skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"How can anyone read your GMail contacts without your logging into your account?"

Google (and others) provide an API for doing this specifically to prevent users entering their passwords into 3rd party sites...
Exactly! Thank Cthulhu for competition.
This always begins a fascinating discussion involving cosmologies, life histories, logic and beliefs, but as we bridge the gap from "religion" to "specific religion" we find ourselves in the kind of discussion that should be had with good friends over beers in cherished local places.

I find that once you enter this territory, venues like HN don't support this type of discussion well, so I'm going to make the choice to lay it down here, but you sound like someone I'd like to have a beer or two with.
I really disagree with this advice. You should always pay attention to the yields when you buy any financial asset. Buying based on rules is silly. If stocks are paying 1.5% yields, and corporate bonds paying 7.5%, as they were in 2000, don't buy stocks! If stocks are paying 5.2% and long term bonds 8% like they were in 1978, go long on stocks (stock dividends will increase as nominal national income increases, usually about 5% a year, if stock prices can be a better buy even if dividends are lower than bond yields).

The market is not rational, not even close. But if you are investing long term, and behave rationally yourself (buying stocks when cheap, buying bonds when stocks are expensive) you can beat the market.

Right now is a really tough time to invest because both stock yields and interest rates are abnormally low. I'd probably maintain a balanced portfolio, but keep the bonds short term in hopes of a rise in interest rates in a few years.
It may very well be that copyright is the only enforcement, or the most effective, for any usage restrictions. People, like those at ad agencies, understand copyright. Note that flickr only has Creative Commons and All Rights Reserved options. There is no entry for public domain, nor for the kinds of restrictions that the government would like to put on these photos. No Derivertives is not necessarily strong enough to avoid implied endorsement. As a citizen, while I agree that the works should be effectively public domain (or copyright free, if there's a difference), I don't want to see the public works I've paid for misused like are outlined in the OP.

The definition of "news organization" is technically in flux at this point in history too.

I was wondering why this is just coming up now (vs since the whitehouse press first released photos of the president). I suspect that the office of the president was in a more respected position in the past, such that no one would even think that implying presidential endorsement was a good thing to do, or people just aren't offended enough about misappropriation of public content that this wouldn't work as an advertisement. It was the Whitehouse that had them take down the ad in Times Square. In some respects, I consider it unfortunate that nothing is sacred anymore, but I can see where this would lead. Where do you draw the line between commentary/satire and commercial use?
Do users still highlight when using a trackpad instead of a mouse?
Thanks for that link. That's a huge change for 2009! I believe that hanging around tech people gives one the false impression that Google has saturated the search market.
I can't decide if google's love of data and statistics is a good thing, or a bad thing.

Looks at google stock price and earnings reports
Hmm. Seems like a good thing.
Bing had my site indexed 4 days before google, and updates it more regularly! That's about all I can think of
Maybe they worked themselves out of a job.
Agreeing with your post, here we are discussing an advertisement televised during the Super Bowl. You said "practically everyone" watches, and PRACTICALLY, I think you are right. No other ad placement results in more free pass-through of the ad message.
Try investing in BRIC markets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRIC
It sucks for Google too. The very last thing they want is the commoditization of search. Resisting brand advertising is likely a result of wanting to limit the perception of being a commodity. They'd MUCH rather have the perception that they don't need to compete on brand, that they're technically much better than everyone else.

The fact that they're doing lifestyle branding is actually a pretty bad sign. It means they feel Bing represents a real threat.

Lucky for Google, Microsoft sucks at advertising. Imagine if they had to compete with someone who was as good at lifestyle branding as Coca-Cola.
'Religion is perfect for asking "why is there a universe at all?" (or more succinctly, "why is there something and not nothing?")'

How so? This sounds like basic philosophy. Why would religion have something to add that is lacking in non-religious philosophy?

I am assuming here that religion and philosophy are not identical, that there is some set of qualities that makes a philosophy religious. As best I can tell, those qualities are predicated on claims of the supernatural. (Zen Buddhism is possibly the oddball here, but generally when people are talking about religion, and specifically the conflict of religion and science, they mean theism or theist religions.)

So, before I get my head around the idea that religion is somehow suited for explaining anything, I have to ask, Why religion at all? Positing supernatural beings doesn't seem to have any explanatory power at all, let alone helping explain why there is something other than nothing. All it seems to do is sweep the question under the rug.
Bing is definitely faster and more regular on new sites. Seen it time and again. But I don't know if that matters in the end. Certainly not as much as update speed on the major sites, where Google is very good.
Given the relationship I have with one of my closest friends I think it's possible for two people to truly communicate. We don't complete each other's sentences just yet. Give us 20 years together and we probably will. My grandparents can do that.

I don't think it's worthwhile to look for meaning in twitter messages. A mere 140 characters isn't enough to have a deep discussion but it might have some insight. I get more from discussing my insight with friends than I do looking for it on twitter. Wisdom takes time.

Edit: removed a paragraph that wasn't needed
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Let us assume that the domain was bought prior to Apple's registration of the iPad trademark. Even so, the original post makes it clear that the domain owner is trying to monetize the domain based on Apple's trademark. It's not like the OP has produced some iPad product and are just worried that Apple will shut them down - to the contrary, they're actively trying to profit from the Apple trademark. I fail to see how this will survive.

ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy is relevant: http://www.icann.org/en/dndr/udrp/policy.htm (esp. see Section 4)
Most of the devs I know out here in SF are working on front-end, web or mobile apps. The folks I know who aren't in that category are working at much larger companies (MSFT, GOOG). MySpace is a .NET shop, but they're one of only a few companies I know of that's using a MSFT framework.

But if you're a good engineer, there's work to be had out here. You should come visit and check out the scene a bit more for yourself!
This will be challenged very quickly, and the White House will have to back down. Bad move all around.
Hehe, I am truly amused. The three items Romansnitko listed at the end are the true secret mental power of the US, even though it must be commonly thought otherwise. American culture is all about making you feel like you suck, you just get with the program and make something of yourself. I will buy you a beer if you make it here.
Over the long term, stocks have higher returns than bonds.

What makes you think that is true? We simply do not have enough data to judge. Books like Stocks for the Long Run use incredibly poor methodology, because they left companies that failed out of their indexes ( http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/07/stocks-for-not-so-lon... ). And when we have reliable data, for the past forty years for instance, stocks have not necessarily had better returns. If you include other countries in the analysis, such as Japan, then the long term superiority of stocks looks even more suspect.

And of course, past data is not predictive of future performance because the nature of investing changes (changes in corporate governance, changes in shareholder accountability, too much "dumb money" entering the market due to 401k plans, etc). Dividend payout rates, for instance, have declined dramatically, and dividends are a major component of returns. So maybe stocks did perform better in the past, but will not in the future because of lower payouts.

Stocks may perform better in the next thirty years or they may not. There is no substitute for studying the market, understanding what is driving the returns, and making a judgement based on the current times.
I think the point is that his alternatives don't guarantee 100% uptime either so the whole thing just comes off as some sort of tantrum.

him: I needed to deploy but Github was down! Screw
them! I'm going hosting company X instead.
me: Does hosting company X guarantee that they will
never be down when you want to deploy?
him: ...

At least that's how it comes off to me. If those other hosting companies really do provide him with what he needs better than Github does, then more power to him, but I seriously doubt that they do at the price point they have set.
Does anyone know why the flight number changed from this ad and the REAL one that aired during the superbowl (flight status of DL 8601 vs AA120)? It's also strange that the date stayed the same but the time changed.

Perhaps it's because there are trivial results (see the "old" ad)? The old one has results for atlas sound and acrylic adhesive.

I don't know why this point stood out to me - are there any other changes I didn't notice? http://www.hulu.com/adzone/watch#50032769
"The value of the idea is one part that it is yours and one part that you gave it to someone else. It’s you and something new."

I loved this..
Know at least one other field to postgraduate level. That way you can see the gaps in the field.
Use IT as an enabler, not a panacea.
Spend time with your customers face to face.
Work hard. Sell, sell, sell. All the usual really.

I don't think I could make money from many of the "businesses" people start up around here giving everything away and searching for money, I always go for money first.
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So, before I get my head around the idea that religion is somehow suited for explaining anything

It isn't. Religion may indeed be a subset of philosophy, one of many answers for "why is there something and not nothing?". The simplest answer is and has always been "because there is", but many find this unsatisfying. Cosmologies are like that, you kind of have to pick one and they're all a little bit unsatisfying.

The question however, was "How can science and religion be compatible?". "There's no need for religion at all" isn't really an answer to that particular question, even though it does open a fascinating debate along another path.
Contrast this mantra with the periodic stories of people stealing other sites, business process, and, well, ideas.

For example, when HuddleChat, a knock-off of 37 Signal's Campfire, was released, there was a bit of a frenzy. Someone copied all the ideas in the app, and apparently those ideas were worth something.

Simple, high-level, abstract ideas may have lower value; detailed ideas, ideas about execution and presentation have more value. At some point, they are worth protecting.
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Or you run the ad in some markets, don't run it in other markets, and watch the relative numbers. A/B testing: not just for Internet micro-businesses and Google.
For super bowl ads, I would imagine that the actual production cost is almost a rounding error compared to the cost of the airtime itself.
I'm working on that. It's hard to find good people though - most people I come across are too lazy or scared of failure.
When creating a comment, don't pop up multiple comment entry boxes.

Will you have logins and moderation etc to avoid spam?
That was a fantastic read. This is indeed old news in terms of technology choices, but it was great to hear how they rolled the product out.

I almost didn't read this article due to the "isn't this a bit old" comments here, but, am very glad I did.
An intersection where I wait for the city bus in TN really needs a red light camera. During rush hour, it's a contest to see who can block the intersection the best. In the past year, I've seen only one car get pulled over for it. But I guess there are better things the police can be doing than ticketing stupid, inconsiderate drivers.
My bad - you're right ->

http://www.davidtan.org/the-biggest-problem-with-amazon-affi...
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What is the best way for me to clean the situation properly?

Do I have any way to release a domain name before its expiry date?
The reason that they use N.subdomain.facebook.com is so they can avoid the default "2 http requests per domain" rule in older browsers.
I can't help but wonder: you want to work in the US, right?
How do you plan to get a work visa (H-1B, I assume) without a degree in the field?
The cost of living for software developer in the US is one of the lowest in the whole world.
Stuff that software developers care the most (such as Fast Internet, computers, safe environment, cars, etc.) cost less than in most of the world.
Note that flickr only has Creative Commons and All Rights Reserved options

Apparently it's possible to put "No known copyright restrictions", e.g. how the New York Public Library does it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nypl/4058784908/

Anyway yes, use of photos like this runs afoul of a rather separate area of the law known as "personality rights". However to my knowledge these are enforced more lightly (and also less well known) in the US than in other countries --- e.g. in Korea, some photographers taking general street scene photographs in public places often get approached by people who end up in their shots and demand that the photos be deleted, get threatened with lawsuits, etc.
I didn’t want to imply that literally everyone watches. But the ratings are pretty impressive and don’t seem to be limited to one or other specific group.
My personal planned allocation:
15% hand picked dividend stocks ( stuff like SXL, BPL )
40% dividend stock mutual fund ( DVY)
30% long term bond fund
10% gold
5% treasury money market fund or CD's

DVY pays out a 3.9% dividend yield. Dividends will rise as nominal national income rises. The "general price level" will rise with national income minus productivity growth. In other words, if you put 100% in DVY you will be able to get an annual return of 3.9% that will rise with inflation. If productivity grows at 1% a year, then you will effectively get a return of 4.9% a year in terms of purchasing power.

You might wait on buying any long term bonds though, until interest rates return to any sort of normalcy.

(disclaimer: I'm not a professional, use at own risk, etc. etc.)
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The secret of dollar cost averaging is vary simple it let's you buy into the market at below the average price. That big dip at the start of 09 made a lot of money for any using dollar cost averaging not so much for people who where already in the market. As to average returns, investing is not going to make you rich, if you plod along for 35 years you can comfortably retire which is not a bad thing. If you want to get rich you need to do something else, on the other hand if you are rich maintaining that wealth is more valuable than significantly increasing it.
No, that is not true for a smart long term investor. Keynes quote applies to someone making a short term, highly levered play.
You're one step down the "should" chain.

You're saying it's illegal, so he should face the consequences.

I'm saying it shouldn't be illegal to build one's house however one wishes.

As one example: most building codes dictate the building materials you can use. Want to build a Compressed Earth Block or rammed earth home? Better hope it's in your state's building code, or that there is precedent for you to use to sway the inspector.

I think that's wrong. Sure, impose building codes on buildings built for others (e.g., hotels, multi-family dwellings). Don't impose them on personal dwellings. If you want to be able to sell, you have an incentive to build it to code, but you shouldn't be obliged to do so.

(Rammed earth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rammed_earth)
Presumably they are already paying for H.264 in flash anyway; why would they stop after open sourcing it?
Well I am going to separate religion into its main components and decide on each one.

The community aspect. Going to a church. Helping your local community etc. All this stuff is totally compatible with Science of course but it is another question if it could succeed without the other religious aspects.

Morality. Science, through Darwin's theories, does explain why we are moral but this is separate to teaching people how to be moral so this area is compatible as well.

Creation stories, miracles. Science destroys these. Philosophy is probably the wrong approach to deal with the question of existence, it will leads towards untestable hypotheses and so towards religion. Let Physics go at it for a few hundred more years.
I have yet to see any HFS+ corruption. I'm constantly at 70% usage on my partition due to dual booting and virtual machines.

The majority of my shutdowns have been unsafe because I suspend my macbook and I don't shut it down until it crashes. I've been doing this for the 2 years I've had my machine. No problems yet.
Is my sample just poor? I picked a random math video and the first problem is demonstrated wrong. Y = 0, not Y = 10 verbally, the writing on the board is correct but he glosses over it very quickly not catching he said anything wrong (error around 2:00).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woqq3Sls1d8&feature=youtu...

[Update 1] Watched through to the end and he makes more errors and they caught other errors and put in red bubbles to note them. I appreciate the effort and idea behind the project -- hopefully we can actually get experts to provide quality course materials.

[Update 2] Odd, watched more of the math videos and he seems to do a better job on more complicated material -- it could be he's too much of an expert and not patient enough to teach the easier material or just assumes it is easy and even with a few errors people will "figure it out".
A common issue of banking websites is that they force weak passwords, but I rarely hear about banking websites being "hacked". Why?
the main message for me is that the Bing team has been doing something right

Judging based on the ads, I wouldn't agree. Bing's TV spots fall into two groups:

1. A litany of random obnoxiousness followed by some dude saying "BING". We don't see someone getting better results from Bing, we just see someone obnoxiously spouting crap and then associate that with the brand. Whoops.

2. People trying to answer a question, getting stressed and trying out Bing. Where... well, they don't actually search. They just stare at a background image of a Japanese garden or something, and we're apparently supposed to assume that this makes everything better. Again we don't see how Bing's search results are of benefit to a user, and the message here seems to be that Bing is all style and no substance.

Contrast with Google's Super Bowl spot: it consists entirely of showing someone using Google, and presents a coherent narrative of how Google search results are having a positive effect on the user's (off-screen) life. Best of all, the narrative it presents is a cute love story.

This is sort of like the contrast between the "iDon't" spots and Apple's own iPhone ads; the Droid spots all focused on bashing the iPhone to the exclusion of showing what was good about the Droid, while the iPhone spots just... showed how useful an iPhone is.
Some banks in South Africa used to bring up a little image keyboard and you click the letters (ie no keyboard) in my mind this is still one of the best ways to protect against keylogging.
Lexical scoping has almost nothing to do with Perl's ability to close file handles as you describe. As others point out, it's RAII with reference-counted garbage collection. This feature is not-thread safe, which is one reason why perl threads require making an entire copy of the whole program state and treating shared variables specially. The former makes perl threads a mostly useless abomination and the latter causes other problems.

For instance, a friend of mine at work who didn't know the full details of perl threads couldn't figure out why his threaded program was running abysmally slow and using tons of memory. When he found out, he ended up just switching to a forking process model. As for the specialness of shared variables, another friend of mine wrestled with the fact that the perl serialization libraries for whatever reason couldn't handle serializing shared variables and he as far as I know never found a way to solve the problem. Bottom line, Perl's morass of bad language design leads to lots of problems that more elegant solutions like ruby's blocks can avoid.

Also, reference counting is considered computationally less efficient than global garbage collectors. See the recent paper Myths and realities: the performance impact of garbage collection, which shows that a reference-counting garbage collector performs significantly worse than a mark-and-sweep algorithm.
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This explains why the flight status # changed from previous runnings of this ad (which had unrelated results in the top three). I was curious why they'd go so far out of the way, but this makes sense. [See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1109079]
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1) We don't have plans at this time to monetize. We started it as more of a side project for ourselves. We may charge for bigger accounts in the future if it starts to eat up too many resources, but for now it's just free service we hope others find useful.
2) That's a useful feature. If you didn't select the block users automatically, or report spammers options then you would have to manually click on the stop sign next to the spammer to actually block them.
Then let me adjust my question. You say that religion is perfect for asking "why is there a universe at all?"

That's a role for of all philosophy. What makes religious philosophy perfect for it? How does the introduction of supernatural claims improve anything?

' "There's no need for religion at all" isn't really an answer to that particular question,'

That's not what I said; I asked why religion at all. If there's a conflict in science and religion, it's that religion typically encourages believing things absent reason (i.e., basing actions on faith).
Interesting, hadn't thought about that... Thanks, I will keep that in mind for future projects.
There is nothing wrong with carrying your password around on a piece of paper in your wallet. This is the Bruce-Schneier-approved method.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/06/write_down_you...