skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This way we can have our cake and eat it too. New users see only one input, making it very clear what they're supposed to do, and advanced users can still do advanced things.
Meanwhile, I've discovered that I really enjoy speaking to an audience -- love the sound of my own voice, I guess -- but I hate selling, even when I believe in the product, and even when it's my product!
The advantages of which would not be reflected in this study. They quite clearly state that the children who received computers had increased computer skills, how could one claim that is not of educational benefit?
I suspect you could get something almost as good with a tabletop-sized bot. Just ask one of your colleagues to bring it to the meeting and leave it on the table.

Something so small and easily moved could be designed to be completely unintimidating, which could be an advantage in some situations.
See? The lack of games on Linux isn't a bug, its a feature!
Better yet, just go to mailinator and check the "sitepoint" inbox. There's already 3 links sent there, thanks to the efforts of others!
It takes Confidence to Become King, But Humility to Stay King
The email address you enter won't matter. Just put in any valid email address you want and then visit http://sale.sitepoint.com/claimpdf.php?email= with the email address you entered appended to the end.
i'm sorry, it's my wrong choice of word. it's not ignorant but smart ass. i don't like that. nobody is pushing anyone for answering questions. if you don't feel like you're doing something you're happy with, then don't do it. i'm also sorry for making a generalization as i know some people on pocoo very helpful and friendly. i remember you, and daslch answering my questions that way.

and let me note that werkzeug is a framework that i'd like to see at the top and people know its value.
I have not looked at the Ruby side in a while. I know the 1.8 series put Ruby as one of the slowest of the dynamic language but vaguely remember that being worked on. Had 1.9.X brought a good speed improvement?
The Setup: Dustin Curtis
that makes me wonder whether your comment is made to look you smarter or dumber than you are

The Dunning-Kruger effect specifically talks about honest self-assessment, not artificial posturing to skew other's views of your intelligence.

and what that means in Dunning-Kruger effect's context.

I'm pretty sure you're trying to use Dunning and Kruger's work to assess things that weren't actually a part of the original study. There is little to no relevant self-assessment involved in making the neutral observation that people abuse the results of the studies to make themselves seem smarter (which, again, has nothing to do with the results of the original study).
I gave them my email with a plus sign in it, and I was surprised that the web form accepted it and I got the email. However, clicking on the link they emailed me, which had my email (and therefore the plus sign) in the url, broke their site and just sent me back to TFA. Nice bugs guys.
When you think about it, the command line is the ultimate "single text field" app.
This answer seems to be Begging the Question.

You can represent brother and justice, via imagery, but what you would be doing is using a token example, comparing and creating a type out of the two situations. Now communicating that idea without a linguistic representation would be near impossible(I can't imagine an easy way) but to apprehend it without a linguistic layer is possible.
(ii) It could just be my own misunderstanding of what is being said, but does having a visual representation system, mean that symbols cannot be manipulated to interact, or does that by definition make them a language? Is this a functional definition we are working with?

As well, with words like "every" "the" "a" it sounds like these things are objects to you, and not emergent connectors inherent in a linguistic system, they exist by virtue of the language existing. A visual system may not have need for such conventions. Many of these questions or examples assume an almost external objective (at least thats my interpretation) existence of linguistics, but this is coming from a linguistic mind, and assumes the necessary existence of it.( hence my begging question comment at the beggining).

I held much the same view, until I experienced ineffable idea's and concepts in non linguistic form.
Anecdotally, one can try salvia or dimethyltryptamine and gain the qualia experience of a thinking or experience without linguistics.

Good points, but I feel Impossible is too strong a conclusion based on whats been said. :)
It's perfectly fine to bring a camera phone to an ultrasound. Now, I doubt they'll let you bring it into the MRI chamber but on the other hand if you're stuck in there you probably don't want to have an iPhone 4 broadcasting your condition to your friend yet anyway.
Actually, almost every military base has wifi, and almost all hospitals do. Please try again.
In that vein, http://sale.sitepoint.com/claimpdf.php?email=foo%40bar.com is now a direct download link :)
Makes sense to me. Don't really see why users expect Conde Nast to send money down the chain. CN/Wired Digital is in business to make money, and it's clear that reddit's model isn't working. If the site provides utility to its users, it makes sense that some might be willing to pay extra.

What's going to happen is that the donations will create a little bolus of cash -- not nearly enough -- and then run out of steam. Then the reddit guys are going to have to go back to the drawing board to figure out a long-term solution. This will probably be a subscription model that offers benefits that non-paying users don't get. This works better when you have content that people are willing to buy, but communities by users for users don't generally monetize that well, I don't think. What they might consider doing is figuring out what their "niche" is. Technology? Off-topic stuff? Something else? Then monetize the resource-drainers that don't fit with this mission. They could probably talk to Ars Technica about that, seeing as how they're also a CN property, and have nearly a decade's worth of experience in monetizing a dedicated community of users.

If they don't figure it out, reddit will go out of business. Conde Nast isn't in the business of subsidizing money-losing propositions, nor is any other company. And there's no reason they should be.
Has anyone read this, and would make the recommendation.
Blogging the Periodic Table
The problem is actually accomplishing the above, instead of just noticing it.
Except that HTML/CSS/Javascript + text editor + some kind of browser debugger = way more complicated than just typing into the console, typing 'run' and watching success or getting feedback on errors (like we did with Basic). This is why Hackety Hack (see below) is so great.

I started learning Ruby with Hackety Hack when _why started the project years ago, then plunged into Rails when I wanted to take what I'd learned online.
Minimalist GMail shortcuts cheatsheet [pdf]
I wish I could upvote you a thousand times. Naming discussions are classic bikeshedding. Everyone has an opinion, they'll argue endlessly and vigorously for their preferred naming scheme, and in the end it has very little real impact.

IMHO, almost any attempt to create some kind of meaning in the naming convention ends up sub-optimal. For example, I've seen people include information about the server hardware or OS in the name (ie something like dellwinnt01), or locations (atl-row1-01), etc. All of which fail miserably when there are server hardware/software update, data center moves, etc.

In the end, a server name should be easy to say, easy to spell, easy to remember, and shouldn't be anything that's likely to be controversial or offensive. No other criteria really matter.
Couldn't they have just used the IP address of the computer to figure out what subnet the computer was on?
"choose the scheme essentially at random."

Given that, as you say, it all ends up in a database anyhow, at work where we have ~100 machines or so with various name, there simply is no scheme. Why should there be? The real key is that it's in the database and we enforce that (via saying that if you grab something and it's taken, the database wins), but beyond that it's all just artificial anyhow. We have romanized japanese numbers and characters from Zork, the Hitchhiker's Guide, and the Legend of Zelda, places where one person took their favorite photos (used as logos for the machines), several other vague schemes I've only caught wind of since I'm not part of the relevant groups, and straight-up utilitarian naming ("printer.subdomain") and so on, and it doesn't cause a problem. (IT itself does have its own naming scheme, we're engineering. It makes good sense for IT, I think.)
Weekday Schedule for Summer:

05:40: Wake Up

05:45 - 06:00: Shower, eat a granola bar, and brush teeth

06:00 - 06:05: Make Lunch

06:05 - 08:30: Take bus to commute to work, attempt to sleep on, take subway to office

08:30 - 12:30: Work (@ startup)

12:30 - 13:15: Lunch

13:15 - 17:50: Work (@ startup)

17:50 - 20:00: Commute home on bus, while reading

20:00 - 20:10: Supper

20:10 - 22:00: Read Hacker News, Techcrunch, check e-mail

22:00 - 00:30: Watch TV (Seinfeld & Daily Show), fall asleep on the floor

00:30 - 00:31: Wake up and collapse into bed
It's gonna be a disaster if they ever need to re-address for any reason.
There are a lot of projects aiming to fix that, but yes, YARV is a great improvement on the speed front. Synthetic benchmarks being what they are, it looks promising: http://rubychan.de/share/yarv_speedups.html
Switching to Android
It really is a growing problem for companies like facebook. We've estimated that over 285k US facebook users will pass away this year and closer to 1.25m worldwide.

Here's another good link about how to delete and memorialize facebook accounts: http://blog.entrustet.com/2010/03/29/how-to-permanently-dele....

I don't think its something that Facebook can fix with code. The social security administration has a good database of US deaths, but they only update the feed 4x per year and Facebook would have to correlate it using info they currently don't ask for. A few companies are developing good death data, but I think it's really far off.

Other countries like Sweden have national registries that update daily, so Facebook could try to implement a code based solution, but I don't think it's likely to happen.

In reality, a survivor needs to notify facebook. You currently can, but you can only memorialize your account, not delete it. To do that, you'd need to give someone access to your account.

I'm the cofounder of Entrustet, one of the companies that helps people store their last wishes for all of their online accounts. It's important to make your wishes known so that your survivors know what to do.

Facebook is really the tip of the iceberg. Think about your blog, servers, family pictures and all of your other valuable digital assets. If you'd like more info, check us out.

Nathan Lustig cofounder, http://www.Entrustet.com
Ruby 1.8 uses MRI (Matz's Ruby Interpreter), which is indeed slow. Ruby 1.9 throws out the old MRI code entirely in favor of YARV (Yet Another Ruby VM), aka KRI (Koichi's Ruby Interpreter), which is considerably faster.
Damn! I'm procrastinating to read the article!
The problem with numbered hostnames is that it's very difficult to remember which host is which, even in the course of very short projects (was that ser0483 or ser0438 that needed rebooted?) etc. Although I'll grant you that numbered hostnames is probably the only workable alternative for a large farm of otherwise identical servers (VMWare server farm, rendering farm, etc.)
Corporate cultures in Japan
Many Germans Would Rather Waive the Flag
Nike Soccer Runs Interactive, Social Ad During World Cup Finals - Cool
Kinda funny that people are still admiringly quoting Joel's criticism of Netscape for going with the big rewrite, now that that rewrite has turned into Firefox.
Wow, that's long.
Their email address validator is broken anyway. It doesn't support host names with subdomains such as foobar@foo.bar.org At least it supports addresses such as foo.bar@foobar.org
not to worry, france got their karma :), they were sucks this world cup
Ask HN:  Would you ever join a porn startup?
The porn market is gigantic (conservatively $2.6 Billion in 2001). Let's say there existed an innovative and disruptive startup that did not engage in actual porn production, but added a new distribution mechanism and end-user application. Let's also say that it had some promising early traction.

If you got the opportunity to join such a startup, would you:

1.) even consider it, or
2.) be comfortable telling friends and family what you were working on?
Equations :-). But seriously, I think of e.g. freedom as that feeling you get when you're on a tropical island with the wind blowing through your hair. Much more interesting than thinking of "freedom" or "Freiheit" or "свобода".
I like to redesign, looks very modern. Whats strange is how they are trying to do an iGoogle or a customized yahoo experience, if you go straight to their main homepage. I'm wondering if I would really want to use the BBC for my customized homepage.
That's because introversion vs extraversion is a rather poor way to judge a person's sales skills. I've met extraverts who couldn't sell water in a desert and introverts who could sell ice to an Eskimo. Believe me, there are people out there who just aren't good at sales. Sure they can learn, but chances are their time is better spent learning to code and figuring out how to recognize a good salesperson to partner with.
The Mark of a Masterpiece
Yes and yes, I even tried to get a development job for a porn site once before but never got an interview. :(
I don't get it: Are you agreeing or disagreeing with what I said?

If you're right and the ideas were indeed ahead of their time, that means they were still a bad business proposition (at the time). The founders should take full credit for realizing this and adjusting accordingly.
Suppose I am a perfectly-rational Bayesian. Over the course of my long life I have acquired a false belief with a high degree of confidence. Through sheer statistical flukery and the vicissitudes of living in the real world, a perfectly-rational Bayesian should actually expect that in their enormous stock of beliefs lies at least one of these. We all have access to only a tiny shred of the full totality of reality, and it isn't even a uniformly-randomly-chosen shred.

So you come up to me and present to me a fact that demonstrates I am objectively wrong in my belief. This being the real world, let us suppose that it isn't entirely unexplainable in my belief system. I take your fact, discount it with my strength of belief in your reliability, and update my Bayesian belief. It can stay quite strong, even if I behave with perfect rationality. With the way the Bayesian rule works, you can only utterly destroy my belief with something that is utterly impossible under my belief structure, but your ability to provide that evidence is capped by my inability to believe you that strongly in the first place. I must consider that you might be trying to fool me, or that you yourself might be wrong and bringing your own fallacious interpretation into what you may very well believe are objective facts.

If even a perfectly rational person may not be convinced by you simply telling them a few facts, how do you expect mere humans to behave?

I'm not necessarily defending people. If you think this country is going to hell in a handbasket because we're funding too many Bridges to Nowhere, but I provide evidence that Bridges to Nowhere (for whatever your definition is) account for only .04% of the Federal budget, you've still got at least a little cover left in wondering whether or not I'm using a different definition than you or just lying. Of course, this sort of belief should be susceptible to change over time as you are presented with numerous falsifications of your belief, but my point is not that people are secretly acting rational, but rather that this isn't really that mystifying, nor can one imagine it changing.
She did. Check out the Sitepoint podcast where they interview the book's authors.
many people have big, flat layer two networks... e.g. one subnet might span locations. Now, personally, I think this is a bad idea in nearly all cases, but many other people disagree with me.

The thing is, vendors of expensive MPLS gear like to sell this idea of 'location independent subnets' to upper management as a way to 'simplify' the network.

Now maybe it's just 'cause I don't know layer two well, but god damn it is so much easier to troubleshoot layer three problems than to troubleshoot layer two problems, so I strongly favor making the subnets location and/or rack dependent.
I think waterlesscloud was alluding to the political preferences of Bay Area residents.
They did release a doc after the last major redesign. There's a copy at http://www.liamdelahunty.com/tips/usability_bbc_redesign_the...

edit: tried to make myself sound less like a bot!
Yeah. I remember one place that did the thing where they named the box based on the rack and the 'slot' in the rack. the problem was that this was the /primary key/ in the database so as troublesome hosts got swapped out for diagnostics, we lost their history. We had no idea if this was the second time the box was sent in for diagnostics, or the 50th.
'In writing these books Mark
Twain is not consciously writing a hymn to liberty. Primarily he is interested in 'character', in the fantastic, almost lunatic variations which human nature is capable of when economic pressure and tradition are both removed from it.'

thanks - very nice essay
First thing that came to my mind as well.
So how do you keep it from bursting? Or would reading about ballasthalo explain that?

I wonder what the actual formula is to calculate the correct balloon size? It seems like it might be some complicated differential equation. Here's why:

Say I want to lift 10 lbs. So I figure out I need X volume of helium. So I need a balloon weighing 1 lb to hold the helium. Now I need a balloon big enough to lift 11 lbs instead of 10, repeat, repeat.
Here's a post from a couple of months ago on it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1317004
Might be worth noting that @user and #tag were conventions invented by users and later adopted by Twitter itself
1. yes
2. yes, mostly.

I'm not involved in the porn industry now, and still am not comfortable telling some of my family what I do. Not because I'm ashamed, just because it's not something some of them can easily grasp, and it's seen as a bit confusing. I just say "computers" and that's enough for that. So, I'd probably just say the same thing regardless.
Difference between F5, Control F5, Click+Reload in various browsers
This is turning into bad PR for Conde Nast. The news cycle is turning this into "Conde Nast begging for money", which in turn is likely to lose millions in the market.

It's embarracing too. Conde Nast executives will wake up this week to calls asking why it's having to beg.
http://www.airdisaster.com/download2/ual232.shtml

The above is an mp3 of the last 10 seconds on the cockpit voice recorder. Just before the noise of impact you can hear the ground proximity alarm go off with a vwoop-vwoop "pull up!" vwoop-vwoop "pull up!". This isn't noted on the transcript.
BTW, I had an idea for cheap access to orbit using a helium balloon, solar panels, and electrodynamic tether propulsion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tether_propulsion)

But alas my math skills aren't up to the task of figuring out if it's viable. Someday I'll figure it out and you guys will see a blog post on it.
It's not sounding out as if I read aloud it's definitely much faster but it's also a phonic process to some extent. Scanning is less phonic in that no single words get sounded but somewhere there is a subconscious process still make phonic analysis I think - I can scan your comment for example and tell someone it's meaning but not the words you used.

Were you an early reader? I read at age 11 when I was 6 (although formal reading ages weren't assigned then).
Should you read this - nah, I actually have a positive impression of modern (as well as older) research. I have to admit that I was surprised to see such a strong set of opinions presented by the article, and after some reflection, I was pleased as well. It's nice to see someone saying "You want to be good at this, you better work your ass off to show me that you want it." rather than the typical modern schoolchild approach which engenders the idea that everyone is good enough.

I think you're right about the different kinds of labs, though I would characterize it as more of a continuum, but it seems to me that the "relax labs" ought to be more corporate or at least corporate-sponsored. But that's a whole different topic.
Do they really think that the bit about federal expenditures for welfare means anything? I mean, if you ask your typical Boston liberal whether they are in favor of increased or decreased military spending and they say, "Decreased" is that opinion suddenly ignorant or wrong or anti-democratic because they then guess that current expenditures are 50 percent (too high)?

Seriously, forget balance sheet trivia. Let's worry about the basic cognive skills of journalists first.
that isn't how that works at all.
i feel like i'm the only one, but isn't reddit just really really hard to use?

* No subreddit directory (you can't even group the reddits that you are subscribed to)

* no groupings of subreddits, or related subreddits

* help is really bad ("subscribe" means hitting '+frontpage'?)

* Postings would be so much better off with a tagging system that would prevent users from having to cross-post

* search
Stadium food delivery. This is a great idea.
"FanGo produces an iPhone app and mobile commerce ordering system that allows fans at stadiums and arenas to order concession food and drinks directly from their iPhone app. Food is then delivered to the fan’s seat, allowing fans to avoid long lines at food stands in stadiums. The startup is already in progress of negotiating deals with professional sports stadiums across the country."
Dead pixel in Google Earth
Visual artise, Helmut Smits from the Netherlands burnt a 3-foot by 3-foot square into some grass to create a visual prank for Google Earth - a dead pixel on your screen.

No coordinates are provided though - so good luck finding it!
"Google is incorporated in Delaware. Apple (through Braeburn Capital since the mid-2000s) manages most of its assets in Nevada. They're not paying state corporate income taxes to anyone, let alone California. "

I don't think this is entirely correct as it's a misconception about what it means to incorporate in Delaware. Foreign companies operating in California (and other states) pay taxes there.

There are ways to use Delaware and Nevada to pay less in state taxes, but simply being incorporated there is not one of them, and they are still definitely paying state taxes to Georgia.
>I think of e.g. freedom as that feeling you get when you're on a tropical island with the wind blowing through your hair.

Really? How do you then differentiate freedom internally from the literal feeling you are using as a metaphor for it or say from an idea like "tropical breeze"? What's your internal token for "tropical breeze"?
Amazon has nice reviews of this book. Thanks for doing this.
Sure. I bet Apple has already sold more video chat capable phones in the US than any other company has in the past. The requirement of having an iPhone 4 at both ends is a barrier but at least it's easy to understand. Otherwise you've got to track down some model of phone with a front facing camera, ensure it can run the right software, install the software on both ends, and exchange usernames, IPs or whatever to establish the call. For most people, especially on family plans, buying the same model of phone is more realistic.