skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Warning: Confirmation Bias Hazard Ahead

Please do not forget to take into account all the other money that flow through the paypal channel, successfully.
If I dress up for you, I'm announcing that I believe you can be manipulated by a simple costume change. I'm not above using that tactic but it certainly isn't out of respect.
I like the trackball too. It's great for moving the text cursor, something that's always frustrated me on the iPhone.
The likening of the communicator technique to a Ouija board is very telling I think. It is a shame, though, because it would be nice if coma patients really were able to communicate through such techniques.
Alter Ego: Online Gamers Revealed
I heard a story from a friend that had to choose between Flash and Silverlight for an on-demand movie project. (DRM was mandatory, so H.264 was out).

Adobe asked for $30.000 for some sort of an Adobe Server. And this included literally no support. They didn't show one sign that they cared for him as a client.

Microsoft was incredibly enthusiastic. They enrolled him in the BizSpark program, gave him all the licenses for free for the first years. At the same time he was getting daily calls from Redmond and Microsoft engineers to see how they could to help him.

I'm not saying this is the case here, still, his site is now using SilverLight too.
I'm not sure how productive it is to lump yourself into social categories like this. I tested as an INTP as well, but I would venture to say that I am generally a "finisher" (at least, when it comes to my projects). When I am really drawn into a project, I lose myself: nothing else matters, and I meticulously perfect each and every detail until it is "finished". Then I drop it and move onto something else.

I empathize with the other characteristics you mentioned: "dawdling, distracted, and forgetful of mundane chores, late for obligations, losing homework or library books, and generally disconnected from the external world". But I make a point to finish my projects, or else I feel dissatisfied with myself.

I think part of how I do this is that, although my attention does wander, when I am working on a project it only wanders across little details, rather than large concepts; rather than getting bored with the project itself and moving onto another, I merely get bored of a detail and focus on another (usually completely unrelated, but still within the realms of the vision that is the finished
project). After doing this for a while, eventually the entire project is finished, because that is really all it is — a collection of little details. (Of course, this only works if you are perfectionist as I am.)

To be honest, I think that these arbitrary measurements like IQ tests and personality descriptions are irrelevant (and maybe even procrastinations) to solving your real problem. If you want to be able to finish projects, just work on them — you won't know what motivated you in theory until you discover it in practice.
I remember being surprised by this back in '07: http://akkartik.name/blog/10476036
OK, this is a dumb question, what makes 'western' medicine not a placebo?
Which is O(phi^n).
Well, Felix Salmon is a Reuters employee. Just because he's a blogger doesn't mean he's independent of big media companies and their conflicts. (I'm not pointing to any wrongdoing or turpitude on Salmon's part, just observing that an inflated claim is being made for his independence.)

If bloggers play a useful role in this kind of situation (and I think they do) it's not because "they are often more free of conflicts of interest" but because they're building a personal brand rather than contributing to an institutional brand, and that gives them a higher risk tolerance: they get more payoff from a big scoop, and they don't answer to editors whose incentives tend toward minimizing embarrassment.
While a booby-trapped building might have been more "Hollywood sexy," a shooting at an University faculty meeting which kills 3 people is more interesting news than I want to hear any day of the week.
I played with a Droid in a store and the keyboard was awful. Every other similarly configured phone, including Motorola's own Cliq had a far superior keyboard.
We have to create meaning for our lives because there is no inherent meaning or purpose in it. We have a biological imperative to make up these kinds of stories to keep ourselves sane, whether it be that our goal in life is to make a difference, get rich, or gain knowledge. The problem is that people try to impose their story onto the world when in reality there is no story. That is what this guy is doing, keeping himself happy by deluding himself, he's just more advanced than most people.
What do you mean? I don't recall ever using Safari on iPhone and having tap-and-hold not do the Safari default thing (pop up contextually-dependent menus giving choices like "Copy" and "Open in New Window" for links, "Save" and "Copy" for images, etc) and don't think that JavaScript has access to that.
My personal take on this: just do whatever makes you feel good and don't worry about the bigger picture because the big picture sucks.
Its quite childish. That's where we derive the LOLs
These vanity licenses are LOLs licenses. Those of us that are actually concerned with such things actually do use a license of our choice. I tend to prefer the X11/MIT because its short enough I understand it. But occasionally I use the TPL for small things just to make people contemplate.
If my desktop background were red, I would be more productive because I'd want all my windows to cover it up. "My eyes! The goggles do nothing."

But actually, I don't have a desktop background. If you can see your desktop, you are wasting space and your window manager is broken.
STOP BUILDING WEBSITES
A win for HTML5.
Were they that hard to find?
Also, on a more serious note, that was my exact argument. If I'm not allowed to make a derivative of the LICENSE DOCUMENT, how am I able to create a parody interpretation?

I've said before that I would be fine with a "DERIVATIVES UNDER DIFFERENT NAMES" clause, but that's not how I interpreted the clause absolutely no training in law.
Consider also posting this on WickedFire forums.

But off the top of my head, consider VideoEgg.com because the owner of Twitpic.com (on the Mixergy.com website's interview with that owner) said that he didn't start earning serious ad revenue until he switched to VideoEgg.

And then there's also CPM banners with ValueClick Media.

You'll want to Google the terms CPM, PPC, and CPA in regards to affiliate marketing.

But in general, you should probably try the shotgun approach. Sign up with several highly recommended ones, use a PHP script to do split-testing with them, and see which ones give you the highest returns for your particular niche. There might also be an open source split tester you can download and try out, or just build one yourself.
That's true in a practical sense today for most scientists, but it need not always be so.

Multivariate linear regression is currently the swiss army knife of the statistical sciences. Even now there isn't much appreciation of its merits, flaws, applicability and power. But now that we have computers powerful enough to interactively process and visualize data, it seems to me to be possible to bring an understanding of non-linear statistical modeling.
This is a good attitude, and sounds like you work at a place with a good culture.

The emphasis is on sustainability - if you can make some small forward progress every day over a long period, the project is more likely to succeed and every one wins.
I think I see my background once a week. It serves almost no purpose to me. I'd probably disable it if I could to be honest. I'm in OS X. ⌘+Tab, my Dock, and Launchbar is all I need.

I personally find it odd when people out there have a ton of icons in their OS X dock... I only keep frequently apps in there (http://grab.by/2yZF) and then use Launchbar to do everything else. ^+Space lets me launch any app.
Are you willing to stake your lunch on that interpretation? I read it as "no modifications allowed" as opposed to "modifications require a new name not confusable with the AGPL". I would support the second, but the first interpretation is what actually motivated opening my editor.
Break your projects down into the smallest goals that are useful. Give yourself a time frame to finish the first one. Ask yourself how much $ the first goal is worth to you, and set it aside to pay yourself. If you don't finish in time, give the $ to charity. Re-evaluate and repeat.
yes we would use this. we used mturk for translations and had it setup for multiple entries. This would help us significantly and we would pay. hth
The WTFPL also made me LOL. But the TPL was written by a friend so I lean towards that one. I think both are firmly planted in the LOL world so its only a matter of preference of what flavor of LOL that you prefer.
When you talk about "competing sites" that seems a bit off, since your site doesn't exist yet. It took me a while to figure this out.

One way to find rough use data would be to find the existing sites, then plug them into http://quantcast.com and look at the traffic numbers.
Given that it is easy for human beings to fall into, I thought I might warn people about it.

Of course, it is "blindingly obvious", but that's because it is hindsight. If I have not post this warning, will a Hacker News reader goes on an rant or ancedote about the evil of Paypal? Who knows.

P.S, I recently got high off reading Black Swan, which provide a fresh perspectives on things in addition to what I simply already know.
You were doing Flex development on Linux? I'm so sorry...

We tried that once but gave up after finding out that turning on a blur filter would segfault the Flash Player. Whoops!
Gmail is getting PGP Signatures (Feb 2009)
It would be OK if maybe I stole 5% or so of the money you deposit into your account then? I mean take into account all of the money you deposit that does make it...

Its fine for paypal to aggressively pursue fraud, its not fine if paypal sets up a system of incentives for itself that results in them keeping the money of everyone they accuse of fraud. No matter how pure their motives this does not create incentive for them to quickly resolve these cases (or to listen to complaints at all).
I was in "Like" prior to the update that added multitouch to the browser, and prior to finding into Aedict, a Japanese/English dictionary app. After multitouch and Aedict, I'm in Love.

And, shameless plug: Did y'all try the free Hacker News reader app I uploaded to the Market?

http://ifdefined.com/blog/post/A-Hacker-News-app-for-Android...
it can seemingly take 14 years to name a freaking element

Naming it is easy. Making the name stick is hard.

I'm sure it takes time to make sure that (a) the result is real; (b) it is correctly attributed.

And nobody wants to have to take an element back. That would create a small-scale version of the furor that ensured when the astronomers had to take one of the solar system's planets back.
Programmers becoming "starving artists"
The Technology Behind Four New Wonders at Disney World
> If I'm not allowed to make a derivative of the LICENSE DOCUMENT, how am I able to create a parody interpretation?

I think you've got it right there. A cursory search of Wikipedia shows parodies may fall under fair use, never mind the copyright notice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody#Copyright_issues
I am sorry that I starved you of information with my exceedingly short warning. You read too much into what I said.
I'd like to hear a little more detail than "$5k lost to paypal". When PayPal "decides you are scammers", they hold your funds for 180 days like any other payment service provider (as Visa and MasterCard operational regulations say they should, 180 days is the maximum time most banks allow for chargebacks)... then they return the money (less any chargebacks) to you. The money isn't lost, it's temporarily held.
Plenty of people telling you how they approach this, maybe you'll coincidentally have the same cause and find a workable solution.

I've just started Reading PJ Eby's meta-self-help book Thinking Things Done, wherein he sets up a way of treating one's mind as a knowable predictable system and describes a generalised method for troubleshooting and fixing your own individual causes of problems i.e. what's stopping you from finishing projects, not what often stops many people.

It reads well so far and it feels like it addresses a lot of issues with ra-ra just-do-it believe-in-yourself-help-books, and it takes a practical geeky programmer's view on things too so I'm already very interested; but, er, only four preview chapters are out so far. Sign up to his mailing list to get them weekly as they come out.
Adobe's platform evangelist claims( http://theflashblog.com/?p=1641#comment-639881 ) that the reason they can't use h.264 hardware acceleration on OS X is due to restrictions on browser plugins, which implies that it does not have full access to the local system.
The entire post was to point out my confusion. And there aren't 50 versions of the GPL. But there are many FOSS licenses. And compatibility is speech from a high horse. GPL advocates often worry about "license compatibility" when the GPL is incompatible with any other license.

I can't release MIT licensed code that links against a GPL'd library. That's a pretty huge incompatibility if you ask me.
Whats better is that the Wikipedia explanation goes into a whole section of "Parody vs. Satire" where Webster defines parody as a subset of satire. Makes my head hurt.
Google gets go-ahead to buy, sell energy
They don't have to understand the source language

Find the mistake in the following sentence which cost my company $X (can't tell you, but it is eyepopping):

"The subject registration screen should list the lecture subject name, drawn from the database table for the lectures subject name."
Gmail lets you do something like that already with the +anything suffixes on the end of the e-mail username.

Also, in a slightly similarly vein but if you want to have stuff on a separate domain with a message limit: http://www.spamgourmet.com/
Changing defaults around means that you're forcing people to learn new behavior specifically for your site. Not a particularly user-friendly thing to do.

And in Safari, doing this would raise even more confusion; the default behavior works in other parts of the app (the next tab over, for example) but not the tab for your site. It is easy to see a user getting confused as to why something isn't working for one particular site. Maybe they want to copy text from a flash element, but it ends up doing something completely different.
You can tell from this article that the programmer thinks universally and in so doing, excludes a vast area of potential, especially in the future and more specifically in what he notes as "B) Gestures, finger gymnastics". You can stick your one finger up your nose but with more than one finger, you can do a lot more. I for one am ready for more complex interface functionality. I thought this was more obvious though perhaps it should be clearly stated: Get used to the growth in complex multi-touch gestures. More to come soon.

My guess (just a wild one for not being a thinker of touch interface design), would be to solve the solution by first detecting what kind of flash app it is and how much area it takes up, then anytime the finger scrolls over that particular area, there would be a cursor (the user could turn this off, but this is what would happen by default). As the cursor is led by your one finger which never lets up, meanwhile 1,2, 3 or 4 taps with another finger along with other more complex combinations eventually could perform various flash actions. Contrary to Dilger's primary thesis, I believe it's pretty straight forward that Apple is not as limited in thinking to make it happen if they want to, and that even the general audience is ready to take another small step in the gestures department.
Ask HN: How can I find out ecommerce conversion rates for various verticals?
Specifically, furniture (bathroom vanities), home fixtures (faucets, lights, etc.), and computer/mobile phone accessories?

Thanks!
On Winning the Dot-Com Lottery
You are allowed to create a derivative of the license for your own use.

But you are not allowed to modify an existing license document someone is already using with their code.
The closest thing that I can think of is -webkit-user-select, although I'm not sure if thats available on the iPhone. Nor would it let you change UIMenuController behavior. I suspect that if it is possible, it would be under an NDA. That is, after all, how these things seem to work. Would love to be wrong though.

Alternate, Occams Razor take: Apple just hardcodes the options, based on the type of object that is selected.
Aha, so Mac users tend to be more creative types because the default wallpaper is blue(ish)? That's my take away point and I'm sticking by it :-)
Paypal's operating rules may have changed, but I've similarly been bitten by money lost due to Paypal.

Here's how the scam works: someone buys something from you on eBay, pays you via Paypal. You diligently send off the good, and delivery confirmation shows it was received. The buyer waits till the last day possible to report the item as not received, Paypal puts your account in the red and you're stuck with the bill.
I can find at least one grammar mistake.

There should be an apostrophe in lecture's.

Did that cost you money?
From the Agony of JUnit to the Ecstasy of RSpec
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Your correction was precisely what cost $X.
Yes, exactly. The license clause can only be enforced because of copyright law, and fair use is allowed for by the copyright law. The rights given to you by the law supersede anything a license says, because without that law, the license would be completely meaningless.

(In theory, the reason EULAs work is because when you run the program, you are copying it from disk to RAM. This is why they are believed to be very shaky, as copyright law does not specifically consider copying from disk to RAM inside a black box to be "copying".

The GPL is on firmer ground, because it covers copying for distribution to other people. That is a situation that copyright law is specific about.)
Inching along, making ever simpler replicators …

Great!
The Art of Selling an Expensive Watch
Isn't everything a modification of everything else then? I "modified" your comment by deleting it and writing this one.
I hide and completely ignore my dock. I'd love to get rid of it altogether, but all the hacks that enable that have some sort of downside to them. What I hate with a vengeance is when I accidentally minimize a window and have to fish it back out of the dock. In OSX I never want to minimize a window (which IMO, is a good testament to how well designed OSX is).
Make it public, don't be afraid to share your ideas. Ideas are a dime a dozen, people that have the work ethic to bring them to fruition are few an far between.
I thought that the problem wasn't so much detecting mouse taps, but detecting mouse hoverings. Say you hover over an item and then click on it to select. How do you emulate that click, when your finger is already pressed to the screen to drag the "mouse" around?
Well, a solid background can at least hinder your productivity too:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1061153
After trying to pay a contractor via wire once and losing hundreds of dollars in fees after his bank botched the transaction (mercifully, I didn't lose the entire amount), I will never wire money again. I would recommend the same to anyone else. You don't even have to be dealing with a bad bank; it's just not a safe way to send money to anyone.

The funniest part is I only tried a wire transfer because I didn't want to use PayPal. After that disaster, I ended up choosing the devil I knew and sending all his payments via PayPal after that.
Almost nothing on the internet is "designed" for iPhones, yet nobody's complaining that Safari exists .... just like with Safari the onus is in part on the vendor to make their version suit the platform, and in part on developers and companies to fully tailor their offerings to that platform if they want.
You provide the tracking number of the shipment and you automatically get the money back. You don't even have to prove anything. Tracking number showing you shipped any package to the buyer's listed address is all you need to be covered by the Seller Protection Policy. If you actually sent them an empty box, they'll have to sue, because PayPal will let you keep that money.
> If you can see your desktop, you are wasting space and your window manager is broken.

I disagree. I think the sign of a broken windowing environment is when people find they need to maximize everything (like most Windows users do), which really goes against the point of windowed apps in the first place. Having negative space is important psychologically, lets you "breath" a bit, and not to mention, lets you more effectively use your apps together. There's a good reason MacOS has never had a true maximize button on their windows.
Exactly. There are just way too many laws enacted currently, we need less. More than a few government agencies should likely be merged or just dissolved as well.
I have direct experience right now - from a management POV, it's like the Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser in HHGTTG - it create an operating system almost but not quite entirely unlike Linux. The costs involved in working out why tool X isn't compiling as expected far outweigh the benefits of the cheap hardware. The sooner I get this system migrated off these damn boxes the better...
I propose an experiment where we introduce Levenshtein to a lawyer and see who's head explodes first.
x.org vs. x.com
On Plan 9, the default background is a light, solid gray. In fact, the only way to change it is to a) hack the rio source or b) download a pre-hacked version that someone like myself has written to allow starting with a different color.

The reason is that quite a bit of care was taken to choose UI colors which work nicely together, and when you throw a brilliant blue background in there the whole thing kind of goes out the window.
Life Among the 'Yakkity Yaks': Autism and Innovation
Given what I've read of how the brain and consciousness operate, I was skeptical of this story when I originally heard it. To the lead researcher's credit, he falsified his own results. What I find curious is that he didn't more rigorously test the "ouija technique" sooner.
LOL, WHUT?

This is exactly why people like me get confused about such things. From the little reading I've done I tend toward the "copyrights sound like the solution, and everything else is a twisted interpretation of that" point of view, but I'm only well read enough to know that I'm not well read enough to have an actual opinion.
Well the Apple App Store problems were merely procedural issues whereas the Adobe issues are technically difficult problems that haven't been solved well by anyone and aren't helped by platform/codec war politics.
depressing =(
Ok, I didn't mean for my comment to seem a bit snarky, which I think it did. He made some valid points and I just wanted to see the discussion continue.
> in reality there is no story

Please provide an experiment that lets us verify the truth of this statement.

Seriously, while the scientific method is extremely useful there are still large areas of human existence that it does not cover. The author seems to have made a personal realization that using poetry to face these facets of existence is more satisfying. He also observes that while his view is not provable it also does not contradict with the current accepted body of scientific knowledge.

Your argument tries to use logic to rain on his parade. However, I see no arguments that are any more provable than what the original author postulated.