skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing the links with your brand-new Hacker News account. What about the confidence intervals in the link

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19220558

you kindly shared? The overlapping confidence intervals show that the effect size is meager, even if there is "statistically significant" differences in outcome between the treatment group and the control group, don't they? That's always an important issue in interpreting research,

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

as pointed out in Warning Sign I5 of Peter Norvig's famous article.
>Now, as far as rules of engagement, [Iraqis] are not supposed to pick up the wounded. But they could have been easily deterred from doing what they were doing by just firing simply a few warning shots in the direction. Instead, the Apaches decided to completely obliterate everybody in the van.

It is by no means irresponsible to call what happened "collateral murder".
The breakdown by the type of removal requests is somewhat more telling than the raw numbers.

Brasil: 75% orkut

Germany: 52% web search, 38% YouTube

India: 84% orkut

US: 57% YouTube, 20% web search
Despite the derisive use of the term in this piece, there's nothing wrong with experiencing a "McJob". Two good things that could come from it are: you learn that this is NOT where you want to work for the rest of your life (or even another month) or you follow the path to franchise ownership that is available in most such jobs.

Even if you don't go all the way with it, a hard working entry-level employee at a "McJob" can quickly advance in to management and learn quite a bit about how business really works. And get paid for it, rather than forking over tuition to learn about "stars", "cash cows", "question marks", and "dogs"
The article doesn't suggest higher-level reasons why men withdraw, but my guess would be because they tend to become more focused on a task, at the cost of human interaction. Maybe this is a result of making hard choices in leadership/hunting scenarios - if your hunting buddies are injured by a sabretooth tiger, worrying about them is probably the worst possible short-term reaction because then the sabretooth will get you, too. Kill the beast first and then save your buddies, or everyone dies.

Losing some ability to empathize would help one make hard decisions that benefit the group at the expense of the few. That could be a bad thing if "benefitting the group" becomes crossed with an arbitrary goal, and "the few" becomes "those not in power", but that's well beyond the scope of this topic.
I wonder if actual anthropologists hate when unqualified people make wild guesses like the one I just made above...can anyone answer?
Well, Apple undoubtedly knows who lost the phone, so his current career isn't any more ruined than it would otherwise have been. They bricked it wirelessly so it's clear they knew what happened very quickly. My guess is he received whatever disciplinary action they were going to mete out a long time ago.

One reason his name is worth publishing: to verify that this isn't a hoax, and there've been tons of hoax iPhone leaks. This all allegedly happened sometime around April first. When you say "an Apple engineer lost a phone" it's a lot less convincing than "an Apple Engineer named X" because the latter can be positively verified. In fact it sounds like people here know him (or of him at least).
http://openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html
It's a real shame that inventor of the time machine, Leo Schultz, travelled back in time from 2042 and killed himself as a child. We'll never have a time machine now :-(
There's no way in hell every Tom, Dick, and Harry would have their own 3000 MHz computer if it weren't for that Wintel near-monopoly, though.

Wintel doesn't get the credit they deserve. Everybody running Linux on anything faster than an 80386 owes Bill and Andy lunch, at least.
Amazing, thanks PG
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They released the video, didn't they? That's the raw info (assuming they haven't doctored it).

It is true, however, that they stamped it with their own interpretation, which is that the slaying of a dozen people was indiscriminate.

This is contradicted by the soldier in the OP who feels that some of the slaying was discriminate.

However, WikiLeaks and the soldier both agree that the man in the van was collaterally murdered - and while the children survived, it wasn't for want of murderous intent. So, the domain name is certainly justified.
I think sriramk's point is that having the source for this system isn't that much of a benefit if you don't have access to the data itself or the systems involved.
Not connected with me in any way, but I've seen similar sites on HN before and thought our Aussie hackers might be interested.
I don't see Stallman's statement as to whether his birth had a good impact on the world or not as necessarily arrogant. Arguably, that's a question everybody needs to or ends up asking themselves: on balance, has my existence been a positive one?

While there might've been an open software advocate without Stallman, it can't be seriously said that the world would've been better off without Stallman's advocacy. And thus, on balance, the world's better off with Stallman than without.
trac is more issues tracking but you can certainly use it for task management:
http://trac.edgewall.org/
I expect great developers to be able to rip through guitar hero at expert level. VIM does that to you.
Expenses paid + contract for payment if they get funded.
My point was really that if a giant grand slam still costs $.50/cpm, it's awfully hard to sustainably produce content with something like AdSense.

And yeah, they sell ads for $8/cpm, but by about 1 million pageviews on that article they were showing either no ads or house ads, meaning they weren't even making money at that point.
You have a good point, and I would add that factory farming is very far from natural.

It's "natural" for a certain, non-negligible percentage of humanity to starve to death, or to suffer from malnutrition. Factory farming is a very important reason why fewer people starve to death every year. Screw your idea of what's "natural."
I understand your rationale and sounds like everything is going swimmingly. In my eyes some things aren't meant to be 'optimized' or taken so seriously, like when you are teenager. Or maybe I'm just playing Devil's advocate.
I was in DreamIt last summer. Russ and the SeatGeek team were some of the hardest-working people I've ever seen.
I would argue that these problems are less relevant with a good window manager. Mac OS and Linux's GNOME and KDE both natively provide support for virtual desktops, which help reduce clutter and distraction.

Moreover, if you want to truly maximize a large monitor, Linux has tiling window managers which are a boon to productivity. Tiling window managers free you from shuffling windows around with the mouse, instead dynamically resizing windows to fill all available on-screen space using a "tiling" algorithm. I find that they work fantastically on widescreen monitors. See XMonad, AwesomeWM, etc.

On Windows, if you want virtual desktops, there are hacks such as VirtuaWin available: http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/ .

And don't forget about the Windows "tile windows" buttons, which are crucial for efficiently utilizing a large-format monitor:
http://lifehacker.com/287588/tile-windows-with-the-control-k...
maybe Andy, i am not sure about Bill.
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There is something about _true_ diversity that makes thinking about big problems a lot easier.

I am fortunate to have a diverse enough group of Facebook friends that I can enjoy vigorous discussions with multiple points of view just by posting links (some of which I hat tip HN for) there. I knew I was succeeding when not only was I enjoying the discussions, but my friends were saying so, and friends were even introducing other friends to me to be Facebook-friended by me so that they could join in on the discussions.
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One of my most frequently made comments in discussions about United States politics is that Americans need to learn more about public policy in other countries. (I am an American who has lived overseas for years at a time.) So I would perpetually be stretching the boundary of "US" politics if I participated on such a forum.
I get the feeling the credit care fees eat up a big chunk on their 30% of a $0.99 app.
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good stuff those one-liners are
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The innocent people who were killed will never get to talk to the media or their family and friends. Imagine if a foreign military had been flying around your city with high powered weapons looking for insurgents among civilians and were making deadly assumptions and saying things like they did in that video

If this video had not come to light, we'd keep thinking that war was cut and dry. Why are people attacking Wikileaks when the guilty had months to put together a calm, cooling anti-story for the media in hindsight?

Things like this video probably happened dozens if not hundreds of times over there, so you want to find an excuse for this one? What about all the others?
Here in Colorado pot is sort of quasi-legal medically. A Dr. recommendation (not prescription as you pointed out) is required. However, Pot is not classified as a standard prescription drug, which makes it taxable. The Obama administration has issued guidance about not prosecuting folks who are in adherence with their states marijuana laws, which has greatly contributed to a boom industry in pot sales. Although the Feds haven't always lived up to the pledge as a few folks have been arrested for medical marijuana growth here.

All in all, however the Colorado system is very lax. The fact that it's now taxed gives it additional validation. It's very easy to get a card and dispensaries are abundant (I have several within walking distance of my house in central Denver).
Actually, word here (in Beijing) has been that the gov't has been scooping up old Google engineers to work on the state-sponsored CCTV search engine.
I wonder how many of the high quality, well known apps are running afoul of store policy?
By that argument, no company should have any need for PR. All they do is talk about your problems.
When middle-clicking on the "Upload Now" button on the homepage (to open the page in a new tab) the translucent overlay that says "Please wait..." appears on the current page and hangs there rendering the page useless.

I suggest either treating that link differently when it is being opened in a new window/tab or using something instead of a link to completely disable the "open in new window/tab" feature in the browser.
Either go 2 * 19 + 1 * 27 or 2 * 24. I don't think that 1 * 27 is going to cut it, particularly if you're doing GUI development. I don't feel that the consolidated workspace makes up for the loss in total surface area.

My setup currently consists of:

iPhone dev:

24" + 13" MacBook, Vim, XCode, and iPhone simulator.
17" Linux, using Synergy with the Mac. Browser + shells. Plus stuff like email, etc, because I detest the Mac OS UI (sorry guys).

Android dev:

When I'm doing Android work, I disconnect the MacBook and run 24" + 17". It's is not bad, but 2 * 24" would be even better, particularly when testing large/hi-res devices in the emulator.
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/bos/533096562.html

I'm not 100% sure if that was put up by him, but I've been told that it was.
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Maybe it was watching US soldiers gleefully murder civilians, or gloat over the children they shot?
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Hah, funny you should mention that. I noticed it when I stumbled across Preceden a month or two back, but it's always seemed a bit buggy, and put me off trying out the site. In Firefox & Chrome, if you drag the timeline to one side and hold in place for a bit, then release, it scrolls as if I hadn't held it stationary.
I hadn't zoomed the letter until your reply. Looks like the early Mac's Geneva font, printed on an ImageWriter. :)
Ask HN: Are there any mirrors for Rails documentation?
The online Rails docs now point to linkfarms (probably due to the domain squatting issue from earlier today).
So where can I get these docs?
Properly understood, the advice against visiting hijacked sites is more like, "don't stare into a solar eclipse".
He offers no evidence than Apple has some a wide standard for letterhead. That was a pretty worthless article.
I for one am very glad RMS existed to write emacs and save us all from vi.
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An interesting and thought-provoking overview.
The abrupt change, that Google's CEO Eric Schmidt will no longer be accountable to shareholders on Google's earnings calls, should prompt investors to ask why?

Google claimed that they wanted to put more focus on Google's strong financials, but they did not disclose any more than Google's usual barest of minimum of information to investors.
The most obvious reason for this abrupt change is the literal explosion of real franchise liabilities and risk overhangs to Google that reared their ugly heads this past quarter.
"...according to almost every person as well as almost every religion/philosophy, on completely different planes of existence..."

This whole thread is OT, but this statement is extremely dubious. You have no basis for evaluating another being's "plane of existence" — whatever that is. That's like saying that non-English-speakers' lives are worth less because you can't understand what they're saying.
Yes, Hastings himself. He's wealthy enough from Pure and Netflix. Also, he's always been very interested in education reform (charter schools and such).
Let's assume that's his post.

I'd think Stallman would have no problem finding an interested woman, provided he emphasized his fame rather than a self-described lack of "success".

All the people grabbing cheap cool points by dumping on the man are ultimately making it harder for him to get a date, and that's just needlessly cruel.
"To those who view it as the 21st century version of the online ghetto called AOL"

That's really the question. Is Facebook poised to be the 21st century AOL, or something as fresh and new (and useful) as Google was when it first appeared? This will be an interesting set of developments, especially if discerning users of Facebook can mostly free-ride while doofus users do most of the monetizing for the company.
The interview with Obie Fernandez doesn't come out until Tuesday, May 27th.

We encourage audience participation: if you'd like to ask the guests questions, follow @coderpath on Twitter and we'll tweet out the day before we record with a link to an EtherPad.
I was reading a popular Chinese forum (tianya.cn) thread on contaminated food, and I was surprised at how anti-government the tone was. (think reddit, but more extreme) There were jokes taking direct jabs at the party and state, and I was amazed that they didn't get taken down.

I think Chinese tend to avoid talking shit about their country in front of foreigners to "save face". It seems to be part of the culture.
Not sure what your definition of "raw" is --

The video itself is not even raw - opens with a George Orwell quote, spliced in commentary, a slideshow of the children of the victims, edited, arrows pointing at "cameras", etc.

It's painfully obvious that Wikileaks "leaked" a video with a carefully constructed point of view.
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The "someone else would have done it" seems particularly unlikely to me, at least at the time. If you were to list significant bodies of free software that were released between the FSF's founding in 1983 and the Linux kernel's release in 1991, they're almost all GNU projects. The one significant exception I can think of is the X consortium's decision in 1986 to freely license X. And the stuff that started to be released starting in the early-90s pretty much without exception built on GNU stuff (even all the free BSDs still grudgingly include GNU code, despite 10 years of actively reducing their reliance on it).
When I saw this appear in the queue early in the morning, I thought to myself, "God, I hope this doesn't get front paged, it'll probably be full of Reddit-style one-liners."

Sigh.
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Ryan, I completely disagree. I am surprised that you would think that the society benefits more from the education than the individual. According to me, if I have higher education, I get a better job, better salary, more respect in social circle. Compared to this, what does society get if I am educated?

I don't know if this outweighs what the individual gets, but society certainly benefits from educated individuals. Shiny new iphones, better health, more entrepreneurs, better research... I could make a huge list of things that people smarter than me have done to make my life better.

EDIT 1: <snip> why don't we provide good healthy food for all the individuals

Some countries are doing just that, in schools, or other places. Most countries monitor their citizens health and provides incentives to get healthier.
The author definitely gets points for the title,
but the Microsoft serial numbers is only 1 of 9 stickers on the back, and takes up maybe 20% of that sticker real estate.

Is this really Microsofts fault?
imho, Apple should find a way to work Gray into the 4G iPhone announcement event. Maybe have him appear with the phone for Steve, that Steve 'misplaced'. Consider it a silent finger to gawker.
"Few years"? Android has been out for 17 months, and only really got going with the HTC Hero about 8 months ago.
I'm not sure that's true, though it's a counterfactual so hard to prove either way. I think without Wintel, probably we would've had more competition and innovation in the area, and cheaper/faster machines. There was plenty of speeding up and broadening of home-computer access before Wintel came on the scene, with competition between Amiga, Atari, Apple, etc. And even in Wintel, innovation sped up noticeably once AMD managed to temporarily break Intel's stranglehold, and inject a bit of competition into the x86 market.
I haven't noticed a difference between spam from either my hotmail or gmail addresses, so I'd say they probably have it pretty good.
It's not arrogant if it's true.
"Daddy, where were you when privacy died?" "I was on hacker news commenting through facebook connect."

On the one hand, I don't have to use facebook. On the other hand, I worry about the immense asymmetry of information that facebook has about me even if I don't join. If I'm a hole in the social graph (because all my friends use it regularly to post pictures, etc. of me), it doesn't take much effort for them to fill in the data on me.
Psychologically, it's very difficult to question a war you're fighting. Believing it's worthwhile is a coping mechanism. If this fellow can be strong enough to question it, what excuse do the rest of us have?

Quote: I think that the bigger picture is what are we doing there? We’ve been there for so long now and it seems like nothing is being accomplished whatsoever, except for we’re making more people hate us.
11 days of one niche app on the market is also not a big timeframe to pass judgement on the Android Market as a whole. It takes time for apps to gain traction. My app benefited greatly from exposure from a free version first, then adding the paid version later.

The other problem with Android Market is that the methods for app discovery are a mystery. Search results aren't really sorted by rating or popularity, so it's hard to figure out how to get high standings. And as always, media promotion plays a major role in app purchases.

Overall, I agree with most of the other comments. Simply putting an app on the market and watching the numbers is NOT a valid judge of the Android Market. There are infinitely more factors to take into account.
As I first read it, I thought "he's right because he's specific and he's specific because he's right", which would be circular; but while the he's all refer to Gruber, the rights are distinct.

He thinks he is right therefore he is specific, because he is specific I think he is right.

That's what I was trying to say in my awkward earlier post. That does seem appealing to authority - thinking Gruber is right because of what he says and how he says it, rather than considering why he says it.

Actually, what riled me more was the interpretation

"He thinks he is right therefore he is specific, because he is specific I think he thinks he is right."

Which conveys absolutely no information and adds nothing to the discussion, just repeating that G thinks he is right, which is a given, and was still getting upvotes; so I tried to attack the post to feel better, banking on pedanticism being good for a few karma points around here anyway.

:/
"There’s no easy way to kill somebody. You don’t just take somebody’s life and then go on about your business for the rest of the day. That stays with you. And cracking jokes is a way of pushing that stuff down. That’s why so many soldiers come back home and they’re no longer in the situations where they have other things to think about or other people to joke about what happened … and they explode."

I think a lot of people who jumped to conclusions about this video should take these words to heart.
Everybody you mentioned has already bought them lunch several times over, CamperBob. The problem is that they keep asking for more of our lunch money.
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One thing: The 2^28-1 size limit on integers in emacs lisp also impacts max file size. You can't load a file larger than 256MB on a 32-bit version of emacs. However, a 64-bit emacs will support larger integers and file sizes.
His fame is very subjective. He's not famous in a way that is attractive to the average woman, hence his difficulty in finding an ideal mate.

I would presume that if Stallman has romantic troubles, it's due to something other than people dumping on him.
I'm glad he lived, and I'm thankful for his contributions. But holy shit, he makes me sad everytime I see him or read about him.

This guy needs to cheer up.
Sounds like they are going for even 'greener' servers. Difficult to predict the future but I wonder: if application platforms like AppEngine will get much more popular, then we will see the positive environmental impact of shared resources. AppEngine rather quickly "unloads" applications that have not received HTTP requests for a few tens of seconds and this has to have a positive effect environmentally. (I know, because I have been trying to beat-down loading request startup times.)

There are lots of applications that are valuable but have sporadic usage patterns and supporting a great many of these efficiently is a good thing.
Sure, in his absence others may have stepped up to the job, but in this world, he did. We can sit and imagine all we want that with a different leader, FOSS would be better. But, that doesn't change the fact that we have him to thank for so very much.

From the comments on the OP's blog. :)
I cut my teeth on the BBS scene in southern new England, and 94/95 was quite a time of change, no?
How many newbie analysts actually stay and put in the work required? How many move on after 5 years? 3 years?
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I tried one recently that went nowhere. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1263934

I think they just aren't popular anymore.
An appropriate quote from George Bernard Shaw: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself... All progress depends on the unreasonable man."
This is a good resource: http://railsapi.com/

And this has docs for many different versions of Rails: http://railsbrain.com/
The reason behind the half-REST design pattern