skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The big ESPs don't look at these lists.

Some of them do.

AOL uses GoodMailSystems.

http://postmaster.aol.com/Postmaster.Whitelist.php

http://www.goodmailsystems.com/

Hotmail uses ReturnPath.

http://mail.live.com/mail/services.aspx#Safelist

Yahoo seems to run their own. I remember them using one of the big ones but I can't find any mention in their help pages now.

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/bulkv2.html

Google only asks for best practices, but it's possibly they look at some of the whitelists for more data.

https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=81126
yeah, I agree. I LIKE it, but for a W3C logo? A standard? It's a bit much.
Also recommended mostly as a prerequisite to SICP is "How to Design Programs" by Matthias Felleisen
http://www.htdp.org/2003-09-26/Book/
And even Kurzweil doesn't say that exponential curves go on forever. But he does take the trouble to analyze what the physical limits actually are. Based on that, Moore's Law can go on for at least another fifty years.
Not bad. That's how I keep my todo lists, after having quit Basecamp:

IDEAS
One Idea
And another idea

TODO TODAY
A task

ARCHIVE
Old tasks just pasted here
A few years ago I'd have agreed with that, but recently I changed my mind: why not pay directly for things you like? Ads on the web a scourge, they really do make the whole experience of using a site worse for the customer. And they can't really be a good deal for advertisers either. I can't remember the last time I ever clicked on an ad, and I definitely never purchased anything after clicking on a banner. Ads are a scam business. Sure, Facebook and Google are basing their business on it, but how long until this house of cards finally collapses?

However, alternative models are scarce. Subscription-based sites mostly don't work. Donation-based models can be somewhat successful, but only with huge user bases and even then they'll never be as financially successful as the ad-based fantasy businesses of Facebook et al. I think a karma-based economy is worth exploring. For example, if everyone allocated an arbitrary sum each month to spend on services they like, then we would just need one or more payment services that distributed this sum among all the sites you gave "karma" to in a given month.
Swiss Whistleblower Provides WikiLeaks With Offshore Banking Documents
Yep, that's how I do it too. I've got to say that using Capistrano's default deploy.rb seems over-designed for my tastes. I mean, if I'm deploying code from a version control system, why would I want to have a second version control system to track releases?
Proximity payment system? Banks, meet your "Napster".
SQL Screwdriver
How would it be different if they hired an independent journalist to write it? Apple gets their PR in front of analysts on the subway and the The New York Times can maintain plausible deniablity.
"Given that both intelligence and physical attractiveness are highly heritable"

Larry Summers, and others, have gotten into trouble when he said there was a genetic component to intellectual capability and interest.

I guess as long as the claim is very generic, our culture will let it slide.
They were making an iPad like product and have announced it way before the iPad was announced. But now that looks sort of sunk. As a consumer product it doesn't look like they'll be able to pull it off. But their technology seems fantastic and can make them a successful company lower on the supply chain.
This looks like something you'd see on a Transformer, not a professional logo for a new web standard. I think it's good for what it is, unfortunately that "what it is" isn't what should represent HTML5.
Prepping for an IPO, LinkedIn adds Michael Moritz to its Board of Directors
> an elegant language for a more civilized age

I do believe you mean lisp, not java. http://xkcd.com/297/
There's also a link between IQ and diet, and, obviously, diet and beauty (healthy people look better; eating too many Big Macs will make you fat, and thereby less attractive to most.)
You could argue that it was a technology company that had to become a product company and got very distracted in the process. From the evidence that we have so far OEMs were probably right to hold off to ensure that electronics could be produced at scale. This seems to have been a key issue for them in launching the Que where the company had to focus on manufacturing but also running a number of product driven startups as per my comment.

I would never criticise a company for raising too much money though I would be inclined to query the wisdom of an early stage investor who thought that they would get a return.
Either way, I think that prompting people to give access to their browser's settings under false pretense, and then changing their search provider and home page, is unethical.

Yes, I completely agree. I have several non-technical friends on Facebook who have been tricked into installing browser helpers (BHO) and it's disgusting. Every so often they post some kind of ridiculous advertisement in their status bar -- only it's not them, it's their browser doing it. It's like some hi-tech version of Tourrette's Syndrome.

But, playing devil's advocate -- and I love devil's advocate because when it's done well it makes you think -- there's nothing wrong with trading a cute interactive session of making a baby with setting the user's home page, or changing their browser, or selling them stocks, or taking all their money from their bank account, as long as the user knows the trade-offs they are making. People do all sorts of stupid things for ten minutes of entertainment. It's the trickery part that makes it a scam.

So the next obvious question for me has to be: what do these guys need to do in order not to be a scam? Make the text bigger? Bold? Have a flashing sign? Since a BHO can do all sorts of nastiness -- including things they are not currently designed to do -- how do you adequately inform the user of what kind of trade they are making?

Chrome has a nice way of doing this where you approve of the types of information you are allowing the helper to have. Still, even then there have been many times when installing something in Chrome that I've thought "Do I really want this particular widget having this kind of access? How do I know that the developers won't change what it does with my information on some future version?"

I am concerned that many of these articles sound like "See the witch! Burn the witch!" -- mindless mob thinking. I know it's much easier to sell salacious articles by pumping yourself up and being the superhero speaking out for truth and justice and all, but from a logical standpoint I'm much more interested in what specifically is wrong with a particular practice and what steps need to be taken to make it better. Demonizing these guys -- even if they are total assholes and are out to trick and cheat and steal everybody they find -- doesn't do much as far as advancing the discussion along for the rest of us. A little bit more analysis and information, a little bit less emotion, please.
...and that's why there are over 300,000 Twitter applications http://twitter.com/tweetsmarter/status/26005694364778496
Working on the same piece of software for 20 years is mind-boggling. I can't decide whether I admire the guy or feel sorry for him.
Integrating email and maps into the social web
Bowler - RESTful Scala Web Framework
I'm at my standing desk right now.

I generally use mine all day and have for a few months but I would not be surprised to find that the results vary widely depending on the individual.

I set up my standing desk in addition to my regular desk, and for some time just used the standing desk in the afternoon. I still think that is a great strategy - it works great to keep you alert through the mid-afternoon slump.

But there are times when I want to sit down - times when I feel like I could focus better on a problem if I just got off my feet. So switch it up! It's not a magic solution, and it may not work best for you.
The entrepreneurial immigration path is a way of jumping the queue, so yes it requires significant personal assets if you want to take advantage of it. Otherwise you can just utilize the normal immigration path.
Exactly. It's even worse if you add the crippling behavior later on, i.e. in the upgrade from v1.2 to v1.3. All pirates notice is that the new version is really unstable.
Maybe the long tail really does drop off that fast. According to the "Facebook is a Ponzi scheme" article ljlolel posted [1], most Facebook advertisers experiment for a while, then give up; that would make for a long tail and a steep curve.

[1] http://www.jperla.com/blog/post/facebook-is-a-ponzi-scheme
Autotest your rubygem
Business Model generation
Yeah, you can say "more likely to be smart" but not "more likely to be smarter", that's the grammatical problem.

Guess it was written by an ugly person :/
My girlfriend also deleted her account immediately after watching the movie. If there's 2 people, there must be more.
The secret is the pricing. Back in the old days I spent more money in the first hour of my Magic: The Gathering habit than my wife and I have spent on Angry Birds. Of course, MtG required printing and shipping physical cards.
They claim it at $30/barrel, (42 gallons in a barrel according to google calculator), which makes it about $0.7142 per gallon of produced fuel (wholesale). Factor in distribution and retailing markups and taxes and you are probably going to double it or more, but still.

Cheap gasoline limited only by area (not even land area, since presumably you could produce this in sea water) and sunlight? Sounds too good to be true. Anyone have a corroborating source other than the globe and mail?
Hipster is Quora Plus Location
With new technologies and their implementations, you see all sorts of new opportunities for connecting people with value and making money. Along with this come the scammers, spammers, and idle wastes of time. It's nothing new, just even faster and more pervasive.

Also, it's sometimes hard to distinguish something new and valuable from an idle waste of time. As my dad says, you never know which cloud is going to give you rain.
You might compare author Hugo de Garis's position on deism with the Simulation Argument - i.e. our present projections of technological progress shape the expected chance that we live within a reality manufactured by beings very much like our own descendants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_de_Garis

de Garis' works are well worth reading, though like many AI-focused futurists - such as those associated with the Singularity Insitute - I think he gives too little weight to comparative advantage when projecting future interactions between beings of vastly different capabilities.
Its Capitalism when everyone works for themselves (ok, the money works for them).

Its Socialism when we all work for the collective.

What do you call it when nobody works?
Here are some temporary mirrors, the main site is slow to respond:

http://pastebin.com/szE6pQXW

http://pastie.org/1473616

http://yourpaste.net/6425/

Ok, from the talk,

21 Century A.I.-enabling technologies

a) Moore's Law

b) 1bit/atom by 2020

c) Femto-Second Switching

d) Reversible Computing

e) Nanotech

f) Artyficial Embryology

g) (Topological) Quantum Computing

h) Nanotech Impact on Brain Science

j) Artificial Brains
Yeah, though the unterminated list is a frequent pattern in headlines (especially in newspapers or other very "journalisty" areas). Say, something like: "Ruby, Python, C All On The Up" I find it a bit archaic now - it has a certain early 20th century air to it.

Two real examples:

"Apple, Microsoft Are Megabrand Kingpins in Social Radar Index" - http://adage.com/article?article_id=139386

"Twitter, Facebook are victims of 'single, massively coordinated attack'" - http://venturebeat.com/2009/08/06/twitter-facebook-victims-o...
> you have continuous integration built in?

Well, it's not specifically continuous; I do manually run the script when I want to make a deployment. But I make it a point for my (main) master to be the same code as is in the production. So I work in smallest possible changes (one feature, or one bugfix), push to main repo, and run the deployment script.
We Didn't Stop The Fire
My second reaction to Angry Birds - right after "hey, this is Artillery with more amusing graphics" - was "hey, this is the virtual version of that game with the blocks, the toy soldiers, and the rubber bands that my dad played as a kid, and then taught to me when I was a kid."

I predict they will sell a lot of these playsets. Video is great but miniatures have a charm all their own.
PS3 Portal 2 to come with free PC/Mac version, cross-platform play
Motion Silences Awareness of Visual Change
You know when someone says "remember when... candy only cost a nickel?, or pegasus mail was an awesome alternative to eudora?"

I do! Congratulations Pegasus for lasting 20 years. I can't say I use you anymore. Gmail kinda took the cake. But I still love you, and when people bring you up, I have fond memories of you.
We actually use Pegasus mail at work for our departmental email (very large university, London). Despite the fact that for the majority of users it works just fine and there is no need for something more complicated - apart from the archaic client - they are now in the process of overhauling everything due to a big $$$ contract with Microsoft.
I had this problem, and then I noticed that I had allowed scripts from tryfs.net, but not tryfs.com. It worked after that, though not very cleanly.
To take your analysis further, $0.71 per gallon of gasoline comes out to $0.02 per kWh... even with 100% markup, $0.04/kWh is very cheap energy. You're right, it sounds too good to be true.
Because although a grand vision of the future is wonderful, so is a guaranteed paycheck for the foreseeable future. For the people who'd be replaced by these machines, "eventually things will be amazing" is not much comfort in the face of "and you'll be replaced".
Nice article by Jeremy Keith on why this logo creates and propagates confusion between HTML5 and CSS3:

http://adactio.com/journal/4289/
2010 has been the best year ever for arresting cybercriminals
That's as may be, but (anecodatal unscientific opinion coming up) I think there is a correlation between being attractive, and not being very interesting; beautiful people don't usually have to try so hard in life, so they may not develop the more interesting personality traits those who have to try harder acquire)

I like to think that anyway. Makes the World seem fairer.
At least it wasn't a Valtrex ad.
At 16% efficiency you almost don't need to use sunlight.
900MWh * 0.07$/kwh = 63,000 U.S. dollars vs 3$ * 25k = ~75,000$ worth of gas.
Anyone else find the publication odd?
"There are now thousands of AI scientists around the world (concentrated largely in the English-speaking countries) who feel that humanity will be able to build massively intelligent machines this century that will be hugely smarter than human beings."

I'm someone skeptical about this claim, certainly it's a while since I worked in AI research, but from what I recall after the AI Winter researchers were generally pretty guarded about making claims for there being any clear route to building general intelligences.
Most logos / marks need to be compatible with a broad range of media formats. Any system generally needs to be flexible - whilst remaining true to its original concept.

If the mark needs to be altered to work in a particular format, I think that could show a lack of foresight on the part of the designers. I'm playing devil's advocate though.

I think a very simple HTML + black shield border + black 5, could provide a useful additional mark; which might prove less obtrusive.

--

"It's very common to have structural changes in letters at different sizes in order to maintain readability, yet no one complains about consistency. Why?"

I don't know of any common examples of logos which make similar structural changes - but I'd be very happy to be proven wrong.
Moses from South Park is the Master Control Program ;)

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/151458/i-desire-popcor...
Lots, lots more. If the Apple their devices weren't monopolistically locked down, or the store was an open market.

Really, you think its worth their cut, just to operate the store? How much overhead would it take you to put up a web store? They only get away with it because they aren't Microsoft.
The OCW page for 6.001/SICP has complete lecture notes, which are useful supplements to the book, especially with additional diagrams: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
OLPC XO 1.75 laptop is faster with ARM chip than x86
For me, I want to have a second version control system to track releases. For my personal projects, I deploy as soon as I have something interesting, which might be once a week or might be five times in an hour, and I deploy straight from the HEAD of master. If I deploy something prematurely, a symlink repoint and a restart can be done via Cap, or manually, or whatever.

Making Git also control my deploys would mean either tagging release commits or rebasing onto a production branch, which both (for me, at least) impede releasing as often as I can.
Wow ... that makes me want to sign up with Facebook just so I can join the "delete my account" club.
Facebook is an amazing product. However, the more facebook unravels their plans for the future, and the more we learn about their past, the less I trust them.

We can write to hacker news with our articles, bitching and moaning about facebook, or quietly build an alternative social network with the values we want.
I think you are entirely correct, I think the Que could simply be described as a product desperately in search of a problem to solve.
Yes I guess the btree (or similar) will be much better for many small items, but the file solution may be the way to go for not su much items but much bigger...

Eventually maybe the fs solution can just be removed... it was a way to get started with the caching layer asap.
The degree to which China is not connected in the visualization at the bottom, I find worrisome. Why? Because connection and commerce are the true foundations of peace. By that thinking, visualization is not a good omen. (Maybe we should just chalk it up to language?)
two words - "opportunity cost".
Akamai Implements Web Content Optimization. Will this save development time?
Yes, the color orange is that loud, exuberant, hilarious friend you take on a pub crawl but never to church.
> I do not own a single share of Apple Inc.; nor do I own stock in any other individual company I might write about on Daring Fireball. I do not expect this to change, but I pledge that if it does, I’ll disclose it here. (http://daringfireball.net/2007/08/taking_stock)

I haven't seen him disclose anything about owning Apple stock since 2007. I wouldn't blame you for the assumption, but I don't think he's a shareholder.
I'm not exactly the greatest fan of Facebook or MSFT and I do lean a bit favourably towards Google, but the article is a good representation of what is wrong with reporting on Tech/Digital these days - so much of it is just absolute breathlessness.

There is precious little in the story save what is already provided by Matt Cutts and there is this little gem towards the end:

"Is no one minding the store? Or are they just minding the cash register and turning away from what the customers are up to?"

That entire sentence could very well turn out to be true, but for the time being it is just opinion, which, after enough people repeat it, becomes a fact.
How does this relate to Visual Studio products?
By default the flush time is set to zero and the cache size to 0, so everything will be always loaded / processed / saved again, and ASAP. That said HFS+ is hardly cool...
In defence of hackers and open source
Right you are correct, I think we are speaking past each other and that may be my fault, I read somewhere in the thread about the risk of being terminated if the employer found out and my point was more to that fact.

But yes, you do run the risk of not getting the job for being perceived as lying. For me personally as a (small I employ 4 guys) employer, it would not amount to a hill of beans to me, if I found out a prospect inflated his salary.

I just have a hard time viewing it as lying in the traditional sense. Culturally we negotiate when it comes to jobs and if I asked someone to hand over information that would give me a strong advantage at the negotiation table, I would expect that information to not be accurate.

The only reason to ask that question is to strengthen your position at the negotiating table, so in effect the person asking is being just as dis-ingeniousness as the person inflating. To call foul on the other guy for trying to strengthen his position when the other side is doing the same, reeks of a double standard.
I'm surprised, the active states of the icons seem to be buggy in the latest chrome for Mac:
http://cl.ly/0B0f0N3B1K2z3F2H3e0k
Kickbacks was the first thing I thought of.
1) I'd take these findings with a big grain of salt:

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/kana...

2) I'd be very cautious about interpreting causality, even if the results are true. Beauty is influenced by environmental factors (diet, exercise, health care etc.) that are correlated with parental and own-income. Some of these same factors also influence intelligence. There's a decent chance this research boils down to "being poor sucks."
Power plants are only 40% efficient at best and cars are lucky to be 20% so it's really about the same cost as an electric car.

PS: Not that I think it's accurate; 16% efficiency is not bad for a solar cell, suggesting you can get a bio fuel plant close to that is a hard sell IMO.
with the way they're selling stuff, it might make a great documentary.
Regarding Kurtzweil's "mathematical principle," our mathematics is a reflection of the universe we live in. Mathematics is based on axioms, which make sense to us only because we observe them to be always true in our universe.

How about: Our mathematics is a reflection of the universe we can perceive.
It reminds me a little bit of PG's essay on Yahoo: http://paulgraham.com/yahoo.html

I don't think it's quite as bad or blatant though.
Rails Installer - Get up and running on Windows
HTML5 Grows up and gets a Logo
Nice amalgamation of resources for SCIP related stuff. I wish there was a way to mark this as a sticky of some sort.
The question is whether Apple can come up with the next ipod or iphone without him. That, I sincerely doubt.

Of course Apple can come up with the next iPod or iPhone. They can even design good ones. Steve Jobs is a fantastic CEO with a well-trained eye for simplicity. The only thing that might be missing in his absence is someone that will relentlessly say "no" to sub-par designs.
Would you explain why proximity payment is like Napster to banks? My (limited) understanding of proximity payment is that it is a token that isn't very different from the magnetic strip swipe; it is still a token that resolves to a particular bank account through a payment processing network.
if they really got JMX to work fine over firewalls without me spending half an hour every time, that is enough for a major release tailored to me :)
See below for population distribution of the U.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Uspop.svg

The people at that bulge in the middle are now in their late 50s. When they start to die and sell their assets all at once, we're going to see a major devaluation in the stock market, and real estate.
I do something similar, with one major difference: I like to rely on environment variables to set some config parameters the author sets in a separate production branch. I usually keep these environment variables set to development values on my laptop and production values on servers. Low ceremony, but works for me.
Yea! I saw pg's essay posted after I wrote this, and I noticed that he makes the same kind of argument. He calls it a pyramid scheme, but a ponzi scheme is a closer metaphor.