skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing to say there is that words like research and survey tend to be ten a penny; especially in areas like this.

Additionally it's got to be so hard to filter out things that aren't just tengentially caused.

I'm sure many of this links hold valuable info and insight. My only concern is that this isn't the correct way to combine it all: I might do some research and combine a paper if I get some spare time.
I see you already did the obvious thing and put up a redirect. You might also put up a robots.txt on the "admin" site with "Disallow: /" (and no redirect).

I see pages from my personal site disappear from Google results unpredictably and be replaced by other copies of the same content (e.g. on Planet Debian). I don't know if it's some duplicate-detection gone wrong, or some unrelated hiccup in their indexes. It's generally gone back to normal within a couple days, with no explanation.
That is pretty impressive. Also interesting that FF 3.5 seems to perform better than FF 3.6 according to those charts.
Edit: Ah, nevermind, my mistake.
Aren't you overestimating the political importance of HN a little bit if you speak of an astro-turfing compaign?

Speaking for myself, I can tell you what made me a skeptic but by no means a denier and by no means a follower of anyone's campaign. It's the certainty in a context that doesn't allow for certainty.

There are scientists who claim to be able to predict the behaviour of a whole host of complex systems and their interaction for decades and centuries in advance. Not just the biology but also the economics and the sociology. The costs of climate change over 50 years. Stuff like that.

I know a thing or two about scientific methods, but I have never heard of a method that even claims to be able to make such predictions with any kind of certainty. And I don't know of a single instance in the history of mankind when such long term predictions have ever been reasonably accurate.

So in a situation that has uncertainty written all over it I'm faced with a massive, emotionally charged, almost hysterical, political and media campaign that yells CERTAINTY at me and comes with that kind of moral righteousness that I'm very suspicious of in any context.

I guess that makes me a denier of sorts. A denier of certainty.
From the site's homepage:

Welcome to Number Watch

All about the scares, scams, junk, panics, and flummery
cooked up by the media, politicians, bureaucrats,
so-called scientists and others who try to confuse you
with wrong numbers.

Working to combat Math Hysteria.

It basically looks like an extensive list of news articles about varied topics that make mention of global warming (it being the fad-du-jour in journalism and all)
My sister's a fashion maven. I'm a geek. She once told me: "You could pull off a hat. But first you'd have to change your whole personality." YMMV :)
In my country there is a problem with employers forcing their employees to fictionally incorporate, so employer can save on social security (in case of 1 person companies social security is not associated with actual income, but can be paid in low minimal monthly amount, of course lower monthly social security payments means lower retirement benefits which is not good for fictionally incorporated employees).

Our IRS equivalent decides that incorporation was fictional if former employee has 1 person company, has only one client and this client is his former employer. If you have multiple clients and none of them hired you before you started your own company then you are safe.
> For the near future, I am afraid tech service providers are stuck and have no real remedy for this problem.

Well...there is one remedy.
Misleading title. They didn't write 700k lines of code in 9 months. It took them 9 months to opensource it.
Techcrunch is trying to equate this to an ISP censoring pornographic material. Apple it just not that kind of commodity carrier. While a small portion of the content Apple offers is exclusive, most of it can be had elsewhere. If you don't like their policies, you are free not to use their service.
> it's objective truth that it is not 100% agreement within the science, or even close to that.

Source? If the IPCC is at all representative of climate scientists at large, then I'd say they're pretty close to 100%.
Sorry about that. :-/ The long links were making it really difficult to compose my post. I too get annoyed at URL shorteners, but I thought the annoyance would be offset by the convenience of having the short links inline (as opposed to placing the long links at the bottom via footnotes). In retrospect I wish I could edit my original post and just put the long links inline.
How 3-D Works
Apple bans hackers from App Store
They stayed at Goldman.
I've noticed no suspicious patterns. The users who comment on stories about climate change are the same ones who comment on other stories.
Man, you're telling me! I'm just shooting in the dark here. This sudden bit of success took me totally by surprise.
Integral Fast Reactors by Tom Blees (video)
I think you're right (more right than these "experts"). Increasingly we're moving toward a unified "data mesh" which every other form of communication (wired and wireless telephony, television, etc.) uses as infrastructure. In 2020 there may no longer be separate voice or television networks, everything will just use "the internet", but increasingly a lot of the traffic on the internet will be for specific applications.
Don Marti on git and the SCALE Git Panel
Interview with Russell Miller on Automated Deployments
Title seems to be just set up to get people to click on it. First line of the article:
"No it can't. It doesn't want to either and that's good for all of us. "...
Suits work best on someone who is around 5'9"

Nonsense. Tall guys look great in suits. I'm 5'7" and I always feel a bit like Tatoo from Fantasy Island (The Plane! The Plane!) when I put on a suit.
Funny, because I didn't mention ISPs once. Did you bother reading the post?
Exactly. Most of what is called "research" is just an attempt to prove something someone already believed. They come up with a theory, set out to prove it, and toss out any data contrary to their theory unseen. This happens on both sides of any high-stakes debate. You'd have to be pretty naive to not know this.

Even if every single thing on this list is bullshit, which much probably is, all it proves is that this issue has long since left the realm of actual scientific debate. People who support the theory think everyone who denies it is ignorant, but most supporters (of which I am one, vaguely) don't realize that their team is full of ignorance too.

I suppose maybe it's useful to point that out, I just assume everyone here already knows this.
If I'm correct, the order is randomized.
Researchers Say Women Secretly Desire Hairy Geeks
OsmocomBB: Open source GSM baseband firmware for phones
The original post title is "Open-Sourcing Traffic Server: 700k lines of code, 9 months".

The editorializing here is misleading, rather than Yahoo.
Did you, the submitter to HN, present the presentation, or were you there? I'm interested in how LIPSs in general are viewed in India, and Clojure specifically, with its JVM integration. Is there anything more about this talk?
I've been using Prototype for, oh, maybe 4 years now. I really like it. However, the rift between it and jQuery is becoming large enough that my company is considering re-factoring our existing code to use jQuery instead. It seems to have Prototype beat on speed, size, community, modularity and compatibility. Any advice floating around out there? Are there any reasons to stick with Prototype?
I don't think this translates to the real world- one of the main things they did for that benchmark is add a special case for $('body') which will probably slow down (not noticeably though) most people's code.
I didn't think it'd get so many URls, it's getting hammered.

Great for testing, might even make it to the kanji:
http://séó.com/何
"new Guards for their future security" refers to forming their own government, the purpose of which is to safeguard the aforementioned inalienable rights. If "throw off such Government" is really the strongest call to revolutionary violence you can point out, I stand by my point.
If you look at the recent rash of posts on climate change, you see some patterns:

- The posts tend to focus on the idea of conspiracy rather than on climate science.

- The articles posted tend to be from fringe sources, or popular news sources that skim the technical details

- The postings tend to cluster, with frequent posts that are nearly duplicate.

People posting out of honest interest on HN tend to focus on the technical and scientific; not always, of course, but you'd expect to see more technical posts than conspiracy posts on climate change, and that's not what we're seeing. They also generally post articles from scientific or technical sources: after all, if we just wanted to read nontechnical news, we'd look elsewhere. Finally, bona fide posters generally avoid posting duplicates---again, not always, but astroturfed posts naturally tend toward duplication because the whole point is to keep the topic in view at all times.

Given the sustained presence of all of these warning signs, I think it's safe to say there's some astroturfing going on here.
Reminds me of when the front-page story in National Geographic was titled "Was Darwin Wrong?"

When you actually opened up the magazine, there was a full page devoted to the word "NO." (Of course they followed it up with a good, educational article. They're National Geographic, after all.)
the easy argument would be learning curve. you'll have to relearn doing things with jquery that you're used to doing with prototype. not that it is a huge curve, but it is something that will cause a downturn in productivity in the short term, at least.
Straight lines are harder than circles?

Spokes are super-simple and really cheap. It's just a tensile wire with a threaded end (for adjustment) and a bent end. Even ridiculously high-tension metals (in bike terms) are cheap. Plus, spokes don't move, bearings do, and for a setup like this they'd have really high rotational speed compared to a spoked wheel's bearing.
Is this the reason Joseph Stack flew his plane in the IRS building?
Erm - how would it slow down people's code? We're already doing a check to see if a tag name is being used and optimize based upon that, we just added one additional check to optimize for body.

There is absolutely no way in which the check:

if ( selector === "body" && !context ) ...

Will have performance implications in your application.
In fairness, I think Turing is more accurately described as the "father of computer science." But I agree with the general point.
Other way around - be sure to double-check the raw data at the bottom (3.6 is considerably faster than 3.5).
I'm utterly terrified of any CS curriculum that allows a student to graduate having taken only one year (three quarter-long classes) that require programming. What are those students going to do when they graduate? Manage? I guess it's Stanford, so they can always just join a startup...
DOJ's anthrax letter summary analyzes Godel Escher Bach. (pages 61-64)
Those ideas don't address the systematic problems.

This is a much more reasonable approach:

• Equalize the tax laws so that employer-provided health insurance and individually owned health insurance have the same tax benefits. Now employer health insurance benefits are fully tax deductible, but individual health insurance is not. This is unfair.

• Repeal all state laws which prevent insurance companies from competing across state lines. We should all have the legal right to purchase health insurance from any insurance company in any state and we should be able use that insurance wherever we live. Health insurance should be portable.

• Repeal government mandates regarding what insurance companies must cover. These mandates have increased the cost of health insurance by billions of dollars. What is insured and what is not insured should be determined by individual customer preferences and not through special-interest lobbying.

• Enact tort reform to end the ruinous lawsuits that force doctors to pay insurance costs of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. These costs are passed back to us through much higher prices for health care.

• Make costs transparent so that consumers understand what health-care treatments cost. How many people know the total cost of their last doctor's visit and how that total breaks down? What other goods or services do we buy without knowing how much they will cost us?

• Enact Medicare reform. We need to face up to the actuarial fact that Medicare is heading towards bankruptcy and enact reforms that create greater patient empowerment, choice and responsibility.

• Finally, revise tax forms to make it easier for individuals to make a voluntary, tax-deductible donation to help the millions of people who have no insurance and aren't covered by Medicare, Medicaid or the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

From:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020425140457434...
It's not the scepticism that suggests astroturfing; rather, it's the nature of the posts and comments. See my response above. Simply arguing against AGW doesn't make one an astroturfer: repeatedly posting nontechnical articles in order to further a political agenda makes one an astroturfer.
Believe me, sir, I will never forget about the porn.
The department likes to make use of this. When I was visiting Stanford after being accepted to their phd program, knuth sat with me and some fellow prospective students at one of the lunches. It was quite convincing :)
You're looking at the IE 6 slice, not the FF 3.6 slice.
I've talked with a friend of mine who's a name in this field and my strong advice before the Internet got big and dangerous was "stay away", e.g. far too many security jobs simply existed to provide someone to blame.

Nowadays, there's got to be a lot more legitimate ones, I would think, but you should investigate this thoroughly before deciding to specialize in this field.
I did read the post, and I did notice the words "gatekeeper" and "censorship". Going from there to "ISP" requires a leap, but not a very large one.
I've been using jQuery for a while and quite liked it, but I'm going off it recently. The project just makes breaking changes way too often, e.g., the earlier 1.4 builds try to take over IE's event model and get it wrong, not only breaking jQuery's own code but also breaking all the tried and tested workarounds we've been using for years. Also, some of the other JavaScript libraries have been coming on very fast as well, so things like ExtJS might be a better choice for some applications now. I certainly wouldn't rush to port a whole project over to jQuery tomorrow without a proper investigation of the other choices and the likely maintenance implications.
A derivation of Y Combinator in JavaScript (using the fac function): http://amix.dk/blog/post/19239
Zero day exploit for Firefox 3.6
Don't underestimate jeans because of the rash of ill-fitting jeans, usually pre-faded, often with ugly faux "distressing".

Good wool pants are great, but good jeans also look great, with the advantage that the more you wear them the greater they look.
It doesn't seem like there's as much incentive to misclassify employees as independent contractors in Canada. With government-provided health care and low/no payroll taxes, it isn't as lucrative to substitute contractors for full-time employees.

I've worked with plenty of contractors and few of them were 'independent' by any reasonable definition, but no one seems to care much. Every contractor I've worked with seemed to be in it to shift the risk/reward ratio in their favour, rather than because they couldn't find a full-time job.
They might have a point, but TechCrunch has had an anti-iPhone tinge ever since Arrington publicly denounced the iPhone for the Google Voice app issue. Their contrast in tone between iPhone and Android articles should be a source of embarrassment for any blog that cares about journalism.
Differences in frameworks aside, the amount of plugins available for jQuery will probably make you wonder why you stuck with prototype for so long (yes prototype has some available but not the same number or diversity). Do check the plugins code out though some popular plugins are very poorly written and have better versions that are not as popular.
Doctors have to be on their feet for a large percentage of very long shifts, so they can be forgiven. Omitting socks--and/or shoes--is of course not an option.
Some people haven't seen the wheel before, and need to invent it to make something roll.
This seems to directly affect programming contractor rates.

Let's say you can contract yourself out directly to a company at $200/hour in 1985.

After 1986 if, for all practical purposes, you have to go through an agency for the same work, that agency now wants their cut.

This cut could be 50% or more of the actual rate to account for expenses and profit.

So you end up going from an effective contract rate of $200/hour to a rate closer to $100/hour.
This isn't a conservative list, just look at the first link (Acne). It has no author and no data!
I'm not sure if the graphic is just confusing, useless or both.
They appear to say that BoA and Nomura benefited the most, followed by Barclay's. But the width of the lines to Barclay are the the biggest of all. As far as I can tell from the (very few) numbers they provided, these chart has no quantitative link back to the data.

I really hope I'm just missing something, otherwise this is sad coming from 'Data Scientists'.

Can anyone enlighten me?
I am well aware of the allegations by these groups. The difference here is that there is actual evidence that there is substance to the allegations. Especialy when it's clear data was being withheld. That combination is very different from the other cases. Especially the vaccine case. You would have to demonstrate that pediatricians in multiple unrelated circumstances would knowingly conspire to hide information that kids were being harmed. This requires serious proof that does not exist.
> 4. You can unbutton the top button always (provided you’re not wearing a tie), the second button usually, the third button only on disco night at the Rollerama.

The version I've heard is that you need to see the Mediterranean to unbutton the third button.
Probe Traces Google Hack to Chinese Schools
"The project just makes breaking changes way too often, e.g., the earlier 1.4 builds try to take over IE's event model and get it wrong, not only breaking jQuery's own code but also breaking all the tried and tested workarounds we've been using for years."

Woah, woah - what's this? We had a bug relating to the improved change event in jQuery 1.4 which was fixed in 1.4.1 (one week later) and improved in 1.4.2 (two weeks later).

IE's change event model is highly broken - both in the sense that it doesn't bubble but also that it doesn't work correctly when compared to the implementation of other browsers. We override that so that it's actually fixed and unified across all browsers.

I definitely disagree that we "make breaking changes too often" - there was approximately 11 months inbetween jQuery 1.3.2 and 1.4 - that's a significant amount of time and even when we did make changes we fixed bugs rapidly and responsively.

If there are any un-fixed bugs please let me know (especially if you've filed it in the bug tracker) and I'll happily work to resolve them.
I Pissed Off A PR Spammer Today
I guess I don't understand the comparison you're making.

The purveyor of fake tune-up utilities fools unsophisticated consumers into buying something useless, which is obviously unethical.

The PC game developer tries to make money on a product that's so desirable, more people steal it than buy it.
Ignoring the dumb article,
does anyone know when the Marvell Computer Plug 3.0 will come out?
conservative == reduced in size. Not conservative == reticent to include

Should have used "abbreviated", "reduced", "brief", or "terse", instead of conservative. Bad word choice

If anything, the selection criteria itself looks to tend towards the strange and unusual. I'm guessing that the quality, if any, of the research had very little impact on selection criteria.
I just took a look at the JMRI page and it's very a very cool little niche market ecosystem. Software and hardware both.

Yet another advanced peripheral system, Train CNC!
What I got from your quote is that he thinks it's not possible to control how data is processed after it has been received -- he's not talking about the entire process.

Since the data is on somebody's server, there's nothing that can be done to stop them from making poor decisions with it (such as storing CC numbers in plain text).
The title you chose is "complete list", but your guess is "conservative list". I suspect the difference between your guess and the H1 you chose is caused by global warming. Perhaps.

I clicked on a few links - two were 404's, one said that it wasn't caused by GW but was exacerbated by it (ozone repair slowed), one was speculation about shark attacks by a shark expert. One said that nuclear power would probably increase due to global warming. One said that New Zealand would have many fewer melanoma deaths due to GW. The one about jet engines seemed to have nothing to do with GW.

It's a good list and a good point. Global warming turned me into a newt. However, IMHO, there is a kernel of truth in there somewhere.

Edit: Newt reference for those who may not have experienced it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr8DIg3oHFI
That's awesome. It reminds me of -- you know how they put reporters in front of sets that are mockups of cities like San Francisco? They put Patton Oswalt on one such set for an interview, and he stomped through Fake San Francisco, gnawing on wires, crushing buildings, making RAWWWRRRR sounds, etc. like a movie monster.
I'm going to completely disagree, on a crowded long flight it's very hard to sleep without being able to recline the seat. The problem is that there isn't enough room between the seats.
Interesting... that's a clever way of scraping data.

Rather simple proposal for a fix: don't allow JS to read the :visited pseudo-class. I've yet to see anything use it cleverly anyway (though I fully admit this does not mean it cannot be used cleverly).

Personally, I'd just disable it by default / have a setting somewhere to always return "false" to that query, and I'd like a prompt to enable it for scripts as desired (sha-1 the js on a site, and remember permitted ones. Auto-breaks when changed). Ideally, it'd be nice to allow / block based on current-domain too. Prompts are a bad idea for most people, though.

Anyone know if doing this would be possible on browsers right now? I don't know what the APIs allow.
If you're having trouble finding it, "Page 61" is the 65th page in this PDF.

Also: Awesome! But now I'm scared to have that book in my house - it's got so many topics that they could always find something to "prove" that I was planning anything.
Hmm, it seems like they're pretty much interchangeable at this point: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Insure
Also shorter.
Well, probably not the reason (I would say some sort of mental disorder was primary.) But yes, is was one of the reasons stated on his website.
That's what happened to me when I was 11. My dad brought home an apple IIe and some manuals. I saved my allowance and bought a 300 baud zoom modem and 4 years later "The Authorities" came banging on the door at 3 a.m and confiscated my precious Apple and all my notes.

Moral of the story: I'm now a professional member of the I.T. Industry
Is Your Life Just One Big RPG?
Whoa, crazy. It might be cool to make the scribd portion slightly smaller or somehow distinguished from the rest of the title.
1) How is an untypeable URL useful, except as a cute hack?

2) It's not really untypeable anyway, as it gets translated to Punycode which you could remember and then type.
This talk is excellent. It gets a big sci-fi towards the end, but the insights into the recent successes in gaming are spot on.