skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to draw a connection between increased obedience and reduced social friction more than any other metric. The idea that these people are actually "better" is not really examined that closely.

It mentions a presupposition to begin with that it is assumed that people who are less susceptible to external social pressure have more strength of character, but this seems to skip the possibility that they are simply apathetic in general or purposely abrasive rather than genuinely concerned with power over their own decisions. I'd find it much more interesting if the article accounted for these two variables.

Without that information it becomes less informative due to being a bit obvious; "People who happily buckle to the will of the crowd generally acclimatise better to a social environment? You don't say..."
"AST" is actually just compiler lingo for "tree representation of s-expr representation of parsed code".

In other words: sure, you can write code directly in {ASTs, s-exprs}; it's called "Lisp". ;-)
There is an extensive list of domains banned on HN. For the most part they're for different reasons though, but it's not like HN does not ban certain domains.

In fact, pg explicitly banned the blog of vaksel for naming someone (and that someone had in fact done something illegal). So if that was a reason for banning a domain then this should be too imo.
I really like the "New vs Return customers. Number of past orders. Time since last order." section. It's a really nice way to see how well acquiring and keeping customers, and how often those customers are going to return.

A great way to see a lot of information.
Ah, sorry I misunderstood. Yes I completely agree. The "snippets" shown right now are just the official course descriptions. Better snippet generation is something I need to research before I deploy anything. It's a complicated problem to solve in a way that will work across all searches. Google used the meta description tags for years before they figured out how to best show snippets from page contents.
I don't get the difference? The important thing is that this kind of video is made publically available. Who cares what commentary the publisher chooses to make alongside of it and how is that different from what you get from any of the mainstream news sources (tv, newspapers), except that those actually feign neutrality (contrary to wikileaks).
The thing is that it worked. I never seen any Wikileaks story get so much attention in the news or "virally" on the Internet. Here in Sweden it was a top story on all the major newspapers websites and on the evening news, but put into context. The second part with the hellfire missile, where they didn't provide much commentary, in comparison got a lot less attention. More people than usual do seem to have watched the full material and read the related reports etc. to get the full story.

I never really got upset about Wikileaks providing commentary, because I never had the illusion that they were going to be impartial. Don't be lazy, apply some critical thinking, listen to different sources. Leaks are in their nature untrustworthy. Even intelligence agencies with all their highly educated analysts get things wrong.

Finally if you stop supporting Wikileaks because you don't like that they provide commentary, editorialize, make propaganda or whatever your view are of it. I don't really think you get what their doing or what's at stake.
The title is linkbait (Capt. Obvious, at your service), but the post itself was a worthwhile read. Two paragraphs stood out for me:

...I have to restart Firefox, which then loads Adobe Download Manager, which then hits me with a ton of banner ads that slide from side to side (that I can’t close or block) and, while downloading Acrobat – which I then have to install. On top of that, once acrobat is installed, they also installed ‘Adobe Air’. It could have been that they gave me the option to opt-out, but I was so pissed by this install process that I glossed over it, but it just made the entire process even worse... Is Adobe joking? This reminds me of some shady ‘third-party’ app site.

And:

Adobe…stop worrying about Apple’s 3.3.1 change in their iPhone TOS and start focusing on your own customers and improving their experiences and lives. Maybe if you did that, and made Flash better people wouldn’t allow Apple to get away with the shafting they are now giving you and many other developers.
There's quite a bit of difference between representatives of your government doing something for the ostensible intention of making areas safer, and a corporation doing something similar with the intention of making a profit.
I know it's ugly, and you shouldn't have to jump through hoops to get ONLY what you wanted, but...

You don't HAVE to install Adobe DLM - you can choose to cancel the Adobe DLM plugin install, and click on the "start download now" to get the Adobe Reader installer alone.
Ask HN: IS there a site about business models?
Are there any site that are about business models of various businesses (not only tech/web ones)? That would be very interesting and useful for entrepreneurs-in-progress like me.
BSD / MIT licenses might be "freer", in some sense, but almost all free projects are released because of the ideal of fighting propitiatory software.

This word, propitiatory .. I do not think it means what you think it means .. But even if it did mean what you thought it meant, I don't buy the argument. Lots of people don't release software for free because they're against proprietary software. Some release it for geek cred, or because they want somebody else to maintain it, or because it's not commercially viable as a product (which defines 99.99% of software that comes with a linux distribution .. I mean, do you really think you could get people to buy /bin/ls?)
It's unfortunate/scary that propagandizing is more effective than the "truth".

I guess the truly unfortunate part is that people don't think critically by default. Encouraging critical thought seems like a far better/realistic goal than expecting content producers to act in a way that maximizes total "societal good", but that's [depressingly] still a completely far-fetched idea.
Derek Sivers speaking about business and profit models:

http://b.lesseverything.com/2010/2/3/derek-sivers-speaks-at-...

This is a great talk by Derek, I highly recommend it.
The question is not what would happen tomorrow...the question is what would have happened has RMS never existed.

My hope is that if RMS hadn't existed, somebody who wasn't a creepy, bearded hippy would have been the spokesperson for free software.. Hopefully somebody more balanced who didn't work himself into a tizzy over whether to call it "GNU/Linux or Linux" ..
I'd like to do something like this when I have kids. However I'm afraid that it's just a reflex against the way I was brought up, way too sheltered and forced to go through school and ignore my real interests. I would just be projecting on my kids what I would've wanted for myself, and that's not good.
Seems to me like that's the web version of sticking two fingers up at your customers every time they enter your shop.
Even if they do want to get into chip design (low power chips -- the area where PA semi excelled) they may expose themselves to patent suits if they directly compete with Apple in the handheld market.

Not saying they cannot avoid it, but in that case they loose some of the expertise of these guys.
Other Adobe fun
http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/
I never noticed that. Maybe I was shell-shocked.

Truth is, when I am doing these fresh installs, I usually am multi-tasking and not paying much attention because they usually are routine. This time was no different, so I very well could have missed it.

But still.
This weekend one of my friends (IRL) asked me why I wasn't on Facebook. She was shocked, as many who know me are, when I tell them I am not on facebook. They see me as a internet guru. How can an internet guru not be on facebook? What they don't know is that most Internet Gurus I know are also not on facebook.

The reason I am not on facebook is quite simple, I do not want to give facebook my private information, because I do not trust Facebook. I do not trust Mark Z. I do not believe that they have individual users' best interests at heart.

What I do believe is that they are interested in getting more users, sharing more information, and making more money. None of these are in my best interest. In fact, as Facebook gets more users, the quality of facebook will continue to decline, as will their treatment of those users.

It takes a lot of money to operate 10,000 servers (or however many they have at this point). It takes a lot of ad revenue. It takes a lot of people and investors. All of that means continued focus on the bottom line to ensure survival.

Facebook's only value is in the information people put into it and they will do what they need to do with that information to keep powering those tens of thousands of servers.
It's our granola power!

But more seriously: Thank you, UCB, DOE, DOD, NSF, NIH, and a slew of other TLAs.
It's interesting to see that the continent of Africa has never made any requests.
FourSquare selling to Yahoo would be a good thing...
Dude, half this site is link bait or reads like some car salesman.
Weapons of Mass Destruction were never found. That was the causus belli. That was the reason for the invasion, and they don't exist.

Someone, anyone, tell me why the U.S. is still there and under what legal basis. Anyone. I dare you.

The problem is that you can't. And so now we're talking about kids with glass in their eyes and bullets in their bodies, and soldiers with psychological scars that won't heal. Yet not a single person can give a valid, legal reason for it all. Yet no one will take two minutes to email their representative and say, "Stop it."
ACTA draft made public
It usually doesn't, and if it does, it's much milder than with hallucinogens.
A bit off topic, but [Warring States](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warring_states) happens to be the golden age of Chinese philosophy, akin to Europe's Age of Enlightenment. The intellectual output grew out of necessities of competition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Schools_of_Thought
Exciting times.

I'm amazed Schwartz is making a big thing of his time there, let alone in a "what I couldn't say" bent. He was CEO - isn't it the role of the CEO to blast the inefficiencies out to get a company to function?

Even five years ago Sun could have made a play for desktop dominance. They had a good codebase, operating system teams, hardware teams, brand, well-regarded language platform and VM, ability to recruit star hackers - everything you should need to be a strong competitor to take back the desktop (which they'd had in the 80s) if they'd wanted to.
Illegal File-Sharing Only Option For Some, Says EC
Stuff like this often happens to people who don't pay attention.
I wouldn't go for that kind of affiliate marketing. If the things the affiliate program is selling are mainly e-books about affiliate programs, that isn't a very good sign. Actually, I'm sort of wary of affiliate programs that sell almost exclusively e-books of any kind, although some people seem to like Clickbank, which is sort of like that.

More mainstream affiliate programs are things like: those from bookstores (Amazon, Powell's), the eBay affiliate program, most of the stuff that goes through LinkSynergy (e.g. iTunes affiliate links), etc. There's scammy stuff that happens with sites targeting those too (there's a whole sub-culture of JS exploits trying to illicitly shove your affiliate cookies into people's browsers), but the programs themselves are above-board.

I can't speak to whether it can get you rich, but for the time I invest in it, I make decent beer money from some Amazon links, and they're pretty transparent about how the program's operated. I have a site mostly dedicated to other things, but where it was useful to mention a book, I mention it with an Amazon link, and now and then someone who clicks through buys stuff. There's a different approach, where you build a whole site around landing pages pointing to specific affiliate links, as opposed to using affiliate links to monetize an existing site, but I don't know much about the ins and outs of that one.
Hiding the border on a Spark TextInput control in Flex 4
Peppermint: A New Linux OS for the Cloud
> You don't HAVE to install Adobe DLM

Not the point. The process feels heavy-handed and shows contempt for the user. An emotional reaction is justified.
What is the Interest Graph and why it's important to me.
IAds Secret Sauce: How Apple’s Recipe Will Cause a Paradigm Shift
Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker is a timeless book that I would suggest reading.
You contradict yourself. As you said, one does not need to be skilled in combinatorial search, er I mean, algebraic manipulations to be able to solve problems; one only needs a solid conceptual grounding and understand the symbols and the rules for their manipulation. I wouldn't be surprised if most students who pass college calculus courses with good grades are entirely unable to recognize the situations where calculus is applicable.
Setting the horizontal scroll policy on a Spark DropDownList control in Flex 4
On OpenBSD: there have been quite a few "Fix <simple bug>. Found by Clang static analyzer" commits. I believe that everything builds with Clang, but I'm not sure.
A better question http://isjavadeadyet.com/?
DVD Releases April 20 2010
Forkolator Manifesto
John Gruber spotted this one already....

Gaby Darbyshire is the Chief Operating Officer of Gawker Media, overseeing Finance, Legal, Operations and Business Development. Gawker Media is the publisher of nine online blog titles, including the award-winning and acclaimed Gawker and Gizmodo.

She holds a MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and a law degree from City University, and is a member of the Bar of England and Wales.

http://gabydarby.blogspot.com/

Asked whether he's concerned his company may have committed a crime in buying the phone, Denton says that Gaby Darbyshire, Gawker Media's chief operating officer, researched the relevant case law and came away satisfied that Gizmodo was in the clear.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/how-checkbook-journalism-g...

Wonder if she looked at United States v. Mikahel Chang and Daniel Park, CR-00-20203 (N.D. California 2000)? Buying something that you know to be improperly obtained is itself criminal. Not sure what precedents, if any, exist for splashing the innards of the prototype all over the internet.
I'm wondering too. He has a kind of "Woe is me" attitude, but all I know of him is that he eats his toe skin in front of his audience.

I also don't know if his existence has had a net positive effect. Free software he advocates is used to power robots, missiles, and other weapons that kill many people. It has also taken money from developers who write good software and shifted it to middlemen who sell services for free code, which limits the viability of writing code and the financial options for hackers to put a roof over their heads and food in their mouths.

If you really want to help hackers and keep the hacker culture alive, teach the world that software has value and is worth paying for.
Setting the border alpha on a Spark TextInput control in Flex 4
I would be very interested on analyzing the business model of Amazon, Google, or even newer sites like Groupon.
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Google in talks to buy ITA Software - Bloomberg
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Beautiful area of the country... I sometimes think about moving to Southern Oregon, but there isn't a lot of tech work there.

That corner of California also has some extremely remote and isolated areas:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_County,_California

"Trinity County has no traffic lights, freeways, parking meters, or incorporated cities. Trinity County did not have a chain store or restaurant until 1999, when Burger King, Movie Gallery, Longs Drugs (now CVS/pharmacy), and Subway opened for business."

All in all, a large and fascinating area to explore.
Apple leaves profits on table for 'huge' iPad future
thought:
if apple files a lawsuit, does it mean this was not a plant?
The word you're looking for is "proprietary". And back in the day, people did (effectively) pay for /bin/ls. The difference between proprietary software and F/OSS isn't just price though, it's also the freedom of what you can do with it.
ITA uses Allegro Common Lisp, developed by Franz, if they wanted to rewrite in something more palatable to Google maybe then http://github.com/franzinc/cl-python could be the answer, maybe!!
No Gain from Brain Training
The question is who doesn't do crap like this with popular consumer downloads. Apple does it with itunes+quicktime, last time I had to download Java there were toolbars, WinAmp ditto. Maybe Google and Microsoft are the only ones that don't, though they don't really have super popular consumer downloads besides maybe Gtalk and some of Microsoft's document viewers.
Not requiring a username and password to delete is just asking to have your entire database deleted by a click happy anonymous web browser.

"Ooo... look! I can delete whatever!... Okay..." click click click click...
Adobe is a great software company. They are a corporate software company and they do things that software companies do because they have investors to care for. Microsoft, Google, Apple (more of a software company than a hardware wouldn't you agree), Sun, Oracle, etc are the same way. Maybe there's a better way to govern a software company, not sure, but the ones that work that way have made it to the top and stuck around. By "that way" I mean obvious self-interest, it's what investors want.

Having said that, Adobe has done a great many good things for developers, and part of that is the Macromedia legacy they inherited (bought).

- Adobe has some of the best developer support in the industry. Their documentation, training and support has always been excellent. They have given developers and designers a lot of power through their tools. They have given developers the power to do a great deal with the web, and this is evident in the desire many of us have to get HTML5 to do what Flash can already do. We want the web Macromedia and Adobe envisioned, but we don't want it to be in their clutches, which is understandable, but I would be amiss if I didn't credit Adobe with that vision and the vision of those they've enabled.

- Adobe has supported open source, and open protocols and standards. They pursued ECMA4 through a standards body (and lost that fight), but still. They have a decent proprietary flash player for Linux which they didn't have to do, I doubt they did that for any other reason other than for developers. Their Flex SDK is open source. There's a whole list here of open source projects they have:

http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/site/Home

- Adobe AIR has a bad rep for no good reason. I also thought negatively of Adobe AIR until I started developing with it. It's fun to work with, I made a desktop app in JavaScript quickly (an IRC Client), and it works on three different platforms without any real effort to make that happen. I hope Adobe AIR is successful, because I think it is a promising runtime, that can only get better.

Anyway, I think I'm a better software developer today because of Adobe. One of the first client side apps I've produced was a Flash color picker. It was fun and easy to build and it put me on a path to be a software engineer. Sure this download manager thing is annoying, but you know Sun had the exact same thing when you downloaded the Java Runtime, which by the way also installs the Yahoo Toolbar last time I checked. Microsoft installs the MSN Toolbar, Google puts their toolbar on PCs from various manufacturers.

If you are RMS or a die hard GPL proponent, you are probably not going to agree with me, but that's ok. I also want HTML5 to supplant Flash wherever it can, but if Adobe gets around to making their Flash player work better on Macs, I don't really want to see Flash go away.

So you had to deal with a download manager, so what. I don't hate Adobe for that. I think they're a great company. If I ever started a software company I'd hope to become a smidgeon of what Adobe is.
Propaganda vs. propaganda is a recipe for disaster, that's not the sort of future of journalism that anyone should want. Reporting news from a given perspective or from a certain bias is fine, indeed normal, provided that you make people aware of it. Presenting propaganda as straight, unbiased news should be discouraged everywhere it is evident, history has proven that slope to be far too slippery. If wikileaks wishes to transform itself into some sort of rumor mill or propaganda site like druge report then it's free to do so provided that they make it abundantly clear that's what they're doing.
You do realize that testing can only show the existence of bugs, not their absence or the correctness of the program?
Things like that suck, and Adobe is not alone with it. Almost all noob PCs I have seen in recent time had the Yahoo toolbar installed, for example. They push it with a lot of downloads apparently (maybe even Mozilla?). That is close to criminal in my opinion.

Another reason why I love Linux with a good package manager and reliable repository. Open Source apps usually don't try to slip crap onto your PC.
4. Four CRUD operations are insufficient for even modestly complex applications. Many REST-like api's include the type of operation to perform in the request, but this is against the rigid structure of the REST interface.
My point was that if you check job boards etc, there seems to be lots of Perl jobs/people around. The closest hub to me is probably London.

But if popularity is a factor, then go PHP...
this is illegal for two reasons: one is that you're not supposed to exploit someone else's ill fortune in this manner, and two is that you're not supposed to damage that someone else's interests.

Illegal or unethical?

As a thought experiment:

Couldn't you turn it around and say it's unethical for Apple to allow customers to buy phones knowing full-well that they are going to introduce a top-of-the-line model in a few months?

Isn't it in Gizmodo's best interest (as a journalistic establishment that serves the best interests of the people - again, just a thought experiment) to let people know about this?

How is it different from DaringFireball talking about an Apple tablet device based on inside information that he received?
yup, doesn't work for me yet either. But thanks for the fast response and showing that you care.
Misappropriation of trade secrets? It's not a trade secret when it's in a bar. To be a trade secret, it has to be secret.
Yes, but thats on the guy who sold it. Is Gawker responsible for this? If anything, they could argue that Apple owes them $5000 for getting back their device :)
A classic dilemma, but I suppose then nobody should have kids, by that logic. Or only stupid people should have kids, who are unable to see the dark sides of life.
s/there many/there have been many
Orkut.com is in .NET. Isn't it?
No, Apple doesn’t. You click a link and the file downloads. You can enter your email address but you don’t have to. You can download a standalone version of QuickTime if you really want to [1] and it’s pretty obvious that iTunes won’t work without QuickTime.

[1] http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
Ever wonder what colors to use with an image?