence, and because there is no political effort to build up a competitor.

I already posted a couple of days ago, there are a bunch of ways governments could support competitors when one search engine controls a large fraction of the market, say more than 2/3. For example a special monopoly tax, subsidies for competitors, etc.

One thing I think would be nice is to make search engines offer a free/very cheap API (as long as they have > XX % market share). Anybody can come along and build a Google + Bing + Pokemon-Wiki meta search engine. If you tune it to be profitable, you'll have a lot of competing search engine frontends spring up. But you'll also have a lot of search engine backends (and not just Bing, Google, and Yandex), because its suddenly profitable to build verticals (e.g. indexing just tech news or recipies), which require less resources technically - because the vertical backends get traffic through the competing frontends.

And I could choose a frontend that gives me Google-like searches, or one that interprets terms more literal (like when you use +"term" in Google), which would be great for programming related stuff. There could be another one focussing on social media, or local stuff, etc..
Pen and paper are the less disruptive outlet I know too. I wonder how "smartpens", those who stream your strokes to some kind of OCR software to be parsed, fare. It might be cool to have natural handwriting system with searchable data at the same time.
I think it's awesome for coding! I wrote a short article about it a bit ago. http://blog.zfeldman.com/2013-10-05-setting-up-a-chromebook-...
A penalized site is unlikely to be allowed to pass on its PR.
This is why my deadbolt uses an Abloy Protec2 cylinder (custom ordered from Bay Area Locks: http://www.bayarealocks.com). It's drill resistant, and it's disk-based so it's bump and rake proof.

Abloy also claims it's pick proof. Whether that will remain true in the future I'm not sure, but I do know that at the very least it has yet to be successfully picked. If someone did figure out a way it would likely be extremely difficult to do in practice.

After watching some videos that showed just how easy it is to simply kick a door in, another thing I did was replace my strike plate with a heavier duty one, and replace the worthless 3/4" screws that "hold" most strike plates in with 4" screws that actually go into the 2x4's of the house frame.
Pirate Bay uploads spike 50 percent, thwarting anti-piracy groups
They didn't really push AZLyrics, or any other lyrics site up. Those rankings haven't changed. Their position relative in the list you see based on your search terms has, but that's relative.

Why should Google give special dispensation to RapGenius? Why should putting in something like "lyrics" or related content to someone being penalized get them to show up higher in the results?

Why should Google be RapGenius' search engine? Why shouldn't RapGenius make their search better?
Its all about the speed. If the high-speed is high enough, it'll have to do much the same thing. If it isn't high, then why build it.
Dada Mail v6.8.0 Released
As soon as you put "teenage" in front of anything, the expectation is lowered.

Do things that are hard for programmers. Learn Emacs. Read Knuth.

The people who will take you seriously as a programmer will be people worth having take you seriously as a programmer.
You can add a cookie jar, probably good enough for these purposes when combined with browser string override.
The point isn't that Google was wrong in doing so, at least not in the thread you're responding to. The point was that violating a TOS is not "evil"- no one died, no one was tortured or raped, there weren't death camps or civil liberties being violated.

This was stupid, it wasn't evil.
I have always fancied learning org-mode, but I have had trouble finding a guide which doesn't assume I already know emacs. Do you have any suggestions?
Right. But the inbound links can still get to the new site. What I got from your comment was concern for other websites who linked to RapGenius, and the users of those websites...
Social unrest in 2014: Protesting predictions
I have used your site quite often and was wondering why did you decide to make the downloaded program be wrapped with your executable? Why not just have a .rar/.zip of the actual program.
Sustainable Engineering Lab, Columbia University -- New York City -- Full time -- Android Developer

Currently looking for an Android Developer to join the team. @ http://modi.mech.columbia.edu. See https://github.com/SEL-Columbia/jobs for deets.

We are a university lab under The Earth Institute at Columbia University. We build open source software to help development in various countries in the world with a kick of technology.

Currently we are involved in a data collection / analysis project in Nigeria, an infrastructure planning project for Myanmar and remote islands in Indonesia, building an Android app for rural nurses in India, and similar projects. Our stacks includes but not limited to python, javascript, mongo and postgres (depending on the job), and we are always looking forward for new technology.

We are looking for hackers who are passionate about making stuff that helps the world suck less. If you are interested in hacking with us, traveling to the developing world, please go to the aforementioned github job repo to contact us.
Guess what. Someone with an army can come and take away your hammer as well. That money you got paid last month, someone can tax that too.

Things aren't perfect but I think individuals (in-duh-viduals :-) ) have more power than ever.

I'm also not sure that making straighter roads is the most important problem facing humanity. More often than not, governments will take that farm in the way (and they just did this over here in British Columbia for a new road they've built). The sense of entitlement is really that guy out in the suburbs who thinks it's his god given right to drive his SUV to the city every day on the straight or not so straight road and the people who want that cheap piece of plastic from China in their local shop driven by trucks on some straight or not so straight road...
> The agency charged with monitoring such bankruptcy declarations, a nonprofit with an exclusive government agreement

I used to associate nonprofits with humanitarian works, almost like charities, but it's pretty obvious lately that in many cases they're just for-profit systems that have found loopholes to exploit.

A prime example of this: the NFL is a nonprofit.
The appearance of the "reply" link on the thread page is delayed, but you can reply immediately if you visit the comment page (by clicking the "link" link above the comment body), where the "reply" link always appears immediately.

I think you're still missing the point I am making, which is that it seems both simpler and more effective, not to target "cultures", but rather to target violence. Your anti-transphobes and your anti-homophobes and your anti-misogynists aren't working at cross purposes, exactly, but they are by default in silos, which is what necessitates the whole concept of "intersectionality" -- something which doesn't go nearly far enough, in my opinion, in that it still refuses to look outside the narrow categories of "vulnerable minorities" on whose behalf it is regarded as worthwhile to expend effort, but at least it's a start.
Did anyone pick up the OP's book, "Writing Idiomatic Python"? I'm tempted to buy, as someone new to Python. Looks like it may be useful for learning some Python best practices.
Actually, adwords can be very profitable when you have a #1 organic ranking.

http://searchengineland.com/google-research-even-if-you-rank...
In some cases, what you say is true. In some cases not. I don't know if anyone actually had their land seized to build any of these http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18855961 but shouldn't the land now be returned to its rightful owners?

If you are in the UK, consider the debate raging over HS2, or the Heathrow expansion.
While that's certainly true, the distribution of asteroids by size [1] suggests that increasing size by that much decreases the probability proportionally?

[1] http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full/2007/18/aa6046-06/img2...
RapGenius should have a better search. And Google shouldn't give special dispensation to RapGenius, it should return best possible results.

Which they don't after excluding RapGenius. They purposefully broke their search results to protect their broken ranking method.
Too bad Oracle axed the Fortress language. I wonder if Guy is still working on it.
Neither is really, which is why this is such an empty discussion.
Well, you know that a company is trying to take you for all that they can when the first line of questioning from them is focused on how big your budget is / how much money you're willing to spend on them. This is par for the course for many companies that are on a sales-rep model.
Well, 301ing them is probably going to apply the penalty to the new brand, making the technique useless for getting back in search results. Not 301ing them means you're starting out with PR0 all over again, in which case you might as well just wait out the penalty period. In either situation, the rebrand on a new domain solution sucks.
Does Microsoft see open source in its future?
So audience data when you're talking about original productions can be a blessing and a curse. We don't need big data to tell us that the top four favorite subjects of Netflix users are marriage, royalty, parenthood, and reunited lovers. We've been telling stories about those things for hundreds - if not thousands - of years.

The data can also be misleading, because sometimes what audiences want isn't what's good for dramatic effect. Both Dexter and Homeland suffered from audiences reacting positively to the main character, which caused Showtime to stop the writers from making creative decisions that yes, would have alienated the audience initially, but on the other hand would have made for shows that would have in their later seasons been better received.

Another example: I'm pretty sure that if you looked at the Netflix data it would show that people liked to watch movies and TV shows that either had happy endings or twist endings. The former makes you feel good, the latter makes you appreciate the writing. What people really don't like are ambiguous endings. If we based creative decisions purely on audience data a show like The Sopranos wouldn't have the ending it does. The upshot of all of this is that many writers end up 'cheating' the data to get their shows made. Take Orange is the New Black, where the creator Jenji Kohan has gone on record saying she basically used the main white, engaged protagonist as a trojan horse to get the show commissioned. What I'm basically trying to say in this rant is that using data to inform what shows to commission is one thing, but using it to direct the shows as they progress is another (and something I'm against).
I think the "logarithmically" makes the claim a bit disingenuous. The implication of 3.7x is to say "similar sized", which sends a message of "we were almost in trouble here".

Really, in linear space (the space most people think in most of the time), the extinction event object mentioned in your link is at least 2500x larger than the object being discussed.
Actually Emscripten outputs a strict subset of JS dubbed asm.js. Using this allows some really significant speed improvements in execution, due to simplified type checking.

My understanding then is that for certain things this could well be faster than a hand written Javascript port.