skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope our descendants will be appalled that for so long we allowed the aging process to deteriorate our bodies and often our minds without trying to figure out how to stop it.
I guess I didn't really garner any intellectual pleasure from this article. Feels more like something i'd see over at digg. Marginally entertaining at best.

Not really what I'm used to seeing on HN.
Thanks. I'm a bit anti-Google in that I don't like any big companies controlling large portions of markets (Google -> Search). But it's important to remember to wait for proof of claims and to see people's true intentions and not taking things for granted. For instance, I immediately muttered "frickin Google" upon reading Battelle's post without even thinking that he was a competitor blogging without proof.
I would consider actually reading the article, since it's not actually about the vim vs. emacs religious war at all.
You could always backup your machine and restore to a different disk. That shouldn't take a day :)
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The typical reason to use dispersants, at least as I understand it, is that most of the damage, or at least most of the damage people care about, is done by oil washing up on shore and coating everything, which can be partly avoided if the oil is dispersed into a dilute mixture in the water.
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Wow, are you saying that a writer working for Google is trying to portray Google in a positive light? Talk about a conspiracy!!!
I fear this is another one of those interesting pop psychology articles that draws socially-oriented conclusions far above what the study itself actually shows.

It seems like an interesting result that the test subjects tended to mix up different people who they had already associated as being similar, according to them and in reference to their own lives.

I'm not sure that you can really extrapolate that to having any bearing on pigeonholing "others as blue-collar or professional, conservative or liberal, Black or white or Asian, man or woman, young or old."

Certainly not to the even more tenuous connection with "using people, which we’re taught early on not to do".

Disclaimer: I didn't read the original article, just the blog post summary of it.
I can't tell if you're serious or not.
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> I made some assumptions unfortunately.

Yes, been there, done that, have several t-shirts.

Live and learn. That's one mistake you won't be making again (for a while, at least). But it still sucks to be in this situation.

> Now if he makes me also have to support PHP4, I'll hang myself.

Please don't do that. However if visual basic is mentioned then you might have to go through with that, but I'd suggest hanging the client instead. It's rude, not good for business but it drives home the point ;)

In my experience, with some man-to-man (or whatever the applicable genders) talks you should be able to work it out, if the customer can be brought to your side of the table then you've solved it. One way of achieving that is to move to their side of the table, and make a list of the consequences, and have them agree - preferably in writing, an email will do - that they take responsibility for any consequences of doing it 'their way', and that any work over and beyond the agreed upon will be billed separately.

That might make them a lot more amendable to reason.
Follow the flow
I'm going to assume the OP is calling all marketing psychology devious. Would you not agree? I know devious has a harsh connotation to it, but strictly looking at its definition, it seems to fit with your last two sentences.
I don't think it's the fall that matters. The problem would come when the airplane begins to tumble. Rip the tail off a B-52, and I would expect it to rapidly tumble and subsequently disintegrate with unpleasant consequences for those inside. Furthermore, ejecting is probably more likely to succeed in straight and level flight than from a tumbling aircraft. For both reasons, it is desirable to eject quickly once it becomes necessary.

Additionally, a 10 second wait is unnecessary. We see from fighter ejector seats that ejection can be done in just a few seconds. What can possibly be gained by remaining once the seat is ready to eject?
As horrifying as this disaster is, I think painting oil as some minor convenience that spoiled fat Americans narcissistically demand is disingenuous.

People forget that the alternative to oil was either whale blubber or armies of horses that left cities knee deep in shit (literally.) The fact is that oil was a technology that substantially decreased pollution. The proof of that is that water and air quality has been improving steadily over the years since the 1800's (partly because of legislation, but largely because of technology. You can't legislate away horse manure - but you can legislate cars with cleaner engines.)

So yeah, I look forward to the day when oil is obsoleted in favor of some magic green energy source that produces no pollution (although rest assured, people will find something else to bitch and moan about.) Until then, I'll breathe a silent "thank you" to the grimiest oil refinery out there for making my life that much easier.
It worked!!! Now this is aint cool
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the guy behind the globe photo essays is a redditor, so I wouldn't worry about that, pretty sure he mentioned that due to the popularity he has a lot of leeway
Lots of trade secrets exist, recipes in particular. Source code may also qualify.
"simply collect the oil"

If it were simple we wouldn't have a problem to begin with.

There have been some pretty naive ideas tossed out that got huge media coverage (hair, straw and all kinds of nonsense), but these all seem to miss the main point: this stuff is spread out, it will spread out even further if you do nothing, and the amount of energy that goes in to collecting a spilled barrel of oil may well be more than the amount of energy that you gain by collecting it in the first place, which means you are going to have to do this at a substantial operational loss.

You can't just stuff a few thousand cubic kilometers of ocean water in to a centrifuge and swirl it out, and then there is the law of diminishing returns, once you've done the 'easy' bit the hard bits only get harder because the concentrations diminish, so the cost of recovery goes up as the concentration goes down, the more it is mixed in the first place the harder this gets.

Waiting until it comes ashore only compounds the problem, since it is going to be a lot harder to remove the oil from solids than it is from seawater.
It didn't work! Score another point for NoScript. :-)

I tried Chrome and still use it for certain things, but I refuse to use it as my primary browser until it has NoScript or equivalent.
Over time (12 hrs - 3 days), oil in spills becomes weathered. The more volatile compounds evaporate, photo-oxidation takes place, and the oil to some degree forms an emulsion with sea water. It's not like oil straight out of a well, and probably wouldn't be worth very much or useful for much of anything.
How many nuclear weapons do we need? Exactly 311.
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Interesting. Doesn't work for me, because I tend to associate tab content with where the tab is relative to other tabs.

For example, I don't normally have gmail open in a tab (I prefer to use mutt as my email client), so, to see "Gmail: Email fro..." - as I currently see in the tab directly left of this one - is disorienting for me. I expected the article on phishing.

However, even without it, this attack isn't exactly mature. Different browsers will render the javascript differently. My browser tried to execute the page-changing javascript as it was loading the page, and I was viewing the page. Obviously, in a few months or so, this will change, but for the first reason, I remain firm in my stand that this attack doesn't really mean much.
Just to chip in here, I know you were saying "I consider 'small' less than 1k uniques per day." to give an example, but this example is also most likely assuming you don't have targeted niche specific traffic. My 1K uniques/day pop culture tech/media site makes as much money as my 100 people/day very focused site on Apple products. Both are still serving Adsense only though that is only because I haven't gotten around to changing the latter site's advertising.

Also, $1 CPM with Adsense? If you are mainly a content based site (i.e. blogs) and place say two Adsense ads in prominent locations and maybe one Adsense link ad, you should easily top $5 CPM. I usually stay between $5 to $10 CPM for wordpress based sites.

Here is an awful yet wonderful example at how you can whore your site out and make it an Adsense cash cow: WiseGeek.com. Specific content example: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-the-different-fire-pit-desi....
Ok, but doesn't that mean that any chance at cleaning it up is blown and that the oil will be spreading all throughout the eco-system ?

I can see that BP might think that's a 'cost savings' measure, if you can't see it you won't have to clean it up, but that seems rather irresponsible.
Firstly, explain that there is not enough time.
Then, estimate the testing effort and show them.
Then suggest a revised timeline.
Be as professional as possible.
Memory lane...

Slackware was my first distro: downloaded over a 2400 baud modem in 1991 (my family may never forgive me for hogging the phone line for 2 days :-)

Tip of the hat to Patrick Volkerding and crew.
You might look at the work of Philosopher Humberto Maturana and Biologist/Philosopher Francisco Varela. In particular, Varela's work The Embodied Mind may be of interest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Varela
I would guess that Floyd-Warshall has affected far more people than Tetris has, despite the fact that most people do not recognize it. Personally, I would rather have a positive impact on the world than simply be recognized. Hundreds of years in the future, Floyd-Warshall will still be used.

Will Tetris be used? Maybe. But it is a game. It is not solving real problems. Famous people today being recognized far in the futre? Even less likely.
Too bad it was released just too late to integrate the latest update to Xfce in months (4.6.2).
Either we have too many scientists, or not enough science funding.

A little bit of both, to which I would add a third: the way we fund science is... I'm going to charitably say "sub-optimal"
Well, it'll eventually get broken down by various kinds of oil-metabolizing bacteria, so e.g. the same amount of oil in the Exxon Valdez spill would've caused much less damage if it weren't in a big clump near shore. Typical spills are admittedly a lot smaller than this one, though, so even dilute oil might cause problems-- one that's been suggested is that it'll lead to a bloom of the oil-eating bacteria, which will deplete the gulf waters' oxygen.
From Facebook, answering privacy concerns with new settings (by Zuckerberg)
It wouldn't work for me for several reasons; one, I always keep g-mail in the left-most tab, two, I use 1Password to fill in all my passwords, which obviously wouldn't work with the wrong URL.

But the 1Password thing is a recent thing; I could easily have fallen for one of the bank attempts, since I usually leave them open in another tab while it's loading, or if I get bored, so it's not unusual for me to tab over and be surprised by a "you've been logged out!" screen.
I know there has been a lot of Facebook privacy stuff just all over the HN lately. But, figured an op-ed by Zuckerberg himself might be interesting
Not bad.

Did you get funding from YC already? I'm just trying to understand what your company does :P
"The best you can hope for at this stage is that BP does not go bust (down about 29% since this all started, from $60 to $43 now), and that they will be able to pay for the cleanup."

Does anyone know much of this cleanup is being covered by some form of disaster (or other) insurance?
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"John is the guy behind the popular mongoDB ruby ORM Mongo Mapper."

If you're looking at using MongoMapper in a Ruby project, be sure to take a look at Mongoid (http://mongoid.org/) first, it seems to have moved quite a bit faster than MongoMapper and uses a lot of the good stuff shipped with Rails 3 like validations, callbacks, etc.
NPAPI's lineage harkens back to Netscape 2.0 where it was used for extending the browser to support new content-types. Other browsers of that era implemented the API as well so it became a bit of pseudo-standard. It's been updated over the years in various ways, some bad, some good — allowing bidirectional interaction with JS and not requiring the plugin to render something to the page are probably the main improvements to note.

NPAPI is useful in the context of Chrome extensions as it is the only method (currently) available for running native code in an extension. Firefox extensions are able to bundle NPAPI plugins in this manner as well however this is a less common approach as XPCOM components are generally a better fit for that environment.

One notable difference between extensions in Firefox and in Chrome is that Chrome allows you to specify that a plugin is only executable by your extension; a handy thing as you may not want any arbitrary web page to run your plugin (XPCOM components are not by default accessible via any old webpage).

Internet Explorer no longer supports NPAPI which is why ActiveX support is a useful target.

Native Client as far as I understand is targeted more towards producing one-off executables rather than reusable components.
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Mind/body connection is something I am also interested in exploring. For example, I can often tell when I am going to miss a basketball shot by feeling a creak in my kness. Sounds crazy but I'm sure there's a reason for it. This is a different phenomenon from people anticipating when it's going to rain by feeling pressure.. I think it's something like my predictive intuition has been working in the background outside of conscious awareness, and only becomes conscious through tells that I've learned.
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I love them. The price tag obviously bites but coupled with some slick jeans and a plaid shirt this would be irresistable.
This was the distro that I used for 6 years with the same install, every upgrade was seamless, I never had the same trouble-free experience with another distro.
Do you think there's a point to getting a PhD at all? I've been debating dropping out of my PhD program (after one year), mostly for personal reasons, but partially because most grads from my (top N) program end up not being able to land a research or academic position after graduation. If I end up like 95% of the graduates from my program, will it have been a waste of time?

Is there any value in a PhD if you do your own startup, become a dev at a huge company like Google, or become a dev at a small company like Yelp? And if so, what does it get you over having five years of experience? I don't mean in monetary terms -- a PhD is obviously a net negative monetarily; what I'm looking for is the chance to make a living working on 'interesting' problems.
Those downvotes seem harsh. I agree with you. While amazing, groundbreaking research is possible in academic computer science - the general lifecycle of research is some irrelevant poorly made prototype that ignores any number of real world concerns and leads to a couple of uninspired papers that noone reads.

The point of making game is actually in having an effect on people, mostly the point of writing papers is padding out an academic resume.
Another reason to use randomly generated passwords and a password manager like 1Password. I don't know 99.9% of my passwords and instead rely on 1Password to fill them in.

The nice thing about a password manager with form fill is that it would prevent this "attack" because the domain name does not match the spoofed site. I wouldn't even have the ability to have it fill my Gmail password in for me.
Great stuff. Slackware was my second distribution after Ygdrassil... GNU/Linux has come a LONG way.
Dsquared isn't for those on student loans (or are?) but just wait until H&M pushes those on us for under $30. Fashion lacking copyright helps push innovation and stay away from bankruptcy.
Awesome idea. This one might work.
My thunderbird session to my own mailserver was not affected in any way.

Phishing is so ridiculously easy that I doubt the phishers will need to display any technical sophistication at this level for a long time to come.

As long as users will happily click on whatever lands in their inbox this is total overkill.
The photo with the kids at the beach having to use a plastic pool was particularly striking.
Perhaps it is, I only remember it from growing up in London (alongside with massive overuse of "brilliant")
Making a firm decision like this as to what the Twitter customer wants seems like a bad idea in my opinion.
I would have rather have seen Twitter create a preference check box allowing those who want ads to have them, and set 3rd party ad policy for Twitter to share in the revenue.
Twitter is far from having a secure source of income so killing instead of controlling early revenue sources doesn't seem like a good idea.
Nice. With a phishing site that gets a URL close to Gmails, or just makes one of those ridiculously long sub domains to make it look like you're at gmail.com and you've got a solid attack.

Is there any password manager for Chrome like the proposed one coming out for Firefox?
Here are some hard facts I have found out:

A query on "wordpress 2.7 vulnerability" shows 29,000 results while "wordpress 2.9.2 vulnerability" shows 11,800 results.

WordPress 2.7 was released back in February of 2009 -- we're a year and half practically away from that time.

There's nearly 3 times as many vulnerabilities with WordPress 2.7 as WordPress 2.9.2.

There were a total of 2,181 bugs/problems/issues/concerns that were closed between 2.7 and 2.9.2.

There were also several jQuery differences between 2.7 and 2.9.2 which could make jQuery functions fail.

Here are all the bug reports filed between versions 2.7 and 2.9.2:

Starting from 2/10/2009 when 2.7 was out:

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&group...

672 bugs/problems/issues/concerns

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&group...

74 bugs/problems/issues/concerns

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&group...

43 bugs/problems/issues/concerns

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&group...

786 bugs/problems/issues/concerns

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&group...

54 bugs/problems/issues/concerns

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&group...

1 bugs/problems/issues/concerns

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&group...

5 bugs/problems/issues/concerns

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&group...

14 bugs/problems/issues/concerns

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&group...

2 bugs/problems/issues/concerns

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&group...

505 bugs/problems/issues/concerns

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&group...

25 bugs/problems/issues/concerns
And to sit in a chair that shipped across oceans, made of materials that were shipped across oceans so that you can type on a device that shipped across oceans, made of materials that were shipped across oceans. While eating food that shipped across continents if not oceans, inside a house made of materials that were shipped across continents, if not oceans.

Just sayin'.
Yet there doesn't seem to have been a dinosaur nimble enough to perform intricate tasks like humans can. I guess evolutionary wise anything that could have headed down the path of human like ability would have been destroyed by the larger species before it had a chance to get to the level of out thinking and building them.
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Well I've heard that Apple won't even bother considering you if you don't have at least a minimum of a master's degree in something related if you're applying for the Spotlight team.

If you're studying something hard and you get good at it someone will want to hire you. You will have essentially paid for a good chunk of their R&D for them.
pardon my ignorance, but what am I missing? I see a 404 on a site which is pretending to be PCWorld, but is probably not PCWorld.
On a long time span and in general. There is still a lot of danger into sharing everything in smaller localized incidents and one company controlling this sharing is bad to.
"BP PLC, Europe's second-largest oil company, said Tuesday that first-quarter profit more than doubled from a year earlier to $6.1 billion "

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/27/business/main64360...
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The comparisons to the Exxon Valdez are really over wrought, there really isn't a lot in common

- The Exxon Valdez was a static amount of oil, we knew how much there was immediately. We can only estimate the amount of oil leaking here and nobody can accurately predict the date when it will finally be shut off. The whole "we have to stop the leak" part was missing in the Exxon Valdez, frankly that is the pressing crisis now.

- The Prince William Sound is very enclosed compared to the Gulf of Mexico. The concentration in the Gulf is much lower, we won't be seeing anything as bad as the 2" thick crude oil goo covering everything in sight because the oil is spread out relatively thinly across a huge surface. On one hand that is good because it will break down faster naturally, on the other hand it makes corralling really hard to do, the area is massive. June and July are very timid months for weather in the Gulf because the water and land are very similar temperatures, what happens in the fall when hurricanes start rolling through the oil patch? It is going to be hitting everywhere. We lucked out that for the first few days the prevailing wind was from the northwest, but as soon as it turned around all hell broke loose.

- There are marshes in the Gulf. Suffice to say cleaning the oil out from between blades of grass is a lot harder than off of rocky beaches.

- Exxon got a lot of blame in 1989, BP has been lucky enough to have this widely labeled the "Gulf of Mexico oil spill" or the "Spill in the Gulf", the gulf of mexico did not spill the oil, BP did. Make a point to correct people who incorrectly label the spill.
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Today I googled integrate "open graph" in-house analytics and the first result is actually a phishing site (still is as of this writing).

I just didn't expect the first result in google would be a phishing website and I actually tried logging in to facebook through the site. The phishing site actually took my info and logged me in to facebook, but facebook immediately warned me that I had logged in from a domain that wasn't facebook and that I needed to change my password.
You could even trivially convert it to XML and use XSLT, if you were silly enough. But Lisp is directly executable, so you could simply make the tag names functions that automatically transform themselves. It'd be a lot easier than using XSLT, and less than a tenth the size.

And now anyone who can modify your log can execute arbitrary code in the reader process…