skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he's referring reasonably and ethically due in due process. These things start to sound like cliches, but both words are important here. Just because the corruption is legal doesn't make it ethical, or due.
Right because the only two types of people are brilliant business visionaries and talentless chain-restaurant-working schlubs.

Other than that last comment you are pretty much right on though.
Or, crime might be even lower than it is now if we stopped locking up some carefully chosen portion of convicted criminals.

From the wikpedia article:

"One partial, but significant cause of high incarceration rates is that the United States locks people up, some for a long time, for non-violent crimes.

...

Within three years of being released, 67% of the ex-prisoners re-offend and 52% are actually re-incarcerated."

I wonder how many of those locked up for some definition of non-violent/minor crime, or casual drug offense, and who are part of the 67% and 52%, would never have gone on to "re" offend and be "re" incarcerated if they hadn't been imprisoned in the first place.
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Perhaps, although calling it an "excuse" is rather offending depending on who the person is and your relationship to them. I think anyone would feel upset if someone they knew of died. Facebook just helps you find out about it sooner rather than twenty years later.
Facebook PDQ
I was in high school during Columbine. One thing you heard very often was "I this age of Columbine, you can't be too careful," usually used to justify an overreaction to student behavior (I had a friend who would wear a trench coat to school and was harassed by the administration). Except that in the late nineties youth crime and school violence had already been on a steady decline and was continuing in that direction.
I don't think it even has to be a million....100K is plenty for most of these things
Not regarding finding a full time job, but important: Investigate your health care insurance options, if you are in a governance that does not provide or guarantee coverage (e.g. U.S.). You may be able to continue on your parents' policy for some period of time. If not and you find you have to purchase a policy for yourself (and can afford to), it's better to purchase a policy while you are still covered (with a start date a day or two before your current coverage lapses). If nothing else, there are (or used to be) high deductible and/or temporary policies that at relatively low cost can provide some coverage against catastrophic events.

I don't know whether schools and career centers cover this topic much, but they should.

P.S. As I've commented before, it's not just about you. It's also a matter of protecting loved ones, who may feel compelled to spend their assets caring for you if something unfortunate and expensive happens to you. In that sense, even if you don't have money to pay the deductible amount yourself, a high deductible policy can make sense in that your family may be able to help you financially to that extent, while the insurance protects against the really big bills (and also, as others have noted here, negotiates lower charges for services so that you don't pay the ironic/perverse "highest possible costs" that the uninsured often face due to lack of negotiating power).
We actually hope to address this part of the market with our orignal site which was http://www.KaBadge.com - Here we would display all the badges a particular user has earned across many sites.

We had also discussed creating various blog-engine plugins to automatically pull these badges and put them by your name when you comment on posts anywhere.
The difficult thing with sunk costs that this article fails to really cover is that very often we don't know they're sunk costs until after the fact. In the middle of a situation, it's very difficult to predict whether things will only get worse and you should abandon your efforts. How many successful companies and products got off to a rough start and would have been shut down if this kind of analysis had been applied?
Well said, it's that among other things, some good. But America is a lottery, everyone wants to be that celebrity, and thinks they have a pretty good shot (attention statistics deficit disorder).
Ha...too many crime shows on TV. I was recently home shopping and my realtor thought she was going to be killed daily.
Designing for improvisation (2010)
For about 100,000 years, your ancestors have gotten optimal results by trusting people who looked like them, and distrusting people who didn't. That would be a very tough instinct to change.
Most people on this site? Really?
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I don't think you can compare crime now to the anything previous to the 60s. The advent of ubiquitous telecommunications, security cameras, computerized record keeping and banking, standard government-issued IDs, DNA evidence, et al have all significantly changed how we both perceive the level of crime and track the level of crime.
Only sophisticated investors are allowed to make direct investments. Others can contribute via community fund. I.E. via expert or startup.
The tech demographic can do just fine with the phones designed for the mom demographic.
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What if Facebook starts giving us limited *Likes ?
'sweep the most damning claims against them under the rug'

Which claims are those? One of the problems with this debate is that both sides keep on going "but that's not the main issue, it's something else" and then don't specify what the main issue is.
It's not important enough a problem to solve. If I want badges and stuff, I can very easily program that myself, without the headache of integrating with you guys. I don't think this will work. On the other hand, email delivery is hard and important, so I will pay a company to do that. Find a harder problem to solve for people.
I was going to post that I doubted the authenticity of this quote, since its style struck me as overly modern and all the sources on the web seemed to trace back to one talk from a 2008 conference. But then I googled the document's apparent title ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") and discovered what appears to be the original:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26184/26184-8.txt

Skimming around this thing is pretty interesting. They recommend plugging sewage systems by flushing sponges down toilets. And here is part of how they recommend setting fire to a factory:

To make another type of simple fuse, soak one end of a piece of string in grease. Rub a generous pinch of gunpowder over the inch of string where greasy string meets clean string. Then ignite the clean end of the string. It will burn slowly without a flame (in much the same way that a cigarette burns) until it reaches the grease and gunpowder; it will then flare up suddenly.

Sounds pretty authentic to me. Which makes the original quote all the greater. It opens a new possible explanation for the inefficiency of large companies, too: they're full of saboteurs!
I'm sure it's a matter of scope.
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Very interesting. I wonder how Putnam is factoring out community size and the age of the community itself? I'm also really interested how the average length of stay for community citizens compares between neighborhoods.

In a small town where everyone's extended family has lived there for 20 generations and everyone know everyone else, people are going to be more trusting, compared to a newer community where there are many, many first generation passer-bys who move there and fairly quickly (< 5 yrs) move elsewhere.
I saw this mentioned in a recent front-page article. It struck me as bizarre...

Anyone use this?
This is a very old test, I recall seeing this back in 2006 or so. It would interesting to see a comparison with Mochiweb also.

Erlang really rocks!
Adam, have you noticed that every time you try the self-righteous "Fail, Cletus", you lose a chunk of reputation? Perhaps if you tried to have a civil discussion without sounding like you're talking down to the rest of us, you might fare better.

Another tip: your final, ungrammatical paragraph is nothing but an ad hominem attack, and a snarky unsupported one at that. Cheap digs like that won't help you make allies, they just piss people off.
Yes if you look at the arrow button at the top right, it's a home screen only functionality.
When I was at Yahoo Brickhouse, we developed something very similar, which half-launched but appears dead:

http://bravo.yahoo.com/teaser/

I never felt comfortable with the project primarily because I didn't feel I understood the market at all.
I once posted a photo to Twitter, and some guy looked up the GPS coordinates in the metadata and accosted me at the Starbucks where I was working.

Turns out he was angry because I posted a tweet three weeks earlier about hating eBay.

There are some crazy people out there, for sure.
I wrote a more detailed explanation of what happened in a previous version of this article (explaining the particular derivatives).

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1117719
'Avatar' creator: Failure's OK, fear isn't
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Yeah.. Yaws v. lighttpd, nginx, thttpd or tornado would be interesting. When's the last time apache won a benchmark of anything?
I often find myself browsing on one computer, finding the thing I was looking for -- perhaps a download link or a page I'm going to copy/paste a lot from -- and then wanting to view that page on my dev computer that's right next to me.

Yeah, I could set up Synergy or I could email myself (oops, VPN's connected, can't get to my email easily right now!), but a bit.ly bookmarklet works just fine.
I actually think we have a false disagreement. I agree with what you're saying here. I'm just getting weary of the "look how evil (Google|Apple|Microsoft) is" drama lately. ;) It's fine to complain about this Google snafu, but asking for a personal apology from the CEO, etc. etc. just makes it overly dramatic.
Personally, I don't think there is an explicit conspiracy. But I do think there is a bit of group think in climate science due to the fact that many people who choose to study Environmental Science are also environmentalists. It's a conflict of interest when your primary researchers are also passionate green activists. So, when one scientist says to another "here's my research and data, don't let any of those knuckle-dragging skeptics get a hand on it, I'm going to see if we can deny their FOI requests", the other scientist goes along with it. Summed over hundreds of such acts, an us-versus-them true-believer culture can produce the same effects as an explicit conspiracy.
I would have liked a 2-3 sentences summary.. I don't want to be rude, but I stop reading in the middle of the first paragraph. I know you have worked really hard but try to sum it up in a clean and easy way. (And by the way, "SaaS Achievement Engine" tells me nothing.)
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I appreciate your honest feedback. What did you think of some of the alternatives we have been playing around with?

If you were to make your own achievement system, would you share those badges with a repository? This is basically where we started - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=795952
Therein lies the problem. Someone told him they owned the land (actually someone told him that their family owned the land). If someone tells you that their family owns a piece of land, first of all, you have no proof that they are telling the truth. Even assuming they are telling the truth, if they have a large family of people who look similar, Googling for who owns the land will not necessarily give you the individual who told you their family owned the land. That's the problem. The victim Googled about the owner of a piece of land and decided based on the results of that search who assaulted him. Given that identification of attackers is rather imperfect to begin with, I would not trust the victim's identification in this case. Simply seeing that a given person owned the land on which he was attacked could have convinced him that that person was the attacker even if he wasn't. You could say that Facebook was like a line-up and the victim identified his attacker on Facebook, but this line-up would not have stood up in court if done as a real line-up. You can't bring one person into a line-up and tell the victim that the person owns the land on which they were assaulted. Of course they'll identify them as the attacker.
Yeah the market is something we don't understand to well either which is a large reason for this post. I remember seeing someone mention this site before - any information you DO have about the market would be appreciated. This is sort of a brand new area and I'm not too sure how to go about researching it.
I don't doubt that history books for children often paint historical figures in more (or less) generous terms than reality would suggest, but this story is pretty thin on examples. Six quotes about 43 of the most studied men in history doesn't really say anything at all, especially when you consider that writers of adult history have their own unique biases.
"According to a 2007 analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics by the Asbury Park Press, “the average federal worker made $59,864 in 2005, compared with the average salary of $40,505 in the private sector.” Across comparable jobs, the federal government paid higher salaries than the private sector three times out of four, the paper found."
There is an eye-opening story in Reason magazine on how public servants have it much better than private sector workers: http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/12/class-war
You are right but they will occur at a tenth of the rate.
Microsoft is definitely not looking at this short term. When they talk about a billion devices they are talking about being everything to everybody. So my guess would be that they would want my mom and everyone else all to use it.

The other point about the "mom" argument is directly related to the "facebook login" issue, where complexity is not anything that anyone wants to deal with.
Ask HN: Books/Articles on Social Networking and Game Theory
Hi HN,

I'm interested in reading more about the psychology of social networking, particularly in regards to how they might relate to rewards and game theory.

Anything to do with examples of how businesses are using game related rewards such as points, levels, and achievements to reward user interaction with the site and build communities centered around a service or a product.

I know they exist, but it's hard to find elements that combine the two.

Thanks
I watched this when it was on TV, and it was really interesting, but I couldn't help but keep thinking that even if a plane fell out of the sky every month, it would still be the safest way to travel by orders of magnitude. Though, I guess the point is that improving safety should still be a goal, even if you're the safest already.
Sounds like the way congress is run.
If you were working at Starbucks since Twitter launched, you've come a long way in a short period of time.

* I'm assuming, of course, that you're no longer working there :)
I thought for a few minutes and didn't come up with much in the way of "if you're not a nerd, at least do these things."

One resource is AARP:

http://bulletin.aarp.org/yourmoney/scamalert/articles/

Not focused exclusively on what you're looking for, but there are some things in there.

Unless you do find the type of resource you're looking for, you may have to do the research and distill it yourself. You could create a page presenting that distillation.
A Microsoft evangelist's perspective on Windows Phone 7
Important to know, I suppose...

But if you are building a quick app or prototype, I've found frameworks like blueprint (http://www.blueprintcss.org/) to be quite helpful.
Interesting idea. Since this is a bit less anonymous than Chatroulette, I'd imagine that there'll be less nudity and other shock imagery. Although, I'm sure there will definitely still be some.

I'm curious if any dating sites have tried (or succeeded) doing something like this. Seems like it might work - kind of an "online" bar atmosphere where you're free to wander around meeting new people face to face.
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The problem is that it's not an entirely easy thing to sum up in a few words. What part of SAAS Achievment Engine doesn't make sense? I don't mean that in a rude way, I honestly want to make it better. I've changed it to "achievement engine service" and added a brief summary. I realize its alot to chew through so hopefully that makes it a little easier to determine if you want to keep reading or not.
Can those who downmodded me explain which part of my statement they disagree with?
I remember thinking the same thing about Ikea when I went through one of their catalogs last week. But I think it seems like a bad idea; it makes their products feel less enticing. I could look at their furniture and -- though the pictures still look very nice -- think to myself "how would I navigate around that with a cup of tea and a book in my hand?".
Reverse-engineering a smart meter
Android's already got the geek market. And it's a small market, so who would be silly enough to fight over the Apple scraps like that? Besides, how could this be a geek phone with no multitasking? And, that UI looks like it was designed by an impressionist painter with no regard to actually using the damn thing, so no normal phone user is going to like it. Way to exclude both user bases, Microsoft.
I'll start with one of my own, Croudsourcing by Jeff Howe http://j.mp/anYbsR (Amazon Link)

Just picked it up the other day after reading for a bit. I like the authors style as it mirrors that of Malcom Gladwell.
I wish they would do this with more games. Give it something like a window after so many years (5/7/10 w/e) then just release them as free. They have made all the money they are going to from it.
Amygdala damage eliminates monetary loss aversion
As long as we're thinking about unusual Apple products, let's remember Macintosh TV: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_TV

Another odd duck was the PoweCD. I owned one of these to go with my Duo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerCD

Did I say Duo? These dockable ultra-portables were fun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_Duo_2300c
I think the question is whether improving air safety is taking money and/or attention away from reducing more serious threats. (That statement applies equally to "terrorism".)
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Facebook driving more traffic than Google
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If anyone understood this, I'd be grateful for a summary...
tracking how people are clicking on the link without owning the destination page
Well, he is right. The education system I went through was designed around a myth of what the corporate landscape supposedly looks like and it's out of date in the information age. I don't know that I'd go so far as to call "anything that asks you to uproot your relationships with place and with people as evil" nor would I return to an agricultural model.

It's worth reading.
How did he open? Did he say: "Hey Dustin" or did he say "Are you Dustin?" What were his first words?
I disagree. From these screenshots it looks like Zune interface, which I always thought was ugly as hell (Especially that damn font). But that is my very short judgement. Some of these interface elements look really cool though (the viewport kind of thing especially)
I assume you can just flash it to a new serial number, but I don't know that much about it. The T-Mobile folks didn't seem surprised when I said it had been stolen, and had a procedure to cut off the sim pronto, so it's not too unusual.
The title is a bit sensational (they are actually working on it). The idea of micro-sensors has been around for quite a while and is probably at least 10 years before any large scale deployment. What escapes me is how are they going to use accelerometers for oil prospecting, it sounds like the wrong type of sensor.
I for one took "working at Starbucks" to mean "sitting at Starbucks, working on my laptop."
Ask HN:  Interviewing with a startup, what questions should I ask them?
Backgound... I have been employed for a large non technology corporation for nine years. I realize I have been with them to long and for all the wrong reasons. But I'm still a little nervous about working for such a small company.

I have an interview with a startup lined up and might apply to some more. I'm sure at some point I will be given the opportunity to ask them questions about the job, etc...

So, what kind of questions should I ask about their company to feel out their stability, prospects and future?

Thanks
I believe Mr. Scoble has a family. Anyone here with a family that still works for a living will tell you that you don't have $6000 to spend on yourself.
I was working in the Starbucks, on my laptop.
Geoffry Miller, nice! If I owed a house, it would be on both lists. Other than that, my computer, education and guitar are shared on both lists. Below those, my most expensive purchases have been necessities (think bed mattress, rent, etc). Honestly, it feels wrong to regret spending money on these. I may not love them, but they're part of the cost of living.

The list exercise might make more sense to non-students.
I don't like TED, but I like information.

Don't get me wrong, there is spectacular information being distributed by TED, but I almost feel tricked into obtaining it. The conference is so heavily designed around status, and ego that it seems like more of a marketing tool for the intellectual elite to boost their personal brand than a platform to share ideas. It's inefficient, and deceptive.

What I'd like to see instead of 5-20min presentations is one html webpage with bits of text and perhaps a few high quality images, or at least the option to access the information in this format. To me, everything else is fluff. I just want the information, not the ego, not the voice, not the brands, not the emotion, not the cheering. Just the information.

I know I might be coming across as snarky, or counter-elitist, but it really isn't my intention. I love quality information, and TED confuses me. I often want to idolize and praise these wonderful people that give wonderful speeches more than their ideas, and I'm saddened. Would the information be any less profound written on a bathroom wall? I'm definitely torn, but I'm beginning to think it doesn't matter...
Bug report :) It got Lost wrong. It said it airs today. It doesn't, except in reruns. Then it doesn't know it airs tomorrow, and says it doesn't air again for 8 days.

Is the app only showing for "New" episodes?
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Personally I cannot stand frameworks for css. They completely screw up the default styles, and make it much harder for other developers to quickly make css changes to a site.

CSS frameworks are different from other programming frameworks because it overwrites defaults. It is equivalent to something like overriding printf in c to do add an extra character at the beginning. Its just ridiculous.
At the time the focus of the conversation was on theft, which can get relabeled as lost.
I once felt the same way about a toque (yes, I'm Canadian).
Ah! My bad :)
On a related note, http://searchyc.com/ also has a lot of good info.
Yay! Just what the readers of Hacker News love to read… basic CSS tutorials! Can we have a "how to get amazing mouse cursors with JavaScript" one, too?