skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone once gave an example of a 'preview' feature on the client side (like preview the formatting of blog comments) -- then the same code is used on the server to generate the actual view.

I think this was briancarper.net where - since he's using clojure on the server - ended up running a javascript interpreter (rhino) on the server so that the same formatting code could run on the client and server.
A concern might be that you expose your server side code. Though many os projects do this by design.
How could I speculate about using a browser no one outside of Redmond knows very little about just yet?
If you have no idea, why do you call it a myth? Sounds as if you have the idea that it is only a myth.
Recognizr - Augmented ID concept
Actually, it said "when black people who don't want to date non-black people date online, they go to one of the black-only dating sites rather than dating sites aimed at the general population." It did still simply provide a hypothesis, but it is at least a plausible hypothesis that might explain the data. One would need further data to determine its validity, of course.
Cisco Wants To Rule Your Living Room
It is baffling how many people treat a tax return like it's found money, when in reality it's the end result of you losing money. People think "oh sweet I can buy a laptop" rather than "oh crap I lost a bunch due to inflation and missed interest".

Sometimes I wish I knew less about math, I would probably be happier.
How to Make Money With Python
Companies use broad language in TOSes to give themselves maximal power, but ultimately they decide case by case. If some form of affiliate link brings in buyers they wouldn't have gotten otherwise, then it would not be in their interest to prevent it.
I think people draw a distinction, valid or not, between "looking for similar people" and "excluding different people." The former is seen as more acceptable. For a group that is a small percentage of the population, a niche dating site is acceptable because it helps them find other people in that group. For a group that is a large percentage of the population, any generic dating site will help them find other people in the same group, so a niche site only makes sense as a tool of exclusion.
Used them for different parts of the code for my startup. I haven't used threads before working on my startup, but I couldn't live without them now. They're essential to many parts...
the line about charities was added four days ago!
here's what it looked like before: http://grab.by/2Ai5
ReMail now open-source
Skin color isn't any more an indicator of class than shoe size or fingernail length.

Actually, long fingernails on a woman are typically used to signal "I don't do manual labor" and is very much intended as a class indicator. It's part of the appeal of long nails. As I understand it, there is lots of historical precedent across a number of cultures for this.
How quickly a beachhead can become a ghetto.
Considering you haven't presented air-tight evidence for your position, I think you should consider another issue.

The increased use of electronic control in automobiles means that cars now have the problem that software has had for a while; real but difficult to reproduce bugs. When the control of the car has gone away from physical devices like rods and wires, not only is it harder to find the control but any problem that exists just seems creepier. This is another that I suspect is driving the current reaction.
Are there other similar hacker houses in other locations? NYC?
All you have to do is compare page render times, JavaScript parsing and execution times, and other major metrics between IE and Firefox or IE and Safari and you will see that IE tends to be considerably less efficient that its competition. I'm just saying that I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happens with a Microsoft Webkit implementation.

Microsoft products are getting better in recent years, but I still wouldn't get my hopes up too high.
Something Gruber didn't go into is how well Snell's comparison between web and rss tracks to earlier comparisons made between print and web.
API users & API wrappers
It's entirely possible they realized, after decades, design matters. What I doubt is that an organization that consistently failed to arrive at that simple realization, despite having a role model to follow (or copy) is, indeed, capable of acting on that conclusion.

The yesterday's weather principle dictates it's doubtful.
The comment essentially said: "black women are fatter than white women, which is why they don't do as well on OKCupid."

That doesn't strike me as particularly serious or valuable, especially when a quick look at the OKCupid methodology would have ruled it out immediately.
I like my Opera as it is thanks.
Ask HN: Review my latest site, CocoaDocs.com
It's only like 2% done, but I want to see what people think of the idea. Basically what I am doing is going through the official documentation and creating sample code for each method. Comments are enabled for the entire site (except for the homepage) so I am hoping to get some good discussion started. The site is loosely modelled after the php.net documentation. The site is targeted at beginners, experts will have little use for it.

http://www.cocoadocs.com/
No one (that I know) can write letters that fast or that well with their mouse. I think a text tool (like you'd find in Skitch) would be better.

Also, webcam integration would be nice.
In many parts of the world, that's the hand you customarily wash your arse with. So, it's a practical measure, to stop you getting faecal matter on your food.
A Technique for Creating a Talk
Suppose you are the last person to get on a train before it reaches capacity. You are more likely to interact with someone who is on the same train than someone who isn't. If you prefer to interact with people of the same race, you would be better off if your train had been restricted to only people of your race. Similar logic applies to a full bar or any workplace. If you prefer to date people of a certain race, you also prefer to interact with people of that race compared to others of your desired gender since less intimate interactions are a prerequisite for dating.

"It would be nice if everyone was so enlightened as to not care about race, but there is 10,000+ years of evolutionary pressure pushing things the other direction."

No such pressure exists. Cross-breeding is usually evolutionarily advantageous.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_vigor

"There are 5.9999 billion other people the person you discriminated against can date."

The same exact logic applies to jobs. Sure, the job you get may not pay as much or might not be in the location you would prefer, but the mate you end up with might not make as much money or be nearby either. Eliminating potential mates from consideration based on their race is just as bad as throwing out the resumes of an entire race because you think they're not likely to be qualified for the job. It does hurt people. Mating is a market just like everything else in life, and if you reduce demand for someone's product due to something as arbitrary as melanin level, then you're reducing their equilibrium price and requiring them to make more compromises when it comes to choosing a mate.

No one expects you to sleep with someone just to give them a helping hand, but that shouldn't be expected with jobs either.
Linus Torvalds called the bsd-people for a bunch 'masturbating monkeys' and the digg-crowd for a bunch of 'wanking walruses'. I wonder if there was a more appropriate term for chatroulettes users..

But lets be honest guys - we all thought "err.. why did I not think of that".
This might happen and some sort of the does happen in Cricket. During the Cricket world cup the TV channel showing the event isn't allowed to show competitor's ads. Also, the players are not allowed to be part of any kind of competitor ad for the entire duration of the tournament. And yes, the English are used to this.
"Conspiring to thwart freedom of information laws"

When did that happen? If you are referring to the leaked emails, I don't think the case is so clear. Unless you want to believe it to be so.

The glaciers: don't remember the exact details, but wasn't it some relatively informal publication where the boss of the organization slipped something in without verifying with his scientists? Sounds more like sloppiness - although they should have uncovered the error sooner. But who knows, they might have had other things on their mind. I don't know how many scientists actually think about Himalayan glaciers on a daily basis (do you?). Except for the ones living in the Himalayan, one of was asked over the phone and apparently misinterpreted.

In any case, I don't think that error was made in an actual scientific paper, it was more part of general propaganda and politics. Not that I like it at all, but I don't see how it discredits the science as a whole.

In fact, I personally think dwelling on minor details and trying to blow them up to be elephants is a major indicator of revisionism.
Ask HN: Any API's to broadcast radio?  (the old kind, not Internet radio)
I find the quality of radio when driving around town to be very severely lacking. I think the general trend of internet radio will continue, but lots of cars won't be equipped to get internet radio for a long time.

So I was wondering:
1. What the rough costs are to get unused air time
2. Would it be possible to create an API or some easy way for people to publish content

The idea would be to let niche radio appear (maybe HN Radio as an example). Costs (and advertisements) could be drastically reduced by either letter people broadcast from home with a skype headset (crowd sourcing it), or even automating the content with interesting audio books, talks, podcasts, etc.

I'm not sure what the cost would be to just get the air time or where to start thinking about coding up such an API. Has anyone thought about this?
Expecting people to both read the linked article as well as go back and re-read the original post is a lot to ask. I definitely didn't, and I also forgot that OkCupid had already ruled out that factor. The comment was a hypothesis backed with data, which I consider serious and valuable.
I'm playing in Twitters sandpit, and they're playing fair
From the link:The prize will go to the person who authors the best new YUI 3 Gallery module between March 5 and March 22 and submits it for community use under YUI’s BSD license.
You forgot Zune, the UI interface is pretty slick.
A "good" predictor must be useful, correct? Well, then how can it be useful if it is wrong more than it is right....?

Simply stated, being right more than one is wrong is the same thing as being more accurate than a random assignment (as we approach a large number of "trials") if the outcomes are equally likely. And that is the point - race tells you nothing more significant about class then guessing does (if we remove 'middle class' as a selection), and class tells you nothing significant about behavior.

Also, you seem to be conflating 'class' and 'culture' now. Culture is a much, much better indicator of behavior than class, as culture speaks to beliefs and value judgements. As such, they are not interchangable ideas (that is, the propostion that 'Skin color is a good predictor of culture' is not the same as the one you made prior, 'Skin color is a good predictor of class' - but is probably just as fallacious).

Clothing and hair (God only knows what you meant by 'accent.' Care to clarify?) in isolation are strong enough indicators of culture, that race quite literally adds nothing to their accuracy - the same can be said of 'style of dress' and 'price of car driven,' for class. Race is superfluous.
It is definitely an annoying process. Particularly the reseller process with Authorize.net.

I've heard some good things about First Data (the Spreedly guys recommended them - and they have lots of experience with merchant accounts). I don't trust paypal anymore.

I put together this page on BuyersVote.com to get some submissions/votes:

http://buyersvote.com/categories/the-best-merchant-account-p...
Your criticism would ring less hollow if you were the one worth $100 million.
Penguin's Incredible Vision of Books on the iPad
From the article: it's under an inch thick, weighs a little over a pound, and isn't much bigger than a 5x7 photo when closed.
It busts public key crypto --- in one of its most popular implementations in both closed and open products, using a class of attacks which has devastated many other implementations --- in settings where power is under the control of attackers, which isn't even a remotely uncommon situation. You think you're debunking a story, but really what you're doing is making it sound like the only exposure you have to cryptography comes from Schneier's blog.
Any company that deals in interstate commerce -- or international commerce -- falls under the purview of Congress.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 3
> If people don't like what the 1st says, they should propose a new amendment, not try to pretend they can ignore what it currently says.

That ship sailed a long time ago.

One interesting thing about 1st amendment interpretation is that actual political speech (which pretty much everyone agrees was the point of the 1st amendment) is significantly more restricted than pornography even though pornography's"lack of restrictions" is justified on the basis that it is political speech....
The scoping issue is a minor quirk? okkkkkkkkkkkkkk. Javascript is an ugly language, always will be. == or ===? Man.

My biggest issue is that as far as I know there are no decent tools for it yet. Notepad, hey, sod that crap.

TBH I was hoping it was going to die a death with flash/silverlight, but alas with apple hating flash and the g man sponsoring it, it seems destined to stay.

It honestly feels like a step back.
Well, if you make 20 mil when you are 20 you are rather likely to become a narcissistic a-hole. And then fill the Internet with shirtless pictures of yourself. But we should give this guy some time, he is still young and has a lot to learn.
Thanks for mentioning your issues with Microsoft regarding patent infringement, the Halloween documents, etc. I occasionally have conversations with co-workers about why the F/OSS community has so much animosity towards Microsoft and it really helps when I can give examples other than personal anecdote.

To be honest, the issue here for me is not that you are a GNU/Linux user. The issue is that you are likely represented by this pie chart: http://makariolewis.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/web-desig... - we need to make the yellow, purple, and cyan slices much smaller. Right?
Coates is pointing out that there are good reasons to suspect strong sample bias. OkCupid didn't address this -- they just assumed an unbiased sample. I find Coates' argument far more compelling than OkCupid's blind assumption.

Blacks do look seriously underrepresented based on the response rates to the two questions. (Suggesting that blacks account for around 4% of OkCupid's users.) That's hardly proof of anything, but it does offer some credence to Coates' argument.

In the real world, it's often very hard to find compelling data, so we sometimes have to rely on compelling argument.
Eh, this may not be true. Users gain something from your attention. At the margin, they may be willing to pay for it. Giving it freely, whether the user paid or not, removes that incentive.
At first I was very skeptical. Who needs another blogging platform (tumblr works fine, thank you).

But now that I'm on the road, Posterous does have one big advantage: It works offline too. I use Mail.app to write and when I finally get a reliable connection -- it automatically uploads the new post.

Great work. Thanks guys!
You hit the nail on the head - he made an argument from emotion. The OkCupid post was an evidence based approach.
Even if I were to allow that the discussion be gender-biased, I'm afraid this wouldn't be accurate...

The very poor tend to have poor grooming habits, both in frequency and quality. As such, access to nail clippers is extremely limited...

Further, the nature of living in extreme poverty forbids the biting of one's nails; you would be shocked at the amount of dirt and grime that gathers there after just a few days without access to a bathroom or running water.
Jaycee Dugard video a plea for privacy /
Not FUD. Verified for multiple cases in which a CNAME points to a linode XXX.members.linode.com address.

I'm guessing the variance is due to different agencies implementing different security stuff. Again, 3x verified & no intent of FUD --- I love linode.
I like it. Is there a way to see all recent comments?
> If a fast-growing municipality were to adopt these, it would give a good feel for what level of density and urbanity people were actually willing to buy. Urbanity and density that is a) low crime and b) has acceptable schools is extremely high priced because zoning has made it illegal to build almost everywhere.

Huh?

It's easy to find places in the US that will let you build something like that. It's only hard to do it inside a core city.

Yes, it's probably true that no one is willing to let you run their whole city.

FWIW - I've found that ideas that only work on an unattainable scale have other problems that are often fatal on smaller scales.
Why would it? He doesn't seem to have a very great command of language but he's got all that money so whatever.

Lot's of people made a lot of money with the internet boom, pg and Mark Cuban among them. However, they are still people that did not enter the 'you cannot comment on me unless your wealth is greater than or equal to mine' club.
Not yet. I am considering adding a widget to the homepage showing recent comments.
New Version of Jolicloud Uses Chrome for Webapps
I am aware that it is not entirely gender-based. However, a quick google turns up this:

http://www.efingernails.com/fingernails-history/

Fingernails became shorter and the colours less intense during the 1980's when women became more interested in their work.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/feed/a41653-1999d...

Thorsten Veblen wrote in his classic "The Theory of the Leisure Class" (1899). "It not only shows that the wearer is able to consume a relatively large value, but it argues at the same time that he consumes without producing." Like the constrictive corset of Veblen's time, long nails today signal which women are too rich and too feminine (wouldn't want the little darling to break a nail) to perform manual labor.
I’m playing in Twitters sandpit, and they’re playing fair
New Urbanism comes from a belief that cars and lawns are bad.

If you agree with that premise, it might be okay although it's not clear that it's a significant win over other urban forms.

If you disagree with that premise, it's a total disaster.

The typical response by new urbanists to folks who disagree with the premise is ridicule.

Note that the folks who disagree with the premise are perfectly willing to let the new urbanists do their thing.
The risk of being caught doing that is grounds for bankruptcy and life sentences.
Exactly. I hear a lot of hate from uni friends about alums in 20s who have hit it big and now do what most people with money in their 20s would do. A lot of these people have to seriously repress their social life in their teens and college years until they hit it big and can go back to make up for it. It's quite understandable IMO.
You can do better than that comment, Michael.
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I read the article with the word 'nerd' replaced by the word 'men'.
Blogs, journalism and copyright: Level the playing field
Because unless you're equally successful "this guy was a tool" comes across as poorly concealed envy. If you're going to trash someone who's way more successful than you are, use specifics and acknowledge his positive characteristics as well.
We got the family package and were pleased with the results. My wife was even offered a free package to give to relatives because her genome was so unique to them.

Note that you can download the raw data from 23andMe and go to the public http://www.snpedia.com and use the app they have (Promethease) to get lots of additional details that match your individual SNPs/genes.

Most of the SNPedia data (that 23andMe didn't have) was from newer studies without massive amounts of confidence, but it was still fairly interesting.
Once you've made FU money, you earn karma to drown yourself in some stupidity. Perfectly fine for me! I am sure he has moments where he looks in the mirror and laughs at himself and the shit he's doing. That in itself can be fun and fulfilling.
Clickable http://www.cocoadocs.com/
Compare render times between Netscape Communicator and IE and you will see that Netscape tends to be considerably less efficient than its competition. Doesn't mean a decent browser couldn't be salvaged from it, though.
"And that is the point - race tells you nothing more significant about class then guessing does"

That's just mathematically incorrect. Different races have different average incomes. If you guess that average for each person, you'll be more accurate than guessing the overall average for everyone. If you're measuring at such a coarse level as upper/middle/lower class, then sure, that doesn't help. Since we're not relying on race alone, we don't need that kind of accuracy.

"Also, you seem to be conflating 'class' and 'culture' now."

I don't think culture and class are interchangeable. I think class is an indicator of culture, which I would then use to predict someone's behavior. I probably should've made that clear earlier. In America, any skin color except for white is a pretty good indicator of culture. Racial comedy is fairly large industry that only succeeds because it does a decent job of poking fun at behaviors that correlate with race.

"God only knows what you meant by 'accent.' Care to clarify?"

If someone speaks the Queen's English, you'll assign different probabilities to behaviors than if they spoke inner-city English.

I think race is useful in addition to the other indicators, but neither of us have any data on this, so I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree.
Facebook | Rio Ferdinand
To place a disclaimer 'this is not fact' before everything you say, is a bit tedious.
See this book for a complete discussion on these topics and more: http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/papers/imbookfinalall.pdf

That book weighs all of the costs and perceived benefits of patents form every angle in every industry and makes a very fascinating conclusion.
It would be an excellent feature. I am in the same boat as yours.
but it's still fine to hold a knife in your right hand?
Because someone owns the exclusive rights to the Daily Show in the UK and no one does in Germany.
Agree! From my experience having done a consumer startup and a B2B(at present), B2B ideas are easier to monetize.

They are also more predictable so it is unlike to get 100M acquisitions out of hype. You have to decide which game you want to play. Both are perfectly legit IMO.