skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One way to reduce prison population is to reduce recidivism. The article states that Norway's recidivist rate is %20, compared to the United States %50-%60.
I think there's a market for this in people who develop small brochure sites or for whipping up HTML comps. You have to start the template from something, no?
Spot on. That's also why a lot of people who get annoyed by smalltalk gripe about Facebook.
Zoloft stopped panic attacks for me after a similar series of absolutely crippling panic attacks. It's about as close to normalcy as you can get on a psychiatric drug -- also an SSRI like Lexapro, Prozac, etc. Reaction to each SSRI varies by person and depending on genetic factors, oddly enough.
That ended up being kinda mean to that Circuit City salesman. He probably thought he was making the sale of his life.
Are you ready to share your online behavior with everyone, including all the sites you visit and videos you watch? Are you ready to have your picture used in ads your friends see? Because that's where this is going.
I deactivated my Facebook account. It was a privacy thing, I suppose. There are probably only 20 people I feel totally comfortable with. There are about 100 people that I don't. It just got too awkward ignoring repeated friend requests.

If Facebook let me choose to be entirely hidden, except to those 20 people, and only let me initiate outgoing friend requests I'd reactivate my account. I know there are friend lists, but I don't think there's anyway to use them to do this.
Its more like testing the limits of the "next" button (since the article is broken down into 5-6 pages).
> Deep sea drilling, while an important part of world production, is not essential, and certainly in no way necessary for spaceflight.

I never said that it was. The relevance is that spaceflight has had disasters.

And, thanks for bringing up plane crashes. Spaceflight has killed less than 100 people. Plane flight kills that many every month or so, with incidents as much as 300 people.

> This looks like it's going to impact most of the gulf coast, with significant losses to food industries.

You mean like the Exxon Valdez, which actually didn't despite all the predictions? Talk about crying wolf....
Can it do html back to zen and then can I use it with erb/any other templating language? That would be useful.
That’s not necessarily odd. 2001 (that movie is from 1968) had all sorts of flat displays, even small TV pads. Paper already is flat and has been forever, so the concept of flat displays is not even innovative or new, it’s all just about overcoming technical hurdles.

(That said I would certainly like to know more about this video, who produced it and for what purpose.)
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It makes sense to only go looking for VC funds after you have something going, technically and showing some profit.

I have a friend who has had a pretty good business idea for a long time, but all he does is plan, plan, and some more planning. He needs some do, doing, and done :-)
This is true of languages and libraries, but learning entirely new concepts is harder. First of all, one has to figure out what to learn, and then actually learn it.
As a Ruby head (and former LAMP developer), I would suggest PHP. The dead simple deployment will allow you to concentrate on learning how to code.

You can always do Ruby/Python afterwards. It's easy to go from one to the other.
I hope you were able to find something that helped. It sounds like you might have been.
That sounds really hard. I'm glad you made it through. Sometimes the way through is not very elegant. One muddles as best as one can.
Thanks for the feedback. We were hoping that people would be intrigued by the photo of the product (the same image where you read the tagline), and then click on one of the links below (https://www.thinklink.com/index.html?more=1), but you're right that it's not clear enough. We'll work on it.

For the record, what it is: a pre-funded alternative payment system that uses your phone, a barcode, and your face to eliminate the need for a plastic card at the point of sale. Hence no crazy signature problems.
> Not that we know everything about this situation, but Buffett is known for his honesty and integrity.

You mean like advocating taxes that he won't pay, that he makes money from?

I'm referring to inheritance taxes. His estate is set up so it will never be taxed. He makes a lot of money from his companies that sell insurance to pay inheritance taxes.

> If it came to light that Goldman is provably guilty of fraud, you can bet

The above suggests that you have some relevant knowledge of Buffet. How about sharing it?

No = his "repuation" isn't an answer. How he earned that reputation is.
I like them too, the problem is when you want to use (paste) some code that is not yours - you need to re-indent it.
Every time I hear of these things I get flashbacks to sophisticated Japanese investors flush with cash snapping up American property at bubblicious Tokyo prices back in the 1980s.
I wish there was something like MIT OpenCourseWare but better (or that it itself was better).
(Aside: the possible exception to this is Calculus and other advanced math classes, unless you are one of those people who absorb that with a minimum of effort; you either understand Calculus (et. al.), or you don’t, you can’t really just push your way through those one. YMMV.)

First day of my Calculus class: "This is a proof-based Calculus class! This means you must memorize these proofs for the test...".

Actually understanding Calculus is hard work. If you don't believe me, pick up Michael Spivak's Calculus book sometime. Regurgitating the exact formula for integration by parts or the difference quotient will get you nowhere in solving real mathematics problems, which assume that knowledge as a base-step and require you to apply critical thinking and creativity to actually get somewhere. But universities are run like a business: the more money, the better. Students who become frustrated and quit because they're too lazy and/or stupid to actually think do not give them money, so it's easier just to make the tests easy for idiots who spend all their time memorizing things without analyzing their meaning or worth.

Feh.
[tldr; "a girl"]

I deactivated my fb because I didn't really use it. I'm not mr. social and I felt that if anyone needed to reach me and really wanted to reach me the extra effort was worth it. I especially didn't like this idea of mass fb invites. I don't want to be a checkbox on a list to get invited to a party. I know I know, its convenient, but I'm just stubborn like that.

Ok, mostly I deactivated my fb account because my last gf and I parted ways and it was not a good idea to have that absurd of a connection with someone you have to let go. - yes, blocking was not enough, I needed to drop off the face of the planet for a little while ...

Turns out its not that bad at all.

I am an edge case, people can have their facebook, I'm just the type of guy that rather have 2 lifetime ultra friends, rather then 3,000 facebooky friends. Is it mutually exclusive? Who knows.

Why don't people hand write letters any more? Because in a world of text messages and email its the hugest pain in the ass to hand write a letter.
-Yeah.

And that is exactly the reason why any girlfriend of mine is going to get a damned hand written letter every now and then until the end of time.

-Yeah.
I want to take this opportunity to share the Icarus Project, I found it a very helpful place to discuss drugs (legal and not) mental illness and depression. Their tagline "Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness". There was a time when I felt... mad, and I can't tell you how much talking to people who share in it helped.

I also want to mention while on the topic of drugs that exercise another potent drug. Someone in a previous thread was downmodded (probably due to his tone) when they brought it up, and I just want to voice that while it's not a fix all solution, it can be used to help too.

http://theicarusproject.net/
> So their clients walked in and requested securities made up of crappy mortgages?

Everything, even crap, has a price at which it makes sense.

Every purchase occurs because the buyer and seller have different beliefs about the worth of the thing being sold to them.

If you think that the housing market is doomed, you'll have a very different opinion of a mortgage pool than a seller who thinks that the market is sound.
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They shouldn't be so successful. They made the same mistake as Goldman. In this case, small, problematic privacy features (people being able to tag you without your permission, etc.) that weren't exhausted + ambitious new platforms and exponential success suddenly caused them to reach a critical mass where people think twice about their service.

It's all about the integrity of the core feature set, and avoiding future, short-term successes that erode into it. Ironically, one only really notices the erosions (which, as with Apple and Goldman, are really not unique within their industry) after a certain amount of success.
I'm doing my M.Sc in Software right now. I want to do a startup right after this is finished (August cannot come soon enough). The one glaring omission from your post is that there is no thesis!

My thesis is in something I am genuinely interested in, I'm doing "proper academic" research in a field that I can see myself working in full time after this is complete.

My classes are all just preparation for the thesis and using what I have learned in them to research & write something which can be given back to the academic and professional community.
I'd agree.. But my point for Apple is valid. Most of the people saying H.264 has won are simply agreeing with Steves view
I'm a startup CEO and I attend the San Diego events. Couldn't make the last one, but I'm usually there.
It is true that Vitamin D plays a major role in regulation of various systems, and can help to stabilize mood. I take tons of the stuff myself.

That doesn't mean you should barf a "Vit D good" information packet on every story about depression, though. Without taking the time to add context, it looks rude and dismissive.
> Red herrings - He opposes the democrats' use of attaching riders to bills. Of course he doen't mention that this tactic is hardly unique to them, nor is it really relevant.

Unless you're not arguing that "everyone does it" makes it right ....

However, it is nice to know that you won't complain when Repubs do it in the future. Right?
I am going to share my experience, hopefully this will help someone: about 3 1/2 years ago, I went through a brief period of long hours at my desk (I had just previously had a hiking accident, dislocated shoulder, broke bones, and found that a period of long-hours and hard work took my mind off of recovering from shoulder surgery).

During this brief period I developed blood clots in one leg from sitting too long, and was really lucky to survive two large pulmonary embolisms. I often share this story as a warning to others. BTW, I average wilderness hiking for about ten hours a week (gentler walks when recovering from surgery) and that was not enough to prevent the blood clots.

Now, I use a 20 minute timer to get me up and walking around for a few minutes, 3 times an hour. Frequently standing and walking around is a recommended habit! Bad sitting habits almost killed me, and I needed over two years to mostly recover, so please take this seriously.
Flash 10.1 "Gala" Gives Mac Users Hardware-Accelerated Streaming Video
Sure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#Beacon

The prime example that resulted in a lawsuit settlement. I mean really? Opt-in to reveal your purchasing and browsing habits with selected companies and then spam your friends?

http://gawker.com/5426176/facebooks-great-betrayal

Another opt-in that is equivalent to Facebook buying web coverage at the expense of user privacy.

http://gigaom.com/2010/04/22/facebooks-instant-personalizati...

These websites are able to scrape your data to provide you a "personal" experience. Another opt-in. I'm not sure if FB is selling this api, but I'm willing to bet its a certainty.

These might not literally be bundling up personal information and selling it outright, but given the track record here, I wouldn't be surprised if they did another "opt-in".
Steve Jobs HTML5 web experience on the iPad
I am getting tired of repeating myself but...

Adobe Uses DMCA On Protocol It Promised To Open http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/22/1254246

How do Gnash developers work with the Adobe/Macromedia EULA? http://www.gnashdev.org/?q=node/25#eula

Read this two links and come back to discuss about flash openness.
I was especially disappointed after reading rmc's comment that "One of [OpenStreetMap's] statements is 'We make beautiful maps'".

It's great that the data is made public, and they play an important role there. But if we're only comparing map styles (as the article did), OSM has a long way to go.
Eh? $250 is a 20% premium on 1200. $10-15 per month is not insignificant for a service you are likely not to need.

Also, I was stating a case where 3 parts go bad on the laptop, which I think is pretty pessimistic - I've only had a fan go on my MBP, and that was under exceptional circumstances (my apartment was filled with very fine abrasive stone dust). It paid off for you, but as with all insurance plans, the odds were against it paying off for you, unless you are much riskier to insure than average.

Furthermore, I don't believe normal battery wear and tear is covered under applecare.
Get a treadmill desk:

http://frog.posterous.com/the-treadmill-desk-returns
I agree with you, I think LaLa had an innovative and interesting model; however, it wasn't profitable and tht's why Apple was able to buy it --clearly they had something else in mind.
If you just start reading some of the code-bases you use (libraries, compilers, operating systems, etc) to find out how they do the things they do, you'll quickly figure out what you need to learn—it'll feel like having absolutely no idea how the code you're looking at works.
Agreed. What's more valuable - letting a serial killer sit on death row for a few years, sucking up tax payer money for no good reason, and then killing him OR trying to understand why he did the things he did, and seeing if there is any way to help him enter society and be happy and productive? Does he deserve punishment? Well, that's another problem entirely. In many ways, my issue with this issue is the same one I have with religion - forcing people to not do bad things out of fear alone never works. If they're still doing them even when aware of what the de facto punishment is, there's a reason they're doing it and that reason needs to be understood.

Now I fear replies of the "But all perpetrators of Crime X can never be cured!" sort (with no supporting evidence, of course). The desire of modern society to punish everyone who doesn't live up to what is basically an arbitrary moral ideal without any attempt to help or understand the criminal is, to me, just as disturbing as the crimes they are seeking punishment for.
China has Already Got the Next iPhone 4G.
You should've seen the minus points coming — committing a crime never increases your karma. ;)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1098336

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1070780

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Patent_licensi...
"Age and treachery will always beat youth and skill"
I mentioned this in another thread, but I got this stool:
http://www.amazon.com/Safco-3442BL-Extended-Height-Swivel/dp...

I'll switch between reclining with it(I have a multi-level home desk setup and can stretch my legs out), sitting at the edge of the seat with the legs on the ground, sitting using the footrest, or standing.
See What Facebook Publicly Publishes About You
Facebook has certainly gone from being pretty straightforward about privacy to deceptive about it, but the real people who need to worry aren't tech savvy HN denizens, but parents of those types and kids who don't have the first clue or don't know what to check, etc. That said, there are some fairly easy ways to ensure that you're not "exploited" digitally using Facebook. You can't scrub it entirely of your presence, but you can at least ensure that people can't access anything about you publicly without being a friend of yours.

That's fairly reasonable. Now the stuff like making wall posts show up on news feeds and such are somewhere between annoying and intrusive, but that's where we can just choose to ignore it, pair down the number of friends we maintain or other tactics.

For better or worse, the site works.
> I put the blame mainly on the person who put up the picture, but still, he should have had control over this kind of thing.

Facebook isn't special; it's just a subset of the Internet. If the people at your college had had, say, a mailing list instead, and someone had sent that picture to it (thereby putting a separate, cacheable copy in every person's inbox), would you reason similarly that "he should have had control over this kind of thing"? Just because it's one website, not millions, doesn't mean that anything put onto it won't be leaked back out by bullies, trolls, rumor-mongers or busybodies. There's no such thing as privacy in a network where even a single person is less than 100% trustworthy, no matter the medium.
Not having Facebook will not prevent people from posting pictures of you on the web. The horse is pretty far out of the barn on that one.
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I dislike broadly-worded mostly-unenforceable laws and contract provisions almost more than plain bad laws and contracts, because then instead of pleasing a law, you have to worry about pleasing whoever is in charge of enforcing the law. If the enforcers don't like you, they can find something you're doing wrong and charge you with it/sue you for it.

So, what's not troubling to me is not the possibility of MPEG-LA suing everybody, but rather just suing people and companies they don't like (i.e. competitors, detractors, etc.), since virtually everybody making a corporate training video with an H264-based camera is violating the camera's H264 license.
I was going to guess it was the logic board. The 2007/2008 MBP's are notorious for that. Same thing happened to me and my friend, but we both had to pay $330 to get it fixed.
> There should be no room for human rights and comfort in a place for those who unabashedly trampled the rights and lives of others.

Why is this? Aren't "human rights" rights that apply to all humans?
"In 1967 the Philco-Ford Corporation released a short film titled 1999 A.D. In it the inevitable advances of the future are demonstrated."

From here: http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2007/4/30/1999-ad-1967.html

Another one on the same site: http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2009/12/6/jet-set-in-1999-ad...
Who uses Zephyr? Professors and staff who've been there a long time? I'm a grad student in CSAIL and have never once seen it in use.
It's a good point - leaving Facebook won't solve things like drunken pictures posted by your friends. It will, however, stop things like "Yooooo, did you hit that last night? Wasssuppp!" on your Wall that your family, colleagues and potential employers can see.
This is about as interesting as the old "Microsoft sucks" circle jerks that would occur on Slashdot. I deleted my FB account six months ago and it wasn't a big deal. There are plenty of people who will continue to use FB and not care about most of these implications.
First our water, then our coffee? All of Kendall Sq will shut down! :/
Actually, that may be true, but recently, with my website http://code.getnightingale.org, I had SERIOUS troubles accessing my DNS once (the TTL was set very low, and even after fixing it, it didn't work in Google DNS). Turns out, it was because of Google's nameservers. Moment I changed, it was fine (must be a bug in their setup).

Anyway, this isn't much of an improvement honestly..
The problem is that nothing he could have done could have stopped the picture being posted Even if he had no account it wouldn't have stopped people he knows posting and seeing pictures of him.
Sounds like a great usecase for Node.js. =)
Interesting, there's a researcher by the name of John Shutt who in said "I suspect them of offering fundamentally greater abstractive power than any other programming language feature yet devised" in 2009. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3640#comment-51563

This is his language which supports FEXPRs:
http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~jshutt/kernel.html
Is it just me, or is it pretty funny that "pretending to be a God" is illegal under section 508 of the Indian penal code?
Interesting language tidbit related to the warm/boiled water custom: a common term for drinking water in Taiwan is 開水 (kaishui3), which literally means "boiled water".

The first few times people asked me if I wanted "kaishui" I got confused because I thought they were asking if I wanted boiling water... but cold, ice-cube filled drinking water is also called kaishui to indicate that it has been boiled and so is for drinking.

I think those kinds of cultural-linguistic ties are cool in language.. I would love a book that gives you a linguistic tour of the world using words that reflect certain local customs.
This might be Myth Busters material, but wouldn't it be more energy efficient to drink water closer to the body's own temperature? Less energy is needed internally to process warm water, than to heat cold water up to 98.6 F.

This is also similar to why it's bad to drink soft drink, the body consumes more water to break it down than it gains from the soft drink.
Hah! Tell that to the sweat stains on the back of my shirt! :)
Repair rate is ~17% over three years. MacBookPro cost is $2000. Apple Care is $350. Simple math: statistically you're better off replacing entire laptop each time something goes wrong and selling the old one for parts.

The only exception is if you got cashflow problems, then yes you have to pay extra for being poor.
John Gruber clearly has some kind of ego-search thing that tells him about every article that mentions his name or links to him.

Just because he then links back to every fluff article that agrees with him doesn't mean we need to.
Sounds like a product. Remote Cookie Destructor.
It's just like the Microsoft Courier video, only older and more realistic.
Yes. And that is something that nomads in eg Mongolia practise. You sweat less and your body has less warming up to do.
Neat. Not sure what the following means (I saw it for "Outbox" and a few others):

{
"error": {
"type": "Exception",
"message": "You can only access the \"outbox\" connection for the current user: "
}
}

Does that mean I have to be logged in to get at that data?
@viraptor thanks for the feedback. Excluding the "why" was a huge oversight. As far as running a local resolver, it depends on how you architect your infrastructure. Having a single line with 127.0.0.1 introduces a single point of failure. While that might be acceptable for demo/prototyping applications, I think for production deployments you'd want to avoid that. Also running a local resolver adds another service you'll need to monitor and keep up to date.

Note: This recommendation is for server setups, where dns latency can easily add ms to processing time. With workstations we can tolerate some latency and should probably benchmark your ISPs resolvers.
I am a long time OSM contributor but I have to say that the map is very ugly. My major gripe is the rendering of footpaths and stairs as coloured dots instead of eg some grey lines. Also the mess of colours with no apparent style/guide is sad. Some of the styles at cloudmake(?) are nice. "We make beautiful maps" is just wrong if you are talking about the Mapnik rendering.