skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it says gays are (vastly) more likely to be virgins, not just that virgins are more likely to be gay.
This Google search seems to list a bunch of reasonable sources: http://www.google.com/search?q=incorporation+legal+docs+star...
One thing that always irks me about things like "56 percent faster" is the potential confusion. On the one hand, it's fine to say you do things 56% faster: that describes a rate of speed, and now the rate is 156% of baseline. But when they say, "it can help users find and begin a maintenance task in almost half the usual time," I'm not sure if 64% of the time is really "almost" half, or now if the writer seems to think they did it in 56% of the time.

Still, pretty neat. I can't wait until this stuff trickles down into the public sector (more than just a handful of iPhone apps).
You are definitely right. I'll get on that.

But, please feel free to sign up and post some links too. :)

edit: now 20
The title is just linkbait: It's one in nine people 25-45 years old, which isn't quite as surprising as one in seven 40 year old men.
Phone-based payment is popular in many countries where credit cards aren't as common, or are more tightly regulated. Usually it works by submitting your phone number, being texted an authorization code, and then submitting that code back to the merchant.

The situation in the U.S. is a holdover from the heyday of 1-900 phone numbers and phone-based home shopping, where customers genuinely wanted to be able to purchase things from a vendor over the phone.

Credit cards weren't quite en vogue, and provided a stopping point where the customer could have a chance to bail. The phone company was more than happy to get some revenue off of a service that both the vendors and consumers genuinely wanted, but they didn't really think the details through.

Nor did they expect that cheap internet and mobile phones would magnify a non-optimal payment system into a massive factory for scams.
You're right. There is something fishy.

The 13.9 per cent of men would include homosexuals. Let's say there are 1000 men, 5 percent of which are homosexuals.

So 950 straight men, 50 homosexuals and 139 virgins between them.

950 * x + 50 * y = 139, where x is the straight virginity rate. y is the homosexual virginity rate, and y = 11 * x.

So 950 * x + 50 * (11 * x) = 139
950x + 550x = 139
1500x = 139
x = 0.0926

9.26 percent of straight men are virgins, 101.9% of gay men are.

If homosexual men make up 10% of the population
900x + 1100x = 139
x = 0.07
76% of gay men are virgins.

If homosexual men are 20% of the population
800x * 2200x = 139
x = 0.046
51% of gay men are virgins. Less than 5% of straight men are.

The first situation is impossible. I guess 10% homosexual one might be plausible if they very narrowly defined losing one's virginity to having had anal intercourse. A lot of gay men exclusively have oral sex.
The study did not include young, it is was an age group of 25-45. And I would think that past the age of 25 the marginal increase in chances for having sex for the first time is significantly lower then before.
None of these [High-IQ] groups is willing to acknowledge
or come to terms with the fact that much of their
membership belong to the psychological walking wounded.
This alone is enough to explain the constant schisms that
develop, the frequent vendettas, and the mediocre level of
their publications.

Another perfectly plausible explanation: you have to be a raging egotist to consider joining such a group.
Well you say that, but consider cultures where extra-marital sex is frowned on and men are allowed 4 wives. Then you'd see 75% of men virgins at 40.

It is ridiculous for the original article to conflate prison and the military. If it's lower for veterans it's because girls like a man in uniform!
I have to agree with your disdain for forms. I hope that when given the choic ebetween obfuscating an email address and providing a form, our response will be to improve our spam filtering and offer a plaintext mailto: link.

Plaintext links have high usability. The mail is organized within the user's mail program where it can be retrieved, collated by subject, and so forth. It can be copied and pasted. It's the abslute best thing for them :-)
Well folks like you aren't uncommon. I see someone posted sifter.org.

One thing to note. You have all these negative feelings to people but positive feelings to your work. I suggest you can kill your negative feelings if you realize all people enjoy something the same way you enjoy your work. We just all like different things.

In the way I don't understand why people enjoy experimental jazz but I can appreciate they must find something in it for them and thus I do not judge them, you can at least teach yourself to not look down on others for what measures of joy they take from life.

No sense polluting yourself with misanthropy. Instead be happy for them and happy you are clear what makes you happy.
I don't think it even makes sense to harvest these addresses. The people who write email [AT] address [dot] com are MUCH less likely to purchase their Viagra online in you shop just because you send them an email:)
Maybe that if you're as brilliant an investor as Buffett (one of very few to make it really big by investments) you don't need to care about having a snazzy web site :)
I'd be just as shocked if the title of the article only reference people over 25. Once you've been out of school for a few years, I imagine the odds of ending your virginity in any particular year goes way down. ie., a 25 year old virgin stand a pretty good chance of becoming a 40 year old one. A 20 year old virgin stands a pretty good chance of not being one for much longer.

edit - Or so I'd expect, but this article has me questioning a lot of those expectations.
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Read the article again, especially about would-be leaders of mobs.

Here's the big difference: Instead of helping people to correct them, help people to propel them further on towards their own goals and their own potential.
What Is Ultimately Possible in Physics?
UTorrent 2.0 To Elimininate The Need For ISP Throttling
Wolfram is real useful for this sort of thing, by the way; here are your three calculations with:

A = P(gay),
B = P(virgin | gay),
C = P(virgin | not gay)

If 5% are gay: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=A+*+B+%2B+%281+-+A%29+*...

If 10% are gay: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=A+*+B+%2B+%281+-+A%29+*...

If 20% are gay: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=A+*+B+%2B+%281+-+A%29+*...
user voice seems to be a popular choice - http://uservoice.com/
You have psychological problems. Go see a psychologist.
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I explicitly described how I made my own luck. I doubt any of my whiny unemployed peers undertook similar efforts, applying for 300+ jobs. I would mention my gpa but I don't want to add insult to injury.
You misunderstood the issue. Nik Cubrilovic works at TechCrunch -- he was talking about filtering out Google AdSense advertisers on TechCrunch.
I forget where I read this quote, but here it is paraphrased: "Whereas in Physics people stand on the shoulders of giants, in Computer Science people stand on each other's toes."
The basic idea is illustrated here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A0yqKbIpAU

(Of course, the time lag is removed to demonstrate the general principle without having to watch a several month long video clip. And it's Christmas, not Birthday, cards.)
Too many behaviours have changed since the early '70s to pick only alcohol out of the list and say that this change is causing or even correlated to the rest.

Increased urbanization, increased consumption of processed foods (drastically), increased stress levels, decreased sleep levels . . . the list just goes on for changes.

Then you have to question the quality of medical autopsies performed in the '70s and the examiners ability to determine cause of death. Then you have to question the causes of deaths and if there truly has been an increase.
Fun is overrated?
Cucumber: Making UATs the healthy choice
My current project team has been eating its vegetables. Has yours? Writing user acceptance tests with Cucumber, Webrat, and Selenium.
Shared host-wise, WebFaction is the shit. The guys who run it are awesome.

http://webfaction.com
I created my forums on wikidot http://www.geetasks.com/forum/c-91340/discussions and that's were Beta testers discuss stuff.

I also plan to use Mailchimp to send out announcement about the next Beta being released, because many Beta testers are not reading the forums all the time. I have negative experience with BCC - it seems that many spam filters just kill those messages.

I wish someone had created an integrated Beta management service and I would gladly pay for it. Something that allows people to sign up (with instructions on how to submit device ID for ad-hoc builds), unsubscribe, get notified by email or RSS or twitter or whatever, a forum where people could discuss things, list of new features, list of released features, list of planned features, that kind of thing.
I note that the images on the conference site are of King's College or Trinity College, whereas the conference is being held at Churchill College:

http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/

Churchill was founded in 1960, not in the 1300's or 1400's, and the architecture is completely different. The conference site gives a completely misleading image of the venue.
What's wrong with setting up a mailing list?
I didn't mean it as a bait (my first title attempt was too long, so I shortened it to that). I would edit it to say "25-45 yrs/old" if I could, but the 'edit' button is gone.
Cure seems to be worse than the disease.
How many servers bounce email anymore as opposed to just 'blackhole'ing it so that spammers can't probe a domain for valid email addresses?
We had the same problem on a WoW site that would frequently end up with gold-selling ads popping up no matter how hard we tried to firefight with blacklisting. We got readers to submit every bad ad they could see, and even pulled the ads at least once, because of the impact on our 'honesty' as readers perceived us.
Does that really matter? A botnet of '3 million users' sounds pretty impressive until you find out they're all on dial-up.
... except that about 80% of form validation code incorrectly believes that foo+bar@zog.com is invalid.
Except that he leaves out vector clocks and read repair which are mechanisms critical to fixing consistency issues in a dynamo style system.

Also his treatment of partition tolerance assumes that operations set up the Dynamo cluster machines incorrectly; all in the same rack.

He also completely glosses over merkle trees, assuming that the sync they help perform must be a heavy operation.
Good analysis on that: http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/04/intercourse-and-intelligenc...
(whoever*; 'whomever' would be used if it was on the receiving end of the action, e.g., 'I will vote for whomever they endorse')
Cuil has one of the best privacy policies on the web, at least from a readability standpoint: http://www.cuil.com/info/privacy/

Using plain English (not legalese) and keeping things short and to the point seems to be an effective way of making privacy policies more user friendly. By making them so obscured by legal language that they're inaccessible to most readers, you're just guaranteeing that they won't be read. Which isn't doing anyone any favors. Keep it short, keep it simple.

Another great privacy policy, is Bill Monk's: https://www.billmonk.com/about/privacy

They use user-friendly plain English, keep things relatively short (though not quite Cuil-short), and they provide a summary of the key points at the start. That's all very helpful for users, imho.

Something Awful should get points for their privacy policy, as well: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/feature-articles/website-pri...

It's written just like anything else on their site -- with a liberal dose of humor. But that's perfect for their core audience and makes it instantly readable and easy to understand (for the people whom it effects, at least).
I'm not sure I understand how this could happen - it certainly can't be a bug since, I dunno, installing and running the software would show this behavior, and Apple must have some kind of rudimentary QA in place for one of their flagship products.

Maybe I'm not understanding Apple's attention to detail and design concept (as usual) in this case.
What's interesting is how quickly you run up against scam-walls (as someone who doesn't like paying for virtual currency outright, anyway). I can easily see how users fall for it, even the smart ones who try to pick scams that don't require credit card or mobile numbers.

As a user, though, it's really annoying to keep running up against the same things in every single game out there. Want more acres of land? A bigger cafe? Better weapons in Spymaster? The very omnipresence of 'give us your mobile number/credit card and we'll abuse terribly small print to charge you money for things you don't want' is making them almost acceptable, because people are used to seeing them.
One big problem with UserVoice is that it requires creating an account before a user can comment.

This is really, really dumb. A few large sites on the internet have problem of too many comments and too much spam, but most startups have a problem of too few comments and users barely being able to bring themselves to post anything, much less create an account. Solving your spam problem by shooing away your users is not a winning strategy in user engagement.
Chinese Win New Moon Race
Between the lawsuits and everything else: I'll believe it when I see it.
> Well you say that, but consider cultures where extra-marital sex is frowned on and men are allowed 4 wives. Then you'd see 75% of men virgins at 40.

You have a point.

I guess some men might have sex with other men as an escape. (That's what happens in American prisons. Though there it's more about power and abuse.)
I wonder how serious this is. The guy got an email from someone in the support department, so how reliable is that info?

It would be a really good move though. For Skype on all platforms.
Honestly, nobody cares about ‘whom’. It’s dead, along with ‘thou’ and a bunch of other archaic nonsense.

In the real world it’s just ‘who’.
Submitter made an error, mashing together the original title, "Jan. 1984: How critics reviewed the Mac", with the name of the blog/column, "Apple 2.0".
"The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous."
- Lord Chesterfield
Interview with the CEO of Concargo, David Kruyer
Typography And Communication
There are ways to trick bots. 4chan used to have a second field named 'email' in their submission form that was hidden with the value set to "DO NOT PUT ANYTHING HERE" (or something similar) and spammers would blindly fill both email fields (unless someone was specifically targeting 4chan). I'll bet there are plenty of ways to get an email-crawler to click on some link that a normal person would not.
Thanks for the link. While the reason for the link is unknown to science, I suspect that people with high IQs just tend to not start using certain parts of their brain until later in life. It seems very possible to reprogram your brain though if a person wants to and has adequate help and resources.
Maybe Marc Andreessen's influence?
I do think there's a ton of room for someone to destroy AWS. Amazon is pretty good. I'm sure they can beat Google and Microsoft. But they're not nearly as fast or smart as they could be with AWS.

I think a small team of sysadmins and programmers could get together with $40MM and wipe the floor with them.
I haven't tested it out personally, but Prefinery might fit the bill: http://www.prefinery.com/

I think their free plan accommodates 50 testers.

You could also set up a private forum which would allow you to post new versions and allow beta testers to leave and discuss feedback.
I think you need to get out of your head. It's a bit masturbatory, this constant introspection and comparison. It feels good, but you shouldn't do it all the time.

If you truly can't find joy in the smell of spring, or exploring a strange city, or jumping out of an airplane, than you should seek some medical assistance. If you indeed do get joy from these things, than go enjoy them, and when you look to your left and your right, you'll find other people enjoying them also. You just connected with another person socially, even if he can't do differential equations in his head.
In order to take into account various computer configurations, e.g. the use of 3rd party fonts, they should conduct external beta tests before releasing it to the general public.
Wow robotrout, your thought process says a lot about your outlook on life and people, which says a lot about you.

Could it be that I wanted to evaluate all of the mind mapping products on the market before deciding which one to go with? Is that not a what many people do before they make any major decision, which to me is what picking a new piece of business software is? Could it be that I did some initial research and came up with a short list of candidates (Freemind, XMind, Mindjet MindManager, Dropmind, and NovaMind)? Could it be that I have now concluded my evaluation and MindJet was not the product for me and I simply tried to exercise my money-back option?

I am not "indignant," I am reporting facts, facts which, IMHO, mean "scam." If other customers who are eligible for refunds and want refunds are ok with having to fill out, swear to, sign, and fax a form to an international number to get that refund, then that's ok (for them). If they are ok with the refund request form saying they must supply a customer number from their invoice and there is no customer number on their invoice, fine. I'm just reporting those facts. Doesn't seem like a good policy to me, but if it's fine with you, fine. But don't get pissy and accusatory with me.

Lastly, nothing has backfired. I will get my refund from them or through MasterCard chargeback. The reason I'm spending my time telling people about this situation is in case anyone finds it relevent in their dealings with MindJet or in how they handle refund policies and procedures, as a previous commenter stated.

MY INITIAL QUESTION TO MINDJET:

I am interested in your mind-mapping software, but it is expensive. Does it come with a money back guarantee?

THEIR REPLY:

When you purchase MindManager in the Mindjet online shop you can cancel your order within 30 days after the purchase.

FOR THE RECORD robotrout's ORIGINAL COMMENT TO WHICH MY ABOVE REPLY IS DIRECTED:

I use Mindjet and have for years. They're not a "scam company". If anybody was scamming, it seems like it was you. Your obvious plan was to get the software, write a bad review of it, and then ask for your money back. You get an article for your blog with no financial impact to your wallet. Now, when that backfired, you're indignant. I have to say, I'm not feeling that sympathetic to your predicament.
Looks like the skype client for linux might become open source. Though I could see them keeping a closed-source API library and just having the UI be open source.
they don't, but facebook does, and if techcrunch makes a big deal about them profiting from this, it won't take long for them to intervene
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The next 20 years are going to be incredible. Think about technology like this applied to the medical field, or tourism, or food preparation. Of course, some of these tasks will probably be made irrelevant by robotics soon after this kind of technology becomes widespread, but I'm sure we'll find uses for it.
I run a bunch of Windows VMs under VMWare.

Windows XP minimal install requires around 1.5 GB disk space..

Windows 7 minimal install requires around 16 GB disk space..

I don't think I'll be upgrading anytime soon..
If this works out as planned and ISPs trust it enough to ease up on the throttling, seems like everybody will win.
How to get a ip on Msn, Aim , ect..
I tested this using MSN Live beta 8.0. i had MSN PLUS Live running but i doubt that would of effected it in any way..

Get IP via MSN logging:

You will need to go into tools > options > Connections > Advanced settings and click the Connection Logging checkbox..

hacking I.P Via Msn,Yahoo,AIM - The Ethical Hacking

Open up a Conversation with the target..
Send them like a blank notepad or any file..
Wait for them to cancel it or accept it, either works..
After your done that go back turn off your logs or else they will constantly update while your on msn..

then goto My documents > received files > MsnMsgr (text file)
Search (ctrl+f) “Connecttoip” and you will your selected items..
click the find next button until you find the IP address..

hacking I.P Via Msn,Yahoo,AIM
wallah! you have the IP address to whomever you attempted to send the file to. whether they cancel or accept the file dosent matter because it still logs the ip but they must do one of the two..

Get IP via Command Prompt:

1. goto start > run type cmd and open.. or goto start > programs > accessories > command prompt and click.

2. type netstat hit enter

3. connect to he person (direct connect) with the chat program of your choice. MSN, yahoo, AIM, etc.. This can be done simply by opening a conversation with the target or sending them any file.

4. type netstat again in the command prompt.

collective data should appear in the cmd box..ie: (infomation censored)Pirate

You can Also Use this site : http://www.reza24.com/ip/ you will have a link and the Ip will be sent to your own email when the victim open it.
Or you can get it if the victim sent you a message on your inbox you can get the ip from the message source.

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The article is a little light on technical facts. The previous Bittorrent protocol used TCPs congestion control. Any reason to believe that their UDP+µTP replacement will outperform it?

Edit: found the draft RFC: http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0029.html. Looks like the congestion control is window- and latency-based.

| "The window size in the socket structure specifies the number of bytes we may have in flight (not acked) in total, on the connection."

| "Each socket aims to never see more than 100 ms delay on the send link. If it does, it will throttle back."
Ask HN: What cool numbers are there to graph online?
Strategy: good customer support, huge scale, low margins.

Good support wins loyalty, helps debugging the system to eliminate systemic problems, and helps against Google (which is really bad at customer service). Huge scale drives down the cost and allows reusing knowledge from user to user, thus each user suffers less while Amazon learns. Low margins keep high-margin competitors away (Microsoft, IBM) and make users happy.
They could, but they all already work at Amazon.
You lack the capacity to spell sheer, your attempt at philosophical hegemony is quaint. Go see an educator.
eBay/Skype doesn't even have the source to the communication library -- Joltid does.

The value in this would be that we essentially get a published interface to that library.
Not surprising. A lot of people in college have a lot of sex, but a lot have none. It makes sense for a lot of reasons that people who are sexually not precocious would be more intelligent.
It would definitely be a step up. One of the most annoying things about Skype for Linux used to be audio problems (especially with pulseaudio when it was new). There still are issues I have with it (sometimes audio will 'die' either audio-in or audio-out requiring a restart of Skype to get it working again) though to a lesser extent.

If they could separate out the business logic (communicating with the network, using proprietary protocals, etc) from the interface logic (UI, access to local audio-in/out, access to local video-in/out) it would be a major boon. Though open-sourcing the whole thing might be nice, it could have unexpected consequences (easier to filter Skype with DPI, allow NSA/CIA/etc to tap calls, etc).
A familiar friend - always worth re-reading.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=229067

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=852405

http://searchyc.com/you+and+your+research+hamming