skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are good theoretical arguments, but Buffett's income is much more likely to be in the form of dividends and taxable gains than stock options. He does own non-Berkshire stock (or at least did fairly recently; there are SEC filings indicating that he had a substantial personal stake in USG in 2006.)
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They're hidden in an obscure, non-standard UI element known as the "left side bar menu", with cryptically named links "Online Database" and "Resources".

http://gallery.surfacestations.org/main.php
http://www.surfacestations.org/resources.htm
Even though Australia has the windfall mining receipts, it still runs a current account deficit and has basically forever. And although the mining take is large, it's dwarfed by the larger economy. I don't think it is that which is inflating house prices, with the possible exception of some mining towns, where increased wages chase finite supply. But that's not the case on the east coast, for example.
Solution: only watch the ones that get upvoted on Hacker News. That's what I do, anyway.
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I'm going to get downvoted for this because its fairly controversial and therefore requires backing up, but I'm at work.

multiculturalism makes people more suspicious and distrustful, regardless of the actual state of physical safety and security. sucks, but our brain is wired that way.

http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2007-06-25jl.html
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I've looked at those pages and the Gallery allows me to zoom into pictures of any individual station and look at scanned reports of the status.

But what I was asking for was something different. The project is apparently generating data which allows them to make specific claims about the state of each station and product roll-up statistics. I imagine somewhere there's a database or spreadsheet with that information in it.

I can't find that for download anywhere, can you?
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This was an enlightening answer for a guy who's not biased one way or the other. It explains a lot behind the hatred of the flash cumulus cloud we use at victus media.
that pretty much sums it up there. It doesnt stop with crime either- weather reports in my city often have overtones of Armageddon as well...
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> Upon learning about the $6,000 cost to get in, I shall think of TED Talks as a tax on rich people to provide free, online quality content to the rest of the world.

I would be in favor of overhauling the tax system so it's more like TED, and would happily pay TED-like taxes where I get a high level experience for an expensive price and the whole world benefits as well. Also, it's optional and you don't get arrested/shot for not buying a ticket.
yeah, um, but they've recorded a couple of hundred even worse situations (next to ac exhaust, in asphalt lots etc)
SimPy - http://simpy.sourceforge.net/
You won't be the only one. However, I know a lot of Zune owners (mostly that won them, not bought them) that thought they would hate the interface and ended up liking it a lot. I don't know if I would like it until trying it. I thought for sure I would like the iPhone UI but it often drives me crazy.
Really? I don't recall ever having installed flash on any of my Macs in the last couple of years. It was already there, crashyness and all. That's why click2flash exists.
If I ask if they've had anything stolen, the answer is always no; then they justify that result because they always lock things up!

Maybe that's actually part of it. A culture of suspicion would seem likely to make crime less likely to be successful, so perhaps worried vigilance is part of why crime is decreasing.

Edit:
Underreporting might explain some of this apparent decrease, too. If you think there's essentially no hope of recovering what was lost, you might well not bother reporting a crime, and you're less likely to think that the police can be effective for you if it seems as though they're ineffective in general.

Last spring, I had my G1 stolen right out of my hands while I was texting on it, in downtown DC. I didn't even realize it was taken at first; I thought I'd dropped it because someone bumped me, so it took a few seconds to even look for the thief, and by that point he was just going around the corner. If I had reported it, I wouldn't have been able to give a description other than general skin color, build, and clothing, and 90% of the people around me were wearing the same jeans-and-red-shirt as the thief (a Capitals game night). With less than a 1% chance of getting my phone back, and no insurance on it, I didn't bother to spend the next coupla hours of my life complaining to the police about it; that would have just made things worse for me.
Crime is publicized everywhere, drilled into peoples' heads on TV and in newspapers. In the public eye, crime continues to be seen as a rampant problem regardless of its increase or decline.
One thing we could do would be to create prediction markets, which are just a more systematic way of allowing people to make bets on policy outcomes.

This way, if an economist doesn't (literally) put his money where his mouth is, you know not to trust him.

Of course, in the US, this would require legalizing gambling. Unfortunately, our backwards approach to securities markets even discourage speculation except as a way to provide liquidity for hedging.

[disclaimer: I'm currently working at a prediction market startup.]
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I like Flash in how it's implemented on Google Chrome - if it crashes, the flash plugin crashes and not your whole browser. I was annoyed when my iPhone couldn't play Youtube videos to show people, but the counterargument is that Flash is bad for battery life, which is obviously quite important on a mobile device. So I can see both sides. A mobile-optimized version of Flash that would be not hard on battery life would be great.
The title of this post should be "The problem with DNS". It's really the lack of mapping the root domain to a CNAME that is the issue.

Amazon chose to do load balancing with layer 4, no sessions, and using low TTLs on CNAME records. This minimal feature set allows them to make the service highly scalable and fault tolerant. Add more features, and it could become brittle.

If you build your app or site around naked domains, expect layer 7 support, or want session persistence, ELB isn't going to work for you very well. On the other hand, if you build around the set of features they provide, it's likely to be exactly what you need.

Of course this leaves the issue with someone typing in your naked domain and getting redirected. I'd point out that this can be solved by using an elastic (static) IP and always making sure you have that IP address up on a box. If it's not mapped (and monitoring fails) then bring up a new box and assign it to that box. Only do 302s on that box to keep things simple.

Alternately you could use something like UltraDNS, which will monitor boxes for you, and switchero DNS on failures.
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As the saying goes - When someone you know loses their job, it's a recession. When you lose your job, it's a depression.
That in general, applies far more to software than hardware though.
I'm sure you could request it
According to:

http://www.osnews.com/story/22874/Teacup_Meet_Storm_pt_IV_Ad...

there's no sabotage, it's just how things normally "work" (for some value of work).
Great article. I also have felt some "TED attendance envy" while really enjoying the online videos. For some people, the value of personal networking far out weighs the travel costs and conference fee. I like to write (i.e., email) people who entertain, inform and/or impress me, and I am pleasantly surprised how often people respond to questions and comments.
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Ask HN: Looking for a visual front end to replace our flash cloud
After reading this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1126666 I learned about why there's such a negative bias towards the flash cumulus cloud we use at http://imm.victusmedia.com. I'm looking for suggestions for potential replacements of that interface, so far we got some help from Scott Wheeler who's behind DirectedEdge.com (a nice linked data crawler using css and javascript).
Yeah. This seems more like angel funding than VC funding. I'd say that money is relatively easier to arrange but finding someone who can mentor you along the way is way more difficult. It's even better if you find such mentor who is also willing to invest and give time to the idea.

By the way, I find this site is pretty good
http://www.kickstarter.com/

BTW I am not related to this site in any way.
I think you mean Snowmageddon.
Even if the coverage level hasn't changed, people's ability to process "crime levels" has been saturated. Even though the absolute level is decreasing, people still feel that it's just as high as before.

Edit: for example, there are 476 hits on Boston.com's news wire for the word "murder" over the past 30 days. That's more than 14/day! http://search.boston.com/local/Search.do?s.sm.query=murder&#...
I think that hit's it pretty much on the head.

I am not a fanboy, I am just semi-relying on their products and the workflow opportunities it gives me.

Having said that if it seems like the discussion regarding apple/adobe has much more to do with the implications of their products rather than the products themselves.
Frankly, I'm a little slow. I should have jumped on this the minute Fred Wilson brought up the site.

Update: Thanks for the prod. I sent him an email.
Microsoft is coming to this quite late in the game. Apple and Google already have handsets that have been in the market for awhile.

I'd imagine Microsoft is going to end up fighting for second place with Google. Kind of like the Zune and the iPod.
Wow, that article was crazy. I'm incredibly pro-open borders, pro-almost unlimited immigration, pro-cultural mixing, pro-genetic mixing, but I can see how those findings would come about. Got any other relevant links on the topic? Incredibly thought provoking.
Hey, you could use a simple "curl" instead of lynx.
I remember having to explain to my grandmother than New York City is incredibly safe and so don't be worried. Her reaction to me working in Manhattan and spending time with my girlfriend in Queens, or worse, going to a party in Harlem - she reacted like I was going off into a warzone. No grandma, New York is a very safe place these days.

She's almost 90 and I finally got her to visit NY when I was passing through on my way back from Europe last year. It was near Christmas, so we went to the Rockefeller Center, saw the tree, and saw a Broadway show and she loved it all. She kept being amazed at how little crime there was, like she was expecting robberies and muggings and cars lit on fire and flipped over every other block.
Those would appear to be Flash graphs.
The reason I act the way I do now is out of love and obedience, not selfishness. Besides, that hypothetical scenario is not reality, and we have enough to debate given the present reality.

What the tribe does is wrong. The fact that they are doing it out of ignorance makes it understandable but it doesn't make it right.

Ok right, but you still won't acknowledge the fact that from a moral perspective, their conscience is entirely clear. Put on their glasses for a moment. Why? As you just stated, their own ignorance aka a lack of knowledge is the reason why. I need to re-emphasize that their moral conscience is clear. It's all relative to humans, who are clearly reliant on more knowledge to make better moral decisions.

Nevertheless, I agree (and concede to you) that moral absolutes don't prove the existence of God. However, thousands of simple human examples show that more information and more knowledge should allow us to make better moral decisions. By should, I mean more knowledge doesn't necessarily stop us from cutting up and suctioning children in the third trimester from their mother's womb (for example).

Regardless, the loaded question you asked me would be properly re-factored as a moral dilemma, one that both of us could never answer without bickering for years:

Is the mass slaughter of a single generation of children to punish their parents justifiable... in light of...
The 400 years of brutal slavery and genocide inflicted on an entire race of God's chosen people?

Two moral crimes, good sir, now who's to be the judge? Certainly not I, I know not enough.
At the bottom it is a marketing problem. See, if you describe global warming as a robust ongoing academic debate, then when you start proposing seriously expensive regulations to take it on, the opposing party will say "Whoa, whoa -- all of these impressive PhDs think it isn't really happening, so how about we wait a while to see how things shake out and save the money?"

So the decision was made that the robust academic debate couldn't be allowed to exist, because that would provide cover to The Bad Guys (TM). Thus there needed to be a Consensus on climate, something which could be referred to as the authoritative Voice of Science. It needed to be international, both because science is international and because a major portion of the intended office of the argument keeps offices in Europe as opposed to America. (Global warming is pretty much a dead letter elsewhere else: Africa is too poor to care, China and India are getting too rich on high-polluting industries to care about the issue except to the extent it allows them to wring concessions out of the First World, etc) Hence, the IPCC.

Now, the IPCC doesn't matter two hills of beans for science. The papers say what they say. But the IPCC, as the official Voice of Science, has quite a bit of sway in corridors of power, such as European governments and your local newspaper's editorial board. The ready made The Science Is Settled narrative worked at what it was supposed to do: marginalized as "deniers" and deviants anyone who questioned The Science, and paved the way for expensive interventions against climate change.

The problem with marketing, though, is that eventually you have to deliver on what you're selling... and delivering on infallibility is pretty hard. Perhaps recognizing this, some scientists (like the illustrious Phil Jones, climatology heavyweight and editor of a section in the last IPCC report) have gone to some lengths to avoid being seen as losing on issues of fairly minor import.

And, as so often happens, it turns out the coverup did more damage than the original lapse. I mean, paleoclimatology: hard to understand. Statistics behind hockey sticks: hard to understand. Impropriety of deleting data to avoid other scientists from seeing it: not too hard to understand.
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Do some searching and you'll find that California is one of the worst examples of the capture of a state government by public sector unions ... worse at least in that it's probably closest to the brink financially (New York at least has the excuse of the collapse of the financial sector).

However legislatures tend to be a special case, e.g. the employees of the Congress are not covered by all the employment laws that are enforced by the Executive.
Amazon designed and implemented AWS for their own use, and it is not always a good fit for outside developers. But sometimes it is.

AWS is very good for offloading non-time critical calculations, backup storage using S3, etc. AWS may not be the best choice for primary hosting, and as usual requirements analysis is required.

The DNS problem that the article mentions is not a problem for Amazon hosting their own applications but can be a problem for external users.
The trend reported in the submitted article is true. That doesn't stop me from personally knowing various victims of various crimes (which did not receive mass media coverage). The overall crime rate in the United States is still high by historical standards, having dropped back to levels of the 1960s, which were levels much higher than in the preceding decade. The trend line looks encouraging, but the actual base rate of crime still needs to be reduced some more.
According to the article it was a picture in two british newspapers. Hardly a basis to claim all skeptics are doing this. In fact the claim makes the exact same errors the newspapers did: looking at data out of context.

It's two newspapers in the UK that could very possibly be using a single reporter's work and reviewed by editors that don't understand proper research. It's happened before at many other newspapers.
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You are advocating that the government, in the form of the judicial system, be given complete power over what the press prints. This is a cure worse than the disease. Even putting aside the question of the ability of the legal system to actually determine truth.

I'm not even sure which side you're referring to. At this point assuming "realclimate.com" has clean hands when it comes to "lies" requires a rather large helping of blind trust, IMHO.
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Brightcove Introduces Mobile Experience for Adobe Flash Player 10.1
Thnx

That is pretty bad IMO.

If that swipe direction is occupied for getting to your apps list then I must say FAIL.

They have either removed the option of swiping left or right for browsing through pictures in any specific application.

Or they have made an extra unnecessary step to get to my applications.

No matter what it's pretty bad. But of course there might be details I don't know.
The Economist suggested that the rise of national news gives more crime to report on: http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?stor...
Or Snowpocalypse. Or Snowtorius B.I.G.
One factor in elite schools not requiring a high school diploma is to prevent extortion by teachers after admittance. For MIT, at least, once you're admitted you're admitted (or this was true as of the late '70s).
I just find it ironic that you're making the same error in judgement that the newspapers did.
Please let us know what you think!
There are some questions and alternative ideas at the bottom of the article and we would really like everyone's input.

Edit: Here are the questions in case the article was too long for some :)

- What are your thoughts on the idea as proposed?

- Is this something you would consider adding in to your application at the right price?

- What is the right price?

- Are you interested in the full on achievement engine or would you prefer an API that just awards badges to users directly?

- Would you benefit from a Rule Engine which could handle complex rules with many conditions? Meaning, rules more complex than just ‘Comment Event occured 5 times, Award Badge’.

- In order to prevent people from spoofing API calls we may expect sites to call our API functions from server side code instead of via a javascript/client library. Is this asking too much? Are you willing to integrate our API at this level?
Yeah you might be right.

Then again, they can call it what they want. People still need to get to those "hubs" of functionality.

Don't seem to well suited for a store let alone any ecosystem thinking.
Define "here".
OK, this post seems a little out there. Right now you're proposing a massive global academic conspiracy to hide the "truth" of climatology. Do you have a citation for such a large scale cover-up?
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Is your mom the target audience for this phone/os? I don't know, but my point is that not everything should be geared towards people who aren't interested or can't keep up with tech.
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About time too. As .Net developer, I've been frustrated watching the Windows Mobile car crash develop in slow motion. Let's hope they get the ecosystem right too
Since Oracle came into the picture, I have worried that we may be looking at 3 wholly incompatible Java distros, IBM , Oracle, and Apache / Open source. I just don't see how Oracle and IBM are going to get along without SUN in the middle.
You need to sell this idea better. Right now it feels very much like a solution without a problem. You talk about stickiness briefly, but without specific and concrete use cases I'm not convinced. You might want to investigate thesixtyone. They use an achievement system quite like what you describe.

Ask them how they think it works, and whether their traffic would be the same if they removed the feature, etc. More data is great, because the argument doesn't catch my eye right now.

I've used a couple services with badges like that, but I've always ended up finding it stupid after not too long. You might end up accidentally alienating people who just want to use a service without feeling like it's a competition. Once I started associating a useful service with the time wastingness of a game, I started reevaluating whether I really wanted to use the service after all. There are games I far prefer playing, that I could just play instead if I really needed validation that badly.

If a feature is improving traffic numbers for the site owner, but not really improving the core usefulness of the application, I think it is a net loss.
Flash comes preinstalled on OSX.
Because of the side scrolling nature of the UI you've got some content on the right side that isn't relevant to what you're doing right now. (It takes away from what you're doing.)

The UI appears to lack any boundaries, rather relying on typography. It's interesting. I don't know how I feel about it, I'll reserve that kind of thing for the experts. It's certainly refreshing.

I see they've also created depth by having certain object scroll slower (or less.) Further removing the boundaries. (By boundaries I mean gradients, lines, blocks and buttons - I believe these objects give a UI a form of tactility?)

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=MdDAeyy1H0A&feature=player...
Great idea! I would like to see this being applied to something that spans a whole lot of discrete sites, like Disqus for blog comments. Then allow badges for number of comments total, high interaction on a particular site, etc. It would be interesting to see your achievements follow you around the web.
Not all such perversions are justifiable:

http://www.lessonsoffailure.com/software/military-software-s...
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This is something we are definitely thinking about. Part of the problem is that there aren't alot of application out there with a system like this so it's hard to measure the effect at the moment. Right now It's just sort of a guess. We'd definitely be interested in working with anyone that would like to test this with us to see what the effects are.
OK, that is a pretty bad article, showing how little about Apple the writers know.

They only touched tangentially on the Performa line; what made the Performa so horrendous, was that certain models were actually slower than the models they replaced. For example, the Performa 5200 had a crippled IDE bus, and the motherboard was based on a Quadra 605 board, giving the 75Mhz PPC 603 chip less performance than a PPC601 running at 88Mhz. See http://lowendmac.com/ppc/performa-5200.html
SWPL couldn't have taken you back to high school if you actually understood him just fine because the blog is only 2 years old.