skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
c'mon dude, SO is pretty amazing. Poor answers are usually pushed to the bottom (though I have seen a fair few basic questions on SO with odd answers that no-one's bothered correcting).

The equivalent of php is dodgy bulletin boards that still doggedly come top of some google searches. And boy do a lot of them have the entirely wrong solution.

I'm starting to get to the point now where I ask SO first and then google, apart from Html questions.
In these situations the expiration date idea wouldn't work either because they would either find a workaround or refuse to install your software at all, knowing that it forces them to go through the upgrade process in the future (and on your timeframe instead of theirs to boot).
Y'know, not that there's anything wrong with turning a profit from bereavement services but...the best thing that can be said about these legacy.com vultures is that their receipt of a Webby Honoree award is proof positive that the Webbys are full of shit. Hopefully somebody puts these predators out of business.
Hmm, yes indeed. 2^(10^10) is not 1 mod 10^10, so I don't know. Please enlighten us!
In which case, why do the Japanese get it equally on both sides rather than with a right-side preference? Also should check vs other right-hand-drive car countries.

I'm unconvinced, though, because we're talking breast cancer rather than skin cancer. Few women drive around with their breasts exposed.
I agree. Especially if the employee is actively asking for a bonus or a raise, and being denied.

If an employee says to the boss "Hey, I think I'm worth X more than you're paying me", and after extensive "due process" the answer comes back from management as "No, and you can't have more time off either", that's a clear sign that the decision makers have, at best, limited respect for that employee's work. Verbal claims of respect, at this point, are almost offensive.

That said, on the other hand, piles of cash but nary a kind word is also not very respectful.
Short deadlines and photorealism are not very compatible.
What's Special About Each Number?
This is also discussed in Methods of Rationality, chapter 25 (Yudkowsky's Harry Potter fanfic): http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_M...
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Regarding interaction with designers, I believe the answer is 'It Depends'.

As an example, in the Clojure space there are two libraries that are good exemplars of the ends of the spectrum: Hiccup and Enlive.

Hiccup (http://github.com/weavejester/hiccup) uses sexpressions to define the (ht|x)ml output. Effectively either the developer and designer roles are fused or the developer gets a design from the designer and encodes it into hiccup manually.

Enlive (http://github.com/cgrand/enlive) is (in overly simplistic terms) a selector driven substitution engine. You give it an HTML file for a template and some CSS selectors describing what to modify, alternatively you define a snippet in terms of some elements within the page. In this model the designers work is first class resource, and not modified by the developer.

This is exactly the same breadth of options as I've seen in just about any real language being used for development tools.
Unfortunately this is an anti-feature: no one will choose a browser for himself b/c he wants it, and some ppl might avoid browsers with it.

I guess the only way it could be good for market share is I might want to install a browser like this for someone else, so they'll end up upgrading eventually even if I'm not around anymore. I'd be happy to mass install it at a big company if I could get away with it. Then even if I'm not there later, something good will happen.
Obie tweeted about this:

"Hashrocket is NOT connected with any wrongdoing. The gov is doing its best to railroad my partners but they are fighting back!! (PLS RT)"

http://twitter.com/obie/status/17608288414
will do good if you get enoght jobs :)
All the more reason to give yourself a bigger domain (101 elements instead of 5). You don't need to map into the percentage domain directly from signal strength; you could easily define a function of data/voice connectivity as throughput to a percent scale.

"But data and voice have different quality of service criteria and blah blah blah!" So make up a function that accounts for this. Or add another indicator for data exclusively and keep the bars for voice.
I bet Japanese drive a lot fewer miles per capita. Small islands. Lots of public transpo.
I think that you are overrating the thinking process that users have. Most users are not like you. They don't carefully consider the pros and cons of the software they install.

Most users are like, "It's shiny, let's install it!" Okay, I'm exaggerating, but I'm saying that the vast majority of users would still download and install Firefox/Chrome even if they had an expiration date.
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It's a quote usually attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt. But my invocation of it stands, at least as a guard against petty he-said she-said discussions here on HN.

Or maybe I am wrong, maybe gossip and backstabbing are perfectly on-topic here. Dunno.
If the claim of HALF A BILLION dollar fraud is true it seems unlikely that Obie would not know something about it. If my buddies and business associates made that kind of money I sure as hell would know everything about it. HOWEVER, this does not diminish HashRocket or Obie's work-- the Rails Way is THE book that taught me Rails. Hashrocket has contributed so much to the ecosystem I sure hope that doesn't change.

edit: It seems quite plausable that HashRocket people actually helped developed the "fraud" site... If they can pull off a HALF A BILLION dollar scam just think that they can do for my company! The line between innovation and fraud is often very thin.
Actually, the future is recommendation via brain composition. Or better yet, direct brain stimulus that makes you think anything is a good recommendation.

Facebook is the future? I hope we are a bit more imaginative and ambitious.
Last year I used a computer that actually had a 486 cpu, whose only method of data transfer was floppy, and would have choked on anything other than the DOS it was loaded with. It had a power ROCKER, not a power button. It was probably about 20 years old.

It did it's job admirably- load EEPROM chips with it's paired, equally archaic EEPROM burner.

There is really no reason to replace it, besides saving you the annoyance of using floppies.

So, in a word what I am saying is computers that are tools need not have an expiration date. Their software does not need to be updated, because there is nothing wrong with it. Do you upgrade your 1970's corded drill just because it's old? No. It may not be pretty, but it does the job.
If you (or someone else) wouldn't mind taking the time to explain it, I'd really like to know why your unsupported and vaguely anti-Ruby statement is so popular. I'm assuming that it means that the problems with Ruby are so widely known that you don't even need to spell them out in order for people to agree with you, but I guess I didn't get the memo. Why "really shouldn't" we? (Serious question - thanks.)
unfortunately I just recycled my two A500's. They'd been sitting in the crawl space under the house and weren't being used. Not even sure they worked anymore. My 1080S broke several years (decades) ago so I hadn't used them in a while. One I remember had the 1MB chip ram upgrade that you did yourself by cutting a trace on the mobo between the 68000 and Agnus chips. Suddenly I feel old...
The article seemed to indicate performing experiments where meanness could be created in the test subject by altering parameters of the experiment (granting them more power).
I was forced to defend someone. And thankfully, it's now a discussion about gossip, instead of it being a discussion about someone.
I'm not sure that stopping you from carrying a camera into a courtroom counts as limiting the freedom of the press. Courtrooms are special places, and very different rules apply there. Heck, the judge doesn't have to let you in at all, if he doesn't feel like it.
In the study the participants were all assigned the same "compensation", and randomly assigned to groups where the fictional employee had either high or low "compensation" inequality. So to the extent that this study supports the conclusion, it's not because mean executives pay themselves more.

Does anybody read the articles any more, or just the headlines?
the author of the article was voted misleader of the year in 2004, so go figure...

http://www.vof.se/visa-forvillare2004eng
How much can you earn from Google Adsense?
I'm just wondering does anybody here got their startup sustained by just the income from Google Adsense? Does anybody become big just from Google Adsense? Just wondering........
I think most Rails developers would agree with you there, which is why we're still seeing interesting gems that make our work easier coming out every day. There is a real commitment in the Rails community to make web development more productive and enjoyable, and I would hope that that is the attitude shared by most devs, regardless of framework.

Still, there is something very true to the original comment. Most web frameworks are wed to an overall philosophy for creating web applications. Rails is unlikely to depart from the MVC pattern for example. If you agree with that you can see that Rails, and any other framework I can think of, can at best hope to strive for a local maximum, unless their overall approaches are eventually validated as the way to do things, but I find that very unlikely.

I like the idea of web frameworks using functional languages, largely because I believe a framework written in a functional language will be better capable of adapting to new advances. I definitely agree with you about Sinatra. Even if a lisp or other FP language is better suited to the task, the advance will be evolutionary at best, while what I'd like to see is something revolutionary.
I visited Hashrocket's Jacksonville office for a couple days earlier this year, just to watch and learn from the programmers there. They seem like a good group of people, and I'm sorry to see them getting caught up in this.

The alleged fraud in this story was by some Hashrocket execs as part of a separate company. If all of this turns out to be true, I still wish the best for the programmers at Hashrocket.
Many corporate IT departments run old browsers because they make use of proprietary intranet web applications and don't feel like developing them on multiple platforms. To them, this system would seem pretty stupid, and indeed, would prevent them from ever upgrading into new expiring browser versions.
Browsers that are never connected to the internet (IMHO) can safely be considered a non-issue.
> That said, would this be mitigated by only allowing release of the footage after everything is over?

I'd recommend only releasing the footage if the person was found guilty.
Well, it's possible that the coils in a spring mattress -- being conductive and of a regular height and at regular intervals -- could have some kind of RF field effect. It would still be miniscule, but it could cause a phase alignment maybe or something equally strange.

But you're right, this is nothing but speculation. I would expect that a reasonable field strength meter would be all that's required to test the theory out, so I wonder why it wasn't tested before publication?

Also, one of the two researchers is Ollie Johansson, who earned Swedish Skeptics Society's illustrious "Misleader of the Year" award: http://www.vof.se/visa-forvillare2004eng

He also formulated a theory that lung cancer wasn't due strictly to smoking, but also that it had something to do with the increase of radio waves starting in the 50s.

In this case I think it would be appropriate for amateurs to view his work in a skeptical light.

EDIT: I couldn't remember the term for them, but basically the mattress might be able to form a very crude kind of passive repeater. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_repeater ...but, again, this ought to be tested rather than speculated.
The court is not Congress (or a legislature).
As far as I can decode the experiment, it seems that people who were told "you did one question better on the test, we gave you 65 points and the other person 15 points" were more likely to be mean than people who were told "you did one question better on the test, we gave you 65 points and the other person 60".

The link to executive compensation is highly nonobvious.
So your disagreement with the status quo is the current brand of legal consequences being used? What do you propose instead that will have the effect of limiting downloading and sharing of the above, since that's what you seem to be after?
Having listened to Joel and Jeff go on about the new StackOverflow ideas on their podcast, as well as in blog posts, it seems they're being utopian with the whole "people don't care about money or control, they just want to help" bit.

Running your own site and having control over how it works is important for a lot of people. If it weren't, geeks wouldn't self host WordPress for their personal blogs - they'd use Blogger or WordPress.com.

I'm glad that pg developed HN as a new, separate thing instead of rolling it out on Ning or whatever system was flavor of the day 1300 days ago. Likewise, it seems good that someone has a deep enough passion to set up MetaOptimize as a separate site, because they might actually bother to keep it up to date whereas SO might become the next Ning or Blogger over time.

No matter how bouncy SO's castle may be, true geeks like to build their own castles, even if they're not quite as shiny.
Fair enough, but the current problem is that it's hard to make money creating content without spending a lot of time learning to be a publisher. Sure, you can blog, but what if your thing is writing novels or paintings in some obscure artistic style?

The disruption of the old publishing ecosystem has created many new opportunities, but also undermined many specialized niche markets. In other cases, content has become more accessible in one context but unaffordable in others. The loss of income from recorded music is one factor in the increasingly high cost of concert tickets, so it's a lot more expensive to go see your favorite band than it used to be, and the higher revenue stream from established acts makes it more difficult for new ones to get in front of a larger audience.
Agreed. Same reason I won't work at a place that wants my piss.
Opinion piece. Conspiracy theory.
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I see they're taking a hint from Google.
This is assuming the Pirate Bay et al. are exclusively set up for sharing copyrighted information, when this not the case. You can find credit card numbers through Google as well. Anyway, the example just seems really silly, and as a previous commenter noted, whether your site is taken down or not doesn't matter: the card number is leaked (which has nothing to do with your site), I'm canceling it anyway.
This looks so awesome, but I'm just so paranoid about entering in my bank account/Paypal info. Anyone else feel similar?
I used to make $2,000 before i sold my website like 2 years ago. I seriously don't recomment using it unless your website is content driven.

I know some big guys from that time that used to make sick amounts of cash like $145,000 a month
Pay everyone way more than they're work then buy a beach front office. It's easy to spend money that you do not respect.
Steve Blank's "Four Steps to the Epiphany" also has a horrible design and the "manufacturing" quality of the book is just plain crappy. But the content in the book is just absolutely golden, a must read for tech startups.
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I would love this as much as any other web designer or developer, but sadly, it's just not feasible.

The biggest problem with upgrades is that lots of companies rely on specific versions of specific browsers for in-house websites and web apps. Expiration dates essentially amount to browser makers saying 'too bad, fix your software'. This would be amusing, but realistically, Microsoft would never do such a thing, and without Microsoft on board, not much will change.

The best compromise I can think of is for browser vendors to decouple updates of web-technology support (HTML, CSS, JS, Canvas, etc.) from updates of user-facing features, the things that get advertised when an full point upgrade is released, and start pushing out HTML, CSS and JS upgrades automatically, in the background. Once the first round of such browsers were widely adopted, browser upgrades would cease to be an issue at all. Upgrade averse users could keep their old versions with familiar interfaces and still have cutting edge standards support.

This leaves the problem of getting the first round of upgrades through, but that could be solved by building in backwards compatibility for all currently popular version of a browser. This would be a pain, but would only have to happen once. If Microsoft, for example, gave IE9 full backwards compatibility with IE8, 7 and 6, and made future rendering updates automatic, there would be very little excuse left for any company to stick with an older version of IE.
You know you're reading a right/conservative/Repub/FoxNews-like source when the very 1st suggestion discussed for improving the clean up effort is this:

"First, the Environmental Protection Agency can relax restrictions on the amount of oil in discharged water, currently limited to 15 parts per million."

Welcome to Bizarro World. We do things backwards here.

EDIT: skushch's reply below made a good clarification. When I originally read that portion of the article I didn't realize that was the argument made. I just saw how the very 1st solution recommended was that the EPA should allow more oil in the water, which was hilarious and consistent with many other "pro-pollution/pro-greed" efforts I've seen from The Right in past years, and I reacted to that. So on this single narrow point I think the article does make sense: we should temporarily drop any rule that commits the error of letting the quest for perfection be the enemy of the good enough now. The overall article I still think is an attack piece with highly cherry-picked statements and convenient blinders on.
I bought my father a Kindle DX - he enjoys it, but I would not be able to stand it. Call us the spoiled computing generation - but with complex graphics-laden PDFs, the Kindle can take up to ten seconds to change page. That's ludicrous and, and it alone wipes out any advantage e-ink has over backlit.

The entirety of the Kindle software is really, really slow. I'm not convinced this is simply a matter of the e-ink display - even things that do not force a full refresh of the display incur large wait times.
You're right, though I'm not sure it even needs to be a "special place" to count. Public toilets, prisons, and schools are "public" buildings but the press can't just waltz in and film anything to get a story.
summary: the only fair conclusion is that we can't say for sure which device offers the fastest reading speed... But we can say that tablets still haven't beaten the printed book [in speed]
Importantly:

1) Hashrocket has absolutely nothing to do with the criminal complaint
2) In the USA people are innocent until proven guilty

Now if you're interested in this case, read on...

There are hundreds of independent yellow pages (including Yellow Pages United) that legally use the term Yellow Pages and the "walking fingers" logo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Pages

My partners have been doing direct mail and publishing a real, actual, yellow pages "Business Book" for something like 10 years. I've personally known them for almost 4 years and they're not crooks. They are important figures in the community and employ a few dozen people here. Their legal counsel for compliance with postal regulations is some of the best in the business and they have been operating without ever having any fear of being subject to criminal fraud prosecution.

Their detention hearing was today. After 5 hours of testimony the federal judge from Florida's Middle District decided to release Mark, Marian and Chris on bond, basically disagreeing with the Atlanta court's request. What I witnessed during the hearing was political grandstanding, a run-amok federal prosecutor trying to make a name for himself and sheer cluelessness on behalf of the government. A ton of "facts" in the criminal complaint simply don't make any sense. For instance, they claim that the FTC consumer complaint database has over 100,000 issues in it related to United Directories. That is plainly false and we heard testimony in court today that the FTC regularly investigates companies once they exceed 5-10 complaints. That the FTC would ignore 100 thousand complaints over the course of 5 years is complete bullshit.

Also, the $425MM figure being widely quoted in the news is based on deposits figures from United Directories' (UD) sweep account. SWEEP ACCOUNT. They summed up all the money ever deposited into the UD sweep account and spent hours claiming that the money had disappeared. It hadn't disappeared -- it never existed in the first place!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweep_account

In an almost funny episode, the federal prosecutor admitted he did not know what a sweep account was, later calling the explanation "trickery" on the part of the defense.

There's so much more to this case than what the media is reporting and we're going to do our best to make sure that our side of the story, the truth, is heard. All of Hashrocket is pretty distraught, but we'll do our best to soldier on and support our friends in whatever way possible.
The cofounder of Symbolics, Dan Weinreb, apparently works there as well. They also seem to do a lot of Lisp programming. Seems like a pretty cool company.
What do you want to imply? I do not see any connection to Google.

ITA had those puzzles for quite a long time. (Perhaps before Google was even founded?)
Booo advertising a non-yc funded company.

(And the obligatory: Hooray unspecified chemically laced beverage!)
Even if Linux is your main OS, I would still use a VM, because you can reproduce a server environment more closely, isolates that work from your "personal stuff", allows powerful features such as snapshotting, and enables you to simulate multiple servers and/or clients (virtualization) on a single box, when for example playing with a distributed date store.
I think the extremists are more effective. While people don't take them as seriously, they do move the balance of the discussion. It's like a see-saw {balance}. Where do you put a limited weight to have the maximum effect. Groups like The Sierra Club were ignored or seen as pretty fringe, until groups like Earth First came onto the scene.
There's never been a better time to be a creepy stalker.

Back in the beginning when Facebook wasn't stalker friendly I remember wanting to have auto tagging based on facial recognition. Now... now I'm afraid that I'll get tagged by other people in facebook (even though I'm not part of it anymore) and facebook will of course make money by selling all the facial patterns to third parties.

The applications of facial recognition make my mind fly, they remind me of Minority Report and marketers recognizing you wherever you go, it makes me think of even more divorces based on far more evidence that will be automatically available on social networks.

I think I'll start wearing some make-up a few months from now, or turn my face away every time I see a camera. The end of anonymity is near.