skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So why would I want to "like" something?

Because you're an average user who finds it convenient to press this one button?

As opposed to:

* firing up the mail client and whittling through your friends to mail only those who might be interested.

Or

* starting a blog/twitter/tumblr account and getting people to check it.

With "like", you hit one button, and people see your recommendation. And since it's mixed in with everyone else's recommendations, it's not annoying like bulk-spamming people with news links and more satisfying than setting up a blog no-one reads.

I think it's dumb myself. But I clearly see why people do it. Like many annoying features on Facebook: it shrewdly exploits social customs.
Retort

I had horrific problems with the keyboard on my 1st gen EEE PC, so make sure you get a chance to demo the netbook of your choice before blowing $400 bucks. The right shift key is terribly placed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ASUS_Eee_PC_900_0010.JPG) - you reach for shift and you end up hitting the up arrow. Sure you can remap the keys, but this design decision is indicative of the overall quality of the keyboard. The _biggest_ problem was that various keys randomly ignored input. Hit the spacebar 10 times, you'd be lucky to get have it register 10 times. Try coding in vim with a keyboard that may or may not let you into insert mode. Maybe I just got a dud, but the EEE PC message boards suggests other users experienced similar issues.

I used that netbook exclusively for 6 months before giving up. Now it's my $400 Playstation 1 emulator :-/
While studying engineering, I took lots of upper-level classes in history, philosophy, polysci, etc. I aced those classes without much effort. To really "learn to think", you have to push yourself to think about more complex and abstract ideas. Advanced math pushes your brain to its limits. Most liberal arts fields have very low levels of complexity. In most cases, it's just read & regurgitate. In adv. classes you might follow a few levels of indirection. This is trivial for scientists, but difficult for most others.
Indeed - I used my eeepc for some Eclipse Android development and it worked quite well.
> The problem with spending so much time optimizing an artificial mathematical model (game) is that less work and time is required to create the model than to optimize it. Therefore (to me), it's the losers than spend time working on other people's problems that never move up to the next level: being creative. It's just a mechanical process. (and yes, I'm aware that some creativity is involved in the optimization)

I can see where you are coming from. But I do not entirely share your view. E.g. inventing the game of Go is much simpler than mastering it. But I would not call go players losers.

> My value system is in creating something for other people. So creativity and value to others, are the metric I use when allocating my time.

Why make an exception? Just use: "My value system is in creating something for people." You are worthwhile, too.
I'm not really sure but his old ZVUE page said he was a founder. Most of the articles I've seen imply that he was the 2nd person to join the company.
Yes. He said it in an interview on CNBC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6e7wfDHzew

"If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines like Google do retain the information for some time, and we are all subject to the Patriot Act, and it is possible that that information may be made available to the authorities." -- Eric Schmidt
"You’re in it more for yourself than your company."

What a delusional asshole. If anyone says they care more about a company (and in turn the success of the shareholders) over their own success, they're lying. Anyone who expects this is insane.
You can't be seriously suggesting that Google, a multinational corporation, cease to apply for software patents? The problem isn't that people are applying for them, it's that they're being granted.

Or as they say, don't hate the player, hate the game.
If you use Firefox's geolocation support[0], you're seeing the benefits of this[1].

FWIW, I find that it is FAR more accurate than my iPhone indoors. Without the line to a satellite, my iPhone is generally wrong by a radius of a few blocks, while Firefox is generally within a few meters.[2]

[0]: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/

[1]: http://www.google.com/privacy-lsf.html

[2]: NOTE: This is from Los Angeles, a heavily populated area, which probably makes it easier. YMMV.
ok. This issue is fixed now - a bit of thinking has shown me that it's way easier to implement than what I have first thought of.

Thanks for reporting this and happy tempaliasing :-)
Well, maybe different people who live in different countries on different continents have different ideas of what a bar is. Where I live you don't go to a bar to drink although you usually drink something when you're in a bar.

But then ... maybe you work at a bar? You didn't describe your office.
I want to procrastinate in style.
India cannot comply with western copyright schemes, there are so many poor people that when you seclude them from music and software you'd have a civil war on your hands.

Besides, the western way is plain wrong, it's a big bet of them to gamble their employ-ability on IP, and it will go sour on them, no matter how many military efforts used.
Can they do that legally? It said "today only" and "limit 10 per customer", not "while supplies last". There's no accompanying legalese, so shouldn't they be legally obligated to honor their offer until 11:59PM?
What I've seen mentioned in several articles about why this is dangerous, is that Google has a unique ability to cross-reference the information with other data on a massive scale. Most war-drivers don't have nearly as much weight behind them.
In a World of Game Mechanics and Bages: Look to eBay's Seller Ratings
Which is quite distinct from "Internet users shouldn't worry about privacy unless they have something to hide."

Rather than telling users not to worry, he's explicitly warning them that search engines, including Google, are subject to inquiries from law enforcement, and thus, should not be considered secure.
About 15 years ago I was in a position to apply for a patent on the 'streaming webcam', live video over the internet. I found a way to stream video to netscapes new browser ('Navigator'), without using plug-ins.

I expressly did not do that because to me it was an obvious extension of being able to do 'stills'. After all, simply making it move does not require much ingenuity, merely a couple of nights of hard work.

Looking back I'm happy I didn't do that. I refused to 'play the game', even if it could have made me a boatload of money I still stand by that decision.

Whether google is a multinational or a one man shop, to apply for a patent simply because of scaling an existing algorithm up to 'cluster size' in my opinion is not the nicest thing. For them to 'grant' licenses like these and then to receive the kind of groveling gratitude present in that email in return is really disgusting.
I normally don't use it for more than 20 minutes at a time, so I'm not too worried about this. I'm still waiting for AR - my dream screen is contact lenses with embedded displays floating over my retinas :-)
I am not suggesting it is valid or acceptable behavior. I'm just trying to point out that "It could be worse" :)
Google's Insane Number of Servers Visualized
I really want to check the posted URL and be sure that it points exactly where I want, and doesn't reveal anything unnecessary (all those URLs with tons of information after '?'). I'd feel very embarrassed if I had posted something spam-like. And it's not that hard. Just use some desktop twitter client, copy URL there, copy it back to the browser, try it, make some corrections if needed, and that's it. It shouldn't be that hard.
Thanks for the info you guys, I didn't know this. At work I generally have 1-3 large workspaces open in the "Java Enterprise" version of Eclipse, hence my warped perspective, maybe...
Dan Ingalls: Object-Oriented Programming - 1989 [video]
"In face-to-face meetings with President Bush, Russian leaders complained that the technology could increase the risk of a nuclear war, because Russia would not know if the missiles carried nuclear warheads or conventional ones. Mr. Bush and his aides concluded that the Russians were right."
People reading HN at work are unlikely to make their colleagues feel uncomfortable.

People looking at (image-based) porn at work are extremely likely to make at least some of their colleagues feel uncomfortable. That's not cool.

It doesn't really matter if you feel your colleagues ought or ought not to feel uncomfortable - some of them almost certainly will, and it's frankly antisocial behaviour to act in ways that will offend your colleagues, regardless of whether they "should" be offended.

The particular nature of the porn is irrelevant - whether objectifying, sexist of otherwise. (Except if it's text-only perhaps. That would get in people's face much less.)

(And all of the above would be equally true, for example, for image-heavy neo-fascist boards.)
While I don't believe it includes "all" climate scientists, it's pretty clear there's an organized conspiracy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1287887

Not all, because the above is from "alarmists" and much of their attention is focused on scientists who do believe in AGW, just not "enough". One of the best examples is Roger Pielke Sr., who believes in AGW: http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/roger-a-pie...

From the CRU emails:

Out of context (I can't quite figure out what the context is), but it demonstrates a lack of good faith:

"Obviously, under no circumstances should any of this get back to Pielke." http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=424&filen...

This also doesn't exactly show good faith:

"I almost missed the [message] with Pielke's resignation in. Is this going to make your CCSP task easier or harder? Presumably now you'll get all his comments to officially deal with. Maybe you'll be able to ignore them?" http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=584

And then from what is probably the most infamous single email; for some inexplicable reason the Subject: line was "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL":

"The other paper by MM is just garbage - as you knew. De Freitas again. Pielke is also losing all credibility as well by replying to the mad Finn as well - frequently as I see it.

"I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow - even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is !" http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=419

If you do not agree that the above constitutes strong evidence of a conspiracy I don't think we have a basis for further discussion. As Pielke says in his AGW position posting: "The released CRU e-mails documents that a culture in the leadership of the climate science community to suppress and/or ignore viewpoints which differ from the 2007 IPCC view."

Here's the end of Pielke's initial comments on the above email:

"The challenge to the IPCC community, now that their duplicity has been exposed, is to communicate to all of us why the peer-reviewed papers that we documented, and that were available in time for the IPCC review process, were considered “bad papers” and thus ignored in the IPCC report. A balanced assessment would comment on these papers, and provide the reason they disagree with their results.

"The reply by Gavin Schmidt documents the control of the IPCC process by a few individuals (see also Climate Assessment Oligarchy – The IPCC)." http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/comment-on-...

Here's Schmidt's item on the IPCC "oligarchy": http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/climate-oli...

Anyway, Schmidt is NASA GISS scientist and a co-founder and current member of RealClimate (along with e.g. Mann), so if he's saying this we should pay attention, and we can safely say he and Pielke are not "no-one".
What makes this true?
I've toyed with reverse Solipsism for some time now. Must be too much philosophy.

What did Steve Martin say once? He didn't have a lot of philosophy in college, just enough to screw him up for the rest of his life. :)

I don't seek validation in others -- but I do seek validation in my own assurance that I am creating something that will prove of value to others. By that metric, I question if I would be able to be so certain about that if I had spent those 3 years doing what he did.

Game-playing, drinking, singing, hiking, flying, etc are all wonderful activities -- but they are wonderful because they help me optimize the other things I am doing. When I start focusing on the pleasure they give me in themselves, I lose track of the larger goal. Perhaps even forgetting I have a larger goal. Not a good thing.
This site just matched a lot of spam filters on

explicit...porn
No large company can afford to ignore IP these days, partly because they might need a defensive portfolio to negotiate with, when another large company sues them. Look at Apple & Nokia.
I'm having problems viewing the page but this works: http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:s9EotdZKkwYJ:ericharriso...
I've long told my friends that the single biggest drawback of Apple products is the supposed "lifestyle".

The attitude? not my thing.
The people in the stores? not my people.
Even the places they locate the stores are not my kinda places.

Unfortunately, they have great products I really enjoy and their service is phenomenal.
It isn't just the structure of social interactions that is missing, but also the structure of educational options. Someone who is already intelligent and motivated can pick the right courses and do well, but if you're trying to reach people currently underserved, they come from under-educated families, don't have a sense of what is out there to learn, and can't really evaluate their options.

If you've ever worked with parents in this position, you realize the potential danger of DIY education. These parents are embarrassed because they know their kids need education to get ahead, but because they aren't educated, they don't know how to do it. They develop bizarre ideas about what is and is not important. My wife tutored for a poor family that was working double duty to send their son to an awful private school. The school was worse than the public schools in the area, but because it was "private" they felt their son must be learning more. Many online academies are like this: they make you feel narrowly knowledgeable and valuable, rather than introducing you to painful humility the way a top-notch research program tries to.
Low Barriers Are A Good Thing
Have you tried both the hand-crank and electric motor models? Is it worth paying extra for electric, in your opinion?

Update; Nevermind, I see that only the electric desk goes up to 48" in heigh. All the others seem to be limited to 34".
Why Facebook will win the Internet & why that scares the shit out of me
I don't know if that was cooler than their Haiti thing, but it was definitely awesome.
It was good of you, but you have less of a risk of being sued than Google does. They need a war chest to negotiate with.
Google granted the license under the Apache License terms, and through distribution of Hadoop these extend to the end users of Hadoop under the very same Apache license. (AFAIUI, IANAL)
(1989)

Its neat to see this posted here. I'm a self educated hacker and years back this video is what finally helped me grok OOP. At the time I could copy and paste code, but had little grasp of the ideas behind it. Ingalls' "Hospital as an object" analogy is what made the model click.
I think it mostly depends on the type of site...if you are making a blog then on LHS or on the Top (not sure why but i think R.H.S doesnot look good in this way) but
If you are showing videos or pictures then right side navigation works very well i think....suppose you show a video and then you can show some related videos on the r.h.s...if the user who is seeing hte video on the lhs of the screen keeps the mouse cursor on the r.h.s (mostly he migth keep there since the menu is there)....then if you show related videos there the tendency to click on that side is more...
this is what youtube does..
So, I'm supposed to take design advice from a site that gives me horizontal scrollbars at <1440px window width?
What 'weight'? A good framework doesn't stand in your way, it lets u focus on business logic solutions instead of repeatable tasks.

Sooner or later he'll discover that he's getting to the point where he needs to provide solutions for problems that are already solved by a variety of well-maintained toolsets, and the lack of abstraction will make his projects hard to develop further.
if this is an old glitch... they should have told users about it!
Apache owns zero patents.
I agree completely. But zero-friction and social loophole-ing [1] is awfully attractive to your average FB user.

[1] if the link is wrong, it's stupid FB's fault, not mine.

if the link has unnecessary cruft, that's fine, because only non-technical FB people will ever look at the query-string.

I don't stand out as spammy, because everyone's "like"s are in the same place
Colorful Random Walk [Developed and deployed in 10 minutes with MIT Scratch]
Well I didn't say they didn't have every right to do it. I just think that it would be more considerate of them to negotiate with the other players. When I say that they don't "own" Gnome, I mean that they're not in change (yet, at least) of the Gnome ecosystem as a whole. Making a move like this is going to cause developers to have to pick sides between distros.

If they really want to fork Gnome, just be honest and say, "Gnome sucks, we're forking it and calling it "Gnomebuntu".
McAfee desperately needs some PR help on this one. It will be much better in the long run to put a large, prominent announcement on the their site linking to instructions, etc. Even better would be an 800-number so that affected customers could call and be walked-through the process of fixing their PCs.
Yes, this would hurt the bottom line, but it is just good business.
But what exactly does Apple do that disrupts the scene? It's their scene to disrupt, I don't really have the same problem with that. Ubuntu is just one distro, they don't own Gnome. Now developers are forced to pick sides. Maybe that's the main point I should have made.
Why wouldn't they be able to? A company can take down or put up any offer they want whenever they want. Once they've taken your money you've entered in to a contract with them, but before that they can do whatever they want.
or more precisely, evil and popular are not mutually exclusive.
OK, that's a justification; would you apply it equally to everything that is just as likely to make others uncomfortable?
I think this is a pretty good example of how "Enterprise Software" will continue to quickly lose favor with customers. My personal opinion is that the "Enterprise Software" market is now more than ever about sales and marketing rather than innovation and and delivery.

Just look at the release budgets for enterprise software - sales and marketing are at the top, while R&D and support are at the bottom.

If any open source implementation of anything like this happened, I can assure you the comitters and developers would be appalled and embarrassed (in public), and significant lessons would be learned all within users view.

Meanwhile, in the "Enterprise Software" arena such as McAfee's - their learned lessons are clear. How do we spin this? And how do we align our marketing and sales teams to minimize the impact on our sales models.

I'm just shaking my head at this one...

Serious lessons to be learned here...
At a certain point one needs to refuse to play an unethical game. Until then, everyone blames everyone else for their own unethical behavior.
> you have less of a risk of being sued than Google does.

In fact, a company called Acacia tried just that. When they found out the parent company was European they lost interest.
The local model (based on the European one) makes it very hard on the employer to fire a worker... it's more like it costs a lot for a company to let him go than that it doesn't want to.

It also makes job switching harder, for both sides - you lose all the benefits when you switch - for the first 3 months, you are on "trial" and can be fired at will, after that you lose the extra free days (we get 1 extra day of vacation every 4 years with the same company), and the firing money the company has to pay doubles every year (up to a maximum)
Nice. Did the recording get interrupted by the camera being hit by one of the stadium's arcs?
One command which is especially useful with netbooks is 'ssh'. Now you have all the computing power you need.

edit: I might add also screen/tmux. Coding at home, and need to go? detach and grab a laptop, continue coding. Your battery dies? Session is at remote end and nothing is lost.
They require no verifiable personal information. You can send your spit in as John Doe.
You sound like me. By changing jobs about ~6 times, I've gone from $16k/yr "assistant to the intern DB administrator" to well over six figures. Every job change was either because the job was gone (startup going under) or a very substantial (50%-ish) increase in pay.

The author of the article acts as though anyone who doesn't stick it out for 5 years is actively trying to screw over the company. That's just plain BS.
Annotated with the date.

It is a beautiful video. I also recommend to everyone who's interested in high quality material about OOP to read [1].

[1] Smalltalk, Objects, and Design by Chamond Liu http://claritycomputing.com/book_sod.html
The web needs to be bigger than Facebook « @vanelsas
Focusing on clarity will naturally bring brevity, in those instances where it is appropriate. Saying something as plainly and simply as possible, while not being couched in padding, is typically the most clear and most brief way to say a thing.
What a genius comment. Zing, whammo, ur so funneh haha
Oregon has super clear laws on this.

ORS814.400 states "bicycle is a vehicle for purposes of the vehicle code"

I've known plenty of people who have gotten BUI's.
On the up side of that it also means bikes are allowed the full lane! which as a biker, is really great and necessary sometimes.

here is the full law:
http://www.leg.state.or.us/ors/814.html
> If someone builds a better mousetrap, it's patentable.

Only if the mechanism is novel. And that's the problem here, the mechanism is identical, just larger.

Running map/reduce on an array or on a petabyte data set does not change the fundamental method at all. There are just countless implementation details to be taken care of, but any competent programmer could extend the original concept of map/reduce to that level.
Look at this step by step installation process of LAMP on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala 64 bit server. It also includes installation of Ubuntu Uncomplicated Firewall for the server and the installation of phpMyAdmin.
Bonding and social support like has existed for years between people with common interests on platforms like IRC and forums? People are capable of producing tight groups in any form, but not all those forms are amenable to all people. The question is if the face time that physical presence affords is required.
http://jkontherun.com/2009/03/04/achy-wrists-bleary-eyed-you...
Then they aren't doing a great job given they did choose to create the foundation in the US. When in Rome...
Interesting -- I considered looking for salvaged butcher-block but worried it'd be too heavy for the motor to lift. (The docs say the motor is rated for 80 kg max.) Has he had any issues with raising the top? I'd worry about burning out the motor.