skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I first used facebook I seem to remember that there were no privacy settings whatsoever, but people who could see you were restricted to your college.

When Facebook was first opened to people outside of your college, there was a lot of controversy about it. All of your information was (suddenly) open to the public. People had stuff up there that they didn't want Joe weirdo on the internet looking up. I seem to remember Mark saying something to the effect of (at the time), 'I think this should be an open platform for everyone to see everyone else's information'.

But then a mass exodus from Facebook started, and people were deleting their profiles, etc.. (I know I removed a lot from mine). After the uproar, he finally caved and they added privacy settings.

If anything Zuckerberg has been consistent about what he wants the platform to be. The real issue is that his 'consistent' view is /not/ what the majority of Facebook users actually want. They want to connect with people that they already know on Facebook, and be able to share stuff within a small community.

The truth is that there are a lot of really sketchy people on the internet, who want to steal your information, stalk you, and such. Putting up the type of things that you do on facebook, publicly, is simply not a good idea.
The whole point is that leveraging (i.e. investing with borrowed money) becomes much more feasible when interest rates are close to zero, as they were in the early years of the boom.
None of the "startup visa" proposals give you a free visa just because you want to apply to startup school.
If you create multiple ads, Adwords will rotate the ads. You can choose which ad is most effective based on click thru % or even better conversion rate if you have conversion tracking setup.

Also, make sure you set "Ad rotation" to "Rotate: Show ads more evenly" under the campaign's settings so that your ads are shown evenly.
My friend brad feld says we won't even use keyboard input in 10 years i'm starting to think is right

That's absurd. I can type much faster than I can speak. Further, I suspect that most spoken improvisations will be as poorly writen as this one.
First, thanks to all who responded to my blog post!

As far as intrinsic motivation goes, I did think about this, but in the end I declined to comment on generalizing about the motivations of a group of people. I chose to stay with non-motivational factors in my discussion because those could be analyzed more objectively. I did not feel right saying that one group of individuals thinks this way more than any other group, and certainly without a serious survey to really see what people want to do.

I do believe, like many other disciplines, that designers haven't been exposed to, or even given the opportunity to enter the investor business until recent years. Now that the discipline has been exposed to a new potential career path, I think we'll see that perhaps peoples' motivations could change simply because they have the exposure to a new possibility.
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Why I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Nothing
Yes, that's the problem. They need to get an incentive to prepare for life outside prison. Many of the prisoners don't have the education or the skills to get a real alternative. If they have a choice of a minimum wage or selling drugs, they will often choose the easy way.

I think the best solution would be to increase prison sentences, but give a similar (if not greater) reduction if they choose to re-educate/train themselves. They would also have to show a real intent, so that they don't just sit there without making an effort.

This will not work for everyone, but I am sure that it will reduce the number of prisoners with 3 strikes.

The second problem is the actual workplaces. The state should pay a large amount of the ex-prisoner's salary for the first year, and a smaller amount in the second year. This will encourage companies to hire them. I'm not an economist, but I assume that this cost will be payed back by keeping them out of prisons.
Why are you re-posting something that got killed only moments ago ?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1043082
Telepathic Random Life with Electronic Psychedelics Paint Together
Yes. Also, don't forget the role of rating agencies. They should get a lot of the blame for this mess too.
It's available in book form, as well, as are many of Knuth's literate programs.

One interesting program for the causal reader, found only online at his site, is Knuth's version of Adventure.

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs.html
Oh, absolutely. Altering "status" is something people do all the time to get what they want, albeit mostly unconsciously. Here's an improvisers view of the mechanics behind making a sale: http://biz-improv.com/wordpress/?p=22

I have a bunch of web resources (on improv) pertaining to status transactions. Feel free to email me, everyone.
I meant the bottom of the graph.
Textmate, Firebug, Chrome & Safari's web inspector, Sequel Pro (for MySQL), Gitx, github.com, and Terminal.
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As a general rule of thumb, the higher you go up the food chain for fish, the higher the mercury content. Fish which eat plants and plankton are on the bottom of the chain and tend to have low mercury levels. Fish which eat other fish which eat other fish (shark) tend to have a higher amounts of mercury, concentrated from all the tiny bits they received from other fish eaten.
COFEE is just an epic failure as a computer forensics tool simply because when it comes to Forensics the accepted Medium is to switch off the machine, remove the Hard-Disk and then Mirror the contents of the hard-disk in a secure read only medium such as LibEWF or Expert Witness Format.

Unfortunately when a tool like COFEE that is inserted into the machine on USB, whilst it's running, cracking the password as it's inserted, it would access the RAM on the machine when it got inserted. Which can be construed as Data Tampering as it would have to Read & Write Data from the Hard-Disk!

By reading and writing to the Suspects computer via a USB device it paves the possibility of a rouge application spreading via the USB. How can anyone determine the effects of COFEE if it is closed source and distributes in the marvelous Self *.exe'cuting Binary .Win32 format?

In Forensics, you read and reconstruct the Data from a Disk-Image of the HDD or in the Case of a USB device you would Extract the Data from Thumbs.db which is a hidden file on any Fat16 formatted USB Pen. Only the accepted norm is you do not tamper with the Data in anyway by allowing your machine to Write to it!
Your link provides no data supporting the contents of your post. There is a graph which ends in 2003, from which the blogger draws the same conclusion as you (Fannie has better non-delinquency rate). The graph does not show delinquencies at all, so I'm not sure where he is drawing this conclusion from.
You're suggesting that there are passwords that will generate 20-byte hashes that will themselves collide on the next application of MD5?

I'm not sure this has much to do with the security of PBKDF2.
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I did mean "near-instinctive" to apply after having learned about the concepts of surjective, injective and bijective functions. These are so basic and important that I believe you can't be a professional programmer without having been exposed to them, and having them stick at an instinctive level.
You need some guidelines so that you know how to vote/when to flag.

It is very possible that I like an article and hate the misleading headline.
A very philosophical approach, but the main reason I have a netbook is that I can carry it with one hand and it does most of what I need a computer to do. I can read man pages about wget on the bus, I can test out little Ruby ideas I have and see what happens. I can send out a quick message to my friends. Just a really neat little machine. Now that being said, I don't have a smart phone (data plans were too expensive for my tastes) or a regular laptop (too heavy) so maybe my netbook partially fills two technological gaps in my life.
I don't care how "smart" your smartphone is, it will never escape those corporate shackles. Smartphones are simply not free enough to deliver the type of democratic transformation that netbooks -- mobile PCs cheap enough and fast enough and good enough for everyone to afford -- absolutely will.

In Europe, at least, smartphones are sold unlocked, and can be used with any WiFi-- so I don't really see in what sense they are "not free enough", or shackled to any corporation.
Facebook users are an odd bunch. They'll bitch about privacy, turn their privacy settings up to max en masse, and form angry Facebook protest groups at every little change in the company's policy. Then they'll go and sign up to a bunch of spam applications written by people they don't know and give them unfettered access to their profil.

I'm with Zuckerberg on this one. I reckon the world could be a better place if everyone laid their cards on the table. I keep my profile as open as possible, following the rule that I don't post anything that I wouldn't be happy for anyone to see.
Penalty for failure should also be considered. If you play a game like this and someone notices what you are doing, that person will lose all respect for you. I had a boss once that had read some article on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_(psychology) and how it makes people more comfortable with you. Similarly with people who try to live by the "rules of power" and all this other nonsense. How about not playing games and focusing on achieving something? If I am working for someone I acknowledge this gives them a certain authority, but I really want to see reason prevail and progress made towards a common goal - I just would really rather not interact with people who play games with me unless I have to.
Here is the original source http://www.eightprinciples.com/. And it doesn't have the horrible buzz in the background.
Atlantic wild caught salmon

How did you obtain wild Atlantic salmon? It's an endangered species, and fishing is not allowed! If this is really what you have, how did you get it? If it's legal, let me know, I want some too! If not, you should probably stop...
(Yeah, you did. ;)) And as an aside I think that upvoting and downvoting in practice becomes mostly about status raising or lowering. Subconsciously it's about the gain or loss of prestige of a comment (and person).

Also, it's interesting to read (HN) headlines with status transactions in mind. When reading a headline ask yourself, who got lowered? Who was raised? Take Microsoft takes a loss to Firefox The obvious thing is FF>MS, but who else is lowered or raised?

So here's an example of a conversation analyzed by Keith Johnstone's who basically the father of improv: http://www.thestage.co.uk/connect/acblack/improkj.php

I would submitted this a while ago, but it'd be hard to make clear what my intention for doing that was.
+1. And I use VIM too.
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BTW, most "Atlantic" salmon is farmed, not wild. There is wild Atlantic stuff, but you're probably not getting it unless the sign in the seafood department specifically says so. I've never seen it for sale myself, personally. I've heard on TV it's almost fished-out of the Atlantic too. Per Wikipedia, the amount of farmed vs. wild Atlantic salmon produced was 1,433,708 tons vs. 2,989 tons in 2007, respectively.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_in_aquaculture#Wild_vers...

"Alaskan" salmon tends to be wild-caught. It's also usually more expensive (on the East Coast), and harder to find (Whole Foods is usually you're best bet). Typically, "wild" is better for you than "farmed" salmon:

http://www.paystolivegreen.com/2009/02/wild-salmon-vs-farmed...

It has better nutritional value, including better Omega 3 to Omega 6 fat ratio, higher protein and lower fat quantity, and is usually lower in PCB's. If it's not marked as "Alaskan" or "wild", it's probably farm raised.
Same here. Pretty happy with the Dell Mini 9 (1.6ghz atom w/ 2gb ram and 16gb ssd) I bought a year ago. It was around $340 and I was able to put Windows 7 RC on it. It's been great for vacations and meetings where I don't want to lug around (or risk theft of) my macbook pro. It's pretty fast too.
Chi-squared distributions are well approximated by normal distributions close to the mean.

The point is not that arbitrary statistics will necessarily always be perfectly behaved (or even well behaved) on sampling data--it's that to make reasonably accurate predictions of system behavior, under certain practical conditions, these statistics are well-behaved, and an inexperienced statistician (as most people are) is less likely to make a gross error.
Thanks terrellm. I'm pretty experienced with Adwords and know the options. The basic setup and possibilites is okay, but I'm missing simple and optimized testing reports, optimized ways to start new tests (without having to take notes) and so on.
> UVB is needed to make Vit D from sunlight

Actually, it's UVA. To make appreciable vitamin D you have to be out in the midday sun when there's plenty of UVA, not after ~2:30pm.
Don't underestimate how much of social status really is nothing but behavior, by which I loosely mean everything that can be "faked". In other words, pretend long enough and you'll become the role you're playing.

How much status you can grab that way depends on the extent to which status in a given group depends on objective, un-fakeable traits. If you want to assert status in a wealthy crowd, you need some amount of money to be credible. In a crowd of programmers, knowing something about coding is required. Among athletes you need to be able to keep up physically.

Otherwise, it's pretty much all hackable.
What is so smart about your solution ? Am i missing something ? Your solution was the first that popped in my mind after reading the problem.
Qbasic with Javascript
"Epic" Lean Startup Post - Customer Development and the Lean Startup
There's no need for a new Xbox, says Microsoft
To view on a unix system:

weave tex.web
tex tex.tex
dvips tex.dvi -o tex.ps
Injunctions take time or to put it in a more Pythonic version:

"It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission"
Yeah, the first AI would pass the Turing test by insulting the researchers. :)

But seriously, depending on what you mean by AI (general or narrow), you're right. If it was interacting in a realistic social way with humans, it'd have to understand "status".

Actually, I know of some people working on AGI that are aware of the "status" concept. Although they seem to conflate the improv meaning with general social status. On Less Wrong.com they talk about it from time to time.
The Power of Magical Thinking
And it doesn't actually do any code generation yet.
What is a Start up
If Facebook, Microsoft and Google are Startups (as per Crunchies winners) what do you think a Startup should be defined as? I blogged my opinion. maybe the word should just be scrapped.
Summary: "Because it means life is not incredibly unlikely (after all, it occurred on two planets in our own solar system); ergo what must instead be incredibly unlikely is the ability for life to progress to the point where it can spread across the galaxy (after all, no other life form has contacted us); ergo we are doomed."
It is very possible that I like an article and hate the misleading headline.

In this situation, I both upvote and flag. Typically, if the title is sensationalist enough and the article is good, there will have been enough upvotes to prevent automatic deletion.
While Jackson had a point (let's ignore that he himself was a major land speculator) and a particular bit of corruption of the above nature destroyed the 2nd Bank politically, the resulting denouncement (including requiring specie (i.e. gold) for payments of I forget) was as I recall one of the (if not the) longest recession/depressions in American history.

Yeah, the speculative excesses had to be wrung out of the system, and the sooner the better as Jackson points out, but if you destroy or allow the failure of the banking system in the process (that one had some of both) the result is horrible. See also: the Great Depression in the US.

That was the argument for the TARP, and we can't falsify it and never could have. Continuing the TARP sort of thing (note this reply is made without the benefit of reading the fine article), though, risks one or more Lost Decades as we've seen in Japan.

If you're lucky; we don't yet know the denouncement of what's happening over there (didn't Great Britian require a century to recover from the South Seas Bubble (due to many factors)?) and the US is in a different position than Japan was and is.
Aren't all the payments to Google from your account?

The end user doesn't fork any dosh, and you don't get anything unless you're get a slice of a corporate adwords referreral program.

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Maybe if the Newscorp paywall takes hold (the egg in chicken'n'egg) then Newscorp could institute a micropayment service 3rd party people (us/we) could use.

Newscorp might like a 0.1% tariff on all micropayments, and if there is one person who could take on Visa/Mastercard it is Rupert Murdoch
Google's Nexus One and a Google Tax in France
Found a video clip of the Twitter retweets part of the presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQCk7CTKb5I&feature=playe...

It wasn't clear from the slideshow, but he was comparing it to a kind of a Google PageRank for humans. I wonder if anyone's already running some kind of PageRank-ish algos on tweet propagation.
It always surprises me the way politicians back then were so ballsy compared to the modern crowd. Not that that's relevant to anything, I suppose.
+another1 CSSEdit which is great.
You work it out on your quest.
Alright, but I'd argue at a very minimum that headlines at least shouldn't be misleading like the zuckerburg one. After all don't we already have a guideline to omit the x from "x things about y"? Isn't that editing the original title?
anyone care to elaborate on this (from the bottom of the page under Public Lectures):

Wednesday, 30 June, at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco (some time in the afternoon) speaking (and making an Earthshaking Announcement) at TeX's 32nd Anniversary Celebration, on the final day of the TUG 2010 Conference
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A lot here are from SF. It's an improv hub. BATS Improv has classes, and I highly recommend them for really anyone. But specifically "nerds" would immensely benefit.

Improv basically teaches you to be relentlessly prosocial. You learn what an interesting social interaction (or scene) looks like. You learn conversation and organization skills; how to lead, how to follow, how to work on teams, how to speak. It's all roleplaying.

Actually, you learn the gist of what they would teach your in the "seduction community". Those are more specialized skills. But there's no social stigma attached. And that's not a knock on them either.
In case anybody is too lazy: http://3e.org/private/tex.pdf

Does anyone know of a way to generate similar output but with some nice color-coding, or (even better) hyperlinks from functions and other symbols to their definitions?
I believe we have a guideline against sensationalist titles. Although it's called "editorializing in titles".

Unfortunately, reality does not automatically conform to one's published specs. One has to wait for the moderators. And it's not as if every troll who turns up on the web is a code blue emergency, so there's no terrible sense of urgency here.
I don't know... I wonder if the netbook thing is a fad.

I bought an eeepc. I spent a few weeks hackintoshing / writing drivers for it. That was fun, I guess. It runs sloooow as molasses though. I can see Steve's point.

Tried a few Linux distros... all were either too slow or not powerful enough. Maybe I should try Windows 7?

I don't know if I've just gotten addicted to my dual-core MBP or what. But the aggregate cost of waiting another second or so each page load makes me want to scream inside.
To be honest I've seen more inspiring stuff on the back of a pack of Coco Pops. As ever general advice is easy, the details and stories is what makes stuff interesting. This has neither.
Sounds about right, but it'd be nice if you elaborated on that reaction.
At least a few people thought they were a bad idea, but Bush and his style of Republicans wanted an "ownership society" and Barney Frank and company wanted to "roll the dice". A nice bipartisan mess they've made ... although it should be pointed out that there were many housing bubbles and then busts (e.g. Ireland, Eastern Europe, Germany had to do some nasty real estate company rescues but I can't remember how much they were residential; heck, not counting basket cases like Japan, wasn't Canada about the only country to avoid a bank mess???).

Which suggests to me that there was an underlying problem (e.g. too much cheap money) and real estate was just where that happened to bubble up. And it's a particularly destructive area, the dot.com (actually mostly telecom) bubble was much less worse for the nation at large, bad though it was for us.

Bottom lin: there would have been a bubble somewhere.
If we evolve into some sort of 'post-human' form, maybe the assertion that we 'have to' colonize everywhere breaks down. I think it's a stretch to assume that every potential life form eventually wants to colonize space. If we as humans or post-humans figure out how to balance our need for resources (by not having to mine space) I think that could change things dramatically.

However I didn't go to Oxford/MIT so I really don't know jack.
Well, the consideration fails unless the possibility of a common origin is excluded. Just because we find life nearby doesn't mean that the great filter is not already in our past. On Mars specifically, it would be near enough to allow for the possibility that life has somehow migrated from Earth to Mars, or vice versa, or to both from some other source. Finding life far enough away that intelligently developed spaceflight would be the only way for it to migrate would indeed be a depressing thought, but the possibility of migration must be ruled out first if we find life nearby.
Retirement ?
I wouldn't call that "thing" a netbook, but a small laptop. The iBook was about the same size and nobody called it a "netbook".

For me "a netbook" it's something similar to a product really called Netbook, the Psion Teklogix's "Netbook Pro". It was a little laptop with touchscreen, flash storage, and an Xscale processor running Windows CE.

I used to work for a warehousing company, and warehouse managers loved it. They could browse the Intranet, run a TN5250 terminal, answer email, etc... at any point of the warehouse, carrying almost no weight and, the most important thing, with near zero waiting time. It just booted in seconds. It was outrageusly expensive, may be something like 2000eur.

I understand that's the device Google has envisioned for its Google OS (but much cheaper obviously). A non-x86 CPU, flash storage, may be a touchscreen... something just different from the laptop you would use to run Windows, not just smaller.
I wouldn't exactly call it source code.

It's more like a book with extensive description containing all the source code.. without much structuring.

Somehow it hurts.

.. then again, maybe the dvi/pdf version I saw just missed that. Not very experienced with TeX, but I guess the output can be rendered nicely. Why did you post the TeX source edition of a book?
Currently while developing a Rails app I'm using Notepad++ on my provided XP machine. And normally Pico when SSH'd in, making quick updates.
Exactly. And I'm ashamed of it more than I can express in a forum but there seem to be enough xenophobes here to ensure that's going to be the status quo for quite a while.

Even within the EU there is plenty of that, witness the friction between western Europeans and immigrants from Poland or Romania.

We have a long way to go in this respect.