skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, please. Global warming, nutrionists, environmental issues in general (on both sides, not just government funded), activist medical scientists, if you don't already realize this you'll probably explain away anything I would produce. This is endemic, not isolated.

It doesn't count that it's really important!!, like the global warming scientists. It's still scientists in politics, not merely saying what is happening but what we should do about it and when. It doesn't count that you like what the political scientists are saying, it's still scientists in politics.
Try "New Work City": http://www.nwcny.com/
What's the benefit of opting out? Opting Out results into Google not providing better ads to you; Google may still track and categorize users and the collected information may still be used for other uses (e.g. personalized search/news, personalizing its own ad campaigns).
I'm a business manager who knows how to code (poorly). Rather than pursue programming, I saw an opportunity for be to bridge the gap between programmer and customer, so I have a lot of experiencing guiding developers away from catastrophes like the one you suffered.

Two things to take away from this:

* If you provide a fixed price without a fixed spec, you had better be prepared to lose your shirt. Fixed work means fixed spec. Always. Any changes must be accompanied by a document (a change order) that spells out the impact to the bottom line, because that's what business managers care most about. The key is to make sure you clearly communicate the impact to the bottom line all the way up to the check signer.

* Never let a project get to 14 weeks without the check signer (not just your contact or stakeholders; the person who will sign the check) knowing that you're accruing billing. It doesn't matter how good your friend is, you don't want them in a position where they're having to act the odd-man-out in order for you to get paid. It may be the "right" thing to do, but you can prevent them from ever being in that position by setting up communication that reaches all the way to the person who pays the bills.
The design pattern the author presents for expressing iteration and the log parsing example is original and beautiful. I hope the author reads this comment thread and sees how appreciative we all are for his contribution.
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Install Disconnect (written by an ex-Google engineer).

http://www.disconnectere.com/

It blocks 3rd parties and trackers from a variety of places, not just Google.
I'm part of the madness @HubSpot - let the games begin.
Big thumbs up for Mendeley. The most important features of Skim (high-lighting, notes), plus bibliography, intensely cross-platform, and in the cloud. I'm using it on an iphone, ipad, mac, and an NMCI Windows XP box (supports proxies). Oh, yeah, it integrates with Zotero.
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I have enough SIGOPS conference proceedings to make a nice coffee table ;p They are quite ridiculous in size and 95% of it I don't usually read.
They handle this well with their migration process. It's still being tweaked, but it's not as if nobody has thought of or encountered the problem you mention. They're adaptive.
When I left my last full-time job to return to freelancing I walked in on a Monday morning and gave my two weeks notice to the boss man. I went in with the goal of trying not to piss them off and in the process turn them into a client/customer. Similar to what you're angling for from what I can tell by your comments.

So two tips:

- Make sure you're ready. I knew going in, just like you feel you do, that they would be open to my plan. A lot of the time leading up to giving my notice was spent making sure I was right. I quite literally spent three months getting the balls to jump ship and making sure I was pretty confident I would come out with a client.

- For the love of God, play it cool when you tell them. Try and remember that you're quitting a job and not making a sales call. I wouldn't lead with your plans until they ask. During our conversation about the transition, the chit-chat slowly worked towards what they should do when I was gone. That's when I threw out that they could hire someone else full-time or take me on as a contractor for the technically heavy work and dish out the rest to existing employees.

The only thing I find worrisome about your scenario is that you're apparently counting on them buying a product that doesn't appear to exist yet. They can say "Sure, great idea!" on the day you leave and then, months down the line when it's time to play ball they can act dumb and say "No thanks, baby. That was just pillow talk."

I feel like you might be putting the cart before the horse a bit here but I wish you the best of luck.
I've never been to any of them cause I don't live in the city yet, but there's a list here: http://wiki.coworking.info/w/page/16583629/CoworkingNewYorkC...
Can you explain why my personal feelings are relevant to the general mass-market utility of a technology? Unless somebody is making a movie just for me and I just happen to think the tech is really neat (which is outside the scope of Ebert's piece), I don't see how it matters one whit.

There are objective things and subjective things and some shades between. You're talking about purely subjective tastes and Ebert was not. You may want to talk about subjective things, but that isn't what he was doing.
Should be quite interesting; here in NYC my wife and I do about 75% of our grocery shopping through FreshDirect which nets us fresher, more local, and all-around better produce & meat than we can get here in Astoria without taking a trip into Manhattan. FreshDirect also has continued to improve their user experience and buying process -- so much so that we trust the site enough to buy new veggies and fruits that we've never tried before just based on their staff ratings.

I'm not saying that Amazon won't be able to get traction here, but rather that I'm curious to see how what different approach they'd bring to solving the problems that FreshDirect has already solved. I should also mention that I love Amazon thanks to Prime, so it should be interesting competition if they expand this way...
If you mean using the browser or OS password mechanism, then sure, if you're logged in as the user you can access their secrets.

But this doesn't should not be true for "remember me" cookies. Those just need some identifier.

At any rate, you still need "talent": to know where the person is, when they're going for coffee, ability to access their machine without bystanders asking questions, etc.
The only thing you want to give Me is whats on your plate, how about unambiguous neutrality!
Great design, but too pricey for the target audience: I can buy a "coming soon" design from ThemeForest for $5. If you could compete at that price and include hosting, it'd be a no-brainer to go with you :)
>Whether or not it will negatively impact our world insofar that we should try to prevent it: not falsifiable

Could you expand on this? There's a difference between 'hard to show through theory' and 'not falsifiable'.

Here are

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

If the IPCC's recommendations on CO2 are not followed, which seems likely, we will directly test most of these claims.

As long as you have a definition of 'negatively impact', that can be evaluated objectively, it seems like 'Whether or not it will negatively impact our world insofar that we should try to prevent it' is eminently falsifiable, as there exists an experiment which allows us to see what happens. Expensive experiments, yes, but that's a different issue.
One would be that you can access Redis servers with apps that don't have good / mature Redis clients - like Adobe Coldfusion. Even though you still have to cope with the buggy JSON support in Coldfusion then. But better than no Redis at all i guess.
Newspaper ads were way, way more profitable, though. Newspapers were the biggest game in town (everybody read newspapers), space was limited (you need to print news, too), paper was limited (there are N pages in a newspaper), and so on.

In other words, online advertising is sufficiently different in a bunch of fundamental ways such that I'm skeptical of this particular analogy.

That's just my gut, though— I have no data. It would be worth seeing some analysis of how well demographic vs. targeted (?) ads worked. Then again, I'll bet you many folks who buy and display ads have already done the analysis, and that's precisely why this advertising exists.
Similar HN post (2.5 weeks ago): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2079223
"Pretend "OO" doesn't exist, and OO hasn't been identified. (Say we're in the 70's, that should more or less do it). Would you say my C code is procedural? Structured?"

Begging the question, no offense.

I don't address the other two points because I agree, but I didn't think that should pass in silence. (Though I gotta tell you MVC is in the running for worst-mangled-term too, but I won't push the point.)
In my opinion, sports fanaticism is kind of a dangerous thing. It seems to me to be mostly about reinforcing "us vs 'them'" mentality, which in itself is a diluted "good vs evil."

To take it to the extreme, us-vs-them-good-vs-evil seems to be one of the biggest basis of most large scale oppressions ("the jews/blacks/muslims are less than us, less than human. it's us vs them."), and it facilitates the justification of war and the entrenching of religious bigotry through subconscious (and sometimes conscious) dehumanization.

I know I took your post off topic and to the extreme, but it just doesn't seem like a good mentality to grow up with. Thoughts?
Translation. This is a huge area. I'm working on an app that would benefit from "instantaneous" (unseen live bodies doing the work - NOT software) translation between texting parties. Also I work in a broadcast environment where we send English transcripts from Vancouver to Montreal and have to wait for days to get the French copy back. FYI the cost for that is $1.50 per WORD.
It does if you feel like using their services for free. Otherwise, feel free to opt-out entirely by not using their resources.
I think the fanatics care more about belonging to a group than the virtues of the group itself. As far as I see, this has an evolutionary source in primate band behavior: belonging to a group means a chance at survival, being alone means being eaten. In that situation, wanting your group to win is the same as wanting to be alive, so it is easy to see why fan cheering is such a forceful (even to the point of violence) demonstration.
Well, RE: samples or surveys, users don't fill them out very often, which is why ad networks and information providers drop a cookie whenever they manage to find that out about someone for later recall. If you're just some blog, no way people are filling that out on your site.. so you get a deal with a tracking ad company that combines your traffic with data to make it more valuable than just run-of-the-network generic traffic.
I'm using CloudApp for most of the sharing and then Dropbox for bigger files. I really want to recommend Papers. It's really nice and keep me away from the documents explosion.
I think you're completely right. Market efficiency is the opposite of a self-fulfilling prophecy. The more people believe it, the less efficient the market.

A paper I read once: somebody had a market simulation with a bunch of agents looking at fundamentals. He got a nice smooth market that approximated the "real" prices pretty closely.

Then he changed it and made the agents attempt to predict each others' actions. The whole market turned chaotic, unpredictably swinging up and down.
>> Sure, but I'd hope there's usually a fairly clear path to obtaining the cash -- clearer than turning around and selling (part of) the company you just bought.

Mezzanine financing? Interest rates suck for that stuff though. In the world of M&As, I don't think stuff like this is uncommon, given what I hear from my finance friends.
I have been through all the apps mentioned here and settled on Sente (www.thirdstreetsoftware.com). Very powerful, does all the biblio/citation thing if you need it, as well as the visualization part that Papers does. It is not as polished as specific tools (such as a Papers/Endnote combo), but I find it nice to store all my pdfs in one place, automatically adding meta data through Google Scholar, Pubmed or whatever, and commenting/highlighting in the same application. There are also some very good applescripts to export notes to Devonthink and implement a citation database à la Steven Johnson (http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/0002...). My main library also sits in Dropbox, and is always accessible even when I am not at a Mac.
If you look at the plan details, $9 per month is for up to 10 pages. For people who have a lot of domains, $9 might be well worth it.
I've found sometimes I can force myself into "defense" mode just by stating to myself the opposite of what I'm trying to prove.

I may tell myself "it's impossible to use product X to accomplish this" then see that as a challenge and try to prove myself wrong. But this might only work because I can be an arrogant contrarian.
> I love having the dead tree edition. I'm ... a student

The novelty of getting science in the mail will fade. I am now completely addicted to Mendeley: I have it on my ipad, iphone, mac, and windows box at work.

The problem with dead trees is retrieving that article you read 7 years ago becomes a real bear. What journal was it in? Something about venules and tylenol .... crap. Mendeley is like having Gmail for your journal articles. Even the highlighting and notes are in the cloud. Love it.
You don't need to use Google services to be profiled - their ads and analytics are virtually everywhere.
12 Data Viz Masterpieces From the 19th Century
How many users do Mastercard or Visa have?
You mean open its homepage? It never opened a new tab in addition to that (but I would love to disable that phoning home...).
How the first Dotcom Bubble began
The homepage looks great, but you need to provide a lot more details on the pricing page. An FAQ list might be a good idea.
At a P/E of 95, it's pretty scary. Then again, you'll probably double your money anyway while I sit on the sidelines complaining about the P/E :)
It's entirely different markets. The "gamer" market segment generally isn't going to settle for iPod touch games. It's like saying Flash games will kill PC Gaming.
As a Crossover customer, you should know CodeWeavers have a very specific list of things that don't work for each version of MS Office when running under CrossOver.
CACM always seemed like a waste. In the 80s every other issue seemed to be full of "women in computing" and "minorities in computing," and while that's a worthy cause, I got mighty sick of it.

Most of the CACM articles were technically weak or about subjects I had no interest in. I would have been happy to not receive it (better, get some other SIG newsletter instead).

In the era of digital distribution, I just print out the stuff I want on dead trees and leave the rest as bits.
Online e shop
E-Commerce, E-Online Shop sales, advertising and PR articles. Catalog for online stores. Cheap online stores, e-shops or compare prices. Events, discounts and sales.
If you don't use any of Google's services which tie an account to you then they aren't tracking you. They are tracking a browser session and once that cookie expires the trail stops. Even if the cookie never expires, Google doesn't know who you are.
This would qualify as "green" open access ("gold" open access being provided directly by the journal). So you can blame authors for not posting their papers online if you feel so inclined.
Yes, it probably is. It's a bit of a chicken and egg situation though, everyone who knows RPython well enough to make the changes can already understand the errors just fine.
But to access it, you need to login i.e. its not a resource for the profession but for members only.

Old-style professional societies aspire to be synonymous with the profession, and they work toward that by adding value that everyone in the profession will want.

Paying professional society dues is a normal thing in most professions. It isn't weird for the ACM to act this way; it's weird (or at least new) for people to want to work in a high-paying, technically specialized profession, not pay professional society dues, and still get all the benefits of a professional society. Hey, if you bring us that utopia, more power to you, but I don't see anything broken about the current model from an adult's point of view. Students and faculty get access through their university, and everyone else makes good enough money to pay ACM dues. The weak point is kids, who are excluded by the current system (which was never meant to work for kids) unless they live near a university.
Is it better now? I have tested it before but it was too buggy for serious loading (PhD thesis), although I liked very much the interface and features.
Dual booting here. The Mac constantly has the red optical light turned on under Linux. Temperature control can be a little off too.

It works, but not seamlessly.
Remember the first iPhone? You weren't supposed to need to install any apps because you could just make a web page to do the same thing.

Apple has served up 10B apps to date.. so developers will be making money from selling "useless apps" through app stores for at least the next few years.

I can see this changing if wireless phone data networks can speed up network latency. The web is too laggy on phone data networks at this point IMO.
Personally, I'm bothered that the ACM is an organization for academic researchers and doesn't seem to give a damn about practitioners in the field.

I quit my ACM membership when I got sick of continuous hand-wringing editorials asking "Why don't women want to study CS?" and "Why don't undergraduates want to study CS?"

The ACM never seriously considers that undergrads who might study CS might know people who've chosen computing in a career and discovered that they hit a big glass ceiling in their 30's.

If the ACM started to ask the question of "What happens to CS graduates?" and thinking about career paths in the profession, they might find that the answers for the problems that keep them up at night might come naturally.
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Hello, good point, but I think the idea of the author (accordingly to what I read in the Redis maling list) is to provide some kind of access control list.

I think the most interesting practical application of a Redis HTTP interface is accessing your Redis database directly from Javascript.

One of such simple ACL is to deny all the commands but the few you use, and use unguessable key names. This is good for a low level of security. There are of course much better ways... but I'm curious about how this could evolve.
Until they offer a worse experience because users think they're being tracked.
Are there any providers that scale encoding? Is it still going to take a long time to encode 2 hours of video or can you split it up between different instances?
thanks for checking. i downloaded the whole document using the trick from elsewhere in the thread and didn't see any of these topics.

> The page seems to be working at a much higher level of abstraction than your suggested contributions.

i'm not sure i see it that way. standpoint epistemology is in the same category as falsifiability: a model for knowledge. oppression theory provides a social science model for power vectors. intersectionality applies to graph theory as well as social sciences. if anything i think the abstraction level is higher.
Point taken. I switched my recommendation from UCO to DBO. (I kept the original text there so as not to invalidate your comment.)
the author totally skips the UX concerns

I don't get your point. People do UX design on the web. Instead of opening your NYCSubway app, you just type "NYCSubway" into Google, touch the first link, and now you're on nycsubway.com, whose UX has been meticulously crafted just like the NYCSubway app.

The point is that downloading apps is an unnecessary step.
Fuck everything, we're doing a Wordpress theme!
I agree with the impulse to split stocks/bonds about equally:
http://blog.ometer.com/2010/11/10/take-risks-in-life-for-sav...

But, the 2x leveraged fund is a Bad Idea. These just don't make sense or do what you think beyond the 1-day horizon. If you want a long-term leveraged bet on oil, one better way is to buy a long-term call option ("LEAP") on an ETF. That will work a lot better than the 2x fund. Not saying you really want a long-term levered bet on oil, but if you did, the option is a better approach.
Probably since in Redis there are a multitude of write and read operations, so anyway a good HTTP protocol "map" is not possible.
I agree, why on earth would somebody set something with a GET request?
5xx was conjured out of thin air like 9xxx, 1xx and 3xx. 580 and 570 use the gf100b chip -- just a minor revision of the chip that powered 480 and 470.

I like NV products, but for some very weird reason their marketing likes to boost the family number for no reason every 6 months.
> Correlation != causation. I would say instead, "Just look at the growth of Apple after it introduced several really amazing products that had no equal in the marketplace".

Which is beside the point. Apple's ads and growth are relevant to the question. The question didn't ask for an example where attack advertising directly led to growth.

I'm not implying that the ads led directly to Apple's amazing growth and dethroning Microsoft at the revenue level (amongst other areas).

Don't get me wrong, I'm not arguing for or against attack ads. I'm also not arguing against your points in this comment. Merely that they don't matter in context.
Good point on the iPod touch being cheaper (and not needing a contract). However the 3DS isn't out and will not stay at that price long (thats the japanese launch price which is usually different from US releases).

> Honestly I've never played a DS so I really don't know but are the games really that much better to not feel the heat from Apple? We're talking an order of magnitude difference in game costs and not too dissimilar hardware costs.

Yes, they are.

I think what gets me about these conversations is that it is typically people with smart phones who might play games casually, I have never heard the "Apple will beat Nintendo" argument from someone who uses both.

Here, look at a list of the top iOS games from last year:
http://wireless.ign.com/articles/106/1063222p27.html

With the exception of GTA: Chinatown wars (which is a DS port), those games are all nostalgic remakes (space invaders, oregon trail), puzzle ports (peggle) or generally pretty simple/shallow games.

These are great diversions for 5 minutes waiting for a train, but most of them are not "great" or even "good" games. I admit that the iOS is versatile, but it has a lot of its own limitations, many of which coming from the fact that its _not_ a games machine.

The DS has its own share of shovelware, certainly, as do all platforms, but it is a dedicated gaming platform, and the games on there are leagues better.

Also, individual games cost $30 new at release time, but that cost goes down significantly quickly.

Nintendo said a few years ago they consider the iphone to be a competitor, but they are not stupid and have the same focus on high product quality (hardware and first party software) as apple, with a better attitude towards their customers, and have innovated and outmaneuvered and outsold sony and microsoft (and helped run sega out of the console market) at practically every generation.

The two markets actually _are_ different, even though superficially similar, and Nintendo isn't going to just disappear because iPhones/iPods support games any more than twitter disappeared after facebook implemented status updates.
Anyone know of any good coworking places in the Bay Area?
Just to avoid confusion, the GWT acronym is usually used to reference the Google Web Toolkit (http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/), not their Webmaster Tools product.