skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a fatuous and counterproductive argument. Total utilization is a categorically positive goal. Those "ewww!" bits he waved in front of the kids have had culinary uses for centuries --- maybe millenia. Presumably those kids never want to eat dim sum --- or chicken soup --- either.

Want to make an argument against pork with an appeal to children? Show them how a testa is made out of a pig's head:

http://skyfullofbacon.com/blog/?p=91

Ewww! You wouldn't want to eat that!

Here's total utilization of a duck. Gross!

http://ahungerartist.bobdelgrosso.com/2008/09/hunger-arttota...

Why, with minimal effort and the culinary sensibilities of 8-year-olds, I bet we could eliminate the entire pernicious craft of charcuterie from the planet in just months! You do know what sausages are encased in, right...?

If you want to honestly convince kids not to eat McNuggets, show them a factory chicken farm. Of course, don't expect them to eat that nice, expensive, white-meat chicken breast either; no matter what cut you get, supermarket chicken is steeped in sewage and pumped with antibiotics before it gets to the shelves. But that fact isn't convenient to Oliver's presentation.

He has a laudable goal, but he doesn't get to mislead to achieve it.
Too bad we don't live on the internet... or do we?
I work with a customized Archer risk management module at work, so I'm pretty familiar with it. If you are targeting the enterprise/B2B market, they're going to laugh at $20.

In theory, PCI compliance is worth whatever revenue you bring in with credit cards, since being non-compliant theoretically means you could lose all of that revenue. That said, the typical model of security software is to charge as much as you possibly can. You're making a product that supposedly interfaces with Archer - who can easily charge $50k+ in renewal fees each year.

Enterprise customers usually equate higher $$$ with better functionality/more security. I say that with significant experience consulting and working for large enterprises. I'd thinking about charging significantly more, maybe even in the $499 range depending on the exact functionality of your product.

This is interesting, because I've recently been thinking a bout product ideas around the assessment process. Archer is WAY overkill for a lot of businesses, even some large businesses.
Doubletwist's web interface to the Android Market seems well designed: http://www.doubletwist.com/apps/
Your French version feels authentic to me, but then so does the Irish one. I doubt one can say where jokes like these originate. All cultures and languages probably have versions of them.
>There are ways to curb abuses in the forums, whether using high-tech solutions or good old-fashioned editing.

Similar sentiment:

All code is efficient given a sufficiently smart compiler.
Front page of the project website:

"Automatic full mesh routing. Regardless of how you set up the tinc daemons to connect to each other, VPN traffic is always (if possible) sent directly to the destination, without going through intermediate hop"

OpenVPN doesn't do that, and it sounds very useful when multiple machines are involved
I noticed this as well and came to the same conclusion considering I've never met a single Red Sox fan on the left coast. Although, it could be that east coasters all rally around one team, where as we're split between the Dodgers and the Giants, which would present a false bias.
Does anyone know about the performance and/or power use of the Netduino boards as compared to standard Arduino boards?
The problems are dual, and nobody likes the solutions.

On the one hand, yes, you have unions, which theoretically are sticking up for the workers but in practice spend a large % of their time and resources sticking up for the lousy workers who deserve to be fired anyways.

On the other hand, you have about half of the country devoted to relentlessly slashing education budgets in the name of "less government". In a small-l labor dominated industry, that effectively means smaller paychecks and/or more work for the same pay. So good teachers who are frustrated by the union shenanigans don't have a lot of other alternatives - who else is gonna stick up for them?

Real solutions would be a combination of big pay incentives for star teachers (not that I'd necessarily be a star, but why on earth would I teach at those rates when I can be an engineer?), coupled with a much looser structure on tenure, more dynamic general situation, etc. That would be the kind of incentive to empower the good teachers and disempower the bad ones. But you can't just blame the unions without addressing the other side of the coin.
Auto-complete/Tab complete is priceless!
Feels like I'm using Vim on google.com. Thank You!
Wasn't Outlook good enough? Did we really need faster search in Gmail?

This is gonna be one of those things you didn't know you needed till you got used to it, then you'll look back and wonder how you ever lived without it.
It's a headrush to think that vanity sizing may be leading men to underestimate their waist size, potentially to the detriment of their health - taken to a logical conclusion, vanity sizing may be killing people.

We live in a very strange world.
Would appreciate any and all advice. We're a young startup out of Rhode Island, just got out of an accelerator program and are launching to Rhode Island colleges.

Feedback, bug spots, feature suggests, criticism would all be great!

I'd especially like to hear from employers. The idea is that, as we grow, you'll be able to reach out across the country targeting specific colleges (best art schools, best engineering schools etc. etc.) or locations (certain cities).
This is why it keeps getting harder for me to find a pair of pants that fits me. I have a 28-1/2" waist (and I'm a guy), and most stores' listed sizes only go down to 30.

The good news is, since few people wear their pants at their waists anymore (even "conservative" non-saggy styles usually put the waistband halfway between true waist and hip), the size of a waistband really should be a couple inches larger than your actual waist measurement. Just not six inches. (At least, not on most men. Women on average have much more differential between their waist and hip measurement, but the popular fit is also all different, so I'm going to sidestep that for now.)
Depends what MySQL table types they are using. I think MyISAM has no transactional ability.
Or Enterprise DB, if you really want to be able to define columns as VARCHAR2...
It shows up when you hover over the suggestions.
Sorry not American - didn't realize army didn't include marines.
other sites are forced out of business completely, then the argument doesn't stand

This is only plausible if such a crack down could change things so much that adult ads weren't just harder to make but near to impossible. And that seems highly implausible given that prostitution flourished quite well in a pre-Internet world.

Merely increasing the barriers to entry actually enhances the power of the "mafia-based sex slave traffickers" - when an individual can place a simple ad, they don't have to depend on a dicey character, otherwise they might.

And prostitution has had a variety of "customer acquisition mechanisms" stretching into antiquity. Full page ads you can find in many free weekly would qualify as authentic temptations for engage an prostitute (show lots of skin, etc). An ambiguously worded ad on craigslist is more like a means for a consumer to find the product they are already looking for.
I will never understand the entire concept of tenure for those outside of Academia. What academic freedom is tenure protecting exactly?
> HP stock went up something like 130% the first couple years he was there, and tracked better than the nasdaq for the rest of his time there.

This could also be explained by a remarkably incompetent predecessor.
He's too busy trying to get his 10-car garage built (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010...) to worry about making money.
Also: The current launch is a "soft" launch for employers with the homepage with the student c2a going up on the 13th.
Does anyone know much about how this industry works? Is it true that schools receive a kickback from the publisher when they require their textbook for a class?

Interesting (scary) note. In 1970 there were over 30 college textbook publishers, as opposed to around 5 now (http://www.dispatch.com/live/contentbe/dispatch/2007/08/05/2...).
In other news, the Mercury News website was obviously hacked. It's a well known impossibility for "old media" to publish anything supportive of craigslist.
As a black man it was refreshing to see a "description" of my demographic that I actually related too, as opposed to a stereotype based one that you might find on BET.
I don't get it. What's disgusting about it? He took a whole chicken --- not the scrapings off a battery chicken farm abbatoir, but a nice-looking whole roaster --- and processed it. Nothing was in that food processor but chicken.

There's a classic French technique called rilettes that involves cooking pig parts in stock or fat and then mincing them to a spreadable paste. It's delicious, especially with duck confit as a base instead of simmered pork, and the easiest way to make it is very similar to what Oliver did.

And of course Oliver knows that. He's had far more cooking experience than I will ever have. He knows he's bullshitting those kids. He could gross them out just as easily by showing them the pink and red bits near the wing joints ("look at all that chicken blood! ewwww!"), but he doesn't; he points to them and says "this is the expensive bit right here".

When asked what to do with the chicken carcass, the kids said "throw it out". The proper response to that statement is "no, idiot, find a way to use it" (as a parent of 2 school age children let me argue forcefully for the culinary idiocy of 8 year olds). Instead, Oliver honors the kids and their stupid, damaging assumption about how meat works. Shameful.
No, Frank usually goes by fpx.

Why would you find that it is Tcl/Tk to be interesting?
Heard Marissa Mayer say one time that while people don't use it they like the fact it's there (let's them know Google is fun and has a sense of humor).
Agreed. I think we'll stick to rolling out with freemium accounts.

BTW, someone in here has a trigger happy vote down finger.
Well you're ignoring possible disadvantages, like locking an inordinate number of rows in several tables while a long-running copy takes place. Transactions are all well and good, until they run counter to the usability and stability of your app.
I would much rather you be an engineer than a teacher. Why on earth would we want to incentivize our creators and innovators to become teachers?
There's no getting around understanding what the value of your technology to your customers is.

The starting point is to find out the raw ROI. So if they use your technology, how much money will they make or save? How does this compare to your competitor? So I would say, you need to take the final step and translate that 10x reduction in error to dollars.

I don't care if my GPS is exact, but to an airline company this is critical and they would spend well to make sure it takes into account the curvature of earth, etc...

But the raw ROI is just the starting point. Companies also pay a lot of money for other intangible features. There are some companies that spend millions on Oracle when they could probably get by with free open-source. Clearly Oracle is not competiting on price here, but on a feeling of 'security', knowing that my site will not go down and if it does, I have someone to yell at and come fix it.

If your product is truly revolutionary, maybe there are early adopter advantages. Could early adopters of your product steal revenue from competitors by using your tech? Price that in.

If your product is truly revolutionary, this final price may end up being pretty high and give some customers pause. A good approach would be reduce the price of your product for a pilot phase of say months. In return for reducing your price, you can ask for some specific feedback or a testimonial. Make sure they understand you aren't just reducing the price in return for nothing.

After they go through the pilot and have a real tangible sense of the value of your product, they may be willing to pay your high price you initially calculated.
They probably could have been more scientific with their study as you're pointing out. However, despite the flaws, their conclusions seem to be consistent with actual, scientific studies of the correlation between IQ and Religiosity:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence#St....
(in reply to all threads stemming from your comment when I posted this)

What's all this talk about "re-implementing" and "if" they have transactions in their DB? They explicitly state that they can't use transactions because it would slow things down, not because they don't have them. They also state that Since moving one milestone could potentially result in hundreds of database operations...

This means they have a transaction supporting database. There's no re-implementing onto a different system. There's an apparently-broken implementation.
Google Instant Coming Natively To Browsers “In The Next Few Months”
There are no small changes
No you don’t. Type “social network” (no quotation marks) and press enter, Google will then search only for what you typed, without the suggestion. It’s not exactly obvious that you can do that but it makes sense. You can use Instant just as you used Google before and still get the same behavior, they seem to have taken great care of making this behave exactly like before (i.e. typing something and pressing enter will only search for exactly what you typed, pressing enter adds an entry to your browser’s history just as before, etc.).
Our bodies are too varied for three gradations to work with any clothing that does not have elastic. And even the most casual of pants - jeans - have measurements in two dimensions.
Speaking from a UI standpoint, I find the leap of the bar from the middle to the top of the screen to be very disorienting. I know that the middle-of-the-page input field is a real visual trademark for Google, but if they want to push this feature, they might have to move the box up to where it is currently leaping.
* Balsamiq Mockups

* TextWrangler

* Things

* Pomodoro

* 1Password

* CloudApp

* Skype

* Adium

* Socialite (Google Reader, Twitter, Facebook)

* Virtualbox

(+Terminal, iTunes, iCal, Safari, Mail, iPhoto, iMovie)
This is what I actually want...think many people don't actually visit Google.com anymore. Unless there's a fun/creative doodle.
YouTube - Google Instant with Bob Dylan
For that reason, I'd be happier if they sorted by KL Divergence instead of just log-odds. That'd give a much better tradeoff between commonality and predictive power.
I'm sorry, but this is a solution to the wrong problem.

I switched from AltaVista to Google back in 1998, not because their search engine returned results more quickly, but because their results were much more relevant.

In the past few years, SEOs have set up micro-sites on just about any topic I could possibly search for and they've managed to rank highly for those topics. Am I the only one who's sick of being taken to these shallow landing pages smothered in ads? Does anyone else think Google's search results are now far less relevant than they were 5 years ago?

I don't need search results that update live as I type. I need to find what I'm looking for.
After watching the original Wall Street again last night, and looking forward to the new one I'm thinking these days its guys like you who are at the cutting edge, not the actual people on the floor. Your job sounds great!
My major gripe about Hacker News is that the time you make a post disproportionately affects its likelihood of making it to the front page.
What's your point? Whatever means they use to acquire customers can be targeted by law enforcement. It is simply not the case that craigslist was their one exploitable weak spot. I don't like arguments that insult my intelligence.
Unless you're compiling for another platform, or a different code model than the default etc.
Alright so I read the feedback and it seems there is at least a little bit of interest in this. Here is how I will proceed: I'll make a FREE daily newsletter you can sign up to using MailChimp (or some other good alternative... feel free to suggest) where I list the domains. I will most likely experiment with putting a small percentage of the names on the list for sale everyday and I guarantee prices will always be $50 and lower.

I will post a link to the signup form on this page and maybe also submit it as a new entry. Be on the lookout for it if you want in.

Oh and some more available names for you all :)
Enjoy!

arcadehud.com
backmaker.com
barkmap.com
beaminfo.com
booktakers.com
bubbleless.com
cablezap.com
clicksir.com
clothi.com
codecollect.com
condovia.com
connectmix.com
coopsquad.com
crowdlead.com
discodeep.com
duelpit.com
echocoach.com
flatside.com
fluxplay.com
gametrex.com
gatespell.com
hipstatus.com
jamshell.com
liveways.com
mailslide.com
marketsensor.com
metastyles.com
meterclicks.com
patterndeck.com
picacast.com
pitchlove.com
playsync.com
presshack.com
pushcamp.com
reptable.com
sheetstrip.com
shieldset.com
sleepmeter.com
smartscaling.com
springsites.com
tagsmash.com
talentlever.com
torquefive.com
travelgage.com
wordables.com
Agreed, even some smooth movement would make a difference - the jump is very sudden
Your last paragraph is exactly what the DC superintendent proposed. The teachers' unions were so threatened that they didn't even allow it to come to a vote.
Not that strange considering it is the most popular site on the internet next to google.com. If it's trying to predict your destination this is correct a staggeringly large percent of the time.

Of course "your" implies the masses. They use Google like we would use the address bar.

As someone touched on above with longtails, the real interesting bit will be to see what the Google keyword tool says about search terms next month(or maybe the month after that). We'll have to see if longtails have fallen off the face of the Earth or not. Maybe the autosuggest will still have a major impact vs. what they see in the SERPs below as they are typing.

Edit: I got Walmart as the first result for 'w'. Could be a location-based decision engine potentially. Fuckin rednecks
I think there are other fields of Mathematics in which recursion plays some part (Mathematical Logic, for example).
Daniel, join the club.
http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1616000
Yes, I think HN is especially valuable for young people not yet set on a career path (who seem to make up the majority of the readership) in opening their eyes to possibilities of entrepreneurship that also engages intellectual curiosity. It works well for much older people like me in getting a reality check on current trends.
That is genuinely impressive. Never seen anything like it before on any other website. Not sure it's needed now with the great autocomplete but it sure looks really great.
You would have to test it but I think some sort of non-distracting animation could help (a quick fade-out and fade-in maybe – even if it’s only a few milliseconds long). Actually moving the search bar up with an animation would most certainly either take too long or be so fast as to be equally or even more jarring.
I'm not going to get pigeonholed into sticking up for some career pol in Connecticut. The motivation behind the attack on craigslist is obvious.

But neither am I going to allow my recognition of that fact to reshape my views on the sex trade. Blumenthal being opportunistic and unfair doesn't make craigslist right.

What I see here is yet another case of technology complicating law enforcement, and the peanut gallery expecting the laws to change to accomodate it. That shouldn't be how the world works. I'm biased, because I'm pretty intimately familiar with other crimes that technology makes harder to enforce.
Ghostwriting As Marketing Tool
it depends upon your threat model.

there's probably a bug in some code on your system that's exploitable. maybe openvpn or ssh or its configuration (c.f., debian crypto bug).

under this model, anything that increases the time til (inevitable, under this threat model) success, works.

running ssh or openvpn on a different port or whatever to "hide" it, will help against mass scans for common exploits. it increases the work to find the problem. of course it won't really help against a concerted, targeted attack. but i'm pretty sure unskilled, mass attacks are more common than targeted attacks.
Google App Engine just released something similar to this a few weeks ago:

Announcement: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/08/multi-tenancy-su...

Docs: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/images/function...

It could be set up to do image resizing on the fly per URL parameters you pass to it, and storage/bandwidth is cheaper than S3 if I recall correctly. It's based on the same infrastructure as Picasa.

Edit: In fact it could be easily used to create such a service rather than having to build out the functionality oneself.
Some of this is also due to poor QC at the manufacturers. I went out pants shopping just this past weekend and tried three of the same pants of exactly the same size and all three fit drastically differently, from absurdly small-couldn't-get-it-over-my-thighs to so ginormous they looked like clown pants and had a hugely saggy crotch.

And it wasn't a cheapo store either. But I had to mindful that there was a reason I was able to find decent work slacks for $20.

Pant sizes should really just be "guidelines" unless you are getting something custom tailored.
Minimizing Your Attack Surface
Ask HN: Computer Science Student with free electives -- what should I study?
I'm going to a state university, and am studying CS. Next year I get basically 3 semesters of free electives in any area I want to study. I will be taking an entrepreneurship class. But what you study to be most effective in becoming the best developer you can become?

My interests are mostly web, but am really interested in writing desktop software for Unix/Mac systems.

Here's what I am thinking: study more theory behind computing and languages, learn how languages and computers work, then learn a few languages that I can then take and learn about other languages. Does that make it sense?

What is your best advice for a CS student?
One of the articles I read talked about Google mentioning this....their research showed an average pause of 300ms between keystrokes (crazy!) but only 30ms between eye saccades, so users are looking around 10 times for every keystroke.
We didn't pay ourselves until the company was profitable. This was somewhat easier since we started the company while in college and had pretty much no standard of living to maintain.

We didn't take any funding, so it really wasn't possible to pay ourselves before becoming profitable unless we took on other debt. We decided we'd rather be individually poor with a company than individually wealthy with no company.

Once the company was profitable, the partners agreed on a goal-oriented pay structure. The base was under market value compared to other opportunities, but was still more than enough to easily live on. Then, by hitting reasonable revenue targets, salary would increase quickly.
> What does that generic MS critique even mean?

Probably that it requires Windows in order to use the toolset. That's a no-no for me. I can run Windows on VMs, but I just don't want to and Arduino provides me enough without having to run Windows in any case.

It may also refer to the possibility Microsoft decides to sue you for patent infringement (their promise only covers the parts that are ECMA standards) if you ever build a successful product with it.