skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the writter missed the bigger picture, here. If you look at the chart, the difference between men vs women prefering iphone is marginal. The differences between undecided and those prefering anroid are very high. A better take might have been that, as another commenter pointed out, men have been more responsive to Droid's marketing campaign.

It should also be noted that many non-techie's I speak to think Droid = Android. They don't understand other phones offer android software as well.

The last chart shows similar things - older generations are less decided.

Another possible conclusion might be more tech savvy audiences prefer android.
Who has defined viruses as living organisms? Biologists don't.
Awesomely minimal?
A problem I have with the article is that I'm left in doubt as to how much of this money is an expenditure by the federal government. What portion of it is paid for my taxpayers? It mentions the purchase of assets. Is this $3.3 trillion already included in the calculation of our national debt?

Any insights would be most appreciated.
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Looking for PHP/javascript and/or CSS ninjas who want to work in a fun and fast paced environment. From where I'm sitting, I can see three bouncy balls, two nerf guns, and a giant bean bag. I have three huge monitors on my desk (you will too) and a screaming fast computer. This is definitely a great place to work if you like to work hard and hack hard.

We were founded by some smart MIT dudes and got acquired by Rakuten (very large Japanese internet company) but we definitely still operate like a startup.
Feel free to message me for more details. Company is FreeCause (http://www.freecause.com for more info)
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This is insane... lots of possibilities

http://www.gla.ac.uk/businessandindustry/technology/easyacce...

That list sums it up
Google wants to buy Groupon for the relationships it has built with local businesses, not the revenue model.
I am not so sure, at least for properly tangible patents.

There are considerable risks and costs to developing a technology from a demonstration in a university department to something marketable.

If companies especially of small to medium size, or their investors, don't have patent protection they may consider the investment not worth the risk of being "beaten to the punch".

A university granting royalty free IP may be the best of both worlds in terms of openness and practicality. IP is free to anyone willing to take the risk but then they get to take a crack at it knowing the idea is protected.
They should be happy. He paid for the ticket and they get a weight savings which should help with the fuel costs.
1) the IE default page gives additional information what could cause the problem and how to maybe fix it. And it is localized to the users language. As such IE's page is much better for a non-technical user and doesn't at all impede the technical user.

2) the moment that page gets customized with all that info you propose it will be longer than the 512 bytes at which point IE will not display its customized error page.

Plesk's solution here does nothing but make life harder for non-techies (which admittedly don't use plesk) for no reason what so ever. The page served in the example is inferior to IE's page in all aspects. Hence my snarky comment
well, if the default is not to be tracked, then you never assign a cookie to anyone unless they opt-in
IANAL, but I have a vague memory from a patent talk. So, I can't disprove you, but I can remain more skeptical of your claim, unless you're an IP lawyer -- in which case I'd assume you know something I don't.

Regarding the semantics of "lose" -- why does it matter in any discussion of real-world actions or motivations?

Even if I don't lose something, if I do things to erode its usefulness, I've essentially lost its functionality. Therefore regardless of whether I legally lose the thing or not, I'm going to resist doing things that (possibly) reduce its effectiveness -- the result (in terms of my actions) is the same.
That is no excuse for the software getting hacked. It is poorly developed, and that is the bottom line. If no one is working on it, it should be turned off, now it is just a flawed, insecure tool thats insecurity will be used against OSS.

Stop making excuses, and start fixing the sources.
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Connecting data to theory--need some advice
Howdy HN! I'm a long-time reader/brand new poster. I'm an economics PhD student studying industrial organization. I'm currently looking into the effect of contracting B2B service impact on intra-firm group dynamics.

As you can imagine, getting intra-firm data is extremely difficult due to its confidential nature. I'm having a lot of trouble finding data to match theories out there.

If you know of some other way to get such information, I would love to hear your suggestions!

If you are in a position that you can legally share such information (after appropriate NDAs), I am very interested in getting in contact with you.
And compound interest.
You see how we're converging on "just use proper input validation", which is the all-time least useful piece of advice in software security?
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I think you should move away from Wikimedia as a CMS platform. It's crusty, looks terrible, and is a trademarked for "half-assed projects" as far as I'm concerned. To be brutally honest right now it looks like someone shuffled through the Wikimedia plugin bin and slapped it together without any thought to aesthetic.

A simple static website with the What, Why, and How as a portal to a better, light weight, CMS would be far more attractive.
And there's probably a decent chance that you'll show up to the airport and still not be able to fly. I've been screwed by airlines more times than I can count.
Yeah, this headline really skews the statistics. What the numbers are actually saying seems to be that women and men almost equally desire the iPhone (30.9% and 28.6% respectively). The really interesting difference actually arises in men being about 10% more likely to desire the Android OS compared to women being about 10% more likely to be undecided about what OS they want.

Analyzed that way, these statistics really become about the 10% of women who haven't been captured by the marketing of any definitive OS, and the nearly matching 10% of men who are on the Android bandwagon. SO MANY WOMEN WITH PURCHASING POWER AND BRAND LOYALTY YET TO BE HARNESSED, PHONE OS PEOPLE!
As a founder of a Waterloo startup this pisses me off to no end. If RIM hadn't taken such hostile actions Kik may very well have been a Next Big Thing. I mean, Kik might still achieve that - and I damn hope they do - but it will be in spite of RIM's hostility.

Now for Waterloo region which has been trying to make a name for itself in the tech/startup world, having a Next Big Thing coming out of it would have been huge. It would have benefited the region from a financial standpoint (think PayPal mafia) and it would have benefited the region from a talent attraction standpoint.

RIM's actions are not only an assault on Kik they're an assault on Waterloo's startup community as a whole.
I agree with this one, take the simplest project fist and knock it out, I would use a second measure though. I would take would weight the project by simplicity and potential for revenue. The one that is the simplest with the highest potential for revenue would be the one I would start on first. You may not end up selecting the simplest project nor the one that will make you rich but you will select a project that will be easier to get out the door while contributing to war chest funds to get the others done.
We're in the process of switching from scripts + Makefiles to scripts + CMake. The scripts with CMake are simpler (do less than the old scripts), and the CMake files are really easy to deal with--but public documentation completely sucks for CMake.
Now who told you about that, I wonder...? :)

Surely someone _told_ you about it. You didn't try to XSS our form just for fun, surely.
This is great and all, but there's a bigger skill to learn: how to react appropriately in context. People who are tactful in meetings can also be overly tactful in casual conversations, to the point of giving offense.

Check out a few of his examples:

#1 is kind of clever pointing out a spelling error. But you have to realize, in normal society that's going to upset and make hostile the person you're addressing. Whether you mean to or not, it comes across as, "I'm demonstrating that I'm more clever than you."

There's a few ways it could be done differently. For instance, an email that says, "Hey Sebastian, I wanted to give you a heads up. I saw your recent post, but you spelled "wisen" as "wizen" - easy spelling error to make, since they're uncommonly used words, but I thought you should know. "Wizen" means for things to dry up and lose water. Cheers and best wishes."

If somebody posted a comment like that aimed at me, I'd think, "Wow, why is this guy working so hard to maintain distance? Is he afraid I'll think we're best friends or something? Or do I really seem so fragile he needs to soften the blow?"

In a meeting at work, I appreciate more tact, but I still don't like being treated like I'm fragile. Treating someone with inappropriate sensitivity is actually a great passive-aggressive way to make them feel like shit. You should only do that on purpose, never accidentally ;-)

Let's look at point #2. "FWIW, I think posts like this are more valuable the more they include real-world examples; it's kind of odd to read a post which says I had theory A of the world but now I hold theory B, without reading about the actual observations."

This is something which makes people trying to help or create shake their head. See, it's potentially a good point. But after someone takes some time to create something and give it away for free, then hearing, "Your work would be more valuable if you did (xyz) instead. Your way is kind of odd."

Didn't he just do the same thing? He got free feedback on something he wrote, and here he is criticizing it without first thanking the guy profusely. Irony upon irony, this is shortly followed by a list of guidelines for social self-awareness.

Context is everything! I appreciate tact at the right times and in the right doses, but misspelling a word is exactly the kind of small error that can be treated lightly, and excessive formality destroys any feeling of frankness or openness. Criticism is always hard to take; excessive solicitude for a person's feelings just adds an implicit criticism of, well, their ability to take criticism. To some extent, this varies by situation. Anything that aggravates the inherent anxiety of the situation -- a superior criticizing a subordinate, or criticism of a sensitive personal characteristic, for example -- indicates more sensitivity.

But there are many situations where directness and informality is better. Actually, I'd rather somebody posted, "Hey, it's 'wised up,' not 'wizened up,' you pompous dickhead," than for them to act like they're afraid my ego will be crushed by having a spelling mistake pointed out. At least I can assume they're kidding about calling me a dickhead.
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... a more interesting story than "200 M people who started with nothing, and ended up with nothing."
Quick summation: Cargo cults don't work.
> One of the main reasons it's so big is the custom, humorous descriptions that go along with each item.

Personally, I never read those. I skim the headline, and look at the deal details if the topic interests me and is a really good deal.

There's a difference in content though; with deals I just want the hard facts. With many news articles, I want some well-written copy to add context to otherwise meaningless/bland data.

For the Powerball results, the sentence format is a bit more engaging and I can skim it as fast as I would skim a table. If nothing else, it makes me feel like the publisher cares more about the reader.
I put up a pligg site for tech news in Cleveland. Not much, but it's one of many domains I've been sitting on for a few years now.

http://clevelandtechnews.com

Normally, I'd completely tear apart the default theme, rebuild it with my own design and by the time I had that about wrapped up I'd start on something else and never launch.

Like I said not much, but it's out there and not sitting on my dev server like all my other half finished projects. It's a start I guess :)
I'm in a similar situation. Ideally in 6 months, i'd like to be proficient at Rails, familiar with Haskell, and build an income source stable enough to not have to get a job. (ie.. be ramen profitable) So that's where my 6 months are going
I have to disagree here, context switching for a developer kills productivity. I believe that focusing on a single project until the end will better serve the poster in the end. They will have a shorter time to market and they reduce their risk of abandoning work latter on.
1) Not all defaults are awesome. The issue here is that this is not even a site default, this is a default for a multi-website management program.

And for that matter, if you leave the wrong settings unset on recent versions of IIS, this message won't go out anyway, since IIS will push its own default page for non-200 responses.

2) It's trivial to have a simple, CSS-based site layout that requires less than 512 bytes in the base HTML page. For a simple notice that this isn't a known page on the site, but here's a search form, you could easily still be under 512 bytes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_largest_airlines

Notice that a search for "Virgin" on this page yields zero results.

Being the David and being the Goliath involve completely different strategies.

*edit: HN trims the apostrophe from "World's". Manually add it if you want to visit the page.
He didn't mean fix as in "Every person on this plane paid exactly $300". He meant fix as in "If your prices are gameable, either fix the pricing algorithm so that they're not gameable or deal with the occasional person who games it (airline's choice--whichever costs them less). Don't implement a policy that traps tons of your loyal, well-meaning customers in the crossfire"
Getting in trouble for interlocking round trips is exceedingly rare, and you can always just book on multiple carriers.

Burning the return leg of a roundtrip is usually also totally penalty free.

Getting off at a stopover is much more borderline, and it's almost impossible to get your luggage checked only to the stopover destination.
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Addendum: essentially looking for operating costs as percentage of revenue both before and after contracting B2B services.
No, it's because airline ticket pricing is simply based on the maximum amount of money they can get out of you. Some examples:

A one way ticket nearly always costs more than half the amount of a round trip ticket. So to prevent people from using one half of a round trip, they cancel your entire ticket.

Even better: when Delta had a huge hub here in Cincinnati, they owned something like 80 - 90% of the flights at the airport. They jacked the prices up to the point this was the most expensive destination in the country. However flights out of the Dayton airport 50 miles away were $100s cheaper - including on Delta. And the Delta flight would connect in Cincinnati! When I asked what would happen if I just flew out of Cincinnati and ignored the Dayton - Cincy leg, I was told they would cancel the entire ticket. Same thinking as the first example.

A study at one point showed something like 1,500+ people a day were flying out of Dayton rather than Cincinnati because of the cost difference. While the lost jobs hurt when Delta merged with Northwest and pretty much moved their hub away, I was happy to see them go.
Neat? Yes.

Usable? No.

I'm not sure if theres some piece of information thats trying to be portrayed here (other than quantity of dissertations per major) but as a browser, it's pretty useless. It employs mystery meat nav heavily, mostly because you have to hover over a dissertation to view any info about it. Imagine finding a paper you liked, and then going back 15 minutes later to try and find it.

If there is some data thats trying to be shown its not clear to me what it is. Some of the inner circles are in columns which seem to indicate correlation, but I cant figure out if thats accurate or not. For instance, if I click on philosphy, I see a dot in the direction of Food Research, and when I hover over that dot I see a thesis about "Practical reasoning and the varieties of agency".

What is trying to be portrayed here?
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I think they still will be the next big thing. This will buy them more publicity than any kind of PR budget.
This was the subject of a Radiolab segment not too long ago:
http://www.radiolab.org/2010/jun/28/even-the-worst-laid-plan...

I have to post links to Radiolab whenever something related comes up on HN because I am so sure that many HN readers would love Radiolab, and I am afraid there are still people out there who haven't discovered it.
Yes. If you wanted to get serious, you should deal with unstable characteristics. Perhaps with Bayesian filtering or something? And maybe adding some outside information, like when the new flash plugin is released; and tracking if a user is likely to upgrade or not.

If you have a working solution for unstable characteristics, you can also add more more characteristics, than they do at the moment.

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We're evaluating with different CMS platforms. The good thing with MediaWiki is that the content is easily migratable :)
As long as we're speculating wildly, let's pretend that NASA is announcing that they've found a crashed alien spacecraft chock full of new technologies.

So, who wants a hover car?!
Exactly. Project out GroupOn's likely future and selling out quickly starts to look very attractive to their investors.
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I was surprised to learn that Mono Lake, [is] in California’s Yosemite National Park. Last time I checked, it was well to the east...
I feel the term Open Source in this context refers to open sharing of closed (proprietary rather than copyrighted) information, not specific copyright/patent-free work. Game mechanics may not be copyrightable, but the reasoning behind them/supporting research/metrics/design patterns can all be behind closed doors.

I applaud the idea, but perhaps there is a better term?
Yep, this is a really bad way to present the information. Having a collapsible columnar list for each department would be orders of magnitude more useful. Plus it would be in HTML, and you could use ctrl/cmd+f to search for dissertations by keyword.

Perfect example of bad data viz.
What's really interesting is that most of these reviews happened yesterday, and it appears mots of the reviewers have never actually engaged in business with the scammy vendor, or attempted to engage in business, or well ever heard of the business before this. Being the voice of reason, isn't that a violation of Yelp's terms of services? Yelp itself is known to be somewhat of a bully.
I'm fascinated with how many of these guys suffered the death of a parent at a young age. I suppose nothing provides you with an all-encompassing motivation to build security and wealth like being raised by a single lower middle class parent.
DNS error for me, I am unable to load the site.
Excellent point. Even though many of these relationships aren't particularly positive, Google will probably be able to convince most of them to give it another try -- and perhaps package it with SEO to make it even more attractive.
We're a bit inexperienced when it comes to hiring people - I wouldn't expect to find anyone reasonably good with say $1k for a single week of work? The apps definitely don't require a full time person for the next six months - maybe a proper week of worth every month would be appropriate.
It would be foolish to do it now when IP addresses are still available for a fairly modest fee. If you wait a year for the RIR free pools to empty then IP address trading could well become big business.
It it possible to obtain the data for this somehow? I'd interested in making a different, more straightforward columnar text-only view.
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Is anyone familiar with an open source program or customizable software I can use to allow two users to schedule a meeting and confirm the timing anonymously? Thinking something like a forum where both sides can post when they are free/available anonymously and then each side can confirm the agreed upon meeting time. Would be nice for users not to have to create a new account with the provider but if they have to that's ok too. Thanks
Yes, exactly. This is a (real) implementation of the Starfire ideas. Not to detract from it, just an observation.
It's more complicated than a simple formula. If we're talking about olympic lifts (squats, deadlifts, clean & press), start with the bar and increase 5 lbs every day until you start hitting a limit.

Check out Mark Rippetoe's "Starting Strength" [1] for more info. Great program for anyone new to weightlifting.

[1] http://startingstrength.com/
Really? My experience with David, the "Talent Geek" was the exact opposite. I recommend avoiding him when dealing with hackfwd.
Yes, phone numbers are a legacy of the old telecom systems. SIP uses user@domain style URIs, and this can be mapped to a legacy number via ENUM, and vice versa.

4G cellular networks are all IP and use SIP for signalling. I doubt phones are publicly addresssable though, the telco probably NATs them.

I eagerly await a number-free, VoIP-enabled, IPv6 world.
I don't think I was missing the point. I think I was making another one.
not a W2 employee.

I'd suggest one of the cofounder-wanted threads would be better, then, than a hiring thread.
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Added it to my running list of Airline horror stories:

http://buyersvote.com/categories/the-best-airlines
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I hear this a lot about BBM, although I've never used it. I think you're right, of course, about them not wanting a cross-platform version. I just wondered if there was something other than a lawsuit they could have done, since a lawsuit seems so ill-fated from a PR angle... Android and iOS are going to continue eating their lunch whether Kik exists or not.
If two "rational" actors go into a one-shot prisoner's dilemma and both defect, then they're worse off than "irrational" actors who both cooperate. What the hell kind of rationality is that? If you're going up against an agent whom you think will defect, then sure, it's rational for you to defect as well -- but defecting is not always the right answer.

I'm guessing that Eliezer's being relatively quiet about this because he's still working on a grand unified theory of how to approach such problems:

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Timeless_decision_theory