skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bustaname has worked for me in the past too, but in this case, I was looking for a soccer related domain, and most of the useful domains that contain the word soccer are taken, my domain required a bit of lateral thinking, which is where the wordlists came in.
This is not something I worry about. If someone won't hire you because of a medical condition, you didn't want to work for them anyway. Better to find that out before you're entrenched.

Maybe, maybe not. The machinations of hiring are not necessarily representative of the rest of the work environment. And if a person with a politically unpopular medical condition gets turned down from a job, they won't know the reason. They're unlikely to say "Thank goodness I didn't get hired." -- more likely: "I wonder if my condition had any influence on the decision." These people would be much happier with greater confidentiality.

Why keep records of things you don't want people to know about?

In case they are medically relevant. It's not clear from the Google summary whether the patient has editorial control over the contents of their medical records, but it's not hard to imagine a service where they do not -- no doctor wants a patient to be able to remove notes on drug dependency issues from their file. Lists of operations and medications are medically relevant and potentially embarrassing; even something as simple as a list of vaccinations can tell you where a person grew up, which could be a politically sensitive issue.
Before anyone starts taking this guy seriously, consider the impact that drug use could have on your life in terms of the social effects rather than the drug itself.

Being arrested for possession (or, worse, dealing) could invalidate you from easy worldwide travel (merely having been arrested - let alone charged - invalidates you from many visa waiver programs), numerous professions, and delay certain opportunities. You have to seriously consider whether you can get away with it, and, if you don't, whether you can handle the consequences.

I'm not pro or anti drugs, but I'm very much anti people ruining their future for the sake of some temporary fun. But if you know you can deal with it, enjoy it!
More than once during my search, I wished there was something like this, even to the point where I made a note to think about it as a project for the future!
FSJ Done For?
B-Trees - Balanced Search Trees for Slow Storage
Oh you poor baby!

You have trouble reading and writing and 'rithmetic, so you need a little chemical help. You pussy.

Get out of cocoon, er I mean school, get a real job, get married. have a couple of kids, get a mortgage and a couple of car payments, raise those kids without worrying too much about the evils around them, visit Mom in her nursing home, do things for others in need, and, if you have time, have a nice life too. But don't drop a single egg while you're juggling. And don't you dare miss a day of work, no matter how mind numbingly boring or lame it is, or how sleepy or depressed you feel.

The only thing worse than the whining of a student is the whining of a pothead student. Grow up.
This article shows benefits from moderate drinking for individuals at high risk of heart disease, not the population at large:

For many people moderate drinking has absolutely no benefit at all, Dr. Klatsky said. This applies to all adolescents: teenagers have a negligible risk of heart disease and for them the risks of heavy drinking vastly outweigh any benefits of moderate drinking.

The same generally applies to men under 40 and women under 50, except for those with known heart disease risks. Pregnant women, people with liver disease, known drinking problems or a family history of alcoholism should never be advised to begin to drink for their health, he said.

But for others with known coronary heart disease or a risk of heart disease because of obesity, cholesterol levels, or smoking, moderate alcohol use may be a way to reduce that risk.

It is important to look at context when reading about these sorts of studies.
Problem is that 2 contradicts 1. 3 isn't rude, it's quite common for misspelt posts, and nothing personal.
Really, last call for iPhone apps, Apple tells developers
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If you have the Web Developer plugin installed try 'Information > View Color Information'

It gives only the basic info and not all the features of this plugin but it may be enough.
"Lesson for kids: Do your homework (this applies to your hobbies too)"

Isn't it amazing the kinds of things people will do without the slightest bit of research?
Operating systems are not 'fun', it's like saying my house is 'fun'. It's what you do on or in the OS that makes it fun.

I've experienced this over the years with Linux. I will from time to time install the latest greatest distro, configure it, work out all the little nagging bugs and then ....

Nothing, it's not fun (unless you think getting your graphics card to work and spending 4 hours doing it is fun), in fact the goal is always to get the OS to the point where I can use it ... for something else.
I did some searching today and it appears that Chinese advertising market is third biggest in the World ($60Billion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=238595 ) so they should have been able to bring some revenue in. And if they disappeared and never told their investors because they ran out of money, they could have went back to them and asked for more... so that theory doesn't make much sense to me.
b-trees. ugh. i wrote code around b-trees in my data structures class in college. but to my surprise, when i got out, pretty much no one in the "real world" (hiring for entry-level positions) use them. they mostly use things that we didn't ever actually play around with -- stuff like hash tables.
A Few Useful Bookmarklets
You can't do exploratory programming writing unit tests first, can you?
HOWTO Make online videos without getting sued
I use it everyday. Great extension.
Shhhh, there isn't. But don't bring that up because it's very cool to use a Mac, it makes you so creative and cutting edge. Rainbows and unicorns and dogs shitting ice cream and all that.
> anything more than 15% either way makes you a pervert

Actually it's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Your-Age-Plus-Seven_Rule
Shocking, real evidence that doesn't back up the widely accepted 'truth' that Macs are for the 'creative people'.
What's the name of your guide dog?
by the way, it's not any company. it's axel springer, one of the largest media-companies in germany
The front end guys 'liked Photoshp on the Mac'? And this was justification to move the entire department over? Uhhhhh, I'm sorry but if I were there and were supervising this department I'd need something more tangible than that to justify spending the company's money.
This may be a shallow thing to take away from the article, but "Lobster Gram" is most appropriate and hilarious name for a company that I've heard in a long time.
There used to be a difference and Adobe and Apple were very good friends many moons ago. Some people can't help but cling to a past where Windows was still only glare on Bill Gates's glasses. (I probably have my history wrong, but you get what I mean)
I'm grown up, have kids, mortgages (3 in fact!) and car payments and this weed ignorant college kid didn't strike me as whiny. Just slightly ignorant as I pointed out above.

Let me guess edw519, you probably drink, both coffee and alcohol, you probably also consume your fair amount of sugar and possibly (although unlikely) smoke cigarettes. Why is it that smoking weed (to help you work/play) makes you winy and a pothead but it's ok to be a raging asshole if you miss your morning coffee/cig?
Icahn's whole point is to make a couple of billions from this transaction, he has no interest whatsoever in Yahoo or the shareholders.

Why on earth would a company want to sell just the most valuable part of its business instead of selling it all?
LLVM and running C as well as Python in the browser
while i'm not certain, i'd like to think that feedburner is smarter than that and only counts uniques. however, i'm not familiar with the internals, and am only venturing a guess.

i do know that i've in the past used a WP plugin on a blog that definitely counted uniques.
When I was 14 I would have loved to talk to a real scientist. I loved science and technology but my educational access to any sort of professional was extremely limited. One of my most memorable High School teachers taught Chemistry. But during the summers he did real research. He was passionate both about Chemistry and teaching. He touched a lot of lives for the better. Many of his students went on to study in the sciences in college and beyond.

There are a lot of bright inquisitive 14-year-olds out there who could really benefit from access to "real scientists". If you have any inclination towards teaching you might even get something out of it yourself!
No mention of Songza?? http://songza.com/

Cleanest interface ever and everything loads quick quick.
I guess it depends on where you are in your career. Younger or more self-motivated IT folk will be drawn to exciting opportunities that may not carry great benefits, while those with families, or those looking to retire in 15 years, will be looking at pensions, health benefits, vacation time, etc.
I didn't say anything about who should do anything. Just telling you how it actually was.

Certainly, back then, if you needed colour management, Mac was by far the easiest/cheapest solution.
It's not particularly difficult for a white/asian middle class person (most people here, I'm guessing) to avoid getting busted. It's not like the cops are out to get you.

Just don't take pot onto the subway or speed while it's in your car, and you should be fine.
I don't see why the vehemence is warranted; I also don't think the author of the article is "whining". He's just talking about how and why he smokes pot, and how that connects with graduate school in the humanities. It is refreshing to hear something in the mainstream media about someone who smokes pot and isn't an intellectual vacuum. Which part of the article did you think was "whining"?

Your rant about graduate school versus a "real job" also seems like mostly a non sequitur.
YubNub - a (social) command-line for the web - released as open source
I still can't use the eyedropper function in my Ubuntu. :( Anyone had success?
The leader of my guild in an online RPG is 17. The median age of members is 25. The oldest is in his 50s.

Maturity and age are only loosely correlated.
Oh no -- no IPOs
i think its because it is human nature to require something that is available for our senses in order to see that it exists and assign value to it. as kids we look at, feel, smell, and try and eat pretty much everything in trying to evaluate it. we're not that much different as adults.

if we can only see the product, or only hear the product, i think that by our own distinct human nature, we're going to want to value it much less than something we can hold in our hands and stick in our mouths. even if its the exact same thing, just printed out in tangible media.

it'll take some time to get used to it, but eventually the entire culture will acclimate to it. but thats what it'll take -- the entire culture making a conscious change, and everything appropriately changing with it. as an example, the younger kids and adults now are much more used to it than our parents (and bosses) are.
"Can't we distinguish between interaction and friendship?"

The point of the article is that this distinction is very much blurred in the online world.

We have networks that support all kinds of social interaction, but we call the act of establishing interaction "friending" someone. Well, what does that mean? That you're going to spend all your time chatting about science? Or that you're talking about where the cool parties are.

The original article mentioned that the author checked out a young lady's blog after she sent him a friend request, and quickly found out more than he wanted to know about her personal life. I think that reflects different expectations of boundaries and privacy, even between 31 and 20 year olds.
I am not a student (so, also not a pothead student). I do not agree that you need to have a real job+marriage+kids+mortgage+car payments+etc in order to have a 'real life'. Because if I did have all of those - I would be forced to do whatever bullshit job I had instead of trying my own path.

I do agree this article was a poorly conceived article though.
Personally I think smoking is disgusting and smoking pot is dumb. Thinking that smoking pot is good for you is even dumber.

Health Issues of Marijuana - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana#Health_issues
In the US the consequences will vary depending on what state you live in. In upstate NY, sitting in traffic court for an evening I learned that every single case for 'possession' (all small amounts - not 'intent to distribute') was given a $50 fine and nothing on their record.

What would the 20's have been if everyone was too scared to go to a speakeasy?
That's a bit skewed by the thousands of machines in render farms that could be running any (free/bundled) Unix. It'll be interesting to see if OSX Server 10.6 gives them a compelling reason to switch.
This was really funny.

Dude. I used to take this college stuff so seriously, but really, after a couple of tokes, erm, it all.

What were we talking about again?
Werewolves -> same laws of physics. God -> may be not.

Great thought provoking reply.

Personally, I don't have trouble concluding that the God theories of current religions are wrong (looking at the contradictions, absurd stories, in-built benefits for preacher class etc). Could there be some other non-religious God? "I don't care" is a good approach.

JMC = 'John McCarthy' as well as 'Jewish-Muslim-Christian' (all Abrahamic religions)? Whoa! My brain explodes!!! :-)
i did work on an open source J2ME api(BIZU ME) and stopped when I started working full time. I can say that sourceforge is ok for hosting since that is what I used for hosting and had no problems what so ever. The UI is weird to deal with but its alright once u get used to it. I haven't tried any other such as google code etc so I cant give u any feedback on those.. You will probably need a bug tracking tool such as jira for tracking your issues. Jira is really good and offers a free licence if your project is open source. Apart from that , you will need weekly updates or else people lose interest pretty quickly!
When both sides of the dev team BOTH want Macs, and can provide both technical reasons (which you skipped there) and have a personal preference for it, then it seems silly for the department supervisor to NOT go along with it.

Plus, the corporate Dells + support plan + etc... are pretty close in price. And our department was responsible for 2 billion+ in corp revenue, so a few Macs are a small price to pay.

I'm glad you weren't supervising our department:)
Companies often upgrade their hardware every 3-5 years anyway, so the money is a non-issue if it coincided with the cycle.

And it would be a poor manager who didn't take advice from the specialists he employes in making decisions.
Introducing (the other) MagLev. A Ruby framework without Rails
teetotalism is as bad for your health as being morbidly obese

That just sounds really unlikely. Got anything to back that up?
Well the thing about befriending people your own age is that they're much more likely to be at the same stage of life as you. So it's easier to discuss things. That's the way I feel about it and you can dismiss this.

But don't dismiss this: The other thing is that an older person can influence a younger one in some ways, mainly because young people are stupid and don't know any better. All I can offer is anecdotal evidence to support that statement.
That's a newspaper/magazine publisher. I find this hilarious, because back in the day (mid-nineties) most companies in that industry used Macs. Many IT departments probably completed the switchover to PCs in the early part of this decade (standardization was probably the primary reason) - and now they have to switch back.
Don't knock the pettable, portable, ice cream dispensers...
I thought that at least someone might find this useful.

MagLev is a Ruby framework that I ran across that tried to make Ajax, templating, and other common functions easier, without having to be all things.
You know, my dad always threatened that when my mom turned 40 he'd trade her in for two 20-year-olds ;D He later reneged on that one by saying that he'd developed a taste for the classics in his old age.

online it is more to do with shared interests, ability, and many other factors rather than age.

This hits the nail on the head. Online one's peer group is not dominated by age, but by interest.

As an aside, I went to bars with friends of various ages when I was in my late teens. I just claimed to be the son of one of the other members. And it was Wisconsin, so it wasn't checked too closely. (I didn't drink. Still don't.)

This may be unusual but I make and keep friends based on merit rather than something as arbitrary was what year one was born in.
I'd quote it, but theres just too much text to post really.

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/08/16/why-does-my-fe...

There is an explanation by Rick Klau who is (was?) Feedburner’s Vice President of Publisher Services.

Hope this helps.
I like how he says "but going to her personal blog had me feeling like I was getting a bit too much information," and gives a link to the blog, heh.
Postgres: EXPLAIN ANALYZE.
Certain operating systems are more conducive to 'fun' experiences than others, much like houses.
No. FeedBurner has a basketful of algorithms to deal with this.

In the most significant cases, the readers actually report back to FeedBurner how many subscribers are using that reader. For example, Google Reader. In the user agent string, Google Reader (as well as, I believe, Netvibes, Newsgator, and a few others) says "X subscribers", and that number is then used by FeedBurner. You can check this out yourself if you have access to web stats on a domain that hosts feeds. Check them out. You get to see the same numbers that FeedBurner puts on their charts.

With non-Web / non-centralized readers, it gets trickier, but FeedBurner uses IP addresses combined with user agent strings to get an idea of what's a unique reader requesting multiple times or not. Typically this system works well and isn't wildly inaccurate.
Firefox 3 with a bunch of addons crash when I click on the demo links.
Awful Computers for Kids
Jeff's posts a year ago were so much more interesting than the past year's have been. sigh
Can't we distinguish between interaction and friendship?

I think that one of the benefits of the online world is that such distinguishing can be decided based on context rather than enforced by offline societal pressures. We don't need to fully throw out the old responses, because there is a grain of truth in their formation. But neither do we need to bring them wholesale into this new medium.
In many states, possession of small amounts (more than a smoker would need at one time) isn't even a misdemeanor.
I can't tell you why they SHOULD, but I can tell you why some might want to:

Personal OS/Interface preference. I've used Windows 2k and XP for years. I find the OS X interface to be cleaner, easier, and faster to use. I just prefer it. Just like I prefer my new car over my old one. No logic, no stats, just what I feel happier/more comfortable using.

OS Level ColorSync support, which extends through screen calibration, printers, Safari, Preview, Photoshop, etc...

Built-in screen calibration. No, it's not as good as a $ hardware/software package, but it's pretty good, and good enough for web work certainly.

The ability to run any OS/browser combination easily (Parallels or VM Ware). Macs aren't a majority, but they're up there, and depending on your site's demographic, making sure stuff looks right/works on the Mac can be very important. I run OS X/Safari, OS X/Firefox, WinXP/IE6, WinXP/IE7, WinXP/Firefox, Vista/IE7, Vista/Firefox, etc... on my Mac very easily. I can also run my Windows VM at whatever screen size/resolution I want to see how things will look on a 1024/768 display, without hosing my main display/work area.

For whatever reason, using Photoshop on a Mac is easier/better looking for me. I can't back that up, but it's a strong difference for me.

Apple displays generally have better color gamut, than the displays from major PC vendors. Even the photographers I know who choose to use Windows (which is fine), usually use Apple displays, unless their using a very high buck non-consumer display.

I'm sure other folks are much happier using PCs, which is fine. These are just some of my reasons.
B-trees (and related data structures) are pervasive in the real world. Pretty much any application that requires high speed access from disk uses them. Think about filesystems, databases, etc... They're hugely useful.

But they're not useful for the same purpose as a hash table, which is also a pervasive data structure, but for a different problem area: constant time access to in-memory data.
It woudn't change. The marginal cost of digital goods is zero. Simple economics pushes the price to that cost and there's a dead zone of micropayments where the mental cost of just evaluating the price is higher than the $ price.

Cost of finding the goods is not making things easier, they have already spent more than what they're willing to pay to find your product, and now they're expected to pay?
They wouldn't switch because of the tremendous cost involved. You have to replace a bunch of already functioning boxes, and for what?

You'd have to expect a pretty large decrease in IT support staff to recoup that cost. For businesses, it's all about the bottom line on the spreadsheet, and the cost of switching from any one OS to another is rarely going to be justified.

Much more likely is a company supporting both for a time, and switching over to the new OS on all new purchases, or allowing employees to choose.
The net is more dangerous than real life because pedophila or cannibalism is mandated in the Internet Terms of Service.

They're all creeps, especially men. Perverts are more dangerous when they're on the internet!!!

I'm 12 years old. What are you doing on this forum chatting with little boys anyway. Creep.
While the ad markets globally are quite big, the number of videos ads are a tiny portion of that due to lack of inventory, content providers not having the tools to create video ads, different websites requiring different formats & sizes of video ads, and hence a lot of content is not monetizable.

The IAB recently introduced standard for video ads, that with an understanding of how lucrative video ads in terms of CPM's, and with measurable analytics and tools, the video ad market should increase substantially.

User generated ads currently have very low CPM's compared to content show by the ABC's, NBC's, Hulu, etc.
|| buy the specific seeds you want, and grow them yourself in your closet!
tried on the iPhone. Works, but the messages don't appear near where the user action is being done so if I am not zoomed out, nothing appears to be happening.