skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was told the travel websites buy seats in block and resell them

If anything, this is technically wrong, as airlines don't sell "seats", they sell tickets. You don't have a guaranteed seat until your butt is in one and the door is closed.

But as the blog mentioned, perhaps the airlines have decided that overbooking is going to make them look bad during this event, so they are only selling inventory for available seats. Unusual, but it makes sense.
> Killing someone while drunk should be considered premeditated.

I agree.

> Some of the current drugs out there need to stay illegal. Not because they get you high, but because they are toxic.

OK, I'll replace 'toxic' with 'potentially more addictive and dangerous than weed, alcohol, and nicotine' (Tobacco is damned addictive but it doesn't seem to cause antisocial behaviors.), because otherwise what you said makes no damned sense.

Go back to the late 1800s: People could buy cocaine and opium over-the-counter at drugstores. Laudanum (also called tincture of opium), a common patent medicine, was made from 10% opium and 1% morphine dissolved in alcohol. This, too, was available over-the-counter. America was prosperous, growing, and certainly not universally addicted to drugs.

So, why do you think going back to that regime would be dangerous? What evidence do you have that contradicts my historical analysis?
Here is a great functional JavaScript library if you don't want to build it up yourself:

http://osteele.com/sources/javascript/functional/
That's what apparently makes this quite nice - uses the same mechanism as that which carries iron in the bloodstream so it seems low overhead (vs chemo) and high selectivity.

The intravenous administration of transferrin-bearing polypropylenimine polyplex resulted in gene
expression mainly in the tumors. Consequently, the intravenous administration of the delivery system
complexed to a therapeutic DNA led to a rapid and sustained tumor regression over one month, with long-
term survival of 100% of the animals (90% complete response, 10% partial response).The treatment was well
tolerated by the animals, with no apparent signs of toxicity.

Intravenous administration is very promising, as it suggests the possibility of targeting cancer anywhere in the body. The transferrin receptor is apparently common to many human cancers.
...take Weeds as the average white drug dealer...

Seriously? I mean I love that show but taking as Nancy Botwin as the average white drug dealer is crazy talk.
For whatever reason, I find it more enjoyable in context: hobnox.com . Last time I looked at it, it was essentially Java applets background (sound), and Flash foreground (interface). Best use of Flash ever. Like to see it in HTML5. Cough.
I completely agree, just stating some facts about it. :)
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In Google Analytics, under Visitors > Visitor Loyalty > Length of Visit, you can find the number of 0-10 second page views, which could be a useful metric to try to reduce - now if I could make a line graph out if it instead of a bar graph for the period. Anyone know if this is possible?
Oh, and there were several empty seats on the flight.

Which just means that some people bought tickets and didn't turn up (and that there wasn't anyone on standby for that flight).

Airlines can't win: If they overbook flights, people complain about being kicked off; if they don't overbook flights, people complain about how there were empty seats even though they were told there were no tickets available.
Men with prestigious degrees and good careers regardless of their attractiveness
generally have their pick of wives through arranged marriage.

I would say its more about 'good careers' than prestigious degrees or intelligence here in India. I am pretty sure even a guy with a 'prestigious' degree but an 'unsettled' career (Startup? NGO Worker?) would have a lot of trouble going through the arranged marriage routine. (Most of the gal's families would reject him even before they get a chance to meet each other.)

But doesn't a guy with a career that is perceived to be good, have an advantage everywhere else in the world as well, when it comes to selecting a mate?
The police...then go after the cartel and shut them down.

Hah, if it were that easy we wouldn't still be in this 'War on Drugs'.
Are you familiar with the logic as to why we "don't negotiate with terrorists"? It is not because the people saying that are waving their dicks around and showing off. It is because when you do negotiate, you encourage other terrorists to try terrorism next week. Today's hostages may die, but they are saving tomorrow's hostages, and the next day's, and the next day's. It is brutal calculus, but it is the only sane answer. The cost of being nice here is death; it is a net cost of lives.

My solution is simple: To tell the extremist elements that they can't dominate our discourse, and to meet both threats and any attempts to follow through on those threats with all the force necessary to dissuade them. The "nice" answer is wrong and has all sorts of "not nice" results. And however hard this may be to believe or accept, the potential losses of knuckling under to terrorism are unbounded. Because the thing is, it's not about the grievance they say it's about. There's an infinite supply of grievances, and even if there wasn't, if you leave the decision about whether you've discharged the grievance in the hands of the terrorist they can always decide you haven't done enough. What it is about is that they can get more benefit from the terrorism than it costs them. That is what you must be concerned about, ensuring that the costs of terrorism exceed the benefits, and one easy (and arguably necessary-but-not-sufficient) way to do that is to make sure they don't get benefits. Official "Draw Mohammed" day is a good solution on the side, by raising the costs of terrorism.

Any policy that has the end result of moving the cost/benefit advantage of terrorism in the direction of "benefit" is wrong, especially any that cross from net-negative to net-positive. Regardless of how "nice" it is. Regardless of how well-cloaked in moralistic bibble-babble it is. And it will be so cloaked; the ability of humans to rationalize the short-term convenient answer is nearly unbounded. This is part of the basic contract of civilization and operates at a lower, more fundamental level than most people are used to debating at, in that if terrorists are allowed to tear apart civilization (the ultimate end result if this policy of appeasement is followed), most of the rest of our debates are rendered moot. The first order of business is make sure we still have a civilization in which to have our arguments about what it should be.

I've gone down to this level because it's really important. The US remains a ways away from this being a serious problem, but I am concerned about the number of draws we're making against this account without depositing things; we're a ways from bankrupt here but the trend is strongly negative lately.

I have carefully referred to "nice" policies rather than naming names, but in most cases there are, shall we say, correlations between political parties and the "niceness" of their policies; applying this discussion to their country's policies is left as an exercise for the reader. But there is definitely a time and a place for "not nice" policies, if you actually want your civilization to survive.
Don't forget to file your Fubar

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=148849,00....

Err.. ummm... FBAR, something like that....
Yeah, but people have already paid for the tickets, and the airline is obliged to transport them. They are already weeks late on their obligation, which doesn't make them look good. Using this time to play pricing games ("ah, those stranded travelers already paid us, we'll transport them whenever") is going to subject the airlines to the attention of government regulators, which is not something they enjoy. Presumably.
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Yeah, that's what I've come to realize. So how did everyone find their most passionate users? Were they people that you already knew? Friends and family? Made up? I remember the reddit guys saying once in an interview that they had a bunch of fake accounts that they used to post stories to reddit with all day long to keep the activity going and give the appearance of a lot of users.

My project is http://AppRabbit.com, a database web app builder.
It seems like all Western (or westernized) countries have to endure an era of "sex & drugs & rock & roll".

It's like puberty for countries.
If someone is in a traffic accident and ends up with severe physical or mental disabilities because they didn't take basic safety precautions (wearing a helmet or seatbelt), costs are incurred by the rest of society.
Lets give this HYPOTHETICAL a TV face: take Weeds as the average white drug dealer...
I'm using rebase a lot right now. Our designer is currently going through our main development branch and is ripping things apart, redoing styles, etc. At the end, we were faced with a mega-merge back into our develop branch of his extensive changes. Instead, he just pushes his visuals branch out and we rebase our topic branches against it. That means no massive merge session at the end, as all the conflicts are resolved by the people who created them. Simple as pie.
Delivery Trumps Perfection
By the fact that Comcast has a monopoly in my area both as a cable provider (which comes with the territory) and in broad band I can't help but be biased against them. Every problem reminds me that they have a strangle hold on both these markets, and I don't even have the option to switch. So much for market forces.

Also, I shouldn't have to setup my own DNS server (this did stop a lot of the outages I was experiencing).
This situation really saddens. I hate the fact that people are self-censoring because of a minority of violent people. This lends them legitimacy, when they deserve none. Seeing this after reading about a girls school being poison-gassed in Afghanistan makes me say why kowtow to the violent ones? I've read the Koran and its no worse no better than the bible. My girlfriend is a Middle Eastern anthropologist who loves the culture and speaks Arabic. My research into the history of math show the ancient Arab world as a hot bed of science and literature. Yet nowadays when people think of Muslims they think of death.
The high point of my last week was having one of my university students (during a class on privacy issues) say that nobody has a right to ask you what your religion is on a job application. Unless, that is, you are from somewhere in the Middle East. Then its understandable that you need to ask. WTF...
But, if some Muslim feels the need to show pictures of murdered directors on then website as a prediction of what will happen to you if you make art, then it gets harder and harder to fight these prejudices.

I just wish the non-violent majority of Muslims would (could?) step up to the plate and counteract the extremists.
The whole "mobile browser" thing seemed odd. Mobile Safari, Mobile Chrome, RIM's future browser, etc. - they're running on webkit, and that what matters.
This is perfect. By far my biggest complaint about Instapaper is that I can't find enough content to save to it — anything shorter than a few thousand words feels too insignificant to save for later.

A couple suggestions: I think the front page could be two to three times as long. Also, the "Read Later" button doesn't feel very button-y. My first thought was "Why does every article have a bookmarklet for me to drag to my toolbar?" It would probably be better as a link. Lastly, could the word "Instapaper" and the fact of the site's integration with it be more prominent? I had to hover over a Read Later button to figure out what would happen when I clicked it. (I suspected that it would save to Instapaper, but that's largely because of the aforementioned bookmarklet-ish look.)

I second ihodes' sentiment that this is not far from being something I'd pay for.

Edit: on second thought, I'd only multiply the number of articles per page by 1.5–2.
This is very cool to see. However, you shouldn't have accounted for the splits like you did (I think you had it right the first time you did it). Prices you find in databases/charts for stock prices are already split adjusted.

For example, Apple PowerBook G3 250 (Original/Kanga/3500): Price stated at $5700 released on 11/10/97. On 11/10/97 AAPL closed at $18.37/share. If you spent all $5700 you would have 310.3 shares (assume you can buy partial shares). On/around 6/5/2000 the stock split so you would now have 620ish shares. On/Around 3/28/05 stock split and you would have 1240ish shares. Multiple this by the stock price ~$270/share and you have ~$330,000. As someone already pointed out, you should not take into account inflation because the $330k is the amount you have have in the bank TODAY if you had bought the stock back on 11/10/97.

If you look at the stock chart you will see the price reports on 11/10/97 for AAPL is $4.59/share, this accounts for the split (It was actually $18.37 on that day, but divide by 4 because of the splits and you get $4.59). You can see http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=AAPL&a=10&b=1&c=... for details about this (You will notice a "close" column and "adjusted close" column. The "adjusted close" is what you will see on all the charts, but "close" was the actual close that day. This is done to avoid massive jumps on the charts that would make them less useful.

Hope that helps, and once again, this was a really cool thing to see, it really puts some things in perspective.
I know IKEA has been doing some experimental housing developments, I wonder if they have factored this into their design?
Staying the hell out of insert mode (vi)
Its effects are highly concentrated and emphasized in high school do the fact that is a fairly closed off environment with a limited population.

But it remains true outside of high school. At work, I have nothing to contribute when the lunch conversation turns to sports. Our nontechnical people often stare at me glassy eyed if I bring up recent developments in computers(and I don't even think about talking aobut the work on my masters in math). But since we all have social lives outside the office and that we are all mature adults with a real mission to focus on, we get along just fine and get the mission done. But the effect is still there, and it is easy to see how it could be magnified in a more claustrophobic environment.
...with a headbutt!!
This. See http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/this-ones-for-a... . Salaries for men are positively correlated with height, and even more strongly correlated with height in high school.
The most depressing thing about this series is that they seem to be reflections of standard operating procedure at the median corporation.
> "He could give the super-valuable thing he recovered back to him for free, but why should he?"

Because it's illegal to keep it - if he knows who it belongs to he is legally compelled to return it to its owner.

Them pesky laws, always getting in the way of profit.
Killing someone while drunk should be considered premeditated.

This is crazy talk. In some cases it might be true, but the idea of applying such a broad judgment on an entire class of crimes would be a huge injustice.

Severity of punishment is not a good way to reduce the incidence of crime. Do you think someone who's judgment is so impaired that they're ready to drive while drunk is really going to stop and think, hey this is extra illegal, maybe I shouldn't do it? They're already putting their own lives in severe danger, so I doubt it.

The solution is better education, not increased punishment.
> And Facebook will continue to serve those that are willing to trade privacy for convenience/connectedness.

But it won't serve them as well if half their friends aren't there any more. Facebook's biggest strength today is its ubiquity: I am "the awkward one", the odd one out, because I gave up on Facebook a long time ago over privacy concerns.

I have noticed over the past few months that I get an increasing number of e-mails from friends, sent to increasingly large numbers of my other friends as well as me, and mentioning that "X is up on Facebook but for the people who aren't...". At this rates, it's going to go back to being easier to send messages over e-mail and host your photos up on something like Flickr, and if that happens, Facebook is probably toast.
I think the system is being overrated both in the article and in your comments. I'm from Portugal (but that doesn't mean I'm an authority on the reality of my country, as I haven't been involved in this kind of situations and didn't experience the system working) but I just think the whole thing just comes down to "you're not punished for having it".

But that doesn't mean that there exist government production sites or distribution stores. So there isn't any advantage for the goverment such as incoming tax money from the drugs or increse in job positions.

Also there is no mistaken belief that the goverment supports the drugs perceived by the youth because actually all the system does is not arresting you, the goverment doesn't provide the availability of drugs.

If the system ends up helping the addicted individuals or not, that is something that I don't know. Though it seems obvious that arresting someone is not the wisest first step for treatment, I end up figuring how does the system reaches the addicts then (I don't think getting help by themselves is something they would do without a great external help).
At Microsoft, managers went through training to develop what he called "The Twinge." It's a technique called Precision Questioning & Answering:
http://www.vervago.com/program_services.html

Absolutely fantastic. I can't recommend it enough. Well, except to warn that you have to try not to apply it in real life, as it tends to rub the untrained the wrong way.
Actually, for the most part I do extend it to pretty much every non-class activity at a university [1]. I only singled out athletics since that is what we were discussing. As a rule, I believe the cost of non-class activities should be paid for in full by participating students, not by taxpayers or other students.
Parents using smartphones to entertain bored kids
Isn't that a fair reference to how for example you can't sell a device or software application that will rip your DVDs to watch on, e.g., your iPad?

There's various devices that'll import your CDs and then provide digital music throughout your home but on the Mac you need to download two different open source programs from Europe (both fighting for the title of the worst UI on Mac OS X) before you can get a digital copy of your DVDs.

A couple of manufacturers have gone to court over this and been slapped down due to the DMCA.
It depends on your definition of linear. In some algebra contexts you would call it a linear function because it's a line, but in linear algebra you would not consider it a linear transformation because it doesn't pass through the origin[1]. It would be more accurate to call it "affine."

[1] More generally, being "linear" means that f(ax+y) = af(x) + f(y) for constant a and variables x, y. From this, it follows that f(0) = 0 for linear transformations.
Facebook only has access to what you give it.
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

The rights of media companies to print those cartoons in the US are not in question, they still have them. They CHOSE not to run the cartoons. Huge difference.

EDIT: I think my point needs further clarification. It is that they did not give up liberty to gain safety. They chose not to exercise their liberty on a controversial topic. Whether personal safety from death threats was involved in the decision is irrelevant, they can still make the decision. The option to exercise a right is the important part, not the act of exercising the right itself.
You've hit the nail on the head. I didn't really want to bring up that issue, but I'm glad that you did. Google also makes it against their TOS to automatically crawl their search content: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...

IMHO, that's patently absurd considering the business they are in.

re: transparency:

In what other business would it be remotely okay to not talk about the purchase price, or the sales price of an item? That's just patently silly.

And, the transparency really only gets worse the closer you get to Google headquarters. I can't tell you how many Googlers that I end up having brief chat's with, that can't talk about what they do or what they are working on in more than very vague terms. It's creepy.

re: I personally don't think the data is that valuable except for getting less-than-savvy folks to pay scads of money for a CSV file

You're absolutely correct. The list is really not that valuable, but you see where people take that information and run with it putting out hundreds of cheap SEO sites that target mesothelioma. Where I did find value in it, was in categorizing sectors where people pay a log of money for customer lead generation. That's Legal and Financial.

So, I mulled that idea around for a while, and I decided I would try and focus my startup, http://Newsley.com on the Ecnomic and Financial News space. One quarter of all online ad spend is devoted to Financial services marketing. It's a 3.5 Billion a year industry. And, I dont' really see that many financial services ad that much, so they must be paying a lot.

I've been taking Newsley in a different direction now that I'm part way into the business, I'm talking to a lot of people that manage large sums of money for a living, and I'm picking their brains about their news finding and filtering problems. It's been really valuable. My current business has really nothing to with the original list, but it at least pointed me in a certain direction, and I'm quite happy I did it.
You are certainly allowed to, but I for one would respectfully disagree.

He certainly discusses stereotypes, but that was the point. Moreover, many stereotypes exist because they reflect a facet of the truth (this is definitely not always true, but it sometimes is). His essay explores why the truth behind a couple of specific stereotypes is there.
I'm pretty sure they don't just let you renounce your citizenship. I've been reading "Emergency" by Neil Strauss, and he touches on that during his search for dual citizenship. Pretty much, once you're an American, you're out of luck -- and you're going to pay taxes 'til you die, or stay out of the country forever and hope you aren't extradited.

Personally, I hold dual citizenship by birth right, but it isn't recognized by the U.S.; the U.K. recognizes both though. Weird? Yep.
good name.
Still waiting for their parody of the holocaust.
"Almost half of the top 100-selling iPhone apps are for preschool or elementary-aged kids"

I have a 15 month old and he loves watching us play colorful games or apps and his attentiveness has amused me, especially because he has no interest in TV.
A search on Slashdot for "lean startup" returns zero relevant results. Maybe Slashdot's search is just busted, but I suspect your comparison is a tad hyperbolic.
Narcissistic Vulnerability Pimp - One who causes us to have to immediately pay those from the first two groups to avoid the losses that would result from the fourth group when really we'd prefer to do nothing at all and hope no one ever finds out how lousy our product was to begin with.

That's better.
I'll gladly take their citizenship.
Incarceration rates in the United States today, which are due largely to the anti-drug get-tough policies of the last 30 years, should alarm anyone who believes in the principles of liberty that this nation was founded on, IMO:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rat...
55.11% were using JavaScript as a /back-end/ language in 2008? I find that highly suspect.