skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real outrage is how CEOs are paid, not how much
false negative = filtering out good candidates

false positive = allowing bad candidate to pass
I read their comments regarding beer as attempts to rehabilitate that guy as an ordinary fellow who makes mistakes.
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great post!
A major reason that this aspect of muslim culture must not be respected is that certain muslims do react to it in an outrageous way.
Based on what I've seen, especially in science journalism, there are a lot of journalists who should be topic-restricted in this way.
Wow, guys picking up phones in bars led to the current patent system? There's a piece of history I never knew.

There is no "industrial espionage" here. Industrial espionage would, at the very least, require Gizmodo to intend to steal the phone from the outset, which clearly isn't the case. As far as trade secrets go, Apple gives up all claim to them as soon as that phone leaves its campus.

Gizmodo probably crossed some line in what it did and how it handled this story, but accusing a gadget site of industrial espionage is just ridiculous.
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Except in more of a laptop form factor, but yeah. I think the DS has proven pretty well that the concept is sound.
I don't get this article. When I Like something, it shows up on my profile with the ability to easily remove it, and I can restrict who it's shown to (currently only Friends + Network)

Regardless, you don't have to hit the Like button, or share stuff on Facebook, or post on peoples walls. If you want your private information to be well, private then don't post it.
> ...I wonder if the country as a whole will suffer a kind of "White Flight", where the better off people move out of the city...

Congratulations on subtly associating "white" with "better off"
It's hard to tell what Thompson's level of involvement is with Go. His level of public activity is lower than some of the other Googlers on the project, but who knows what's actually going on internally.

Also, there is a small team working on Go full time (http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/msg/198b0b742d02b...).
You will find it to be a challenge to reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into.
I've had it happen, and I also lost data on my MacBook. Apparently a disk was faulty. They say that can happen to anyone, but it never happened to me with non-Apple hardware.
Gruber has every right to cover it, no question, but how he covers it is important. He started talking about theft before he had any evidence that this was anything other than the worst drunk phone loss in history. He raised the temperature of the story and he profits from it directly in page views.
FM radio??? Good God, why?
The words David Foster Wallace circled in his dictionary
And what about the press, who did nothing like their supposed role of objective observers, but simply served as a propaganda, shame and social torture machine. Truly disgraceful.
As the quotation marks suggest, he didn't invent the term: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight
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Jurisdictions actively competing for internal migration is one of the healthiest features of the American political system, and with the rise of globalism and the Internet I see this trend only increasing.

I'm not big on the framing of this particular post, but the prefecture I live in had a declared policy of encouraging "immigration by desirable foreigners" (their phrasing, not mine) a few years ago -- educated professionals and business owners, principally. This prefecture was hardly a revolutionary trendsetter in that regard.

Although I know more of my fair share of expats based out of cheap countries in Southeast Asia due to the circles I run in, note that this is totally not limited to the choice of "first world country with mediocre services and crushing tax load" versus "third world country where you're on your own." America/Japan/Canada/UK/etc can compete for mobile individuals just like California and Kansas compete for them.
IMHO: yes.

Just like the Jews dispersed after the destruction of the Second Temple, there will be an American disapora.

And that monthly rate to live somewhere else is closer to $4k per month than $10K per month, depending on how much you want to travel, etc. even while living overseas.
He didn't coin the phrase. This phenomena has been called "white flight" in the media for decades.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight
The tax situation only affects people living outside of the US, and possibly needing to renounce your citizenship is an incentive to not leave the country. The US is also one of the least taxed countries, despite rhetoric suggesting otherwise.

The people who are "better off" are by far the most comfortable here and least likely to be feeling the impact of the increased cost of living. They're also the least likely to actually need the government services which aren't working.

Lastly, as you hinted at near the end, the fundamental difference between moving to the suburbs and moving to another region (domestically or internationally) is that you are going to be far away from friends and family as well as developing whole new routines. In the suburbs you can just drive into the city if you had been doing something there regularly.
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Why not? A lot of people enjoy listening to radio shows, and I'd guess that using a build in FM radio draws a lot less power than streaming a radio show over the internet. Plus it won't cut into your bandwidth quote for people who have to worry about that.
Yeah, Pair screwed themselves pretty badly by pulling this trick. They would have been far better off doing something like:

Dear [account_contact_user]

Your website traffic has risen beyond the maximum threshold of [threshold_amt] for the [name_of_level] level of service.

Since we appreciate your business of the last [length_of_service], we have given you a 24 hour courtesy upgrade to our next level of service -- [name_of_next_level]. If, by [end_time] you decide to keep this level of service you must contact our sales center to arrange payment. Otherwise we will have to start throttling traffic to your server so that it remains below the threshold of [threshold_amt] and does not impact our other customers.

If you have any questions about this courtesy upgrade, or wish to keep this new level of service, please contact [account_manager] at [account_manager_details].

Thank you for using Pair Networks for your hosting needs.
great morning read
We will get torches and pitchforks to storm Apple if that happens!
That's not always true - sometimes the kernel craps out if an application dies while trying to do something with the kernel (services especially). It doesn't make it Microsoft's "fault," it just means they should know that dumb situations like that are bound to happen.
Sounds like the EU needs to work something out with the Flightcaster guys.
The problem is that if you "show respect" to a culture that threatens to kill you if you do not "show respect" then it's not clear to outsiders whether you are genuinely respectful, or just scared. Sometimes this won't even be clear to you yourself. That's when it's called a "chilling effect".
I recently posted about configuring a BSD machine to run Wordpress on nginx, hope it helps.

http://www.bureau14.fr/blogea/index.php/2010/04/setting-up-a...
MapReduce is used to build the search index (constantly), and your searches are run against the index.

You might find some of these links useful:

http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ProjectDescription

http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HadoopIsNot
That's what Palm thought, and their shitty, unreliable hardware has helped to kill their company (in addition to the woefully late SDK).
This, too, will be my last post. It has been interesting and there are no hard feelings from my side either.

>You might want to read this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/12/iraq-invasion-vi....

While very persuasive (and an interesting read btw) that report still does not have the definitive weight of a UNSC resolution or UCJ ruling. And as I've said all along, the question of the legality of the original invasion is separate and irrelevant to the legality of the continued US presence in Iraq. I've been trying to avoid getting sucked into a discussion about the initial invasion only because I don't believe it's relevant to this specific discussion. That's all.

One last time: while the UN Security Council resolutions from UNSCR 1483 on, that you list, do not ipso facto make the occupation legal. There is not specific language declaring it to be legal, and absent that language, you cannot imply it to exist.

This is just it though, those resolutions (especially UNSCR 1511) are unambiguous and specific in making the presence of US-led coalition forces in Iraq legal. Your incorrect analysis of their content suggests that you don't have much experience in reading and interpreting UNSC resolutions and other instruments of international law. That's ok, but it might be worth scheduling a chat with an international law professor at a university near you if you want a deeper understanding.

(By the way, as I understand it, squatters rights only are possible when you don't break the law to enter.)

Not true, I mentioned that bit specifically because some countries have laws which enforce squatters' rights even when the initial occupation was unlawful. It makes sense though, as just because an initial action may be illegal it does not automatically render every subsequent action illegal.

I also think that Iraq is better off now, but that's an obtuse point.

I agree that it's pretty obtuse. I only mentioned it because you said that the people of Iraq will never see any of Iraq's wealth. I found that a curious statement. Perhaps I misinterpreted what you were trying to say.

In summary, I responded to your original post only because of one claim you made, which is that US forces are in Iraq illegally right now. The fact remains that even if you reject my assertion that the UNSC resolutions explicitly legalised the presence of US forces in Iraq under a Chapter VII mandate it still does not justify your claim that US forces are illegally occupying Iraq, because the US-Iraqi Status of Forces Agreement created an entirely new and separate legal framework under which US troops remain in the country. As a treaty between two sovereign governments, the SOFA supersedes anything that came before it and is unaffected by remaining questions about the legality of the initial invasion. It just makes no sense to refer to the current presence of US forces in Iraq as an 'illegal occupation' in 2010.
MIT Prof Richard S. Lindzen: Global Warming Alarmists Are in Denial
Probably because it's built-in into one of the radios. If the hardware is already there, I am all in for supporting it in software.
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There is scientific evidence that social rejection massively reduces the intelligence & injects aggressiveness in kids.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2051
DA stands for District Attorney.
Another thought... People treat Apple like their favorite political party / religion. Humans are tribal and Apple devotees (read fanboys) have chosen their tribe for better or worse. They have to defend it. If someone harms your tribe--or at least you believe they attempted to--then they are quite obviously bad people and should be dealt with. Rationality doesn't enter into the equation.

Why were Republicans offended by a health plan that was eerily similar to their own plan only a few years back? Why were Democrats offended by that plan originally? They chose sides before and had no choice.
This is very interesting, indeed.

I think it may take a bit of time to anticipate the consequences.
“There are, in effect, two things: to know and to believe one knows. To know is science. To believe one knows is ignorance.”

"Their misconception is fueled by the fact that they are completely unaware of their own ignorance. This unawareness or unwillingness to admit their ignorance subconsciously prods them to make (wrong) assumptions in order to fill the void in their knowledge."

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."

"What we do not understand we do not possess."

"We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making."
Yep it's whether you are an active information-seeker or not: If you never question your current model of thought it is a lot harder to learn, you'll mostly learn things that match what you know and the ideas and perspectives you can apply to a problem will be fairly limited.

Contrast with a competent person, that have a knack for picking up new stuff, they are used to learning stuff so they know that they don't know everything.
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This certainly looks disruptive, however I wonder if advertiser market really long tail? I am not doubting it but simply curious how many blog readers actually want to advertise.

Plus, are there any stats on the effectiveness of 125x125 format? Blogs usually cram 12-16 such tiny ads, and together the whole bunch looks rather unappealing.
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iPhone with an open App Store. I might like that!
Bluetooth connects devices that are close to each other, but your phone’s Bluetooth driver can’t tell the difference between a device that is touching the phone and a device that is ten feet away. So in order to establish a Bluetooth connection between two devices, they need to go through a mutual authentication handshake before anything else happens. You wouldn’t want some stranger on the bus to accidentally get a message on his phone saying hristov wants to send you $100, right?

I think there are some folks at the MIT Media Lab who were experimenting with using touch as a way to establish relationships between devices (e.g., you touch a light-switch panel to a lamp, then stick it anywhere on the wall, and that switch will control the lamp it was bound to), but obviously current cellphone technology doesn’t support that.

The alternative to mutual authentication is to have a trusted third party, and that’s what the Bump server provides. Using the server to create the illusion that information has passed from phone to phone by osmosis is, IMHO, a neat hack.
It seems that they are eerily insistent on transferring the data through their servers.

Judging from their job board, it's because they plan to mine the data.

http://bu.mp/jobs#data
I suggest looking at the Facebook social plugins on the developer's site. Play around with them for a few minutes and you'll see that they are somewhat benign. I may be wrong and am open to someone telling me that if they present examples.
I found my DNS servers at http://www.dnsserverlist.org/indexbeta.php?oby=Q_RTT
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S&P 500 down 1.05% today, half an hour after opening bell, MFE down 3.6%. So it would have been a nice short after all.
Even more disconcerting, it can sometimes be very hard to tell the competent from the incompetent until you have them in the door working for you.

I once worked with a guy (not in an engineering discipline) who could talk circles around much more competent people. He knew all the buzz words, and even knew most of the topics about one level deep. When he spoke, he spoke with an absolute air of authority on whatever subject he was talking about. He managed to convince division manager after division manager (he jumped around a lot and it was a very large company) that past failures were just because of circumstances out of his control.

However, he didn't actually know anything and every project he was put in charge of either failed disastrously, or was caught from the brink at the last minute by colleagues who worked double shifts to do the project (which of course allowed him to point to those same colleagues as incompetents that he had to deal with on his project and hence the reason for failure).

The really sad thing is, I could never figure out if he knew he was grossly incompetent and just spinning things to keep a job far above the level he should have had, or actually believed the yarns he wove about what he knew.
Yes, I understand that I would pay for it.
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Jesus wept, it's a _joke_ for christ's sake. And I find it far preferable, and far more human, than the insufferably superior tone of this blog post.
This brings to mind something pg wrote about New York:

"New York tells you, above all: you should make more money. There are other messages too, of course. You should be hipper. You should be better looking. But the clearest message is that you should be richer."
- http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html

Of course, founders can make plenty of money. But New York does seem to be unusual in how much it lionizes people who already have lots of money (or least, people who allocate lots of it). I don't expect to see the phenomenon discussed in this blog post change anytime soon.
Oh I know. I used to live in Baltimore, I'm quite familiar with the concept.

Edit: My original point was more to demonstrate that it's easy to use an outdated term ("white flight") and continue to use it to promote the idea that white = wealth.
This article is too meta and meandering. What is this new narrative? What is the old narrative that needs replacing?
That said, NYC has a number of "structural" issues which make it a less than ideal place to start a silicon valley style startup. These same issues can be an advantage for different sorts of startups. A change in narrative is not going to change these.
I don't think the size has changed. If it did, it would bother me a lot less (aesthetically) than the departure from green.
Another well informed reply, with internal details:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bu6j1/c_languag...

The Register is good at clever headlines that are not really lies - and often with decent content. In this case, they notoriously failed at both. The comments usually have some well informed posters, too, if you feel like digging.

(And for occasional humor and wit, I like http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh/ and
http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/stob/ )
http://www.irs.gov/publications/p54/ch04.html

Your expert disagrees with what mine told me, and it seems to disagree with the IRS as well. I'd suggest you obtain a second opinion if this situation is relevant to your life.
If they owned Foxconn they would own all the human rights troubles too. Contractors provide a necessary distance and deniability.
Leaving now before you know what a new administration might bring seems hasty. I am seeing hopeful signs of improvement in the US economic structure (Glass-Steagall anyone?).

Perhaps domination of the economy by the finance sector and its zero-sum approach to wealth creation will diminish in favor of new value-creating enterprises in other sectors. Statistics showing lots of new businesses would be a very good sign.
The large majority of Americans are Christian, and any even larger percentage believe in some sort of God. Do you really think a major hang-up preventing a separation of Church and State is the phrase on the money? This phrase is an indicator, not a contributing factor.
True, in general principle. In this case, I disagree. MFE was down similar to S&P 500 yesterday. After opening today, not so anymore (-3.6% vs -1%). So market participants clearly did not incorporate the news into their immediate trading yesterday.

Also, whilst market participants watch news feeds, there is a clear difference between following news and trading the tape vs having an actual clue as to what a specific news item means in hard money for a company.
Rumor: Apple placing bid on ARM Holdings
An interesting detail to this that seems to have been left out is that Apple co-founded ARM Holdings.
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Classic ITA paper that shows you the complex problems they deal with:

http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-com...
> How is this impressive?

* It's a big lineup (up from one offering)

* They look good (something the Dell Mini 3 didn't)

* Specs are good

* They are carrier-unlocked (I am guessing here)
Dell prototype tablets leaked
Why? There are Android tablets already aren't there?
I use and recommend http://www.psdahtml.com, not the cheapest one but very serious about delivery dates.
If you are logged into Facebook and simply go to the CNN site you are presented with a list of your friends that already Liked or Recommended that site. This means that Facebook already knows you are watching this page even though you took no action.

Yes, you can remove the item from your news feed, but it also appears in your Page | Info list as well. This can only be removed from the original site (AFAIK).

My concern is that it's getting harder to have meaningful discussions for fear of future ramifications. Abortion? Gay marriage? Stem cell research? Can I only talk about those topics offline now? Can I read online articles on those topics if I'm logged into Facebook without it being tracked?
Not anymore. If you receive a targeted attack or a 0-day attack vector through a firefox, pdf or even libpng vulnerability, the only real way you can be safe is to unplug your computer from the internet.
Agreed - the whole reason you pay a host is that there's some level of management and responsibility there. You're not just renting hardware.
We're looking at more advanced features / customization. Maybe this is one to add? that's what I do for my personal domain. Also thinking about: custom skinning/css and logo changes.
I do this kind of work too. Email ryandavies AT gmail.com
The article discusses a new feature that's different from the "like my friend's wall post" feature you seem to be talking about.

This new feature provides "Like" buttons on third party web sites, like http://cnn.com. If you are 1) logged into FB and 2) click one of these "Like" (or "Recommend") buttons on a third-party site, that information shows up on your Facebook profile and is visible to everyone and all applications, regardless of your privacy settings. You also cannot remove such a "Like" from your profile without returning to the third-party site and un-liking the article.
Angels Out of America (WSJ house editorial)
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Various commentators on the issue will be pleased to see that the wealth threshold part of the proposal is dead last in the list of bad effects.

It's good
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Various commentators on the issue will be pleased to see that the wealth threshold part of the proposal is dead last in the list of bad effects.

It's good to see this get laser focused attention from The Wall Street Journal.
The need for speed?
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If you (like me) want the rocket the article mentions, it's the Estes Hydrogen Fuel Rocket: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=...

The internet tells me it sucks, though.