skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was referring to how Google should respond to content farms. Historically, Google has been willing to take manual action on webspam. With the rest of search quality and ranking, Google tries to use algorithms as much as we can. So the distinction of whether something is spam vs. low-quality is an important one within Google.
It's probably got more to do with the excitement of getting something "new", which for some people represents "fun".

That's why people lined up for Wiis, XBoxes and Kinects.
They dropped those rules. I hope Scratch gets released now because of it.
As much as I agree with his point, his America vs. Russia shtick is grating and distracting.
I was demonstrating how my brain parses its use.
MIT submitted Scratch for iPad a while ago and was denied. Hopefully they resubmit now that the rules have loosened.
"Most likely because the sites add to Google's bottom line and a spam engineer modifying the algo to remove the powerhouse content mill sites can actually negatively impact the Google's revenue."

This is definitely not the reason. See my comment at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2059661 for more context.
Incidentally, sometimes triple-redundancy isn't enough: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232
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Free content drives out unfree content.
Sadly you don't need a fuzzer to crash adobe flash (at least on x86_64 linux). A few hours browsing top-25 websites normally does the trick.

There is a big reason Chrome sandboxes plugins, and its named "Adobe".
> There is insufficient data to make a call either way. The author mentions this, but as I pointed out in other comments on this thread his agenda was clearly to push one hypothesis.

I think that's actually Taube's main point - the data is insufficient, and the variables aren't being properly controlled. His suggestion that it was in fact the carb-cutting that was the most effective seemed secondary to me.

For the record, I lost 37 pounds in the span of roughly two months by cutting carbs. I ate more than 2000 calories per day (a fairly constant diet of bacon, eggs, cheese, steak, chicken, and broccoli), but kept my carb consumption under 40g of daily carbs for the entire two-month period, and still managed to lose what I consider to be a shocking amount of weight.
By then just recompile it for the next wave of tech/standards.
Out of curiosity, anything specific you would be using it for?
That's exactly what I did, and I couldn't be happier. It's so light that I find myself checking my laptop bag just to see if it's still in there. I went with the highest-end 13" configuration so I didn't lose any performance in the transition, and haven't noticed any discernible difference in "real world" use.
I think SearchWiki solved a different problem. It was about, approximately, globally curated results for certain searches. What's being described is personalized curation, at least that's how I read it. I'd definitely be into such a feature, and it really doesn't seem like a tremendous undertaking to make it something opt-in via Labs. I also recall SearchWiki being about specific results, which is not desired behavior for the personal curation experience I have in mind.
and I doubt he will call himself on this.

He's not above admitting mistakes: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:daringfireball.net+%22i+...;
Http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/155700-airline-reservations-system/
They dropped the rule against using interpreters, and the rule against having your original code be in other than C, Objective-C, C++, or Javascript.

However, I don't think they dropped the rule against being able to download code. If this thing lets you load files from the net that are interpreted as Scheme programs, it could be in violation of that rule.
> Every time you see a crash which is caused by jumping to some unknown address, there's a pretty good chance that the crash is exploitable

No. It's not 2001. Modern MS (and UNIX) operating systems and compilers use NX, stack guarding, and addr randomization to make stack/heap overflows pretty difficult to exploit. Not impossible, but statistically unlikely. Run-of-the-mill C programming errors in a web browser are hardly automatic remote sploits now.

> every crash caused by user supplied data should be looked at from the "might be exploitable in the future" perspective.

OK, I agree with this, but out of principle, not because there's a high chance it's remotely exploitable.
So you want to stop spam by using what is effectively a captcha. Adding a captcha would reduce the amount of spam, but it wouldn't stop it. There are already lots of very cheap commercial captcha farms available.

Adding a captcha also makes it a lot more difficult to have automated emails for things like signups and order purchases etc.
I used the method shown here:

http://blogs.nullvision.com/?p=275
It was much more intrusive than it could have been. Also, the claim of 'Urgent' was not credible. Maybe they've managed to engage with their 500,000 sponsors. They've also shown they're willing to degrade the quality of the site to raise funds. That's no different to advertising for the casual user.
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Not OP, but this lets you find events outside of your social circle (to the best of my knowledge).
Compliance problems in studies may be relevant to our individual choice of diet, since they are likely to predict our own personal compliance. In general (as Taubes points out), most people can lose significant weight by reducing their daily caloric intake to starvation levels. However, compliance is so poor that it's not a viable solution. And it wouldn't be correct to say that this problem is irrelevant to those who are looking to start a new diet.

I personally find the combination of the (potentially flawed) human studies and the (more scientifically rigorous) animal studies to be fairly persuasive. You can find fault with either of the two, but in sum, the two pieces of evidence seem quite solid.

"If you interpret studies as showing what happens when people actually eat a certain diet, then compliance _is_ a flaw -- a really big one!"

To me, the studies likely skew in that direction, while also providing stronger evidence when interpreted as showing what happens when people try to eat a certain diet.

"I don't necessarily disagree with Taube, though I don't think it signifies much that he can persuasively make a point and disparage those who disagree with him when he's talking to lay people."

Sure. On the other hand, he's a researcher who's been investigating this issue for around a decade, and has published a very rigorous (by most accounts) book on the subject. Given the stakes, I suspect that most people would eventually take to the streets in an attempt to improve the situation.

Overall, I think we likely agree here :)
After a day of procrastinating, you usually feel like shit. You are worried and stressed because now you have even more work to do. So by taking the day to 'relax', you have actually worsened your mental state.

After a day of working, assuming it was a productive day where you actually solved problems, you usually feel pretty damn good.
If we're only discussing tens of thousands of emails, I'd probably get the cheapest Linode available and bung Exim on it. The average home PC could handle this without issue...
Well, thoughtful people at least. There's enough people who take actual cranks at face value that it's not, overall, a social maladaptation to do those things.
Come on Piotr, it's the very first version, how can it be useless? :-) BTW you can store .pit file anywhere you want.
Using Safari 5.0.2, after clicking "Share my location" and then searching, it used Manhattan as my location, and I had to go and manually change it in the search options.
I find this absurd in this era of cheap storage. Blatantly anti-consumer.
Honestly, for me, it has a lot to do with a general feeling of having something to prove. Not just to other people, but to myself. I grew up dirt poor in rural southeast NC, but never felt like I was any less capable or important than anybody else. But I haven't done anything to make a mark on the world yet, so I feel driven to do something, to "be somebody" or whatever you want to call it.

If you've seen that old movie "Vision Quest" I guess you could say that I feel a bit like Louden Swaine did. Except I'm already a lot older than that character was in the movie.
To be fair, I was the one complaining about it, not him. That said, I don't think it's fair to compare his research, rigorous report of that research, and various academic lectures to be the equivalent of what the snake-oil-salesmen do.

He presents a very strong hypothesis for a very important subject, and his public statements are mostly focused on demonstrating that what most people believe on the subject isn't exactly right. In my mind, the cognitive dissonance that he creates with his blog isn't intended to be the argument. Instead, it's designed to get people past their initial preconception so they might be willing to read the more rigorous version(s) of his argument.

In general, I don't think it's fair to say that an article in the New Yorker, followed by 5 years of literature review, followed by a (dense, by all accounts) report represents the kind of quackery you are cavalierly comparing his work to.
Most people being commenters on HN? Or the 500,000 people who have donated to Wikipedia?
Thanks for replying! I didn't see anything on pageload. I'm on Chromium 8.0.552.224 (68599) Ubuntu 10.10.

(EDIT: I reloaded again, and I saw a bar come down asking if I can give this site my location. The bar was in light blue, and it was well camouflaged with the title of your page, and it also disappeared in a few seconds, so I never saw it the first time)
I will, but they haven't yet.
There's also no J. U/V and I/J were simply the same letter, and could be either vowel or consonant, much like Y. Today, we transcribe it as Julius, but it was written Iulius 2000 years ago.

There are plenty of round Roman letters carved into stone and coins. See image. They didn't use U because they didn't know they "needed" it.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grabmal_des_Iulius_Ba...
Actually, I enjoyed his unique perspective on American vs Russian business culture. Without it, this article is not hugely compelling and ends up being like many articles before it.
No, it's very easy to generalize: an overwhelming majority of people will get fat from overeating, some quicker than others. I'd think your condition is somewhere in the single-digit percentages.

I've always been fairly lean – 176/70ish (5'9"/155ish in SU) – a "can eat anything" type, but taking an almost 3-month break from cycling while not reducing food consumption has resulted in a gain of about 8kg/17lbs. (Planning to drop to about 68kg by June).
I'm not familiar with the internals of rdmzs, but there's a fair bit of actual technical information available about the Azul collector. It makes heavy use of manipulating virtual address mappings, and by this gains the property of being relatively insensitive to heap size.

My impression is that it's a copying collector that works on pages at a time. When a page is relocated, it's marked protected in the memory address mappings, allowing the runtime to trap and fix any stale pointers at the moment they are used. At the same time, the collector proper uses memory fences to keep track of what pointers have been fixed, eventually allowing the protected pages to be released from the memory map.

I don't know GC literature very well, but AFAIK this design is novell. The original implementation made heavy use of high performance memory primitives supplied by the Azul hardware. I gather they now have found a way of running with acceptable performance on commodity x86 processors under the virtualization.
I don't trust Wales to run the organization effectively. I think that things are just going to get worse for Wikimedia as they get more money. My opinion on Wales is not high generally and Wikipedia has implemented some policies that I find rather undesirable in the recent years. Wikipedia has also done little to really actively improve the encyclopedia; they make all the wrong organizational changes, which in general tend to further stupid political bickering and turf wars, and these are the biggest problems to successful Wikipedia editing. Good governance would move to minimize these so that editing remains (or now, becomes) reasonable for people who don't have time to sit around for six hours a day and justify every change they make over and over again until the other guys get sick of it.

What it comes down to is that Wikipedia is really one great big edit war, though they'll never admit it.
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The add campaign was distasteful and I suspect just an ego trip for Jimmy Wales

They published the results of the split tests: Jimmy Wales ROFLstomped all their other creatives. It blows my mind, too, but there you go: the people who matter (i.e. people who donate to the foundation) want to Jimmy's rugged and photoshopped good looks, and all he has to do is glance in their general direction and their wallets open.
V is certainly easier to carve, but since U didn't exist, it's not like anybody really had to choose.
The rest of the site is good too. "Time makes things worse" I liked particularly.
Ah, thanks for the clarification - that's too bad.
Er, that would be more like IVLIVS in real Latin. duh.
I wonder if this is a bug in general? Hotel wakeup calls are done by automated services these days, atleast for every hotel I've stayed in for the last 10 years.

If you think hotel wakeup calls are unreliable and they all use the same wakeup call software then the problem may be in the code.
Sure, that was real news 10 years ago.
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Looks real good on the kindle; thanks for sharing.
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It seems he hasn't read Jason Santa Maria's article on presentations: http://jasonsantamaria.com/articles/make-yourself-presentabl...
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From the pics it looks like there were much more than 60 people though.
I can't really explain it. It's not the money, it's not proving others wrong or even displaying my abilities to others. If I'd have to loosely describe it, I'd have to say that it's a drive to be really good at the things I do, so much so that I don't have to deviate from being myself when confronted with new ventures or opportunities (ala Greg House).
I've never used any library to communicate with a database that made safe code harder to write than unsafe code, so I don't see how this will be an issue.
Perhaps meditation is a good cure for this type of procrastination? It shouldn't take any effort to close your eyes for a few seconds, and "meditate" to regain your focus. Then, it's easier to decide what to do next.
Simple git workflow with hack and ship
Branches are virtually free with git, it makes a lot of sense to create short-lived feature-branches for each new thing you start working on. This does mean a bit of shuffling back and forth to integrate changes from others in your local work, but this “pull changes and rebase my work” workflow can be greatly eased by these small scripts.
Might this popular outsourcing destination be the same one that ICICI Direct serves? :)
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This is the app that was launched on HN this morning after my husband stayed up all night coding, fastest turnaround to front page of TechCrunch I've ever seen. Nice job honey.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057706
Good call. This post sums it up quite nicely:

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/the-science-behin...

EDIT: Raw Data here:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Banner_testi...
I don't think there is any particularly accurate way to assess "potential" objectively. Maybe some of these things can give you a (very) vague indication, but I wouldn't put much stock in any of them, personally.

I think a better question would be "How do I help people live up to the potential they do have?"
Chinese here. To be honest, it's a very smart marketing strategy for Meizu. Lots of people preorder M9 phones months earlier, and Meizu just calls everyone that their phone is available on a particuliar day, so there are tons of people line up on Meizu M9 launch day.
I'm not sure if there's anything to call Gruber on. Microsoft spent a pretty penny on the Win95 launch, as does Apple for their launches. Google and the hardware manufacturers who produce Android devices simply haven't run their launches the same way, and I don't see any reason for them to start.
I never said it did, but was responding to:

Let web-browsers remain good at what they're good at, and what they were meant for: Browsing the web. Web browsers make great hypermedia navigation / browsing tools... but they're really not so great at being the universal standard remote client interface for complex applications. :-(
I launched http://www.dealzfull.com in November and http://www.readevery.com in December
HNers had a ton of feedback for ReadEvery. Now I am implementing them one by one
you can just respond with STOP when you get the first text
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I just help couldn't turning every sentence into something like "In communist Russia, you do not make presentation, presentation make you" in my head.
Well, the way I look at it is this.

We are born, and we are going to die. We (mostly) define what goes between the middle.

I'm motivated to be better today than I was yesterday.

I'm inspired by a challenge. This year, i want to launch 12 companies. Am I going too? unlikely. Is it going to be a wild ride? Oh yeah!! Am I going to learn more and be more awesome next year? hell yeah.
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I have worked in downtown Palo Alto and at "Sun Quentin" in Menlo Park.

I liked both locations very much. If you have ever lived in the desert and liked it, you might like what we used to call "New Menlo". I can see how others might be horrified at the idea of working in such an austere landscape.

Downtown PA is a popular after-work destination. The burden of work can seem very light when you can hear groups of people laughing as they walk by during lunch or in the evening. The parking and traffic are a tolerable hassle. The city of Palo Alto has done a nice job of providing parking over the years.

The Sun offices out on the edge of the bay were unlike many others that I have worked in. Although there were cubicles in odd corners, more than 95% of my building was subdivided into high-quality office space with doors that closed (and locked!). The views, the site arrangement, and the good offices felt right for sustained, intense concentration.

The neighborhood surrounding the Sun campus on the land side alternates between post-WWII low income housing and warehousing or light industrial parks. It's fairly bleak.

I would not hesitate to walk a few miles after work in downtown PA. The network of trails on the bay levees are a wonderful place to run or ride a bike. I always liked to take short walks out there in the daytime or early evening.

On the land side of New Menlo, I never walked beyond the edge of the parking lot. I didn't know anyone else who did either. In that regard, the place is indeed a prison.
The Stack Overflow discussion points out that the patent hitting rollover menus was going to soon be (and is now) expired: "A long, legal way to say this patent is public domain on 10/5/2010 and these guys are probably trying to snag a nickel before it goes out."

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2609936/javascript-css-ro...
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That web developer position looks enticing.
I usually am critical of tech "perks", mostly from the bad taste in my mouth that foosball tables and free junk food from the dot com era left...

But that, good sir, is probably one of the smartest tech perks I've ever seen. Kudos.
> There are no tricks involved, although the site involves AdSense. (Which you never have to see if you use AdBlock or something like that)

Is the target audience of that site likely to use AdBlock...?!?

Edit: my point is, it doesn't seem consistent with the stated goal of "helping" those people to send them off on wild goose chases with ads (a number of which may advertise the same kind of service).
He seems to be describing mostly bad presentations. I've seen good ones that don't suffer these problems, though they can be rare.
This is like the bizarro version of the late _why's unHoly ( http://github.com/whymirror/unholy ), the README for which contained this:

"You know, it's crazy that Python and Ruby fans find themselves battling so much. While syntax is different, this exercise proves how close they are to each other!"

...Which is the apparent reason for naming the codebase "unHoly". A code ambassador to try to mediate a peaceful resolution to the holy wars. (Pyhad? Rusades? I bet _why could have come up with a better name.)
Me (digital marketing/media). Johannesburg, South Africa.
well just off the top of my head, I know upcoming (yahoo), going (aol), and myspace events all are events sites that allow search by location.
Could this be done in a 3D environment, with pinch to zoom in/out to see a view without the details of the AST?
So they didn't care about your business, right? That just means you're not their target customer, right? They didn't seem to lose mindshare with the customers that they were serving now did they?

I'm not Boeing's target market. It doesn't surprise me that they aren't going out of their way to post prices of 777 engines for my perusal.

In the end, you got the product you wanted (cheap Dell) and a business got a customer they wanted (dude with small budget).
Nice, this will come in handy with the telepresence robot I and my friend have been building http://samratjp.posterous.com/look-ma-im-controlling-a-telep...

Yeah, it's pretty annoying to prototype whilst waiting for the damn thing to burn and this being a telepresence robot, I actually code it remotely (my friend has the actual hardware) using a weird combination of Dropbox, github and ssh to prototype and test. This should help. Will let you know how it comes along.
I've noticed that for the most part quality of a presentation rests on the skill of the speaker, rather than the quality of slides.
I'd love for this post to be a little more detailed, actually.
Good stuff.

I've been meaning to write about how ass-backwards our school system is for punishing failure rather severely rather than embracing convergence.

Story Time:

When I taught calculus I, I had a student that did terribly on the first two tests. With my help and a lot of tutoring from my end, he brought his grade up on the third test to a C and his final was a B.

If I had taken the average and followed instructions from the course coordinater, then I would had to have given him a D in the course which would have fucked him over.

But, I gave him an A.

When he took Calculus 2 in the next semester, he got high A's all by himself.

Loving failure is a big part of education.
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Thanks dear :)
"Maybe there's a different premise. They [TV news channels] cover politics. Politics is a Democratic and Republican game.It's left and right. But then you begin to confuse everything through that same conflict. I think the conflict that would be more appropriate to devote a news channel to would be corruption."

John Stewart on the Rachel Maddow Show.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908//vp/40141311#40141311

Worth thinking about?
Can you explain more about how you got to that point of realizing what helps you get started?