skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Continuing:

A good workman doesn't use bad tools.

A good workman may curse his tools but he nevertheless still gets things done.

A good workman knows his tools well enough to know what they can and cannot do, and does not ask them to do what they cannot.

A good workman is humble and takes the effort to identify a problem before blaming a cause (whether it be the tools, himself, anomalous barometric pressure, or what-have-you).
> My personal test is the "might" test. Stuff you "might" need is not stuff you do need. It goes.

Exactly. If in doubt, you don't need it.
> Mac users deal with it because they have to

Actually it's their choice to have it installed or not.
"Pure troll" was the signature? Because it is a controversial post, designed to inflame spirits, add little to the discussion and very close to and ad hominem.
> It's amazing that a person can make the claim that it's ridiculous that there could be any widespread foul play amongst mainstream climate scientists

Actually I referred to the CRU in particular. You know, the source of the emails.

Pointing to share ownership (7%?) by Saudi princes as proof of anything is the scientific equivalent of the boogeyman.

> Climate science is a much smaller, much more unified community

Some might argue that it's easier to collude the smaller the group gets.

My main point is that the so-called Climategate emails demonstrate a failure of the scientific process. Lack of transparency is a huge problem that everyone should be concerned about regardless of their position.
Amusingly, the Flash delivered video was totally wonky for me.

The lip-sync was off, the "loading" circle never disappeared and remained overlaid throughout the entire video. I couldn't skip to points in the video and it never indicated any progress, just remained on 0:00 of 0:00.

Everything but the lip-sync worked when I clicked the video and watched it on the tv.adobe.com site.
Near-miss dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1126336 ?

Strange that you're showing 0 points, too...

http://skitch.com/swombat/nim4h
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Think about it. What would be the hypothetical benefit? Being able to say "Hi, yes, we're being evil, but it's OK because we never officially promised otherwise"? Do you think such a statement heralds a clear PR win for any company?

Disclaimer: I work at Google. My opinions are my own.
I upvoted this from 0 to 1 just to see if it would stick
Why don't you tell me why you were compiling from source? I don't see how playing guessing games helps.

I recently installed the latest SVN snapshots of an unreleased version of a fairly geeky media centre app including the latest support for my GPU's video acceleration capabilities all without compiling anything from source so if you've got a valid reason to do so then I'm thinking it's going to be obscure.

I'm fairly confident that whatever you where doing wouldn't even be allowed on the iPhone, so the average user limiting themselves to the many thousands of apps delivered via their default repository doesn't have to worry about missing anything in this (somewhat contrived) comparison.
"My understanding of climate science is"

Care to elaborate what your understanding of climate science is?
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Petmeds.co.uk - Pet Meds
Sells pet medication, veterinary, uk delivery, can buy vet items such as cosequin, seraquin, drontal, frontline, hills, royal canin, feliway and dap.
Electronic cigarettes cause health fears
Dmoz Submission Service
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Why should education cost money to begin with?
This is the only economic analysis of the proposal I can find: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1158096

It's not peer-reviewed, but it's from a respectable economics institute.
I'm seeing 1 point now...

Interestingly, it's not updating on the front page... caching funnies perhaps:

http://skitch.com/swombat/nimhj
I can recognize these logos with one eye shut, but who designed them? 
The big shots of the business world have mesmerized us all these years with their ingenuity and the top-notch standards that they have set for themselves. Be it the automotive big shot Ferrari, internet giant Google or sports footwear maker Adidas.
Next Tab has been obsoleted. Firefox 3.6 already opens URLs in a new tab right next to the active tab.
Microsoft Excel: Revolutionary 3D Game Engine?
MeeGo: Nokia and Intel merge Maemo and Moblin
My only wish is that TED would release all the talks on the website. I think the talks are secondary to the networking that happens there, and that gives the conference its value and keeps people coming. The videos they've posted are awesome, but I always wonder on what isn't up there.
Well if they weren't going to get it right first try, then maybe they should have a done a small early rollout. Surely one the first 1000 users would have noticed the privacy issue and reported it, before it was a big deal.
Refutation of current media storm against IPCC
Free? A whole VPS is $5/mo.

http://prgmr.com/xen/
See http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm
for an amusing counterpoint to PG's original post
"My understanding" means what I understand of it, which obviously not very much, because I'm not a researcher myself.
summary: celebrity worship.
In the UK's last recession in the early nineties house prices crashed two years after the stock markets crashed. When the stock market crashed the government used low interest rate to boost the economy. This had the effect of keeping mortgages avoidable. However when the economy recovered interest rates had to be put up because of inflation. The resultant increase in the cost of mortgage repayments along with high unemployment, a lagging indicator, resulted in high repossession rates and the property crash.
So... if there is no good Java, then there are no good Java programmers. Why is that?
A day on Chatroulette, the web's weirdest new outpost
A demonstration that bit.ly is not here to help you
>Science has no agenda. Science has what's factual and what is not factual.

That's like say English language always has proper grammar and spelling. Or that politicians in a democracy always work for the good of the people.
hosteurope.de is pretty cheap (<$10/mo)
Nokia & Intel announce MeeGo Mobile OS
France considers Internet censorship
Sophisticated simulations done in Excel happen in industry more often than you might think, using all manner of graphics hacks for the display, ranging from using cells for the display, to "pop up a new chart three times a second for 3 fps animation". It seems particularly common in finance and some kinds of engineering. I can't help but cringe when I see it, though.
Agree. When you drop the test tube, or accidentally misplace the decimal point, that's "a mistake".

But when you intentionally and systematically subvert ethics and the scientific method, that's not "a mistake". That's evil.
Should we automatically assume that when couples perform in homemade porn they're doing exactly what they would do off camera?
If the author thinks this is the "web's weirdest outpost", he obviously have never heard of /b/ (for which he should be thankful, by the way).
Microsoft withdraws flawed Windows update
Zemlin: Bring the Magic to Linux with MeeGo
Honestly, it took me a minute to realize that the overlap between French and English is actually smaller than I thought (and much smaller than between English and German). I had a hard time coming up with sticky analogies for the spelling of "roulette".
Startup idea: a combination of the best (worst?) bits of /b/ and chatroulette.

You can thank me when you've made your millions.
What action is it possible to take over some of the (deliberatly?) incorrect/inaccurate journalism?

Can a legal challenge be made?
Or is there any other effective way to stop the lies?

I'm not trying to suggest that honest debate be stifled; but the continual use of 'facts' that are wrong, and people being mis-quoted or quoted out of context, is not helpful.
It looks like Neil Peart uses a click track on Stick it out

or he could just be rock solid.

I wonder how well Tico Torres and Billy Cobham (great drummers and time-keepers) backed tracks fare, especially one from the 80's and early 90's when computer editors were less common.
Mobile firms unite to offer applications
Benchmarking Tornado's sessions
It seems like a premature announcement. No real roadmap as yet. Nokia reps are saying that Maemo 6 is MeeGo compatible, but I've no idea if I can upgrade my Nokia N900 to Maemo 6 either.
Liquid Filling Machines for Pharmaceutical Industry
If by celebrities you mean some of the most insightful and inspiring people from many countries all over the world, then you are quite right. It reads like worshipping the effort these people have put into achieving progress, which sounds great to me. Otherwise, I guess you're just being cynical or snarky.
Chris Anderson said that it's mostly the second-rate stuff that doesn't get published, even over time. There must have been a handful of talks that were really disappointing and they don't seem to want them making the rounds.
Chrome OS Flow Released
The general problem with the trade deficit theories that apply very much to other nations is that due to dollar denominated debt and being the defacto reserve currency of the world (oil is traded in dollars) the rules don't apply. If the world switches reserve currencies or stops buying US debt dollar denominated than this exception will no longer apply. Note that Venezuela is going to / has? started selling oil in euros and China is starting to purchase some US debt in non dollar denominated forms.
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.
Nokia and Intel unveil Linux platform MeeGo
Why did they have to name it after a H.P.Lovecraft critter?
How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.10
There's a link in the article to a webapp that lets you answer these questions yourself.

A random track by Billy Cobham doesn't look too solid (not that "solid" is necessarily a good thing):

http://labs.echonest.com/click/?trackId=TRMIPXK123E858CD8C&#...

A quick click through also suggests that Bon Jovi tracks are click-tracked.

It's worth bearing in mind that click tracks have been around since the early 20th century, none of this requires computers, just headphones, though using computers for editing means you get an extra benefit from click-tracks (cut'n'paste with consistent beat) which might push more people towards them.
He jokes and people cringe, but Excel is a huge win in some sorts of.. I'm not sure what to call it. I hesitate to call it programming because programming to me means all the text-file stuff from BASIC to C to Python to Haskell.

It's a language that lacks the headaches of state and sports a wonderfully helpful editing and debugging/execution environment. Trying to get your calculations right while seeing tons of the intermediate results is often a lot easier, also, you don't have to worry about calculation order or dependencies.. It's automatically handled, as are incremental update calculations. I often wonder how we could get a similar benefits in non-spreadsheets.

That said, it's a crumby language. You basically have to memorize the whole language to do well with it. Tons of stuff could be be dramatically better.. in fact, in some cases they were, e.g. functions defined in spreadsheet cells, but MS killed the competitors.
I am afraid it already slipped my mind as it was several hours ago. But I am sure another situation will arise. Where would be a good place to discuss it, as this thread will long have been gone stale by then?
should it be surprising to us that a place which offers anonymous voyeuristic nudity with basically no consequences appeals to a world in which pleasing ourselves and awkward desires is our driving goal in life?

i submit it should not.
What makes TED TED? Well, for one, it’s TED because Sarah wasn’t there (and I won’t be there next year because I didn’t pay the $6,000 in time). Its elitism and expense IS part of why TED is magical (...)

This sounds really weird to me. I think what makes TED TED are some amazing talks by interesting people.

We can watch it on the net. Who cares how rich the audience is?

If anything, I suppose the audience is partly the cause of what I dislike in TED: the almost stereotypical Stuff White People Like content and tone of some talks.
Those are some really fascinating results. Although now and then you'll see machine-like scores when there's no way. Most interesting is to look at old-timers that boozed it up alot... tempos ALL over!

http://labs.echonest.com/click/?trackId=TREHNVI1254846046C&#...
The Devil is in the Details
http://www.lifesize.com/ for teleconferencing. Wicked kit, we've got four of them, connecting offices and they're a nice alternative to shelling out 6 figures for HD Skype.
Bing vs Google. Does Microsoft know Europe, India & China exist?
The future of humanity is only on the line if the hypothesis of the pro-GW/CC/whatever it is called this week are right. To me Global Warming sounds a lot like Pascal's Wager, which isn't really a reason to do anything.
Microsoft Windows Mobile 7: No flash at initial launch
The Elitist Dominate TED
True, but if you're investing the difference in index funds dividends will generally keep going up over time (somewhat in line with the capital appreciation).

>> I don't entirely disagree with the reasoning, mind you, but I think that direct comparisons between renting and buying are problematic.

It's a fair point but as you have to pick one or the other the only thing you can really do is crunch the numbers and account for the intangibles and then make the best decision you can.
Weeny SIM Wi-Fi hotspot is here But why?
I did not know that all skepticism relied on one picture. Actually I never saw that picture before…
One of the main issues here would be source-code readability (people will have to add another step to the build-process and the folks using static content will have some difficulty). An elegant solution I can think of is to implement this as django middleware and hyphenates all the content by default. I don't know about the performance impact of this.

But if there is an approximate solution you can create which doesn't require dictionaries, you can port that to javascript as a library which can then instrument all the elements in a class with these soft hyphens. This will also solve the performance issue and can be introduced very unobtrusively into virtually any application.

And also any potential SEO concerns are alleviated.
Some of the talks are genuinely good, but many have a sort of weird vibe to them that I find offputting, that seems to value flashiness and trends over intellectual content. Sort of like if all of academia were the MIT Media Lab. Some, especially the management/motivation/life-philosophy ones, even border on the new-agey psuedo-psych sort of stuff you find on the corporate speaking circuit.
The site appears to be down btw, no way to figure myself how odd it is...

Edit: it's down just form Italy. I hope it's a routing problem and not italian providers censoring this ASAP.

Edit #2: finally it worked, was just a routing problem.
Apple Bans iPhone Hackers Apple ID from App Store
"the almost stereotypical Stuff White People Like content"

Maybe, but then where is the "stuff non-white people like" conference that everybody is watching? Everybody is free to organize a conference, so why do only the stereotypical white people seem to bother doing it?

To be clear, I don't want to imply that "white people" are better somehow, I just have troubles grasping the "stuff white people like" complaint.

Also, maybe there really is a non-white TED out there, which right now has 200 votes on non-white Hacker News. If so, it would be very interesting to hear about it (both the conference and non-white hacker news).
Yes, and in addition to this, those many MB spread sheets are also feared by the people who maintain them. I have seen spreadsheets that have migrated from ancient lotus products that I never knew about. There is code in them that people do not know what it means or does. Having to update the equations they are using periodically causes lots of panic because who knows what depends on what. It's all hidden in cells.

The worst part is, at least with the sheets I'm specifically thinking of, they were essentially just rows of data like you'd find in an SQL table. It's a shame they didn't take the time to initially develop it as a table or several tables and put some real code around it to run the calculations. At least then someone could go and look at it and figure out what it does.
Just wait till next year when we start installing the brain scanners at airport security checkpoints.

/me wishes that sounded less plausible.
Nostalgia: Dragging the Windows XP error dialog
The problem with Amazon's load balancing (ELB)
Google Buzz tweaked after privacy complaints
Pepsi can #)$(* my $R%(
...the talks are 18 minutes or less. If any of the talks seemed lacking in intellectual content to you it's most likely because of time constraints. For example Ken Robinson's talk on education was 100% motivation/life-philosophy, simply because he doesn't have time to present the proof he's based his opinions on. The proof does exist though; all the speakers have the credentials to back up their presentations.

I'd be interesting in a few of the "many" examples you have of this type of talk you object you. If you wouldn't mind, please link to a few here. I haven't seen a single TED talk that fits the "corporate speaking circuit" test.
Bug Labs intros BUG 2.0 platform with faster processor, Android support
>"Good article and the principle is sound, but the postscript is that Buffett wound up losing Berkshire Hathaway's shareholders $1 billion by betting against the dollar."

That's incredibly unfair. Buffet has absolutely crushed the market. The S&P500 is down 22% over the past decade, the Nasdaq is down 50% and Buffet is up 150%. Check over the past two decades and the S&P has approximately doubled, the Nasdaq has slightly less than quadrupled what it was and Berkshire Hathaway is worth fifteen times its 1990 value.

People who bought Berkshire right after this piece was published beat 99.9% of the market and every single widely followed pundit I know of.

http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&...
Science is not a democracy. It's a method for deriving knowledge from observation. We need the observations to evaluate the conclusions, not a bunch of hearsay. If other scientists are seeing the same things they should provide the data and methodology so that it can be evaluated independently.
Daniel Pink came to mind when I was writing that part. I agree in an 18-minute talk you can only sort of speak in generalities, but in his case, his books are similarly unscientific.
The Only Chance to Learn Something New
Effort to trace 'conflict minerals' in electronics
Excel (and other spreadsheets) is nice purely functional language (when not using macros).

Unfortunately it is abused to be database/statistical package/etc and at some point big spreadsheets doesn't scale and becomse pain to support.

So it should be possible to export excel spreadsheet to haskell :)
Actually, the general taxable income argument may still not apply depending on how previous loses are carried forward. Which really ties into another point I was going to make that companies are quite adept at minimizing tax exposure. The GAO reports the average corporation pays an effective tax rate of 25.2%. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_tax_in_the_United_Sta...

But obviously, mileage may vary: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601110&sid=a6bQ...
the almost stereotypical Stuff White People Like content and tone of some talks.

I'll take a wild guess, East Asian or South American? Yes, there is a cultural difference in a conference like TED and the rest of the world. But it is an amazing and inspiring conference that hosts some of the most accomplished people in the world as speakers. The fact that you dislike it because culturally it is different than you says more about your openness than it does about the quality of TED. Why is a cultural difference cause for dislike?
I think this is a fantastic model and would love to see it more widely used. For example, a small portion of the tuition of Stanford and MIT students (among others) finance the creation and publication of free quality education material to the rest of the world.

How much faster would our world develop if all education was made available this way, financed by people who have the money to spend to be the first to learn something/have the benefit of real-life interaction with the original professor?
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"The first release of MeeGo is expected in the second quarter of 2010 with devices launching later in the year"

Doesn't sound premature to me
De-cloaking in Internet Explorer
Extraordinary. You would think that Microsoft would be able to offer some insight and value beyond a pretty anodyne list of companies from the US. The lists in the links to Google autocomplete suggestions by country offer a great insight into the psyche of different nations. I am left with the impression that contrary to my expectations, American Googlers are far more boring and predictable than those in other countries.
Viral growth trumps lots of faux followers
I hope nobody tells this guy what all that javascript being loaded from google-analytics.com is...
In Utah, a plan to cut 12th grade -- altogether
Apparently we need the reality to bark at us every so often, so that we could continue to enjoy our safe caves more
>My parents were reduced to selling all their crockery for food during the Cultural Revolution

Our crockery is pretty good, it was quite expensive but I doubt we'd get more than say £20 GBP for the lot.

Did you/they then eat from cooking pots or was it cold food only then?
My experience with Chatroulette:

Naked guy
Naked guy
Guy singing
Bored guy
Bored guy
Bored guy
Girl clicking "next"
Two guys laughing
Bored guy
Three girls, one saying "is that a boy or a girl?"
Naked guy
Goatse picture
Naked guy
Where does Mozilla go when the monopoly witch is dead?
I'm actually surprised by the public spat over $6000; I figured it was much more or invite only. I mean, heck, a lot of the web conferences are $2000-3000.
Bing india maps are obsolete. In some cases showing 30 year old data. Entire cities are not on maps.
Ask HN: Best way to dive into web development.
So, a little background. I got my computer science degree 3.5 years ago and have done a good amount of development. At the time, I was not at all interested in web development but (in large part due to HN) I have been gaining interest. Recently, I had an idea that I'm really excited to try out, but I have no idea how to get started. Hence, I'm asking how to start learning. I want to learn both the theory and practice.

Summary:

I know how code and have dealt with some fairly large projects in the past.

I am a complete web newbie.

Any suggestions on how I can get started?

Thanks in advance!
Realclimate got caught with their hand in the cookie jar when the original "CRU" emails got out, IIRC.

They were offering carte-blanche moderation power on the site to one side only in the debate.
So do you figure combining that concept with recommendations a la StumbleUpon would work, or just be boring?

I suspect "everybody just wants to consume" could be it's downfall, that is, there would not be an even enough match between "consumers" and "producers" to provide suitable recommendations for everyone. Producers to be taken in general, for example perhaps more men would like to see women for cybersex than women would like to see men.