skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought that was what I was saying -- that there are a lot of claims that, when taken as a whole, point to the conclusion that global warming is happening.

But I admit that I'm biased -- I think that basic physical arguments will tell you that it must be happening. We can argue over to what exact degree, though.
I've done Daring Fireball several times for The Little App Factory (tlaf.com). While the immediate response is fairly good, I believe the real payoff is more long term. Publishers and the hardcore mac community notices what's advertised there and may be more inclined to write-up your product or service.
Ultimately a rational decision must be made that is completely unnconnected to GW. And that is: what is climate change going to do, and how do we need to react?

You lost me here, how is the question of what is climate change going to do completely unconnected to global warming?
He is not complaining. He is explaining.
I have an open source rails one at github.com/bigfolio
You should try the outlook social connector and report back.

but here are my answers:
1. OSC isn't compatible with google gadgets
2. OSC isn't very customizable for developers - the presentation layer is super limited
3. OSC requires a special install on Outlook 2003, 2007 - so for those users it will be a choice of one plugin: OSC or another Xobni
4. OSC doesn't improve Outlook search
5. OSC requires seperate installs if you want to get twitter, facebook, linkedin, salesforce, sharepoint, etc inside it. Xobni has that all with one install.
6. This is our business. OSC was a msft afterthought to respond to Xobni. Users that compare the two prefer Xobni (actually, good idea, i should run a formal study on this)

Performance issues? I've heard some people complain about perf issues with OSC ;) but seriously, we've worked really hard on performance. Installed software is tough. And for most users, they have zero problems.
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Agreed. Tree-style tabs is just too dreamy. Though I do find myself bringing up Chrome for things like Wave, so I have Firefox up for day-to-day research/etc, and Chrome for quick things and high-JS web apps.
Doesn't Massachusetts enforce "no compete" agreements?

Do you own "intellectual property" you've developed on your own time, with your own resources?

I'm given to understand that the answers are "yes" and "no" respectively. Aren't those two of the major factors for the success of Silicon Valley?
What has struck me as most odd about this story is that I haven't heard any national news organizations really pick this up and run with it. Why? Is this story too hard to wedge into sound bytes? The dearth of coverage bothers me.
if you have slime installed, you should just be able to "M-x slime" to open a clojure REPL. At least that's how it works in my emacs.
If you're interested in human languages, another great place on the internet is:

http://www.ethnologue.com/

I've spent countless hours on both Omniglot and Ethnologue.
Exactly. I put a majority of the blame on these companies that for some reason can't be bothered to check an ID.

On the back of my debit and credit card I sign it with "Check ID" since the cashier is supposed to at minimum verify the signature. I've had cards stolen multiple times and have had them used before I could cancel them. So much for verifying the signature.
There's not nearly enough data to make decent conclusions about national teams. They don't play often enough, and when they do the rosters are never the same. To make a decent prediction you have to use the final roster (submitted to FIFA) and factor in each player's condition.
I've had the same thought about socks. I've pondered starting a business around the idea -- pay $100 and we'd send you a few samples of different sock brands. Then choose the one you want most and we'll send you 30 pairs -- all you'll need!

Feedback?
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Nicely done. Would be nice to support copy/paste into the editor. Get rid of the dark grey background on code snippets in the tutorial -- very difficult to read.

Having REPL inline with the tutorial is great...wish someone would build something similar for Haskell.
Not exactly like Notable.

I know the odds sound ridiculous, but we'll see how it turns out.
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I agree. The problem with these kind of studies is that they aren't coming up with explanations and then trying to test them; they're simply looking for correlations, which advances knowledge not one jot.

In the case of caffeine I suspect the main benefit is that drinkers of tea and coffee eat less food, and rich food damages the blood vessels of the brain (as it does to the heart).
Yes, we are happy to interview talented candidates from abroad.
I've heard this line of reasoning many times, and I've just figured out what I dislike about it.

The iPad is a computer. It has a general-purpose operating system, and a very general-purpose input method.

The reason that people like me are irritated is that the limitations that lead to you saying "[it] is not a computer" are business/social reasons, not technical. Given that a lot of the people here are technical-minded, it's reasonable to complain that the iPad is artifically restricted.
Suggested feature for a @font-face site: include a sample of the font using @font-face for browsers that support it, instead of just images (at least I didn't see any live samples).
This is why I think companies that incorrectly send you to collections or give credit to someone using your identity should not only be on the hook for the money they lost but also liable to the person they are forcing to clear their name.

Years ago I rented at a crappy apartment complex. When I left their check out basically meant you always owed them ~$200. I paid and moved out of state. 6 months later I get a collections call saying I didn't pay the bill. I told them I paid it, she said it wasn't and said it was going on my report unless I paid that day. Luckily I paid by check and my bank (like all banks I guess now) keeps canceled checks online for pretty much ever. So now I had to go back 6 months and find this check then call the apartment then the collections agency, etc... A HUGE hassle and time waster for me all because the apartment complex employed incompetent people.

The kicker was that the girl trying to collect from me said "people make mistakes and you can't blame them." Um, when I make a mistake and forget to pay a bill you guys jump all over me. You make a mistake and it's still my problem to solve.
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The Guardian article adds significant original content, so I think it's worth reading as well as the original post.
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Is anyone embedding Bespin for idea's similar to this?
For Tarsnap, I see:

* 9.6% of account-creations (submit valid form to /register.cgi) do not result in accounts being created.

* 28.5% of people who create accounts (including confirmation) don't deposit any money.

* 7.5% of people who deposit money into their accounts haven't actually used Tarsnap yet.

Most of the confirmation failures are from overcounting registrations -- e.g., someone forgets their password before they get the confirmation email, so they re-register with a new password.

Anecdotally, it seems that most of the never-add-money people fall into the "interested but not enough to pay money" category -- i.e., they're just poking around, and they'll keep poking around until they have to pay, but they were never likely to pay for backups.

The pay-but-never-use group is the one which bothers me the most, but the issue here is generally one of procrastination -- they know they need backups, and they're willing to pay to have backups, but they just haven't gotten around to setting it up yet. That said, I've noticed accounts like this suddenly come to life months later, so I think there's hope that most of these will eventually have some usage.
hang on. Distributing an xcode project is not the same as distributing an app.
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Soccer should be much harder to quantify with stats because the game is basically a set of two continuous events.

As a contrast, baseball is easier to quantify with stats because it's a series of discrete events.

In most sports statistical analysis, you try and drill down to a discrete event. In baseball, it's something like at-bat or on-base. In basketball, it's per-possession (though this isn't enough). But in soccer, what can you do? Per-possession is difficult because it overlooks the 21 other players on the field. Everything is team-oriented.
Try espresso, it has less acid than coffee. If you still want a coffee style drink then go for an americano (espresso + water)
I sincerely hope with #1 you are comparing Chrome to Safari and not Firefox.
You have to believe!

Like that sticker from an earlier World Cup says: "Pride. Passion. Belief."

Don't be so pessimistic!
I'm curious what a native port of Emacs on an iPad actually contributes over an Screen/SSH session on a "real" machine with "real" compilers and tool-chains.
Yes. I remember reading an article on a paper that claimed football was the most "exciting" sport as it had the greatest opportunity to provide upset due to the low scoring.

It's more likely that the David's can beat Goliath. This is also compounded by having a knockout cup (where the Goliaths can and do go out) and the teams playing each other in a league far less than most American sports, at about 25 matches a year. That's roughly the same as the NFL, but nothing like baseball, which is insane.
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they've been quietly recruiting college engineers
"...but let's not draw any conclusions yet".
Wow, how long ago was this? Totally a FERPA violation these days. Hell, even the randomly generated student IDs may be private soon. We're already implementing PINs that will need to be entered before staff can talk to students about billing and aid.
Well, I can give a few thoughts from the other side of this fence. At Fusion, we do our part to get our promotions in front of the right eyeballs. As well, by now the value of our brand can lend some credence to our customers.

Unfortunately, we sometimes get a client who thinks that just by getting some exposure on a network like ours or in an app like Tweetie, sales will sky rocket. But for that to happen, some thought and hard work also have to go into the promotion.

We can help an advertiser get the traffic, but if the product/service is low quality, conversions will be low. We do our best to filter out the bad and only promote the good stuff, products we believe in or use ourselves, but reality is that the occasional lemon gets in the door.

Advertising with Fusion will help with your brand awareness, but because so many of our customers our smaller one/two man shops — which we love — we care about conversions as well. And so we try to help each customer get the best ROI by encouraging attractive graphics and smart copy.
Great Idea, great offer, I'll send my pitch email. do you have any limitations ?(something like the first 20, only x peoples, since you have 2 to 3 adspaces to offer or it just needs to be interesting for your audience?).
Out of sight, out of mind. At least they include nano in the base system.
I think this guy misses the point. Transparency is what people are pissed about because facebook has none of it.
Looks like it uses this for sandboxing: http://github.com/Licenser/clj-sandbox
This article seems to be mostly a compilation itself. If it was titled "8 Forms of Asian Calligraphy", it would fit into the pattern you describe.
Sell all rights to the highest bidder and then distribute the funds to each country according to population.

The ultimate guardian of any property right is the owner. Just as government is unable to keep squatters out of foreclosed properties, so to it is impossible to keep looters out of the seas with active interested owners.

I'm convinced that owners will come up with all sorts of ways to enforce their rights. It will be their money on the line, after all. And if the penalties for poaching are high enough, the incentives are going to be in favor of owners.

The practical effect of this is fish will cost more than just the cost of picking it up out of the ocean. And that's exactly what needs to happen. The price needs to reflect the relative scarcity of these resources in order for people to change their habits.

Property rights can accomplish what we need. Collective ownership has failed and its time to act accordingly.
Thanks for this! I already sent my pitch.
We're unlikely to see emacs on the iPad, but it raises an interesting question in my mind. On the virtual keyboard, since we're not limited to pressing keys, might there be UI alternatives to the whole escape-meta-alt-control-shift behavior we're limited to today? control-x could be a swipe, for instance, or perhaps a larger area of the display could function as various temporary mode-specific functions. Dunno, just a thought.
Imagine that somebody is beginning a company that will be valued at >$ 1 Billion in three years and you believe on that. What will be your investment range and % of shares for an angel investment today. Also assuming that this company will not require any extra investment.

Just a question.
Thanks for the response, Matt! Unfortunately, it seems that documentation is really sparse for OSC and Xobni already seems to have solved quite a few of the challenges for Outlook.

Suppose I'll try it for myself and see how it goes.
You can use whatever term you want for the behavior -- we all know what it is and why it isn't right and it is just as wrong as stealing IMO.

But when does the theft actually take place? When I download the content? That's obviously a victimless crime, up until the point I derive value from what I 'stole' by watching it. At that point, what have I done that's any different from checking a book out of a library, where a vast number of readers can derive value from a limited number of purchased copies?

Words, like laws, sometimes outlive their relevance.
It's sad not having MathML support in WebKit. It means that I still need Firefox on my Win7 and Ubuntu machines and that I'm screwed on the iPod Touch.
Should we all really add a glass of red wine to our daily diet?

The problem with these questions is that their answers aren't absolute. It varies significantly depending on the person, their genetic makeup, and their lifestyle. Even doing seemingly healthy things can be bad depending on your makeup.. enough 20-30 year olds have died during moderate exercise to show us that.

There are enough old smokers, heavy drinkers, drug takers, and what not, to demonstrate that these activities are not guaranteed to kill you. Studies merely attempt to show, statistically, the damage that "can" be caused or is "more likely" to be caused than by not consuming the item.

Given that we're haven't worked out how to determine what substances are or aren't helpful to us on an individual basis, I consume whatever I like as long as it doesn't make me feel bad. I might die tomorrow, I might die when I'm 90, que sera sera.
WSJ reports Facebook discord over privacy issues
ymacs is emacs in a browser.

emacs-w3m is a browser inside emacs

I just tried to run ymacs in a emacs-w3m, but it didn't work.

that woulda been cool though, emacs in a browser running inside a browser which is inside emacs.
1. Somehow I feel this is because MS is trying to push dynamics CRM more

2. MS rarely sues over patent matters, usually they do cross licensing deals, so maybe they tried that here (as clear from Salesforce jan filing) and that didn't work out. I am sure Salesforce being quite a old player will have patents MS might be interested in using/licensing.

3. People criticizing the patents they are suing for, remember two latest case that MS lost, one of them for basically saving a word file in xml format. They lost millions and The judge actually ordered them to stop shipping Office till they fix it. Based on that as a shareholder I would want them to go out and make some money from their patent arsenal even if it involves suing.
No I didn't.

Well, unfortunately, your level of morality doesn't scale.
I don't know about saving publishing, but I have paid more in the last thirty days for comics, newspapers, and magazines on the iPad, than I had in the previous two+ years on paper.

Perhaps I'm an outlier, but I _prefer_ the iPad Time, Popular Electronics, Marvel Comics, and WSJ to the paper version.

I guess time will tell how many others like me there are out there.
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Years ago when I first set up my bank account with a big bank(I believe I was 13?), they transposed two of the numbers in my SSN. Ten years later, this mistake was finally caught when somebody attempted to set up an account using their correct SSN, which conveniently was my mistaken SSN.

And that's when I realized how easy it is to steal a person's identity.
Slight correction: works with sites that support opensearch and that you previously have visited.
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A Clojure REPL that works on iPhone and iPad platforms. Will the wonders of web application delivery never cease? :)
Ah. The periods are what kill me.
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Decide if you want to contact them "personally" or as a group. The following is a rough draft of what I might right of I wanted to contact them "personally"

"Hi,
While doing some analytics I noticed that you registered but never used our product. In order to improve PRODUCT, I was hoping you could answer a few questions so we can make sure that what we offer is as closely matched to what people are looking for as possible. <questions>"

It's all in the way you phrase it...
and while we're on the topic of how broken SSN's are...

why is it that the most important piece of identification you receive in your life, that you also need to keep forever, is printed on a crappy piece of paper???
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Any line between embedded and "full" computers isn't technical, without choosing fairly arbitrary criteria. A palm pre runs linux, and has a keyboard, it's SDK is HTML/JS. Why aren't people complaining about that? I believe that it's b/c they already knew what a phone was, and that they were happy that they got some power to hack phones when the smarter ones came out.

The iPad went the other direction. The endpoint's the same -- a specialized device for a specific set of activities -- but now developers feel that things have been taken away instead of added. A social reason if I ever heard one.

We're only going to see more specialized devices -- embedded systems are getting enough power to get really interesting -- so it's best that us hackers get used to it now.
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Wow. I'm into screencasts, but I'd never heard of you! I'm curious about the pre-order screencasts. How much planning did you do beforehand? Are lesson plans subject to change? Are you set up to do bulk refunds if you don't finish a series in a reasonable amount of time?

I think it's a good idea, perhaps taken a little too far. I'd probably want to finish half of a series before taking money for a whole series.
I agree, getting other firms involved will definitely help the process and could decide it's success or failure. The building(s) in that area alone aren't going to attract startups. The whole package (location, funding, state and local laws) needs to be more attractive.

At least they've announced they're working on it though. This still could go no where, but it's nice to know startups are being talked about at the local government level.
"People built it in Flash because there was no other decent technology from companies like Apple, Microsoft or Real Networks that enabled this kind of content to be created and delivered. To say that all this content should be discarded because Steve Jobs is afraid that people will build Flash content that runs on mobile devices running any operating system instead of building content that will only work on Apple mobile devices is doing a disservice to the efforts of all those individuals."

Interesting perspective I haven't seen in other articles on this topic. By existing for years in popularity, its almost a required technology in order to truly maintain internet history, as would be the case with image formats for instance; though, granted, its arguable whether the majority of Flash content is truly worth maintaining in perpetuity.

While certainly it may be displaced as a choice for new content, can Flash ever truly "die" given that a likely sizable portion of the web will never be converted to anything else?
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I'm confused? CTR of 20%? So 20% of 100,000 is 20,000 last I checked. Of 20,000 hits, converting even 2% into purchases (should be realistic) is 400 purchases. If I did my math right, thats $620 profit. Not big bucks, but still profit.
Thank you for posting this! I went on his youtube channel to see what it's all about and I ended up watching the first 7 lessons in Biology... and I had 3 or 4 "gotchas" that I never got in school... man this is fun. I'm sure to continue watching this stuff. I want to watch it all!
Baseball is even better than that. It's a bunch of discrete events that are built out of many, many nigh-identical repetitions of even smaller discrete events.

The other point to make is that baseball controls the combinatorial explosion by either having the players act in relative isolation (when fielders handle the ball) or by grouping them in tiny groups of two or three (pitcher, batter, and to some extent the catcher), one of whom is generally a constant in any given game (the catcher), and one of whom only changes a few times per game (the pitcher). This is a fairly restricted set of possible matchups, and these are replayed over and over to get better stats. That's why baseball is the statistician's dream.

Similarly, in basketball there are fairly few players on the floor, and they tend to match up with each other fairly predictably. And while American football puts 22 players on the field, most of them never touch the ball, and most of the remaining players do the same sort of job over and over in the same relatively small part of the field, interacting with the same small subset of players on the other team.

But soccer is all over the place. ;)
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England has great players, possibly the strongest side altogether. However, they never manage to play together as a team, unlike a lot of other countries.

This result is good news, now I don't have to watch any of the world cup. Rather watch sports where cheating is not such an integral part of the game, and where the officiating body actually tried to discourage it rather than encourage. (from a bitter aussie)
FWIW, the iPhone Terminal app for jailbroken users has similar gestures like this for the common control sequences.

They work pretty well, it just takes a while to remember which one is which (early on, trying to guess the Ctrl-C swipe can take quite a while.)
Of course, you can get an external keyboard for the iPad, and that comes with Ctrl and Meta keys.

It's a fair point, though.
Could it be that just the current stats collected are not enough to matter as much as the stats in baseball? Granted, it may be easier to identify stats that matter in baseball due to the discrete vs. continuous events you mention.

Maybe new stats collected at a later date will matter as much as those collected in baseball... or maybe not.