skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the sentence in which I ask a question taking the incindiary post at face value. This sentence is a common-sense answer to my question, starting with "it seems that". This is the sentence in which I suggest that maybe conventional wisdom is correct. This sentence states a fact to support my suggestion.

This sentence attacks the blog for fallacious reasoning. This one points out the [strawman|false dilemma| other]. This sentence suggests that if the central argument is based on a fallacious point, the whole thing could be wrong. This is the sentence where I backpedal a bit and declare fallacious reasoning is not strictly indicative of an incorrect conclusion.

Edit: This is the edit where I poke fun at mistakes in my hastily typed response above.
It seems clear to me that police actively carrying out their duty have (and should have) immensely more obligations and fewer rights than citizens generally.

For example, while I certainly don't have the right to demand identification from a random person on the street, I better have the right to demand identification from a police officer giving me an order.
OTOH we have the issue of smart people thinking they have carte blanche to dictate the correctness of other people's preferences.
So he was wrong on the market share, the format, and the everything else. I think that's still a solid 'completely wrong'. He is, of course, right, about every single thing you choose to read into the statements that he doesn't actually make. I don't see him predicting the 'future popularity of document databases'.
One of the most interesting things for me was Steve Jobs' facial expressions as he was sitting on the chair demonstrating the iPad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eVCFXxgn2M&feature=chann...

After practically every phrase, he tightly closes his mouth. It made it seem, to me at least, that he really didn't believe what he was saying. No doubt having an audience of millions contributed to him wanting to carefully control anything that comes out of his mouth, but it was hard for me not to get that impression.
Diigo has about everything I want except a great iPhone app and higher popularity.
I have a feeling that 37signals has tested that page extensively. It may be that they convert better when the page designed that way.

I personally like the sparseness of www.checkoutapp.com, but that doesn't mean that 37signals' page is "too cramped." The only way to know is to test.

Look at Amazon. They have been through so many iterations and have tested so much and their pages are still too cramped for my taste. It probably make good business sense for them to design them that way.
Tunewiki for Android: Why Didn’t Google Think of That?
There are some mobile apps that have become a leading name on one mobile platform, and then there are apps that have become leading names on multiple platforms. A few apps that come to mind that are relatively successful on various platforms include Fring, Waze, IM+, and Tunewiki.
I'd potentially come down from cambridge for one if the date/time worked out.
Femtoo.com - works everytime - it's how I track comments etc.

I also use it to track new answers for 'StackOverflow' questions.

You can even 'publish' a tracker and anyone can subscribe without requiring an account.

Just created a Femtoo Tracker for this page, this URL will tell you how many comments have been posted (will get updated every 30 mins):

http://api.femtoo.com/trackers/content/?trackerKey=f24b684a9...

too cool?

"Femtoo - Reference any part of any web page by URL"
The point he made, which I think was central to the piece, was that our math education system specifically is totally broken. He makes that point very, very well. If you want to read just that, start reading around the "Who is to blame?" segment, or a couple paragraphs before that (for context).
Besides that, humans have probably evolved to run through grass, mud and sand, I am not sure that running on concrete or broken glass (in the city) would work as well.
I've used svn and git, but something still doesn't feel right. I still like "cp -pr" and "diff -r" for version control. I waste disk space with whole directory copies, but I eventually "rm -rf" the really old ones. I don't trust automatic merges so I do them manually, yanking and pasting between vim edit panels. I am a paleolithic relic.
funded entirely out of the CEO's pocket at this point. not interesting yet.
Sorry, but there's a saying in investing: "Right but early is wrong. Right but late is wrong."

Any fool can make a very long list of predictions that will all turn out to be correct, even in the stock market, as long as he doesn't have to give them a timeline. Plenty of people saw the housing crash, for example, and plenty of them understood that certain banks were underwater, and regardless of their actions, they were going to go under. However, just knowing that isn't actually worth anything -- a short position carries a heavy premium in interest, and in the famous words of Keynes: "The markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."
It depends on what else we count together.
Given the design of the GRE, SAT, and standard IQ tests, correlating them with each other is actually on safer ground than correlating any with intelligence.

Actually thinking of intelligence as a one-dimensional thing is dangerous in and of itself.
China Internet Network Information Center accepted as a Mozilla root CA
I won't consider this trick as an "standard stuff".

There could be various techniques for preventing bots, and this implementation is just one of them.

In my opinion framework should include stuff which is really standard, and best practice.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1077411
at the momment, every 30 minutes.
Rethinking Open Data
This is hardly the first SSL certificate authority to be under the thumb of a nation-state actor, but maybe people will listen this time: Don't trust SSL unless you can't avoid it.
Yes, exactly. Femtoo uses the cQuery.com Content Selection Engine, which itself has some fancy content caching mechanisms to reduce the amount of actual 'polling'
Remind me again what that has to do with the point at hand, please.
Yeah, I'm sure you're right, and that's a post of theirs I would really love to see. Screenshots of several different versions of their homepages, from cramped to sparse, and how they all converted.
You're missing something obvious. When Google buys something they tend to put ads on it and let people use it for free. That means that any revenue that web property brings in is counted as ad revenue, and is not counted as coming from that web property. Therefore looking at the SEC statement gives you no way to figure out how much revenue Google is or is not getting from a lot of their acquisitions.
I think he nailed it with prediction #7. Many of you are saying he was late because the iPhone was released in 2007. Well, the iPhone SDK wasn't released until 2008 and the industry didn't step up to the game until 2009 when a bunch of Android handsets started to come out.

I do think he was wrong on most of the others, though.
I emailed them the day they started asking, never got a response either.
I'm sure I've said it before, but if you're interested in running I really recommend checking out the book.

http://www.amazon.com/Born-Run-Hidden-Superathletes-Greatest...
Well, you're committing an ad homenim, for one thing... this article could be completely, 100% wrong, and it has no affect on the correctness of his next one.

But I also didn't downvote you, so I can't speak for those that did.
Heart-Stopping Marketing
This is the sentence in which I invoke my [Yale|Harvard|Princeton|Caltech|MIT] diploma and lay into you with a subtle ad hominem. This is the sentence in which I narrow the problem to 1% of its original scope, eliminating the most useful and difficult 99%. This is the sentence in which I then solve that 1%, invoking advanced statistical techniques as I do so. This is the sentence in which I act far more humble than my accomplishment merited.
Huh! 37Signals has all this other stuff that I never scrolled down to before. Interesting.
This is not completely a new site, but good to know, so +1

also, consider having a look at http://www.macosforge.org/
You can't just put the / everywhere, and you still have to differentiate between non-empty and empty elements (e.g. div and br).

If you write XHTML, and don't follow these two non-XML rules (and indeed the other 14), then it'll probably break when you give it to an HTML parser or browser:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/guidelines.html#C_2

C.2 Empty Elements: Include a space before the trailing / and > of empty elements, e.g. <br />, <hr /> and <img src="karen.jpg" alt="Karen" />. Also, use the minimized tag syntax for empty elements, e.g. <br />, as the alternative syntax <br></br> allowed by XML gives uncertain results in many existing user agents.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/guidelines.html#C_3

C.3. Element Minimization and Empty Element Content: Given an empty instance of an element whose content model is not EMPTY (for example, an empty title or paragraph) do not use the minimized form (e.g. use <p> </p> and not <p />).
I'm not sure I would have many concerns over "privacy" with the number of times I visit "CSS Colour Wheel" or my items tagged "cheatsheet".

It is not so much surfing history, but more a question of how likely I am to want to go to a certain link when I visit my bookmarks.
'"Smart" people have sometimes done mean things'

Trivializing it like that will help hide the true situation from you. Look back on the twentieth century. Find the five largest slaughterings of human life. Intellectuals claiming to be in the service of high intellectual ideas will show up in at least two of those (Stalin's farm purges, Mao's political purges). Hitler's purge would be debatable, though I'm willing to agree that simply fancying oneself an intellectual is not the same as being one. Some of the other largest slaughterings that don't make the top five, but still involve hundreds of thousands to millions of deaths, have intellectual roots.

That's just one example of the problem, I could go on. But those examples alone are sufficient to establish my point.

While it's true that America's distrust of intellectuals has blurred into a distrust of learning, there is a kernel of truth there. Intellectuals have a great failing that has cost millions their lives and caused misery for billions more, which is trusting their beautiful theories too much, even when reality is smacking them across the face with the fact that the theories are wrong or not working. (For the love of Pete, some "intellectuals" still study Marxist economics as if it has some sort of bearing on reality! Studying it for historical reasons is one thing, but not as if it's real.) Distrusting intellectualism is not a sign of irrationality; in fact I'd go so far as to say too strong a faith in intellectualism is rather the irrational position. If the 20th century taught us anything it is that reality is irreducibly complex and the beautiful-but-invariably-oversimplified theories beloved of intellectuals can not possible capture reality, but this lesson doesn't seem to have filtered out of the mathematical domain very well.

The problem is that to really understand what's going on you have to detach "learning" from "intellectualism". I like learning, I distrust intellectualism and still see no overwhelming reason to start trusting it.

We're in the middle of one failure of intellectualism even as we speak, as the global warming consensus falls apart; I don't know what truth will replace it but I feel very confident it will be much more nuanced. That came close to beggaring the entire world in the service of an intellectual theory. And more quietly, IMNSHO we're in the middle of the intellectual dietary consensus falling apart. And if I'm right about that, you can chalk up tens of millions of premature deaths and hundreds of millions of people in unnecessary fat misery into intellectualism's column, in the service of the simple-but-wrong theory that the body can be modeled as just a passive rubber bag.

That's hard to get across to a large mass of people, of course, and easy for it to get blurred. But if you don't understand this, you won't understand the real reasons for the anti-intellectual strain of American thought. It isn't just "we hate dem dare learnin' folk", which is just an excuse for not understanding.
The costs of configurable settings in your web application
Of all the stories I included in my book Speak Human, this is the one that continues to make folks smile.

"Dr" Jon Basso has done something that few marketers will ever do: crafted a story that will get people talking. (Truth be told, most marketers are way too scared to do something this bold.)

When you work on your start-up, ask yourself: what story can we tell that will get others to share it?
It's quite amazing to me that people are willing to pay ~$11 for proofreading ~100 words and won't pay 1 cent for far more technologically advanced services. This is why you have to figure out what people will pay for before you build it. Best of luck to you on this project.
Excellent question.

I don't think I'm supposed to answer it.

However Google's answer would be part of the, "nobody would believe me" piece of neilk's top-rated comment.
"Prediction #10: In five years' time, most programmers will still be average."

In order to sleep through the night, I'll just assume that he's not talking about me.
Operation Aurora
Although, how many of those are root CAs in Firefox?

I'm more than a little leery about this, but at least if there is a security breach due to this, it should be traceable, right? I mean, if a CA signs a faulty certificate, their signature is part of the certificate, so it should be traceable. So, without any evidence of wrongdoing, how are they any worse than Verisign? Or any of the cheap SSL certificate providers? It's not like the CNNIC is going out of business anytime soon.
I used "secret", probably shouldn't have.

The article I referenced says that it varies by state, especially with regards to consent. Some states are single-party, some states require all party consent.

But if you're on the street in public, you'd think everything is fair game... especially if you're a public servant.

It's nice to see someone taking a stand and clearing it up (in one state at least).
Here is the comment where I come to talk about how this community isn't what it was once. This sentence is where I would compare this community to another popular online community which I frequent but refer to in a demeaning fashion on other sites.
IPad Camera rumor becoming a reality? We think so.
I can understand that.

However the part that I'm objecting to is By the time you've reached (3) you've come to believe that Google is years ahead of anyone else; you've transferred all loyalties to the company; you accept the idea that you're in an elite of humanity. I have a lot of loyalties outside of Google, and recognize a lot of talent that isn't there. (Some of whom I'd like to get there, but that is another story.) There are also a lot of kinds of valuable talent which I don't think are even particularly well represented at Google.

However I'm really enjoying it.
This is totally meaningless though. The existence of a hate group is just a geographically local group of people who are racist AND like forming clubs.

A map of the per-capita hate crimes committed would be more educational, but again it would not be a measure of racism. To have hate crimes you need 2 things, people who hate some group, and members of that group they can act against. In the areas that were most heavily racist they chased out all hated minorities 50+ years ago.

The town I grew up in had 5000 residents and no black families (actually, some have moved there, but only when I was in about 3rd grade did that start). I didn't see any racism at all in that town, but how could I? Driving 30 minutes away to the nearest sizeable black population center and you see tons of it. Look at the school zones and you see tons of it. Hate crimes were non-existent however, just because you can't hit someone who isn't around. Finally, if one did happen, how would it get reported? In areas where hate crimes are super rare I would assume they would also be under reported since the justice system would be unfamiliar with recording and prosecuting them.

Finally, saying one area (red states) is 'more racist' than another is the exact same in-group out-group dynamic that feeds racism in the first place. Due to the stuff I listed above, I would expect blue states to have far more racist acts, just because there are more cross-race interactions and boundaries (which are the only 'opportunity' people have to commit racist actions). There is no discrimination against minorities for jobs if there are no minority applicants, and there is no discriminatory school zones or public service allocation if there are no minority communities in a city. The unanswerable question is, "Would there be if there were minorities there", but that can't be captured in these sorts of statistics.
Are we too dramatic about technology? Or just passionate?
Coming from svn, I too felt initial discomfort about git's promiscuous branching, but then I learned to stop worrying and love the index. Working in svn repositories evokes "I wish this was a git repository" every time.

I wouldn't have initially trusted git if it weren't for Linus's Google Talk. And I'm glad I gave it the time it requires to change workflows.

The most unexpected side-effect of using git is a newfound willingness to follow experimental ideas in my projects as fast as I can think/type. I'll guess it comes from confidence in git's ability to safely partition branches in-situ; the relative speed and ease with which branches are created, merged and destroyed; and the existence of the index and stash. Git removes the version control inertia I didn't even know was there.
New research rejects 80-year theory of 'primordial soup' as the origin of life
15 Minute SEO
I will be joining you, driving in from the Denver Tech Center. Michael, Sprint
I see one huge problem on your site....pricing.

Having it in listed in pounds instead of dollars would lead me to close the page right away, thinking it was a british only site. And I dunno but prices seem to be a little high.

Problem #2:...you need to convince people that your editors actually know what they are doing. You need to show that you have your editors take a certain test(ie proofread a 5 page essay to find all errors). That way people know the guy reading actually knows his stuff, and is not just a 12 year old kid who wants to make a few bucks.

Problem #3: Your editors need to be local. Native english speaker means different things in England, in United States and in India. You need to make sure the person proof reading the stuff is in the same country as the person paying the bill.

Problem #4: Domain sucks. Sure korect.me is quirky. But as you just saw I completely misspelled it on the first try. You need a domain that is misspell proof...or at least own the misspelled domains too.

Problem #5: Getting a .me domain is a great way to get penalized in search results. If you want even a tiny bit of people to find you via search engines, you need to change that to a .com

Problem #6: Your landing page sucks. You need to let a person know right away how much they'll be paying.

Problem #7: I want a discount should send a person to a new page, where you tell them about how they can get a discount. Right now you just send them to a blank page, with the discount code below the fold.

Problem #8: You need to add some guarantee...I dunno something like "if we don't catch all errors, you get half off". Make sure there is an incentive for proofreaders to get it right...and for the customer to trust you.

Problem #9: Your page is missing meta descriptions and meta keywords. Not only do those help with SEO but description is how your stuff appears in Google.

Problem #10: You need a word counter on the text box, and you should display a running total of how much the proofreading will cost the person.
FWIW, some fans are making a film to coincide with the strip's 15th anniversary:

http://www.dearmrwatterson.com

It seems they haven't secured an interview with the man himself, but they have interviews with a mix of other people.
There will be documentary evidence if a nation-state actor uses a bogus SSL certificate, yes. Whether anyone will keep said evidence -- do you keep long-term copies of every SSL certificate you see for www.google.com? -- is a different matter, especially since a smart attacker (which we presume nation-state actors are) is likely to be selective in their targets.
True enough.

But choice of algorithm can often mean cache-awareness, too - using a random access algorithm where a sequential one could be used instead can be a 10x performance drain, and a 10x constant multiplier is pretty substantial.

For a concrete example, a lot of the most important optimizations in physics simulations involve satisfying the simultaneous goals of using cache-friendly and parallel algorithms. In some cases people are even willing to accept worse big O behavior because the "worse" algorithms use a lot of sequential access and parallelize easier than the sophisticated ones, more than making up the difference for the object counts that come up in practice.
Firefox Nightlies have out-of-process plugins by default (please help test)
@Mc_Big_G for ~100 words it would be ~$2.8 and the 'industry' itself is quite big, but it depends on needs, of course.
I'm going to check it out. I have heard a lot about this book lately. Thanks for mentioning it
Ajax DNS tools
Demo of Google Chrome OS Tablet UI Concept [video]
Get an idea about how the Chrome OS tablet UI might look in hardware

While Tablet hardware is somewhat a commodity , the big issue is software. It's a fast operating system that's completely browser centric.
Update: the layout has been fixed. The space bar problem is still there, but given that I use my thumbs I'd place it on the front :)
I recently finished reading "IBM and the Holocaust" by Edwin Black. Hitler's purges are really not reasonably debatable: the Third Reich employed statisticians who came up with racial theories to determine how "Jewish" a person was. They published their work in journals. They clearly tried to couch their bigotry in scientific terms.

With that said, I don't know what your operating definition of "intellectualism" is. Mine is just one who values and seeks out learning for its own sake.
I don't think a month is nearly enough time to form any judgements. From personal experience, it takes about a year to really learn how to work out of an office.

Multiply this by an entire office and they're in for a world of hurt. To really successfully pull this off, they'd need a couple of fascists who already knew how to work remotely, people would need to defer to them, and they'd need a serious transition period to get used to all the tools they'll need (ie: work a day or two per week remotely).

The biggest problem they have, though, is one of measuring success. They don't really say what a successful experiment's going to look like. It's easy enough to measure writer output (quantity, not necessarily quantity), but most other facets of the business aren't quite as measurable. Even the success of writers is ultimately determined by the number of eyeballs on their stories. It's awfully hard to measure that stuff with any kind of reliability over the course of a month.

The best possible tool we've found for this is IRC. I assume Campfire would work reasonably well, but it's awfully simple to find bots that speak IRC and do useful things.