skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good article. Although NOT my code, I had that feeling when I first had a look through the Wordpress code!
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I wonder if the converse may be more true: that by eating you extend your sleep cycle for longer. I find if having to do multiple long nights, no matter how fit I am I have to eat to keep up energy.

I find the more tired, the more sugary stuff I crave.
ah, hmm. Slight typo - one too many 0's sorry. I meant 0.01%. 20,000 was the rough estimate I constructed :)
Why not a simple "Buy this on a t-shirt" link next to popular tweets? Given how easy it is to print stuff on shirts now, I'm sure someone has an API for resellers looking to put words on a t shirt.
Weather is not the only outside factor: Holidays are, national events like the Superbowl, even popular TV shows end up influencing traffic.
Am I wrong in thinking that the tone of a guitar isn't going to be affected that much by swapping out a small wooden inset? I mean, I get that a flat top guitar may or may not have a different wood on the top than everywhere else, but I feel like you need the entirety of the top to get the full effect of the sound.

Past that, I guess it's a good idea. The pickups look on the cheap side though. And while I would definitely be into a way to quickly switch out my pickup configuration, that's why there's a toggle switch.

It'd be neat to pit this against a Line 6 Variax.
It's based on the European council's guideline 90/270/EWG. As far as I can tell, it's up to the countries to implement corresponding laws, and at least Germany and Austria have such laws.
Reminds me of this:

http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit/
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Which will work so long as you've used a perfect system that can't be shown to have encrypted data by the boffins of GCHQ.
Not a gamble I'd take. Remember if you've claimed there is no encrypted data and so refused to provide a key they'll only need to show that there is encrypted data and possibly that you own that computer (but if you've made the aforesaid denial I don't think they'd even need to do that, logically) - perhaps on seizing the computer an officer caught information displayed on screen on their video camera (used to record during raids) before you hit the power switch. Perhaps there's a snippet of something that can be extracted from a volatile memory buffer?

I don't fancy your chances. So you may as well not bother planning any terror attacks, kthnxbye
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Google just needs to downrank Wikipedia a little and it fails. I guess Google Knol will sooner or later rank above Wikipedia. We all know that Eric Schmidt has denied that "don't be evil" has been ever an official motto of his corporation.
Depends on the machine.
You seem to be missing my point. My claim is a conditional one: if we have an accurate model of climate then we can do geoengineering.

Large sample sizes let us draw inference without an accurate model. I'm not demanding a large sample size, I'm demanding one of {large sample size, accurate model} to draw conclusions. In the case of climate science, if we don't have large sample size, but do have accurate conclusions, we must have an accurate model.

If we have accurate models, we can do geoengineering. Questions like, "will SO2 injections cure global warming" become simply a matter of running the simulation and studying the output.

Either the models are good enough to examine the effects of CO2 and all other relevant factors (as the IPCC claims), or they aren't. If they are good enough, we can do geoengineering with them.
I don't trust anything that fails silently. I like big exceptions dumping on me whenever I make a mistake.
Why did it fail? Paying people for UGC makes the wrong people contribute.
use your traffic numbers as a proof of popularity and sell the idea to Twitter, then let them worry about it.
You'd have had to have melted or burnt the CD, IMO. And be ready to be held for purjory (sp?) when the brightest and best computing and mathematical minds of the UK show that you accessed the data that day (or whatever). Or the less bright observations of the stakeout team show you're lying.

Best option: Don't abuse children, commit domestic abuse, or plan terrorist actions - then this law won't be applied.
Why don't submit the source instead, it's just a citation?
http://www.synergy-pr.com/press/MelissaBurkley,PhD/51/800/0
Yeah but this guy is an idiot!
Perhaps 5 years is the time the UK security services believe is required to crack currently available encryption systems if necessary. So, you plan your truck bombing, get locked up for 5 years for not revealing the decryption keys, then get locked up for "life" for the planned terror acts.
I'm not saying the current system in US/Europe is efficient or even acceptable but it is a model that has produced novel therapeutics in the past. I think we can agree that the price is too high but hopefully we can also agree that benefits have been gained from those novel therapeutics.

I got the impression that the article was generally anti-patents and I framed my response in that context. A ban on patents has been beneficial for the generics industry but if it has a higher cost in terms of stifling novel therapeutics, which also have a benefit, then it may be an overall loss for the population as a whole. In this way there is little difference between a ban on patents being good for the generics industry and strong copyright laws being good for the record industry. Both may be true but the interests of the population may not be aligned perfectly with these industries.

On the other hand if research into novel therapeutics is able to thrive with a ban on patents then you get the benefits of new therapies and the affordable prices. This is what I would like to see before dismissing the patent system entirely when what may be best is a little tweaking.

Finally on marketing versus R&D I'm not sure that the multiple could genuinely said to be 'very large.' This article suggests marketing:R&D is 2:1.
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...
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Yep, that's the facebook login page alright.
The 5 year sentence in the article is for failure to reveal keys in cases concerning national security, ie terrorism.
> being labeled "creepy

I've noticed that when I go somewhere with a friend, even if just one, I feel like I can hang out forever. While, if I were to go to a bar by myself, even though that's easy to do, it's not fun - I feel über self conscious (everyone is looking at me / even though that is probably your false perception).

When you go to a bar by yourself, you have to invest a lot of your energy to initially meet people (think of the times when you've been travelling and in a place where you know no
one).

And, on the social side, when I am out with a female friend, I feel even more confident and feel like I have license to flirt shamelessly with near everyone.

I feel going out with friends can give you the support base to go out and venture. However, too many friends can devolve into the classic circle-the-wagons formation. Of course, there is the social hack of working the room that nearly always works and requires fearless action: start with one, engage him/her, offer him/her an opportunity to approach with him/her to a group or leave, engage the group confidently, wave at someone in another group, etc. Done confidently and charmingly, it is quite a feeling / to bootstrap yourself from a loner to someone other people are looking at and wondering 'who is this guy?'
Exactly. Any time someone suggests fancy crypto as a solution to a legal problem, it reminds me of this XKCD comic: http://xkcd.com/538/

Except replace "Drug him and hit him with this $5 wrench..." with "Charge him with contempt and throw him in jail...".
I don't understand the product. Am I seriously supposed to watch videos to learn how to write my signature in a new way? Or am I wildly misunderstanding this?
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Re:Law and Medicine. The US system for both of these is EVIL in its regressivness and waste of time and talent. Most other Common Law countries have undergraduate law degrees, in the UK they're mostly three years. There is also bugger all reason for Medicine to be a graduate degree, it's all taught. Bond University in Australia does an undergrad medicine programme in 4y 5m, with three trimesters per year, and the UK system has undergrad Med degrees of 5 or 6 years.
Thanks to everyone in advance. I'll be publishing the paper online in early September, and this data will be really useful.
I wonder if this is a culture thing. I read recently that when the Earth passed through Haley's Comet tail some years ago at about the same time it was discovered said tail contained cyanide (important for some scientific reason) there were quite a few suicides in India (and nearby regions) after media hype & panic about dying from poisoning. (EDIT: not referring to the suicide pact cult - that was Hale-Bopp)

It definitely is a culture thing because the mass panic isnt on the same level here (for example). I was in China the other week and there are spots of panic going on there too.

I think it's interesting how different cultures react to situations.

-reworded now I found out more about the incident
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News sites would probably accept articles from companies if they were paid enough. If we were lucky, they would add a small disclaimer somewhere at the bottom of the article.

And they would probably also sneak in comments about a company inside their articles and comments. Some of them would be from good companies, such as Amazon. Who would blame them? Amazon is such a great company with reasonable prices and delivery. You can also depend on Amazon unlike some of the no-name competitors. Who would want to trust an unknown company, when they can use a trusted company like Amazon.

Where was I... oh, they would certainly integrate paid contents in a sneaky way.
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I wanted to like this, really I did, but you lost me about here: It is a proven fact that handwriting and signatures are the best tools to understand a personality.
Before you get to the point of morphing the patent system into something they'd want to get rid, do you not think that they'll use their lobbying power to stop you from doing that? (It's not like you'll be able to "sneak up on them" with some stealthy sweeping patent system reform.)
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Founders at Work details HotOrNot's launch. If I remember correctly, they worked out a deal with Rackspace where Rackspace would provide hosting and HotOrNot would promote the fledgling hosting company whenever they could.
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Sell it on to a 'greater fool'?:-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharecropping
If that's every person, then a family of 4 would get $13000. Allowing for differences in cost of living I'd say that's about 75% of what I'm living on in the UK (and we run a car). If you own housing then I'd say that's more than enough to live on. If you're happy to supplement that income by growing some of your own food (allotments in the UK are very low cost) then I'd say you can live quite comfortably.
This is beginning to sound like a gradual reinvention of Usenet.
No problem.

1) Encrypt sensitive data by the method of your choice, and store it in a filesystem X.

2) Generate a plain text filesystem Y full of disinformation, the same size as X.

3) When the key to decrypt X is demanded, compute Z = (X xor Y), and provide Z to the police on a DVD with instructions to the forensic cryptologist that it's a one-time pad.
But people who don't care to talk to other people would not be reading this. This advise is for a select group of people (introverts who want to meet others).
I frequently open a bunch of tabs in firefox and then go through them one by one. I got to the tab with your site and was genuinely confused;

I had the general idea that you were selling something, but wasn't sure what.

I didn't know why you only used a tiny amount of my pretty normally sized screen (no content?)

It was only when I got to the showcase that I felt remotely interested (as it is, I only got that far based upon the faith that I opened the tab so it MUST have something of interest in it). I think the showcase should be on the front page.

On a related note I frequently check out "new programming language!" websites. Unless they have a quick example on the front page I close the tab and forget about them.

I'm pretty sure that most people will exhibit this kind of disinterest: if you want my money you need my interest first. Show me something interesting and concise straight away or I'll walk.
I still have no idea what this site offers. :) It certainly needs to be a lot more clearer at a glance, I lost interest very quickly.
Off label promotion, ghost writing and so called 'promotional' meetings were not included in that study.

That may seem like a little bit until you realize that there are roughly 500,000 such meetings annually (2008).

The spendings in that article account for only (roughly) 40% of total expenditure.
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Product explanation needs to improve, a collage or a slide show of the signatures might help people to understand the product.
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I think the point here is that i4i wanted to keep using it, but couldn't because Microsoft took everything they had and built it into Word for free. They destroyed i4i's business model (which happens sometimes) by stealing their design (which isn't legal.)
Second the showcase remark, that's a really good observation, I had exactly the same feelings while going through the site. Only when I reached the showcase I got a faint feeling there might be something to this concept after all. If the text of the posting had not been 'please review' then I would have been gone long ago.

This violates the 15 second rule:

http://webadvice.org/archives/17
"Despite the title, they don't really want Microsoft to stop shipping word altogether."

But wouldn't that be fun?

Seriously, I am divided. Part of me sees this as an abuse of the patent system, that shouldn't allow bad patents (and I assume this is a bad one), but another part is having a really good laugh.
A very large multiple? Not more than 3, and often much less.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:MRK&fstype=ii

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:JNJ&fstype=ii

If you actually look at the numbers, you'll see that Big Pharma's operating expenses look much like Big Technology.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:INTC&fstype=ii

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:GOOG&fstype=ii

Note: my 1-3 multiple is actually just the ratio of "Selling/General/Admin. Expenses, Total" / "Research & Development". It's a gratuitous overestimate, since marketing is only a fraction of "Selling/General/Admin. Expenses". That category also includes things like producing drugs, accounting, delivery, etc. But I'm too lazy to look up a more detailed balance sheet.

[edit: I'm curious, why am I being downmodded? All I did was provide some facts.]
Social proof can't explain it but I've known very few individuals who have the guts to approach a party of mixed sexes (e.g. who are couples - when it's all women - you can assume they're just socializing, not dating (usually)). Actually, it doesn't matter whether it's all women or mixed - still intimidating.

The times I've done it / the first twenty seconds after you have broached their airspace is among the most scary and exhilirating experiences. The more women, the better. Do not hover!

For bonus points, sidle over and drag a chair loudly from one side of a room to where they are and sit down (presuming they are seated, you have most likely pulled off the icebreaker that needs no icebreaker)
But starting would be easier. That's his point.
Well played. They used to do this all the time in such an obvious way with radio, but the new idea is to causally include the product in movies, books and TV without up selling it. So you blog about your great run yesterday, and happen to mention breaking in your Nike's. Or talk about a date and mention which beer you drank. The idea is to get people to think people like them use product X.
15 second rule and now the 10 second rule does your site make it?
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Sorry, but Google Knol does not and probably will never match Wikipedia for sheer scope and variety of content. You can't outrank Wikipedia if you aren't even competing with it.

Knol has ~300,000 articles in total, many of which are instructional on specific subtopics. Wikipedia has 3 million articles in English on every topic. Not only is Wikipedia much bigger, it also has a more specific focus (creating an encyclopedia).
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You may've awoken to urinate. Drinking a lot (of any liquid) is another good way to get yourself to wake up earlier. IIRC, people used to do it to prepare for pre-dawn raids.

The not eating for a long time gets me up earlier. I didn't think it was "magic" or anything, just my body saying "get up & feed me."
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I use the Gilette Fusion and have a heavy beard, but one cartridge lasts me two weeks. Here's how: I shake the water off my razor and then use a blow dryer to completely dry the blades after each shave. Supposedly it's not the cutting of hair that really dulls the blades, but rather the corrosion that occurs on the wet edges after you put it up.
I have a friend on UK disability allowance. He gets more money than me per month, I work an average 6 day week. He also gets housing on top of the money, so in reality he's a lot better off than I. Most council housing, where people are living on unemployment benefits has satellite TV and eat take-away food a lot. I can't afford that. People we know on benefits buy "all new" for their babies (&pound;300 buggys!) whilst we rely on secondhand and hand-me-downs. Basically my argument is that the current system gives too much if it's not a struggle to get by (requiring some work for yourself, mending clothes, growing food) then it's too much IMO.

My friend has considered working, and has in the past, but he makes less money the more he works.

Last time I checked we were at about 75% of the official poverty line but ate healthily and even managed a small holiday. Now I suspect (one more child and ensuing benefit) we're on the line.
He does have a point. In places with good child benefits, some people just keep getting more kids, and not raising them properly.
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"The way that certain images, videos or concepts can suddenly spread like wildfire across the web, using email and social websites to propagate, is one of online culture's most unique phenomena."

Yes, a phenomenon so unique we can only compare it to two other kinds of natural phenomena in THE SAME SENTENCE.
Of course everyone knows, but if the people who actually witness the offense aren't willing to come forward (because they think that the victim deserved it or because they want to stand with a fellow student against Authority, or whatever), then standard disciplinary processes can't do anything.

The analogous adult case is when a crime syndicate or a terrorist organization assassinates one of its enemies in broad daylight in the middle of a crowded street, and the police can't find anyone to testify that they witnessed the hit. If you don't change the priorities of the bystanders, you can't change anything else.
Just from a first view of the site, I'd check the kerning on your business name. It can easily come across as 'Sig n in St yle'.
Okay, google is failing to work its magic for me today. Would you be able to point me to a more inclusive estimate of the marketing to R&D spend?
The early Christian Church, as reported in Acts - the believers shared all things in common. There was a brief breakdown when the apostles had to intervene as those distributing food to the widows and orphans were tending to favour their own people.
Very large sums of money are spent per physician (up to 65 K / annum) to promote 'new' drugs with little or no benefit over the 'old' drugs (other than the extended patents).

Also there are large expenditures that are not directly in the marketing budget but that you would normally classify as marketing, these include seminars, promotional meetings with prescribers, lobbying activities and so on.

enjoy the read:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17244
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I think your idea is ridiculous. I'm not sure how you plan on overcoming years of muscle memory in order to provide... what? Some kind of extension of my personal brand?

I really don't care what my signature looks like. I can't even remember the last time I signed for something, and I'm not bothered about what the UPS guy thinks of my signature. Maybe I'm missing some cultural difference here, but I've never judged anyone on their signature, nor do I expect to be judged by my own.

As for Graphology being a science? It isn't. I realize that saying so supports your marketing copy, but the style of someone's handwriting is purely a product of the method by which they were taught to write.
1) There are many people who hate their signature but just does not know how to get a better signature
2) We provide videos with the images of the Signature using which they can practice the Signature. They do.
3) There are not much legal hassle in changing the Signature. You may need to have paper telling this is your old and this is your new signature and you may have to remember how to do the old signature.
There's a bit about this in _The Book of Laughter and Forgetting_, roughly to the effect that women don't want handsome men, they want men with beautiful consorts.
yes true. thanks.
give me a bit...

ok, here is a link: http://www.allbusiness.com/company-activities-management/fin...

From the same book quoted above, in 1990 it was roughly 1:3.2, since then the situation has improved a bit, but I can't find anything closer than 2004.

Still, it is quite shocking when you realize that most of the marketing goes towards pushing a few, well established drugs at immense markups, and that most research is focused on either extending the life of these drugs or the introduction of replacement drugs for drugs that are on their last legs in the patent cycle.

Genuine research (research which attacks problems for which no current solution exists) is a very very small fraction of total expenditure.

more interesting data here: (not sure if that link works...)

http://books.google.com/books?id=hJpI3Ki7MhUC&pg=PA77...
At the risk of beginning a meta-discussion I can only suggest because a person disagrees with you.

Personally I found your contribution useful. It answered, at least roughly, a question I didn't have time to investigate myself: What ratio of marketing:R&D is considered acceptable?
Yes actually in the older version of site we had this section. I guess we need to put it back here. Thank you for the feedback. It really helped.
My sleeping schedule is unimpressed by my eating schedule.

On the other hand, obeying the golden rule in the article helps me lose weight. I tracked my weight for the past 4 months with the Wii Fit, and there's pretty good correlation between not eating 12 hours before wake-up time and the day-to-day weight delta.

My bottom line: the rule about not eating too late helps, one way or another.
"Those who do not understand Usenet are doomed to reinvent it... poorly."