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Of course I meant a justification for the mixed up ordering as being of greater utility (more easily parsed, understood, less confused, more easily read, better sorted, more standardised with other users) than the other common orderings.

Let the word go forth ... your logical justification please?

When it's cold I sleep in my bathrobe (we call it a "dressing gown" which is a particularly poor name for it as one wears it when not getting dressed!). It has long sleeves, is below the knee in length and snug - very comfortable.

No you couldn't, suppose your A does better in the first market and your B worse (accounting for size) in the second. You choose A. Which does even worse in second market. B was doing the best job for the second market, it is just that market is less open to your product, B would have totally pwned in the first market.

You have to do the A/B within the same market to get useful results.

It's 99% correlated (in line with) the longer test method. OK. Then you learn that there were 77 in the study. So they got the result wrong 1% of the time, for 0.8 of a child?

Shenanigans.

"the two tests have a 99% correlation"

"they recruited 77 gifted children through"

[yes, it could be a rounding error]

US date order always makes me laugh - it's like people looked at date order and thought if the day comes before the month that will be the European way, lets flip it. Then they realised that would be YYYY-mm-dd and so be ISO standard order, dang can't have that, hey lets have a mixture.

I know it didn't happen this way but some sort of logical order would be good.

They can request you don't use it as condition for access to their platform - claiming it's a trademark is different. The mark (in the EC at least) needs to be indicative of the origin of goods or services and needs to be distinctive in order to achieve that aim - chat bubbles are not distinctive and are not indicative that Apple Computers Inc. are providing the service. Fail IMO.

Was he homosexual or bisexual - his engagement and his acknowledgement to his fiancée that he had "homosexual tendencies" (eg http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Clarke_J... ) suggests that he was not exclusively attracted to men what actual sexual activity he undertook is not known to men nor I suspect to anyone else who didn't share whatever arena he chose for his affairs.

The manner in which he was arrested rather suggests a honeytrap [I'm speculating here, assess for yourself] - which could account for any animosity of the UK Government, not particularly wanting to reward spies that fell victim to enemy traps. The other point at issue may be that Turing as a 40 year old was picking up teenagers for sex (according to the reports of his arrest) - would someone now be knighted who knowingly followed that sort of promiscuous lifestyle? Would you expect that to be true also in the mid 20th century?

Turing was a great mathematician and left a great legacy in that field, other aspects of his character appear less clear.

"By all means express regret that a previous government did such and such" Of course the government didn't act unilaterally against the wishes of the people - they implemented the laws as required by society at the time.

[dead] 17 years ago

One of, if not the, scariest moment of my life was waking up at home on the couch and not knowing where I was or who I was. It lasted for maybe 5 minutes and then things started fading back as I wandered about the house. Frightened the life out of me.

I don't do a lot of web design but for my last two projects I was v.close to switching back to HTML4 to make the transition up to 5 easier when it's finalised. I think my next project (for myself) will be HTML5 but I can't quite bring myself to give up the XHTML ideology yet.

You could simply name all respondents by their response position in the thread, first is person1 (hope that's not too limiting!):

person1:yay person2:people here like intelligent comments person3:go to digg if you want to yay all the time person1:yay

And have an option to reveal names and/or show them on the mouseover link for personX.

Where do you drive?

I tend to leave about twice the gap of other vehicles on the motorway, still strictly not the full stopping distance (but having been a motorcyclist I feel I read ahead well). I always find that people invade my stopping/slowing space; then one drops back and another car is in there.

I'm in the UK.

The Hacker Survey 17 years ago

He could have got reasonable country data without any extra questions by using an ip-to-location API; I think Google have one available.

It's industrial design or product engineering, not science. They applied a known system of using "phase change material" to regulate the normalisation of the temperature of the contents of a vessel, in this case coffee/beer in a mug/stein.

Interesting though.

If Denise moves the ball to the bucket then perhaps putting balls in buckets is more common than putting balls in other containers. Sally being a child is likely to mirror Denises behaviours and therefore is probably more likely to place the ball in the bucket herself. She is thus more likely to look there than in other containers in which she herself would not place the ball.

If one knows that the ball is in the bucket this reinforces the concept that balls go in buckets or reminds one that more often than not people put balls in buckets.

Similar to the way that lots of people pick the same number in a given range or pick the same fruit when asked, etc., the most likely container for people to pick may be a bucket. People could be responding to an innate understanding of this fact; possibly without realising it.

Speculation, but still a decent logical explanation IMO.

A pre-experiment should be performed by asking people which vessel a ball should be placed in; the experiment in question could then choose only vessels with matching preference as ball receptacles as the options.

What network are you on, if your access is via a corporate net then perhaps your connection is being tunneled to another location first; or maybe it's picking up a proxy server address?

Ask HN: Haiku? 17 years ago

Pointless post What's my response Flag it!

[I think I got it right, never done Haiku before]