skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've thought a lot about this, and long wondered why it's such a common feeling in journalism that ads (however speculative and low-quality) are somehow better than things like affiliate links.

If someone writes reviews (about lots of books, for example) and all of them have an affiliate link, regardless of whether it's a positive or negative review, and they state clearly, somewhere (rather somewhere on their blog/site than in every link) that they get a percentage of each copy sold, I think that's a good thing. I think they should, and they should tell the reader that if they buy the book via this link, they help support the magazine.

Combined with BrandonM's suggestion to steer readers in the "right" direction, and point them to another item instead ("this book wasn't that good, but this book about a similar subject is worth picking up!), that's a nice service which nobody should have to be ashamed about.

Of course this suggests that readers have a reason to trust you, but then again (as BrandonM points out): If they don't, why are they reading your review?
How to Kill a Great Idea
Agile Documentation: Is There Clarity?
Marketing is a Big Load of Bologna (a free chapter from Speak Human)
Google Is Hiring Bond Traders
How to schedule meetings with investors
You need to accumulate a certain number of points (by posting comments or stories that get upvoted). Then you get the privilege of downvoting.
Most of the drop occurs during the winter holidays, when people have less time to work. The biggest dip is reported for January and probably corresponds to numbers taken in December. That still leaves 12% decline between this February and last, though.
(Video) Antarctica photo journal by Bill Gates
via his Twitter feed - http://twitter.com/BillGates/statuses/10697116162
Surprisingly poignant.
I want a bank that feels like email. Set up subaccounts (folders), automatic filtering and forwarding of wired payments, custom-defined alerts, some kind of feed so I don't have to log into their site for everything. Y'know, exactly the kind of thing you'd expect online banking to be.

But I don't know if that exists.
Doesn't matter, I hate it
Not knowing much about the story I really enjoyed reading this article. I had assumed the Sith were just about power-hungry evil villains.
Skype Co-Founder Niklas Zennström Talks About His New Venture Fund
I don't know if the site can accomplish it's stated objective: "The idea was to get the most qualified applicants who were really serious about the job."

I suspect most really qualified applicants don't have too much trouble navigating the job market (and probably choose to do so the old fashioned way of personal networking rather than using job boards).

That being said, I can see a market for students desperate to hear back from an employer. The most frustrating part of job boards from an applicant's point of view is only hearing back from <5% of the companies you apply to.
What is labrepl? The project page talks about when it will be released but does not mention what it is.
No rule says that arrays must be completely loaded on RAM; even more so in Google, where they probably have to spread them over thousands of machines. No excuse, sorry.
To me a statement which is somewhat prominent on the page, always in the same place, stating that we always use affiliate links in our reviews, explaining what affiliate links are and that, if you are interested in buying the book, you can help support the blog/magazine by buying it via their link, would be a good thing.
This is one of the best content-to-sleeze-ratio posts you will ever see about Internet marketing.
> Investors are only 10% correct at predicting startup success so I'm not sure they are the ones to be relying on for an accurate assessment.

We're only relying on them to identify some likely candidates. Those who work out get to stay.
Sustainable Farmer Joel Salatin Goes Beyond Organics
I'm working through an eval of the scanner right now. It looks like some thought has gone into how it finds files and extension. (There's a README-FIRST in the /dictionaries directory that explains this in details). However, I noticed some artifacts in my logs that point to some interesting beta-goodness behavior. For example:

GET /xmlrpc.php?tar.gz.cpp HTTP/1.1

So, it looks like the scanner found the xmlrpc.php but then started getting confused when it came to arguments versus file extensions.

I'm still testing and hopefully will have time to compare it to WebInspect and AppScan for those interested.
Inventor of the Web Gets $45M to Build Web of Data
Fast Food That Won the West
I solve it with Sass, which lets me define "functions" (more like macros, really). http://pastie.org/881370 is what I use for corners - just tweaking the macro definition as needed provides what I need.

In regards to the article, other people have touched on why we can't drop vendor prefixes just yet. Not all vendors implement a feature consistently yet. In the case of something like border-radius, the shorthand forms mean completely different things in different browsers, and the longhand forms don't have consistent naming.

Vendor prefixes serve a very valid purpose - the ability to say "we've implemented an interpretation of the CSS3 draft standard, use at your own peril" is wonderful, because you don't need CSS hacks and horrible rewrites and all sorts of other voodoo to work around problems.
Thanks, this is a great bit of news. I hate experts exchange, they are against everything I personally believe with regards to helping people, and our roles as technical professionals.
Beginners Guide: Redis and Python
Thats actually what I have always considered it to mean. Like two ends of a rope.

Of course, thats probably more a function of having everyone around me call both days weekends and having sunday start off the week. I needed someway to justify it to myself...
> And what's to say Stack Overflow won't become like EE some day, and start holding answers hostage?

Joel and Jeff have explicitly tackled that issue in the podcast, with reference to IMDB and CDDB as well as "the hyphen site". All the user generated content on Stack Overflow is licensed under cc-wiki and available as an anonymised data dump. http://bit.ly/cGWxT5
Another possibility: SO just sucks less. It takes fewer page hits to find the answer you need.

This is my experience, anyway.
I dumped my iPhone for a Droid for a month. It was good, bad & bizarre.
I'm certainly not suggesting they owe me/anyone else anything! I was just curious what their rationale was for holding back. Maybe it's a really good reason I hadn't considered.
"Computer science is a funny thing for what we do. It's not a science, and it's not about computers."

(I forget the author, but I believe it was someone at MIT)
And that's among users who couldn't figure out how not to add a Compete.com toolbar to their browsers.
> We see doctors less, spend more than twice the average anyway, and have below average life expectancy.

And we have a very different population. Obesity is only the most obvious example. And no, healthcare doesn't address obesity, even if your argument requires that it do so.

And we spend more on end-of-life. Unless govt death panels are going to be more frugal than private ones, that cost-differential will persist.

And we pay for a huge fraction of the world's drug development. Are you planning to cut back there?

Well over $150B of existing medicare/medicaid spending is fraudulent, which is significantly more than the "excess overhead and profits" of private insurance. Will that go up or down?
There's an essay on lesswrong that also addresses the implications of Mazar and Zhong's experiments: http://lesswrong.com/lw/1d9/doing_your_good_deed_for_the_day...

"This meshes nicely with a self-signalling conception of morality. If part of the point of behaving morally is to convince yourself that you're a good person, then once you're convinced, behaving morally loses a lot of its value."

Another example of moral self-licensing the essay brings up is how people having lunch after attending church tend to be more abusive with waitstaff and tip poorly.
I can see it being the next cool/hip thing. I doubt it'll really be a revolution.
I'm actually attempting to read all 100 in a year. I've read 13 in just under a month.

So far I've enjoyed everything.
It's not that bad if you get rid of TV.

I would say that the summaries/reviews in the book are just that, short/quick summaries or brief reviews. I'm sure with some of the books it would suffice to just read the review in "100 best," but I've really enjoyed a good handful of them so far.

The actual book is a great supplement to reading them.

So far I've only hit one that bored me to death (Innovator's Dilemma)

For example - Chasing The Light - Amazing Book.
A Whack on the Side of the Head - Loved it.
Purple Cow - Classic.

http://noahfleming.com/blog/100-business-books
The core idea of localbacon seemed really good, in essence creating a market for job applications so that both job seekers and employers would treat the application as if it were worth something (as opposed to most job sites where the applications are largely worthless). Now they took that idea and added social networking, for some reason. The localbacon idea was good on it's own, and the social networking-based job website idea is perhaps good on it's own, but what is the synergy between the two mechanisms? If you're going to help applicants gets recommendations from their friends who already work at a company, why do you need the pay-to-apply mechanism? If someone is paying to apply who cares if they know anyone at the company? Both of these are good methods of screening applicants, so why have both?

It seems to me that this company would be better off focusing on one idea or the other and doing it well.
I upvoted you as well.

The problem with Nielsen and his like is that they talk about averages but fragmented.

Everyone worth their salary know that it's a balance question not an average question and that looking at users instead of customers simply isn't useful.
Well, this is the official answer of why EE is not excluded.

"Can Experts Exchange be excluded from search results?, May 19, 2009

It it possible to exclude Experts Exchange from search results?, Why are they ranked so high with such a spammy interface? Joshua Starr, IN

Answer by Matt Cutts: ... We aren't going to remove Experts Exchange because they don't violate our quality guidelines or at least they currently don't and that they don't cloak. Some people think that they do cloak, but if you're going to look at the cache page... the content is there. So, it's not as if they're showing different content to Googlebot than they are to users... However if you use Search Wiki, you can remove Experts Exchange from individual queries..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9T6LNMvpvw
http://compass-style.org/
http://sass-lang.com/
Urban Airship's AirMail takes push notifications to the next level
Sleep apnea can extend life
To clarify, this article is focusing on affiliatizing product links in editorial content--not affiliate links in general.

One overlooked point is the potential costs of writing biased articles to boost affiliate commissions. Anyone serious about maintaining and building readership would avoid this at all costs. In the long-run, doing so would ultimately be ROI negative (unless the author's sole goal is to create a thin affiliate site).

As other commenters have mentioned, most savvy Internet user can see through these ploys. The victims are the more unsophisticated that find review sites through long-tail Google searches and not through blog subscriptions. Thin affiliate sites are generally to blame, not the serious content producers.
> An alternative is to consider that you're subsidizing your future old, unhealthy self.

Do you think that you'll get back the social security that you're paying today? If not, why do you think that health care will be any different?
Sadly I have few clients like this. Even worst are the ones who always want you to be ready to drop whatever you are doing to take care of their projects, but when it's time to pay their bank is always late or have problems to send out checks...
From the beginning, Stack Overflow has pledged to not be evil. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/03/whos-your-arch-enem...
EE did used to have nicer policies, that's how they got all that good will that convinced users to do all that work, and fill in all those good answers.
Podcaster was rejected initially because it duplicated the functionality of ITunes. However, a re-branded version of the app called RSSPlayer got approved.
> For all of the talk about the impact of higher cap gains taxes on startups

It's not startups. It's single people making more than $200k or married couples making over $250k.

The latter affects more people than the former.
I would agree that culture is important for any line of work. Sure, skills matter more in certain industries, but I don't think this is a replacement for that, but rather an additional step to start from.

I think this is a great idea (and it seems like this was talked about a before on HN a couple times) IF the actual manager of the position is the one who is attending. If I could meet 20 potential managers in an hour I know there would be a couple that I would really want to work for and a lot more that I wouldn't want to.
Thanks for the submission!

I'm one of the cofounders of Urban Airship - I'd be more than happy to answer any questions if you have any.
>Well, it was fun to read articles on my employer’s dime

This made me smile as I'm actually at work reading this article on my employer's dime
The obvious answer to this might be to create a startup around your passion. You still have the problem of finding a way to fund the initial phase before you start making money. But that seems like a smaller problem than the original one. Maybe recursively reduce the problem in this way until it has been solved.
Researchers find high-fructose corn syrup prompts more weight gain vs sugar
> There's been a lot of talk here about the need for academic researchers to share their data. I'm interested what people's opinions are about this when it's corporations doing the researching.

Is their research affecting public policy?

I only care about your research into the affect that skull shape has on criminal behavior when said research is used to argue for laws.
The Startup Story of Carbonmade
Fuck Cancer Super smoooth/sexy site for telling it like it is
I thought about writing something like this for Android, but after thinking about it more, I don't see the point. My IMAP client can IDLE, so I get new messages (and a notification) instantly. Twidroid could (but doesn't) long-poll and get instant notifications too. GTalk is also push.

The only thing that I can't do on Android right now is get irc notifications without being connected to my irc proxy. This was why I was originally going to write something like this, but the problem is that no service is going to get private messages properly. Unless it is run on each server (doubt Freenode is going to let me bug their network), or the user runs their own client, it is simply not workable. Not workable == nobody paying for my service == don't really care.

So I don't really see the point of this sort of app.
There is a great sci-fi/fantasy series of novels I can recommend if you're interested in this topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_%28Russian_novel%29

In the second book (Day Watch), the story is continued from the point of view of the "bad guys" from the first book, and the reader slowly understands that it's not simple good/evil, all characters have their own complex emotions and motivations.

Warning however - skip the movie, it really really sucked.
I am glad to see this. Experts exchange is an oldschool clunky website with a very boring IT look & feel. I hate it because I would like to transfer my wisdom to people but it is so hacker unfriendly with ads and free trials. Free trial for transferring my valuable experience? No.
I, at least, would prefer you link the article directly instead of making it a pseudo-ask HN. That said...

Overall, I think it's pretty neat and not too far off what I've been thinking about doing for a in-browser templating language. I think you could get the syntax looking cleaner if you were to model it after one of the Python TALs, e.g. Genshi [1].

[1] http://genshi.edgewall.org/

It'd look something like:

<tr class="content-row">
<td style="text-align:left;">
<a href="${link|'#'}" yt:content="title">Atlantis</a>
</td>
<td yt:content="status.queuenum">-</td>
<td yt:content="status.progress">
<div class="bar_container">
<div class="bar_inner"></div>
</div>
</td>
<td><span yt:replace="date">03/10/2010</span></td> <!-- using replace just to show it -->
</tr>

I'm particularly fond of having filter functions in a templating language (number formatting, whitespace stripping, etc), so I've switched to my preferred string interpolation sequence and tossed in `|` as the filter separator and the single quoted string as the default when the data is null or undefined (sytax comes from jsontemplate). If you wanted to keep the complete separation, copying mustache's `{{variable}}` syntax wouldn't hurt. I'd suggest that yt:content/replace leave their values alone when null/undefined.

Finally, I'm confused about why remove is part of the language. In the similar languages I've worked with, it's called 'when' and takes a boolean so that you can do simple branching.
Delaying Kindle Release Leads to Amazon Review Slams
BBC Radio 1/2/4, set at a lowish volume. I used to listen to podcasts, but I never actually listened to them, I'd not even realise they'd ended, it was just background noise. I now save the podcasts for design sessions, where I don't tend to zone out as much.
Some guy who happens to be a member of the ecmascript committee ...
You have an idea and there is nothing stopping you from putting idea to screen and pushing it out to the world. Problem is, the idea is always better than the implementation. Doesn’t matter what it is, sooner or later I am going to hate it.

I think all developers can say the same...
tlb's Early-stage theories + 8 question to ask yourself about your startup
Just pushed all the suggested changes. Thanks.
No point for it on the android platform, that is.
CS tends to focus more on abstractions about data and algorithms, rather than the data specific to a particular field.
Molecular Gastronomy is the most recent innovation in cooking, and some of these techniques are making it down to home chefs. Probably the most relevant is cooking sous-vide, which is vacuum sealing your food and then cooking it in a precise temperature-controlled hot water bath. This is currently pretty expensive (most kits are ~500$), but results in far superior cooking for most foods (especially meat).

3d printing seems far too limited to prepare anything but niche foods - there's only a limited amount of things that can be prepared by being squirted out of tubes.
Interesting. Do they develop this organically or are they doing some keyword arbitrage-type stuff to include the keywords nobody else is hitting?
Actually, while watching Star Wars ... I always thought that there was a mismatch between the Dark Side and pure evil ... are emotions (love, hate, agony, fear) evil?

... well putting aside the Emperor/Darth Vader duo building an empire and a big-ass spherical ship that could destroy planets, which was also a familiar story since at that time I was learning about the Roman empire in school, which went from monarchy to republic which then was subverted :)
Google.cn now re-directs to Google.com.hk.
California stands to gain most from health bill
World War II Weapon: Monopoly With Real Money
I prefer quality interfaces to quality implementations, as an implementation of a given component is usually easy to replace if requirements change, but changing an interface usually requires changing other components. So I agree with you that overall system design is more important that the particulars of any particular implementation.

However, I would want to know if you have the general idea that the way to solve some problems is to have a sorted collection or a ring buffer or whatever, even if you add on "but i'd have to look up the implementation details."
read this! then follow their lead.
google.cn now redirects to google.com.hk
Microsoft privately testing a 'Twitter for business' service
Looks like everyone took a nice end-of-year vacation from both sites.
Google makes various API's faster - allows for partial responses
But isn't that true for all of us? We are all born wild, and unrestrained, and emotive. And as we grow we're taught to control our urges, to be more responsible, to practice restraint, and patience, and understanding.

And as surely as we're taught to control our carnal selves, so the Jedi are taught to kill ...

(At this point I stop writing because I realize that I'm now attempting to justify genocide).

Damn. This guy is good.
1) The ability to make it more computationally expensive allows your hashing scheme to scale with Moore's law.
2) BCrypt's documentation lives here: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/provos/provos_html/ind...
3) bcrypt-ruby handles this for you automatically, it works quite well, and the documentation tells you how it works: http://bcrypt-ruby.rubyforge.org/
"It’s often the case that the clients that pay your lowest rate are the biggest pain and the least loyal."

Boy ain't this the truth. I had a client last year that nickled and dimed me and every other vendor they have. It's their way of doing business. Then they stopped paying on time, claimed it was due to the economy.
Thing is whenever they got a new sale they would ring a bell, once for every $1000 of the sale. We had several days each month where the bell did not ring less than 10 times. On top of this they expected me to perform duties that I was not contracted to perform i.e. man customer support phones, I'm a developer.
I ended our relationship at the end of the year and haven't felt better about any decision. Good riddance.
Because their own site is clearly better, so any numbers that don't make that clear are wrong.
The kind of 'cloaking' Google cares about is feeding the crawlers different data than what a Google searcher would get.

The kind of cloaking ExpertsExchange is doing privileges Google's crawler and users, giving Google an advantage over competitors. What would motivate Google to punish such a site?
Stop writing bad web copy, startups
Basic advice that is violated over and over again. Kathy Sierra also had a lot to say about this on http://headrush.typepad.com/.
Asperger’s is a label worth keeping
Secret Service Paid TJX Hacker $75,000 a Year
Have problems disconnecting? Mail your mobile phone away for a few days
Did you read the article in detail? It's clearly and unambiguously communicated as a $1, one month trial, as a way of offering a minimal risk option to people who might like to try but are unwilling to risk the $80 they charge upfront.
"s-ex" is an odd way to spell sex. Hint: the non-hyphenated domain-name is not them.
Why "Cool College Startups" Aren't Cool At All
I am surprised that you would expect anything else. As Milton Friedman famously said, 'Never listen to what people say. Look at how they vote with their feet.'

http://www.druglibrary.org/special/friedman/socialist.htm
Between this and selective syncing, I don't know which one I've been wanting the most. This news is fantastic, and it looks like it will be everything I'd hoped for. Now push it to the Market already :)
Wow, started out nice... but I just couldn't listen to the whole thing...

Python Design Patterns - Presenter:Alex Martelli

I think Alex needs to not burp, and suck his water bottle in the microphone. If its one thing I hate, its a presenter putting stuff in his mouth while presenting.
Safari self replicates itself for fun
programming isn't a sport; we create value for money. our high-level tools help us create value more efficiently.
Polyvore in-depth (fashion vertical: $40CPM)