skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In one of his blogs he mentioned problem with a co-producer an his rights to the material.
We do. :D
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/15/colorado.boy.world.watching...
It's not the first solution. It's just a last-ditch effort to try. In other words, it "could well kill you". I'd much rather take the "COULD" route than doing something that will darn sure kill me, i.e. speeding uncontrollably.

In any case, I was just throwing out an idea.
The possessive thing actually varies according to stylebooks. The Chicago Manual of Style says to use 's in this circumstance (doesn't fall into one of its exceptions for when to omit the 2nd s), and the MLA Handbook says to always use 's for possessives of singular nouns.
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Oh, I see. Didn't know that.
We don't even know if it'll be possible to fully close the notebook yet.
Because by being so strong and unkind, it amplifies the recognition of a material or perceptual accident of nature into a needless conceptual flattening of a person's entire presence in the world. Depending on the self-esteem of the person it may be referring to, it's impolite at best, and cruel at worst.

What I think Chris forgets in his writeups is that actual individuals who may fall into those regions of his chart may at some point read it. Why be so abrasive about it?
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This reminds me of something Seymour Papert talked about when he was interviewed in "The Media Lab" by Stewart Brand, talking about an African conference on The New Math:

"... At a certain point the Nigerian delegation stood up and walked out. It was quite dramatic -- they were dressed in beautiful African robes. Then the meeting broke up and I had this conversation with one of the people from the Nigerian delegation who went by. 'Why did you walk out, what's going on?' 'I can't talk to these Americans.' (Nobody thought of me as an American.) 'Why not?' 'Because they say what they mean.'

"We're so brought up with the idea that communication fails when people don't say what they mean. The man explained, 'When two Americans have a conversation, each says what he thinks, and then there's a confrontation -- one's going to be right and the other one's going to be wrong. We don't do it like that. We sit around under the tree, and somebody says something, and somebody else does, and we talk and nobody has a position. It goes on for a long time, and maybe tomorrow, or eventually, everybody agrees on a position. Then everyone is right and there isn't anybody's point of view left out.'
Docverse bought by Google
The burden of proof generally relies on people making the unusual claim.
Hey if you want pen input you might look at getting a pogo sketch from tenonedesign.com - I've got one that I use on my mbp with inklet and I've tried it on my 1st gen ipod touch and it works there too. I'm guessing with its beefier processor the ipad will work even better.
Yeah, "normal" people don't talk like that though. In a nerd setting I can imagine a conversation going like that, where every statement is made plainly and matter-of-factly.

Many people would read the "So?" as a confirmation that (a) you don't like redheads and (b) you know B's wife is a redhead so (c) you're insulting his wife on purpose, so (d) you're looking for a fight.
Who says you need a legal basis to sue someone? Winning is another matter, perhaps, but baseless litigation is a popular pass-time in the USA.
Oh come now - Apple milked the hype machine for every last drop of publicity prior to the actual announcement, to the point of it being a news item before it took place - they just kept the images and specs locked down.

I can't blame MS for testing the waters and getting preliminary feedback. I personally prefer this approach, since it helps them refine and helps me to budget attention and/or money for an interesting new technology.
I think you missed the sarcasm there...
Thanks for the kind words. I can tell you they didn't find out about browseforacause till after they'd started working on browsarity. They started out doing something else with affiliate links and it morphed into this.
Yes to the second part

as for the first part, doesn't have to be your hand. Depending on the vehicle, you might be able to get your toe under the pedal.
Unfortunately it is 2010 and I still see many "print folder websites" being made with fixed aspect ratios and even the dreaded flash intros experience a second wind here lately. And designers with experience/focus on web application design are very rare. Always looking for them ;)
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By the way, just in case it ever helps anyone:

If you are in a car moving along and you have to kill the engine, or the engine dies, get on the brakes as fast as you can and don't let go. You can ease up on the brakes almost to the point of letting go of the pedal, but don't come off all the way.

The reason is the brakes will maintain the power-assist vacuum from the engine, even when the engine is later switched off, until they are released completely. The 'power-assist' strength will remain for tens of seconds, at least. I've tried this many times before. I can't guarantee it works on modern cars, but it sure did work on my '86 Toyota with standard hydraulic vacuum-assist brakes.
Not necessarily. I don't know if you noticed this detail, but they graphically distinguish their affiliate links (with a red underline). This means their affiliate links do exactly what merchants hope affiliate links will do: draw customers to them. The red link says "click on this and if you buy something we'll donate money to your favorite charity."

Imagine how pleased merchants would be if an existing affiliate site decided to promote their affiliate links with red underlines and to donate 90% of the money to charity.
The visitor's choice of charity no less.
Allows you to donate affiliate fees to charity?! Bullshit. Should read: Forces businesses to donate part of their profit margin to charity and browsarity.
The OkCupid blog post claims they were careful to control for attractiveness:

We were careful to preselect our data pool so that physical attractiveness (as measured by our site picture-rating utility) was roughly even across all the race/gender slices.

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2009/10/05/your-race-affec...

So even though guys were rating these black women to be as "attractive" as the non-black women in the sample, the black women were getting fewer responses from guys.
I was under the impression that I/O performance, in particular, was still rather bad. The VMWare forums contain some links to http://vmfaq.com/?View=entry&EntryID=33, for instance, which suggests about a 50% performance degradation for most virtualization products.

Does this not apply (anymore) to ESX? I imagine it's improved somewhat, but AFAIK it can't match "real iron" speeds. I suppose that only gets worse as you add SANs, SSDs and other fun stuff.

As to "buggy" - well, I consider anything with repeated severe security issues to be buggy. Just search for "VMWare vulnerability".
Anybody who's interested in this and lives in the Bay Area should take a drive over to Hercules on the east bay. They build a whole town complete with mixed use urban center
IETF draft: "Security Assessment of the Internet Protocol version 4"
How A 26-Year-Old Built A $100 Million Net Worth
http://blog.linode.com/2010/01/15/linode-and-the-google-cybe...
"No Linodes were involved in malicious activity related to this event. In fact, it was Google itself that chose to use Linode to aid in their investigation of the attacks"
I run into this all the time. The most common case is form validation. If you want to do some validation on the client side, why are you forced to repeat yourself by writing it once in Java/Ruby/Python/Perl/PHP on the server and then write it again on the client using Javascript/Underscore/JQuery/whatever?

http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2010/02/d...
How is it at all unusual? The OKCupid data reflects census data on interracial marriage pairings, which shows low numbers of marriages between black women and men of other races (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage_in_the_Uni...). If the OKCupid data showed that black women were both responsible for and recipients of the highest reply rates, that would be unusual.
Man, the comments here are getting like TechCrunch comments.
Jonah Lehrer: More on Depression
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Direct2D in FireFox Nightlies
have any of those actually launched yet?
Actually true virality does tend to make or break the things that have it.
There are plenty of standalone apps for videoconferencing. I don't think there's any need to package it with a whiteboard app unless you can come up with an innovative way to integrate the video with the whiteboard (indexing video frames to scribbles, maybe?)

In my experience, having a video feed is pretty much worthless for productivity; if anything, it's distracting. Much more useful is having voice chat and the ability to share files seamlessly. Again, these are needs that can be adequately fulfilled by Google Docs, Google Talk, Skype, etc, so there's no reason to reinvent the wheel.
I think Microsoft has finally realized that design really matters. Few people will argue that Windows 7 is not well designed, and even most of my mac "fanboy" friends concede this fact by stating "It's about time! Apple's been doing this forever!" as if that fact makes it ok that Windows 7 is friendlier and (imho) more usable than OS X ;)

Fanboy wars aside, I reiterate my first (and only real) point. I think Microsoft has finally realized that design really matters.

From what I've seen of Windows Phone 7, and Windows 7, and the few screenshots that came out of the Courier, I think that they have a _strong_ chance of it being gorgeous, well designed, and with a friendly interface.

Besides, I _really_ want a competitor to the iPad, not because I dislike Apple (I don't, their products are well designed and I own plenty of them), but because competition breeds innovation, and then we all win.

edit: typo 'won' = 'own'
Hans Schmucker also has a video demo:
http://www.tapper-ware.net/files/stresstest.comparison.ogg

The test page:
http://www.tapper-ware.net/stable/web.dom.stresstest.transfo...
No, what I'm saying is that this title is completely alarmist, because the OpenSSL vulnerability that has been discovered is not vulnerable to attack past the data center from which it originates. The phrase "busts public key crypto" is completely misleading.
Just because they are on a white people only site doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't open minded. I might, but it could just as well be that they are attempting to broaden their exposure simply by visiting more sites. It's possible that 'whites only' dating site would attract a wealthier demographic, which would make it an attractive place to look for a partner even if one wasn't especially racist..
Actually that is the point.

LPs are for collectors and very special music, you don't buy crappy pop on an LP, you buy a classic, something where the LP means something in and of itself.

Books will be the same, special, something beyond the ordinary, where as your pop books become something digital, because the book isn't part of the experience.
I don't think a lot of people have experience with graphic design, user experience design, and html/css skills.

I know a lot of tech and design people, and I know exactly one person who is good at all three things.

And yes, as mentioned above, how many people have their house built by their interior decorator?
Ah the subsequent-transactions thing must be it then. I know I've only had to enter my CVV the first time I've used most online shopping sites, so I assumed they just stored it.
It's funny to think about it. Apple has managed to do such a good job at building up it's own Karma, that it can release ecosystems to great fanfare using rather similar techniques that would get Microsoft nothing but jeers. An app store for the mac would be pretty horrendous, yet Apple's enthusiastic fanbase just wouldn't consider chiding them as a hole. This would sort of be RMS' worst nightmare.
I have a T510 here at work - how do I check what sort of LCD it has?
Pushing the Bounds of Application Delivery Controllers
I think you're dead on about eBay and Amazon being the main sources of income, but we should give them a chance to address this. You have to figure they thought of this on day 1.

Specifically, I think this is not moot: "arguable if this generates any value"

Making the association that buying from Amazon == donating to charity is worth money to them.

Also, at least with eBay, the big money in affiliate revenue is signing up new users. You get paid about ~1.5% of the transaction price vs. $25 every time a new user places a bid (they don't even have to win). So at worst these companies are paying the big bonus once, and they're still making a profit on every sale.

tl;dr: there is a value add here, unlike than cookie dropping.
I'm sure you don't mean to do so, but you shouldn't compare black women to "u r so hawt" guys. Very different categories, and very different dating problems.

The only problem / category I am discussing is "doesn't get what they want out of OKCupid". You could argue that the "u r so hawt" guys don't deserve to get anything out of OKCupid, and I would agree with you. But I am looking at it from their perspective, rather than from the perspective of an unbiased observer. And the reality is that they are probably sad because they are rejected so frequently.

I know a couple of beautiful, smart, incredible black women in their mid-20s who haven't even kissed a guy, much less been in a relationship.

I know a lot of people, male and female, like this. There are a lot of people that aren't in relationships, despite what TV tells you. And, even if the odds are totally in your favor, you still have to take a lot of rejection to get anything out of online dating. The reply rate is like 1-in-5 even for white/white with a 95% match percentage. It's not easy for anyone.
He Skype'd into my lecture class about the Internet & Society.
"...a Firefox plug-in that will rewrite any unclaimed links to a participating online retailer with an affiliate link..."

They do not.
If you're interested, I've written a Greasemonkey script at < http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/67722 > to remove usernames. I find they add unnecessary sources of potential bias to what are otherwise relatively anonymous comments.
Wicked, now I can work on adding some encryption to the datastore. Most things on my Touch aren't very sensitive, but the complete copy of my e-mail archive certainly qualifies and having it just sitting there really scares me.
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Saudi Arabia's shortage of natural gas
If that's the case, it'd be nice to see a look that was a bit less like theirs. To me, the site feels a little close to its inspiration.
Bill Gates and our innovation addiction: A recipe for climate inaction
Ah, memories
Spring 2010 Technology quarterly
Yes, this is exactly right.

I get that some people might feel that when people take a job, they willingly buy into what they are asked to do, and should be held accountable for it. I don't completely disagree, but I wish that life so clear and simple.

I spent many years working in the security field. Typically, it attracts low-skill workers, often recent immigrants. You can end up spending a lot of time on your feet, often in shit weather. But it pays the bills and feeds your family. I imagine some guy who had steady work watching a warehouse or a train yard, putting in his time, keeping to himself, and planning to make a better life for himself. Then one day he's told they need people over at the Olympics, time and a half OT, let's get going.

What's he supposed to do? Raise a fuss? Quit? Get fired?

Have a heart.

As you say, if you want to fight this, keep your money away from the event and its sponsors. Choose your battles and pick your targets.

And get a clue: Making a stink over a confiscated Snickers bar is not speaking truth to power. If you're so concerned over the stupid rules, what the fuck are you dong there? Go demand a refund and leave. Don't leave it to the other guy to make the hard choices.
Well you can color me skeptical. This is the way I see something like this coming into being:

1. Someone thinks of the clever idea of overwriting non-affiliate urls with an affiliate url of their account.
2. In realizing that no one would ever install this, they think "how can I convince people to add this to their browser and take a cut of the profit?"
3. Charity!

I hope I am way wrong.

And man, the news in here is really becoming a TechCrunch aggregator.
Definitely not hacker news, random ranting.
Zuck is quite the character.
I'm not saying Apple didn't ride the publicity machine but at least they are delivering what they promised.

Courier, any idea when it will be released? How about Slate? Remember Origami/UMPC? Yeah they released but they didn't focus much energy on it.

I'm not an Apple Fanboy. I own a Zune and a PC.
Thanks folks, I'm trying to get to 0, -4 at a time. I'm here all week.
Toyota walked into a rotating fan blade. This was a really bad time to give Congress an excuse to concern-troll them, given that the government is now a direct stakeholder in the US auto industry.
And Darcs hopes everyone has been enjoying themselves?
My biggest beef with Posterous's design is that they direct me to their front page too often. When I'm logged in, just take me to my blogs. How many times have I ever seen the front page of blogger?
Answer: Microsoft.
First, if race-specific dating sites aren't offensive to you (and to me, they ARE) then why not race-specific bars? Or race-specific public transport?

Because wanting to fuck someone is different than being willing to share a bus with them. Relationships are the deepest and most personal human activity, and that activity is vastly different from public infrastructure (public transit, stores, bars, etc.)
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For the last year it has been 5 people in 5 rooms (though 2 people share 1 bedroom), so 1 room is left for a big shared office. There's a middle living area, 2 bathrooms, a kitchen, and roof access.
because "white" isn't really an ethnicity or a single culture

I know you're focusing on the "Jewish" route, but neither is "black" by that benchmark. Some guy from the middle of the Sudan shares as little (or less) cultural or ethnic heritage with a black guy of Jamaican descent living in Los Angeles.. as an average white Russian does with an average white American.

"Black" means as many things as "white" does. "Jewish" does too, though not to quite as wide a gamut (but compare a black Ethiopian Jew to a Zionist from the Jewish Autonomous Oblast - the shared "culture" or "ethnicity" there is stretched almost to breaking point away from religion).
I was waiting for Chris to pop out.

"Sit down. Have a seat, Jon. So what are you doing here?"
Cashback websites are pretty big in the UK, I'm not sure how big in the US.

For example:

http://quidco.com
http://www.SimplyCashBack.co.uk
http://www.cashbackkingdom.com
http://www.topcashback.co.uk

Literally thousands of them.

Also there's a firefox plugin that finds cashback sites for any links on a page:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7442

They're definitely reasonable earners, but TBH I think it's a harder sell to say "We'll give the commission to charity" vs "You can have the commission".

One of the secrets is that there's usually a minimum withdrawal limit on cashback sites, eg £20, and unless you get up to that, the money isn't paid out. So what happens is you get tons of accounts abandoned before they get to £20 - this is apparently where most of the profit comes from.

Also I don't think rewriting links on websites is a good idea at all. That's just not nice. Reminds me of that YC company that does a firefox plugin that removes the adverts from google search pages and puts other stuff there instead.

>> "I don't know if you noticed this detail, but they graphically distinguish their affiliate links (with a red underline). This means their affiliate links do exactly what merchants hope affiliate links will do: draw customers to them. The red link says "click on this and if you buy something we'll donate money to your favorite charity."

Are you seriously saying you'd expect this to increase a merchants sales? I'm not so sure. It just cuts into their profit and deceives website owners out of potential money.

How about doing some decent natural language parsing for intent and matching that to a massive database of adverts, and providing it for publishers?

That's a problem that really needs solving. eg "I might look at some flatscreen TVs this w/end" -> list of adverts for flatscreen TVs.

keyword matching only gets you a tiny way, but recognizing real intent and meaning in text would be really valuable I think.

Just my 2c.
It's unusual in the sense that it's new. OKCupid has data. If they want to draw general conclusions from that data, then it's their obligation to convince us that it's valid to generalize.

However, if I remember OKCupid's posts correctly, they explicitly pointed out that they weren't trying to generalize, and acknowledged that all of their conclusions applied only to the users of their site. I think it's everyone else who've tried to generalize their conclusions.

The author of the article from this thread is actually practicing skepticism. He is skeptical of the general conclusions drawn from the data set, and he proposes an alternate, simpler theory - selection bias - that would explain the behavior seen.
We shouldn't really count Microsoft out. Back in early 2000s, Palm had the lion's share of PDAs and then Microsoft pretty much turned the tables on them with the PocketPC which eventually became Windows Mobile.

However, when MS had the market lead, they just rested on their laurels and failed to innovate.

I don't think Apple will stop innovating soon. Still, don't count MS out.
To be fair, Woz's account seems to be limited to the case where someone uses the cruise control above 80 MPH, far from what the control loop was optimized for. I didn't see anything in what he wrote that could possibly have any bearing on the cases being examined.

Brain-dead cruise control behavior is nothing new. My '92 Porsche 968 would cheerfully redline the engine if you disengaged the clutch with cruise active.
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Only GPLv3. Everything else is fine; those licenses say that as long as you get the source code, the licensing obligations have been met. Being able to compile and run that source code is something only the GPLv3 guarantees.

(And in the day and age of locked hardware, I think the GPLv3 is the only sane license as a result. Free Software dies if nobody can actually run it.)
Anyone else think it's strange that a demo of a Microsoft product is using Google Maps (instead of Bing Maps)?:

http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/1174/16
I stand corrected. Apparently OkCupid does a good job with their numbers.
The author of the article from this thread is actually practicing skepticism

No, he's making unsupported, assertive claims, premised on the anecdote that "any black person will tell you, when black folks date online they don't go to OKcupid."
Because it's subjective, to a large degree, and to use it is to condemn. To condemn them with any certainty is to assert your righteousness.
Google acquires Docverse
I have to thank jQuery. Honestly, before jQuery I didn't give Javascript the time of day let alone imagine non-browser uses for it. I have coworkers that are in the same boat; It makes me wonder how many people gave JS a second chance primarily because of jQuery.

edit: It also makes me wonder how many people would give lisp, basic, and etc a second chance if those languages had the equivalent of "Wow" that jQuery provided to JS for me and others.