skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm. I'm kind of surprised that that outcome was even in doubt. Any algorithm based on externals is going to be more stable than a self-referential algorithm, simply because self-referential algorithms are extremely prone to feedback loops.
That's why Google gives you a whole page of results/widgets, not just one.
> In the scenario that I envision, where oil prices start to go up, and finally everybody agrees they will keep going up, futures dated further in the… future will be more expensive. Each time the fund has to roll over, it has to pay extra to switch to futurer futures. These costs can significantly eat at your returns.

No kidding. And the worst part is the roll-over is predictable enough that hedge funds can money-pump your fund. Contango and 'pre-rolling' are major problems for these funds: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_31/b41890509...
You've been sued
Waking up at 5am would not do much for me. Starting at 6, it's getting kids out of bed and ready for school. The very deep sleeping 14 yr old is very difficult to rouse. As soon as he's out the door, time to start waking/feeding the 3rd grader. By the time he's gone it's 8:30 and off to work.

Night owl hours are by far more productive for me. Everyone in the house asleep, no interruptions, quite and calm.
Ahh no, all I was stating about the early 2000s is that I think it was around then (2004 or earlier) when video games surpassed hollywood in revenue. Since new technology like 3D applies to both of these markets, why does everyone seem so focused on the smaller of the two (movies) instead of where the real money is (games). Declaring a technology dead because it doesn't work for movies (I'm not convinced of that) is silly because it ignores the larger relevant market of video games. The technology is certainly not dead even if we never saw another 3D movie.
There is a problem with Macintosh-es too, you know, it's too damn expensive in Europe, for no apparent reason, that's why I'm still using Linux. The price difference is so huge that you might as well fly over to the US and buy one there.

I will buy one later on, though.

But back to the critism:
- I doubt that OS X has better driver support than Linux, for your setup maybe(good for you), but generally most stuff simply just work with Linux, I plug in my mouse, and it loads even faster than on Windows 7

- You still(to my knowledge) can't tweak a Mac. Desktop the way you can tweak KDE, GNOME and many others.

In the end my advice is load up an Ubuntu CD and be amazed that Linux is not what you described.
A guy who got into IIT and Google.
Naga Naresh Karutura has just passed out of IIT Madras in Computer Science and has joined Google in Bangalore. You may ask, what's so special about this 21-year-old when there are hundreds of students passing from various IITs and joining big companies like Google?

Naresh is special. His parents are illiterate. He has no legs and moves around in his powered wheel chair.
Maurice Franklin, Wood Turner (and still using the same lathe after 78 years)
I use several machines (running Ubuntu), so Mendeley is nice to keep everything synced. Also, it works well for sharing citations with other people.

Even though you can store papers on Mendeley, I actually keep most of them on Dropbox.
There aren't enough people at the FTC to read the complaints that would flood in if Google changed this and Google Analytics became the only tracking platform that could do SEO keyword analysis.
Learn to debate issues factually without taking them personally. There's more harm in refusing to admit you are wrong than in being wrong. Humans are imperfect, it's better to admit you are wrong and then adjust your ideas (and thus become less wrong) than to take criticism personally and refuse to stop being wrong. The Universe doesn't care about your emotions, it just is.
You don't need an account to be tracked efficiently - if that was the case Google would be screwed since most people don't use them beyond search.
Or they just redirect all HTTPS requests back to HTTP. How many people would notice?
Best Firefox extensions: Organize your way to a better Firefox
Legacy languages prove lucractive for dying breed of programmers
FYI: http://mygengo.com/ provides a platform for crowd-sourced translations. Of course, the market is big enough for multiple players..
JFK's Harvard Application Now Online
Neat. I saw the list you have on the front page of http://www.citygoround.org and immediately thought "Cool, a list of cities I never want to live in!"

But then I saw Phoenix on the list, which is where I am currently living, and I'm confused. Google Transit works great in Phoenix, but you've got Valley Metro listed as not providing their data. What's going on there?
Qwiki Epitomizes the Current Startup Bubble
I'm having roughly the same issue on a mid-2010 MBP. Unless they're announcing new laptops immediately, it's unlikely that they're deliberately screwing people over.
The samples and surveys I'm referring to are paid for by the media company, typically conducted by third parties with some credibility in the field.

Plenty of people are on a 'panel' of this kind, they periodically fill out surveys about the brands they consume, the tv programmes they watch and sites they visit. And yes, that's geared towards the larger content producers, it would take some doing to get similar metrics for smaller companies and blogs, but I can imagine that you could create a series of 'verticals' that would form the aggregate of a whole series of blogs and blogs could then be categorized as being part of a vertical to be included in the surveys in a statistically relevant manner.

So it's not a survey that suddenly pops up on the site (though that's been done, the quality of those is typically not as good).
The Apple iPad for Sysadmins: getting your job done and having a bit of fun too
Because there are a LOT more commands[1] than "set", "get", and "del".

http://redis.io/commands
It's the users of the customers of GoDaddy that bear much of the risk.
The author has good points but is probably being too harsh in criticism of the ACM. I have been a member on and off since the early 1970s and this has been a good value (at least I enjoy the journals more than the AAAI journals, the only other professional organization that I belong to).

One thing: some years I subscribe to the portal but I didn't this year. The $100/year is too expensive for the benefits I get.

Getting back to the article: authors not getting royalties and assigning copyright is fine since this is done by choice by the authors. However I do think that authors should get a dual copyright to be able to post their own articles on their own web sites. Also, the cost of articles for non-members should be much lower.
"> 600 million years of evolution did not prepare humans for traveling at 60 mph (much less controlling two tons of steel and insuring the safety of their children, while doing so), nor did it prepare humans for sitting in front of a bright light pecking at keyboards for hours and hours on end."

This argument is missing the point. True, evolution didn't prepare us to drive cars, however it did prepare us to spend long periods of time focusing on objects at fixed distances and then changing our focus on the ~hundreds of milliseconds timescale. It also evolved us to allow independent movement of limbs during this process, essentially what driving a car is. This same argument could be applied to typing at a computer (without the need to change focus very quickly).

I think the point is that cinema in 3D forces us to change the location of our focus very rapidly (much faster than hundreds of milliseconds) for long periods of time, something that we are not equipped to do. For a physical activity like sitting our muscles are malleable enough to adjust to a sedate lifestyle, but to increase the speed and duration of rapid eye focusing would most likely require rewiring the brain. Perhaps if we were raised in this pseudo-3D realm our brain could adjust, but adults brains aren't wired to change like our muscles are.
This is insincere. Scientists have been in policy since the beginning of time. Some of the greatest scientists in early US history were literally politicians. But beyond that policy makers routinely have gone to scientists for recommendations. From where to find fish and gold, to which foods to eat to prevent illness and disease. These predate the US as a country.

The big problem is that when science goes head to head with the "politics" of the day then there are problems. Galileo encountered this, as did even Darwin (he elected to withhold publication to avoid many problems). The end result in the short-term is the scientist is ostracized ... the long-term vindicated.

Now maybe you're asking scientists to do the same today. Don't publish papers or offer recommendations if it will ruffle feathers. I'm sure many scientists do this, but frankly I don't think this is a satisfactory answer.
That SO answer was posted on Aug '09. So it wasn't last August.
and surely the entire site, if you want to avoid session hijacking.

(and after that, all the government needs to do is require an ssl signing authority to be used by all tunisian banks, and it's back in!)
I think CS is so new that we don't quite have a grasp on what is truly hard and what is merely being explained badly. That's nothing against your teaching skills; I mean that our mental model of functions and recursion may be unnecessarily complex, or mixed in with other things, or perhaps depends too much on visual or symbolic thinking.
Ghostery is similar, but blocks the information used to do this kind of tracking. I guess it makes sense to use both, although personally I trust the Ghostery approach more because it doesn't rely on the tracking companies keeping their word (for example, it would be difficult to detect if they still recorded you use, but just stopped personalizing ads).

http://www.ghostery.com/ (not involved, just a happy user)
People tell me bond funds aren't so hot, and I believe them.

Bond funds perform very differently from actual bonds, because bond funds are continuously turning over bonds.

If you want an investment that has the characteristics of a bond, you should buy a bond.
I started using BibDesk (http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/) with Dropbox just last week and have been pretty happy with it so far. I don't have anything, yet, for books, but I suppose I could just write BibTex entries for the books and be done with it.
The ~146 sites it opts out could just be added to /etc/hosts. This site has a much more comprehensive and longer list of pre-formatted and commented/explained list of sites you can just drop into your /etc/hosts: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
Indeed. In the meantime, registering annoyance with the fad in public is a good way to enhance and focus the market feedback.
Presumably a Tunisan blogger may be "paranoid" enough to notice.

When it's your your password on the line (and possibly your ass in jail) data security is more than aggregate statistics.
The gout example in the article strikes me as very odd, since the only site that should've received the referrer with the search terms was wikipedia. Therefore we've left to conclude that either Google is targeting ads in their AdSense network based on search terms (which is outside the scope of Gabriel's argument) or Wikipedia is passing search terms to ad networks that for some reason it doesn't display ads from.

Equally likely is that this concerned user clicked on a different health-related site with an ad network that classified him according to that site's content or stated category -- there's simply no evidence that the aggregation of search terms happened.

Note: I'm not saying the story couldn't be true, just pointing out that no technical evidence has been presented to rule out the other possibilities.
"I would rather not be stalked and have all my personal and private information available to people trying to sell me crap I don't want or need."

I don't mind the ads much; sometimes (albeit not very often) they are actually useful.

What I mind is the idea that the same data could or would be used for more nefarious reasons, such as determining credit worthiness or "bad citizen" behavior.
Not to be a jerk, but this was done a while ago with a really similar name:

http://www.reddit.com/r/food/comments/e0odn/hey_reddit_i_mad...
I read through this comment and thought "This guy is probably very successful. Let's learn more about him." and sure enough, Lead Web Services Evangelist at Amazon.com, my favorite company.
Sometimes, I'd venture, that is exactly what makes the fifty first succesful.

There are guidelines to what you should do, and what you shouldn't do, but every case is different. Clearly, there are things that you aren't likely to ever want to do (rm -rf /), but there are plenty of instances in which a company didn't succeed doing x, and then a later company succeeded in doing exactly x. Whether it was due to a difference in the timing, or a difference in the market, or that something else within the company made x work differently for them than their predecessors, who knows.

Admittedly I'm just playing devil's advocate, but I feel like not enough focus is given to learning from these sorts of guides vs just blindly following them as a business plan.
I let my membership lapse a several years ago, and they're still sending me _snail mail spam_ to sign up again.
I looked at the other reasons in here. And they were all about configurability, which is completely anathema to what the OP is talking about. "Just works" does not mean, "just have to configure what's out of the box to my preference"

Another interesting answer was about emacs bindings in all applications. Since the OP said the majority of his workflow was in Word, I highly doubt this is relevant.

"so much superior"

That's an opinion.
I clicked the link to see what would come up for me, but got a page error. Then I realized that doubleclick domains have been zeroed out in my hosts file for some time, as well as numerous other tracker domains.
I'm not shutting down Google. I am disabling ads for me. The two are not identical.

If everyone did as I do, then Google would have problems. But they would have them anyway, because I don't follow ads. On the other hand there would also be one hell of a lot more free software. And everyone would have a shaved head and a beard.
Google Creates An Opt-Out Extension For Those Likely Blocking Their Ads Already
You are contradicting yourself. You start by saying that fund managers and stock pickers do no better than random (and you are right), but then go ahead and start picking stocks and funds!
> Wrong. I never said tracking was "ok" on the merit that it's already happening. ... snip ...

Sorry. That was clearly my interpretation. Thank you for clarifying. However, I disagree on several points. First, it can be stopped to a certain degree. Just because it can't be stopped across the board doesn't mean we shouldn't fight against it.

An example in context to this discussion: You give Google your data. No one is arguing that choosing to give Google your data is wrong. Rather, it's that the data you gave to Google is now being given to other sites without your knowledge.

> Tracking people with cameras, or in their homes (get real, dude) is so far removed from the kind of opt-in tracking we're talking about.

First, "(get real, dude)". I am. Maybe you didn't hear about the case about the school district spying on students by accessing their web cams in their laptops? So these things do happen in real life.

Next...

> is so far removed from the kind of opt-in tracking we're talking about.

You think people are aware that they are sending the resulting site specific data about their searches? Or do you think they are just assuming Google is tracking this? Do you really think people understand what companies like RapLeaf can do?

Did they really opt-in?

> Being watched by some government agency in your home, presumably against your will, is a far leap from here.

But being tracked by businesses you never knew existed without every visiting their site isn't a far leap.

> You're really grasping at straws.

I'm not, really. My questions were merely that. If you took them as anything more than honest questions, it's your fault. Mostly a result of you not being clear about what your okay with being tracked.

Finally, stop being antagonistic. Your insults are childish. You can disagree, but you can do so being less rude.

And if you weren't aware of being rude, you were.
The GPL is a License, Not a Contract
If you control any firewall or router along the way you can inject iframes which retrieve any url you like and run script in the same-origin context. Except for "https only" sites, but note that Microsoft helpfully provides the government of Tunisia with a trusted root CA in their products. Try https://www.certification.tn/ . I wonder if it's a code-signing cert?
Microsoft Fearing iPad in the Enterprise
55% Bonds: This gives me a nice 3% per year and keeps me safe in case all the other stuff crashes.

It's not safe to assume bond markets can't crash. You may keep your 3% but total value can get cut if the interest rate rises.

I just checked their holdings of BND [http://bit.ly/fSlaO3], and they've got a good amount of money tied up in US Gov't Housing based GSE's. I don't think they will get zerohedged like many think, but there is extreme tail risk in these positions. You could also say the same about the bond holdings and if we get inflation and rates rise, it's not going to be that great of a bet, but then you're getting into macro trades, which clearly are useless since the market takes a random walk anyway.
Heh, Facebook will need to continue making special deals with major game-makers. Facebook Connect can be used to implement all of the social features these games have incorporated. Asking a game-maker to stay with Facebook and ignore the 30% cut they're taking is unreasonable after the product is popular. I can see the cut become an automatically tiered percentage based on the amount of transactions being done. The more transactions, the lower the cut.

Facebook simply does not provide enough value after these games are popular to justify a 30% cut. In all honesty, it hardly provides enough value at the beginning. Nothing says social games cannot exist without Facebook at all.
I'll wait for the market or the peer-reviewed research, thanks (instead of a sound engineer).
Video Tutorial: Android Application Development - Spicing up the UI
I18njs, an internationalization library for JavaScript
No, sorry, you missed the point of the author's post. Read the last part again:

"My stress level of fighting machines to do basic things just got lower. And for that, I’ll gladly pay Apple the premium over buying base hardware and doing it all myself."

That's right, there are at least two things even more valuable to the author than having more freedom or the saving a bit of money: His time and sanity.

If you've gotten a computer to, you know, actually get stuff done, why spend any time fiddling with the software and hardware and get stressed out about it? Why even worry about drivers? Why not be able to double click and have stuff just open properly? Why spend hours trying to configure anything? Why not spend just a bit more cash and go from frustration to satisfaction?

This point is central to the reason why Linux, as it stands today, will never become a mainstream desktop alternative.

You sight Windows as having more troubles now than Linux. Fine. But where in the article did the author ever mention Windows? That battle was 10 years ago. The author is not even considering Windows. OS X has been a great desktop environment for years and now even the hardcore Linux enthusiasts are willing to pay Apple to kick the "battle your desktop" habit.

As for meaningful desktop innovation, there's been one thing that Linux desktops (Debian-based distributions, specifically) have that OS X doesn't. One killer feature: Package management with aptitude/Synaptic. Like it or not, aptitude/Synaptic is the best feature that Linux has been able to claim for itself. A one-stop-shop for all of those thousands and thousands of packages. And the upgrades. And the system upgrades. And the dependency management. Graphical, fast, categorized. It has been a wonder to use, truly.

Unfortunately, Apple now has the App Store for OS X and you can actually buy real, usable, curated, and user-rated apps for the desktop and get your updates from the same place. Whoops. Linux doesn't have a killer feature for the desktop anymore, if it ever did.
Sure, but I've never needed any of them. Of course, it helps that I'm not running Office 2007 yet.
I worked on Pier 38 this past Summer in the Dogpatch Labs building. Pretty cool space. http://dogpatchlabs.com/
CSV of Googles strongest backlinks (50,000 of them)
Instascriber: add new stuff to Instapaper automagically via feeds
Things real people dont say about reading publications: "We need more engaging advertising".
The in-application browsing experience is pretty lame on OSX and Windows, but 'open externally' works great.

The iOS app is almost there. Once it has sync like the desktop (right now you have to individually download each!) and supports opening in GoodReader so there's good display and editing, it will be useful. But for now, if you want to do any practical device reading, you'll probably want to pull it down on the desktop and transfer into GoodReader via iTunes.
I'm starting to think we're arguing over something entirely different. Maybe some over-stuffing of phrases. I'm talking about Google knowing that I, James Simmons, uniquely identified individual, am searching for [something undesirable to have others know about]. I don't personally care either way really, because I've given them this information. Are we talking about the same thing or are you just talking about Google knowing from site A to site B that your browser's owner likes Korean pop music and chocolate cake mix?
Consequences of using the Copy-Paste method and how to deal with it
I know. They launched half-way through my development, to my chagrin.

YumTab has a number of advantages:

- Automatic ingredients capture (no copy & paste)

- Planner, shopping list

- Easier to show off recipes you make, follow others

EDIT: oh, I see it's your site. Nice work on it, I don't mean to belittle your efforts. I was pretty unhappy to see the name similarity when I saw it a couple months ago, but I had already committed to my name.
Agreed. It's unbelievable that they raised such an amount of money for something that doesn't really seem very exceptional. Frothy times are here again.