skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not wrong.

Thanks for pointing this out, thankfully the implementation already failed on a negative s value, but you're correct in that it wasn't definitive.

I also whole-heartedly agree with your comment about the unnecessary inclusion of a bignum that allows for negative values.
The lack of typing in this (and other cases) has lead to several problematic scenarios for users to the point we have littered the code with assertions to enforce whatever we can.
How would you propose to test this "defeatist" attitude hypothesis?

More interestingly, how would you reconcile it with the core hypothesis of this article. That is, that people can create their own luck.

Also, many of the numbers in those articles are... interesting. To call Bill Gates a "self made" individual is rather... cute. He is far from a poor family. Pretty much everyone they have that is a "self made" rich person came from "upper middle class" families. (The articles words.)

This is concerning, as a large part of the problem that many fear in this nation is precisely how far the gap has grown between "merely middle class" and "upper middle." Consider, the vast majority of the "self made" rich people it lists are people that had early access to technology. Something that was decidedly situational related. Sheer numbers wise, it is on the level of winning the lottery.
For fucks sake, no. This is a meme that will not die.

Howie's evidence (as nice a guy as he is) is based on a single study by a professor at the University of Bath. (And there's a PLOS One paper which disputes his conclusions too which is worth reading: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna... )

There is no compelling evidence to recommend that you shouldn't wear a bike helmet and PLENTY of very solid evidence why wearing helmets have very important and life altering effects on the outcome of serious head trauma.

If you are cycling, wear a bike helmet.
You're welcome, and thank you.
The only good argument (in that article anyway) for not wearing a helmet seems to be the Bath university study, which everyone has been citing since the day it was released. But that's the only study I have seen on the topic. The fact that other modes of transportation (walking, driving) would theoretically be safer if you wore a helmet is irrelevant. And it's possible that helmets would turn someone off from cycling, but that seems like a poor reason to not use a bike.
While I believe they saw these numbers, specifically that lowering the price from $15 to $10 lead to a 74% increase in purchases, I don't believe that this is a good general rule of thumb. Here's the problem: there are only so many potential ebook readers out in the world, and they only have so much time. This means there will be market saturation at some point, or at least market movement. This elasticity is there, for sure, but the relationship between price and purchases is not going to stay the same, especially as everyone follows this advice. Basically, everyone will price their books at $10 and the playing field will be level. Then the advice will be to price your book at $7. Then at $5. Then at $2. Then at $0.99 cents. This is the problem we currently see with Apple's App store and the Google Play Store: too many apps, all priced similarly. For most apps, and probably for most ebooks it would almost be better to go in the exact opposite direction: one sale at $1000 is better than 10 sales at $1.

Also, why would Amazon care so much about how others market their content, to the point of trying to interfere? If your content is not worth $15, then nobody will buy it. If you suck at marketing, nobody will know to buy your (possibly great content). Why does Amazon get its hands dirty instead of simply giving you analytics-backed suggestions? Oh, that's right, because controlling the publishers is more profitable for them, and using their market position as leverage against publishers is a great way to do so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_intelligence#Plant_intel...

There is a Wikipedia article on this which may provide some wider information.
Yeah same here (it was Counter Strike for me, but still)
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It makes me sad whenever I hear about indie developers feeling oppressed by customer support, which ought to be source of ideas for improving the product rather than a drag on development. In my mind that's actually what sets indie products apart from the others in a crowded marketplace -- customers have a direct line to the developer, and get nearly instantaneous fixes to their problems.

My basic strategy for reducing the cost of customer support -- and making it a source of valuable information to my business -- is to 1) choose a price point so that potential customers will actually read the app description before buying 2) LISTEN to paying customers and fix common issues they're complaining about 3) constantly obsess over product quality, sometimes at the expense of new features.

Right now I spend about an hour per day doing support, and instead of feeling oppressed, I rather enjoy the process of building relationships with customers, even if they initially emailed me out of frustration about something.

As for the other issue -- having time to be a husband and father and all that -- I don't think there's an easy answer. I was only able to get my apps off the ground financially because I was in a situation where I had nearly unlimited free time. It's only been recently that I could even consider taking on other major commitments.
How about DBAD?

http://www.dbad-license.org/
> What's their exit strategy honestly look like?

Some people want to build actual sustainable businesses. Why are you assuming they have a secret exit strategy when they've stated they're not interested in exiting?
Maybe they could use disappearing ink? Or ink that substantially changed color in a few hours?
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Switching from World of Warcraft to Ingress can also help with fitness and weightloss.
A dongle has a binary blob, but it's limited to the dongle itself -- it won't most likely be able to transverse the USB pipeline and get access to system memory / processes unless there are vulnerabilities in the USB transfer itself. I can also remove the dongle from the devise and know that baseband is off -- not so if the processor is on the phone itself.
I have tried three different strategies so far (dealing with type 2 diabetes gets you to try new things):
- Hacker's diet calorie control
- The recommended "dealing with diabetes" diet from the nutritionist based around the standard food pyramid (plenty of fruit and veg, less fats)
- The paleo diet. Well, something like it. No dairy or bread, avoid sugars, eat as much meat, nuts, green veg and fat as I like.

I've easily had the best results with the least effort from the paleo diet. My blood sugar is down, I've lost weight and gained muscle, and feel fitter and more flexible.

It's not "Science", but I believe evidence drawn from experimentation trumps "studies" that can't be replicated, don't publish their negative results, and munge their data before publishing.
Maybe this is a bad place to ask, but why the virtualization requirement for running Linux on top? Is there for security reasons?

There are (have been?) other L4/Linux projects and they didn't require this.
If you're an American and you just posted that, you might as well set fire to your Bill of Rights.
Yes, many are forgetting that one of the primary purposes of markets is ... price discovery. Not price floor&ceiling fixing and restraining.
> All this progress also motivates me to constantly optimise. Next step: Buy good shoes and convert some of that walking distance into running distance. (70 minutes of walking per day are a bit long, but doable. However, with some running I can bring that time down.)

Or look into barefoot running. It might be better for your joints. (It anecdotally works that way for me and some friends.)
So my buddy Sean (@tilmonedwards) just built something pretty similar as a command-line app, just for yucks:

https://github.com/seanedwards/svcizer
A billion dollars in investment so far.
I'm not sure I understand what this is. Free hosted PaaS for single files, essentially? I know nothing about where the code is running? Is it performant? Is it reliable? How are they covering server costs / at what point would I be asked to pay, and how much?
The point I'm trying to make is that Bezos is suggesting that number because it drives a wedge between the authors and the publishers. It's entire purpose is to weaken the solidarity (such as it is) that exists between hachette and their authors.
There's a PLOS One paper which reanalyzed Ian Walker's 2007 data and claims that the effect Walker demonstrates is illusory if you chose different classification criteria for how to group data points: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

I tweeted w/ Ian Walker a bit about it, and though he hasn't written up a reply he disputes their conclusions (just for full disclosure).
The only times I've hit my head on the ground as an adult have been coming off my bike. (Not that often, but still, three times is more than the zero for all other causes combined.) In each of those three times, I've been profoundly grateful that I've been wearing a helmet.

Adults tend not to fall over, voluntarily or in-, while walking around. There are plenty of ways to fall over and hit one's head while cycling that aren't under one's own control at all.
Not everyone realizes this. It's important to be somewhat cynical when evaluating the negotiating communications being made by megacorporations.
This is like saying "If I drive a car without a seatbelt, I will drive safer!" When I ride I wear a helmet and I've broken (full failure mode absorption at impact) two in accidents; one was my fault, the other a slick spot at night that surprised me. I'll keep wearing my and put them on my kids too.
What makes that one so funny is that they tried. You can just imagine the conversation between a writer and a technical consultant.

Whereas this one ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y2zo0JN2HE
It still massively affects you (assuming you are in the US), because of the 4th Amendment. That's the one that prohibits unreasonable search and seizure.

A key factor in whether a search or seizure is unreasonable is whether or not you have a reasonable expectation of privacy. The standard for what is a reasonable expectation of privacy is what society considers to be reasonable, not what you individually consider to be reasonable.

So even though you are not on Facebook, all those people who ARE on it and are sharing publicly the most intimate details of their lives are moving the 4th Amendment boundary between searches and seizures that require a warrant and those that do not.
if they get to the center they will find the gnomes, which won't end well.
Fascinating ideas... I was astounded to hear that drivers pass closer to bicyclers wearing a helmet. I'd be prone to do so myself, as they do induce a false sense of security for both parties. I also agree that perhaps drivers and pedestrians should wear helmets as well.
€250 for a secondary school pupil per year actually seems cheap to me, given that students will be studying a median of 7 examinable subjects and a couple of others that are not tested (like civics/religion). On the other hand, I wasn't aware of the rise of workbooks, that's something I associate with education for younger children (say up to age 8 or 9). However, I'ma bit out of touch, since I finished school in 1987.

I would stand by my point about textbooks being more affordable in general, though. Compare introductory level university books on amazon.co.uk vs. amazon.com - I bought a lot fewer new programming books after I moved to the US because the ones were so expensive. If you look on the UK site you'll see books priced similarly to the US, but you'll also see 'international editions' of the same book which cost only about 25% as much, and it is this pricing you'll find in a typical bookstore. The only quality difference I've noticed is that paperbacks are more common over there, whereas American buyers seem to prefer hardbacks.

BTW, why do so many Irish schools require a school crest on their uniform? How do they justify that extra cost?

Heraldry is still culturally important even though we don't formalize it any more since we became independent from the UK. The patches cost only a few euros and and parents would typically buy them already attached to the sweaters/jackets, which are typically on sale as part of a package deal for the whole uniform (eg 3 pants and shirts, 2 sweaters, 1 tie, 1 jacket).

You'd probably save more money by abolishing the requirement for neckties, but when I was at school wearing a tie was still considered a requirement for being 'dressed'. The first year I was at the secondary school the uniform involved a round-neck sweater and open-collar shirt in the appropriate colors, but they switched to the more traditional v-neck sweater, shirt and tie to satisfy parents who thought the uniform wasn't dressy enough compared to those of the other schools'.

I realize this seems like a bizarre expense but then I wonder why so many US schools have illuminated signage and heavily designed sports logos, semi-pro sports facilities and so on. different priorities I suppose.
You might find it hard to belive - but customer experience is slightly better on Flipkart than on Amazon(US).
Do you bike faster than you can run?

Would you run, as fast as you can, head-first into a concrete wall?

No, it does not make sense to bike without a helmet.
One of the arguments is flawed:

> According to a 2006 French study, pedestrians are 1.4 times more likely to receive a traumatic brain injury than unhelmeted cyclists.

To fails to take into account that almost everyone walks, but very few cycle. The fact that it's only 1.4 times greater goes to show how common cycling head injuries actually are.
Teligram should add this feature.
Twitter acquires deep learning startup Madbits
It is only for US residents at the moment. We are working on opening it to people in other countries soon.
This same fallacy appears in almost all the statistics he cites.
Digital Footprint Mapper
"Libertarian Disney Dollars" just about sums it up.
I hope this doesn't circulate, I was out with my kid (4 yo) today who fell and tapped his head on the road, the helmet didn't save his life but probably stopped a minor concussion.

I'm sure if I dug hard enough I could find evidence that cocaine can help the human body in some type of way, that doesn't mean its right.
The Australian Federal Police was informed of the lawyer fraud and showed a complete lack of interest. Actually, it was quite shocking.

This matter was never resolved criminally, just professionally. The Law Society simply disbarred the lawyer and put the law firm in administration. The Fidelity Fund (responsible for dealing with trust account fraud, which apparently is something quite normal in spite of public perception) returned lost money to clients.
Digital footprint mapper (DFMAP) helps in identifying the footprints of the organization on the internet. Digital foorprints have critical piece of information which can be leveraged by cyber criminals. By using DFMAP one can get the overall picture of the organization's digital foorprint/internet presence.
Computing: Woven on the Loom of Sorrow
me too ,the famous "Hollywood accounting"(even if Hollywood didnt invent that).Yet the article was quite refreshing.
From Cash Flow statement in AMZN 10-Q:

Last Quarter (June 30, 2014) Amazon had a net loss of $126M, generated $862M from its operations, invested $731M in its business, paid off debt of $189M and only spent $17M of its cash and cash-equivalent assets.

To sum it up, AMZN only spent $17M beyond what they generated from operations, financing and investing.

http://yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com/displayfilinginfo.aspx?F...
Misleading headline, but on par for Ars reporting on patents. It makes it sound like Apple has been negatively affected due to the Alice ruling, whereas all that has happened is Samsung has made a new argument that they should be. There has been no response from the Judge yet.
Yes, and India is not a bastion for consistent and progressive jurisprudence. You are the only one classifying it as a "serious debate". And since when does accused anonymity equate to a complete banning of reporting on the details of an alleged crime?

If a country's stability is so easily damaged by details of a corruption case, then maybe it's time for a change. Nothing is more important than the truth and the freedom to report the truth. Who should be trusted to judge what should and should not be reported, and how much "damage" the truth would cause someone? The answer is no one.
A similar story is that in the 1980's the US Naval Investigative Service was apparently trying to find Dorothy, to get her to spill the beans on all her homosexual friends.

http://adoxoblog.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/friends-of-dorothy...
"compulsory bicycle helmet laws reduce the overall quality of life"

So...compulsory seat belt laws reduce the overall quality of life? Say what?
Came here to point this out. This is a wildly popular argument for no-helmeters, but it's just flat out inaccurate. If you control for the percentage of people who drive, walk, and cycle, the percentage of head injuries from walking would pale in comparison to head injuries from cycling.

This is like the statistic that says that 80% of all automobile accidents happen within 10 miles of home. It's not because the area around your home is more dangerous, it's because you drive near your home more than you drive anywhere else. It's basic statistics.

The reason car drivers don't wear helmets is because of the insane number of safety features that are built into a car, from seatbelts to airbags to varying strengths of materials, that bikes simply don't have. If another car hits your car, a number of things jump into play to save your life. If a car hits you on your bike, you're gonna have a head injury at a minimum.
Emeacs is an OS. It just needs its own kernel.
>There is no such thing as low latency anonymity.

At this moment. You are devoid of imagination if you can't conceive of this happening at some point in the future. The concept does not contradict physics.
no-helmeters??

Of course something like that exists. Of course there's a group of people up in arms over helmet use.

Of course. Fuck me, nothing should surprise me anymore.
Maybe...I've met a lot of people who drive everywhere, and cycling is a lot more popular in France than in the US. I went to read the study but I'm not going to pay $42 or sign up to rent it, so we can only speculate about the frequency of different transit modes in this study, what they controlled for, etc..
i remember hearing on the news that "Most motorcycle accidents happen to those without a motorcycle-endorsed license."

of course this statistic is meaningless without knowing what ratio of endorsed:un-endorsed are actually on the road.

oh, and: http://www.horace.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/How-to...
?? I enjoyed the video, but…

Basic chocolate is very easy to make (albeit time-consuming to make in quantity). They already have dried fermented beans. The remaining steps are merely to roast the beans (this can be done in a metal pan over an open flame), to hull and grind the beans (this can be done by hand with two rocks), and to add something sweet (I see two suitable items in the film, bananas and the pulp of the cacao pod itself).

The conclusion I am forced to draw is that these farmers do not eat chocolate not because it is expensive (which it is – to import); but because they do not know how to prepare it (or, it seems, know that it exists). I bet you could get similar reactions from American farmhands on a farm that grows chickpeas destined for hummus.

Am I missing something?
What's pop?
What is interesting is that the technique (wedge) will work even if the authors are fully aware that that is what Amazon is doing.
Really? You should checkout my guide: http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-intro.html and see if Helm is ugly or not. Nothing like Helm (except itself) ever exists. Check "Why Helm is powerful" section: http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-intro.html#sec-28
Nvidia lance le Shield et propose une console encore plus pointue
Fixed. Thanks for the bug report.
> Also, why would Amazon care so much about how others market their content, to the point of trying to interfere?

They make $3 on every sale, so obviously it is in their interest to set the price to maximize revenue.

Your whole bit about "everyone doing it" and "race to the bottom" is an instance of the zero-sum fallacy.
Why the sugar, when you are fasting?
If you don't like the decisions judges make, you need to talk to your MP about getting the law changed. Then the judges will make different decisions in accordance with the updated laws. That is how our system works.

That's true in general, but how does that apply in the specific case of judicial decisions kept secret?
The first Castlevania game for the DS [1] had a system where you used the touch screen (with a stylus) to draw "runes" (simple patterns like a triangle or square) to either a) defeat bosses or b) unlock doors. This might seem a bit cute, but it covers the basic idea to me. The game was released in 2005 and I believe Apple's first patent on slide-to-unlock was filed in 2009.

1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania:_Dawn_of_Sorrow
Because something much better than CtrlP exists: http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-intro.html

Demo: I can search my desired file in linux kernel source with more than 40k files in an instant: http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-intro.html#sec-28

If you want to find the equivalent, use ido + flx + vertical-ido.
Bamboo Windmill: Generating Power At One-Tenth The Cost Of Other Windmills
God know I still have all the O'Reilly books dating back to the 90's that I refuse to throw out. (They are in a back room not on a bookshelf although they were on a bookshelf at my old office mid 00).

But here's the thing. How do you do that with ebooks? No physical object to collect. Much different. Nothing to display.
> was this ever established?

In what sense? In the sense that we know to a fairly high degree of certainty that it happened? Yes. In the sense that you would never lose a libel suit for saying that it happened? Also yes. In the sense that a final judgment was entered in a trial case to this effect? Only then would the answer be no.
Lewis, is that you?

I wanted to tell Lewis that his domain (heylewis) is expiring.

Also, yes. Keep it up!
The test such patents would fail is utility, which is mostly understood to be industrial, technical or commercial utility. This is the same reason recipes are generally not patentable -- they are, after all a "process of manufacturing something" -- except when they have "utility". A common example is a recipe for cattle feed that can reduce illnesses in cows, which clearly has utility in farming.
Theoretically yes, but technologically no. I can't "own" something with server-based DRM on it. DRM creates a right (or an ability) of revocation for the seller.
There are approximately 1.1 million public charities in the US that'd disagree with you.