skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a very light upvoter, but I'm pretty sure I have. I have certainly downvoted comments I agreed with. And for me, at least, karma simply is not "a popularity contest only".

(Incidentally, even if it were true -- which it isn't -- that no one ever upvotes a comment unless they agree with it, and that no one ever downvotes a comment unless they disagree with it, it would not follow that "karma is a popularity contest". For instance, that's consistent with the following state of affairs: people upvote comments that (1) are insightful and (2) they agree with, and they downvote comments that (1) are particularly stupid and (2) they disagree with. In that case, insightful comments will get lots of upvotes and no downvotes and stupid comments will get lots of downvotes and no upvotes -- unless it happens that someone posts something insightful and scarcely anyone agrees, or that someone posts something stupid and scarcely anyone disagrees. And if either of those happens, I submit that the community is so polarized that there's little hope of improvement with or without a karma system.)
Neat, I like the example with the chicken game. Game theory is always fun. I agree, though, that prenups might not be the best application for this.

This comment from the original site is hilarious, too:

"Maybe I should start a startup that requires you to pay a $1000 fee if you do business with anyone who signs a precommitment contract intended to give them a negotiating advantage." - Eliezer_Yudkowsky
I've tracked down the paper and you're right -- all measurements are done at a temperature of 20 mK.
I'm going to take a wild guess and state that you (or your wife or partner) haven't had children.
re :
"Self-sufficiency--subsistence--is poverty"
&&
"Given that progress is inexorable, cumulative and collective if human beings exchange and specialize, then globalization and the Internet are bound to ensure furious economic progress in the coming century"

globalization? If you want to further the notion that ideas should have sex with each other, then you want to break down power hierarchies (state, country, global unions) that prevent freedom.

globalization is centralized control whereas internet is decentralized. I wouldn't couple these two things.

The Eloi were not very self-sufficient and had everything they wanted. I'll gladly incur some poverty to escape an Eloi existence.
The life and death of the Rolodex
Since Amazon announced their Kindle application for Android (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/another-nail-in-kindles-cof...), will you be able to read you Kindle books on this device?
This sounds worse than it is. You can share revenues with twitter on the promoted tweets.

And I agree that displaying ads "in-stream" can be confusing. Promoted tweets make more sense.
I still am not completely sure what to do if it shows a problem with friends sharing my information. Thanks for the update.
Who needs broadband?
If they do a better job ad showing ads you want to see than the official Twitter ads, then it adds value. But now there's no chance for competition -- you eat your twitter ads because you don't have a choice (aside from the obvious one of not using twitter, which I find wholesome and life-enriching so far).
I'm kind of tempted to build this in a visual manner. I'd have to find a novel way around getting craigslist data due to their draconian API policies.
Cory Doctorow's book Makers is all about this very subject. It is available free online.

http://craphound.com/makers/Cory_Doctorow_-_Makers.html

Also, does anyone have any recommendations for other explorations of this theme? Assuming that these things become viable and widespread, it really would change a lot, and I'd be fascinated to see some predictions of what would happen.
So I take it I was the only one who thought this was a strikingly clear explanation of how Twitter sees itself and how they intend to develop their ecosystem? A really excellent piece of communication.
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Pilots lives saved ~7,100 according to Martin-Baker the main U.S. seat manufacturer.
Technicians killed ~20 My guess based on four years in the Air Force.
Is Print Dead?
The current Word for Windows is based on an older Word for Mac source base -- the mac team did that much of a better job.

Sorry, no sources, just hearsay from friends who have good info on this.
The far more insidious manifestation of 'false memories':

"But what about the Obama-Ahmadinejad handshake? There's no question of a true incident being misremembered: The two men have never been physically close enough to be photographed together. (We searched for them in Google Images and gave up after scanning 500 results.)"

That presence or absence on Google Images is sufficient to constitute proof. Which isn't to say Obama's secretly shaking hands in underground bunkers. I am, however, interacting more and more with people who seem to think that if they can't find it on Google, it doesn't exist.
Maybe it differs by location, but it is not true that everyone codes.

Within engineering, about 1/3 of tech leads do not code beyond mocks, and no one in engineering management codes. Staff and above also have diminishing coding activity; which is necessitated by the requirements of group leadership and planning.

You can speak to SRE coding activity. But to continue, many in test only manage contractors and their coding is no more than small python scripts for tool automation.

And most importantly, Program Management is the single quickest growing group in terms of influence and employee percentage. I do no believe most even remember how to code.
This article repeatedly paints Neanderthals as a dead end. It has very recently (like last three months) been proved by genetic sequencing of Neanderthal remains that humans and Neanderthals interbred.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/science/07neanderthal.html...

Most interestingly, it is convincingly argued that Neanderthal genetic contributions explain a sudden and profound explosion in technological sophistication of European and Asian cultures. It is very possible that modern humanity is defined by its Neanderthal genes.

http://books.google.com/books?id=VrpUh0rRYvsC&pg=PA25...
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The book "The Commissar Vanishes" presents bunch of before-and-after photographs in which various of Stalin's associates and henchmen are removed from photos after they become persona non grata. Some examples:

http://tfustudios.blogspot.com/2009/11/commissar-vanishes.ht...

The first photo above shows an eerie example: So many of the commissars have been removed from the official history, that Stalin is alone in the photo.
I should note that this makes the Mac version of the twitter client twitter just acquired violate their terms of service.
We can distinguish them, of course, and I don't care about it from a legal standpoint. It just makes Scribd look stupid that they've hired a moron.
Ask HN: What is the best approach for Mobile Video Streaming
Is there any out-of-box approach for streaming mobile videos which works across all (or many) mobile platforms?

I've been trying to setup a Video-On-Demand streaming server specifically for mobile phones.

I've heard that RTSP is the best choice for delivering multimedia content on mobile phones. So I encoded my videos into MP4V-ES and tried to stream it via Darwin Streaming Server. But it works for some clients while on others it hangs on buffering or gives invalid format error.

I thought it'll be a good idea to look for an already implemented solution rather than re-inventing the wheel.
So does the SSD portion effectively become a cache for the traditional platter HDD portion? Seems similar to an L1 cache for a HDD. Of course, as the article states, the caching algorithm will be application-specific. At 4GB however, it wouldn't be hard at all to keep a significant portion of the OS and any oft-used apps like browsers directly in the SSD portion.
Yeah, if you take average=mean, then well over 50% of drivers are above average.
What's wrong with dominating the planet? What wrong with paving over Mother Earth and killing million of species all the while opening new path to evolution?

Indeed, I wonder what's all the hoohas about mass extinction if humans are able to survive it? Moreover, engineer and synthesize biological lifeforms and replicators.
Most of this interview was pretty ho-hum but this was interesting:

CB: We know that men have banner blindness but will look at them in certain areas. Women will look at them in other areas. Men are odd.

I will definitely take this into account with my SEO projects
It didn't mention anything about this being an aggregated rate, and says throughout that this is the rate you can expect on your sites.
The ethics of the organ trade: do two wrongs make a right?
I switched from Western Digital to Seagate when WD silently switched to 1 year warranties on their retail packaged drives (in the early 2000's.)
You mean the soon-to-be-canceled Oracle Spot?
I agree... the screen is likely to be terrible, especially at the $200 price point. But it's still remarkable a $200 touchscreen 7" tablet.
What counts as good advice? I would imagine that bloggers on the Internet (even if they've sold companies successfully before, and even though they're better than the information vacuum before the Internet) don't really compare to having face-to-face investments from a network of angels who've done this before.
Yeah, this is a much better review - thanks for pointing it out!

Don't know why I didn't think to check AnandTech. They're definitely among the best at this.
I think Google is not allowing tablet manufacturers to install Marketplace until Google finalizes an official tablet android os release.
What Amazon’s RRS Really Means
Founder of #BigOmaha, on the flagship event for Mid West entrepreneurs
That's far less true for the Web and that's what's relevant here.
So if I can get this ferry to run rails, redis, and ...
I don't really feel more ads are valuable, no matter the quality.
He doesn't admit, but he backtracks all the time.

If he didn't, we'd still be using Mac keyboards without arrow keys, the puck mouse, etc
Faulting the default: It doesn't matter what Zuckerberg thinks about privacy
In denial.
This article is from December 2008, when both languages were fairly young but Scala had been around significantly longer than Clojure.
This one may have some legs.

I've noticed considerable improvements for building "web apps" using the Dashcode tool that ships with XCode, especially in the last few releases.

For something that Apple somewhat "dismissed" after they opened native development up to third parties, I was surprised to see they invested time improving it.
Apple's five stages of Google grieving
Take a look at www.encoder.com. Although they only encode and do not stream but even if you have a video in all the required encodings, that is helpful.
Manufactoria
It depends on where you live. The reason why those codecs are not installed by default in ubuntu is that could not be distributed in countries where software patents are an issue, like US and JP. If you are in Europe it's perfectly fine to use mint with all those codecs already installed.
People keep saying this, but the point is that Facebook got traction to begin with because it was highly private (only open to a small number of Ivy League colleges), and even later had strict privacy settings. Many people who joined never intended to sign up for a public service at all, and many still don't realize that the privacy level has shifted gradually from a kind of gated community all the way to Twitter.

If they had started the service today advertising the settings they have now, I think they would have trouble getting users.
Same kind of misleading advice old folks tell the young to study hard, get good grades, work for a good company, and blah blah blah ...
I poked around your site, you seem to not have any advertising? Not even in your magazine? I'd say build on any of those relationships but you don't seem to have any?

What about within your community? Putting out the word through your community that you are looking for sponsorship?
In this case, I'd say the photograph would be newsworthy enough to be run all over the mainstream media, and indexed extensively by Google.
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It's not clear to me whether they are simply banning the insertion of paid tweets via the API, or they're saying that you can't put ads (which are not tweets) in the same area of a UI in which a timeline of tweets is being displayed.
This is a meaningful article, but the title / thesis that humans triumphed because of tool making ability does not represent the consensus of archeological findings at the time when Neanderthals disappeared.

Evidence also points towards the cro-mangon ability (vs neanderthal) to predict their environment. Specifically the ability to use the cycles of the moon to predict patterns of large game and organize group hunts allowed the cro-magnon to out-resource their Neanderthal peers. Prediction allowed for expanded social ability - not just tooling - which has a different notion of cognitive capability. One interesting article on the topic: http://www.bionomics-institute.org/text/resource/articles/ar...
Have you checked out the VIMCasts (http://vimcasts.org/) series? They're pretty great. I don't know of an equivalent series for Emacs. I'm a VIM-ophile, but I find ELisp to be a major draw for Emacs.

I think if I could entirely swap out the movement features of Emacs for those of VIM completely, I'd switch tomorrow. That said, Viper and Vimpulse just don't cut it.
> Building on top of a browser or an operating system is a proven and solid model.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape#History

Microsoft's entire corporate history is full of incidents like Twitter's new policies. Building on top of browsers sounds safer than the Microsoft/Netscape scenario until you consider the possibility that the browser vendor might launch a competitor and use the browser to promote it (e.g. MPEG LA vs. Google/WebM).
Well, yeah. That's why it's wrong to criticize the article by saying that they made up the example. They did not.
That's the idea, but 4GB for a 500GB disk seems extremely small, especially considering the price. The other problem I see with this is that the 4GB are probably only one flash chip. Fast SSDs manage to sustain high transfer rates by effectively arranging flash chips in a RAID-0; the 80/160GB Intel X25-M SSDs use 10 chips in parallel if I remember correctly.
In this case, the title is descriptive of what the product is -- it's not the typical "review our lean bootstrapped MVP" post.
Still, it could be even higher than 50% wrong, since sometimes the most capable people underrate their ability: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Just dive in, and start! Prototype, model, plan. Fake it until you make it, in other words.
It's rather semantic, but I would differentiate typed from untyped by type checking vs. type being an inherent property of a variable.

So you have something in Scheme like:

(define foo 1)
(define bar "1")

And that is typed, the former being a number, the latter a string. If you try to subsequently do:

(+ foo bar)

the program will error out.

Contrast this with what I would consider an untyped language like Python or Perl, where the translation from string to number is done without any warnings showing up.
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viper is not for vim users, it's for Emacs users. As a long time Emacs user who doesn't really enjoy holding down the control key while editing text, viper is wonderful -- it gives Emacs a command mode, without making Emacs work like vi. If I wanted vi, I would just use vi.

That's the logic behind Viper, anyway. I believe a few people are working on a vim emulation layer for Emacs; giving Vim users the ability to have a proper scriptable environment, without having to give up anything they know from Vim. Ask on #emacs.
I wasn't assuming that profit-maximizing decisions must be harmful for customers. Of course it would make the product more interesting. I just think he completely ignored what Facebook stands to gain monetarily and completely framed his argument as Facebook being altruistic.
I realize I'm late posting this, but I'm a solid Rails hacker and would like to join / form a team for this hackathon. I just moved to the city and think this would be a good chance to meet other coders.
vi is the one built into every OS. Sometimes it happens to be vim, but not always... and other vi variants are quite different from vim.
A good few people I know have been very happy with affiliate ads, especially with Amazon. Those are mainly people with high-quality content - expertise in a niche field or especially fine writers - who are comfortable endorsing specific products.

For example, one person has a rather excellent 'how to' book aimed at indie filmmakers, and owns/demonstrates techniques with video-capable DSLR cameras; readers ready to take the plunge are invited to purchase via his affiliate link, and his original content is so good that it's a pretty fair trade: it might cost the buyer $50 more on a $1500 camera but he has easily saved readers many times that amount. It's not his main source of income but it doesn't hurt.
The Best Award
I know you're being sarcastic, but I like this idea a lot. Imagine a world where the advertising companies would have to build roads if they want to put up billboards, instead of the current world, where anyone can visually shit all over anything, and you're just forced to look at it.

I like the precedent Twitter is setting.
Soo.. errr, wait.. the N1 takes a second longer, but from all devices has to load several flash ads from different ad servers all the while simultaneously using the same wifi connection as the other two phones which don't have to load the flash ads? Errr...

Also, by the way.. first thing do on Froyo is to enable the "tap to enable flash" option so you only see what you want.

P.S.: I just loaded the frontpage of pocketnow.com with a whopping 3 Flash ads.. and guess what.. 2 out of 3 flash ads took several seconds to load. On my Desktop PC.

That's as far from a comparison as one can get, in my opinion.
I certainly hope not, the Nook is a POS every time I've touched it.

edit: ok, some justification. I've crashed it twice inside of 5 minutes (the third time I used it, it took 20 minutes). The display device had what looked like burn-in on the screen until it had refreshed the whole thing a half-dozen times. It was in a B&N, but it either couldn't connect to their network, or couldn't display the first page once it connected (first happened once, second twice). The interface requires a manual; I had trouble with it, and I've not seen anyone pick it up and get anywhere from just fiddling. They get frustrated and leave in a couple minutes. (sample size: 10+, plus chatting with 20+)

P. O. S.
All the really matters is that you use what you like. If you like gedit or notepad++ that's just fine. FYI, emacs also comes with an extensive tutorial.

Personally, I used emacs and clones (mg and JASSPA MicroEmacs) for a long time- though I never really went very deep into the features. Then, I started a job where I'd be doing some sysadmin work on AIX boxes- nothing but vi and ed installed- so I figured I should sharpen my rusty vi/vim skills. I've found myself using more of the features available in VIM, as well as writing plugins myself. After you get past the initial weirdness (for folks coming from emacs and other modeless editors) I've found it easier. Less of a learning/feature curve, far fewer keystrokes, and almost no "Meta-Shift-Control-Z Ctrl-X abc" acrobatics. UI feels more modular in that I'm stringing together simple commands rather than using a command that does something specific.

Not advocating so much as trying to explain where I came from when I started using vim...
Oh yeah, I definitely would have been productive for those 15 minutes if it wasn't for pacman. </sarcasm>
There are two things going on here. Raster images that are overlaid must be in Google's Mercator Projection, correct. However, when you provide shape data (polygons, points, etc) to Google's API to be rendered on the client, the JavaScript code transforms the points to the screen projection before being overlaid.
800x600 resolution? For long-term reading? Count me out. I'll get an iPad before that, though I still think the future for reading is E-ink.
New Panera location says pay what you want
congrats, terry!

(i was in this one too)
Pardo - the 68% is exactly the same for each publisher that has a ca-pub-XXXXXXXXXXXX publisher ID.
Using false photographs to create false childhood memories
When productivity or work ethic really matters stuff like this has almost zero impact - if anything this just demonstrates how many people are lazy and unproductive. :)

When I saw this at work I immediately and automatically thought "cool. i'll check if that's really playable at home later"
It's trade secrets that enforce celibacy.

Do trade secrets still exist?* Staff turnover and international travel are such in the modern world is such that ideas get out. Even obviously meant-to-be-secret stuff like codes needed to decrypt DVDs or SMB/CIFS message get out.

Lots of things that do get patented could easily be reverse-engineered were they not published.

You don't have to be able to use an invention
commercially to learn from it, combine it with
other ideas, improve on it, invent around it.

Do companies ask talented engineers to spend time discussing rivals' patents and applications to pick out worthwhile stuff? Does anyone know of any examples of innovation that has come from the study of patent documents?

* I thought of a candidate. I was once told that there was insider knowledge involved in the production of the glass that goes into true glass eyes, held by a community of glassblowers in a town in eastern germany, and that this is key to being able to get the glass dynamic enough to do things like make the veins look right.
Even if they kept the privacy settings intact, I think my point would still be true because of basic network effects.

In the beginning, only other college students were on. Now that FB has spread out to the world at large, my FB social network is pretty close to my actual social network. A friend of mine has account, but hardly uses it pointing out, "What am I going to say on Facebook? I'm friends with my mother-in-law." I'm not as restricted a user, but I still don't say much.
You're misreading the tone of the post. Google isn't a charity. Their portion of the revshare includes a portion profit and a portion of the cost of adserving.
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I use Mint since 7 version. It is great operating system: light, secure, it come with all codecs for video, audio and much more. You can configure it as a great environment for developing too. And lasts versions are coming JRE 6.0 ready to use.
So, it is a beauty solution for Micro$oft systems and all that need of good operating system
I hate the nickle and dime approach to productivity. In fact, the happier I am the more I get done.
Agreed, it's as non-HN news as a link to about:blank because I would put money on the fact that everyone using HN in a non-chrome browser has google set as their default homepage.
A more indepth and credible review is available at anandtech: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3734/seagates-momentus-xt-revi...
Thinking outside the box helpd by having a somewhat less intact box
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Am I the only one who didn't see this? I never go straight to http://google.com, but use the search box or vimperator's ":open google search terms." To think, I had to lose productivity in traditional ways...
For contextual ads, you don't have much more of a choice. The recent decline of Yahoo's YPN was sad in that it was the only real alternative. Chitika and Amazon are fine for product-oriented content but lousy on other kinds of content.
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