skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And traffic data with alternative routes to use. The connection makes it easy to report congestion and get updates.
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One day people might get sick of it. But not before American Idol is over.
How do you get that kind of rate? I'm at a bit of a loss on how I could do that, especially with the typical return with most iPhone apps. I am a fairly experienced (now) developer with iPhone apps (3D games, tip calculators, web scraping iphone apps, facebook-iphone apps, etc). I don't live in silicon valley although. (250k people town in western canada)
First two paragraphs from referenced comment:

We ran offers like this back in 2005 for a very short period of time at HOTorNOT, that is until we realized what was going on. In a nutshell, the offers that monetize the best are the ones that scam/trick users. Sure we had netflix ads show up, and clearly those do convert to some degree, but i’m pretty sure most of the money ended up getting our users hooked into auto-recurring SMS subscriptions for horoscopes and stuff. When I hear people defending their directory of deals by saying Netflix is in there, i am reminded of how hotel pay-per-view has non-pornographic movies. Sure it gives them good cover, but we all know where the money is made.

In the end, we decided to turn the offers off. Quite frankly, the offers made us feel dirty, and pretty much on the same level as spammers. For us, the money just wasn’t worth it. On top of that, we relied on our goodwill with users and focused on growing by having a product and company that our users liked. Our sense was that using scammy offers would make good money in the short run, but would destroy our userbase in the end. Perhaps apps on facebook don’t feel this pressure because facebook is so huge, and there are always new people to burn.
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You can't blame de Icaza for creating excellent free software and giving it to the community. Mono is faster than Microsoft's own VM in many benchmarks. Novel and de Icaza have done a lot for GNOME, as well. (I don't use traditional Linux desktops anymore, but if you use KDE and GNOME for a while, you'll notice that GNOME is a lot less crashy compared to KDE. This is because most of the apps are managed code, C# or Python, while KDE is all C++. It does make a difference.)

Anyway, it's not de Icaza's fault that Novel can't use their excellent software to make money. He is just a programmer; his job is to program, not to make Novel highly profitable.
The Rush University Medical Center researchers also found evidence for a link between alcohol initiating cancer:

In addition, Forsyth and his colleagues found that the same roster of
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Have you ever hired people on elance? The company I work for has, and they do create what you want. If you specify exactly what you want, you can get 10 tip calculators for a couple grand.
I think you're wrong; we will have to wait and see.

In the mean time, you shouldn't let the industry's stupidity affect you. Make your own language decisions. (I work with someone who went to a hard-core Java school. He is a great Perl programmer. You can hire "Java programmers" to use real languages too :)
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"Exploitative of people willing to cough up real money and sign up for questionable offers in order to earn completely intangible goods? Sure, but I don't know if that qualifies as a scam."

HUGE cognitive dissonance between sentences one and two there, man. When the only accurate way to describe something is "exploitative," step back and realize that something's rotten.
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especially if that someone is Arrington, who you know is going to make it a personal quest to destroy you.
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One of the inherent problems with tactile feedback over a distance is the speed of light. The last haptic device I used received feedback from a computer every ms. Too much latency kills the experience for long distance tactile communication. How far could you reasonably "reach out and touch" someone? I'd guess maybe a hundred or few hundred miles.
Totally with Arrington on this one. OfferPal CEO came across as a complete jerk. Arrington's response was surprisingly chill and levelheaded.
Check out the original versions of those sites. They look exactly like the current BH page.
For what it's worth, he didn't say nothing was wrong with it. He just said he doesn't really consider it to be a scam. Similarly, I doubt he would consider it to be murder (even though murder is presumably also wrong).

If something isn't quite a scam, it's not a scam. That said, there's definitely room to contest the notion that this isn't one.
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I see now. You take for granted that the L1 cache will get completely replaced during every context switch. And, it wouldn't matter anyway, because the context switch itself is already a massive performance hit relative to the L1 cache misses.
The iPhone can multitask just fine, it's just disabled by default to preserve system responsiveness and battery life. I have 6 apps open at once here.
Multivariate testing is an extremely limited tool. It's great when you're doing everything else right and not much better than rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic in ever other case.

I think it's dangerous (but very tempting) to try to apply it too generally. One passionate visionary thinking outside the box can do more than 1,000 statisticians ever could.
Crap, have done that now, do not appear to be able to delete this though :O(

Relatively new to hacker news, still expecting it to be like reddit sometimes.
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Everything. I wish I was born at least 500 years in the future. Science is just beginning and I was born at the wrong damn time. I could be flying my own space ship and visiting HN over The Subspacenet. No single advance could ever satisfy me or make up for my disappointment at being born too soon.

(Not that I'm not appreciative for being alive at all. I'm fortunate in many ways, but that doesn't stop me from imagining what could have been.)
I work for one of the above - you have no idea how much functionality we wouldn't be able to have (or at least wouldn't be reasonably easy to use) without "Web 2.0".
It's an interactive simulation, like the title says. You can fly around a cityscape at speeds approaching c.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=911858

previous discussion, includes this link
Fair point, though I suppose I've made it clear what side of the definitional fence I'm on for this issue. If looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and there's hidden hooks in the contract designed specifically to unwittingly lighten a person's metaphorical wallet, it's a duck with a bright, neon "SCAM" sign.
i wish I could have give you more than one point for this comment.
"Thanks to the joint efforts of OpenOffice, Mozilla, and a few others, Emacs officially entered the category of lightweight utilities." -- http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8224&cid=709073
Get better at estimating.

I typically take whatever I think it's going to be and multiply by 3. I'm usually 75% under budget with this method.

The market will certainly bear hundreds an hour.
I can turn on the RV to generate power, but I do that very rarely. I have batteries that tide me over for 2-3 days if they're fully charged and I'm frugal with power use.

I'm also going to put another panel on top to double my intake.

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I disagree.

In programming, the question of whether a C++ programmer can walk in and do Java is still open. People may claim it's not possible or they may give the person a chance. In mathematics, as far as I understand the current situation, there is almost never any debate. Once you are an algebraic geometer or whatever, you aren't going to walk into another subfield and start working except in very exceptional cases. The relative openness of programming, in fact, is why I switched from math to programming.
I especially like the last thing I read on that page: "Maybe you may want to share this."
This is a lot heavier on the code/hacking than usual for my blog. I'd be interested in hearing whether y'all like it more or less than usual.
It was thought to be bad. Maybe that was a mistake. The history of anti-trust is riddled with mistakes.
hey at least it's not "insure Foreign Tranquility"
If we look back at human history and extrapolate that trend, 500 years on we could be worse off than what we are now in technology. Civilizations no matter how strong they look, have a trend of rising and falling. And when it falls, it's knowledge gradually gets lost.

40 years back, human where more capable of visiting the moon then they are now.

Fundamental discoveries in physics is almost stuck now for 60 years, since discoveries of quantum mechanics.

The only gain we are seeing is in medical science, and information technology (in Engineering, not Science).

That's what I feel.
don't get me wrong. I love perl. and I use awk almost every day (mostly because I can't be bothered to remember the syntax for cut). I just find it a little weird to say regex regex regex is the only thing to improve about yourself. regexes are powerful things, but they aren't the answer to all problems. I cringe when people brandish a zero-width negative look-behind assertion when a simple index() will do. there is an interview problem I like to give that involves string prefixes and when perl people start off down the regex path, I know that they've been lured into a quagmire.

btw, if you haven't read it, the friedl book is great and I consider it the definitive text on at least the practical matters of regular expressions (and it even covers a good chunk of the CS theory behind them as well).
You know why we will never have peace? Because it upsets the status quo. The status quo gives power to many people who have, at present, sufficient power to maintain their ability to stifle the opportunity for peace.

It's really simple really, just stop blowing things up. Stop killing people. If people kill your people, ignore them. Repair the damage and keep going. Eventually, they'll give up.
I don't see why two specialists couldn't link their specific knowledge when necessary by explaining it in the context of the fundamental knowledge they should all share. That is to say, as a person specializes more and more in mathematics, there's no reason to think they should forget the earlier lessons they've learned.
The difference is that Facebook has to please the investors, rather than the users. The investors want revenue and they want a good exit. They will be increasingly upset if that exit never comes or it is at a lower valuation than they want.
Younger mathematicians need to worry about tenure and can't waste their time on big picture things that are not likely to pay off

Uh, mathematics departments decide what the criteria for tenure are. As the article suggests, perhaps mathematics departments could make knowledge of the field in general a criterion.
Another solution is to save state of the (pseudo)random generator and then restore it. In python: random.getstate()and random.setstate().
There's another one like this - Compass Needle (http://www.kimchy.org/compasslucene-and-datagrids/)
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Tesla's global wireless communication and energy.
The worst of these offers, notably the SMS ones, are scams by any definition and are only defended by people making money off of them or the typical forum "devil's advocate" that in his/her ignorance find these practices to somehow be defensible. The author gives very good examples in the article e.g. the IQ test. It is an affront to all that is ethical and fair in market practices that these kinds of businesses (the scam offers themselves) are even allowed to exist at all.
I also use Anonymous (on a PC to program in PHP) Even though the tilde is janky. ~shrug
Adding some technical details to your posts enlarges your audience.

I like this post as well as previous ones.
An alternative way of measuring the degree to which mathematics has "fragmented" might be to look at the pattern of citations in the mathematical literature. Look at it over time to see how it develops. And compare it to citations in other fields to see whether the phenomenon is specific to mathematics or is part of a more general development toward greater fragmentation.
GS had a deal with Buffett squared away before the Feds ordered them to take TARP money, which they repaid at 20% interest! It's unreasonable to lump them it with the others.
Copyright 2003. It stands the test of time. :)

And their design does too...

http://web.archive.org/web/19970530212007/http://www.berkshi...
Sounds like they might be down far enough where they're just picking patterns out of the static. Like my old boss used to say, "If you feed a rat a box-car of anything, it gets cancer."

From the same publication:

Alcohol Drinking Linked To Reduced Risk Of Renal Cell Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070515175026.ht...

Red Wine Protects The Prostate, Research Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070525215203.ht...
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E=MC^2 could be just an aspect of reality that happens to coincide with the way observable physical world works.

All aspects of reality coincide with the way the physical world works. Or, what does that sentence mean?

Maybe a different math for describing the universe written by an alien intelligence with different sensory organs could be simple for them, not still incomprehensible for us.

I think there is a strong argument against this. That some alien race is really good at visualizing certain kinds of N-dimensional systems of some weird kind of space is plausible, but to throw all of mathematics out, I think, is not. They would have a mere superset of the mathematics we have.

In particular, take computation. Are aliens never going to deal with strings of units of data? If they do, right there you have the notion of their length, and of natural numbers. You have notions like concatenating strings. And the homomorphism between the two. And we're off on the road to abstract algebra.

It's very unlikely for smart aliens not to develop the same study of discrete math and abstract algebra that we do, unless they were never to use discrete units of information, and were only capable of processing infinite amounts of information at a time. Would they then have no use for the idea of associativity? Of proofs that consist of a finite set of symbols in a finite alphabet? Of proofs that consist of a finite set of symbols in an uncountably infinite alphabet? With any of these they would on the road to having a superset of our mathematical knowledge, rather than something different. We don't know how such a being would be physically possible, in the first place.

I think it would be more correct, and less exciting, to predict that some aliens might be smarter than us in certain ways.
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The fact that someone with a PhD from a top university in the world (Stanford) is almost deported for no reason for trying to enter UK shows how foolish & ridiculous the immigration rules in many developed countries have become.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Cham)

Any country will benefit from having someone intelligent and dedicated enough to earn such a PhD living in the country--whatever profession he happens to choose* . Many countries (China, Singapore, etc) are actively trying to lure these people in.

Such an event would never happen in, say, Singapore or South Korea, where academic excellence is valued highly (sometimes even more so than wealth).

In East Asia, if you are bookish and excel at school work, you're never looked down upon or become unpopular (as in http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html). Adults will always praise you; friends, awe and sometimes jealousy. But most people will feel alright and enjoy being your friend. In fact, there is a fairly strong positive correlation between intelligence and popularity at school (as long as you're not too introverted).

The culture of highly valuing academic excellence is one of the reasons that East Asia (esp those under Confucius influence) will likely dominate more and more areas of hi-tech industries over the next few decades (esp. the less creative areas--a likely drawback from working too hard at traditional academic excellence from too young an age is tunnel vision and perhaps getting your creative organs stifled.)

* Of course, there are exceptions like the Unabomber, but that's a very rare case. And if you want to filter out someone as intelligent as that when he intentionally wants to break the system, you might need to filter out 90+% of entering travelers anyway.
Ha! I started reading your comment, and I said to myself: "hey, this sounds like human_v2." Nice to see you around :)

So, are you saying that the rote structure of nuanced math is too complicated for it to be accurate or meaningful? I'm sure you're familiar with reductionism (http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Reductionism). Just imagine that mechanical duck as math.

One possible reason that we have not yet found "that one fundamental" thing in math is that our universe itself probably isn't a perpetual machine on its own (or, what we can perceive as our universe). So, there is a good chance that it is physically impossible for us to get to where you want us to be with our understanding of math. We wont know until we reach the singularity. But even then....

Anyway, my criticism of math has been that it has been getting far too philosophical. But, I am an amateur.
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I agree. I think these publications that take things to the extreme are definitely bad for science and misleading to the general public. You just know that some news outlet, on a slow news days when the swine flu spread slows down, will take this and post it as its main headline.

Anything not done in moderation will be bad for you. For example, drinking too much water will cause water intoxication.
Speaking of a 1-way route, I was really confused about Zynga Poker. I was wondering what the value of the currency was, since poker with nothing on the line is no fun. I was not able to determine that it actually had any, so I quit playing after a day or two.
Alcohol usage is down slightly from an apparent peak in the early '70s. Cancer is up, including colon cancer. The CDC has both alcohol and cancer statistics broken down by state. Do more Nevadans get colon cancer? Do fewer Arkansans? Because Nevadans drink a lot, and (believe or not), Arkansans don't.

Correlation isn't causation, but causation usually comes with at least a little correlation.
we do what we can to filter those ads out on the page by maintaining a blacklist in adsense. it isn't easy to manage, which is a whole other story
As a general rule, the human brain doesn't notice any delay of less that 100ms. Anything less than that is "instantaneous".

Light takes 1.6ms to travel 300 miles, or 3.2ms for a round-trip, which is well below that threshold. To get up to a 100ms round-trip, the two parties would have to be 0.05 light-seconds apart, or just shy of 15000km (9314 miles).

That's plenty to get you North America, Europe and East Asia, but unfortunately Australia is a bit far from North America or Europe.

Obviously, that's assuming the signals are transferred at the speed of light with no other sources of latency, which is an ideal. But still, it's a far cry from "a hundred or few hundred miles".
Hirst's copyright lawsuits are pure bullshit and enough to make him a very person in my eyes.
Well it depends on the method of accounting you're business would need or want to use, but in a monetary sense, then yes, it can be counted as cash made as soon as the money, not the product, is delivered.
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It's a very interesting talk - but the title is misleading (title is the same in the submission as in the source). Norvig focuses on statistical learning and how that can be used to infer the meaning of words and the appropriate results in searches, particularly image searches. How these approaches tie into agile development, or any software development really, is given at best a cursory pass with a couple mentions that I, for one, wasn't able to follow. I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop and it never did.

I'd love to be told that I'm wrong or that I'm missing something here, so if anyone wants to enlighten me on the connection, please go for it.
>Anyhow, long story short: sales taxes are, and must always be, a regressive tax on the poor.

Doubtful; how about a sales tax that exclusively applies to mega-yachts?
Indeed, I too remember when Netware was synonymous with LAN services for PCs (file, print, auth and directory). You could even run apps on your Netware servers using NLMs. But NLMs were tricky to write, and the OS gave you no modern features like memory protection; the game was over when MS released NT Advanced Server and NT 3.51 was the final nail in its coffin. All the aformentioned LAN services, plus SQL Server. Novell failed because they got complacent. Interestingly MS is going back to that now, Windows 2008 Server Core Edition is a command-line only version of Windows just for file and print...
In the classic Prisoner’s Dilemma of game theory,
people will rationally cheat each other and engage
in opportunism unless something prevents them from
doing so. In game theory, cheating and cooperation
are rational choices. If I cheat you today, I won’t
be able to cooperate with you tomorrow.
- http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/001005/posner.shtml

I couldn't sum it up more succinctly if I tried.Its what I see as happening to Playfish and other more ethical developers: they aren't cheating in the hopes that cooperation will be cut off for their less than moral competitors. But it won't. The impetus on a firm in a new market, indeed, on us as ambitious humans, comes from being able to cheat -- as much as possible -- without being absolutely banned from cooperation. Sad but true.

Nice guys finish last.
It gives us a flash of reality.

We have to face the reality and act accordingly.
Our A/B testing will tell us which course of action is better.
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I wouldn't go so far as to say "written by monkeys"... but this is part of why I distrust OpenSSL. Unreadable code tends to be insecure code.
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