skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hiring employees takes a lot of time and effort, and generally a lot of money. In the future, some prospective employer may see that you've jumped ship and wasted everybody's time in the past. They would probably decline hiring you out of fear of wasting their time.

That's my advice.
Password protection (or other cryptography) aside, you can make `hashes' that are similar for similar files. This way if you only added a short RandomData.txt the hashes wouldn't differ too much.
But it is! It's just cross-selling.
When you sell a guy a suit, you don't offer the belt first, you go for the money item, the suit. Then after he buys the suit you sell the belt because its less of a big deal since he's already spent the money.

With that in mind, how much is super sizing in relation to the original meal?
Exactly. I work in medical hw/sw and I can tell you the amount of bureucracy is insane and everything is orders of magnitude harder than any non-regulated business. Open Source itself is not really a problem, we use a lot of it (os, libs, etc.).
I saw pretty crazy behavior regarding the back button, at least in FF 3.5.9. It put many elements in my history, none of which actually took me anywhere.
Of course I'm joking, I'm not that much of a cruel and heartless bastard (evil laughter...).

Blackmail is naturally out of the question, but with now over 11K unique visitors and growing steadily sooner or later I'll have to face this issue.

Reocities was literally a labour of love, it cost a pile of money and it looks like it will never bring that back, but if I were to run in to a way to make it break even I would probably take it.

Some of the support mail I get is hilarious though, I think 10% or so is from people that have meanwhile grown up and seriously regret what they put online and ask me to take it down, but none of them used the magic phrase that triggered my dark side.
Reframing is just a fantastic psychological tool/technique, and is the logical follow-up to Einstein's maxim that "The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation." This example by Sivers is brilliant.
Should Restaurants Charge For Reservations?
They do want crappy apps. There is no other way they could talk about how many apps they have in the store if they didn't.
As an engineer on the project, things like this are amazing to hear. Thanks so much for the feedback!
It will actually work on all the bikes I've seen, it just requires a flexible mount like double sticky tape vs something that clips or literally bolts on. I'm sure as I encounter more bikes I'll start to throw in little mounting tricks like Velcro straps or spacers.
LOL even http://www.nokia.com/ is dead... wonder what happened?

EDIT: Seems they are in the process of fixing it... still kinda slow...
You leave us with a great question at the end of that essay. I'm interested in learning about how you plan to hack the startup process, especially here in Boston.
The Lazy Man’s Way to Lower Cholesterol Through Diet
Static HTML is also a lot less resource intensive.

I think the main thing in the way of people using MT is that lots of people get their first introduction to blogging on some free WP hosting first and consider the switch to commercial shared hosting to be an upgrade.
People like this wouldn't see switching blog platform as an upgrade so much as an inconvenience.
Slim PS3's never had OtherOS capability, so new PS3 supercomputers have been hampered for a while before 3.21.
FWIW, I submitted it because I found it intellecually engaging. I think there is a lesson here that's pertinent for hackers, being able to take a situation and look at in a unique way. Then taking that unique perspective and using it to your advantage.

But what I love about Derek's writing is that there always seems to be a lot of interesting nuggets of wisdom that they contain. I think there is a lot of interesting material here and that it could be taken a lot of different ways depending on the reader's perspective.
If people are in the market (or simply want) a tablet-sized computing device, they're going to have the iPad at the front of their mind. If they play with one at an Apple Store or at a friend's house and aren't convinced (or are pissed it doesn't run Flash) then they will fall into Category B which is where a dozen or more companies will compete.

You basically have the iPad, and everything else, just like for music players there's the iPod and then everything else. Features on a comparison matrix don't get consumers excited. The iPad has a LOT of people excited.
I just clicked you username, way too much karma to be evil.

But at first you got me. :)
We will be implementing more and more advanced features such as hotkeys for various actions. These are the sorts of things we are anxious to hear suggestions for, so keep them coming.
Zynga planning to leave Facebook
That's a good idea - I've thought about putting smart phones on the ankle but not stopped to think that the pocket is sufficient.

Now, that said, it's hardly simple to get that signal off (via bluetooth I assume) across several platforms and read into a micro controller.

But I like that kind of problem more than I like the mechanical engineering and design issues of the sensor ring, so I'll definitely give it a closer look. Thanks!
The article actually mentions most of them. :)
Definitely contrasting content, we were trying to convey the broadness of our service.
Examination of Tax Cuts and "Starve the Beast"
Are you funded?

What is the track record of the management? (1st startup?)

How much runway do you have?

Talk to others that are employed there.
No female coders here presently - but we are hiring and welcome any candidates! All of marketing is female, though.
There is keyboard support in some of the view modes. We will be adding more in the near future.
Also, using the arrows on the keyboard to move to another page would be awesome.
Great work! My browser doesn't come to a halt when I click a link to visit scribd! Huuuuuge PLUS. I would avoid your site because of this experience, but will no longer fear.
I know I was right not to buy the DVD yet... :) I'll watch "docktor Mabuse" tonight to celebrate!
Thanks for the pointers -- didn't realize rich formatting was available.

I think you misunderstand me. I find it odd that an author would expect me to take his/her writing seriously if he/she doesn't take it seriously enough to run a spell check, and I'm curious how others feel about the subject.

Also, I don't appreciate being called a pedant. I asked the question earnestly and politely. If you think I am a snob or was rude, tell me directly rather than correcting my own writing in ways that I specifically excluded from the scope of my judgement.
They were on a date -> Love god -> Friday!
I haven't used oEmbed before, but I really like that it's possible to specify a max height or max width. That's not anything that Embedly's bringing to the table, it's just nice.

I do really like the idea of only having to call one service in order to get the embed code for a multitude of content.

What's the monetization plan? X free calls per month, $ after that? The only reason I'd be wary of using this service is that it could move to a model like that in the future, and I'd be locked in. Although, for the lack of up-front development time to integrate easily-embeddable content, it might be worth it.
Sabado = sabbath

Friday = Freyja Norse god more or less equivalent to Venus.

Wednesday = Norse god Woden more commonly known in the US with out the W aka Oden.
I think its been particularly interesting growing up during this transitional period. I'm 21 now, but I can remember up to about the 6th grade when card catalogs and encyclopedias were still pushed on us at school. But the internet was coming into its own during this period as well. These parallel environments have given my generation a unique perspective of the web. We've essentially grown up together--perhaps there's a psychological connection here that can explain other behaviors.
Wordpress is like Apache or Sendmail. A 500-headed monster. It's simple enough to use and does everything. It's also sloppy and overgrown. Most people don't need all the extra stuff it does. Certainly not at the expense of security.

Apache => Nginx

Sendmail => Postfix

Wordpress => _______

That is room for an enterprising open source developer.
The French I was taught in primary school hinted at most of this too. I'd venture anyone who knew bits of different languages would have probably guessed the roots of the days, atlhough English roots differ from romance roots (Wednesday based on the English god Woden instead of the Roman god Mercury).

* Dimanche
* Lundi
* Mardi
* Mercredi
* Jeudi
* Vendredi
* Samedi
That hardly matters, since the PS3 is already obsolete for HPC. In 2007 it was pretty interesting but today you should be using GPUs.
A Million Twitter Followers Doesn't Mean Anyone Listens to You - AppScout
I'm sure this is an interesting presentation for me, but I've tried the latest versions of IE, FireFox, and Chrome, and at best I get an overly kludgy interface.

Please repost in some better format. Thanks
This is quite possibly the most awesome piece of art I've seen all year.
Digg, Inc. Lays off 10% of Company Staff
I'm bemused to see developer opinion lining up so strongly behind the idea that Apple should apply their review judgment to block apps and/or ban developers from the store for supposed transgressions that violate no written policy or term of service.

It seems not so long ago popular opinion had Apple in the wrong for doing exactly that.
This is how it goes in Swedish as per our Norse history and heritage:

Monday = Måndag = Månes dag (Máni's day) - Måne, the brother of Sol. "måne" is also Swedish for "moon"

Tuesday = Tisdag = Tyrs dag (Týr's day, son of Oden)

Wednesday = Onsdag = Odens dag (Oden's day)

Thursday = Torsdag = Tors dag (Thor's day)

Friday = Fredag = Frejas dag (Freyja's day) - some say this day is named after Frigg, and some Norse history seem to indicate that Freyja and Frigg are one and the same goddess that somehow got separated as two in literature

Saturday = Lördag = lögardagen, from old, old Swedish "laugr" (water/waterfall), the day on which you bathe

Sunday = Söndag = Sols dag (Sól's day) - "sol" is Swedish for "sun"
You're correct, I didn't understand what he meant by significantly different until you pointed out because I have never encountered a system that didn't allow me to have a "similar password". However, I have encountered ones where my new password could not contain previous passwords, so unless they are hashing each component of my password and comparing this probably does indicate clear-text storage.
Just curious - did the same shenanigans get pulled with H.264?
This Week in Startups Live (Joel Spolsky & Jason Calacanis)
It's pretty much never a good sign when a company files this sort of patent lawsuit.
Domingo (Spanish, Portuguese) and Domenica (Italian) probably refer to Dominus, Lord, as Sunday is the Lord's day in the Christian tradition.
I had the privilege of watching the Gergio Moroder 1980's cut, and I cannot wait for the full version.
As if Apple had never admitted a problem in the App Store or Review process?

I seem to recall a number of letters and interviews in which they did exactly that and quite a few policy, code and process changes at Apple to directly address issues such as review turn-around time, policy reversals, per-version ratings, only allowing reviews from actual purchasers, etc.
I love that guy's responses! Though when I do something similar (not quite same level as him), my friends usually give me the weird look..
The story was good, I'm definitely happy to live in a time with such easy access to information, but as for the actual argument, haven't we all heard this before? That doesn't diminish it, but I'm surprised by how new it seems to many people. It's been argued forever. I'm sure it goes back much further than this, but here's a passage from 2005's "Sense and Goodness Without God" (http://www.amazon.com/Sense-Goodness-Without-God-Metaphysica...):

But if the idea of a god is inherently illogical (if the very idea is self-contradictory or meaningless), or if it is contradicted by the evidence, then there are strong positive reasons to take a harder stance as an atheist – with respect to that particular god. For in this sense, even believers are strong atheists – they deny the existence of hundreds of gods. Atheists like me merely deny one more god than everyone else already does – in fact, I deny the existence of the same god already denied by believers in other gods, so I am not doing anything that billions of people don’t do already.
Your choice of programming language doesn’t matter, they are all insecure
Another Mahalo Resignation
Unbelievable! Can't believe how Jason responds to yet another Mahalo employee stepping down...
I trust Apache.

I don't trust Sendmail but there's an emotional component to that; I would have laughed at you for using it in 1999, but I think 2 decades of analysis has to produce some result.

There's something more going on with Wordpress than simple complexity.
Apple's position is that they're not reviewing the content for IP issues. I don't know if there's precedent for that, but it strikes me as defensible.

And they do respond to takedown requests and there have been several issues arising from such. See: "Edge" trademark brouhaha.
Downloaded software presents legal woes
My Firefox died for a while on this one as well (3.6.3).
No, you are still represented by your MP! That is the beauty of it. But don't take my word for it: show up to a surgery, tell him or her you voted LibDem and ask them :-)

An MP is a delegate from a constituency - and their legitimacy is only that they represent their constituents.
"You and I are almost identical in our beliefs! If history has named, say, 520 gods, you don't believe in 519 of them, I don't believe in 520 of them."

This argument comes from Dawkins book The God Delusion. It's clever, but also kind of dumb. Trying to discredit contemporary religion based on what people believed 2,500 years ago is like trying to discredit science based on alchemy.
I've got some high level ideas, but most of them revolve around getting people working together, especially in a common space. I think physical proximity is important but another potential key is defining clear agreements that reduce the natural inhibitions we have to working on each others projects (especially across communities, like biz types and hackers). We have talent and passion, I think what we're lacking is trust. You can't build trust over a beer and a 15min conversation at a networking event (IMHO).
You beat me to it... I was going to mention that in Spanish, the weekdays are named after Roman gods from Latin. If you find this amazing, then you will be surprised that the month of July is named after Julius Caesar. But what I find truly amazing is that Caesar Salad is named after a guy from Tijuana!!!
There are unforced errors in Wordpress. Every web application will have a cross-site scripting mistake. It takes a special one to have "anonymous commenter" -> "admin" privilege escalation, or executable style templates.
This doesn't surprise me at all, and actually this sort of study has been done before MDMA was made illegal, to similar effect. Used correctly, it's a profoundly effective drug for working through emotions.
Yeah, we need to fix that. I imagine we will take care of that soon.
I also left the essay a little bit open ended because I'm looking for other ideas and ways to address this specific problem.
Now you can start to dive into any subject with some whimsical web browsing - an alternate to watching a TV show

Wow, I just had a discussion with my wife about giving up cable TV but keeping cable Internet for this reason. My argument was during the 1/2 hour of a silly sitcom, I can become knowledgeable with just about any subject of my choosing. And even if I want to veg out, I can still find most shows on the web.

Her counter argument was the cable box + remote are easier to use than hooking up a computer to the TV, which is what we currently do.
Force your browser to always start in private mode
The purveyors of spam do not have to pay its full costs. If various companies and email providers were able to charge spammers for the cost of maintaining spam filters, for example, spam would be extremely unprofitable.
Not sure this is really a big problem. The top apps are the right ones. 5 star ranking + 8000 reviews. Not much confusion there. I hope Apple does clean up the App Store more in the future but for now I don't see it as being a major problem. Certainly no worse than the typical Google search.
Interestingly, Bulgarian (and by extension probably all Slavic languages) don't follow this model.

(translations based on word roots)

Monday - ponedelnik - "after no work"

Tuesday - vtornik - "second"

Wednesday - sryada - "middle"

Thursday - chetvurtuk - "fourth"

Friday - petuk - "fifth"

Saturday - subota - from Sabath

Sunday - Nedelia - "no work"
My minimum requirement for believing in any particular god is if I can have lunch with them. Can I call them, invite to a party, and they actually show up. Etc.
What's really interesting is that Portugese is one of the few European languages which doesn't follow this pattern, since at some point someone decided it was heretical to name days after those silly Pagan gods.

So they have:

* Domingo – Sunday
* Segunda-feira – Monday
* Terça-feira – Tuesday
* Quarta-feira – Wednesday
* Quinta-feira – Thursday
* Sexta-feira – Friday
* Sábado – Saturday

Domingo is the Day of the Lord, Sabado is based on sabbath and the others just get numbers. That's the trouble with monotheism, there's too damn many days and not enough gods.
Nintendo hit a homerun with the Wii and the DS and will continue to innovate with their Nintendo 3DS, stereoscopic 3D handheld, out Q4 2010 or Q1 2011. Apple doesn't have a console and games on the iP*d devices does have a leg up with multi-touch. When you try to game on the iPod or iPod touch, your fingers cover part of what the only viewing screen.
Hot zones
Hands-on with Microsoft's translating telephone
Does this apply to people as well?
... until the iPad came along. ;)
And August for Emperor Augustus, January for the roman god Janus (who was actually Zeus), etc
I've never really understood why we shouldn't be able to travel backwards in time.

Most sci-fi movies and shows seem to represent time as a line. I think of our history as a line, but every step along that history had an infinite number of possibilities it could have gone. To travel back in time would be to move back along the timeline that our reality exists - but once at that point, simply by being there, you would never be able to move forward into the timeline you came from. You're now on a new timeline, and anything you do has no effect on the timeline you came from.

Also, I don't know about these forward "time travel" methods described in the article. By those definitions we are all time traveling right now - we are moving forward in time. Its just the idea that some people move at different speeds so that when you slow catch up to the speed of everyone else, you're now "in the future". Really you were always there, you were just moving at a different speed.
If there was a feature that let people mega-upvote a reply at the cost of some of their own karma, I would have just used it.

I cannot recommend Influence enough. It does a great job of explaining persuasive techniques and mentions some ways to defend against them.
This just makes me sad to be honest with you.

The idea that “we believe in 519 out of 520 Gods” means anything shows a fundamental misunderstanding of religion. You may not like the beliefs of some religious people but the point of religion is the beliefs. It’s not that a God created the world it’s that a benevolent God created the world and left teachings which lead to benevolence.

On that note I’d point out that he’s wrong about learning something too. The web is a wonderful place and you can go out and learn things but the problem with the Web as opposed to a person is the web doesn’t challenge your beliefs. He took the most superficial point imaginable out of a serious conversation and pursued it. So while he learned something useless he missed the much deeper contradiction in the statement he was so enamored with.
to chime in, Mongolian:
1-dex udur - 1st day (Monday)
2-daxi udur - 2nd day (Tuesday)
etc...
xagas-sain udur - 1/2 good day (Saturday)
*buten-sain udur - full good day (Sunday)
Hawking didn't address the biggest problem, which, as everyone knows, is grammar:

"The major problem is quite simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you for instance how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. Most readers get as far as the Future Semi-Conditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up: and in fact in later editions of the book all the pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs."
Nope I believe Linus Torvalds exists even though I don't expect to have lunch with him. I have higher standards for gods. Unlike most of the planet. Unfortunately.
Where's the "musical" part? Is this a pyrophone?
also, a lot of spam is fraud. It's a tad dishonest to say that the market favors it if the spammers are tricking people into buying by making apps that are 1 edit different than a popular app or some such.
Sounded great, but you left out that the waitress threw him out! (See the clip in the other reply.)
While you're right that it's not a dimension in the sense that most people are used to, I think that it appropriately conveys the fact that time and space are intertwined. When you start traveling very quickly your sense of distance and time change in a way that is exactly proportional to each other. The fact that space and time need to be treated as a single entity was in fact one of the key conceptual advances that Einstein made.
"Understood, but I don't think people need infinite customizability."

Need, no. Want? Yes. Literally "infinite"? No. But variable beyond belief? Yes.

Elsewhere in the thread, you complain about hardcoded URL structures! That's pretty far out there on the "I demand customizability!" front, if you consider the horrible things that will do to your platform's internals. Random users running code in their templates, another feature you request, implies that we need to sandbox and resource limit the templates, if we also want to maintain the ability to have "cheap" hosting (which breaks if our users start writing infinite loops into their templates). (Sorry, did I say "if"? I meant "when".) Take your needs, and two other customers with the same level of detailed desires, but different desires, take the union of them, and you've got a freaking complicated product spec'ed out. One that, incidentally, is going to be pretty complicated to actually customize. Oh, and the odds of it suffering the classic "endless interacting-feature bugs because nobody ever said no to a feature" is basically 100%.
science!=engineering, so I say vaporware until I see a prototype.
Yeah, it turns out to be the Dollar Store/Old Folks Home brand that contained Anti-Freeze and killed people.
Isn't the God of existing Abrahamic religions the same dude that the ancient Hebrews were worshipping 2,500 years ago?
Nice. I have hated scribd for years, because their flash app sucked enormously and I just wanted a PDF.

But this is better than that - now scibd is actually useable.
Given the ideas and tenets of "contemporary" religion are 1500 to 2500 years old, I think it is a perfectly valid comparison.

Lame, yes, but valid.
I swear I've read this story 10 times over the past two years. At least two or three times on the New York times.