skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A scientific law has a slightly different meaning than the colloquial connotation. The difference is subtle, but important:

A law differs from a scientific theory in that it does not posit a mechanism or explanation of phenomena: it is merely a distillation of the results of repeated observation. As such, a law is limited in applicability to circumstances resembling those already observed, and is often found to be false when extrapolated. (via Wikipedia: Scientific Law)

One example is that "Hooke's law only applies to strain below the elastic limit." As another, the laws of classical mechanics break down on the Plank scale. This doesn't mean that classical mechanics is false; it simply means that the law is not applicable under some states. Laws do not explain why something happens and usually break under extreme extrapolation, such as this experiment.
god i wish there was a US site that aggregated hours info.
It's upsetting to read that he just now started being wary of credit cards and shredding his papers. Someone should not have to go through such an ordeal before caring about the privacy of their personal information. The same goes for his "once bitten, twice shy" comment - why did he have to have his life ruined before being 'cautious' (a.k.a. exercising common sense) about online shopping?

Still, this is absolutely terrible. I think the police automatically assuming that anyone buying child porn was stupid enough to use their own credit cards is ignorant and obnoxious.
I'd say that the barrier of entry to the internet is really low, but that's the way it should be. The problem is that people don't realize that some things are tools and not toys, and learning how to use them properly is a good idea rather than just going gung-ho. Like knives, or soldering irons. Sure, you can use a knife to cut a carrot, but if you try to do it fast without the proper technique, you might lop a finger off.
Although I'm not (yet) a founder, explaining the breadth of all possible things a sysadmin does is comparably tedious.

I'll say "I do computers," and, in the Bay Area, I'll add "I'm a system administrator."

Thankfully, this has the same effect as claiming to be a hobo, except in those who are truly interested.
In fairness, shakeshack has a wonderfully simple version that loads for me with noscript on.
Two kinds of learning, right? Learning by example (e.g. reading books, reading others' code) and learning by doing (e.g. experience building things, writing your own code).

People often do one but forget the other.
That is a very nice looking site in a great niche. Good luck with your venture!
I've ran into this problem so many times I've developed a workaround using various applications.

Google maps on the iphone gets me the phone number. If I have to see a menu, UrbanSpoon or Yelp works sometimes. I don't even bother with mobile browsers.
Maybe so, but with ClickToFlash, I get one giant Flash button.

(This suggests that on an iPhone, you're toast if you surf there.)

The nearby Standburger does much better, and their toasted marshmallow shake is the wife's favorite anyhow.

http://www.standburger.com/

@Mikeryan, you are completely right. I was going there as you replied. I edited my post above to note that.

Weirdly, Tabla (same owner) does not have an alternative website for mobile.
I think the title was very well chosen.

The one thing that really surprised me was how polite the disagreement in opinion was voiced by the 6 to 7 year old.
That is, as evidenced daily in abundance at work, the internet, etc ..., something that seems completely lost with a significant proportion of the grown up population.
Makes one think why that is so?
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Yes, if I was the victim in this article I would strongly consider suing the police for wrongful arrest. He would have an excellent case against the police for negligence causing him substantial loss. If the police had investigated his case properly they would have seen that there was no prospect of successful prosecution, but every chance of ruining his life.
Lately I've been trying to get into performance profiling research. Also, statistics.

I've been programming full-time for, uh 15 years now. Holy shit. If anything programming gets harder but more enjoyable as time goes on. If it doesn't you're stuck in a local maximum.

Always try to work for people smarter and more experienced than you. Spend N years/months immersed in learning something new while helping them get their work done. Once people start calling you an "expert", spend N/2 to N time teaching others. Repeat.
Name of the firefox extension, please?
I'm paying $80 right now for DSL and I'd love to pay a little more for gigabit. Probably not $200 though.
My theory on this is that it's two things-

One, every restaurant wants their site to look like every other restaurant site. Which makes a certain kind of sense, even if it's the wrong approach.

Two, web developers push this kind of website because it would be hard to justify charging a decent wage for the basic sites that restaurants really need. So they make it all fancy.
The "Open Now" badge is just right. Nicely done.
Thank you very much for this precise and very helpful answer!
This sort of problem with sorting seems like it has always been with us. For example: Bentley quoting Knuth: "in section 6.2.1 of his 'Sorting and Searching,' Knuth points out while the first binary search was published in 1946, the first published binary search without bugs did not appear until 1962" (Programming Pearls 2nd edition, "Writing Correct Programs", section 4.1, p. 34).

I touch a bit on related topics (von Neuman's first program being a sorting program: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2008/02/hello-world-an-instan... , and quicksort implementations almost always being wrong: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2008/04/sorting-in-anger/ ) in my blog.
Pedantry, combined with a swipe at the field.

"It is not one of the Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel during 1895, but is commonly identified with them." according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economi...)
So they compared their methods with each other. It seems like too broad a definition of "open source" to me. Interesting article otherwise.
Looks like it's 4 million, which is still worth announcing.

With more users, I'm curious if paid accounts are growing at the same rate as free accounts. I also pretty much assume that a much higher percentage of all users in the US will be paid accounts versus other countries, but would be curious what their actual experience is.
Why would they pay a tax to raise money from the capital markets when according to you, they save money by paying a regular salary?

Historically, companies that need to raise lots of money have found it easiest to do so by being publicly traded. Even though there are tax disadvantages, it can still be net beneficial.

I am not arguing that he just gets his income from dividends. I assume capital gains are part of the mix. Your claim is that he receives stock options, right? (If he trades them, the capital gains treatment is not so friendly.) But who is giving him these options? And why?

My argument is just that he's more likely to make money from dividends and capital gains than from stock options. Obviously, that's not his only source of income. He's traded copper futures. Maybe he gets speaking fees. Maybe he has an eagle-eye for dropped change, and tracks down the droppers so he can file a 1099 and report the income he earned from them.
Once electric power stops being the limiting factor for home tasks, further growth doesn't change your life much. Similarly with computing power: your PC is probably idling most of the time. The interesting question is, what's the limiting factor now?
That's pretty bad. Bandwidth caps and charges create a different mindset that hurts many providers like Dropbox. If i transfer a large file i only think about how long it will take, not how much it would cost. Unfortunately bandwidth caps are often due to a lack of competition between ISPs.
No shakeshack.com has a very nice iphone based site if you go there on the iphone.

Kudos to them for handling this well.
I think you responded to the wrong person. jacquesm is the one who thinks businesses should not be allowed to discriminate.

Incidentally you're wrong about the "couple of decades ago" timeline. The Civil Rights Act passed in 1964, and the Heart of Atlanta case of 1964 upheld its constitutionality, and the Ollie's BBQ case of 1967 upheld that it applied even to businesses with little obvious interstate commerce (this matters because Congress' authority to pass the Civil Rights Act stems from their ability to regulate interstate commerce). So the basic issues were litigated 40 years ago.

That said, it is still depressingly easy to find people today who make the same arguments. They are just not legally allowed to act on them.
So that's why attempting to superglue my classic Game Boy screen cover back on ruined it :(

http://img110.yfrog.com/i/sxnm.jpg/
Was surprised when I recently tried to setup Hamachi and realized that it was no longer free. Bummer.

Will IPv6 be able to fix any of this pain?
We're actually working on a rest. site solution now precisely because Flash sites, PDF menus, and impossible-to-use-on-mobile drives us crazy. I will probably apply to YC with it but we plan to release in May regardless. There's a big restaurant trade show then and we're planning to exhibit.
As a matter of fact, many domains have been banned. Hundreds. Again, perfectly necessary to keep the peace.
I propose an amendment to Blonde Joke #116:

How do you brainwash a blonde?
By telling them thousands of blonde jokes, until their sanity breaks and they accept whatever you tell them.
Common sense would dictate that Flash/PDF's/.doc's/JavaScript is/are only necessary in a small number of cases, when there is no other way to provide that content. When you use it, you're making an assumption about what the user is willing and able to process on their end. If you do that enough, it becomes just as annoying as someone distributing a C file for everyone to use that relies on windows.h

What's worse still is that it took the iPhone not supporting Flash for everyone to realize that Flash actually isn't needed for most things.
I think it's more that many restaurant owners are unsophisticated when it comes to the web, and it's easier for designers to sell a flash-based site because it looks fancier in a demo than a plain html site.

It's comparatively more difficult to pitch usability.
Except that you will still be _laid off_ for any of those reasons but it would be masqueraded as some other convenient 'official' reason. "The cash is tight", "we are not growing", etc.
You can see the (hour-long) video of his talk here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6buOrNLXIgg

(I was in the audience that day...)
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There is a scientific consensus on Darwinian evolution, and it gets mentioned all the time.

Yes, people should stop that. The evidence for evolution can stand on its own. I suspect the same is not the case for AGW.
They already stated that they had 4 million users a month ago:
http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=289
Server performance has outstripped Internet performance for so long that I don't think this will be a big problem. A $2,000 server can probably serve 10 Gbps from RAM... if you actually use your processor power instead of wasting it. Throw in cheap private peering and CDNs, and you can solve the bandwidth and latency problems at the same time.
Be sure and go down to the 4th paragraph where it says people have "noted that net purchases of longer-term Treasury debt rose in December by $70 billion."

If this is a move from holding short term (T-bills are one year or less) to long term US debt then it's entirely positive (but I strongly suspect the overall picture is more complicated ... and in the long term I can't imagine the world's appetite for US government debt is large enough, certainly not at the current low interest rates).
There is only 1 contradiction: the part about notifying the original owner through email. There is really no way to verify this since the screenshot of the email may have been forged.

The part about having 0 posts was explained by Meaghan all the way at the bottom of the page. The RSS feed shows deleted posts.

I found this comment thread amusing though. http://meaghano.com/post/393246405/tumbledore-ive-run-pitchf...
and it's easier for designers to sell a flash-based site because it looks fancier in a demo than a plain html site.

I agree. The design of the menus at these sorts of places gives it away. I'd rather have some jumbled, but useful, menu like they have at Jerry's or the typical diner than the over-designed moody nonsense they have at these modern "fancy" places.
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There is ripe opportunity for someone to build this technology again (perhaps innovate in places, but not necessarily) and work to a free-mium model.

A great business could be made from $3-month pro accounts, as there is a massive amount of people who would love to use this but are not going to pay $200 year/seat for this technology.
A friend of mine used to work for a local television station. When a local business wanted to run an ad, they had an internal form that got filled out that had a field that said --

"Customer has expressed an interest in having his (pet, small child)in the spot."

Bad taste is universal.
I wrote a blog post that talks about similar issues: http://bit.ly/coeLqg
Not even an Airbus A380 would pass the Tern Test. So I guess we don’t have Strong A.F. after all …
Sorry! :-)
There's a scientific consensus on Newtonian mechanics, too, but no one bothers to mention it.

It's also not relevant to any divisive political issues. If it were, you'd hear plenty about the consensus (in the negative sense, I guess, since Newtonian mechanics is fundamentally mistaken despite having good predictive value for some stuff).

Nobody has time to personally verify the entire edifice of modern science from the ground up; what's commonly accepted as true in science is precisely the set of things for which a broad consensus among people in the field exists. It's not a perfect solution, but it's worked well so far.

So, while the truth isn't decided by a vote, the best approximation of truth known to humanity pretty much is, and the people voting are experts in the field (which, I note, does not include Krugman or a variety of other people making very strong statements on the issue).
While I have always liked Get Satisfactions product, 37signals did make a good point about some of their practices:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1650-get-satisfaction-or-else

While every company is entitled to a profit, this could certainly be considered extortion by those in the 37signals camp.
Many countries simply don't have the kind of cable infrastructure that North America has. That makes DSL the only sane choice for existing construction. I would not call ADSL2+ inferior to cable though.
What I think is important to keep in mind is that reading good open-source code is what helps. I'd make sure a piece of code was written by a fair number of smart people and used by others before I started copying their idioms and emulating their style.
I'm not sure what the relevance of that is. Yes, from a scientific perspective Darwinism is more important and interesting because it is very fundamental. Is that the difference you are referring to?

What does that have to do with scientific consensus? Are you saying that scientific consensus is a convincing argument for "positive theories."

*BTW, I agree with you that consensus, even scientific consensus is not watertight. It is however, something. It's limitations are the limitations of the scientific institution, which are many. Still, overall science produces knowledge about the world and is our best way of doing so. Scientific consensus is not unchallengeable but it is difficult to convincingly challenge and it does put a burden on the challenger.
The first comment made an excellent point I believe:

> Owners never visit their own websites after the initial presentation by the web designers because they don't need to.

However, the design firm pitches to the owner, not to the customers. And thus the website is designed to please them, rather than actually being useful for potential customers.
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I asked a question along those lines to HN a few days ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1108912
I think expecting everyone who drives to be as knowledgeable as a NASCAR driver is foolish, just as I believe expecting everyone who has learned a behavior to adapt every time something subtle changes is too far.

But I think it is fair to expect people not to use their car keys to try and unlock someone else's car, get angry when it doesn't work, and proceed to blame the owner of the other car and/or the parking lot.

Which, honestly, is about the level of what this article is asking for. Is that really so much?
"Whatever aspects religion has, they are thoroughly dependent on an unquestioning acceptance of some metaphysical model."

I would be careful with such a sweeping statement. My personal experience as a Catholic is that through some pretty intense questioning, I have come to a better understanding of why I believe what I believe. I look at this questioning as a lifelong pursuit that is never finished. I'm constantly checking myself: "Do I believe this still? Why do I believe this to be true. Is that consistent with other things I believe. If not, why?" My personal religious experience would be quite shallow if I wasn't doing that.
Ask HN: iPhone Push Notifications using Urban Airship?
I want to add push notification capability to my iPhone app, and I am considering using Urban Airship's service versus directly building on APNS. Can someone who has added push notification to his iPhone app, comment on the pros and cons of each approach, or provide alternative suggestions. Thanks!
Yes, Teredo does some of what Hamachi does.
Can you actually design for stupidity without making the experience painful for people of more average intelligence?

Sidenote: Don't bring up geeks. Geeks are so far advanced on technological intelligence to be gods to the mere mortals around them.
Are your datapoints from Google Analytics? If so keep in mind that they are reporting 'screen resolution' not the dimensions of the browser window...

I'm sure you're right though, most users (especially Windows users) maximize their windows... What I meant was most people here.
Amusing, but as a serious argument it critically fails in that "Strong AF" is measured by whether it fools a real bird into thinking it's a bird, and once you are "birdy" you can't be "more real than real", but in the real world everybody understands that passing a Turing Test is the beginning of AI, not the end. The Turing Test is a relatively unambiguous measurement of how successful the AI is, and it will progress from there.

Yes, it's true that the Turing Test does force a bit of possibly-difficult humanity onto the resulting AI, but all that probably boils down to is some constant factor improvement on human intelligence (on some hypothetical measure where we can quantify intelligence along a single dimension), with the resulting slightly-superhuman-AI just "faking" being human. That would still win, and I have a hard time imagining some sort of weird result where we have radically superhuman AIs that just can't seem to convincingly fake being human.
But wouldn't it require lots of RAM? My web server only has 512MB (or 256, not sure), therefore I have not seriously considered it yet. I'd love to use it, but it would cost me a lot to move to a better server.

Also, none of the root servers you can rent seem to have decent amounts of memory.
That really puts a dent in my opinion of humanity.
Is your life happy or interesting?
The horse had it coming.

And I think most punsters view other punsters as challenges. And puns are most definitely Serious Business™, so of course it leads to an all-out battle.
Not to mention it used to work a lot better to, more recent versions have been complicated resource hogs which don't just work with LAN gaming.
If by beautifully written, you mean incredibly ham-handed and melodramatic and full of bathos:

> Roger Ebert can’t remember the last thing he ate. He can't remember the last thing he drank, either, or the last thing he said. Of course, those things existed; those lasts happened. They just didn't happen with enough warning for him to have bothered committing them to memory — it wasn't as though he sat down, knowingly, to his last supper or last cup of coffee or to whisper a last word into Chaz's ear. The doctors told him they were going to give him back his ability to eat, drink, and talk. But the doctors were wrong, weren't they? On some morning or afternoon or evening, sometime in 2006, Ebert took his last bite and sip, and he spoke his last word.

> Ebert's lasts almost certainly took place in a hospital. That much he can guess. His last food was probably nothing special, except that it was: hot soup in a brown plastic bowl; maybe some oatmeal; perhaps a saltine or some canned peaches. His last drink? Water, most likely, but maybe juice, again slurped out of plastic with the tinfoil lid peeled back. The last thing he said? Ebert thinks about it for a few moments, and then his eyes go wide behind his glasses, and he looks out into space in case the answer is floating in the air somewhere. It isn't. He looks surprised that he can't remember. He knows the last words Studs Terkel's wife, Ida, muttered when she was wheeled into the operating room ("Louis, what have you gotten me into now?"), but Ebert doesn't know what his own last words were. He thinks he probably said goodbye to Chaz before one of his own trips into the operating room, perhaps when he had parts of his salivary glands taken out — but that can't be right. He was back on TV after that operation. Whenever it was, the moment wasn't cinematic. His last words weren't recorded. There was just his voice, and then there wasn't.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4810

First result for "firefox speed dial".
This was the first interview I've ever seen on mixergy, and I can proudly say I'll be coming back. I thought the questions were great and I absolutely didn't mind that the video went for over an hour. Truly an indept look at WooThemes and how Adriaan was able to start up his business. Thanks for the fantastic tips and keep up the great work Andrew. And just in case you're wondering, I found this intervie from @Woothemes on Twitter (with whom I am a Standard member and own a theme from).
In my experience, Yelp's open hours data is inaccurate often enough to be entirely untrustworthy.
Yelp does. If you expand the search options, you can limit your search to places that are open now, or at any given time.
Loopt added restaurants (store hours too) and they aggregate dozens of disparate review sites like Yelp, CitySearch, Zagat, Daily Candy, Thrillist, and Voyage. They will announce more soon.
His "new-found knowledge" is what anyone here would call common sense.
The best critique I know of the existentialist position you put forward is the Turing Test. If we had a machine, built by human hands, which appeared by its operation to be no different to a human, what reason would you have to believe that it has no "soul" or sensation of internal existence? It seems self-evident to me that all life are also physical machines, and as such may one day be constructed, or emulated in software, etc.

This is a position which is directly accessible to science, too. For if there were something special about the human experience, or the conscious experience, it must either exist somewhere in the physical laws, or else it must also be true for man-made contraptions and there is nothing particularly special about people (in this respect).