skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many things in the Bible that may appear to be contradictory upon first glance. Some of those are taken out of historical and cultural context, some are mistranslations (yes, the Bible translators and scribes throughout the years did make mistakes) and with some things, we just don't have the whole story. The particular "contradiction of which you refer- the two different lineages given for Jesus has a rather simple explanation.

The lineage given in Matthew is that of Joseph (considered Jesus earthly father) and the lineage given in Luke is that of Mary (his mortal mother). Usually in the time and culture, they would only trace ancestry via the father- but as Mary was a virgin at the time of birth, Jesus was unrelated to Joseph by blood. Therefore, the different authors cited different lineages.

Yes, Joseph and Mary were related (cousins I think).
Looks like ice is on the rocks...
I confess I summed up my reaction a bit bluntly. Really the issue is that it's not a black and white thing. The article makes it seem like "oh yeah I should focus on benefits" when reality is a lot more complicated.
Nah - the whole point is to feel good about oneself.

That's why the small print at the bottom of the yellow tag that lets early hybrid drivers drive in the commute lane says "the driver of this car is a better person than you".
If AVG didn't have their head up their asses, yes. Though that would make the problem for webmasters even harder. What really chews my liver is that they didn't even do it right.
Can you explain this a little more?
The new unsigned SSL warnings are a massive overreaction - so much so that I think Mozilla must have a deal with some certificate root companies to match their Google deal.

For a great deal of what goes on over the internet unsigned SSL is just fine. You don't care who you are dealing with, you just care that no one else can listen in (and sometimes that it is the same guy as last time). You only need authentication for banking, shopping and a few other corner cases.
Interestingly enough, the current and projected CO2 levels are not unprecedented. And, when the CO2 levels were much higher, the "if we don't do something" disasters didn't happen.

What's different this time? (For one, there wasn't anyone who would benefit from carbon trading or taxes back then.)
Social Media: Metrics & Misnomers
Matthew shows the regal, or kingly, generations from Abraham to Christ. Luke shows the earthly generations from Christ to Adam. This is in relation to the themes of those narratives, Matthew declaring Christ as King and Luke declaring Christ as man. Pretty basic stuff, even for us non-priests.

The Bible actually states that a Christian ought to be ready at all times to give an answer for the hope that is in them. The sad state of Christendom is that many have no idea.
Software - Develop a piece of software that people could be helped by using and then charge them for the privilege.

Sounds like the exact same thing DHH was preaching at Startup School.

When multiple people start saying the same thing, there's probably something to it.

I love the math: ($39.00 X 1000 = $39,000 per month)

Better get back to work so I have something so sell those first 1000.
The article didn't include many of the satellite images that were mentioned. Here is a pdf of the images with some discussion.

http://belgingur.is/nmm2008/wp-content/uploads/utdraettir/go...
Google Media Server Launched - Google Enters the PC to TV Arena
Flatly incorrect. I don't know what disaster you're talking about specifically, but the biggest and most obvious impact from melting polar ice (antarctic, not arctic) is the loss of low-lying land area. This absolutely has happened during previous warm periods. The north american midwest is flat because it used to be an shallow sea.

Were it to happen in the near future, it would be a disaster. The areas that would be drowned are the areas we are currently using to feed ourselves.

And I think you're a little confused about "not unprecedented". The current CO2 levels certainly are unprecedented for us as a species, and in fact most or all current ecosystems. Rapid climate change can and has caused mass extinctions in the past. Is that a "problem" to you? It is to me.

I'll admit to being stunned at the number of global warming deniers on hacker news. I honestly thought folks here would be a little better informed.
The Many (Geeky) Faces of Bill Gates, a Capsule Biography
Of course, we are better off than those in the dark ages- prior to Gutenberg! Though we have a long way to go. Thanks for the further explanation.
AFAIK pg was 29 or 30 when he started Viaweb.
I said something similar 3 days ago. Perhaps you'll find it relevant
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=227331 and 169 days ago. Perhaps you'll find it relevant as well. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=96720
They used to have a far more expansive certificate, with a subject alt. name good for *.google.com, and I think google.com as well, so they could use it on subdomains like adsense.google.com. It was a really handy server for testing TLS implementations with big complex certificates. It was also sort of illegal, having both a common name and subject alt. names. However, the certificate expired and they got a new one early this year, and now it's some bog standard thwate issued cert, good only for one year (Hello! You have billions, you can afford to get a certificate issued for more than a year at a time guys!)

Anyway, you should really only be warned in the event of domain name mismatch. This isn't a fatal error. I guess firefox has gone overboard on the treating users like idiots front.
I read the comment, which was good. I only wish Anderson himself was more clear about his attitude toward the HBR piece -- he calls it "rock solid" and says that he's sure the analysis is accurate, and then proceeds to say that the author's use of percentages is misleading and he disagrees with the conclusions.
Google Goes After the TV with Google Media Server
NASA's hyperwall-2, the world's highest resolution visualization system
Do that in C++, and you'll be doing something extremely implementation-defined, so it's kind of a different animal.

(That said, this is an implementation-specific detail, too.)
The problem with "not caring who you're dealing with", is that it raises the possibility that who you're actually dealing with is a man in the middle, who is snooping on your traffic. If you get warned that a certificate is self-signed or signed by an untrusted authority, then you either have to check the key fingerprint or take a chance. Not that I'm happy with firefox taking this choice away from you, mind.
If you were interested in this, there's a pretty good book that goes into more detail and provides a lot of anecdotes:

http://www.amazon.com/Mistakes-Were-Made-But-Not/dp/01560339...
Ask HN: I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow night... got any questions?
I won an Intel triva contest and the prize is a trip to San Fran for dinner with the Mythbusters. Anyone have any questions or myths they want me to plug?
Or capsize them with a dingy launched from his megayacht.
Looks like the world's most expensive high-end phonograph listening room to me.
Mashups: Google's Adoption Makes oAuth a Must Have for All Apps
Carbon Neutrality is something systemic. Take any process that is locally "carbon neutral" and you can trace back to some input or prerequisite that involved an emission of carbon dioxide. Right at this moment it's hopeless. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't try. It's millions of small steps that will eventually shift our economy and our society to sustainability. Just don't expect to get there in a day.

(Poster drives a B100 Biodiesel fueled car, but realizes he's still part of the carbon economy.)
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/clifford_stoll_on_everyth... - Certainly one of the most enthusiastic and entertaining talks I've seen on TED
Google App Engine: Viable for startup that intends (hopes!) to be bought?
I'm considering using Google App Engine for a new startup but am concerned that using the Google Datastore (BigTable), Google Authentication, etc will limit the interest of future suitors.
My principal concern is that it will harder for them to migrate our startup (embedded in Google's operations) into their existing infrastructure. Any advice?
The laws were put there by politically connected businessmen who didn't like dealing with more efficient competition. Read about the original trust busting movement. Market losers resorted to using their friends in power against the winners.
Of course it's perfectly possible for one person to be related to a distant ancestor by two different pathways with significantly different numbers of generations. In fact, if you traced your family tree back 40ish generations you'd almost certainly find branches joining up like that all over the place.

I guess it doesn't work if you only list male ancestors, though.
Useful...

You asked:
What is the most popular programming language for business application development?

The other user says:
Fuck knows, I only just started my IT course. Apologies.
I shared the same concern, that’s why I opted for the more expensive way of building a staging infrastructure for our next project. Data management structure and procedure can become an issue for any migration.
JRuby may lead many Java die-hards over to Ruby, while still being able to use their Java libs, packaging, and deployment tools
So because they charged what people were willing to pay for a popular product, they were cheating?

Look, anyone can make the offer MS made. If they price it low enough, they could get some takers. It was a smart move, because it meant that a dominant player would have growing market share among manufacturers who worked with them, but it would only work out if the product had traction -- otherwise, dealing with MS would just be paying Bill Gates to watch you fail.
Whether you like Microsoft or not I personally think Bill Gates should remain the ultimate model for all hackers.
Yes, it will make it harder for acquirers to integrate your technology. But it'll be hard, regardless. It might even take a near-total rewrite.

Then again, you probably don't want to make it easier for an acquirer to negotiate your price down based on more and more aspects of the software that are harder to integrate--there will be some due diligence after the letter of intent is signed, and you'll want them to find that the technology is far better than they'd expected rather than far worse. I'd suggest pretty strongly making sure everything you do is abstract enough to roll on other platforms without too much pain. For BigTable, just make sure you don't do anything that won't move to Hadoop+Hbase reasonably easily, for example. Authentication...abstract it out. If you support OpenID, too, you'll be able to roll out anywhere.

Sure, Google is not evil, but no reason to trust your entire business to a potential competitor or a potential acquirer that might like having that kind of advantage over you in the negotiations.
Building a Kick Ass Social Media Team
Optimal startup burn rate
Using the Kelly criterion to calculate the optimal burn rate for a startup.
And the change in the sunspots has nothing to do with climate change whatsoever? And that's just the first argument against global warming.
I have trouble convincing myself that people will buy my software. It seems so daunting. (just sharing)
Then again, as I read this, I realize that the vast majority of potential acquirers (everyone except Google and maybe Yahoo), are going to want you to run on their existing infrastructure (meaning some kind of SQL database). So, being tied to a BigTable like structure might be a negative, even if you can run on Hbase, too. I dunno.
That's part of why people suggest releasing often and early. You'll have a better idea of what people think about your software that way.
Does your website make you look like a poor loser?
I used to be a poor loser, until I visited this website.
Regular Expressions: Now You Have Two Problems
Regardless of what caused global warming, regardless of whether global warming is actually occurring, it is in our best interests to keep the climate stable, much more stable than it has been in the past.

The big question is: can we do that (and at what cost)?
Please ask them to tackle the e-meter from scientology!
Please have them debunk water-for-gas once and for all! And thank them for improving the science-education aspect of their show! It's gotten much better over the past year/year and a half.
Lifestyle businesses
Fair enough, but sometimes tech savvy people use computers of tech unsavvy people (friends and relatives, internet cafés, corporations with reactionary IT departments...)
Interesting.

Some quibbles:

He says, " ... he also confused the voice of one individual with the voice of the Ruby community. " There is no such thing as the Ruby community. There are multiple Ruby communities.

Also, I'm pretty sure RejectConf was first held at a RubyConf.

And the Fringe conf looks no more fringe-y than most regional Ruby confs (i.e., not at all). Ruby could use a truly out-there conference, but since it would be hosting people most Rubyists never heard of, it would get little traction.
The applet is retarded if there is no interaction.

An image is enough.
Are you related to stumpedia? You've submitted the site twice in the past month.
Bill Gates: Entrepreneur, Manager, and Leader
You'll have NO trouble convincing me that people will buy your software.

Email me pls.
You got Served - Gman style - Garry's Mod video
Extreme regex foo: what you need to know to become a regular expression pro
Well, the problem is manufacturing facilities don't scale smoothly. They probably thought that building another one would give them way more production capability than they really needed, and end up costing them a fortune.

They were clearly unprepared for having the top two systems at the same time.
That's just, like, your opinion, dude. And the ferocity with which you put it forth, in absence of any argument to support it, only emphasizes that.
Basic concepts of physics and quantum gravity: some lore
Poll HN: Who do you support in the 2008 Elections?
Vote up to one candidate you support(ed) in the 2008 elections, and comment as to why.

The 'Hacker News' part: talk about their views and actions regarding technology and the economy. They will most likely affect technology and the economy in some way, thus affecting startups.
Barack Obama
John McCain
Bob Barr
Alan Keyes
Cynthia McKinney
Ralph Nader
Hillary Clinton (out)
John Edwards (out)
Ron Paul (out)
Mike Huckabee (out)
Mitt Romney (out)
I don't support anyone this election - also select one of the below:
I don't support anyone this election - Republican
I don't support anyone this election - Democrat
I don't support anyone this election - Libertarian
I don't support anyone this election - Independent
Ask them if I can have a job.
Rails: Helpers vs. Partials - A Performance Question
that's neat - thanks!
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS vs. Windows XP SP3: Application Performance Benchmark
At this point, we most likely need a technological solution. Global warming solutions have a huge "tragedy of the commons" issue to contend with.

The problem with technological solutions is that there have been unintended consequences whenever we have tried to meddle in the environment, so it will have to be done very carefully.
One caveat: anyone caught discussing software quality on the JoS boards will be beaten to death with posts echoing "Quality and design and anything else that makes a programmer happy are evil unless they directly put money into my pocket!" Which may more or less be accurate, but is often presented in a shortsighted and oddly coder-negative way.
i liked the article - i strongly believe that every company will require this kind of a team - in fact i was thinking on the same line from last couple of weeks that how someone can build a social media marketing team - it is a very diverse subject with unlimited number of tricks, tactics and techniques to create buzz for your product/service. The team has to very well organized and i think this article should be a good start. thanks ucdaz.
Stop.

It's astoundingly common to hear reasoned pleas for the other side to stop talking. That is anti-science.
This kind of loses me towards the end. I mean, sure, emacs is a freakishly large lisp program. I get that part. But, what's the point here?

The abstractions in emacs (modes and hooks are the ones discussed in the linked post) really aren't that strange, or unique, or even lisp-specific. Nor are they without analogs in other tools written in conventional imperative languages. An emacs written in python, frankly, wouldn't look that different. A mode by any other name would hook as smooth.
In "The Art of Project Management" (http://books.google.com/books?id=q1dJZv4Ycr8C&dq=the+art...), Scott Berkun insists that a good PM write feature statements as they directly face the customer. "My software will save you tons of money" is a fine benefit statement, but the feature statement shouldn't be "My software uses closures" but rather "The order entry system will consist of a single screen." Perhaps this is because of some technical feat that only you can appreciate, but the feature statement wouldn't ever mention closures.
This hypothesis never had significant scientific support
from your link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling
Reason has been tolerating this particular brand of unreason - that is, the climate-change naysaying - for a long time. Hearteningly, it is learning to stop. You don't like a little brusqueness in defense of human life, move to some other planet.
"Ender's Game" (Orson Scott Card) First SF book I remember reading. For me, it introduced the idea that it was okay being smarter than the adults around me as well as the beauty of having to rely on yourself.

"Zen Flesh, Zen Bones" (Paul Reps) Short zen stories that drive home a point per story. Suggest thinking about one of the stories for a whole day each and every day. Helped me relax and be okay with who I am and what I am accomplishing.

"Kim" (Rudyard Kipling) Great introduction into indian culture as well as the to relations between Britain and Russia during the end of the 19th century. What really stood out to me was the spiritual search Kim's mentor takes as well as the significance attached to it. Also worth the read is the thinking and training around Kim becoming a self-reliant spy.

"Foundations of Financial Economics" (Chi-Fu Huang and Robert Litzenberger) Fantastic introduction into financial economics and derivations of key ideas in the theory and practice. Authors were also involved in LTMC Hedge Fund and subsequent blow up. (Chi-Fu in LTCM and Litzenberger in Goldman). Liked seeing how Chi-Fu Huang went from mba student to phd student to professor to hedge master of the universe. Very interesting.

"SICP" (Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman) Besides the obvious excellence of the book as an introduction into computer science. It also showed me how human and approchable the "stars" of CS were as I had Sussman as a freshman advisor and Abelson responded to emails I wrote him before I went to college.
Yeah I totally agree. Social Media should not be underestimated. It's a great platform to reach out and connect with the community. Especially, if you're thinking about launching a product. The community is a valuable asset for feedback and word of mouth. Social Media FTW!!
If you have any interest in regex, visit

txt2re.com

It is extremely helpful.
Last thoughts on Microsoft without Gates
I don't dismiss science, and when the vast majority of climate scientists are deeply concerned, I'm deeply concerned.

But I'm actually a bit confused about this as well. When I was in France, I visited a town called aigues-mortes, where walls that had once been used to keep the mediterranean at bay were now miles inland. England was once so warm that vineyards were common in the south.

So please don't take this as a denial of disaster... I admit ignorance here. But hasn't the earth been much warmer while humans were around? Is humanity actually threatened, or is it that our modern civilization has gotten so hard-wired to our climate that we can't deal with change? For instance, suppose we were going through a period of warming that was natural, rather than human induced - would we still be looking for ways to reverse it?

Or is it that the change is on such an epic and sudden scale that the temperatures of the past 20,000 years will all seem temperate after what the current round of global warming will induce?
Outing the bad companies: http://badbuster.com/

http://badbuster.com/index.php?option=com_awaveshow&Item...
So, Is anyone dumb enough to buy the kit? Is it worth $7?

:)
i watched this all the way through (interesting stuff around slide 15) and the one question i have is how do they control sequential writing to a singular 'haystack' file that is being (artificially) capped at 10GB.

they are using offsets to seek in this large file to limit their exposure to unnecessary file metadata.
I don't think that anyone is denying that global warming is happening. However a) it's not entirely clear what the underlying cause is (i.e. how much is greenhouse gases, how much is increased solar activity etc) and b) the "solutions" being advocated by the Green lobby are inconsistent with their stated aims.

if (anti_carbon && anti_nuclear) {
return to_stone_age;
}
Do girls poop
As interesting as this could be, it is 1) US-centric -- not everybody cares about our menagerie of weirdos, and 2) probably not Hacker News, since I think politics has been implicitly or explicitly banned.

That said, I am eagerly looking forward to another Obama wank festival, in which mynamishere and I will get modded down to -20 for claiming that the sky is blue.
Haha, I can see that. My friend has 10 or 15 Wii games but all we play is Wii Tennis :)
Clearly, they don't make bandits like they used to.
Please stop using global variables in Ruby (that means you, Rails!)
Is this incorrect?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=1+Canadian+Dollars+...

Or am I misunderstanding that your currency has approximately the same buying power as ours?

Also, I bought 5 Wiis and resold them the day after Christmas last year. For the smart consumer, they're not in short supply.
Dead body raft like on Rome.
I agree, for the most part, with everything you way. Some of the minor stuff is wrong: Greenpeace (the biggest player on the "green activism" front) caved on the nuclear issue a few years back and accepted it as a part of a carbon-neutral energy policy. And the solar thing is mostly bunk -- you hear about it far, far more in propaganda pieces from the deniers than you do in the actual science community. Is is a plausible hypothesis? Yeah, sure. Does it look like a better bet than CO2 forcing? Hell no.

What drives me nuts, though, is the insistence on the part of the denalists here that because there is some disagreement as to numbers, the whole notion of carbon controls, consumption reductions, and the like need to be thrown out the window just because "we're not 100% sure". That's a policy issue, not a scientific one, and it's just plain insane. We're looking at a worst case (but still entirely plausible) effect of mass global starvation within the century, and the denialist attitude is ... wait for more data?
> Do you think 23 year old PG would be following someone like 2008 PG this obsessively

Yes, especially if he's giving stock tips from the future. ;)
Nice, I like that one. Maybe they could do a show set in Roman era myths.... just have to come up with a few more.
Completely off topic Eliezer, but have you researched the possiblity of Sneaky AI in your studies of Friendly AI?
Please add an option for "Not hacker news"
Why Nokia Bought Symbian, Then Gave It Away