skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I stopped reading when the author got into a snit because "Control animals were fed 20% more than their average daily intake". It seems clear from context that that was to allow the animals to eat as much as they wanted, the animals were not force-fed 20% more. They're given extra food in case they feel extra hungry that day. It's standard in caloric restriction experiments to feed one group of animals ad libitum, and the other group, some fraction of the ad libitum rate. The effect of caloric restriction on life span has been known for decades, well before it penetrated the mainstream consciousness, and has been described for many different species under many different experimental regimes. It's a robust effect, and a mysterious one.

This article smacks of 9/11 truther, anti-evolution froth. The author has an agenda and she'll pound on her podium until she bludgeons us into agreement that all science infrastructure is corrupt and nothing we read could possibly be true.

Admittedly, there's a lot of junk science out there, and the authors of this study could have waited another 10 years before reporting any results. But put yourself in their shoes: you're starting to see an effect. Every time you go to a conference, people say, "So, how's that multidecade experiment of yours going?" So why not report what you see, and publish another paper in 10 years? It doesn't have to be a conspiracy. Really.
in slovak and czech language, scala is pronounced the same as 'skala', that means rock.
I priced it out for a wall, and it's really expensive. For an 8ft x 18ft wall, at $3.99/square foot, it would cost $574.56.
Carlo Ponzi was not a Sicilian. Even the old Kingdom of Two Sicilies ended well south of Emilia Romagna.
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Quite so. The family brought on a string of years of rising at 5:30. Now I'm reverting to something nearer solar time.
His Masters thesis from MIT is quite interesting as well. He was working on analog computers at the time and came up with ways to use electromechanical arrays to solve Boolean algebra problems--inventing the digital circuit as we know it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Relay_an...
Maybe if it were the prize for literature. Have a look at some of the forgotten and forgettable who have received that...
Where to begin...

First the article says that a former US national security advisor thinks twitter should get a Nobel peace prize. There's a long way from that to credible speculation that they'll get one. There are no claims from inside sources, a claim that PG thinks Sam Odio should get the Nobel Prize in physics would be equally credible.

Second the committee that decides who gets the prize is secret and doesn't leak information. And it's in Sweden. The article qoutes US sources that have nothing to do with the process.

Third historically nobel prizes are only given once it's proven that you weren't wrong, primarily for political reasons. Twitter isn't quite there yet, they may well be bankrupt next year. There are exceptions to this rule but they are rare.
Have you ever priced out a white board to fit that space? An actual whiteboard that size would be much pricier. This actually doesn't seem too unreasonable.
If you read his opening analogy without thinking it was a reference to SEO, you might assume it was about, say, books. I suspect that it's easier to get a web page read than a book distributed (if the author of the essay would like, we can have a race -- I will create a page and see if I can get it visited by a major search engine faster than he can get a book sold at a major chain).

Maybe Google isn't doing a good job. Maybe SEOs (like me) are manipulating search results in a way that's harmful to consumers. But in a capitalist economy, the way you say "That could be done better" is to, well, do it better. Or find someone who does it better, and use them instead of Google.
Minor note: the peace prize is actually handled in Norway, not in Sweden. The other prizes are in Sweden, though.

More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize
All essential infrastructure on the net, like domain name servers, should be regulated. Since search engines is becoming and essential part of the infrastructure, it should be regulated too.

The European Union has sponsored a search engine project for some years now. I would rather trust them than a private search engine company.
yet, in my humble uneducated opinion the writing is more engaging than CNN or similar factoids, and is an example of what journalism could be, without pretentious objectiveness (which is impossible to achieve, to most journalists-reporters, at least).
Am I dense (highly possible/probable) for not seeing an original argument the author is trying to make?

(Note: I'm seriously wondering if I'm missing something, especially since it's early and I'm not a morning person.)
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"Their service has more bells and whistles, but mine is much simpler and quicker to use."

You just answered your own question. You must focus your marketing on "simpler and quicker" to the exclusion of everything else. (Either "simpler" or "quicker" would be even better, focusing on one thing.)

Jack Trout, in "Differentiate of Die," says it much better than me:

"The best way to really enter minds that hate complexity and confusion is to oversimplify your message. The lesson here is not to try to tell your entire story. Just focus on one powerful differentiating idea and drive it into the mind. That sudden hunch, that creative leap of the mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence. If there's any trick to finding that simple set of words, it's one of being ruthless about how you edit the story you want to tell. Anything that others could claim just as well as you can, eliminate. Anything that requires a complex analysis to prove, forget. Anything that doesn't fit with your customers' perceptions, avoid."
That said, the primary methodology for all users to reach any individual website destination is still search, of either paid or organic listings.

I don't know about that. I've had around 10.000 visitors to my blog in the last few days. No paid search, and around 10 referrers from Google search. The rest from social news sites, twitter, bookmark sites and other places that have nothing to do with Google.
And what exactly does being Jewish have to do with it? I'm not one to cry "Anti-semitic!" at the drop of a hat, but this guy has me wondering..
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Ah, good catch. I had no idea.
I disagree, though not entirely.

I do think that it's a pretty frivolous nomination, given the history of the Peace Prize.

That said, I think the nomination reflects a major change we're living through: where change, revolution, and the peace that will hopefully come (as ousting Ahmadinejad will remove a violent, seemingly war-bent leader) are dictated by a self-organizing community, not a common voice speaking through an individual.

If the latter view becomes more prevalent over the coming years, who better to give the Peace Prize to than those who make self-organization possible and "sticky"?

What's ridiculous today can easily become tomorrow's future (a PC in every home? Don't get me started...).
Genius and leadership expresses itself in many ways.

I imagine a young 20 yr old Albert Einstein reading this article and asking himself "what else can this electromagnetics do?"
I've heard a talk recently by a guy who works with scientists who do calorie restriction experiments.

What he said is an eye-opener. The animals look healthier but they don't live longer. They don't seem to die of age, but they do just drop dead one day, not always from any obvious cause at all - although they seem particularly susceptible to infections.

His hypothesis was that calorie restriction works by forcing the body on such low resources it has to cannibalize itself, which has the advantage it cleans up age-related crud much more effectively - and the disadvantage that there is absolutely no slack in the system. Every problem is a crisis.
Of course there are harmful SEOs, ones who play the system with malicious intent. However consider that there are malicious marketers, malicious politicians, and malicious forms of every other occupation. The government does not regulate [all of] these.

At some point the government has to let the people govern themselves rather than coddling and protecting them from themselves. Protecting from themselves leads to an unhealthy government / citizen relationship.

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The Time Has Come To Regulate Techcrunch
I think this is hype.
Comments occurs when you have community, and they area more valuable here than in Twitter/Facebook.

Also, it's very difficult to have a focused conversation on twitter.
As an advertiser I'll vouch that the service works smoothly. There were a few quirks uploading my banner ad.

Overall the CTR of the ad is pretty dismal but I'll probably try and run it against other types of sites and see what happens. If anything I figure a little advertising helps promote awareness of my service.

I've also found BSA is an easy way to find blogs interested in writing about a particular niche. Good when looking for people to spread the word to.
The problem is that in ten years there will still be many unanswered questions. Science is a series of progress reports. They chose to publish and their peers agreed that the work was publishable.
SEO people can be good-but they really need to stop the whining. Google doesn't owe anything to them-you don't hear Adware people for the PC complaining to MS that they need to reveal all the internals of the OS so they can better design nasty software do you?
Two key points to take away from this article:

1) Effective ROI can translate (scarce) user time slices to a successful business not subject to ("industrial") models. Put in terms of an OS, Dr. Schmidt is effectively comparing Google's core competency (search) to a OS level service (such as networking) that will see sustained growth specifically because of the increased adoption of internet apps (FB, T, etc.).

2) VCs should consider recruiting senior business minded technologists to head young hacker ventures instead of MBAs.
And the ribbon is a relatively new user experience for such a product as well. This was a huge risk for them considering how widespread office was, but it goes to show you that Microsoft can indeed produce a quality product.

I use open office on my home computers, but at work I use Office 2007, I loathe having to spend time in OpenOffice now, because the interface and usability for Office 2007 is just so pleasant to me.
It's an inflammatory article. The opening sentence is blatantly antagonizing. It makes a broad generalization about what "mental stamina" means and presumes it is an unqualified Good Thing. There are days when I accomplish more mental work between the hours of 7 and 9 than the entire rest of the day. Sure, late in the day I run out of steam, but I don't really care.

The actual results of the test are not nearly so offensive to the "smug early birds" as you might think. The study controls for caffeine and physical activity, among many other things. There's a gap between what the study actually was testing, and the everyday semantics of the terms "early bird" and "night owl" which is glossed over by the article.
You assume that search has gotten worse but provide no objective data to back it up. Could it be that you are using search today differently then you used search years ago?

Could it be that you've read a large majority of the existing hidden articles that you deem cool?

The only significant change has most likely been in how you use Google. Instead of just searching "Ubuntu" you may now search "site:ubuntuforums.org nvidia glx1800".
Madoff's marks trusted him because he belonged to their ethnic group. That ethnic group happened to be "Jews" but it would have worked just as well with "Italians", "African-Americans", "Swedes"....
It has some relation - Jewish communities tend to be quite tight. I work with a Jew runing a consultancy and a large amount of the workload comes from his community connections; there is a level of trust - especially regarding money (I know that is a stereotype but it is true) - established by the common religion.
Nobody cared much for slavery in the US until Uncle Tom's Cabin came out back then among other gruesome real life accounts.

UTC was propaganda, not a real life account. Slaves were much too valuable to be treated in the way depicted in the book. Horrible treatment sure, but what's in the book makes no sense on a commercial/economic level.
> As we discover more and more about the world the more dedication it will take to make progress in a field.

Not necessarily. Remember the quote about shoulders and giants?
One of the main reasons cited is no time and resources to upgrade. And that is probably strongly related to the current recession.

It seems "only human" for people to cut back and save when the economy is bad, but unfortunately that is also the wrong thing to do in order for the economy to recover, and the wrong way to reboot a business. Now is exactly the time for companies to be investing in their futures, and I.T. is one of those major spending areas. With smart spending today, they could be extremely well positioned in a year or two.

A related problem is that I've yet to witness an I.T. group that operates incrementally, or in a parallel testing fashion; it seems that everything has to become a snowball in order to happen at all.

There are ways to make upgrades perfectly safe, and achievable over a longer period of time when resources are scarce. For example, machines could be upgraded a few at a time in isolation (ideally with a production-like parallel test environment), starting with the more experienced users. And, the culture could evolve to commit to incremental improvements in business applications on a regular basis, so that change is expected instead of being some rare event that scares everyone and threatens to tear the company apart at the seams.
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I'm not sure who would disagree with this. Love it or hate it, Office is a behemoth.
That's what our company does, but there are still significant costs associated with it. Even if you only want to upgrade a few machines at a time, you probably still have to purchase licenses for everyone, especially if you want to get bulk licensing deals. Working with Microsoft's pricing system is complicated enough without trying to incrementally purchase from them. So, it's often easier just to avoid the upgrade process altogether.
Of all the nonsense that I've heard about government regulation this has to be the #1 in a long long time.

If a search engine gets enough traction with the general public then there will be people who will try to game the system. This will cause two things to happen, the engines being gamed will adapt and those that don't will be replaced by something better.

It's an arms race, and no amount of 'regulation' is going to curb it.

You might as well try to outlaw evolution. (I'm sure it's been tried though...)
Indeed they gave it to Gore for his politico-ing :)
I would love to see .NET better integrated into the actual operating system. I agree completely with you.

Also, it's worthwhile to mention that .NET is available and usable freely (albeit limited features in VS, but not THAT limited), and let's not forget that start ups can get full access to plenty of the software through http://www.microsoftstartupzone.com/BizSpark/Pages/FAQ.aspx

I like the direction Microsoft is taking the company, I hope it continues.
1. Few other topics (specifically, art, literature, dance) really contribute to the sum of humanity as well as science does. When we're young, we want to be firemen, ballerinas and astronauts. Only later do we get talked into fields with higher personal ROI.

2. Really, indifferent? I spent quite a few years at protests and rallys with quite a few other students the last few years. Hardly indifferent.
Well, given that they guy that invented dynamite is giving his name to a peace prize we shouldn't really be surprised that it gets used in ways that are creative with words.
Thanks for making me cry on the inside, dick.

:-)
Fair enough, I just thought it was odd. Thanks for the background.
I'm sorry I killed the discussion... and you have a point regarding my patronizing tone. I should have refrained from replying to specific comments, but it got on my nerves. Most of these are bordering the "not even wrong" kind.

The usual behavior towards this kind of ignorance and arrogance is contempt. I could have kept shut and let people make fools of themselves but, somehow, I care about this place and the quality of the community, hence my reply.

I probably wouldn't have been as vehement hadn't I known (remotely for most of them) some of the authors, hence the disclosure, but that's not the point.

The criticism below come from people who, by the fact of their comments, displayed flagrant ignorance of the subject and of the scientific process, and imagined they could criticize the paper on a technical ground when they are clearly incompetent to do so. Hence the link to the original paper and the information complement ==> "Please read the paper and make your opinion based on it rather than on a simplified summary".

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I know of course that there are smart people outside the academic world. That's why I'm hanging around here. But the Science reviewers are the best researchers in their fields, and, to get there, you need to be impressively smart and knowledgeable. I hope you've had or will have the chance to hang around with people in that "league", they are amazing. Assuming you can outsmart them at reviewing a paper without having even read it is just dumb.

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At last, I didn't see the comments here as threats to the paper it is solid, and so are the people behind it. I wouldn't have written the comment if I had a single doubt about it. The Cyclotron team routinely publishes papers in the best journals (Science, Nature, PLOS, PNAS, the Lancet, to name a few). They're badasses ;-)
In this 'Current Economic Climate' I wouldn't say any upgrade survey reflects on the product itself.

Frankly, I'm surprised 40% would even consider a project of that size.
I love old aircraft rotary engines:

http://www.animatedengines.com/gnome.shtml

Aside, this is one of the few sites that makes legitimate use of animated gifs.
Isn't search is becoming mature? And once that happens, will it be any different than the Yellow Pages? Won't most of the talent exit the marketplace and then it leave it to the bureaucrats and such?
I was actually thinking the complete opposite. Since they found nothing of value in the wallets, they were easy to part with and send back. If they found $300 in cash, the finder may have felt more inclined to keep the wallet or at least the money. A good follow up test would be to see how often the money comes back with the wallet.
Historically the prizes are given to organizations who have as their main focus peace, not to communications media.

You may as well nominate AT&T or some other phone company.
I'd take a little more time to position yourself against them. If your service is simpler and quicker, it would seem that you may be able to poach their customers. Kinda like your competitor has generated your marketing leads for you.

Perhaps you could make it easy for their customers to migrate to your new service.

Try to figure out the value of "simpler and quicker", and price accordingly. Maybe there's not enough value in "simpler and quicker" and you need to add just a few more bells to be compelling.

One of the benefits of not taking money IMHO, is the luxury of time to position yourself. You only answer to yourself and the only cost is opportunity cost.

Figure out your marketing to hit a quicker growth rate than your competitor when you launch. Stealth is a good advantage.
What are you trying to say? That the reporter is lying?

If you have information that the article is fake, I am sure the publisher would be extremely interested. Mother Jones is not to everyone's taste but I'm sure they would never knowingly publish false information.

Based on your skepticism I did look around a bit and the journalist has indeed now been granted asylum in the USA. One would presume that as part of that process his story had been checked out by the US authorities and determined to be genuine.

And if the reporter is not lying, then it implies the situation is real and probably widespread. If they do it for one guy, they can do it for anyone, unless you have some theory as to why this guy was made the exception.

I'm no Mexico expert but the brutal suppression of free press by the military is not new or rare, and is characteristic of corrupt or collapsing states. I find the story very believable, unfortunately, and thought that its dramatic writing style was very effective in driving home the seriousness of what is going on in Mexico.
The variable cost of MRI is scan time. The MRI technician needs to make a tradeoff: more time for higher quality image. I'm trying to get a better quality in the same time.

Big picture idea: the MRI doesn't spit out pictures, it spits out encoded pictures (the Fourier transform). Using a simple model of what bodies look like, I can dramatically narrow the search space when decoding the pictures.
> There's also no definition of "middle-class" offered. It seems to me so vague a term that anything said about "the middle class" is useless without some indication of just what notion of "middle class" is being used.

Yup, that's a huge problem.

The US population is roughly 300M. It's unclear how "middle" can be defined in a way that leads to less than 100M or so people. (An absolute definition is absurd, because it leads to no middle class 50 years ago and everyone "upper class" in another 50. A relative definition will be roughly stable in population, regardless of circumstance.)

There's probably a "the middle class is in a different economic situation" argument to be made, but that's not nearly as much "fun" for a journalist.
The argument is flawed since Google derives its indexes from the links contained within content itself. To use their metaphor: "Imagine if you went to Los Angeles and the easiest restaurants to find were were those most recommended by the the owners of the other places"
Thinking of continuing to work on my javascript physics engine: http://fuzzthink.com/openjs or starting something else.
LaTeX is also useful [1] for controlling Mars rovers. See page 5 of the current Monad Reader (http://www.haskell.org/sitewiki/images/8/85/TMR-Issue13.pdf).

[1] OK, not actual useful, but it can be done.
I just looked at your site and was shown a crotch + vibrator. Ho hum.
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I don't think there's any shortage of places that could benefit from innovation, but there are a lot of roadblocks now.

For instance, of course there's a way to do better than Exchange and Outlook, of course there's a way to improve Office, of course Windows has major flaws. But just try selling the business model of "unseat Microsoft" in any number of areas.

One possible way forward is virtualization. Until recently, it was impractical to run established applications without committing the hardware to one legacy OS, which brought everything else down to the same level of ancient technology. If it is finally feasible to demote Windows to, er, a window, I.T. would finally be free to explore something new in a way that would not break any of their core investment in software.