skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you honestly need a theory to tell you that all animals like to procreate and a lot of what they do is motivated by this goal? If there is something I'm missing let me know but I'm pretty sure that sums it up. I guess the great success of evolutionary psychologists has been to convince university boards that they deserve their own classes and grants. Other than that it is a pretty vacuous theory that extrapolates from the selfish gene theory.
Slime-like communication between vim and python.
As mentioned, legal language is (supposed to be) clear and concise. You'd have a strong argument that the merger doctrine should apply.

The merger doctrine holds that when there is only one way to say something (or a limited number of ways), then it cannot be copyrighted. One common example from the case law is game instructions.

Just as there's really only one way to say "The player who rolls the highest amount goes first", there's really only one way to say "Florida law governs any dispute".

Certainly run it by a lawyer willing to make the advice official. Good luck.
Really? That seems to me more like historical observation than biological fact.
Those are terrible reasons. I have a better one:

The state employment security department is having a hell of a time keeping up with the unemployment rate. There's a disproportionately high number of people who need work.

I should know. I'm one such programmer.
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Anthropology, but thats not real.

At the undergrad level, maybe not. At higher levels, most things become a lot more real. Of course, you aren't likely to be doing that sort of field work as an undergrad anyway (or so I hear from high school friends who went on to study anthropology in college).
Given enough human effort and turing completeness you can make anything with anything.

Everything is feasibility and pain.
The article about the 2035 glacier melting mistake was valuable to me: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1057991

I was quite happy to learn that there was a mistake when the IPCC predicted that the glaciers which feed China's and India's biggest rivers will be gone in 25 years.

Correcting mistakes isn't denialism, it's part of good science, and it will only make the case for global warming stronger once more accurate predictions start to roll in.
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there's probably (/should be) a jQuery plugin for it, even

No, there shouldn't. Taking advantage of this design flaw is no better than trying to send a Javascript exploit to read my history file directly. I'm surprised that supposedly legitimate sites think using it is an acceptable practice, but I guess I shouldn't be.
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What happens when the user wants to install software that's not in one of the install's default repositories? The web page walks them through adding another repository URL to their package manager GUI [which is YA of a dozen]?

I'm attracted to the idea of just building a sufficiently sophisticated app management utility and then everything will work perfectly, but in practice it just doesn't seem to happen.

What a package manager does is build a necessarily-leaky abstraction over the set of operations needed to manage an application instance lifecycle. What if a non-experienced user wants to move an app from one system to another, though? No "mere mortal" is going to be able to accomplish that task on an average Linux box.

Mac OS X instead relies on a convention of bundling all necessary files together into an app bundle that's self-contained (and represented as such) and thus can be treated by the user as a cohesive, unitary Thing. Thus installation, deinstallation, sharing, and migration of the app are all done through an identical metaphor which also applies to the other filesystem entities that users care about: documents. So, sure, Mac OS X doesn't have "package management" (as part of the vendor install) but its users have a more pleasant and unified experience. This provides a tremendously better sense of empowerement and relaxation to most users than a wholly separate GUI full of messages about "dependency resolution" and the like. Again, I understand where you're coming from, and in certain aspects and particular vertical instances I have no doubt the Linux automatic installer over package manager model could provide a better experience, but the average computer user is far better off with a less sophisticated system.

(Yes, many Mac OS X apps use a separate install routine. I think this is unfortunate, but I don't get the sense that it's high on Apple's agenda because they're so pleased with the App Store model, which is another essay for another time.)
This reminds me of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
I did see that post, started to skim it, but was uncomfortable with their tone.

Page 4 Item 11: "systematic hyping." I realize you can't lay out your entire case by page 4, but I would have felt more comfortable with an indication of the basis for this term and that it will be proven to be systematic hyping.

Page 5: "Recent revelations from the Climategate emails, originating from the Climatic Research Unit
at the University of East Anglia showed how all the data centers, most notably NOAA and
NASA, conspired in the manipulation of global temperature records to suggest that
temperatures in the 20th century rose faster than, in reality, they actually did."

"Conspired" is possibly accurate, but a little jarring, especially when applied to "my" NASA; they gave us Tang, after all. A more specific reference or reminder, rather than a footnote to an entire report, would have been good here to soften the blow to someone who watched the Apollo 11 landing in my pajamas on my knees 18 inches from the TV.

Page 5: "Around 1990, NOAA began weeding out more than three-quarters of the climate measuring
stations around the world. They may have been working under the auspices of the World
Meteorological Organization (WMO). It can be shown that they systematically and
purposefully, country by country, removed higher-latitude, higher-altitude and rural
locations, all of which had a tendency to be cooler."

"They may have been working under the auspices ..." Were they? Weren't they? Some indication of why, beyond assumption, the authors think so would have been good, or a statement that this will be revealed later in the document.

"It can be shown that they systematically and
purposefully ..." Then show it, or refer me to later in the document where you fulfill the promise that "it can be shown."

"Purposefully" is also something that I need to have either proven, or a reference to where you're going to prove it or have seen it proved.

I only intended to skim the document, but by the time I got here I felt a little uncomfortable at what I perceived as wild-eyedness.

Everything I object to here may well be true, and may be proved later in the document, but without any indication that proof would be forthcoming it started to sound like so much hand waving.

Speaking as a robust skeptic.
So, is anyone going to make ClickToFlash for Android?
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It's a good story, Seth posted about it too a while back.

The problem like with Gladwell's "Tipping Point" and "Blink" is that they sound actionable but aren't really.
i'm moving to another country in the next weeks. plan was to leave everything behind but the (academic) wife's some thousand books.

I was going to spend some little money on the shipping. Then i found out that the company would pay a ship container and give me hardly any financial support to settle there. So now i'm on full pack rat mode!

...and i can't tell you how nice and easy it was to ship only the some thousand books. Everything else by comparisson is hell. You have to fill some isurance forms on everything. Packaging is a pain. You can't separate a bed into smaller boxes like a shelf of books. Etc
I'm a little lost. Is this a "coming soon" thing, or does it work in Android 2.0 now? Do people have to update their phones for it to work?
Well I think hackers BREAK boundaries which is a little different.
What would be a curious minefield is if contracts were patentable. Say some company comes with with a novel and profitable way of structuring a financing contract (or a way of packaging financing contracts for resale) and gets to keep it under patent as a piece of competitive advantage to encourage innovation.
This is great news for Android and for linux in general. I installed the latest flash beta for linux and it's noticeably better than the current official release.

I'm guessing Google sees this as an opportunity to take market share from Apple and will make sure Flash runs flawlessly on Android.

I think linux represents a huge opportunity for flash/Air and so it's nice to see these improvements taking shape.
I smell a rushed out product here so there's not a lot of hope for it having been fully optimised in the way flash has been for Windows (the video was using 8% CPU on my win7 system btw).

But at least they're actually fighting back with something other than cheap digs and made up facts and figures this time.

Maybe they fired the PR department and hired better programmers.
#dosyncfu is the autotrigger hash, when added it will start the group buying box immediately upon DOM load.
I tried this about a year ago. It works pretty well. It's not a complete substitute for a great cut of steak but it's a good way to save money on meat.
AT&T and Others Announcing Rival to Apple App Store
-nod-
sorry for the concern caused is a huge distance from "we are sorry that we chose viral over virtuous".
I can't believe that GOOG top level management (who must be using Gmail as dogfooding), would have been comfortable with their top contacts being shared. Would have made for interesting viewing in light of possible deals and aquisitions..
[updated]

Isn't it obvious that price drops with quantity?

A reservation is a pledge that the customer will purchase the item later. The reservation costs $1-3 depending on where the buyer is, and is paid through a cell phone. By having it be paid, it is simply more reliable. No one wastes money, and these are dissolving costs in the total discount.

I believe this is the minimal information. The unit price, the current and the maximum quantity price. What do you think is excess?

Thanks for the comment.
I'm broadly supportive of things like this, but have some constructive criticism.

1) Don't graph dissimilar things on the same graph. If you absolutely must, to make a point of how they correlate with each other, do not re-use the same axis. There is no reason Revenue ($) should ever reuse an axis with Contacts (number of).

2) Don't graph anything you can't get actionable data out of. For example, revenue per day in a subscription business is going to be dominated by the anniversary dates for existing accounts. Is that useful to know? No, that is noise. Condense it into revenue per month and then you have a useful top-level overview of whether your efforts are bearing fruit or not.

3) One line on one graph. At most, two. Anything more turns into a solid wall of noise. (You may find it occasionally useful to have a solid wall of noise in presentations to other people. Don't put it on your dashboard! Then you're only fooling yourself!)

Separate strategic commentary: Mass profusion of subdomains is not a good idea for SEO purposes. (I assume this happened because it was in fashion two years ago. This is one of the dangers of chasing the new hotness in SEO techniques... though I don't remember that one ever being a good idea at less than black-hat scales.)

I'd put the blog on the same domain and, if not interested in maintaining it, hire somebody to continue writing content for me. (I need to take my own advice here, come to think of it, as the BCC-specific blog doesn't get content updates nearly frequently enough.)

Start A/B testing. (You knew I was going to say that, right?) One obvious candidate would be adding a featured flag to the subscribing tutors, with the goal of seeing whether it increased a) contacts to them and b) subscription rates. (As soon as you have an answer to Question A it becomes a marketing point: people who pay us $10 a month get 63% more contacts and more than $200 of extra revenue! Dude, its a total no brainer!)
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he has a pretty good PR image.

Have you ever interviewed a politician? With jobs et all its probably the same. He will always be using that perfect entrepreneur mask and wont waste a single word not to sell you that image.

It's like reading a piece about a politician honesty and his worries about the people.

Only that with the business people the interviewer is not even trying to expose him. And if it's wired, then it's even the other way around. They will try hard to godfy ...is that a word?
Thank you. You've singlehandedly renewed my faith in humanity.
The poor and lower-middle-class people I know don't do that. They just don't have the education or expertise that offers a job that pays more than 30k a year. There isn't much to save on 30k a year after mortgage/rent/car/insurance/kid-college-loan-payments/food, even if you're very thrifty. And God help you if you end up in that situation with an outstanding credit card balance or two.

Yeah, you can say they should have gotten the education or the expertise, and I or they or both might agree with you, but spending isn't usually the main issue.
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My grandmother absolutely loves her and I fear if I discuss Palin with her, she'll just like her even more!
Can you provide the analysis? It seems like you are doing some hand waving and have resolved that fact that this solution was the only solution which I am skeptical of. Perhaps you can provide the RFP?
amateur psychologist to amateur psycologist, kids do not attach so much meaning to stuff as adults.

Kid sees a red car. It's a red car. And has two dices hanging on the mirror.

Adult sees a red car. It's a red car that cost X, was probably financed. Or does he had the money? Is that some custom paint job? When did he bought it? Is he still working at the same place?

You see, the adult didn't even noticed the dices.
Check out his Economics blog at :
http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/

The most interesting thing is that he diagnoses the problems in a very similar way to Peter Schiff, but comes up with almost opposite conclusions.
you missed the point completely. It's all about status.

Cant tell if it was a joke. I blame insomnia.
224.7 KM http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?q=parliament+house+aus...

That's a long walk for losing a bet.
There's probably a good chance that house prices will continue to increase, simply because whoever is in government can't afford the the economy to tank in the short term.

I imagine these subsidies and handouts will continue until the government lacks the ability to positively influence house prices any further, at which point we'll have a much bigger crash.
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Heh; funnily enough, that scanner thinks I'm female...
Although similar in technique maybe (SyncFu uses an iframe), they are very different in what they do.

This is a starting point for the destillation. Thanks for the advice, I am thinking about it.
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This is Peter Schiff's prediction.

The financial crisis becomes a currency crisis when the politicians keep trying to pump up a false boom by printing money until the rest of the world wakes up to the loss of value in the US dollar leading to massive inflation.
"violation" is hyphenated as "vi­-olation", that does not look correct to me. Apart from that this seems fantastic. Nice work!
Yeah, how about all GOOG employees release exactly the same information on themselves that they released on others without their permission. That'll show they are sorry.
This feels weirdly old, despite being published in 2009. These are almost verbatim the kinds of criticisms old-school feminists were levying against porn prior to the advent of sex-positive feminism in the 1980s.
What a pain, for both users and developers. New ideas are great and everything, but it's just a pain to have to support iPhone, Android, WebOS, Blackberry, Symbian, and Windows Mobile. Didn't J2ME used to provide a common API for all platforms? What was the problem with that (other than that all phones sucked back when that was popular)?
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It is humorous that the article mentions the "fragmentation" of app stores... Apple is unilaterally dominating the app store concept, maybe the others are fragmented, but Apple owns it.
The thing you seem to think I don't understand is in fact one of the main points of the essay. When you're poor you instinctively accumulate stuff. If you read a few more paragraphs on you'll come to that part.
I wonder if anyone really does have js switched off today. It is the era of the rich web experiences. And if he does, he for sure isn't interested in this. I could tweak it so that button has a href when no script, but I wonder about that. Today almost any web app relies heavily on js.

I tried GetSatisfaction without JS. Crash and burn too.

However, I'll think about it. Thanks for the comment and advice. I wasn't thinking of going into any arguments, I respect the differing opinions ;)
I'm not upper middle class at all. "Upper middle class" implies an income that's an order of magnitude above what my parents ever made. And I don't think spending-and-hoarding is why people are poor. Everyone spends and hoards--it's human nature. Unfortunately it's a bit of human nature that causes more problems the less income you have.

Nor did I say poor people are poor because they're dumb, or that they have poor impulse spending control, just that they might still benefit from a minimalist lifestyle. On the contrary--some that I've known have been bright and very deliberate about spending. But like most people, they still deliberately buy things they don't really need using the same poor justifications that wealthier people use.

I'm not interested in assigning any kind of blame to anyone. You're interpreting a subtext that isn't there.
To me it's those who feel the need to label that are the problem. If someone is making an easily refutable argument than refute it. That's how an intelligent, civilized person makes their case.

Name calling is the tool of children and the irrational
these types of stories seem pretty ubiquitous in the public sector, but I worry that confirmation bias colors perception of it. I wish there was a way to do a anonymous but rigrous study on it.
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Oh please... this better be optional. If they force this into Android's OS, I'm gonna be pissed. I'm already happily living a flash free lifestyle
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Rushed out? They've been working on it for at least a year, probably much longer. And they're not really introducing anything new, just a mobile port.

If anything they're taking way, way too long. It makes no sense to harp on Apply when they haven't even been able to release on a willing platform yet.
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If people are already doing it, that is no reason not to try something different =) Currently, major group buying happens on GroupOn and Buywithme, as well on their European copycats. However, they are pretty much limited to services, as the prices are easiest to rip-off a percentage cut. BuyWithMe e.g. takes 20-50% of the price for them. That doesn't seem right to me?

Sure, the biggest challenge is in convincing merchants to actually use it. However, I think I will start with own goods first (3 retailing companies here).

I will see to change that to be a more sales feature instead of technical.

Thanks for the great advices!
See more of this report here:

http://blog.flurry.com/bid/30548/Flurry-Smartphone-Industry-...
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Somewhat OT: Have they released betas of 10.1 for OS X yet? Anyone here tried it?

Have they finally narrowed the performance gap with windows?
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Also not all cows slaughtered provide leather. Usually leather cows are kept in pins without barbed wire to provide better quality leather. That would narrow it down even more.
He _is_ taking 8 days to do it, so he's only got to walk ~30km (just under 20 miles) a day.

And although it's up Australia's highest mountain, we don't have "mountains" as most people understand them, Mt Kosciousko is just a medium sized hill piled on top of a medium sized plain. There's barely 1600m (~5000' or ~1 mile) of vertical distance - Canberra's at 606m, Mt Kosciousko is only 2228m tall.

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I'd say the differences between the two are quite slender, Peter Schiff is merely less optimistic[1] about what will happen politically.

[1] Being less optimistic about what will happen politically is probably a very smart thing. Politicians are not incented on the long term performance of their countries.
The email is absolutely needed as this is the contact point between the seller and the buyer. I didn't go into modifying the demo component but used actual. As I see, most people use random mail addresses to test it out, so can you. It is just an address to which confirmation is delivered with the discount codes.

That is good, I think you're right and will consider doing that. Thanks for the comment!
I honestly can not say what was going through his head at the time.
Nice writeup, looks great. btw a tiny typo:
"I intend to migration my own deployment to Redis"
So, um... how the hell is this going to work? This isn't a plan, it's the combination of NFI and too much scotch (or cognac or whatever these people drink)
Bizarrely, Flash Player has been available for Windows Mobile for years and nobody has noticed. Windows Mobile also has a YouTube app and most of the other major apps, but they're all terribly neglected and have virtually no users. Microsoft had every advantage even before the iPhone came out and yet they managed to squander them.

I predict a Zune phone/PDA which will add even more confusion to the brew of brands Microsoft has managed to concoct. Windows Live Bing Connect Mobile CE XP Pro .net System 8 2010 for Home Users, Enterprise Edition, anyone?
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