skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The categorical imperative has a lot of problems. For example, is being a doctor ethical? Not everyone can be a doctor, because then we'd all starve. But few people would say that doctor is an unethical profession because of that.

There are a bunch of other actions that most people would consider perfectly ethical that fail this test too. Is going childless ethical? If everyone did that, we'd all die out. How about going to your favorite hamburger joint? If everyone did that, the line would be miles long, and nobody would get served.

The problems work in the other way too: there're some actions that people do consider unethical where there are no problems if everyone did it. Consider cheating (by a constant percentage) on your tax returns. If everyone did it, the government would just raise tax rates to compensate, everyone would end up paying the same taxes anyway, and nobody would be worse off (except perhaps having to throw an additional calculation in). Yet few people would say that cheating on your taxes is ethical.

Why is going childless considered okay, yet killing your infant considered abhorrent? They have the same effect on the world - in both case, there's no kid. They have the same effect on the world if everyone does them - in both cases, we all die out. And yet one is considered fine while the other is highly unethical.
And everyone wins in this scenario, don't they? The content owner collects revenue, and the general public gets to view the video they were (probably) searching for.
"But that's not aligning with Groupon's interests..." Have you visited their site? Have you looked over the separate site for businesses? Groupon's interests cover not just themselves but also their community AND the SMBs. How else to explain the fact that 97% of businesses would do another Groupon offer? Separating a Groupon offer from its residual effects is the same short-sightedness that Posie's suffers. Like many other commenters have said here, it's marketing - the cost of customer aquisition. What a company does with the customer once they're through the door is critical.

The Posies blog post sounds like lots went wrong - misunderstood goals for the Groupon itself, ill-conceived deal (perhaps even a bad fit for a Groupon at all - too small of a deal), ill-prepared staff. Time will tell if the Posies Groupon created any new loyal customers - that's the whole point.
Isn't this the "Monetize" option that copyright holders can exercise on a video that matches their own in the content id system?

Or do you mean something else?
This is my thinking. Sadly they are not particularly hackery and have flown 5500 miles to see me, not hang out with other people. :) hopefully I shall be there for at least a bit though.
Can someone explain why Flash 10.1 is required to display ones and zeroes?

I'm done installing any future versions of Flash, especially with all the crap they've started bundling it. I fully expect that Flash 10.2 will include anti-virus software, toolbars, and something that periodically reminds you that you're ugly.
Well in defense of that. There are several sites out there that only work google chrome.

Granted, most of them are just "look what can be done with awesome javascript" but still :/
Basic authorization for resource access isn't the kind of thing you add later. This isn't just an issue of bugs or being in development, it's a fundamental issue with their development process.

Furthermore, one of the primary goals of the project was to make something more privacy-conscious than Facebook, and so far they show they have a development process that pays less attention to access control than any Rails app I'm aware of.
I wonder how many close friends does a startup cost too?

I am guessing If you are a founder, your time for social life will be very very limited, and a startup will cost 2 or more close friends.

One thing I found out, is that in general (for guys at least) is very easy to catch up and reconnect even after a long period of time of disconnect, as long as they are in the same stage lifes (eg. both being single, or not having kids, or both having a domestic life and kids, etc.). The disconnect becomes more permament when one enters a completely different stage of the life (having kids, will the major one), than the other friend.
Meant to downvote, accidentally upvoted. Hello, Godwin.
I think the nerd community thinks that CS or math skills are the important skills and they drastically under value other skill sets.
How to Fool Yourself -- And Others -- With Statistics
At the very least they could've tested the current stable release of Opera - 10.62 - instead of 10.53.
If folks want to mail SteveB, just mail steveb@microsoft.com. He has given out his email address on multiple occasions (like http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/steve/2005/06-06Tech...).

I can attest that he reads all his emails and often responds (I am low in the MSFT food chain but have always gotten responses from him).
My set-top box already does that.

I'd be worried to have such functionality baked into a mainstream OS. That'd definitely be a deal breaker for me.
Having a competitor be 4 million uniques ahead of you when you're 2 years into a consumer internet race? I dunno. Wordpress.com, by comparison, has about 160m uniques per month (per quantcast). Tumblr and Posterous are still in "small potatoes" country-- it's anybody's game.
Apple Approves Trademark Infringing Application in App Store
"In reality, for a vaccine to be effective, the portion of the population that needs to receive that vaccination is significantly less than 100%."

I'm curious to know if there have been results that show what sort of percentages of vaccination are needed to be safe from specific diseases. I presume this will vary between diseases as well as demographics.
He also tends to pontificate on issues he's learned recently and doesn't understand completely a bit too often for my liking.

The other part of this though is that as a blog author, he has a desire and incentive to write about things that his readership might be interested in; so I have a feeling there is a certain amount of extra explaining, citations, and feigned not-understanding going on in his posts.
This article is the first thing I want to forget.
What CEOs need to know about design
I had a relationship in which I attempted to maintain separate social circles as much as possible for this very reason - we had overlapping friends, but I encouraged her to keep a separate group of "her friends" with whom I would not go hang out, mostly girls. She'd invite me frequently, and this became a major bone of contention... This was a contributing factor to the downfall of that relationship.

On the upside, I didn't lose any friends. On the downside, she lost many.
It was local, php generated output from a database. (And the php wasn't slow, saving to a file was almost instant.)

I think it was just a totally barebones table, with tr and td of many rows from a table. I also had another one where it made an editable form from the data (the data had a bit more structure than the first, some css, but no onload javascript (just onclick)).

It was handmade, so no hover effects or other things.

Firefox was really slow and my customer eventually switched to using chrome for that page. But it's still slow, just not as slow.

I remember having my browser freeze totally for about 10 minutes (yes I timed it).
I don't know how their system really works, but surely they extract features from the video and index the hell out of it. So they are not actually comparing frames of video here. With clever features and a good index you can rule-out millions of videos with very small amounts of computation.

It's impressive but it is the same idea as the normal text index. You could say it's mind boggling that Google searches through every document in 0.2 seconds, but they don't really search through them, they do lookups in an index.
There's not a simple answer, because there are multiple limits, but if you poll once every 30 sec you should be ok.
I had always thought that the skyscraper version of vertical farming was more of a fantasy technology.

Everything real I've seen is focused on what you mention, low-rise warehouses with racks of hydroponics and skylights - making it essentially a robotic greenhouse. I don't see how this is outlandish
A related article about the resurgence of pertussis in California:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/09/17/california.whooping.cou...
the title of the post make me wonder what happens when you have only one close friend, you can't fall in love because you can't afford the exchange?
The H1-B thing seems like a bit of a non-sequitur to me. I thought H1-B was for getting hired to a specific position (i.e. not for founders)?
This should read "(and where Django doesn't)". A language and a framework are not the same thing.

I do not find this article any more compelling than the one it addresses. Most of these supposed superiorities are just plugins that the author likes that would work just as well in a Python framework, or straw-men. Call it, "Things I like about Ruby/Rails" and were cool. Frame it as "your language sucks" and it all comes off as fanboyism. I like Rails, but Django/Python works the way I do.

Saying that easy_install is "all kinds of broken" but in the next breath saying "Luckily there is Pip and Virtualenv" is a self-defeating argument. As it is, Ruby is well behind pip/virtualenv and the environmental isolation it gives you. And fabric / pip / virtualenv is a killer combo that makes deployment fast and easy. Rails has a Gemfile. pip has a stable-requirements.txt file. It's not rocket science.

Yes, Rake is great. Lots of things Python and Ruby projects can learn from one another. Rails 3 owes a whole lot to Django.

Haml/Sass: Meh. I don't need yet another layer of abstraction. But if I wanted to use these in Python, it would be trivial to do so. To each his own.

ActiveRecord vs Django: Use SQLAlchemy if you don't like the existing alternatives. It supports schema reflection just fine. As it is, lots if not most Django apps are written together with their database schema, and migrated together using South. For most projects, this is identical to how Rails is used.

Form Handling: I can use a ModelForm in Django, and do no mapping whatsoever. Accessing a Post dictionary is just as easy as a magically created attribute on a class. It's not that hard.

Templating: Jinja2 lets me import functions and class instances directly into a template's context, and thus keeps code where it belongs. Talk about religion all you want, but I actually work on projects that need a healthy separation between display and controller logic. Excellent coders that are also excellent designers are so rare that I have never met one. Every successful project I have been involved in has had excellent coders working with excellent designers who knew enough of one another's environments to work well together.

URL routes: Give me Regex any day!

Misc other supposed pluses: Cherry-picking. There are lots and lots of apps to pick and choose from in either platform. Some are good. Some are poor. The existence of a good app on one platform does not equate to a superiority over another platform.
One word: Beauty.

I prefer and use Posterous; but somehow Tumblr seems to be much more beautiful; more Apple-ish. Posterous sites seems more serious.
Wordpad has hidden characters.. and is therefore not a suitable notepad replacement. Notepad++ would be closer.
He seems pretty open about not knowing things, which I think is a really underrated trait.
Thanks for your advice. This is something we have also realized. We have divided the app into two packages with the basic package as free.
Do you deny that there are risks to not being vaccinated, and that the risks of not being vaccinated are many times greater than the risks of being vaccinated?
This. Is. Awesome.

I was a CS student, but we had to take some intro Computer Engineering/circuit logic theory classes. I loved it, but we only did things on paper (and I didn't want to buy a whole breadboard kit just to play with simple logic circuits, etc...). I wish this was around when I was learning because I really wanted to play with making more complicated setups than we did in class.

This is like the Balsamiq of Circuits with the added bonus of running the stuff. Yes, being able to snap wires to a grid would be nice, but I'm having a blast with this right now.
I'm inclined to disagree. Encrypted cookies should be secure, provided the underlying encryption techniques are solid.

There are cases where having sensitive information in a cookie makes sense. In a web farm, for example. A session store that serves a farm of web servers is harder to set up and maintain than having clients send information back in a cookie. If it's properly encrypted, then this shouldn't be a problem. (Signed cookies are also good for this scenario, if it's okay for the data to be seen by others)

Am I wrong?

EDIT:
Here's a good thread on how to ensure data on client cookies hasn't been tampered with: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1687826
html rendering is nowhere near fast enough, when building rich interfaces ensuring the ui is responsive while having to modify it extensively can be really really hard, if we still have to use tricks like optimising css selectors, using fragments to remove and add stuff from the dom and absolutely positioning everything because triggering redraw is still the bottleneck then I dont think rendering is near fast enough yet.
I'm guessing it's a similar problem to matching up degraded audio to song title. If you haven't tried this, the Shazam app on the iPhone does this with surprising reliability (at least from my car speakers).

I recall seeing a paper on how Shazam does their magic (ha!). Something to do with "fingerprinting" the audio in such a way that is resilient to background noise (that also can be indexed and searched very quickly). I imagine that a similar strategy to identify video would also work.
We just addressed this problem at work.

The answer was to provide better tools that allowed users to analyze/interact with the data without having to render 10k rows to the screen.

It's not like they were able to read them all anyway. I'm going to go out on a limb and say unilaterally that anything that's just dumping 10,000 rows to the screen has, a priori, terrible usability.

It's not really a case I feel browser designers ought to spend a lot of time optimizing for.
I agree, there aren't enough people on techstartu.ps, but there were even fewer earlier and it seems to be picking up. I'd guess that this one is here to stay, especially since it's run by DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg.
Very impressive as a demo, but it needs more before it can be really used. It's a bit slow, there are nowhere near enough units, and I see no way to save / load sub-circuits. And try the counter: there's an interesting one-digit-ahead flicker prior to some numbers (haven't looked closely at why) that probably shouldn't be there.

edit: one more thing occurred to me: while stepping through the animation, indicators as to what wires are currently being checked would be helpful. Otherwise you just see blue-blue-nothing.....-blue-blue-light.
This is the reason why the anti-vaxxers are such a big problem. If everyone who is healthy gets vaccinated, then the diseases can't spread, and even the kids who can't get a vaccine for legitimate medical reasons will be safe.

I'd like to see schools required to disclose any children who have not been vaccinated without a valid medical reason. (I'm in California -- you can get into school without vaccination if you state a personal belief.)
I assume rooftop gardening is a completely different (and good) idea. There you have the sunlight already, just being reflected or absorbed as waste heat, it's simply a materials (weight) and cost or species issue. (also it's easier to design for one than retro-fit one on).
The local food movement is quite silly.
http://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/08/23/loco-vores/

99% of human history pretty much sucked.
http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/2008/06/the-real-life-o.h...
Works for me in Chrome:

javascript:alert(((60/1) < (35/.5)) ? "true" : "false"); // "true"

Or am I missing something more meta?
Interestingly enough, Aviary (Grant Achatz's new restaurant in Chicago) will be charing more $ for more highly desirable reservation times. Curious to see how this will work out for them.
How much D-Bus traffic is broadcast and how much is point-to-point?
Let's not be silly. You're allowed to reference whatever you want. You're allowed to quote whatever you want.

The open question is: how long of a quote is permissible before you exceed "fair use"?
4M vs 400K is a pretty wide margin. You also tried to compare growth rates which didn't exist. Finally you're also are showing a graph with Tumblr's growth climbing and postereous's growth pretty flat. If anything you just reinforced the point that Tumblr is leaving postereous in the dust.
Can anyone on here speculate on how you might even start with this? Even using their heat map system, you'd have to run that same test on every frame (every few frames maybe) of every piece of copyrighted content uploaded. I don't consider myself a brilliant programmer, but I wouldn't even know where to begin on doing something like this at scale.

Maybe you could index key parts of the frame and use that to narrow it down bit by bit (pun probably intended)? So confused...
Right, but they match words against words more or less. This matches even if the video is degraded, cropped, etc. They have figured out how to apply stemming concepts to video and audio.
"Eating local, seasonal food is how it has been done for 99.99% of human history."

And while chewing nobody has been peering into computer screen reading nonsense comments on HN.
Still give it a try from a static HTML file, it could be different.

The 10 minutes sounds like more of a bug than anything else. I've loaded 20mb heavily-styled "books" in HTML that took ~10 seconds to load, but scrolled like molasses, but I've never seen a large table behave that poorly (though I've only handled 1-2 thousand rows).
try {

...

} catch exception {

// Failed to load in the proper way

// Attempting to wing it

...

}
At the moment, their primary task is actually to gauge/encourage interest - without that, they have lost.

A following task is to discover if what they have is usable/useful by real people, and the only real test of that is to release it and get feedback. Related is flushing out bugs (most effectively done by actual usage); testing performance (even for small numbers of users); and of course flushing out specific privacy and security issues. Note that it's not actually necessary to even continue with the same codebase; it is possible to use it as a prototype.

I think a helpful way to separate a "product" from a "codebase" is to ask whether a complete rewrite in a different language with a different internal architecture (and of course codebase), that is indistinguishable to users, could be sold as the same product.

I think the Mythical Man Month would be of interest to you; he has your perspective, but with a wider scope. I think you'd really enjoy it, if you haven't already. Some fascinating ideas appear right up in chapter 1, very clearly written.
So what's the prevailing wisdom today about the Hannah Poling case?

...the government’s Division of Vaccine Injury Compensation concluded that five shots Hannah received in July 2000, when she was 19 months old, “significantly aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder” and resulted in a brain disorder “with features of autism spectrum disorder.”

http://www.ajc.com/health/content/health/stories/2008/03/06/...

Records were sealed at the time. Don't know if they have since been released.

EDIT: Summary of latest news, 2010-09-11:

US Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) will pay over $1.5 million to the family of a child whose parents allege acquired autism after routine vaccinations in 2000....However, the payment does not acknowledge a vaccine-autism link.

http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2010/09/us_vacci...

The 27 August 2010 Decision Regarding Damages: http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/CAMPBELLSM...

EDIT 2: You can't make this stuff up:

Then-director of the Centers for Disease Control Julie Gerberding (who is now President of Merck Vaccines) stated: "The government has made absolutely no statement indicating that vaccines are a cause of autism. This does not represent anything other than a very specific situation and a very sad situation as far as the family of the affected child."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20015982-10391695.html
Ruby Conference Buzzword Bingo
Why couldn't Jeff host the video himself?
Despite not being an employee, I have close personal Microsoft ties, so I regularly hear about what goes on in Redmond. Anytime I'm involved in a discussion about Microsoft's future, the first and foremost point I bring up is how Microsoft needs to divest its investments in order to succeed in the future, or have any impact on shareholder value with respect to its stock price. Microsoft is more of a giant company with several distinct product silos. The Windows and Office product silos are cash cows, while the other ones often struggle to catch up. It's like a giant, lumbering robot trying to move through molasses. Microsoft needs to divest and spin off some of its various smaller divisions and allow for more autonomy. Let them operate as they please and allow for the market forces to take effect.
As you nick is inclined plane, I think the title should be: If you are a free lance there is a statistical force that try to make you punch in your face. As is generally well known men are all different from one another, so this force can also make you punch in other parts of your body or hit someone near from you. So these experience can't no be summed up in one tidy little package since there is a wide deviation.
I don't have experience with tables as large as yours, but I have noticed that if you give the browser hints about the columns using the <col>-tag, it loads larger tables faster.
I was inspired while sitting through Golden Gate Ruby Conference.
Seedcamp (euro version of YC) winners announced
Can Europe get it's start-up act together?
Not quite :) The DOS emulation layer in Windows 32-bit is called VDM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_DOS_machine) - WOW is a technology that allows one bitness apps to run on a different bitness OS. WOW used to let 16-bit Windows apps run on a 32-bit OS (i.e. Win95), and nowadays, WOW64 is a shim layer that allows 32-bit applications to run on a 64-bit OS
Really? I've had no trouble sharing files between Wordpad, cygwin, and unix while using Wordpad.
I'd use it. Like the domain too.
Saying "it sucked" doesn't address ANY of the points I made. Wake me up when you can make a serious rebuttal.
Thanks, I'll need to lower my rate limiter.
Yep, the SysWOW64 directory has all the 32-bit DLLs in the system (usually an identical copy to the Win7 32-bit DLLs, though not always), and the System32 folder has the 64-bit binaries. Yes, this is confusing, but not breaking apps was more important