skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? Let them have cake... and die.

Let me explain what I mean. The "idea" may be reprehensible from a humanistic point of view and perhaps even from the drug pusher's point of view that it is bad business to kill your customers (too) quickly.

However, from a purely psychological viewpoint, the cocaine addicts are merely trying to escape their current reality, albeit temporarily, but at a well publicised cost to themselves, their families and their country. So, why not make that uber costly escape permanent?

The argument that drug addiction is neither the fault nor the responsibility of the drug addict is patently fatalistic and self-defeating. If you don't like the risk of dying of something then don't be involved in an activity that has a high propensity to lead to death by its very nature.

Of course the wisecracks will always argue that life is a disease with a bad prognosis because the outcome is always death... But I say, if all an addict seeks is escape from life by patently dangerous means, then let them have it, for good.

EDIT: Spelling & Grammar.
This is the ultimate boys toy. I wonder how much of a pilot you need to be to fly this? Are there aileron, rudder and thrust controls?
well.

That stinks.
I had tptacek make a comment and ask a queston related to my karma score if that counts. I'm not sure it does.

I've been on HN for a while and traditionally not done much with it. I read a lot but didn't really try to add much. I decided last month to start making a more conscious effort to give back to HN, so I started by commenting and occasionally posting new links.

I don't think I'll be able to give back on the same scale as patio11, cperciva et al, but I'd like to think that trying to contribute more to the discussion, after a while I'll suck less at it. If I can manage that then maybe I'll suck a little less elsewhere.

Oh there was also a guy who recently got in touch with me after a who's hiring post. I'm working on getting an interview sorted that doesn't involve him travelling across half the country. It might or might not come to something, but I'm grateful for him getting in touch via HN.
If that's their company name ( http://www.diapers.com/aboutus/aboutus.aspx ), that's their company name. Take it up with diapers.com (the company, not the domain name) if it's confusing. For the record, I agree with you, but a bunch of parenthesized "we mean the company, not just the domain name" seems superfluous given that the rest of the article is a click away.
All agreed. Just providing a little pushback against the notion that it's all "political correctness"'s fault when the primary obstacle to achievement is the fact that nobody's getting out of the way.
A car with no wheels is not simpler, it's just broken - at least until you can make it float like a hovercraft.

Simplicity is when you get the same quality with less complexity.
That’s a total of $9,593,678,790 or 9.6 billion dollars moving out of the tech industry, by people who have intimate knowledge about the future of their companies.

How is that money moving out of the tech industry? Those shares of stock did not disappear when sold; someone else now owns shares of that company. Money changed hands in exchange for stock. That money did not leave the tech industry.
In the past I've simply built fun things. A few have even been pretty popular (front page of digg for one (back when that meant something), and one of my OSS projects was used by mozilla and apple, which was neat). Others, like steganography in PHP[1], were simply random ideas I built for a laugh.

Now I'm trying to move into building things that have a market, and keeping the 'cool but useless' or 'cool but not profitable' stuff to a minimum, or for blog-fodder.

[1] - http://www.puremango.co.uk/2005/03/steganography_112/
I read the whole thing and didn't see a "TM" anywhere in the article, nor was I prompted for registration. The latter seems to be hit-or-miss with nytimes.com, but I've never seen them mark a trademark inside an article.
By far the best article I've read on procrastination was published in the Harvard Business Review a few years ago.

It looked at behaviours like procrastination and perfectionism in terms of the psychology of the relationship of the worker with the person needing the work done. It persuasively argues that the problem lies not in poor time management skills, but in the self-esteem of the person doing the work and how they handle people being unhappy with their work.

The article posted here today is philosophical and thoughtful, whereas the HBR article is immensely practical and evidence-based. The full article is behind a paywall, but I highly recommend it!

http://hbr.org/product/chronic-time-abuse/an/R0406F-PDF-ENG
A World (Online) Without Money
Can you please support other TLD's than .com?
Saying that Apple doesn't care about having the biggest market share is not the same thing as saying they are a niche or luxury maker. Markets don't always divide so neatly. There is a vast expanse between where competitors are sufficiently differentiated to maintain decent margins instead of sliding off into a slow spiral of beige doom. This is actually what the smartphone market looks like if you include everyone else or break down by handset vendor, but people seem to have an aversion to pie charts with more than two colors.

It might be easier to understand if you say that Apple cares less about market share than the individual Android handset makers do. If Apple loses share to "Android", that's not that bad for them, because their profits are still astronomical.

But who is "Android"? Google isn't making much money off of it, and none of the handset makers are making what Apple makes. They're stuck in competition with each other and their product is mostly the same thing. They're all trying to differentiate, but with what? The Sense UI? Bunding a copy of Avatar? NASCAR apps?
I think OP got it wrong, tryptamines like DiMethylTryptamine (DMT) are not substances you'd fall asleep on (but are potentially dangerous to your mental health).
Now realize that if they dropped the unsubsidized price of the iPhone 4 by $200, you could get it for free subsidized.

That's great, and obvious, and even specifically mentioned in my post. Are you autistic?

Actually, in the unsub market they also have an iPhone.

Actually, I was talking about the iPhone 4 value option (which was pretty obvious), which is the iPod Touch 4th gen. Effectively giving you an iPhone 4 minus 3G/voice for just a couple hundred dollars.
I suppose you had no problem with the poisoning of alcohol supplies during prohibition then?

(Reference: http://www.slate.com/id/2245188/)
Hrmmm, Django huh? Been awhile since I worked with Django (I typically roll with Rails but have worked with Django).

What's the app? Kind of curious now.
they sold another business prior to this, so it's probably the latter
bbommarito - concerns Live Touring (in Pinax). Send me an email and you can see the staging deployment.
i think if you have long-standing nytimes.com cookies, you still get prompted to login. if you delete them, you will be able to access everything normally.
My apologies then. I wasn't sure if your response was directed at the original or the edit, and apparently I was wrong. The original didn't strike me as focused on scorekeeping.
> To anywhere near the extent that women do? Be serious.

I wasn't claiming that it happened anywhere near the extent that it does to women. I was questioning the previous commenter's claim that there was no history of men being assaulted by women and experiencing skepticism etc when they tell the community about it. Because sexual assault isn't about gender it's about power.

> But you're gesturing a dripping faucet while others are pointing at a gaping hole in the roof.

I was disputing the claim that the dripping faucet did not exist and stating that both dripping faucets and gaping holes in the roof are bad.

It wasn't my intention to minimize the issue of sexual assault by men against women--how would you suggest re-wording my response in future?
From one of the final paragraphs:

> While Kerlikowske worked in Seattle, he was moderately progressive on drug issues—but as the nation's drug czar, he is legally bound (by the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998) to "oppose any attempt to legalize." Even if the nation's drug czar believes that prohibition has been a failure—and it has—it's against the law for him to say so.

Wow. That is a crazy law we have there.
Google has made public announcements saying Android isn't ready for the Tablet yet. Just because some manufacturers managed to get it working on some doesn't make it equivalent to the sponsored and ready-for-retail iPad. It's the equivalent of someone hacking the iPhone to work on Verizon and then Google trying to claim that the carrier argument is now null and void. Even if you factor in tablet activations with phones, Android wins. Why?...

You're also conveniently ignoring the iPod Touch. iPhone sales have historically accounted for only a little over half of total iOS devices. In terms of phones, Android activations dominantly win, no matter how Jobs feels like playing around with the numbers.
PSA: Apple's iPhone may not wake you up on time tomorrow morning
Why does everyone always assume that drug usage is an escape?

Some may see it as enhancement. Besides, not everyone shares the same motives.
Generally this sort of cases are dismissed in court because of lack of evidence. The same way that woman needs proof of a sexual assault, a man needs proof that she has done damage to his name and reputation so he can file a civil lawsuit against her. This type of procedure rarely carry jail time, it at all. In this case, if the woman has no proof AND the man has been fired from his job he can easily file a lawsuit and seek damages.
these "Learn You..." (NB: this does not include LPTHW) books seem like a post-modern version of the "For Dummies" series. So, if you enjoyed the vapid "For Dummies"-style jokes but wanted more non-sequiturs, these are the books for you.
I see no problem there.
'if Google accessed some other sites data but didn't provide a reciprocal arrangement, then I would be equally harsh on Google.'

This is exactly what Google does: read the open data that all other sites provide, over http, add a lot of value by processing that data, and carefully control any 'reciprocal' access to the results of this process: namely, their search index and ad targeting systems. To be clear, I am fine with that, and you should be too. Google has added a ton of value to a lot of lives, and I am perfectly happy with them making a buck or two in exchange. That would simply not be possible if they were perfectly "open" in the way they're insisting Facebook should be.

Lots of R&D effort, some of it mine, has gone into constructing a machine-readable version of the real-world social graph. Google insisting it should have full, unencumbered, automated access to this data, because users of its GMail service have provided some inputs into it, is every bit as insane as Facebook insisting it should have full access to Google's web index, because Googlebot crawls Facebook. Perhaps Facebook should start serving empty pages to GoogleBot until Google "opens up."

Let's perform a thought experiment, stripping out the branding and associated emotional baggage. Company A and Company B both provide large scale consumer-facing services over the web, and both have large, valuable datasets that they mutually covet. There is a lot of overlap in the userbase between the two groups; users sometimes take data from Company A's service to improve their experience of Company B, and vice versa. Company A decides to shut down this access, though no users have asked them to, and though they've voted with their feet by the millions to be able to move their data from Company A's service to Company B. Is Company A striking a blow for openness against the evil, proprietary Company B? Or, is Company A just trying to negotiate a favorable market position, while manipulating your emotions the best they can?

Disclaimer: Facebook pays me to write code, not HN posts.
It seems the 'introduce friends' feature should be an open standard - in the same way hopefully OAuth2 will solve reciprocal login credential validation.
I'm currently reading multiple books. Some are technical, some are small enough to read in the subway, some are far too big, and are read before going to sleep ;)

- La Zone du dehors by Alain Damasio, a french author. I must admit I liked his more recent book, La Horde du Contrevent, a lot more. Sadly, it is not available in English. Read it if you understand French and like SF.

- Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny (finishing the 9th book). It's a good story, but not a must-read.

- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Liked the first 150 pages I read.

- Cryptography Engineering by Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier, and Tadayoshi Kohno. I'm learning tons about cryptography.

- The Non-Designer's Design Book (3rd edition) by Robin Williams. Only read a few chapters, but I'm learning a lot about design. Very simple principles that change everything.

- Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests by Steve Freeman & Nat Pryce. I decided to go with this book instead of reading Beck's book on TDD. I'm learning / revisiting a lot of best practices from TDD masters. I recommend it to Java Developers (once they have read Effective Java, of course).

I still have a lot to read (
http://i.imgur.com/lgpjf.jpg and http://www.google.com/buzz/neveue/Kc4GhaSSoLE/Un-weekend-pro... ), and am looking forward to it :)

I anyone is interested, I've spent some time researching (on HN, StackOverflow, and other communities) about design & UX, Linux & System administration, and programming. Here's the list I ended up with: http://www.google.com/buzz/neveue/NBBSEryBonS/Woot-ordering-...
I'm no expert, but this just screams doom to me. When someone inside the company sells their shares in this quantity it's _always_ before something big. I won't speculate at what is going on inside, beyond all the negative image lately, but it can't be good.

And if he wanted to diversify his portfolio then he should buy some APPL! (Laughed at my own joke, too.)
Quite true, but I specifically wanted to get the standard combined "fuel efficiency" figure to compare against other vehicles easily. As has been demonstrated, it is quite simple to convert to simpler figures.
Just because a "drug" is socially acceptable does not make it any less dangerous, case in point: the tobacco industry in the seventies.

And even alcohol: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/01/alcohol.harm/

No, I am not for deliberate poisoning of mass consumed "drugs". But certainly I don't care that people die of their addictions to dangerous substances.
It depends on how basic you mean, but Intel has arguably made a successful career out of doing basic R&D. They invent new fab processes and so on, rather than just building chips out of off-the-shelf technology, which is one of their main competitive edges.
Me.

:(
I don't like Google putting artificial restrictions on what I can do with my data.

But I also prefer permissive Apache/BSD/MIT licenses to GNU GPL, so maybe that's just me.
Would terrorist groups ever choose to contaminate street drugs? Has this happened in the past?
Do you consume caffeine for "escape"? How does your argument look if you replace cocaine with caffeine?

Your comment reads like you're regurgitating government propaganda swallowed wholesale.
In the article he stated that they're currently using Python, I wonder if they're using Django, Pylons or something else?
"10 months ago DMT changed me. I can’t change back."
In data/text mining disciplines, correctness is fuzzy, rather than being boolean. For most industry-wide applications, having a solution that covers 99.9% of the cases (1 mis-classification in 1000 sample) is well below acceptable bounds.

So, one particular solution with these performance characteristics is building a decision tree using a bunch of training data, and eg. a maximum entropy classifier. Add some sample data from any openly available corpus's (or fire up mturk, and create your own), and you're pretty much done with it.

Of course, sentence-tokenization is only the tip of the iceberg :)
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?\.svn/ - [F]
if you checkout code into production server you source files could be accessible from .svn folder.
When I started to think about this question I just ended up getting sucked into a debate with myself about the definitions of rationality and intuition.

Could the two concepts merely be component parts of a more complex feedback loop?
It doesn't scream "doom" to me; Ballmer's sale looks like it was done mostly for tax purposes.
Digital Weapons Help Dissidents Punch Holes in China's Great Firewall
I think the Kinect depth-sensing just uses one camera. But I think they use the RGB camera for facial recognition, to get textures (to texture map your image over your 3D body), and to do some additional disambiguation.

But for the depth-sensing, I think they just use the one sensor.
A question: Do they (diapers.com) make money? Free shipping, cheap diapers, expensive warehouse and logistics, etc. All this leaves very thin margins.

I'm wondering how much money they have burned until today (the other articles implied it was a lot)
I agree. But I also think this action has to do with the launching of the Google Me (Google's competitor to Facebook).
OK. Enhancement by "addictive" means. Note, it is the "addiction" that provides an extra level of "danger" to abuse.

Why even get into motives? Just because my motive is to fly by myself does not mean I won't die if I skydive without a parachute.
Wasn't broadcast.com sold for 5 billion?
didnt amazon also start their first facebook page-based store selling diapers? diapers must be their most interesting product according to some internal spreadsheet..
Oracle is the Borg: Enterprise Software Development Will Be Assimilated
What's odd is that they didn't even win more than other Republicans in Silicon Valley itself, let alone elsewhere in the state. If you look at the numbers for Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, they did no better than non-tech Republicans (30-35%).

I don't think they're good examples of how a "silicon valley candidate" would do, though. They were both candidates who were popular in the business world but didn't resonate in Silicon Valley at all; Fiorina was actually actively unpopular with engineers. So you can't necessarily draw conclusions from this result to how a candidate that SV saw as one of its own would be perform.
And yet the headline didn't say "Amazon.com to buy Diapers.com"...

("Amazon.com, Inc." is the name of the company.)
But fab processes are just about their core business. You can't build chips out of OTS technology. And the only way to do 22nm chips requires research to do it. But it is focused research, in the same way Apple focuses.

Unfocused research is like the stuff IBM does for teleportation. Very cool, but will not make them any money. And frankly is probably better suited to be done in academia or by the gov't.
People are dying here in large part because the drugs are illegal; without the moderating effects of regulation (tort law, at the very least), the additives make them more lethal, without much recourse for the buyer.

I find your position hard to understand. It seems almost inhuman to me; that you would condemn people to death, because... liberty is immoral?
It still sounds bad to me. It says to me that Steve thinks there's more upside in lower cap gains taxes than hanging onto the stock. In other words, MSFT is stagnant now and it's going to be stagnant for years to come.

If Steve had been doing what Bill does—selling off a big chunk of stock every quarter—no one would've even blinked at this.
No need to apologize, everyone has a unique perspective on issues like these.
Apparently AMZN squeezed their margins so they were forced to sell.
I'm assuming that what you're describing is not the case. Selling because you know that something big is about to happen is insider trading.
Even if this were desirable, it would make much more sense for the OS (or C library) to do it rather than have it enforced by the hardware.

(edit) or, you could do it yourself. The following works for me on Linux: http://pastie.org/1278260. You may have to alter /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr and/or your SELinux policy.
Sure. Just because the government is saying something, even truth, does not automatically make it false.

Replacing cocaine with not only "caffeine", but also "theophylline" and "sildenafil citrate" also works. Only, neither of those has the propensity for "addiction" or "dependence" to the degree that "cocaine" does.

Or perhaps you have done some research that proves otherwise?
IMHO very good time for sale: few days after record revenue announce.
Right, but that's not what I was wondering. I was wondering why does actual damage need to be done to file a lawsuit? Isn't trying to hurt somebody good enough? If you try to shoot somebody you'll end up in jail even if you miss.
broadcast.com was a company, not a domain name alone.
1) Github
2) Ship code
3) Blog about code
> Google has taken away freedom from it's users to do as they want with their data (i.e. transfer it unidirectionally to Facebook). This is a fact.

OK, but when you say "its users" you seem to be talking about the millions who have stored contacts data with Google, when actually you are talking about the hundreds who build apps that have other users.

Google has not taken away freedom from its users to do as they want with their data (e.g. transfer it unidirectionally to Facebook), except for those of its users that operate services or applications that limit the freedom of other users to do as they want with their data. THAT is also a fact, and one that says something about all the users who have contacts data stored with Google.
Survey on TLDs and the Secondary Domain Name Marketplace (January 21st, 2009)
Another class of code icebergs are numerical algorithms. Often a few dozen lines of Matlab or R can be the result of months of effort. Failed approaches, tolerance thresholds, manual data cleansing, and more can all end up living as a few lines of math.
so other activities (non-chronologically) were things like writing operating system components, replacing parts of the java collections framework with probabilistic data structures or building our own red/black trees, designing chips, writing an embedded system or microkernel, creating oCaml/scheme/haskell parsers and REPL's, building C++ as stroustrup first did (by doing lots of plumbing with void pointers in c), designing new DSL's, spending hours on theory of computation proofs and decidability, implementing the viterbi algorithm for a speech recognition system and other wondrous dynamic programming problems, binary and stereo vision, distributed/parallel computing, and the list goes on...

All that can be found in good books and without a blabbering blowhard in front of a blackboard.
Didn't care for Mr Bunny?
I can understand blocking IE users, but I don't understand why Chrome or other modern browsers should be blocked with no explanation.
As Seas Rise, Future Floats
Step 2: FIGHT CRIME
The past articles written about the company have mentioned that the diapers are indeed low margin items, but they try to cross-sell products that have higher margins (products like baby oil or soap).

Since the box to send the diapers is already huge, the incremental cost of shipping these adjacent products is quite low (usually they can just throw them in the diaper box).

It's a good strategy.
More on this:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/20/diapers-com-on-its-way-to-s...

http://www.mentortechventures.com/MT-News.blog/2009/09/01/Di...

So apparently, Quidsi (the real name) is at break even*, has raised 80 million in equity since 2006 (plus the founders own injections), and this year will sell 270m while spending 30m on advertising.

At first I thought that they may not have been worth the 500m, but I'm rethinking that now.
Index of names in .museum
Thinking and doing: Procrastination and the life of the mind