skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it was fantastic. The allusion is funny too. I have a very unpretentious little art gallery, and pottery shop. After being in the business for about ten years, I have come to realize that very few people will buy for just the beauty, they need validation that others find value in the object.
Just like models and actors have built entire careers (and industries, in fact) on just standing around and pretending to do things?

Tom Peters does not pretend to be a hacker.

Hackers are not the only sort of people in the world.

Peter Diamandis, for example, is a personal hero of mine and a champion of industry. Does he run unit tests? No. Does he personally build spacecraft? No.

Does that make him any less valuable as a thinker and leader?
Good ol Palm Pre does this as well.
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I think everyone is shocked when they first encounter the consumer market face to face. I know I was, and I know colleagues were too.

You come to accept it, though, and not take it personally. Nor try to rationalise most of it. It's really difficult at first, I remember.

Pick the things you wish to defend, and especially those you wish to attack, very carefully. The vast majority of petty threats come to nothing, so don't fan the flames. If someone is persistent, then they likely have a real issue or they are psychotic.

There's a lot to be learned, personally, from these experiences, and it will give you a new respect for hardcore sales people.
I can see it coming...

Judge: The program says that the defendant should be put in jail for 3 years.

Defense Lawyer: My expert witness says that the program is buggy.

Prosecutor: Can you prove that?

Defense Lawyer: I would, if the program were open-source...
Prior to building a Phone, I think FB should roll-out a mobile browser.
Two thoughts:

1) Maybe you missed the "maybes" in my closing remarks.

2) Being exceptionally competent puts one in a social trap. It is generally not acceptable to state that you are that good. It is also not acceptable to lie, and downplaying your competence is a form of deception (aka "lying"). So if you are that good, there is no good answer when the topic comes up.

I will also take this opportunity to note that the surgeon did not come across as arrogant until I inadvertently questioned his professional competence by trying to verbally reassure myself. And, in fact, his reaction was extremely reassuring to me. I went ahead with the surgery with much relief and trust in his ability, something I don't think I would have felt if he had instead tried to nicely address my emotional concerns about the whole thing.
I agree. I'm being facetious. It's not your problem that the coffee shop is letting you sit there and cost them money; they should stop letting you!
Every generation has been lazier than the last since the days of Plato, and we've not degenerated into sloths yet. Skyrocketing tuition rates in an oversaturated educational-services market are a new problem, one that will cause an economic bubble in academia.

I wouldn't worry about listless youth, I would worry instead on the absolutely horrible investments they're making in education.
Abso-f@#$ing-lutely.

If there's zero probability that someone's going to commit a crime again, then any sentence that they receive is purely punitive, and it's there for only two reasons, 1) to satisfy our emotional need to punish someone that did something wrong, and 2) to signal to other potential offenders that if they do the same thing, they won't get away with it.

But if someone is very likely to commit more crimes, locking them up adds 3) they will not be able to commit these crimes while they're incarcerated.

The relative values of 1), 2), and 3) shift sharply depending on the seriousness of the crime and the likelihood of future crimes, and the value that we as a society gain (or lose) by locking someone up depends critically on how they add up.

If two men commit exactly the same murder (physically speaking), but one of them does it because he caught his wife in bed with another man and the other does it because she didn't cook the steak rare enough that night, I would be perfectly fine with the first man getting a lighter sentence: it took a very extreme situation for him to resort to murder (though it's still not justified by any means, don't get me wrong, and he should still be punished based on 1) and 2)), whereas the second guy is pretty clearly a loose cannon, and is likely to pose a far greater threat to everyone if he's allowed back on the streets.
GOG.com shut down
I said it will get difficult below 22nm, not that 22nm was itself a limit. Moore's law isn't going to end at a discrete point. What will happen is that each generation will become progressively more difficult to put into production, until alternatives like 3d integration are more practical. We're already seeing some of that with 45nm and 32nm, but sub-22nm is going to be very challenging.

My source is also the ITRS.
Damn. I'll do what I can.
But Facebook can/does already do all that on existing mobile platforms. Developers are usually more than happy to use tools provided by Facebook in exchange for getting easy social features and access to FB's social graph. Widespread use in 3rd party apps on all mobile platforms will give Facebook a much larger reach, for much less effort, than trying to launch their own phone.
GOG.com was a site where you could purchase and download old games. They fixed them to work on modern Windows, and were DRM-free.

The front page is loading slowly, here's all thats up there now:

Dear GOG users,

We have recently had to give serious thought to whether we could really keep GOG.com the way it is. We've debated on it for quite some time and, unfortunately, we've decided that GOG.com simply cannot remain in its current form.

We're very grateful for all support we've received from all of you in the past two years. Working on GOG.com was a great adventure for all of us and an unforgettable journey to the past, through the long and wonderful history of PC gaming.

This doesn't mean the idea behind GOG.com is gone forever. We're closing down the service and putting this era behind us as new challenges await.

On a technical note, this week we'll put in place a solution to allow everyone to re-download their games. Stay tuned to this page and follow us on Twitter and Facebook for updates.

All the best,
GOG.com Team

And their latest Twitter update: http://twitter.com/GOGcom/status/24772660481
I think the point here is that the money was already stolen. So what are you going to do now? Live a bitter life of regret, or shrug and say, "I have more money, let's go on with our lives now."?

At least that's the way I see it. You're better off living with charity in your heart than hating your fellow man - God knows there's enough reason for hate, but it'll kill you.
Change takes time. People started seriously thinking about/hating big banks right after the financial collapse, so it's only been about 2 years.

As a simple example more people are starting to use credit unions: http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100...

Change is never instant, it takes time for alternatives to develop and for people to buy in.
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That would seem to be consistent with the statistics of users with less followers: http://twitterfacts.blogspot.com/2008/06/tweetburner-clickth...

However I would consider clickthrough rates to be a poorly suited metric for Twitter. If you're not using Twitter to just follow your friends then your typical use case is just dipping in and reading some tweets when you have the time (the 'fire hose' model). Having one million followers does not mean that one million people will read a given tweet.
Are you saying your and/or the Free Software Movement's philosophy goes like this: Since access to code is the only way to trust software, everyone deserves the right to the access? The only way I'll be able to have a Ferrari is if it's sold to me for only a few thousand dollars. Does that mean I a deserve a Ferrari for a few thousand dollars? Something being preferable doesn't mean it's deserved.

How can this be a negative vs. positive freedom argument? Not distributing source code places restriction on the client, while forcing developers to distribute source code places restriction on the developers. Either way, if software usage is restricted at all, then someone's freedoms are going to be restricted. The only solution I see is for there to be no legal protection of software, period.

I used "property" to refer to the physical hard drive holding your data, as well as your house and land. Of course, many argue that privacy rights follow logically from property rights, so the distinction probably isn't necessary.
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The mode of action is not relevant. Look at the antibiotics and how they all work. They have different modes of action and the resitance mechanisms are quite varied too.

So however acetaminophen works, you can imagine a resistance mechanism.
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I think what he's just saying is this:

Punishment is typically expensive; rehabilitation is typically cheap and more effective in reducing future crimes after the person is out in society again.

Punishment, therefore, should be reserved for the more heinous crimes where rehabilitation isn't likely to work, and rehabilitation should be used for less-heinous crimes where rehabilitation is likely to succeed.
most email clients don't automatically show remote images/resources exactly for this reason.
It's hard because of the consistency guarantees that PostgreSQL makes. If you need true multi-master replication (you probably don't) the best solution is to use some form of queue to manage writes across the cluster. The DRBD solutions sound awesome but trade one SPOF for another, and have drawbacks in terms of speed (replicating block devices makes them slow) and risk (network latency, write contention) and are limited to at most two masters.

If you find yourself needing a replication solution beyond hot standby; it's possible that PostgreSQL isn't the right tool for the job.
I'd have grave concerns about the security/integrity of data I stored in such a thing. People tend to store low-value data in memcache without realizing that corrupting it allows attackers to hijack user sessions.

What is the value of sharing a memcached instance? If all you're selling is memory, why not just run multiple memcacheds?
Resolving cross site scripting issues.
Run Page Speed from Google and YSlow from Yahoo!. Both give recommendations about exactly what to do.

In many instances, it might be best to offload static content (CSS, images, JS, etc) to a CDN, say on a subdomain, and send proper cache headers.
I know too many people who need to grasp this concept. I will be passing this on for sure
Well the inability to get squeezed covering causes people to gamble on it excessively. We're talking instead of people naked shorting a few percent of the shares, they're naked shorting a few hundred percent. This creates immense counterparty risk for the people who purchase the shares and they don't even know it.

The same counterparty risk is inherent to all naked shorts. What's unique about the ETF is the magnitude. I don't think the article explained that very well. It's possible that the magnitude involved could be destabilizing to the economy.
How is abusive defined?
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I don't care much for the jailers, but what about the families of inmates who might want to visit them? Will they be forced to travel out of state? Couldn't denying someone visitors be construed as cruel and unusual punishment?
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Clear cache try again. It happens from time to time - usually glitch and nothing sinister :)
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You can probably subsidize the travel with part of the savings.
Let process be implemented by those who practice it
This is a Gene Weingarten piece. Weingarten is an absurdly brilliant feature writer (this article won a Pulitzer, for whatever that's worth), and pretty funny in his humorous pieces too. I don't think this is his best work; my favorites of his are:

The Great Zucchini, about a birthday clown

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01...

Fatal Distraction, about parents locking their kids in cars --- this article is hard to take, and simply an awesome piece of writing:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02...

The first time Weingarten got posted here I spent a couple hours tracking down as much of his writing as I could find, and ended up happy I did. Very much worth your time (or worth stuffing into your Instapaper account).
Maybe it is time for an educational reform:

http://www.actonmba.org

http://kaospilot.dk

http://www.knowmads.nl

Epistemological mastery just leave us knowing. A lot of time we know how to do something, but we just don't do it. Perhaps it is time to start ontological mastery http://ssrn.com/abstract=1392406
Are you suggesting that a criminal with a strong history of reoffending - eg, a serial rapist - should not have that taken into account during sentencing? A large part of the reason why we jail people is to reduce their risk to society.

I guess the problem is how far the statistical analysis should be taken.

Should someone who has a history of violence that commits his first murder get a longer sentence? I imagine the consensus would be yes. But what about someone who has a history of non violent crime? Antisocial behaviour?

Should it be taken into account if you're a loner? What about your name - it's possible that's statistically significant (even if you're already starting with people who have already murdered)?

What about race?

So it pretty quickly turns into something I disagree with, probably long before the statistical significance wears off. After a few minutes of reflection, I can't figure out exactly where I draw the line.
All people are slightly different.
I'll bet its not a hardware phone. Rather a kind of Skype/Google Voice feature that will be added to its mobile clients. On your Facebook app for iphone example, there will be a new icon called "Phone" in addition to the existing News Feed, Inbox, Events, Photos etc.
pgpool-II seems to be well maintained and simple. I'm not sure what you wish for, but pgpool-II seems to be it.

I think MySQL's swappable storage engines make building replication a tad easier. Actually, I have no idea.
No, that someone CONVICTED should be sentenced based on the data.
I agree, although it would be important to define "violent" in some formal way. Is theft through fraud violence? What about inciting others to violence?
It looks odd on chrome on a mac:
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Yes—not on a person-by-person basis, but on a crime-by-crime basis. This is perfectly in accordance with judging on the intensity of or the harm caused by a crime.
Interesting, the Hardy Boys were practically my childhood. I even chose my username because of that series. Knowing that the author hated writing the books sort of saddens me. But what makes an author hate the work he's writing? When I code a website for someone, it doesn't really make me hate making the website.
I've found that when I don't really care about what I'm working on, I can be the most diplomatic and humble programmer around. Tabs vs. spaces? Whatever. This language over that one? No strong opinion.

But in a scenario when what I'm working on is important to me, when I've totally bought-in and care about what's going to happen, I have a much harder time with being properly diplomatic.

Specifically, when I see someone driving us toward a brick wall, I get more and more aggressive as that wall approaches and I'm ignored. When and if that collision happens, I have a hard time not saying "I told you so", if only so people will take me more seriously next time we're headed for a crash.

I once ruined a professional relationship and lost a job because (I believe) my manager couldn't stand the idea of hearing "I told you so" from me one more time.

And yes, it turns out I was right about that last thing as well.

I try to trust my comrades, but I also have to trust my instincts, and when they are at odds over high-stakes things the internal conflict becomes unbearable. Anyone have experience or advice on dealing with this?
Maybe, I didn't talk to him for that long. But it makes sense that they'd focus group the cover and title first since that's what makes most kids choose the book.
Second eli's comment that the experiment was contrived. Also the irony of this whole article and experiment is that it begins with the assumption that bell gave a performance in the subway that was great and should have been arresting to passers-by.

The article starts from the assumption that his performance was good (I'll just be contrarian and say I don't think it was) based on his celebrity, and then goes on to conclude that the people who were actually there are a bunch of fools.

Maybe they all thought "that Bell's such a prima donna, I'm just gonna ignore him"
Programmatic manipulation of the DOM does need a lot of work, yes. But that's not "page rendering" per se. Taking HTML and rendering it is pretty quick in most modern browsers. Mucking about with the DOM and having it refresh efficiently is a related but different problem.
> I am really surprised at the group think here.

I think most people agree with both points. Steve Jobs was rude and gave an unusual reply for a CEO. On the other hand, the girl was insistent and didn't "make lemonade out of lemons". She took offence instead. She is arguably in the spotlight now, but I'm not sure it's for the right reason.
Yeah, unfortunately it doesn't seem to work on my Toshiba netbook with a Radeon 4300.
It's only vigilante justice if someone illegally punishes the criminal. Helping the police locate a suspect is called "being a good citizen".
I really strongly dislike Phoronix. I don't know why it hasn't been replaced yet.
Beautifully put and written. Thanks for sharing your experiences.

I agree about the idea generation (along with the rest of the article), its not as tough as one thinks it out to be. Being open to more information from whatever source one can get it from, books, videos, customers, friends, etc is the first step in idea generation.

This is the way I like to put it:

Given the same level of creativity or intelligence, a person with more information can come up with more ideas than the one with less information.

Another way I like to put it (my 'understanding' of how to increase the rate of innovation):

If a hypothetical innovation/solution (idea) needs 10 points of information (now don't take the 'points' in a literal sense, its a metaphor) connected in a particular pattern (the points together with the pattern, constituting the 'idea/innovation/solution'), given two people or teams with equal intelligence or creative capability, the team which already has 8 points of information will have a better chance of making that innovation or finding that solution than the team with just 5 points of information.

Because the first team/person has to creatively find out where or what just the other 2 points are while the second team has to creatively find out about those 5 missing points. The odds are definitely in favor of the team with 8 existing points of information and just 2 missing points.

Of course, this is a theory/principal that assumes equality of all other resources to make a point.

End of the day, information rules.
I have to say that, despite the terrible, terrible writing, reading the Hardy Boys did a) pique my interest in vocabulary and b) introduce me to the idea of learning words through context.

For that reason (and nothing else) I do not regret having read them.
An actual study says different:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2366730,00.asp

...slightly miffed at the traction gotten by "you're a geek so your opinion doesn't reflect the average..."
Not surprised. No, absolutely not. I am locked in an epic struggle with my 11 year old to get him to take his homework seriously instead of playing video games all day. It's been a years-long familial Battle of Ypres; trench warfare, heavy losses, hazy strategic objectives.

We are relatively attentive parents. In many areas, most parents can't be this attentive; they're working multiple jobs. It's hard to imagine that the children of multiple-shift parents who have Xboxes wouldn't be suffering in school.

I'm glad my son has games to play; for one thing, you'd be at a social disadvantage in 2010 not to. But it absolutely does create a drag on schoolwork.
For that reason specifically, I think they would have some serious hassle from the FCC if they wanted to bring a phone to market.
I did not say so, but I do think this is a road to hell, paved with good intentions. 'Minority Report' is on that road.

Judges may sometimes or often be biased, but, institutionalizing that is IMO a step too far.

Having said that, I think there is gray area; for example, I do not believe in the British "if it's murder, it must be life in prison", and I do think that sentences like "follow this anger management course or go to prison for three months" can be based on statistics of repeat offending.
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Well, the thing is that today if you want a memcache on Linode, you need to rent another node. A linode 512MB is 20$/month.

But what If i only need 100MB of memcached, and I don't want to pay 20$/month for that ?

Sure, one could sell memcached memory, with many instances per linode node. But my question is more about getting super-lower memcached for not critical data (if people put sessions in it, they misuse the service, they take their risks..). By sharing the bucket with people, can you afford to pay 5$/month for a part of a 400MB bucket ?
I like the idea, and I'm glad to see sites already implementing it.

I worry about discovery, though.

"oEmbed providers can choose to make their oEmbed support discoverable by adding elements to the head of their existing (X)HTML documents."

So... I have to download the page, parse the link for oembed, make a request to the oembed service and THEN I can finally get the info I need to show the link?

I assume you'd only want to make this call once and store the result, so it's not -so- bad, but... That's a bit much. Of course, the alternative is to store the format for the service call for all major sites. (At least, as things stand.)
But ... it's just _fun_. Who cares about the rewards, I want _fun_ and I want it NOW.

A steady job just can't give you that. And to top it all off, it can't give you the possibility of a big reward either. lose-lose

edit: that is to say, a big reward that somebody gives you, isn't a reward at all, you're supposed to go get it yourself
Won't happen.I think it would be horrible politically to offer vacations to families with members in jail, no matter how much was saved.
> It seems that every teacher feels the need to assign an hour a day.

Some school districts (including Arcadia, California, where I live) set standards specifying how much time different grades should spend on homework "on average". For 5th grade, the standard here is 50 minutes. So the teacher "feels the need" because that's what his/her bosses say to do.

From what I've heard, those standards are driven at least in part by the expectations of the parents.
I didn't make it clear in my earlier post, but I was thinking a physical context-aware "Like" button on the phone, like the search button on Android phones.

You're right though, all of these features can be achieved on existing phones, but at a much higher price point. The article suggests that Facebook is targeting the $50 phone market to get the phones into as many hands as possible. That's a different market from the BlackBerry/Android/iPhone/Windows Phone market. It sounds like the KIN strategy.