skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not saying you have to lie about the Xbox, they're just saying to feature it. Nothing unethical about it.
I did actually make a few simple games while making this library. None of them are complete, but they definitely helped to make things more concrete.

https://github.com/oakes/play-clj-examples
In the dim and distant past marketing was about telling people why your product was good, not convincing them it's popular.
400k Facebook accounts analyzed, what makes for good friendships
AB-testing is much better than doing nothing.

But you have to be careful with any powerful tool, in case its success blinds you to its weaknesses. "When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail". We think that's happening with AB-testing at the moment.

We think Wikipedia is awesome, and would love them to get more donations by using a more sophisticated approach.

Yes, most companies doing AB-testing, if they have the ability to personalise their user experience (i.e. they aren't trying to quickly find the single best UI) could benefit.

However, Wikipedia is a really good example to start with - the phrase 'Wikipedia needs those nickels' is a great example - resonates well with US donators, will probably work in Canada, but what about the UK? Australia?

It's obvious once its pointed out - but wouldn't it be better if the system automatically realises this? And considers all the combinations? That's our point.
You really see no problem with astroturfing? (Or is that your job? :-) )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

Edit: I am a bit shocked to see so many people (well, accounts) arguing astroturfing is OK, it used to be despised and big news when Microsoft did it then. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing#Incidents I will assume that is more astroturfing. Otherwise, goodbye Internet as an information source....
If you don't know what Mafia is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)
Avoid Java o_0. Are you seriously kidding me? So many tech frameworks, platforms, and tools are building using Java. Spring, Android, Hadoop, Solr... And Java 8 awesome features are coming this March.
Agreed. I recently quit smoking, it sucked.

Nicotine gum was how I kept the ability to work. Nontrivial abstract reasoning such as most programming is impossible when you are having nicotine withdrawls. If people want to try nicotine, buy some gum.

Honestly, as far as stimulants go, I've probably tried a serious amount of what's out there from the natural (chewed coca leaves, betel nuts, chewing tobacco, raw tobacco, ephedrine, etc.) to legal and less legal drugs that shall not be enumerated, and I think adequate sleep, exercise and good eating, possibly in combination with some meditation are the lowest hassle and most sustainable productivity enhancers.
Thanks! Same here in terms of "mostly a fun experiment". A while ago Brian Carper blogged about early attempts at developing a little RPG in clojure: http://briancarper.net/blog/520/making-an-rpg-in-clojure-par...

His post indicated that he initially tried the "every entity is an agent" idea, and had performance problems with it - although maybe his real problem was that the entire world was a single ref, and all of the agents would bash on that ref.

Another question, do you have any kind of reverse-lookup table implementation? I see that you're using component-based entities, do you have any way to quickly query your world for entities that match some arbitrary criteria, rather than iterate over all entities in the entire world? I ask because my game idea would involve potentially tens of thousands of entities, and I'm trying to figure out a way to build game logic mini-systems that can quickly find a subset of game entities and perform some function on them. For example "In the spring time find all fruit-bearing trees of a minimum age and spawn unripe fruit on them", or "every 15 seconds find all poisoned characters and deduct 1 health point"
Very true. Engineers like that are extremely rare, and usually have serious golden handcuffs. However, there are a lot more people with similar mindset but limited programming experience. With the right culture, those are the usually the people who can make a big different at a startup.
> Cars have gotten more fuel efficient, powerful, comfortable, safe etc, but I barely pay more than my parents did for a comparable 5yr old car in the 80s

You think the is the result of declining labour costs? I'm pretty sure mechanical engineers' wages have not decreased since the 1980s.
> It always amazes me how the ridiculuous old fashioned non-electric kettles are still popular in USA.

One thing that I find genuinely amazing is that power-companies can spot when there are commercial-breaks in TV programs by people in the country making tea en masse:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup
No, BPF is very old.
I always used 'git add -i' for this. That involved long steps before adding hunks. But this is so shortcut method. Thanks for sharing :)
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Do you have the same range anxiety with a gas car? Why not?
Maybe you don't have to explicitly lie, but "video creators "may not say anything negative or disparaging about Machinima, Xbox One, or any of its Games"
As best I can tell this is more like an English-looking CFG with a simple attribute grammar. And the rules can be updated at runtime.
Also, there's a popular video game also named "Fez" which uses the same fez hat in it. It probably won't lead to confusion since the game isn't a file based build tool, though it'll be something you might have to indirectly compete with in search results. :)
"And $10M was a lot in that time."

I love this. Classic Steve Wozniak humor.
"Everyone is trying to cram into the same three hipster
neighborhoods, and ignoring all of the cheaper parts of
town."

Those three hipster neighborhoods are probably the way they are because of their great access to public transit not only for traveling within the city but getting out of it via BART. No one ones to move to SF and live in a neighborhood with a suburban lifestyle that requires a car to maximize life's experiences.

Living in places like the Richmond and the Sunset for example are more isolating than living in Oakland. Living at the top of most of San Francisco's hills is relatively isolating as well. Furthermore, hills aren't conducive to human-powered transportation like biking and skateboarding. Being able to quickly move around via the power of your own two feet via walking, pedaling or pushing is one of the draws of all cities. Every relatively flat neighborhood with great transportation is destined to gentrify.

If you put a BART line under the Geary and California bus routes, all the neighborhoods in the far west would "hipsterfy" as well
Apparently the previous owner didn’t feel the need to have one either. Note that we are discussing a house that was rebuilt from a barn in 1938 (no one really knows how old the barn was at the time). There are no kitchen cabinets into which a microwave might be built, just open shelves, which I find quite satisfactory.

When I redo the kitchen, I’ll add a range hood, but the next owner will also be buying a house without a microwave.
Personality-wise, he's kind of like the alter-ego of Steve Wozniak.
This is a little silly. Of course every form would convert better if you perfectly customized it to the current user, no one really disagrees with that. But it doesn't mean it's always practical or worth the effort, or that the Wikipedia team have the time to tackle that at this moment.
you feel a bit strange for a couple of days

Err, no. It's fucking horrible. Like most people, I tried to quit many times, usually cold turkey, so multiply your 2-3 days figure by 10 (which I think is roughly the average number of attempts before success). That's a month of your life. A friend from the UK described it as follows: "I feel like I want to climb a tower with a sniper rifle and shoot small children." I think that's accurate.

Besides, the insidious part is that you see it everywhere ... shops, bars, the street, movies ... withdrawl upsets your sleeping so you are awake at night to go out ... you feel you can 'just have one' .. it is usually prevalent in a social scene ... you drink .. you associate it with drinking .. you lose your reason with the alcohol which compounds the sense of 'just have one' ... you want a break from work and you associate it with a smoke .. other people are smoking ..

It's really hard to avoid. Not like heroin, which is hard to run in to by accident. (I also know of multiple people who have quit both and they said cigarettes were harder. Not physically, but overall.)
1) Since it only does the work that needs to be done, you can safely 'watch node fez.js' and if there have been no file changes, nothing will be done! This won't work on Windows, of course, but then I'm not sure if anything else in Fez works on Windows anyway. I'll have to get that going here soon.

2) You can do pretty much whatever sort of transformation you want in an operation. In fact, if you want I can take a look at your code and implement that socket.io appending feature with Fez myself just to show how it can be done.
I like the idea, but unfortunately I only got results with the example questions. For instance:

> akiva ask "What's the weight of an iPhone 5s ?"
112 grams

is fine, but:

> akiva ask "What's the weight of an iPhone 5 ?"
Sorry, Akiva can't answer that question for now.

Or
>
akiva ask "What's the weight of a Nokia Lumia 920 ?"
Sorry, Akiva can't answer that question for now.
Yeah that's fair enough, but 50% increase in revenue per impression is hardly bad. You can make the argument that it could be better, and I agree with that sentiment within the article. But one of the first things to bear in mind when optimising is to always go for the low-hanging fruit first.

Although it's just my guesstimate, I'm imagine that the broad approach to A/B testing (or just doing it at all in the first place!), will be the most important and easiest fruit to grab. Whilst a multi-armed bandit solution will probably only provide much smaller returns on top. So given a choice between a wikipedia dev concentrating on improving the overall message, as opposed to trying to improve 5 or more cohorts at once - I'd go for the easier option until it stops giving significant returns.

That's not to say it shouldn't be done eventually. Like you said, it's potential money left on the table!
Questioning about whether something revolves around gender is kinda making us revolve more around gender.
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I seem to remember a famous rapper named Upton Sinclair who talked about this sort of thing and its effect on lower class workers.

"It's like a Jungle sometimes. It makes me wonder how I keep from going under."
It says that whiteness gives you privilege over colored people.

Not inherently and once again, very centric to Western culture.

It says that being male gives you privilege over people who are female.

Historically and still in certain areas, yes. But once again complicated and dishonest to inherently portray it as such. Especially in the West, where it can be completely false. That or the privileges of being male are equalized by the privileges of being female (and please don't tell me they don't exist).

And being rich gives you privilege over people who are poor.

Oh wow, and bears shit in the woods. No wonder people mock the social sciences.

In fact it’s getting more popular to use the word „kyriarchy” to avoid the overly-specific „patriarchy”.

Kyriarchy is a moronic term, as virtually all systems have some concept of power or control.
As wealthy as the poorest half of the world.

People, people, get ahold of yourselves. The poorest half of the world. Wealthy. Wealth. Not income.

This statistic is ridiculous.
You may want to let the diamond people know about that... exactly how far in the past are we going... I'm pretty sure marketing has always been about moving product for the lowest cost possible.
I left the field because it is a pretty inglorious role: nobody congratulates you when the network withstand the load under the worst circumstances, but everybody point you a finger for the minimal glitch - when it is not your fault you have to prove it.
Firefox really needs some help in its snappiness area.

While I wont mind optimizations to the general browser runtime and everything it powers, I don't think Firefox "really needs" help in the snappiness department.

Firefox today is a unique browser with several unique qualities.

1. It's founded on open-source, 100%, unlike certain other supposedly-open browsers created by ad-companies.

2. It's extremely extensible and is the only browser I can feel I can make "mine".

3. It has a clear stance on the value of the open web. No DRM shall pass. All other big browser vendors are peddling one DRM or another, and they are doing so on the open web, with no shame, no regret. Using those browsers implicitly makes you support Web-DRM, and to me that is completely unacceptable.

4. Where it tries to evolve standards it does so in a compatible way, and is open to community feedback. Compare this to for instance Google which develops a product in house, client and server code, in a quick turn releases it, as is, on the open web with some light docs saying "It's an open standard, anyone can use it. Just don't ask for us to do things differently". See Google's own attempt at ActiveX-like technology (NaCl, this website is incompatible with your CPU architecture) and how they've completely hijacked HTTP 2.0 with a new protocol which honours nothing of what made HTTP a success.

There are no browsers currently out there which gives me any incentive to switch from Firefox. And doing so for a few milliseconds improved loading-times seems like complete madness.

From a freedom point of view all other browsers are compromised. Only Firefox remains.

What happened to the world of techies with principles? Did you throw them all out when you bought those laptops from that Cupertino based patent-troll and launched a Web 2.0 URL-shortener written in node.js compiled with emscripten?
It's for cases like these I miss Groklaw. The reporting that we get now usually is either shilling/biased or too low on details to get a clear picture of what went down, as patents and lawyerese usually result in a vague mess most of the time.

I hope Google knocks 'em out, but sadly the US legal system has 'surprised' me a bit too often to feel confident in the outcome.
Presumably a self-clean in between grinder changes is not entirely difficult though.
How I emerged from bankruptcy to grow a thriving company
> When you make the low skilled unemployed, you can fill the prisons with them. Even hire some mid skilled folks to keep an eye on them.

Until we realize that automated machine gun turrets are better at the job.

> We seem to be trying, "Let them eat cake". Hmm I wonder via historical analogy what could possibly go wrong with that?

Well, it's going to be a bloody mess if we let this trend continue the way it is going now.

Note that we, the "high-skill job sector" people, won't be shielded from the effects in any way. Our jobs might be safe for a long time, but there might come a point soon, when all our low-skill family members and friends are suddenly without a job and are depending on us for food and shelter. So we can't turn our backs on the issue; the worst-case scenario will hit us hard anyway.
It's like a new myspace.
I'm one of the Synference co-founders, and we've thought a lot about how to make it easy to extract relevant information from users who land on your site for the first time.

There are many important pieces of information you can grab from a user who's never been on your site based on basic information available to all web servers, such as the user's IP address and user agent: (1) the time of day/day of week they're visiting -- relevant because, e.g., night users or weekend users might be a different demographic (2) information related to the particular page they're visiting, such as article category on wikipedia (3) operating system type and age (4) device type -- smartphone, tablet, pc (5) geographic location.

You can use location to infer a range of demographic features, such as income, education, etc. Due to its importance, location is an attribute that Synference adaptively coarsens/zooms in on. For example, if you have a lot of users from a certain city, then each user within that city will have a location whose granularity goes down to the neighborhood. But if you have relatively few users from Europe, then each user's location might only be at the level of the country.

The Synference API makes it easy to extract this information. All you have to do is send the API the user's IP address and user agent, and the API parses those two pieces of information into most of the features I've just listed. We also add a timestamp (corrected for the user's timezone using the IP address's geographic location).

We don't need to split users into buckets---machine learning classifiers build models that automatically take care of deciding how a user's attributes can be used to predict the target metric.
I was thinking the same. I can't think of one techie that thinks this way to be honest. The only ones that come close to thinking this way aren't anti-urbanization, but sit right in between both sides because they just don't care since they've made enough money to buy property and be insulated from the problems.
You could divide articles into various categories.

Maybe people reading computer science articles prefer light blue, while people reading medicine articles prefer gold.

Of course, a quick look at Wikipedia's categories show there are many possible article categorisation schemes (are sneakers footwear like stilettos or sports equipment like cricket bats? Of course they're both), so this would introduce many additional variables - more than you could exhaustively A/B test.
Yeah the other problem is any desire can be fulfilled on the internet, but in meatspace look how rare gay bars are, and thats a pretty common variety of taste. Oh they exist, but the ratio is all off.

Maybe I'll be really lucky once I'm ageism'd out of computers and I can become a waiter. But even on the internet not too many people are into mostly naked fat middle aged dudes, so figure the usual couple orders of magnitude off for meatspace and the odds of millions of guys like me getting jobs seems rather low.

Another problem is the public can have any tastes, but the 1% is mostly elderly white dudes, and when they finally accumulate all the money instead of merely most of it like now, they have fairly conventional stereotypical tastes which ruins my chances of getting money from them.
Same here... I tried really different kinds of questions and couldn't get an answer.

$ akiva ask "Is the empire states building higher than the eiffel tower ?"
Sorry, Akiva can't answer that question for now.
$ akiva ask "How far is the Earth from Mars?"
Sorry, Akiva can't answer that question for now.
$ akiva ask "How old was Bob Marley when he died?"
Sorry, Akiva can't answer that question for now.
$ akiva ask "What kind of music did Janis Joplin play?"
Sorry, Akiva can't answer that question for now.
$ akiva ask "What kind of questions can akiva answer?"
Sorry, Akiva can't answer that question for now.
Reference types: separating identities and values
I won't understate this: I want Google to eviscerate IV's entire reason for existence.
> The only things he's good at are marketing and scamming.

He's also apparently quite good at Call of Duty[1].

[1] http://www.kitguru.net/software/gaming/jon-martindale/kim-do...
With autotune, everyone can sing.
This is actually really interesting. I wonder how well it would work when combined with self managing teams. It might provide the oversight needed to make business decisions while still letting the team figure out the best structure for the success of a project (I'm thinking about software dev particularly).
Then you start replacing the Django ORM with SQLAlchemy and the templating system with Jinja2 and the circle is complete.
The whole point is kinda for people to review Xbox one things, i.e. tell them about things that are good. It's not about trying to convince people it's popular.
Perhaps the poster is capable of evaluating products on their own, or paying for independent reviews.

If you're dumb enough to believe 'free' advice you pretty much deserve what you get. Remember when the service is free, the product is you.

Our entire society is astroturfed whats possibly more sad is that people can get genuinely caught up in these campaigns and start spreading them for free.
I'm with you. Groklaw was such an elegant solution to a messy communication problem.

And yes, I want Google to completely clobber that firm (I'd love to see Myhrvhold and his ilk cowed brutally).
> as much as i disagree with this approach it is actually quite fantastic to see a cross platform solution that isn't either using native code directly or Unity.

In that case check out Haxe. It's a managed language along the lines of C# or Java (in Haxe's case, compiles down to Neko bytecode), which can then be compiled into C++, Javascript, C#, Java, and PHP. If you use the OpenFL/Lime framework, you can compile an entire app for Linux/Windows/Mac (either native or NekoVM), Android and iOS, HTML5 and Flash.

The language itself is great, it's object oriented with static typing, type inference, pattern matching, lambdas and macros (!!). It comes out of the flash game developer community, but has become a fantastic way to generate native games (via C++) on multiple platforms (3D options are limited right now, but on the way).
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7090514
By "countless" I think you mean "half a dozen, with perhaps a 25% success rate." Its important that we realize that the upper end of the impact scale isn't an endless string of success, but "a few." One is really hard, and failure is common.

By the same token, a few successes are truly impressive. It takes a lot of execution and judgment to avoid many, many pitfalls.
That's not uncommon with marketing agreements at all.
There's a bigger problem with our economy - its two main pillars are scarcity and growth. The first one is disappearing thanks to automation, and the second one is unsustainable, as we're about to hit the roof. The economy will change, it's only a question of whether we handle the transition gracefully, or let the whole thing collapse on our heads.
"Free market will fix this."
Say "NO" More - Life hacks for people pleasers.
The problem is not the balanced memory allocation of the said process, but the kernel evicting IO caches:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/fa.linux.kernel/4IKY...

We experienced this bug in production on hardware where the cost of accessing the other node is exactly over 20 (the limit defined in the kernel).

node distances:
node 0 1
0: 10 21
1: 21 10
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I love this project. Fantastic way to write Python bindings for native libs or speed up computationally intensive code without having to write C yourself.
It all depends on what you want to achieve/build with your business.

I'm not an expert in collect/display testimonials solution but have you validated the need for such a product? Any paying customers yet?

If so, clearly define your typical customers and find ways to reach out to them.

Hope it helps.