skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least for fogus and I, 'the same feeds' are geniuses like Christian Neukirchen, not problogger noise.

I too despair over cool stuff sliding off the 'new' page into oblivion -- the only surefire way for an article to make it to the front page is for multiple people to submit the same URL, which can get rather unlikely for the most valuable posts. I usually try to wait until a reasonable PST hour to submit odd things, just to maximize the chance that clueful users will have the chance to give it those first few upvotes.

I do think some countermeasures should be added to news.arc to handle the mainstream spam-stream. I think a good first step would be good to stop counting link-karma towards user totals, but I don't have a clear idea of what else would help.
"bet that will lose some people their jobs"

I doubt it. the more likely outcome is they mandate all their employees attend document redaction training developed and administered at great tax payer cost by a government contracting company. It's also quite likely that they use the incident to justify spending millions to have a government contractor write document redaction software.
I can't believe he didn't mention Markov's chain models.
> The cited article (thanks for the citation to that year 2000 article, which I wouldn't call "recent" on this subject)

The two books you’ve cited are older than this. An article with such a high citation count is usually an old seminal work (citations increase with the age of an article). For an article to have such a high number of citations in only 8 years is somewhat unusual (even when it is a Science paper).

> You are welcome to speak for yourself on that issue, of course. But on my part, I have observed that there are some HN readers who do their homework on genetic and environmental influences on human intelligence before expressing opinions on those issues, and I have learned

Again, I have pointed you to a treasure trove of information.

> because general intelligence is investigated in human subjects with IQ tests as the main instrument.

Not really. Raven’s progressive matrices (RPM) are popular. Another method is a barrage of different intelligence tests (the more the better).
This is good, but I'd like to point out that it's at least the third time this same article has appeared on HN.

I wasn't sure if I should comment about that or not. I know lots of folks haven't seen it, so thanks for posting, but for those of us who have already clicked twice, it wasn't as enjoyable the third time around as it was the first.
> with an entirely different language group and

All African languages stem from the same group (the Bantu language group).

> an entirely different people.

Again, this is doubtful. I have given you examples of the whole Southern Africa – you have given none to support your argument. Your argument looks more like a deeply held and unjustified personal believe.

The statements you make are clearly devoid of any semblance of truth.

> It's like arguing with someone about European Politics, and all his examples are about Ukraine.

We were talking about Africa and my examples are from, uhm… Africa.
I just tried Aardvark and I love it. My friend tried Aardvark and /everything went wrong/. Even unregistering crashed his browser.
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I can't speak for their other products but in my experience their enterprise search product is a useless piece of crap.
No, you don't. Do you want myspace, facebook, twitter, etc. to have control over your internet connection?
Which platform is that? Windows? .NET? It's perfectly possible to target both without using Visual Studio. Microsoft has somehow[0] convinced people that using VS makes their lives easier. Lots of people pay for IntelliJ too. I think the trick here is to get people hooked on languages that have a lot of boilerplate and therefore require a powerful IDE to be usable, then sell people the IDE.

[0]Based on personal conversations with individual VS users, it actually appears that VS is what many developers want or think they want, not just something forced on them by management.
Re-posting my comment from the dupe submission:

Absolutely gorgeous. I especially like that they're beautiful in a much different way from fractals.

There is a sereneness here that is a fresh of breath air, much different than the imposing fractal figures.

----

It could be that my reaction is from taking existentialism in stride, these days. Though, fractals are still scary/beautiful.
The latest firmware addresses that. Only the original kindle lacks PDF support now.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
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re: the AI-Boxing experiment, Arguably a human can take over a human mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming
The DNS I'm using must be acting up.
Is this someone's attempt to be hired by TechCrunch?
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Plenty more tips on using Google there:
http://www.searchlores.org/google.htm
(Make sure you check out the main website, goldmine on internet search).
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Well, you'd do that for internal purposes. Anyone could set one up, so in that sense it would "work" for most people, but it wouldn't resolve for people who don't use the name server that the zone is setup on. I can see a use for it, but I think it's easier, conceptually, to create a private subdomain within an already established and registered publicly accessible domain and limit its access with views (a capability/feature of ISC bind (and perhaps others) where different zones are made available based on the source address of the DNS query).

The .local TLD, which is where zeroconf/rendezvous hosts end up is a standardized example of that. It is resolved not via regular name servers, but rather a network-segment limited distributed broadcast (an oversimplification), however.
I think an "appetizer" is necessary to get the users love the site and make them sent invitations to friends.
In case of YouTube, that was a video-clip that I adored, in case of Xing.com it was being able to see the profile of a friend I knew, and in case of Linked-In, it was seeing the profile of a world-wide famous developer.

I'm sure that, the most important factor driving the growth and affecting those viral marketing cofactors is this thing that I call "appetizer"
Awesome idea. The main reason things like this are inferior to actually looking through a window at the other person is that you have no eye contact. You either look at the camera (causing the image on their screen to look directly at them) or you look at their eyes on the screen (causing the image to look away). Humans are very good at seeing these subtle shifts in gaze, and this is what happens in videoconferencing settings. It's possible to work around this, but to do it you have to mount the camera on the same optical axis as the screen. It has been done with one-way mirrors and beamsplitters before, and it's disgustingly realistic. Would be very interesting to have that sort of window to someone.
Just because it's interesting, Eliezer mentioned later that he'd done the AI-box a couple more times and failed; I think his final record was 3 successes in 5 attempts.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/up/shut_up_and_do_the_impossible/
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Normally I'm opposed to dupes, but every once in a while there's something that everybody should see.

This probably falls into that category, if you couple it with the AI-Boxing experiment (previously mentioned in this thread). The results of that experiment are so profound and disturbing that everybody should have some exposure.
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I actually don't have a problem with dupes. I just wish there was some way for me to know that I've already read it. Most times I don't remember from the title alone.
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http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Blender...

> Blender does not allow the windows to overlap, as they may in other programs. This is why Blender's interface is known as a non-overlapping window interface.

Download Blender, and try the things on this page. You will be blown away by the slickness and animations. There are also keyboard shortcuts for all of this, but we are talking about mouse driven tilers.
For infrastructure upgrades? Seems more like an internal issue than a user issue.
I guess you could also take a look at a tool called "LXR Cross Referencer" at http://sourceforge.net/projects/lxr/. Page http://fxr.watson.org includes LXR-generated cross references for multiple operating systems.
I just don't understand how a system riddled with performance issues could make an oversight like this.

Unless I'm starring one of the causes of the performance issue in the face.
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"Given that females are almost universally attracted to confidence"

Do you have a citation for that assertion?
As a mathematician, haven't you abstracted from the what? Isn't that the point of math?
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I feel like "cloud" is the new "P2P". While cloud hosting and peer to peer are both very interesting and useful technologies I think that many people don't really understand what these expressions really mean and overhype them a bit. Now this is not necessary a problem as I think a bit of hype helps technology to gain popularity as long as people in decision making positions keep a cool head and not start doing silly things ("Oh I know, let's make our e-banking service P2P/cloud/next cool trend based! I've read about in the Delta Airlines magazine!")
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Indeed; pass by reference / pass by value is an irrelevant distinction in a referentially transparent language.
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Thanks for bringing back memories. As a kid, I was always fascinated (and still am) by the helicoptering action of maple seeds when my sisters and I dropped then into the air from our deck.

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/TRC/Aeronautics/Maple_Seed....
And I celebrate my failures.
Arguably homeopathy can cure the common cold. The balance of evidence seems to be on the side of the skeptics...
I remember a similar story from a few years ago where redacted names where discovered from the length of the redacted characters. Turned out it wasn't too difficult to brute force names and see which ones matched the exact size of the redaction.
A responsible citizen would not google the following:

"SENSITIVE SECURITY INFORMATION" site:.gov filetype:pdf

Less than 2000 such PDFs. A very determined and very irresponsible citizen could have already mirrored all of them.
Fantastic article. This is the best piece I've seen written on this subject so far, with lots of context and a good background on what's happened over the last five years.

One thing I don't see mentioned, and which has been a huge red flag for me, is Intel's seeming pre-occupation with raytracing. As a graphics programmer, I find it absurd that Intel would hope to mount a technological disruption on an industry that has been following a very steady course since SGI and Pixar were founded in the mid-80s. I suspect that the Larrabee approach, as a whole, is a case of arrogance in believing that they can jump ahead of everyone else without having to slog through the hard, painful work of incremental improvements that has been taking place at nVidia and ATI/AMD.

That being said, the author correctly points out that Intel has invested in many technological mistakes in the past, and always eventually recognized their mistakes and changed course.
Ah that should be useful. I'll get that.. Any suggestions on a good web based feed reader alternative?

Thanks
Feedafever is paid IIRC
I'll give lazyfeed a shot. Thanks
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The story of the little game she made and played with her daughter to explain the horrors of slave trading is awesome and I will certainly file it away in my "education examples" cabinet to use on my own kids if I ever get into such a situation.

(And if one of my kids is reading this 15 years later: hi! :-) )
Like most things, there really isn't much new, just distilled ideas, perhaps with some terminology that makes it easier to describe (or more catchy). But yes, SaaS isn't new at all.
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Them being on a mobile phone takes out at least the bad point of Q-Cats, which was the need for an extra device. While I don't fully understand the appeal of these codes (it's not particularly difficult to just google for the restaurant, instead of scanning its code), they are already popular in Japan.
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Ah, understood. Sorry if I misread you.

I totally agree it would be nice to be able to flag previously-read articles, or manage dupes in some other elegant way. It seems like a non-trivial problem, though.
Take a bunch of data. Go through this data by hand and select which data to use and which to throw away. Use proprietary models to adjust some of the data. Use proprietary models to merge data series from different sources, some of which conflict with each other, into a unified whole. When asked, refuse to divulge your models, your adjustments, or the raw data, delete data if necessary to avoid anyone else, especially critics, getting hold of it.

Given such methods one could provide support for just about any hypothesis using just about any sufficiently large set of data. Unfortunately, this appears to be the modus operandi of the CRU. Which is a tad bit disconcerting if one wants to hold any confidence in the CRU's findings, to put it mildly.

The theory of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming is dependent upon having reliable climate models (specifically those that show that CO2 is such a predominant driver of climate that the increases in CO2 emissions due to human activity throughout the 21st century will not only be the overwhelming force shaping climate but will force a dramatic shift to a much warmer climate). The proof of reliable climate models is dependent upon accurate historic climate data.

Over the last 2 decades or so it appeared that climate researchers, most of them associated with the CRU, had not only constructed accurate climate models, but had produced reconstructions of historical climate which showed a dramatic uptick in global average temperature in recent years, and had also shown that this uptick was due to human activity (CO2 emissions). Moreover, their model showed that estimated CO2 emissions through the 21st century would result in increases in average global temperatures of nearly 4 deg. C and a rise in sea level of as much 60 cm.

Even before the CRU emails had been leaked there was much criticism of their processes and scientific results, drawing into question the validity of their models and historical climate reconstructions, and consequently the validity of those models' predictions. The CRU leak has shown just how shoddy their "scientific" methodology truly is, has brought increased attention to the debate, and has begun stripping away the once incredibly strong prejudice against AGW criticism (which a scant few weeks ago was considered by the average western intellectual to be akin to holocaust denying). This leveling of the playing field has caused the public to begin to weigh the arguments on their merits, and it turns out the AGW case did not have nearly as much merit as most people believed it did.

If you wish to dig into the science behind criticism of the CRU's results, I'd suggest reading up on:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/
and,
http://www.climateaudit.org/ (currently at http://camirror.wordpress.com/)
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http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AXauXDEtdabgZHA2cmhkeF8xNTBjNm40dGJndg&hl=en

feel free to edit, comment, or downvote me.

but i really could use the help
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It is not normal. Bad project mgmt if you asked me. PM did not manage the change request, did not manage users expectations, did not recruit the best talent, etc.

But then have I done yet to help him? Hm... I think I have.
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I agree, definately in regards to tech. Would it hurt to re-run a bit of Hibernate, Swing or even something as basic as Ant?
Third time here as well, and yet I must report that I enjoyed it just as much the third time as the first two! (that is, a lot)

(Just to offer a piece of counter-evidence)
More like beating AnandTech + Ars Technica on their own beat by practicing journalism instead of stenography.
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I second RevRal. His articles are some of the most interesting ones I have read in a very long time.
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You might find the answer after 5 Why's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys
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It says they'll "consult on it", not that the decision has been made. Looks promising though.
From whom the critic comes from is also of value. "It sucks" from my mother, and "it sucks" from a professional designer often means two different things.
Giving a big organization / government too much control in the assumption that they will be reasonable with it is never a good solution. It will always be abused.
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"Consulting" on it, but still better than nothing.
You would make the site better for yourself in the future. You can also use the flag link to mark things that are utterly offensive.
Consumer level support is completely different than enterprise support. --Generally with enterprise support, companies like Dell assume someone competent has already done initial troubleshooting. It's cheaper for them to pay people to spend the day on phone rather than sending someone onsite for something that might not actually be a hardware issue.

I'm not saying it's right, that's just the way it works, unfortunately.
It was also discovered on Saturday:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=979559

and again yesterday:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=978074
Users may have to download a so-called QR-Code reader application for this to work.

WHOAH I DON'T THINK I CAN DO THEM THAR FANCY SHMANCY WHAT'S YOU CALLS IT? CUER CODES? YA DAMN KIDS AN' YUR THINGERMABOBS.

I guess it makes sense that SF Gate treats its readers like semi-vegetative flesh sacks, since I guess that's actually a good proportion of their reader base.

Also, when I copied that text from the page, it inserted an advertisement into my clipboard alongside the text I had highlighted, using JavaScript. Yikes.
I'm flattered by the attention this essay still gets! I just wish I understood better why some of my writing is so much more appealing than other writing. Things I designed to be viral, like http://yudkowsky.net/rational/virtues, don't keep getting HN'ed and reddited like this does. Not knowing what you did right is almost as frustrating as not knowing what you did wrong.

(Okay, so I'm complaining to the choir here.)
Google is just everywhere. I like the idea of barcode scanning on the decals via your phone to pull up the restaurant for submitting/looking up reviews.
I can't say I'm all that surprised... I had to argue with one of their "geniuses" about an issue with my Air. He tried to get me to reinstall the OS to fix a failing drive (S.M.A.R.T. was even reporting that the drive was failing).

Took them a week to replace the drive. It probably would have been less hassle for me to just buy a new drive and replace it myself.
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Isn't ending up back where you started the whole point of using a Y combinator? Fortunately xmonad is written in a language with lazy evaluation, otherwise the recursion would never terminate and we'd overflow the stack.

Sorry, too much functional programming on the brain...
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I kind of like the other-worldly aspect of the Zagat rating. The fact that it is exclusive makes me feel as though the rating carries more weight behind it.
"That Alien Message" read like a science fiction short story at first, and then delivered a number of abnormally deep insights. Ideas so new (or ways of seeing so new) get to my brain 5-6 times a year top.

"Twelve virtues" however... well, I started skimming at the fourth virtue. Most of the content was a restatement of things I already agree with.

Maybe your audience (HN, Reddit) is enough into rationality to care more about very rational discussions (like the AI-Box problem) than about discussions of rationality itself (like "Twelve Virtues").
If you watch the video, there's a window in it that was designed to be a certain size (even though it's part of bluetile!), and it doesn't handle being shoved into an alien format well. Overlapping text, weirdly changing button shapes, etc.
What interested me about this essay:

1. I had not seriously considered the question of what happens when a "transhuman" AI appears (yes casually, not not in depth).

2. The ramifications were likely within my lifetime (I think Google has developing an AI as its explicit aim http://tinyurl.com/yald3f3), personally relevant, and non-trivial.

3. The answer is not immediately clear in a world in which technology makes it increasingly likely someone will break a moratorium and build such an AI (unless we are to accept our fate and either ride the singularity somehow or be marginalized).

You have something something people care a lot about. Reminds me of a "minimum viable product." If you haven't already - do a popular book, a tour, rinse and repeat. Let Rudy Rucker be your guide.
People don't care as much when trillions of dollars, their own prosperity, and/or certain doom aren't seemingly hanging in the balance.
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