skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Also I can rant about how the word "immutable" gets misinterpreted and cargo-culted but that would be a lengthier post.)

Please do.
I don't recall him telling users to click on ads.
I started at around 23, when I took a 2 year programming diploma course at a local school. I'd bounced around university/college for a few years without knowing what I wanted to do with my life. I liked computers, and figured I'd give it a shot. It's been a good career ever since I graduated, and I'm still liking the challenge.
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Those standard events you mentioned are not making their way here. And believe me, North Korean excesses are pretty non-standard.
I heard that this actually works. I've seen this advice over the internet: If your account is suspended just open another one. You have much higher probability of using it that getting the original working again.
I started using http://www.dailyburn.com to track a lot of this. Very useful to get going.
Anybody who tries surgery for anything (including increasing the size of their lips) without understanding all of the consequences...

I had weight loss surgery and lost 160lbs. I also almost died almost a year to the date after the initial surgery because of an intestinal stricture that resulted when a permanent stitch become semi-permanent and came very close to my intestine tearing (sepsis from that is BAD). I basically had to have most of the surgery twice as a result, the second time in an emergency setting (fortunately from the same doctor as the original, who was chosen because his practice of doctors are so good).

Still, I am a proponent of the surgery for a certain class of individuals, like me, who had tried for years and years to lose and saw nothing but yo-yo'ing into BMIs of 40s, 50s and more. Quality of life is so low and health dangers so high, that the risks can be worth it.

Few people who haven't been morbidly obese can understand how bad the quality of life can be (note: QoL does not have to be bad for the morbidly obese; some people are very happy and I say more power to them! I was not one of them. I was miserable.).

Even knowing how close I came to dying, I would do it again, just for the opportunity to live. It is not a decision to be made lightly (I can give a list as long as my arm as to potential complications), and my heart goes out to every person who hoped for that better life and succumbed to complications. It is also not a silver bullet. You still have to think about how you eat, retrain yourself, etc., or you will be back at your weight again (I'm dieting now because I've gained back a bit more than I wanted because I didn't pay enough attention, but the tool still works and I am losing weight. I'm down about 20lbs and able to diet like a "normal" person.).

However, even with all that, I will still encourage everybody I talk to who is considering it to do it if they think it is right. Only they can decide that.

Edit: Rereading, I noticed you mentioned "especially if they have kids" and I think it is also important to address that. The decision is certain more grave at that point.

I had four kids, the youngest was 3 when I had my surgery. It factored significantly into the decision, but in the end, it actually encouraged me to have the surgery. Let me explain:

1. Children of obese parents tend to be obese and unhealthy. I wanted to try to help break that cycle.
2. I could not really play with my kids, do the things I wanted to with them, because of my weight, so it was negatively impacting my relationship with them.
3. My health was deteriorating to the point that it was questionable whether I would have 10 more years with them at the current trajectory (high blood pressure, high cholesterol, beginnings of type 2 diabetes), and those 10 years would be miserable, watching me decay.

So, in the end, I did the surgery for myself and for my family.
Paul Allen revises patent suit, targets Android, Apple iTunes
And don't ever, ever, every go into a store hungry.

Ever!
I'm realt glad this story is getting told. Bumping up against Google's machine-enforced, unfair rules is easier to do honestly than you may think — and it's a terribly cold, hopeless, impersonal, recourseless, unfair experience. Imagine 1950s automatons running a bureaucracy. It's like that. «I'm-sorry-sir-my-programming-indicates-you-are-a-fraudulent-user.»

From TFA:

I also spent a lot of time on line finding out why people get thrown out of the Adsense scheme and discovered that Google has three sets of rules you can break:

1. The ones in the very long contract that I confess I did not read very carefully

2. The rules that they try to explain in their many pages of Questions and Answers and FAQs

3. The rules they do not tell you about because they are secret and deal with their algorithms
That was how it began. Eventually (in a year or two) I got a book on 6502 assembler and learned more
Instead of the seat absorbing the impact, the soft, metal roof does the job.

And more seriously, do buses have crumple zones like cars do? If a bus were to roll over, is the passenger compartment designed to work like a roll cage? Or does it just collapse?
Ask HN: How to find a great mentor for my startup?
I wonder how to find a great mentor. Where to start? How to connect with people who are visionaries and respected in our area? Which meetup to attend? How to establish relationship?
Its not a downside as much as just something to think about, but:

In a double sided referral (especially when giving money) you are splitting the discount between two people. This can mean that the new customer gets less of a discount.

If you have $10 to acquire each new customer, you have one option where you say "$10 off for new customers!" and hope people see it, or you split that amount "$5 off for both of you if your friends sign up".

The benefit of the latter is that you are essentially offering a deal to get high quality referalls. However, you might be offering less to the end customer.

The genius of giving away product like dropbox has (or giving store credit) is that the cost to you is alot lower so you can give away more for double ended referrals. Then, everyone wins. The deal is better, both parties get the deal, and the company is happy.

We think its a really interesting problem area that we're trying to solve.
Too bad the article didn't comment on the frequency of bus rollovers. One is left to conclude, though, that they must be extremely rare, if the average annual fatality rate is 6.
Agreed, I see many sites even for big charities regularly saying "when you shop Amazon, do so from here." Amazon could stop that in a hurry. They don't.
I thought self promotion has always been important. If no one knows who you are then no one will promote you regardless of your merit. Most any company will promote themselves through self promotion before anyone notices them.
Record your weight everyday, but take a moving average, basically the average of the last N days. That way, you will mitigate the random fluctuations. There might be better estimators of course (Kalman filter anyone?), but I believe they would be overkill.

This book was recommended on HN in a diet related article: The Hacker's Diet, http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/hackdiet.html It's written by the founder of AutoCAD. That's where I got the moving average idea.
This is perfect for what I need, you guys are awesome. Love what you're doing with Zombie for Rails too.
Are entrepreneurs exploiting a tax loophole? (Part II)
Why Google just doesn't lower value of his clicks accordingly instead of closing his account?

This all or nothing, good or bad approach doesn't seem to fit grayness of reality.
I'm the last guy in line to apologize for Google's attitude with regards to customer service, but to the extent my cynical blackened heart beats for anyone, it is the kayaking guy (et al) who paid those thousands of dollars and received no service in return for it. They have kids to put through school and Christmas presents to buy, too.

He got a real human to look into his account, incidentally, which I would have killed for a few times. They told him the breaks: you broke the rules, no, there is no second chance.
Interesting meme on Twitter, #code2010 add yours
Its a way of having your work everywhere, imagine being able to know that millions of people have your work on there computer, and seeing it read and blogged about, i guess its exciting.
"Same reason drunk drivers almost never die in the accidents they cause."

Unless you have some statistics to back that up, I'm going to go ahead and doubt that. Drunk driving incidences where neither party dies rarely make the news so we don't think of them often, and incidences where the victim dies but the drunk driver doesn't make better news than incidences where everyone dies. They stand out in our minds more as a particular case of some sort of injustice.

Furthermore, drunk driving incidences with fatalities where the driver survives generate newsworthy trials and sentencing which drives further awareness of this case.
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I think you're right; most UNIX installations weren't that much better (Linux especially). I think Solaris may have been one of the best simply because they were running on SPARC procs and the SPARCs have had optional NX support since '98 or so. That still relied on the admin enabling it though (so basically no one had it enabled).
Two web comics illustrating the real difference between Android & iPhone users
Jobs has broken every single app several times before, I wouldn't put it past him (not that I think a retina like display is coming to the iPad).
$15 phone, 3 minutes all that's needed to eavesdrop on GSM call
Why exactly would Google have to pay him? For the privilege of paying for the storage and bandwidth the videos he uploaded consume?
That guy is pretty immature with his complaints. He choose such risky way of getting the income by himself. He's had expectations bar too high and made few strategic mistakes.

He's also got quite luxurious problems like not being able to get decent money for his sailing hobby. Mr Dylan, looks like your 55 years didn't give you much insights on life, otherwise you wouldn't be complaining on the way you've chosen for yourself.
New Plant Mimicking Machine that uses Solar to Generate Fuels
This is very cool. Does anyone know whether Kayak is OK with this sort of scraping? (translation: will this break if it gets popular?)
Actually, the HTML5 parsing algorithm was derived by reverse engineering the existing browser parsers. It's pretty compatible.
P90X is an ok starting point for people new to fitness, if you can handle the over-the-top fitness narrators on there. But it WILL stop being effective after about 4 months.

The reason it gets such rave reviews is that people who never worked out start using it and seeing results after 2-3 months. This will hold true for nearly any workout program initially, because and untrained body is much more susceptible to losing weight and/or gaining muscle. If you are serious about wanting to be in shape and have fitness be a part of your life in the long run, I suggest going to an actual gym and doing some resistance exercises with REAL weights - you not only burn fat at a much higher weight, but you also build muscle as well.
Actually, sarcasm aside, "eat less" is not a good idea. If we exclude extreme cases, it is more a matter of eating right than eating less.
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There is a strong possibility the firms themselves have complained about the secondary markets and the private stock funds. If they became big enough, employees could potentially undercut their employer on future funding rounds. There is also the widely held belief that employees will work harder and be less likely to quit if they can't benefit from the appreciation of their shares until a liquidity event. Also, pricing in the secondary market by insiders could signal if a company is having troubles, something that they might otherwise be able to prevent from leaking out.

You can see the results of these worries in facebook contracts that prevent current employees from selling their vested shares and the deal they struck in 2008 that allowed employees to sell only a 20% share of their vested options. If they were able to prevent ex-employees from selling their shares on the secondary markets they obviously would. So it would make some sense if the companies themselves are complaining about the practice to the SEC.
I also got VB4-6 pirated somewhere around 1998. My dad got me to read a book on VB4 and down the rabbit hole I went (I had dabbled before, but just scripting apps like mIRC and a few DOS batch files).
I believe the interesting issue here is not whether Mr. Winter was violating the terms of the agreement - but the manner in which violations are handled, and the absence of a meaningful "feedback loop" where users of the system could be warned and have the opportunity to modify their behavior to follow the rules.

I assume the underlying cause for this is that the AdWords program is as automated and algorithmic as possible. The less Google has to pay for human beings for time and effort to administer it, the better it works. The very nature of AdWords and why it has been such a successful product depends on the scaling properties of algorithms and server farms.

The old-fashioned traditional world based on human beings making decisions has a lot of give and take to it, with humans negotiating with each other about exactly what the rules mean and how to apply them. We are moving to a world where automated systems are responsible for monitoring and enforcing rules, and that involves a lot of tradeoffs. I understand the benefits to be gained - but its hard for fallible human beings to understand and follow complex rulesets enforced by merciless machines.
Except they already create artificial prices due to difference in % by price. 2.99 to 9.99 is 70%, everything else is I believe 35%.

This makes a MASSIVE difference in the high cost books (stuff like the marketing book point that started me down the train of thought). I understand why Amazon did it with their desire to keep people selling fiction at 9.99 and under for impulse purchases, but that model doesn't make sense for other forms of writing.
He missed a few:

1. Do you enforce policies uniformly? Allowing some customers to bypass channels may seem helpful, but once everyone becomes special, no one is special.

2. Do you set priorities and avoid changing them? Nothing ruins morale like the emergency du jour.

3. Do you stick up for your programmers? Blaming them for your problems is an awfully quick way to lose them.

4. Are you consistent? If you tell customers one thing and programmers another, eventually they will all realize that you're the problem.

5. Do you understand the customers' business well enough to set priorities? No one wants to work on Important Problem #42 when we're going out of business.

6. Do all policies and procedures take into account the importance of production and dev environments, security and audit controls, quality, and testing? Programmers shouldn't have to educate you why this stuff is important.

7. Are you willing to do what you ask programmers to do? Working late is fine until you do it 18 nights in a row while the boss is at the bar across the street.

8. How good is your bullshit filter? Decisions made based on bad data will come back to haunt us all.

9. How "professional" are you? No matter how tough things get, most programmers don't want to hear your scream, cuss, or throw things around. Better to just leave and let us fix it.

10. Do you buy us lunch once in a while? Amazing how much harder we'll work for a sandwich and a smile.
That is edition is also moving from PLT Scheme to the renamed Racket (http://racket-lang.org/).

Here is the announcement:

http://blog.racket-lang.org/2010/06/plt-is-happy-to-announce...
If you have a source for that number, I'd love to spread it around.

Edit: I found a paper from 2007 that claims there were 129 extra driving fatalities in the last quarter of 2002 due to harsher airport security. http://aem.cornell.edu/faculty_sites/gb78/wp/JLE_6301.pdf (page 27)
I think the biggest issue is they don't want a feedback loop where people can "test" the system and find ways to beat it.
Same here... I think a lot of the ugly ones are great, and the great ones are ugly.
Magazine sales on Apple's iPad plummet
It's not scraping, it's using Kayak's API: http://www.kayak.com/labs/api/search/
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Illustrating a 'real' difference via a comic is fairly unlikely, especially when it's the same lopsided and generalized views that have been trotted out before this point.

Android users are portrayed as consumers who eventually join open source collectives to build an app (stereotype: they begin as consumers and become producers!).

iPhone users are portrayed as fart-app loving consumers who complain that apps are 99 cents, and then rely on OS crackers to 'stick it to the man' to avoid paying said 99 cents.

Reality: Android users and iPhone users enjoy using cellular 'smart' phones! Beyond that there's probably no point in attempting to group or generalize them.
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Even in school self-promotion is important. Developing a good relationship with your professors and letting them know what you're interested can help to foster good relationships. When something comes across their desk that you would be a good fit for, the best thing you can hope for is that you're the first person they think to bring it to.
Oh I didn't know they halved your royalty above 10 bucks. You're completely right, that's really hostile to higher priced books.
Another vote for http://ckeditor.com/
A really good way is to make sure you are using a system where you are only paying for new sales.

For example, you can do something like:
"Get $10 back if your friend makes a purchase using this $10 coupon."

That way you aren't paying out until it results in a new customer.--much less risky than other forms of marketing where you are paying before seeing the results.
Absolutley- the publishers don't care about you unless you're a big name like stephen king. Plus, more than likely they'll want to keep control of the digital distribution rights. Keep it all and self publish for sure.

And, sorry for the downvote... The arrows on the iPhone are _tiny_ and I hit the wrong one :( can somebody please give this comment an extra vote?
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2011 will finally see a much overdue redesign of WDD and we also have another great website for designers that will be released in early 2011, which is something to get excited about!
> I think in both cases we could make better products if we articulated better and humanized events such as "going against the seat" or "unfriending".

Some supporting evidence, or even argument, would be nice. What's the relevant mechanism? (Possibilities include "injuries are not analyzeable in terms of physical properties" and "if they don't think of victims as humans, they won't take accidents seriously".)

BTW - Are you suggesting that the folks who analyze accidents are not sufficiently aware that humans are involved? Based on what?
Cut the middle man. I mean cut Google Adsense. What he was doing was paying a big cost of opportunity there.

If he has that vertical market of subscribers he should deal with the boat insurance providers or other suitable advertisers himself.

Let the 1c become 500c or a lot more.
I've heard that too: in the event of an accident, it's better to relax all muscles than to tense them up (particularly, I've heard this about whiplash). Why is that?
+1 to this.

I realized this the first time with reading the "uncut" version of Steven King's The Stand. The original published version was one of my favorites, so I figured that the extra-long version of the writer's original vision must be even better. Wrong. There were very good reasons why the book was edited the way it was.

The moral is that even the best-selling, most celebrated of today's authors need the help of an editor to help shape things properly. Don't think you're any better.
Also, SimpleGeo and StockTwits seem to be using about the same concept: use the company name as the logo, replace a letter with a symbol representing the business. The former is "good" while the latter is "average", and without an indication as to why it looks like this list is entirely arbitrary.
Github Octocat is not a logo, it's a mascot, and a damn awesome one at that.
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You can get some German and Belgian beers in a good beer store. But there are so many local varieties, you can't even get `pretty much all' of them in a beer shop in Germany or Belgium.
Skype Post-mortem Explains Service Outage
There's Xinha: http://xinha.webfactional.com (I don't know what its current state is)
I didn't see any way to comment on the story but someone should let this guy know he should certainly be able to delete his truck vids to stop Google profiting from his work since discontinuing his AdSense account.
Or stoned.
My child's school bus does have seat belts. Really.
The screenshot is cropped. Bing is included in the default search engines.
Breaking as in "they don't fucking launch" sure, but breaking as in "those things look like shit now"? Not a chance.
He has control over those youtube videos, he should take them down, create all new accounts with his wifes information and then put up the truck videos and pretty soon youtube will put him back into advertising mix. For his other site, if I were him I would run Adbrite.com ads instead of Adwords ads.
Yeah, the recursive backtracker's my favorite as well, plus the algorithm can be multi-purpose. I most recently used it to solve winning positions in a Hex assignment that was due in a couple hours.

In fact, I just remember implementing a pygame maze app a few years ago that I should really update... http://www.pygame.org/project-PyMaze-733-.html (picture on the page).

Edit: Ha, my first paragraph is very similar to jamis'...
Are entrepreneurs exploiting a tax loophole?
I'm having trouble understanding what rule he broke. He had some content with ads on it chosen by Google's algorithms. People clicked those ads, then didn't buy anything from the advertiser. How is that his fault?

I don't mean this as a rhetorical question. I honestly want to know how someone with an ad-supported site can avoid such a situation.

Edit: elsewhere in the comments, I see that he was telling his viewers that clicking the ads gets him money. I agree, that's not fair to the advertisers.
I totally understand what you are saying, and sort of touch on that in the article. I don't think P90X is the best long term solution, buts it's great for people that are just learning how to become fit as it's an all-in-one solution.

After completing my first 90 days, I bought a weight bench/smith machine, started lifting, and started running.

Many people get intimidated by just hitting the gym without much fitness knowledge (the people, the equipment, the possible embarrassment, etc...).