skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your anti-deletionism argument is insufficiently doctrinaire: it acknowledges that there may exist some true statements that might merit deletion from Wikipedia. Many inclusionists find that idea repellant.

For whatever it's worth: _why has a page. Nobody ever tried to delete Canada. Pokemon characters have pages because they are easily verified.
I'm not a ninja dev, so I frequent between a few editors. Mostly using gedit now w/ a few plugins but - scite is also good but you need to customize it a lot before it makes sense.
Gary Taubes is so incredibly wrong that it makes me sad.

If you want to read some intelligent analysis of dieting/nutrition, I suggest reading Lyle McDonald (http://www.bodyrecomposition.com) and Alan Aragon (http://www.alanaragonblog.com).
"Management is cocking the pistol for workers they don’t like then allowing the next layoff to pull the trigger."

Management is always doing that.
A well-designed reader that takes links instead of feeds?
Is there something like Goodnoows out there that will allow you to import individual links, rather than entire feeds. I need to be able to have a publicly-facing link, and no login for others to view it. I'm looking to create a curated news page, with a mix of stories from various places. Hope this isn't too dumb of a question. Thanks!
> Because many deleted articles are found to contain defamatory or other legally suspect material, deleted pages are not permitted to be generally viewed.

But if defamatory material is added to a popular article and reverted away, doesn't it remain in the edit history forever?
There's an HN member who's running http://vpslink.com/

I don't remember his username.
To those saying this guy is "polluting Google searches" and "infringing copyrights of Facebook", etc.

1) Domain names are not in the domain of copyright/trademark; anyone who buys it can have it.

2) Welcome to the freedom of the Internet. I'd have him polluting Google for a thousand years before I'd consider forcing him to justify content on his website.
Scheme on the iPad
I sympathize with the idea behind your post but it's really hard for me to think of a good usage of duck typing, or even structural typing. Here are a few reasons why:

http://goo.gl/7dL3a
I'm curious how the young ladies at the bottom of the page figure into helping illiterate people access Facebook. It's tough to send a much stronger spamminess signal.
Why are people so consistently negative about Wikipedia?

Just looking at the top comments here, and other places around the internet - I think it's far too common.

Let's be more positive. Wikipedia is amazing - congrats to them for successfully achieving their fund-raising goals.
I think the medical establishment would be overjoyed if people on average were putting on only 1 pound per year. The obesity "epidemic" is about 50-100 pounds of extra weight. Bariatric wards are filled with those hundreds of pounds overweight not 20.
I suppose it's somewhat of a backhanded compliment. I honestly wouldn't pay money for the results I get from WebInspect (we have licenses for it, so we use it).

I swear that WebInspect has gotten noticeably worse the past year and a half or so. Prior to that, it would at least occasionally find something interesting; but I honestly can't remember the last time it found something that wasn't a false positive.

As to SkipFish, I would say that the past three applications I've run it against it's found at least one interesting thing (which is high praise for automated tools in our industry).
How about a P2P search/bookmarking platform where peers could publish search/bookmarking histories ranked by like/dislike/spam votes which other peers can subscribe to. Publishing peers can also be ranked according to number of subscribers. Actually P2P curation could be the next level up from raw centralised search. Is there anything like this out there already?
Well, it's good to see that Taubes also gets people just makin' up this sort of stuff about him, even though his credentials aren't in doubt; and that it's not just me.
well, that and vast swathes of historical sections and articles are whig history echo chambers.
No. Right now its just some custom stuff that I made up. I just noticed that it had a lag. Will switch to Firmata in the next couple of days. It should be better then. The ruby interface won't change tho :) so you can use it happily.
I made them for the kids earlier in December. I think you may have been out boozing it up with your Hacker Nerd buddies or something.
Yes, for people with arrest warrants for example.

It also gives information on people who are overstaying visas, which can be taken into account if they apply again in the future.
Funny, people seem to trust Dr. Phil.
I'd love to see a similar treatment of various math fields also. As an amateur, the top ten papers for a year would be about my speed.
Linux: vi

Windows: Editplus
The key word in that quote is "food", though; the "not too much" is an afterthought.
As I recall from working with a few Canadians over the years who had to do regular renewals, the TN visa has a very restricted and particular set of job.titles with specified duties which are allowed. The main one for revs is the Programmer Analyst ( I forget the exact title).

One coworker was required to show his job.description for a renewal and had.to have the company revise it several.times.to satisfy the bureaucracy.
We recently partnered with another assessment firm to handle overflow (something not one person in our group was happy about, but we spent the entirety of 2010 overworked), and in the past couple weeks I've had two issues come to me where this firm submitted a clean report with no findings.

They asked me to take a quick look at the applications (as it's a somewhat rare occurrence to not have a single finding), and I immediately turned up a bunch of issues. Upon further inspection, this company is just running WebInspect, without apparently any actual validation or manual testing.

I so need to get out of our industry.
I live in a US town of ~6k people, and currently get 6Mbps on the lowest tier plan available (50 Mbs is readily available, just a bit pricey for personal use).

I don't buy this argument at all, as there are metro areas that will have worse connectivity than some rural areas within the US.

I also wonder what the real reason is.
You seem to be completely missing the point of this article. What are you contending? That there was no difference between s and ſ, and that they were used in free variation? Or that there is no need to know anything about ſ today because it is no longer in use? In either case, as I said, you've missed the point.
why is he wrong?
I agree, but I think the author does too. As far as I see, there is no claim that we should reproduce the long s as such in quotations where it’s not at issue. It’s only presented as a matter of historical interest.

(Before this, I had thought that in certain times and places it was not used at the end of syllables, which would have carried information in the same way that hyphenation does.)
Sony to launch PlayStation smartphone in spring
Or move to a better company.

I tried running away from security in 1998 and found that there's charlatanism anywhere you go. Try being a baker; no, wait, there are well-marketed charlatan bakers, too!

There is at least one other company that has publicly banned web scanners. My take is, you should work for/retain companies that refuse to use scanners, and, when possible, avoid using companies that mention using them.

A friend of mine, who I'd have loved to work with, ended up at a security company whose sales pitch to him included "we buy our consultants whatever tools they want, so you can have WebInspect and AppScan". I was unable to convince him that this was a "run, don't walk" red flag.

Don't get me started on paid overtime.
Why are your preferred sources better than someone else's?

Not saying that they can't be but you've provided nothing more than hyperbolic hand waving to explain why two other random guys on the Internet are more reliable.
The 1745 example has another interesting usage: "it's" where we would write "its". When did this become improper? And could it be that all those endless typo "it's"es online nowadays are not part of a plot to drive me crazy after all, but rather the return of some older norm?
I'm taking issue with the decision stated in the first sentence: "In my previous post about the grand old trade of basket-making I included several extracts from some 18th century books, in which I preserved the long s (ſ) as used in the original printed texts".
Certainly not an exhaustive list, but: 1) Open source, even if you're only helping find bugs 2) Launch something 3) Blog your expertise 4) Volunteer tech projects
And what was your starting weight? It's a lot more challenging to go from, say, 250 lbs. to 150 lbs. than it is from 350 lbs. to 250 lbs. (not that either is easy).

FWIW, I am down about 80 lbs. from my peak weight of 260+, but it took years, not months.
As far as I see, there is no claim that we should reproduce the long s as such in quotations where it’s not at issue.

He not merely claimed, but did, exactly that in the article linked from the first sentence.
Python, Ruby, "Power" (2005)
> his argument ... we can't know for sure what the source is

This author's tone and content, in addition to other articles posted, leads me to believe he has a preconceived notion. The text is litered with example of this, like: “And if they’re trying to cut calories, they’ll be removing some number of total carbohydrates as well. And if these people lose fat on these diets, this is a very likely reason why.”

> How did you lose that much weight over 13 months?

Aggressively cut my calories and started going to the gym 5-7 nights a week. My exercise regimen focuses heavily on cardio, but I've gradually been increasing my resistance training. The bulk of the weight was lost in 6 months, about 40 lbs between Feb and July. The rest was a gradually lost before and after.
Yes, but what is "better"? And what is the best way to make both life changes enduring? (E.g. if someone is constantly hungry, their change in diet is probably not sustainable.)
NYC

Shapeways (create / sell personal designed products / 3D printing) is looking for her Manhattan office talented BACKEND and FRONTEND DEVELOPERS. We use LAMP stack with some Java stuff. Please see our job page at http://www.shapeways.com/jobs

Salary / equity based on experience
Generally they do just plow it into the cars / sidewalk / curb in the cities I've lived in (like Chicago).
How many calories of fat, protein, and carbs did you eat before and during your weight loss program?
Virtually no deletion arguments conclude with a merge, though. Typically the information is completely lost, no matter how well cited it is. Which makes the verifiability argument bankrupt as well, at least as a defense of what actually happens on Wikipedia.

If the verifiability argument were sufficient, the notability policies would all be scrapped and deletion policy would round down to "delete articles which don't have any verifiable statements in them, merge articles which are less than two or three full paragraphs long". Which, incidentally, was more or less the radical inclusionist platform back when I wasted time on Wikipedia.
I'd like to get into Automated Trading Systems. Does anyone have any experience within this field?
It's not addressed in the article, but I've always wondered whether maybe long-s was kept around for so long as an affectation of the Greek terminal-sigma, in much the same way that classically-educated English speakers would refuse to split infinitives just because it was impossible to do in Latin.
California's Online Impersonation Law
Are you looking to work remotely (live in one country, work for a company based in another country), or get a job in a remote location and move there to work?
I don't buy for a second that you have a daily recurring alarm which you test every day.

Besides, a more accurate analogy would be if every night, you jumpstarted your car to make sure the cables work.
Your anti-deletionism argument is insufficiently doctrinaire

Having just appreciated your criticism of a sarcastic and unhelpful comment, I hope you’re not turning to easy point-scoring yourself.
Howard Rheingold on Twitter enabling Personal Learning Networks
To what end? Do you suspect that the author thinks there was another letter of the alphabet in the 18th century?
I don't think its quite the same as sketching, as art has no purpose except itself, whereas a website would be expected to do something.

I'd think differently if he was just creating a new site layout every day.
Sorry, but this seems very odd to me that a developer would be almost 50% off in estimating their own team size, then post a second comment correcting it only halfway, and finally getting the correct answer by looking at your 'About Us' page?

What kind of working environment do you have that in a team of less than 25, a member of that team can be that far off-base?
Beeminder is really interesting, although they're in Beta and I don't think taking new users. Their post on "How to do what you want" is useful even if you're using something else to keep track. http://messymatters.com/2010/11/15/akrasia/ It's also an interesting answer to why you would want to have a New Year's resolution (so long as you find a way to self-enforce it.)
We will never make Wikipedia perfect, although I have some ideas for making it more so.

I'd love to hear ideas about making Wikipedia better. I'd especially like ideas about how to encourage new editors with good sources (that is, access to libraries or better specialized databases) on technical but controversial subjects to participate more. I left this thread for a few hours, following links to the annual reports and also doing some of my own Wikipedia editing, and I'm also very curious about how to reduce the decline in the number of active administrators.
Nitro is what Squirrelfish was renamed in Apple's marketing materials after they shipped it in Safari.
If anyone sees an AMI that boots on EC2 built from the sources at http://www.managedruntime.org/ please send it my way.
Are you saying we shouldn't think 5 years ahead?

GP was right, including just x86 and ARM is not good enough. Heck it even ignores x86_64 right now, and won't support new SIMD extensions that come out from time to time. Not to mention be a barrier to anyone introducing a new arch, as GP said.

Thinking ahead here is vital.
Given that the blog is about fetishizing the look and feel of old writing and inscription, I’d say it is at issue there.
Here's the official page for Canada, with the exact conditions and job requirements.

http://www.consular.canada.usembassy.gov/nafta.asp

It's obtained at the port of entry, so if you're denied, you'll miss your flight. But it seems unproblematic most of the time.
Which kitchen appliances did you miss? The one thing I miss when cooking at other people's places is a sharp knife. It is really irritating (and dangerous) to cook with a blunt knife.

Did you win the bet? ;)
I sincerely hope that there's little overlap between the members of the Most Holy Church of Emacs and those heretics who like to affect terms like "ninja" and "rock star".

TextMate seems to be rather popular in those camps (note: not meant as derogatory remark against TM users. Use it myself, and my last dalliance with ninja-ism involved tightey-whiteys, an mask improvised out of a towel and rubber shuriken)
I don't think that the idea of a corporate campus is evil or bad, but I do think that the implementation of corporate campuses is often very bad. Most corporate campuses that I've visited rely on large squarish buildings, which means lots of interior office space with no windows. They also tend to be isolated from the surrounding area by huge parking lots, with limited walkability to nearby restaurants and shops.

It should be possible to build a corporate campus that doesn't suffer from these problems, but I'm unable to think of an example.
I found it striking how clean everyones desks looked, without monitors, keyboards, mice, wires snaking everywhere...
JumpScan - QR-Code redirector
This looks interesting... Links all your stuff with one QR-Code...
What does “proper” mean? The author merely says that he decided to use the long s in one of the texts he quoted, he makes no claim that everybody should quote texts containing the long s just like that. I can see nothing wrong with that as long as the author doesn’t claim that to be the only “proper” way to do it. (He does not.)

This is what he says about his choice in the linked article: “I’ve copied out one of my favourite stories below (complete with long s for authenticity) […]” To me, this points to an explicitly aesthetic decision, not an invention of a rule for the proper use of the long s in quoted texts.
I'm willing to bet that 10,000 years ago you wouldn't have been able to find a homo sapien on this planet that was older than 50. The vast, vast majority of evolutionary pressure occurred well before then.
Operators just want a premium, locked-down device which they can sell for a subscription. But their hand is being forced by these new, cheaper, yet powerful devices.
This looks interesting... Links all your stuff with one QR-Code...
I don't know. The only notable carb-cutting effort I took was removing most forms of soda from my diet. But obviously, this is not an isolated action as I've replaced it with water, tea, and coffee. All of those have substantially less calories.
280 to 180. For the full 100 it might be closer to 14 months, I wasn't terribly careful with my recording at the beginning of my efforts.
And I should believe this because....?
Thanks for the link and the info. It would seem Google is on top of this situation. :)
We are looking for guys and gals who can help us hack together Mathematica graphics for an interactive calculus textbook. We are currently in talks with an established publisher to partner with, and Wolfram is trying their best to make this happen.

It doesn't matter how young/old you are, where you live, or what college you went to. All we care about is whether you can deliver the Mathematica code we need to make this happen.

If want to help us revolutionize the textbook industry, please go to the elance page for this project, http://bit.ly/eUTmb8, and apply.

If you have any question about the project and the place you could play it, please email me personally at zack@zacharymaril.com.
Finally! I've been waiting for an article about procrastination written by a man who did not finish high school who spends his time pretending that he is developing a strong AI.
I believe there are ways to hide portions of the edit history as well - they usually don't bother to do this if it's only part of a larger article, but if necessary, it can be done.
Still is, though for larger amounts of data.
http://mapfaire.com

Business map creation app
Or move to a better company.
I tried running away from security in 1998 and found that there's charlatanism anywhere you go. Try being a baker; no, wait, there are well-marketed charlatan bakers, too!

I figure it's a new year and maybe I'll finally man up and find someplace more fulfilling.

My issue is that the pattern I find tends to be:

1. Go work with a bunch of really smart, awesome folks doing cool work.
2. Group is successful, gets bought by large monolith.
3. It gets shitty, everyone leaves, starts over somewhere new.
4. Repeat steps 1-3

I am literally on the fourth iteration of this process.

A friend of mine, who I'd have loved to work with, ended up at a security company whose sales pitch to him included "we buy our consultants whatever tools they want, so you can have WebInspect and AppScan". I was unable to convince him that this was a "run, don't walk" red flag.

That's a bit like liking both "country" and "western".

Don't get me started on paid overtime.

In general I've never complained too much about hours. I've always found that this type of work is cyclical as far as how busy you are on any particular test.

As long as I can remember, it always went that 4th quarter was crunch time (with companies having to spend their budget before the end of the year) so you'd have to bust your ass for a few months, but then things would lull a bit in January (as budgets aren't allocated yet). For some reason, this past year the entire year was like that 4th quarter sprint.
This is a lot like data backups. Your data isn't really backed up unless it's on at least 2 different kinds of media, and also somewhere offsite.

Using another iPhone for the alarm is the equivalent of putting keeping your backups in the same server rack and having the data centre burn down.
No. I merely think he's missing the forest for the trees by preserving one obsolete typographic detail in a historical text yet translating the whole thing into HTML with minimal styling. This is somewhat akin to completely remodeling a 100-year-old building yet insisting on preserving the original knob-and-tube electrical wiring for authenticity -- you lose all the original charm yet you're still stuck replacing fuses twice a day and offending your readers every time the word 'succor' appears.
http://www.ToDoWiki.com

I hope it will become a place where people can find ready made to do lists for a wide variety of common events and situations.
That's the path Sun Microsystems took in the earlier part of this century. The problem was, it was much easier to head over to Dell and buy a box and slap Linux on it. Ten minutes of your time, and you didn't have to try to convince a salesperson you were worthy of buying something.
Sunglasses filter UV. Off the opposite end of the visible spectrum.
Opening a door via text message
This makes a ton of sense. It's incredibly surprising nobody has done this / publicized it already. Win.

(I ran into an error trying to connect with fb; second time worked.)
I would suspect that there were some other rules for apostrophes some centuries ago, but maybe it's/its is some typo that has been in the English language for centuries?

While talking about the English language, does anyone know what happened to thou/thee/thy/thine/ye?
> And then we have wikipedia's budget priorities, which indicate that Wales et al seem to value creating cushy jobs for people who don't add much to wikipedia much more than just keeping the site running for as long as possible, by a ratio of around 10:1 (roughly).

I won't comment on your other points, but - Wikipedia is a non-profit. They can't just hang on to cash, they have to spend it somehow, and in a way in line with their charter. If they've already spent enough on servers, bandwidth, hosting, etc, where else will that go but to salaries? If you look at their financial reports (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/d/dd/2010-1...) you'll see their donations exceeded their planned amounts significantly, so they're hiring more people to balance that out.
Haven't read the new book, but Taubes' previous work 'Good Calories, Bad Calories' makes a strong case that there's shockingly little experimental evidence in favor of the conventional wisdom that "eating better" means a low fat, low calorie diet.
You may want to download TinkerTool (http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html) and set font smoothing to "light". Here's a before and after screenshot I just made: http://imgur.com/gOffi
Hiring C++ developers with expertise in robotic simulation and control and/or machine vision.
http://www.energid.com/contact.htm
Typhon is a Python implementation for the Rubinius (ruby) VM
If someone was asked, "Would your rather use a website that has ads or one that has no ads?", they would most likely choose the latter. However, Wikipedia has shown the world something that no one would have expected; it seems as if most people would rather have the ads given the circumstances.
People will never line up for Android phones
For more information about Rubinius: http://rubini.us/

More language implementations on top of Rubinius: http://rubini.us/projects/
Basically Mahalo's business plan.