skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As you read these wonderful theories, remember that economist who was chosen as the best economist to run the US Federal Reserve said in 2005 that "now is the best time to get an ARM".

These genius suggested buying a house on an adjustable rate mortgage, at the peak of the market, when interest rates were the lowest they'd ever been. Bravo. Apparently, even the best economist in the USA is unable to see a bubble when its staring him in the face.

Fuck economists and their religion. Welcome to HN: where people have brains, can do math, and critical thinking.
If you don't mind being on the cutting edge, you can try this: http://www.aloha-editor.com/. It's a HTML5 Editor.

Otherwise, I second the recommendations for TinyMCE and CKEditor.
Previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1984449
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Just remember, a lot of the cutting-edge HTML5 websites we're building today will look like that in a decade or so.
I found it really interesting that the "Movielink" button to "find out where space jam is playing" goes to blockbuster.com
We have two sides of this story - Dylan Winter's words, and Google's cold, hard data. Google dumped him because there were lots of clicks and they didn't generate revenue, which indicates either click fraud or violation of the rules.

Dylan Winter apparently was not aware that his very high CPC rate was a problem. From that I assume he also didn't do a very good job communicating to his users to not click on the links. Telling your users that you make money from clicks seems like a very bad idea.

And why would you edit out comments that encourage users to click more? What you should do is edit it, and replace it with a statement saying to please not do this.

It's a story of coulda woulda shoulda, and honestly I think Google should have consulted with the "wronged" advertisers first and see what they say - maybe give them a simple option to flag or not flag the site.

For Mr. Winter it seems he could now try to get all these sites to rent ad space on his site bypassing Google. Since the site is very specialized in its audience, such a deal might work out better for everyone involved. After all you are cutting out the middle man.
$400K in the Bay Area for a CEO is average-low. It's not a paltry sum, but it's certainly not anything a truly Tier-1 CEO would work for unless they either had some upside (equity) or had ulterior motives (Labor of Love).
Incidentally, this is what the FAA does when evaluating the costs of new safety measures against the projected number of lives saved.
I don't know, but I wonder if this may get them in a little hot water. Both Dremel and Sawzall are trademarked.

I also don't particularly like the use of the words, I am very attached to my Dremel and I don't see how it applies to processing a database :)
I can barely remember when websites used to look like this. Nevertheless, the odd nostalgia of it all makes me smile.
Of course there's a ton of bloat in the budget. But once we've pared down that money (if we could pare it down -- bureaucrats have been promising to do so forever, but it just gets worse), there are other ways to spend the money that would be more effective. It's a question of the opportunity cost: spending the money here means that it's not available to spend elsewhere. We must choose the most effective way to spend it.

We could install those seat belts on every bus in the nation, but that would cost hundreds of millions (and the article quotes information indicating that it might actually be counterproductive anyway, but set that aside for this argument). But that money could instead be invested in finding a cure for some childhood disease, or building a poison treatment center, or better law enforcement to keep some drunks off the road, and on and on. It seems to me that any of my suggestions are likely to save more than six lives a year, so why would you want to invest that money on something that is going to do less good?
Someone got this working with ruby (rails). There's a gem/plugin out there that gets the file uploading/system working (I believe it relies somewhat on paperclip,etc). Sorry for being so vague, but I'm sure Google will turn up something.
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...Except that the article's point is backed up by actual safety analyses, while the guys refusing to wear seatbelts are making an after-the-fact rationalization that contradicts safety statistics. There's a difference.
Did you actually read the article? Six kids die in a school bus every year. Awful, yes, but it's nothing compared to how many die in cars. Want to save more kids? Get more school buses with the money, not more seat belts.
If I add comment does this bump this up?
One thing I do to give my little victories more appreciation is set up a reminder for the end of the year whenever I accomplish something. Then it pops up when I'm thinking about new year's resolutions to make me remember some high points of the previous 12 months.
Reputations take a lifetime to build and can be destroyed in a heartbeat. Paul Allen did a fantastic job of building his reputation, and barring a hidden agenda has done an equally impressive job of destroying it, not just with this 'retry' (abort or ignore?) but already with the first incarnation of it.

I'm hoping that there is a hidden side to this but I'm having a hard time dreaming up a scenario where this is not a 'win' for Paul Allen either way in retrospect ("I've done this to destroy the patent system" or "I just made a bunch of money"). Maybe he should state his goal? The worst case outcome for the rest of the world is that he wins this stupid suit, the best case outcome for the world is that he really is a greedy patent troll and triggers patent reform.

If he's doing it with that purpose then I'm all for it but since there is a chance that he will make a great deal of money from this I highly doubt it.

It's funny because over the years I lost patience with Microsoft, Gates and Ballmer with Paul Allen being the last hold-out in terms of being respectable. It's a pity to see that soiled in this way, apparently there is no such thing as 'enough' and abusing the system is just A-Ok.
> enough high-profile ridiculous suits like this will be the most powerful catalyst for severe reform.

The problem here is that as long as these suits are lost there is plenty of force behind those that say that 'the system works', so only if Paul Allen would actually win this suit would there be an incentive for such reform. There is no real penalty to bringing a suit like this (other than making a bunch of lawyers richer, but when you need 9 zeros before the comma to express your wealth that's no big deal).
Dang. Can IE9 handle this level of CSS?
I ran this website (and all the other Warner Bros sites) back in 2001 on Netscape Enterprise Server, after it had been sold to Sun and was effectively a dead product. We admins always wanted to move to Apache but there was a Netgravity module for serving ads and we only had a version that worked with NES (NSAPI). It looks like they finally got rid of that and moved everything to Apache, about a decade too late.
I don't think that's true. They'll look out of date in amusing ways, sure, but the particular out-of-dateness that accompanies very early entries in a medium's history, when the technology is very poorly understood, is special. Movies from the 1930s look old-fashioned but they're totally watchable, and the good ones can still be enjoyed. Movies from the 1910s are only worth watching for their historical interest or exoticism.
Heaven's Gate website, untouched since 1997
iTunes Store Slowdowns With Google DNS
You're not missing much:

http://i.imgur.com/sQEjz.png

You press enter and it 'shoots' the ball at the net. That's it. No aiming, no strength meter, etc. Those things jump back and forth in front of the net, but whether your ball actually goes in or not seems entirely random. And the animation is the same either way. Your only clue as to success or failure is a "yay" or "boo" sound effect.

All in all, it may be the worst game ever made.
"On August 8th, 2007, Blockbuster purchased Movielink. According to the 8-K filing by Blockbuster, the total purchase price was $6.6 million. [...] On December 16th, 2008 the Movielink website was shut down. The site was re-directed to the Blockbuster home page."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movielink
No idea why this comment has so many upvotes. This is an awful comment because literally every single point in it is factually incorrect.

> Unix was designed from the start to run multi-user environments, whereas Windows grew out of DOS, which was initially built for single-user, non-networked environments. The difference in their initial goals led to wildly different security models.

No. [1, Section 2.2]

> The average Unix user runs without superuser privileges most of the time. Typically, the less experienced a user is, the less privileges he has in a Unix environment.

No. The most popular Linux distribution lets you run any command as any user by default. [2, Default Sudoers File]

> Windows has an inversion of privileges compared to Unix. That is, the most experienced users grant their daily account the fewest privileges, whereas the least experienced users operate with administrator privileges.

No. This isn't the case with the Windows that is shipping today.

--

One final thing to consider. Who cares about separation of privileges if your OS is full of privilege escalation exploits? Hint: one of these operating systems spent billions of dollars hardening their OS and the other is full of holes.

[1] http://www.cs.purdue.edu/research/technical_reports/1991/TR%...

[2] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sudoers
Poll: XP devs, are you more introverted or extroverted?
A tweet by mentalguy[1] piqued my curiosity on this. So folks here who practice XP, do you consider yourself more of an extrovert or introvert? You don't have to only do XP to answer.

[1] http://twitter.com/mentalguy/status/20271897430200320

This isn't scientific at all so if anyone wants to take this further I think many of us would be interested in the results.
introvert, like XP
introvert, don't like XP
extrovert, like XP
extrovert, don't like XP
don't do XP
In the case of pair programming specifically who you pair with can make or break it, and I have a feeling many people who don't like pairing have been paired with someone that they are fundamentally incompatible with. That sounds a bit mushy but pairing is inherently an intimate activity.
The reason the brand matters is that merchants will only use a competitor if it can drive a meaningful number of customers. As long as Groupon is synonymous with daily deals for both merchants and consumers, it will be difficult for any large scale competitor to emerge.
The volatility of our medium hasn't decreased at all yet. If anything, it has increased in recent years. There's no way to know what point in the medium's maturation we're presently at; we may be much earlier on the timeline than us early adopters perceive.

Just think, IE6 was light years ahead of 1996's state of the art web technologies, and look at IE6 now. Firefox 4, IE9, and Chrome 10 will eventually be just as dated as IE6. The sites designed for them today will probably be horribly broken messes in 2020's latest crop of browsers (which will probably be more prevalently a function of whatever device defaults are by then, ala iOS and Android).
We all make choices - maybe I wouldn't want to invest much of my precious time in having Coffee with the CEO of Goldman Sachs. Let's say I don't work in finance and have no interest in it.

As for hot women, it depends on what you want. For a real life example, let's say I am married and have no intentions of cheating on my wife. So I will certainly chat with a hot woman, maybe even flirt with her, but I'll certainly not put a lot of effort into pursuing her as I have no interest in sexual relations with her.
It's a very appropriate article these days. How many of us donated to Wikileaks? How many will even go public (on Facebook) as supporting Wikileaks?
I've always been a fan of:

4.2.2.1

and I believe it has a family of DNS servers in a similar range. Has never let me down (whereas my ISP, Rogers, has done so countless times).
Not what you are looking for but this might be helpful: http://builditwith.me/

You can see other people that have similar ideas as well as find developers who might be interested in your ideas.
Amazon's idea: Return the gift before you get it
Typesetting in 1989
Well that's a downer.
Unless you're bringing a boatload of money as well, you will only be contributing about 10% to the startup. Perhaps you should look for a startup to join instead of the other way around.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person that enjoys pairing way more than coding by myself. :/
Vorolo
make money by gaining referrals and watching ads from categories of your choosing!
Dozens of patients injured by stray radiation beam
Pettiness in software development
It's not _entirely_ clear that asking users to click on ads is prohibited. That phrase is in section 11 a) ii, in the _Payment_ area, not in section 5, which lists Prohibited Uses. Perhaps it should be.

Of interest is section 11's withholding clause, which states that the withholding is "pending Google's reasonable investigation". I don't know why it's there, if Google can terminate at its sole discretion at any time (which is can, according to Section 6). I think it's there to throw some legal chaff in the air and make it _seem_ like there's some protection, so the agreement isn't entirely one-sided. Section 11 (which provides a vague promise of investigation) does NOT survive termination of the agreement, according to section 6. So termination means the investigation is over, and means it never actually has to take place.

A fair agreement might require Google to return, to advertisers, confiscated funds. A fair agreement might also create a "suspended" state for an account, preventing termination until the results of a "reasonable investigation" are available.

Of course, IANAL. I am just reading what is there, which is what most of us have to do. Looks to me that Google can confiscate any funds it wishes, then terminate.
I know who's involved. Your point about dirt is very valid - I didn't think of it because a patent troll crosses a line after which he doesn't value friends.
FYI - here's a link to this article with no ads/distractions:

http://www.chomsky.info/articles/19670223.htm

Readability still left a big graphic ad in the middle with the nybooks link.
“Word lens” is lame because you’re still dumb
One-way translation, only half a solution
The AdSense agreement specifically prohibits you from doing this. Of course, you might not get caught, but from a legal standpoint it's a Prohibited Use.
OK Seriously What Is BizSpark?
That search functionality is much better! The changes you made look good. However, when I search for 'CHQ5066' and it brings a list of flights, I click on one flight and it brings up a page with the Fatal Error message: http://flightlite.com/track/CHQ5066/2010-12-28T09:55

Also you say "flightlite.com is all about what's in the air at the moment". Think about how it would be easiest to present this information. Rather than make something that looks like a competitor to flightcaster.com or flightstats.com, try to make something that compliments it.

As veb said, using the Google Maps API is probably better than Google Earth since users wouldn't have to install anything. Perhaps you could have a map of one city on the front page and show all the lines of each flight going into and out of the city. See the Facebook friend visualization for inspiration: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2002742

Ok, that's it for now. I actually have a flight to catch tomorrow since that AA one got canceled. Feel free to contact me privately (contact info is in my profile) if you want more feedback after making some changes on your site.

Finally, remember what Paul Graham says: It's better to make something a few users love than a lot of users only like. (Paraphrased from http://www.paulgraham.com/13sentences.html)
I've never asked someone out on a date expecting to get married. Things go where they go. Having it all planned out before you even talk to her seems, well... silly.

Enjoy the moment. Talk to the hot girl or boy; introduce yourself to the celebrity or CEO, or VC or whatever floats your boat. But don't talk yourself out of it because of what you imagine could happen.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
I have to disagree with this. I've seen the exact opposite many times, e.g. Dave McClure at the TechHub Xmas party, the poor guy was absolutely mobbed.

I thought this post was going to be about something different altogether, so I wrote it myself:

http://blog.shrewple.com/post/2520650113/the-real-hot-girl-e...
It is kind of scary actually. I only read HN and a few blogs. I also don't listen to local radio or etch TV so if a natural disaster happened where I live or work I wouldn't know.
The (Real) Hot Girl Effect and Networking
I honestly can't tell if this is supposed to be satire.
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"But, until we get a voice, a way to communicate back, Word Lens is little more than an amazing party trick."

WTF? A party trick? Okay sorry for the outburst there mate, why don't you make something better?
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I don't understand this at all.

Is there any reasonable theory for how the choice of DNS changes download speed this dramatically?

I can see it taking longer to resolve the ip address of the download server, but that should only be a one-time thing - and the total impact should be a couple seconds at most. Unless the download is constantly flipping between servers, I don't see how DNS latency is going to make a noticeable difference in the time it takes to download / stream a movie.
Passes my test.

Me: What do you think of the second guitar solo in "Comfortably Numb"?

Cleverbot: I think it is correct.
It's important to distinguish journalism from the business of journalism. Journalism is doing well thanks to the internet. The business of journalism is doing poorly, also thanks to the internet.
I think of it kind of like romantic relationships. If you're paired with the right person, it's bliss beyond bliss. If you're not...
It's a peculiarity of AdSense that turns what would normally be helpful behavior (please check out my advertisers -- they have really good stuff I personally recommend) into "fraudulent" behavior. The reason is, of course, that the site author has zero input or control over the contents of the AdSense boxes, and as such can't really recommend what's in there. You can _hope_ that what's in the box is a relevant ad for your readers, but you really don't have any way of knowing.

Google could provide a kind of back-and-forth here, to restore the ability of a site author to provide a testimonial for a particular advertiser. An author would have to provide a (short and limited) list of sites and testimonial copy for each one.

A sailing site could then, for a particular sailcloth manufacturer's ad, provide a short testimonial noting the high quality of the product, etc...and Google could serve up that custom testimonial along with the ad.

You'd either have happy advertisers, or not.
Careful there; you've gone from a fact about yourself to a generalization of everyone in a group. Down that road lies fallacy.
Trademark restrictions are tied to the field of use.

If Google was releasing power tools and calling them Dremel, they would have a problem. But they can release a programming language called Dremel and are likely to be legally in the clear.

(Or such is my non-lawyerly understanding. I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.)

((The reason people say that about not legal advice is that if you give legal advice and someone gets in trouble because of it - even if the advice was correct and the person misunderstood - you are liable for the consequences of that advice.))
I read the first paragraph and someone was talking about moguls needing a URL shortener or something. I scrolled the rest still not understanding. :-(
Citation? I the latest news I could find on google was that the nine or so class-actions were consolidated into one, and that Sony has filed a motion to dismiss, but nothing more that that.
> Saying "clicking on these adds gets me money," could easily be considered indirectly encouraging people to click on ads

How many people believe otherwise? If you cater to any audience with a 3-digit IQ, they know you get paid when they click.

On my current arrangement I have payments on conversion (it's working well enough) but it requires a bit more work than AdSense did.
3D printed concert flute rapidly prototypes sound
Of course, but you're using an extremely expansive definition of 'fraudulent' here.
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I think I'm wrong! I think that they might have figured out the private keys. Watching this now to learn more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6CA4fqAdsc

I'll post more info once I've seen what they say.

EDIT: WOW! Okay, looks like they screwed up big time. They used the same random number for all their signatures, which means that they effectively leaked their private key for various bootloaders in the system. The chain of trust is toast.
I had the same issue a few years ago on my site. It was really annoying. Google got me for "click fraud". I had some friends who were looking at my site in school. Some people clicked on adverts. Since these views were from the same school, Google probably thought they were the same computer/person. It really sucks.
Shouldn't 'Learn more' be... on the landing page?

Also, you should try to be a bit more formal, right? :D
I like this one:

"The facts are known to all who care to know. The press, foreign and domestic, has presented documentation to refute each falsehood as it appears. But the power of the government’s propaganda apparatus is such that the citizen who does not undertake a research project on the subject can hardly hope to confront government pronouncements with fact."

This speaks to the great failing of today's media. Who has time to stay current on all the world's events? I can hardly keep up with my Hacker News RSS feed! We rely on the media to do this research that Chomsky speaks of (or at least to use sources that have done said research). Given limitations on our time and focus, we have no choice but to accept what the media reports at face value. The more information proliferates, the more important becomes the filter.
I know a founder of one of the top silicone valley start-ups.
He's a great guy and when I happen to see him it's fine to chat. He's very busy so I don't see him very often.

This relationship gets me zero, zilch, practical benefits.

It's fluke that I know him. Would I expend a lot of effort to get ten relationships with similarly well-connected people? No, because it would rather insincere and would get me ten times as much practical benefits (ten time zeros). The people who I happen to meet and are cool people, I'll be friends with. The stunningly beautiful ballerinas I've chatted with are nice also but not the best material for personal relationships...

In other words, the glory of knowing COOs and dating models also over-rated. And if the models are feeling truly neglected, I'm sure they won't have a problem introducing themselves to cute guys at bars if they want "glory".
So basically their new system is... useless? :/