skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was someone, maybe a Dreamhost employee, posting on HN a month ago with justifications for this practice...

He explained that there are customers who want passwords e-mailed to them, presumably even if you explain that it is not secure: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1148848

And he mentioned that Dreamhost offers the (non-default) option of not storing the password text: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1148732
That doesn't refute the statement that the semantics behind the simple looks of python are complex. All that the simple grammar shows is that python looks simple. That was a given.
Exact correctness aside, I call solo artists "bands" just to keep things simple.

In Aphex Twin's case, he makes it pretty clear that he's just one feller, so I didn't realize it was a common misconception. There are plenty of other similar Warp artists too, like Squarepusher.

I also call certain folders full of MP3 files "albums." Heh.
Judge Invalidates Human Gene Patent
My main issue with tcl is the "everything is a string" approach and the resulting quoting hell.
Reasons for buying content apps, e.g. This American Life
Fascism is left-wing in the US - not right-wing.

Left = more government economic control, right = less government economic control.

Fascism is private industry combined with strong government direction. Fascism is to the left of the US, but to right of where Europe is now. The industrial/government complex is where Obama is going - not where the Republicans are going.

It would be helpful for you to learn a little about political theory before you go throwing simplistic, inflammatory rhetoric around.
I think happinies isn't "a dream", its a state of mind. You can either be happy or not, you can't plan for that or even understand the required elements of it.
Moreover, you can buy a USB version of that ThinkPad keyboard which plugs into any computer: "ThinkPad USB Keyboard with TrackPoint" (part 55Y9003), $59, link to Lenovo store is
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPo...
"arrays" are hash tables. You'd use the built in lists where you'd use an array in C. In 8.5, Tcl has "real", first class hash tables, "dicts", which, as I mention in the article, took too long to show up in the language.
WSJ Hype on CDMA Phone- Chinese or American CDMA?
New French Presidency Website Rips Off WhiteHouse.Gov
Metafilter?
It's interesting that Linux support is being withdrawn months after Linux was used as part of a memory exploit to break the PS3 security.
PS3 machine owners could ask who owns the machine in their front room.
First off let me say that I think this deserves a dedicated discussion on the mailing list or even on HN. I fear this thread will not be seen by most redis users, unless they also happen to be interested in TCL (selection bias).

However:

I really think that the right thing to do is to embed Jim Tcl, but there is a cultural barrier preventing me from doing this.

My datapoint as a happy redis user would be: Please don't.
I have used TCL but don't like it. I also think there are rather few users who are versed in it and the obscure syntax would become a barrier to redis scripting gaining popularity.

My vote absolutely goes to Lua. That's still nowhere near as popular as javascript, python, ruby et al. But I think it's a much more accessible choice to people coming from the aforementioned languages (read: most people).
Wrong. Any black hole produced at CERN Would evaporate instantly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_black_hole If it were possible to create an earth eating black hole, cosmic rays would have done the job long ago. They are way more powerful than the LHC.
What do the overlords say?

I learned Just Enough TCL for some Expect scripts, and anyone who is working on problems that need the features Redis has aren't going to sweat a little TCL, IMHO.
Funny about the lattes. I am probably complicit in that criticism, but maybe because I'm usually happier spending my $100/month (depending on how many you buy) making my own tea/coffee and spending that same amount renting movies on itunes.

But to the real point, I think you- and Sethi- are onto something with it being more about figuring out what really makes you happy. If, it turns out, that what makes you happy are big houses and expensive cars or planes (I have an uncle who truly seems happy with all 14 airplanes he owns.. though he's an ex-commercial pilot who usually finds old planes he refurbishes and doesn't mind if they crash land in corn fields.. I witnessed that one) then I can't criticize that.

But I wonder if the majority of us really are happier with more and would be just as happy realizing that "enough is enough" and focusing on things that really make us happy.
because the whole 3 of us that compile lisp type languages into php need it for TCO.
Flash Comes to the iPad ....
Perhaps a better question is, "Which features are going to pay for themselves, both for the the initial development and the long-term maintenance?"

When working on JotBot at Happy Camper we had numerous discussion about features. In retrospect there are things that were added that may have been worth the initial effort but because of bugs or quirks are now more of a drain.

There was little argument that there were people who could use the features, but the potential revenue gain did not match the cost of adding + the cost of maintaining.

There's also the opportunity cost of delaying release while adding things. If you want a manager to drop features you need to spell out the financial cost.

(Also, if someone tells you that someone needs feature X, ask them how exactly do they know that? And ask how they determined that the desires of one person (or N people) justify the cost.)
The ability to have my whois record anonymous (for free) by registering through Dreamhost is a big plus to me.

I have a couple of private servers on DH which entitles me to free "live chat" with support.

This story makes me wonder if I should open up another account, and put one of my private servers on it, so if something happens to one account, I use the other one to make contact with support.
"SEO optimization!"

"Workflow improvements!"

"Order pipeline streamlining!"

"Customer surveillance!"

"Potato launcher!"

"Fondue pot!"
Made to Measure Dress Shirts
Pickashirt is an Australian owned business that provides made-to-measure shirts. Pickashirt is established to provide individuals with the luxury of a quality custom-made shirt at an affordable price.
They also partnered with Hertz, so you'll be able to rent one to really see how it does:

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/02/hertz-car-rental-nis...

This is a good move, because a quick test-drive won't be enough to truly determine if an electric car would work for your lifestyle.
I think the magnifying glass is perfectly acceptable here. I think the "filter" icon is much less recognizable to the majority of users. (case in point, the author of the app hasn't heard of it).
Speaking of Lua - I wrote an alternative Redis library for Lua, Sidereal (http://github.com/silentbicycle/sidereal). I haven't posted it to the Redis list yet because it's still a bit young* , but the big feature is that it supports non-blocking operation via an arbitrary defer hook and async socket IO, for easy non-blocking / event-driven operation. (I have a project quite similar to node.js in the works, and Redis and non-blocking socket IO fit great with Lua's coroutines.)

* Most notably, the code to auto-reconnect while pipelining needs work, and I just finished moving, so it probably won't get touched for a week or two.

It has a translation of the entire official test suite into Lua (which was an ... interesting ... way to learn Tcl :) ), plus some other extensions for idiomatic handling of sets, lists, and zsets in Lua. (They're translated to tables with {key=true} for sets, {key=score} for zsets, and {key1, key2, key3, ...} for lists.) Also, the other Lua Redis library feels a bit more Ruby-ish to me.

I never got into Tcl, but that or Lua seem like the clear frontrunners as embedded config/scripting languages go. I'd prefer Lua, but it's your project, and I trust your taste.
With individual meters you can usually find a spot between two meters, or on the border of a fire hydrant zone, where other cars cover all the meters and you get a free spot. The nebulous sphere of influence of the per-block meters compels you to pay no matter where on the block you park (even if it isn't clear what spot you're in).
the politicians aren't clueless; they know their job is to support the multi conglomerates - killing competition and funneling taxpayer money to those conglomerates via bailouts
What the "Hedonic Treadmill" Concept Means for Happiness and the Environment
I know exactly what you are talking about. When I first started my coursework in Machine Learning, I was given the freedom to use any programming language. But I simply defaulted to MatLAB because the rest of the CS department used it. I would have loved to do all my work in Python--and infact I tried to with NumPy and SciPy-- but it was just too hard to resist the comfortable environment MatLAB creates. So now I'm stuck porting over all my old code, which to be quite honest, is a good exercise in itself.
Easily said than done in my experience. I used Indian toilets (Asian style, as referred in the article) until 3 years ago. I have been using western toilets for the last three years and I can't go back to my Indian style anymore. My legs starts aching in a couple of seconds and I have to stand up to relax. Difficult situation :)
It makes for a handy mental filter, though: claims to have found the grand unified theory of AI can be treated with the same piles of salt as claims to have found a grand unified theory of physics, or to have solved the P/NP question (not impossible, but unlikely in any given instance).
I'm not sure what you mean, can you elaborate?

Python is specifically built around the concept of "One and only one way to do it". (Source: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/)

Ruby is specifically built around the perl motto of "There's more than one way to do it".
(Source: http://www.artima.com/intv/ruby3.html)

Claiming that python semantics were more complex than ruby semantics just makes no sense to me when the difference is even clearly stated in their respective design goals.
The title is misleading. Flash advertisments are being converted to an iPad-compatible form (probably Canvas). It's not even clear if the process is fully automatic.
Use CampaignMonitor. By far the best tool for the job. http://www.campaignmonitor.com
domai.nr is by far the best domain finding service and is also totally free. I've bought 8 or so domains with it.
It's not quite that black and white: essentially, the laws around "accredited investors" are there to clearly delineate professional investors from more casual investors so that the person receiving the money can be sure that it will count as a private placement exempt from SEC registration requirements. That, in turn, is to prevent scam artists from inducing people to part with their money by "investing" in a private investment that's totally free of SEC registration and oversight. If you wanted to invest in your friend's startup, you could, but if you wanted to fund other third-party startups with which you had no pre-existing relationship, you'd need to register as an accredited investor.

See grellas's excellent summary from a few days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1221387

As absurd as it seems, laws like this don't come out of nowhere just to make people's lives complicated and miserable: the SEC registration requirements are there to prevent scam artists (of which the 20th century that saw rise to these laws saw plenty), and the accredited investor regulations are a way to clarify the exemptions to those requirements.
Double-clicking the character doesn't always work for me in Opera 10.51 (winXP), but highlighting the character by click-dragging always does.
Well, no. If you've only got $250K in the bank you already can't invest. The current requirements are $1 million in assets or $250K annual income. This will move that bar up by about 2X.
Really. My views are all just straight PHP, I just manually make sure I don't put any DB logic or anything in there.
Thanks for that.

I don't agree with their decision though, since most major websites will not email you back your password, by default. If facebook can get away with it, I'm sure dreamhost can too.
"if you don't like what someone else is doing to you, become one of them yourself"

Someone is bullying my family. I'm to become a bully and harass their family? This seems childish at best and possibly an extremely harmful way to go about working through hardships.

I think the idea is more along the lines of: "if you don't like the way a service is being provided, don't sit around and complain, try to do it better". It's a decent idea, but I think you're setting up for failure if you try to live this way. We can't all create new cable companies, new phone companies, new banks, and new ISPs just because we don't like the way the existing ones work.

I can see the idea leading to a severe lack of focus. Imagine trying to rebuild something everytime you notice that you don't like the way the existing infrastracture works.

I would suggest instead of rebuilding and likely becoming that which you despise, find a way around the problem so that you're no longer affected by it, or at least reduce your exposure.
Maybe a lesson of you get what you pay for? No negative connotation implied, just stating that you are getting discount hosting and to offer that, this company needs to keep expenses low.

They keep expenses low with no telephone support. So you're SOL when bad stuff happens.

I've had a couple of these throughout the years (with hosts that will remain nameless). The nice thing was the control panel was separate from the support site. (Extra login info to remember but comes in handy when the server hosting your cpanel via a vm is compromised.).
I think the change in the dollar value limits are reasonable. It may not be the greatest thing in the world for startups, but I'm not sure it will have a huge impact on the number of angels making investments.

The SEC registration requirements seem like they will cause a lot more trouble.
I think this is the actual paper if anyone is interested:

http://www.mit.edu/~ndg/papers/churchUAI08_rev2.pdf
"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
- Albert Einstein
The primary market for cars like this won't entail a full charge/discharge cycle in daily driving, so it is very practical to charge over common 110V. Don't think that a vehicle like this needs to suit every driver in every market in order to be successful -- there are plenty of places in the US (and in Canada) where a 40-50 mile driving day would be closer to the norm. And in northern areas, where industrial parking lots have long offered power for block heaters in winter, one could quite possibly see 110V being made available as a cheap sort of "happy worker" benefit while the driver is on shift. (Even if the cost of electricity were to, say, triple in a hurry, that's only 12-15KWh for an 8-hour shift -- a lot cheaper than a dental plan.)
Objective-C Tuesdays: static variables in functions
"There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way"
I'm sympathetic to Boldrin's ideas, I just thought it an important objection to raise in the crowds that cheer for the demise of all intellectual property.
Site is well put together - nice job!

BUT a word of caution:

I would expect that you'll receive a letter from StackOverflow's legal counsel regarding trademark violation for your domain name - rename now before you get enough traction to matter . . .
Food Stamps (EBT Cards) For Buying Beer? Why 25 year olds beat system... again.
I think that works well in theory, but as we've seen from Bernie Madoff's case, where the SEC keeps ignoring pleas from whistleblowers to look into the case (because the fox is guarding the henhouse) and the fact that no reform in SEC has been made to this day, that that is not the case.

As an aside, I think most people on this board have a 'everybody is decent and nice' goggle on. Probably why we're the ones getting ripped off by everyone else.
Well what I think is that Lua is not nice and clean either for most users.

It's silly that there isn't a clean compact implementation of a strictly algol like language. Imagine C at higher level, or the basic PHP constructs without the stupid parts. This one:

function sum(a,b) {
return a+b;
}

No OOP, Data types: arrays, hashes, bool, integer, ... the obvious things, with operators to manipulate this stuff for the most boring tasks, and functions for all the rest.

The lingua franca for scripting, as all the other languages will be bised in a way or the other.
I think he meant fuzzy logic derived from fuzzy set theory. It was pioneered by Lotfi Zadeh. It has gained more ground in Japan than the rest of the world. Here is the wiki on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic
I just don't understand this.

A file is very very very simple to convert once. Tell your developers, "If you don't encode in UTF-16, you will have a performance penalty. Set your file encodings as UTF-16 too. You weren't doing complex internationalization work before, it's really not that big a deal."

I worked with someone who had been on the ICU project, and he argued that UTF-16 is the best compromise for most cases. If you're working primarily in the western character set, UTF-8 is attractive, but that comes at the expense of others.

And frankly, if you don't roll it yourself, what are you going to use other than ICU?
If that's true, that would be a pretty strong and interesting conclusion -- I don't see why you'd qualify it with "only".
I hate Narcs :)
Sorry, I didn't actually click the link to the joke webcast, I assumed it was just a normal webcast, and that you expected more blinken' lights or something. Your comment makes much more sense when I bother to find out the full context.
I wasn't aware there were many "mini-Madoffs"; I heard about one or two, maybe three. Could you point us at a source to back that assertion up?

(One should also be cognizant of Buffet's "when the tide runs out, you see who's been swimming naked". While I don't think he meant it in this way, "genius is a rising market" and when the market goes down a lot of scams are driven out into the open because they can no longer keep their game afloat.)

In general, great efforts have been made to paint hedge-funds as eeeeevil, but with little to no evidence that I'm aware of (note Madoff was't running one ... in fact, didn't he make a big deal about his very low management fees?).

And I don't see how this is related:

The ostensible purpose of this legislation is to decrease systemic risk.

Preventing smaller investors from making necessarily small investments in whatever by definition isn't going to have much effect. The issues are big numbers, not small ones. And how does the 120 day delay fit into this???

Devolving the regulation of these investments to the states might in theory help, not that the SEC is a whole lot more useful than a potted plant (cd Madoff).

Regulating VCs as hedge-funds makes no sense whatsoever (that's not a point you're making, but I can't help but wonder if they're related).
If I interpreted what you said right, I prefer Lucida Grande for OSX with Lucida Sans Unicode for Windows as the fallback. It's really a great font for the web.
The biggest company you’ve never heard of paying $25m to climate change deniers
NO WAY. I don't find it worth 400.
A dataset is great if you want to analyze a large dataset (government data in particular lends itself to this). However, an API allows you to build an application around data that doesn't exist yet: not last year's best seller list, but next week's.

If all you had was a way to download the full dataset, the first thing you'd ask for is "a way to download only the stuff that's happened since yesterday". And that's an API.
Maybe you should learn a little about political theory yourself. Are you one of those socialism == fascism == communism people?

... reading the rest of your comment... yup! How're the tea parties?

I'd try to educate you here but you're seemingly too far gone already. Go read up on the movements you're equating. And on the Republican party, Ronald Reagan and George Bush for that matter, if you're going to claim they're not representative of an industrial/government complex. (EDIT: protip for free : fascism is not about economics, it's about culture and power -- economics are secondary to that)
You might be able to do this on http://www.secondmarket.com depending on how established the startup is.

The site lets you trade all kinds of illiquid assets, including private company stock.
>This sounds suspiciously like the "Your idea kills children" argument. I call strawman.

Eh? He was just bringing up one of the standard counterexamples to the kind of simplistic utilitarianism that Harris is advocating. I don't know what the "your idea kills children argument" is, but he certainly wasn't making any such argument.

>It would require statistical modeling, and some notion of community-accepted confidence thresholds, to come to a conclusion in a full utilitarian framework.

That's the rub. It doesn't require any of those fancy methods to know that it would be wrong to kill the child. Hence the implausibility of full-on utilitarianism as a reasonable moral philosophy.

(Of course, one can reject full-on utilitarianism without denying that the consequences of our actions for human happiness play a very big role in determining whether they're right or wrong.)
+1 I used domai.nr as well, but less frequently than the other two mentioned. Domai.nr is great for finding shorter names and creative variations of longer ones.
I attended a tutorial by Noah Goodman last year. It's an interesting idea, but there's not much there in the way of implementation, at this stage, and it's not clear to me how that implementation is going to work. For instance, he was talking about doing MCMC to recover semantics from natural language using a kind of "blurring" of the observed text. That is, he didn't have a way to derive a reasonable initial parse in which the observed text would have a reasonable probability, so he intended to look for parses in which "nearby" texts had high probability. Then presumably he intended to do some kind of simulated annealing which would progressively tighten up the neighborhood of acceptable text. Of course, the devil is in the details of "nearby..."
heh sounds familiar, I do gig photography (and travel), just because I like having the memories and was a fun skill to learn, I upload all my photos to flickr full size under the cc license, sometimes the bands come across them and use them for various things, always pretty appreciative.

I have had quite a few sneers and emails complaining about ruining their livelihoods because I give stuff away for free, I found it pretty strange, like me going to github and complaining about these programmers giving stuff away.

( * http://www.flickr.com/photos/daleharvey/collections/72157600... my music stuff)
Probably because it's intended as sarcastic.
Now that's a very good point ... so why aren't they pegging it to inflation? Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it they're just making a one time upwards adjustment, plus throwing in a 120 day delay and making a strong push to devolve this to the states.

When looked at as a package, your point isn't sufficiently explanatory.
Understanding A VC's Thesis
There are ways to use goto effectively... in fact, the other day I was working with an awkwardly nested try/catch that would have read much clearer as a goto (and more efficiently; an empty Exception was being used to trigger the catch).

I've seen this problem "solved" with a do while false and a break, but isn't that even hackier and less expressive?

At this point I think goto-phobia is well understood enough that adding it for occasional use wouldn't ruin the language.