skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I wonder why people cook up statistics to make their group's position look worse than it is.

Yvain at LW has written a couple great posts on this exact topic, and the comments aren't too bad either:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/7s/why_support_the_underdog/

http://lesswrong.com/lw/9b/help_help_im_being_oppressed/

Choice quote: "It's also why every time BBC or someone shows a clip about the region, they get complaints from people who thought it didn't make their chosen side seem weak enough!"
The problem is that unless the 360 can make up for the losses of the first XBox, they are still losers. They'll either need that to happen or they'll need to continue profitability with their 3rd console.

It's easy to say that MS has taken over the "gamer" market but we thought the same thing when Sony dominated with the PS and PS2. It's clearly a market whose leader can be taken down: The rise and fall of Sega. The rise and fall and rise of Nintendo. Sony and Microsoft coming out of nowhere to take over.
Yes, it's completely absurd.

I mean...if you're going to suggest that a technology provider be given a Nobel Peace Prize for Iranian protests, at least pick something that had a significant effect -- like a cell phone network. Because despite all of the press that Twitter received, there's not that much evidence that it played any significant role in the protests. And for every one person using Twitter, there were hundreds -- if not thousands -- of people using cell-phones to communicate about the protests, with little fanfare or media attention.

http://www.slate.com/id/2220736/

http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/remember_moldova.php

http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/04/17/04

http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/06/19/01

I suppose that you could argue that Twitter was responsible for bringing the Iranian protests into the American media spotlight, but the thing about the coverage was that it was mostly about Twitter, only superficially about Iran. You could tune into any major media outlet and hear gobs about how precious, precocious Twitter was so important to the Iranian protests that the US State Department wouldn't let them take downtime -- but you didn't hear that much about the Iranian protests! It was an example of US media navel-gazing, at its finest.
Maybe the author himself has a side business that's becoming successful and is thus following his 4th rule ;)
PC and an Enttec USB/DMX interface. It's common practice to require software controllers to use a proprietary DMX interface (as an anti-piracy measure), and I may look in to having one manufactured.
>> "They're about getting a multimedia PC attached to your TV."

The problem is, the xBox is absolutely unusable as a media thing. It's ridiculously noisy, big, and useless. A mac mini beats it hands down. Or any small lightweight PC. The xBox still doesn't even have a browser for the love of god. We live in a time when new calculators probably have web browsers included.... but not the xBox.
As a product it clearly failed. It did not meet its sales numbers at all, they had to extend XP's life over and over and finally killed the gift horse so that Vista would be installed on machines by default. Many people would choose XP over Vista if they could on their machines. I think most people would reasonably call it a failure from a business perspective.
What a wonderful... anecdote.
"Err... That's ridiculous."
indeed, let's give nobel peace prize to the pen writer used...
I actually find About.com useful at times. However, an About.com site that is no more than a spam site is Consumer Search. Sad that such a site is owned by the NY Times.
"3. Make a suggestion that HR should implement temporary paid leave for employees."

Enlightened companies may allow you to take unpaid leave for a few months. Yes, you'll need some savings to get through the period but at least you (hopefully) will have a job at the end of the period if it isn't working out.
I've often thought that if you removed any site that uses Google Adsense you'd get much better results.
Seems like it wouldn't be too hard to whip up an extension (or just a greasemonkey script) to append "-site:blah.com" entries to all google searches, according to a user defined list.

In fact, I'd be surprised if such an extension didn't already exist (I'm not interested enough to go look...)
"Because the losing party entered into it freely and with reasonable knowledge of what is going on, I do not favor forcibly shutting it down either, as I can not imagine what such a law would look like anyhow."

Read fail?
You didn't kill the discussion. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but not everyone's is necessarily informed. Pointing out that people who only have a casual, indirect understanding of the material at hand should keep this in mind when attempting to critique the paper is a perfectly valid, non-elitist, thing to point out. Quite frankly, even if I were to read the paper, I probably would not have enough understanding to make an informed opinion on the subject. I can give a bunch of javadoc class descriptions to a neurosurgeon. But that doesn't mean that she'll have the prerequisite knowledge to make sense of it.

We should celebrate our specialties and the amount of narrow and deep knowledge required to become experts in them instead of having our egos tripped up because we can't have our intelligence validated in every single domain.
Bingo bango.
Uh, Bob, what happened?

Executives at Google and Microsoft are delivering solutions to "remind" each other that they exist?

I'm going to go back to some of your older blog posts to remind myself that you can add something to the conversation.
> What about foreign based search engines?

Tariffs. Especially if they do not respect our labour and/or environmental protection laws.
Like a computer where you can only buy apps from a single site owned by the maker and only connect to the net through a single service provider - no consumer would ever go for that.
ARM clockless processors (power savings for mobile devices)
I would argue that indexing a bunch of crap actually _improves_ the quality of Google's search.

Just like trying to filter e-mail spam, the larger your spam corpus, the easier it is to differentiate between valid content and junk.
The price comparison sites that don't contain reviews but do manage to come high up in a Google search for 'X reviews'.
If you have a startup and a day job I urge you to secretly work on your startup as much as you can while at your day job. This is wrong, but gotta do what you have to do to do what you want to do.
"This kind of article completely fails the "of more interest to hackers than other people" test"

Au contraire, it's front page news at HN, and I don't see it enjoying such popularity at any other aggregator service. That does suggest it is, in fact, of more interest to hackers - or at least the HN variety - than other people.
...thereby breaking the semantics of the password input type. If it's going to be changed by Javascript, it should be a CSS style called "masked" or something.
I'm not a morning person, but my experience is similar to yours. What I settled on when circumstances allow for it is to wake up early in the morning to get non-creative stuff done. Then, I have a nap for maybe 2 hours. Following this nap, I continue on with my day, first taking care of the new work generated by my first round of morning work, before settling in on the meat of what I do when most people are winding up for the day.
All the stores that have been spidered (amazon.com etc)
Googles own sites (youtube.com, images.google.com, etc)

I'm glad this is a hypothetical question because I find both of the above very useful. I often suffix "amazon" or "youtube" on to a search - saves me actually having to go to those sites to perform a search in most cases.
A sample size of '1' and this guy is an expert ? One would hope that Morgan Stanley knows enough statistics to get a more representative sample, or god forbid a panel.

Of course, if they've managed to corner the one 15 year old whose friends are a perfect cross cut of their group then I stand corrected.

If you generalize from such a small sample size to a large number of individuals you are going to have to include some very large error bars around your 'conclusions'.
Let's not get carried away about Twitter's role in Iran's demonstrations.
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site:amazon.com

that works just fine and it would keep the rest of the search results clean.
Good, clean Internet censorship
Wow, that's an order of magnitude more than I expected... now I'm really curious how many full-time engineers Google pays to develop Chrome.
If they did a better job on the differentiation then I would agree with you.
I'd love to read one of these from the US.
Remember Moldova: exaggeration and the "Twitter Revolution"
I didn't know anybody (but me) who read a newspaper when I was 15 either. That was 22 years ago now.

Turns out 15-year-olds have never read newspapers. This revelation may not be enormously useful to them.
It took a 15 year old "expert" to point out the obvious? What a world we live in
Here is the article on Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=aG2U...

Sample size is the kid + his friends.

If you just choose a child at random, you are likely to get an average child. There isn't just one average kid, there are MANY, and a few weird ones.
I think you could probably make a good case that any kind of real breakthrough combined more than one domain of knowledge.
Seriously. Can the editors please fix this headline?
I'm very glad this guy is running. Education and technology should be top priorities for our country. I would trust an early stage investor would understand this better than most.
"Without claiming representation or statistical accuracy,
his piece provides one of the clearest and most thought
provoking insights we have seen. So we published it."

From the actual report, linked by lucifer:

http://media.ft.com/cms/c3852b2e-6f9a-11de-bfc5-00144feabdc0...
It's still too early for me to think about this, but I'm sure some aspects of it will be open sourced.
That explains hard core hip hop.
This kid is from a certain social background and is likely to associate with kids from a similar social background, unless he is a networker par excellence and has contacts all over the globe with teenagers from every income level and education level.

There are untold variations on that, and each of those subgroups has their own 'averages', this kid is at best - and I'm not saying that he is, just leaving open the possibility - in the middle of his own subgroup.
The "Customize Google" extension does this
The "report" is extremely banal, with the only point of interest being the apparent reaction to it. That is, why exactly is the media pretending this is significant in any way?
I do not want to seem snarky, but I can't tell if this is a joke or not. If not, can you elaborate on what you mean? Would the government tariff foreign search engines on a per search basis?
Here is a Hacker News thread about the finding you mention:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=675671
must be a solution in there with mechanical turk...
This brings to mind Bill Simmons' idea of a VP of Common Sense:

"I'm becoming more and more convinced that every professional sports team needs to hire a Vice President of Common Sense, someone who cracks the inner circle of the decision-making process along with the GM, assistant GM, head scout, head coach, owner and whomever else. One catch: the VP of CS doesn't attend meetings, scout prospects, watch any film or listen to any inside information or opinions; he lives the life of a common fan. They just bring him in when they're ready to make a big decision, lay everything out and wait for his unbiased reaction."

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/0605...

Sometimes, you just need someone not overly involved to root out when you are over analyzing things and missing the obvious. A 15 year old kid seems a good candidate for such a position.
The percent of teenagers and young adults reading online news is on the rise, though
"In their relative evening, late risers are more alert and can outperform early birds in a reaction time test assuming they're allowed follow their natural sleep rhythm, whereas there are no such differences in the morning" would be a more accurate title...

The paper also gives insights relative to the neural processes involved.
"UTC" was literature ;-) based on real people. My sentence was a little misleading though: I meant that the other accounts were "real life".

You sound like a slavery supporter though. You should look up some history books. Slaves were treated like cattle or pets basically. House slaves were pets and plantation slaves were cattle.
I thought Project Natal belonged more to the Cairo, WinFS and Windows for Pen Computing bin, namely, vaporware products that don't work nearly as well as advertised (Milo and Kate? gimme a break), pre-announced by many, many months (if not years) and designed to create a FUD atmosphere that hurt the sales of competitors.
In some respects your eyes are correct: if you take the image into an editor and apply a strong gaussian blur to it, you can clearly see the "average" of the strips within each spiral arm are green or blue. This is why the illusion is more effective at a distance: your eyes have surprisingly crappy color resolution, and zooming out has the effect of blurring the colors together.

(And it's also why you completely miss the real illusion -- that each solid color in the picture is really made of tiny red, green, and blue rectangles.)
"So?"
I agree it's ridiculous, but if they do go ahead, I nominate YouTube to receive the literature prize for its quality comments.
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I think BSA works best for branding not for clicks or leads. Unless the blog or site advertised at is hyper-topical that is offers exactly the info you the potential buyer of a product needs.
Euro Publishers Band Together To Underscore Lack Of Understanding Search Engines
When I was 15 I believed advertising didn't work.
When I was freelancing on the side, I used to think that $50/hour was on the high side, but it's actually on the low side. You should charge at least $75/h if not $100/h.

Don't believe me? Consider: Barely anyone works 40h/week of billable time. Most full-time freelancers bill 4-5h/day and do non-billable work the rest of the time. That's 20-30h/week of billable time about 50 weeks of the year. Say you bill 25h/week for 50 weeks, and you want to make about $80k. That comes to $64/h, and that doesn't even account for your expenses!

Here are some resources on freelance benchmarks and rates.

http://www.freshbooks.com/reportcards/all-industries.php

http://freelanceswitch.com/rates/

(Disclaimer: I work for FreshBooks.)
You're price isn't too high if your work is high quality. If anything you can raise it.

I've found its often better to quote per job than by the hour, especially for new clients. $50/hour is cheap if you get a lot done per hour, but expensive if you don't.
Apple devices may give Flip some competition
Boston forum on noncompete clauses, July 22
Canvas vs Flash
The measurements were performed at time points relative to the natural rhythms of the subjects i.e. respectively 1h30 and 10h30 after waking up according to their natural rhythms.
Have a look the methods and protocol linked above.
Even if your market share was closer to %100 of companies previously?

Although I'm not sure what percentage of companies have skipped entire generations of Windows, previously, to make an actually meaningful comparison.
I read an article years ago about people who had a mutation which allowed them higher color picking accuracy. As I recall it had to do with their rods and cones. But I'm not positive.

I wonder if they are able to see that these are the same colors, or if it affects them also.
I always have a great deal of respect for a person who takes time to share knowledge is such an amazing way.

Great Job!!
I still 'believe' advertising doesn't work, but when I check out how much 'brand' stuff I own and consume I have to admit there is not much basis to my beliefs (this is probably true for most beliefs...).
Did this user have to do these things to produce a document for dead tree consumption? I don't doubt that these features are necessary for producing something pretty on the printed page, but that use case is becoming less and less common.

Right now, I'm consulting for a Fortune 500 manufacturing firm's IT group. They're pretty old-school in a lot of respects, but the only printed Word document I've been given since starting here has been the telephone manual! People carry their laptops to meetings and read stuff electronically. Some people still print out stuff, but it's not all that common. The print-friendly Word features are becoming more like Pagemaker features -- really useful, but not necessary for 95%+ of employees.
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My point was that Microsoft only need to up the investment speed enough that everyone are in the red.

The non-monopolists will have to give up in the end. Then the monopolist can stay and earn lots of money for generation n, n+1, n+2, ...

(I think this is a classic example in economy, but for bakeries (?). A big chain goes into a geographic area and undercuts the prices of the small bakeries. After a while they close. Then the prices are raised to higher than ever before -- to pay for undercutting prices in the next area.)
That's one of the most useful tools I've seen in a long time. Especially being a non-native English speaker this is always a pain.
In my experience quoting per job will lead to a very bad experience for either you or the customer, and possibly both. By quoting per hour, you will be payed for your work and the customer will only pay for the work done.
Safari 4.0.2 will not have the code that you need to see the demo in full force. You would need to go to webkit.org and download a nightly build.
You're thinking of tetrachromats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy

I'd expect the illusion would work just as well for them as for anyone else, as it relies on the contrast between neighboring colors.
In this case, I suspect that the answer is that it creates a market where none existed before, because the price scientists were willing to pay was lower than the price where anyone could make money selling TEMs or SEMs.

I haven't ever written a grant proposal, but I have the impression that if the committee thinks you'll be wasting the grant money, you're less likely to get the grant. I'd be interested to hear about your grantwriting experiences, especially if they're different.
Also the question remains: Who exactly used Twitter to tweet about the demonstrations? Why did the state department want Twitter to postpone the their scheduled downtime?

Most of the people tweeting were seemingly new users with very similar English language avatars. I didn't see the Iranians I knew with green avatars.

It looked very staged and not spontaneous. They could have been US government agents. The Bush administration acknowledged long ago that it is trying to destabilize the Iranian government from within.

Also take note that the green "opposition movement" is supportive of the old clerical power elite that has been in power before the current one.
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Flagged: This guy just advocates lying and underhanded practices in his column. I think it's just blog-trolling.

If it's supposed to be funny, I find the humor very elusive.

Here is another post from a couple of weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678861
I did! I was a paperboy, dear god did that teach me about how trashy newspapers are and the shocking amount of people that read the very worst (The Daily Mail was by FAR the most popular on my round).
Microsoft takes on Google with free Office programs
I think a lot of people don't realize the answers are at the bottom, so they click on the link, see the request to register/pay to see the posts, and immediately back up, cursing the pseudo-paywall.
Ground leakage used as a Keylogger
if your "freelancing" boils down to bidding on stuff on freelance sites, $50 is way too high.

if your "freelancing" boils down to being referred in real life by past clients, $50 is pretty low.
On the Skillfulness of Developers
Ah yes I am. Thanks a lot! I couldn't find the article I mentioned, so this is a much appreciated cite.
Why does this cheeky crap article have 52 freaking points? Oh sorry I'm supposed to flag and shut up, not complain.
The thing with experts exchange is you have to pay to see the answers, right? (unless I have missed something).

Because they are all over google for most error related searches it is frustrating to click without looking and find a useless page (taunting you almost :P). It hides all the free useful pages with the same answers on :(

I wouldnt remove it from Google though - and I agree, it is better than all the spam link sites.
And yet NYT stock seems unaffected. Go figure.
Fear and Power, from Robert Greenes blog.
I think it is even more ridiculous than that, a communications medium is neutral, nothing stops the 'bad guys' from using it as well.
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"After being turned down repeatedly he finally asked why."

This is the key. Don't guess. Find out.

Notice that his father didn't solve his problem until he actually found out what it was. Why don't you do the same?
Give both. "My rate is $X and I estimate it will take at least Y hours." That way they get an idea of what it will cost in total and also how much it will cost them to make changes.
I've seen people say this before - how do you mean "at the bottom". Every page I have seen highlights the "accepted answer" in green and does ask you to pay to access it..... am I missing a workaround?
Adverse Possession does not care how the property was acquired. All it cares is that the owner has managed to maintain uncontested possession of it. The states originally siezed the territory from the Brits. The Feds then seized it from the states. Neither usurpation is still contested to this day. No state government maintains that the New Deal is illegitimate.

Adverse Possession is not about making moral claims. It is a way to prevent violence by settling who owns what. Groups would try and manufacture claims and rally groups to regain possession. You see this happen in the Balkans and Middle East with claims going back hundreds or thousands of years.

Of course, in some ways the question of legitimacy of state ownership is silly. Law between sovereigns or between a sovereign and its residents is always jungle law. The strongest wins. By definition, there is no third party to enforce the law.
get down from your high horse and let discussion happen

That's exactly what he did, and he did it so well, the stupid parts of the discussion can now end, and that's a good thing.

Also, Mr. Pot you might not want to go out of your way to point out black kettles.

I guess what I'm saying is YOU get down from your high horse let discussion happen.
A problem with Freemium is that it is easy and worthwhile for customers to have multiple accounts.

So if you needed 5GB it is relatively easy to use UserName01...UserName05 to acheive that.

Each additional 1GB faces a slightly reduced problem :: Is it worth coughing up cash for this service??
A 15 year old that got a job at Morgan Stanley is supposed to be the average teenager?