skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It would be more useful if Greenspun had, as he's the one who should carry the burden of proof in this case.

I can see your point...as long unemployment benefits are the current status-quo, and they are, that someone questioning this should carry the burden of proof. I can appreciate this line of thinking.

Another way of thinking about it....if there is a forceful, non-voluntary, ongoing transfer of money from one group of people to another group, should the recipients of the money, or their advocates, not have some obligation (on an ongoing basis), to justify the aggregate benefits to society of this wealth transfer? Can you appreciate this line of thinking, at all?

Don't confuse this with me suggesting the unemployed should be cut off and thrown out on the street. I'm simply trying to point out that it seems to offend some people if anyone merely suggests we have a discussion on the relative merits of various kinds of social welfare.

I'd also like to point out that I am of the opinion that in the aggregate, there might be A LOT more money going in the other direction, especially lately.
Network Naming Conventions
Rewrites happen, so stop thinking about it
> "Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Harvard Medical School looked at the media habits of 4,142 healthy adolescents and calculated that each additional hour of TV watched per day boosted the odds of becoming depressed by 8%."

It's assumed the TV is causing the depression, whilst I'm sure it's the lack of social interaction that is causing the depression. This is ignorant generalization. Are sports fans who get together to watch the game 8% more likely to be depressed? I seriously doubt it, because they've got 2/3 friends there to spend time with.

If it was mandatory for 3+ people to be in a room for a TV to activate, then this depression figure would disappear, but those socially isolated people who no longer have a TV would probably figure out how to tie a hangman's knot and eliminate themselves from any future asinine statistics.
Wow. It seems like yesterday that eBooks were just becoming somewhat well known...thanks to Bezos and Jobs for nailing this major accomplishment in such a short amount of time!
We are working on a redesign. Would you have any recommendations for good designers/design houses?
Their client library is decent, for PHP anyway so you mostly get SOAP abstracted away. Up until you get an error then the usual problems are there.
The underlying code in the client library is super bloated though, like what you would imagine from visual studio endpoint type stuff in the article. It may be that the core adwords developers are using Java and an old school SOAP interface makes sense to them. They certainly had a chance to change it recently with the new version.
I used to do the same thing, until I read a post on HN about the Kindle's magical ability to change reading habits. With Instapaper, I must say the Kindle has been the greatest purchase I've made in the last couple years. It's the best way to start reading more. All the Kindle-reinforced habits can be obtained regularly, but it's just easier with a gadget to help.

-When you browse HN, only browse for stuff to read at first. Save really interesting and long stuff using Instapaper or bookmarks for later, and skim through stuff that isn't really interesting, but still worth perusing.
-Use Google Reader to find new stuff to read every day, and save with Instapaper or bookmarks. Do the same thing as before: peruse random stuff, save really interesting stuff.
-Don't read everything. Be selective. There's too much stuff to read out there, and understand that it's a lot better to have a deep understanding of one thing than just absorb headings and pictures. You'll find that you'll learn a lot more, and remember interesting statistics and bits of information that pop up in random areas of life.
-Set aside 10-20 minutes to read the best article you found from start to finish. No excuses. After a week, increase this to 25-30 minutes. Keep going until you reach an hour.

I've done this and gotten an hour of solid in-depth reading done every day. The first week or so is the hardest one. I always had difficulty focusing and staying on the reading. I guess it's a way to unlearn the bad mental habits encouraged by computers and social media (keep bouncing from one thing to the next).
The two biggest surprises to me so far:

1- About 80% of tests are producing results that don't show increase / decrease

2- Assuming things will work better is completely off. I was convinced my lightbox idea from the article was easier for the user but turned out it was annoying.

One thing is a balance of making things too annoying vs getting features that help us grow. An on going challenge of always trying to do right by our visitors and customers.
I'm a bit late to the party, but was just wondering how can you justify such a price. Why don't you have a 1 project plan?
Simple PHP Security Tips
You have to generate a certificate for the proxy (WebScarab) and have the client trust it. The proxy will then act as a man-in-the-middle, presenting its own certificate to the client. See:

http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Generating_Custom_SSL_Certifi...
Plausible digital rights predictions for 2011
That they are free to make this choice doesn't mean the community needs to roll over in accepting it. A response to this news that doesn't indicate displeasure would lack integrity.
The Disruptive Potential of Connected TVs
Quora Blocks Startup Search Engines
Using hadoop for batch processing and cassandra to serve real time data are among my tools of choice. chef_cluster looks like a nice bag of tools for setting up and managing a scale-free computing infrastructure.
I've often found it funny how two sides often use the exact same argument against each other, almost down to the wording: most anti-capitalists specifically charge capitalism with taking the human element out of the equation.
It's much better to work 16 hours for a $1 in your pocket than to do whatever you've been doing for the last 100,000 years. Those unfortunate poor people, someone should tell them how unhappy they are!
You should definitely reserve that name! Maybe through our site? :)

I agree with not overwhelming the user. Though I think it depends on how your users are individually inspired to find the right domain name. Looking at competitor sites, some allow you to wade through tons of results, others just show you a couple.

We didn't put a lot into the algorithm, so our results are mostly dependent on the thesaurus we are using. I would guess that providing a good results algorithm is definitely the best way to go. Good luck gents!

One interesting approach is what nxDom.com does under their 'advanced options' section. They allow users to create their own custom algorithm for things they care about.
Homegrown at this point. Nick built it :)

We were using kissmetrics, google site optimizer and google analytics. All great tools but as we are growing we didn't like the delay in the data and didn't trust all the data integrity.

He is thinking of open sourcing our optimization engine at some point in the future.

Any interest?
I've seen a few of these, and knowing the women all I can think are things like: "So how many oxycontin did you buy that morning to make it that perfect?" or "Who'd you cheat on your boyfriend with this time?"

Those perfect-veneer updates are quite possibly the venereal infection of Facebook. You just see cluster-infection on groups of 'friends' who all have that annoying mentality to have to one-up the people they claim are their BFF's.
It also made it much cheaper and therefore effective. Is speed very important to bullying?
How do you define "hard"? Hard for a human? Top-down or first person perspective?

Computers will use an algorithm or combination of algorithms. But which algorithm is best to solve the maze depends entirely on the algorithm used to generate the maze.
The only really good piece of advice I've ever seen about writing a novel is "Write." Everything else is wildly variable; if it's broken, you can fix it after you get it out of your head. But if you don't write it, it'll never be written.
I haven't used it myself, but ViEmu for VS looks unexpectedly comprehensive and worth checking out if you need to use VS.
Cycle to/from work, preferably with some mountains in between.

Swim laps (it's faster than you think, and meditative too).

Use your weekends to socially exercise (kayak, rock climb, ski, whatever!)

Work one less day a week (I just had this approved, I am over the top about it!) and use that extra time to improve your health, lifestyle and happiness in ways that money cannot.
Future Movie Sequels
Check out a little collection of movies from the future.
Interesting way of approaching a/b testing. The core offering is in place so having a college intern just test as many things as humanly possible seems like palatable to any founder/exec. Might have to try this...
You do understand that he's not speaking of a centrally planned government, right? Chomsky specifically advocates as close to direct democracy as possible.
Cannot sympathize with you enough. Had to go through this painful experience last year. I steadfastly refused to work with it again and we solved the problem in a roundabout manner. I'm sure .NET/Visual Studio experts think this a cakewalk, but for me there was no cake.
I didn't down vote you but I'd imagine the down voting wasn't for disagreement with you, but rather, because your statement doesn't seem to add much value to the conversation.
Priority tasks; integration into Highrise/Salesforce/etc.
> We live in a time where the individual has more freedom to do what he wants with his life than ever before.

I'm not sure about that. Sure, we have infinitely more ways to work and play today, but freedom? I imagine that a US citizen from 200 years ago may be in awe of our advances in technology and medicine, but they'd likely be aghast by the erosion of our personal freedoms.

I wish I knew the source of the original shtick (it sounds like Paul Harvey), the one that goes something like this: Today's free man rises from bed, turns on his UL-approved lights, eats his USDA-stamped eggs and bacon for breakfast while watching his FCC-blessed TV, brushes his teeth with FDA-approved toothpaste, climbs into federal-safety-approved car with state-mandated insurance, to work at his OSHA-approved workplace, to get his state-taxed paycheck....

The original is so much more eloquent, but it certainly makes a farce out of the concept that any of us are truly free any more. Every facet of our daily lives is controlled by layers of regulation.
Update: It's not everywhere. A foreign journalist at the Semiramis
Intercontinental hotel says he has internet access.
I used to a/b test titles and all this micro stuff. Total waste of time but great mental porn. The global improvements from those tests are so miniscule it's not worth it.

Having my co-founder available for only limited time a week and tons of yelling from him have greatly improved my prioritizing ability.
I walk absolutely everywhere I can to make up for not exercising; if I find myself with an empty evening, I force myself to walk an hour down the mountain to the grocery store instead of taking my bike or sitting around at home in front of my computer. It's terrible and I hate it, but about 10 minutes into my walk, I realize it's actually giving me time to think and literally appreciate the scenery.

I also do the 100 push-ups program after work; it's literally 5-8 minutes, so even if I feel like skipping it, I just tell myself "Hey, it's just five minutes of your time. Skip hitting F5 on all of those sites and just do it."

The best tip I can offer is to find something that suits your personality. It sounds like you feel stretched for time, so maybe you should find a quick workout, or even a quick stretching routine. Start small] five minutes three times a week, then expand once you're in the habit.

As far as sleeping... it's a lot like jet lag, in my experience -- it takes at least a month, if not more for your body to not only switch to begin tired/awake at all of those times, but also to switch a lot of other things over (for example, bowel movements?) so that you feel more comfortable waking up at those times. All I can suggest is to try it for at least two months without breaking your habit for any reason. Go to bed early, wake up early... give yourself something nice to look forward to every morning.

Best of luck!
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It's things like this that make me love this Netflix. By opening up and showing their customers the courtesy of their inner workings, they invite them to become more than customers.

By showing that they care ALOT about what their users care about, content delivery performance, they demonstrate credibility, a key component of trust.

Consistent trust building exercises such as these does more than a temporary sale ever could for long term customer loyalty, even if it can’t be perfectly measured.

I would like to see more companies try the same, even if they can’t prove the ROI on a spreadsheet before hand.

Why use a spreadsheet when you have a perfectly good gut you can check to see if it is the right thing to do?
What did Jobs do? The Kindle was massively popular before the iPad was conceived. In fact, Jobs derided Amazon for releasing the Kindle.
How does SOAP provide good error support? Maybe those frameworks do, but I don't see how SOAP is responsible... unless you're making the argument that XML is awesome for debugging because it's "Human Readable"... and that argument leaves me confused about what measure of humanity we're using.
i'm interested, noah.
This is the infowar at close range. Contrary to the gut reaction of most commenting on the unfolding of events in Egypt, the reason for the regime to shut down communications has little to do with stopping information to reach the outside world. It is information getting into the country that is of real danger to them, such as the AP video of a man getting shot today. They are shutting down the Internet (As confirmed by CNN. According to random people on Twitter...) because a video like that can be like pouring gasoline on a fire.
> I'd also like to think that an entrepreneurial endeavor is not pure chance.

Agreed, I don't think you'll ever succeed in your business attempts if you're not providing something new, original or just not established in the area. You'll make a killing opening a coffee shop in a moderate sized town - as long as there's not 3 Starbucks already there.

There's a lot to business beyond the idea, hence it's important to be a businessman once you've succeeded your entrepreneurial dream of getting a company started. You don't want your company to fail just because you fucked up and didn't file your taxes.
I think that is actually his point towards the end of the essay. Replace "the man" with "the invisible hand." It's the same thing anyways. The solution is to build up your own personal resistence, not to rage against any external force (according to him.)
Don't get me wrong, I'm trying not to judge people too. I just find it incredibly hard to comprehend some things - how can people choose to not care about their health, their future etc.

On a conscious level I know that I should respect their choices, on a subconscious it just still doesn't make sense to me.
"may be glib in many cases"

I agree with you in general, but I think this is one of the "glib" cases in the original post. Buying into "vs. the Man" is, ironically, one of the Man's main tools in the contemporary US; there are entire ethnic cultures in the US being held back in no small part by the belief they are being held back by the Man, which in turn requires them to be externally rescued by the don't-look-too-closely-just-believe-we're-not-the-Man-Man.

There's truth in the "Man" analysis, but the escape is to transcend the narrative, not engage with it. (The synthesis of the man/vs. the man thesis and antithesis, I suppose.) Which I doubt you disagree with, I'm just being explicit.
how did you find nick?
WikiLeaks alternative OpenLeaks goes live
From your comment it seems that your are advocating an "intellectual life". Isn't this the same old consumerism, just a changing real goods for virtual ones (aka information)?
That's interesting that there's always 2.5 to 3.5% of applicants that rise to the top and are worth Y Combinator's time and funding. I'm guessing if the applicant pool grows significantly, then that's one way to scale. But that might mean a different approach then having teams come to Silicon Valley, but that's probably one of the great benefits of Y Combinator (to be close to the funders, lawyers, resources, connections, etc). Maybe if that could be done virtually with a cool online Y Combinator social network.
A point which I think we can all agree.

I continue to be amazed at how many different places you can start at and end up with existentialism.
Since the op is using WCF for calling the web service he would have a much easier time figuring out what is going on if he turned on WCF tracing. Every step in the pipeline including the messages sent on the wire and timings are available.

Once you know the secret platform handshake these enterprise tools are pretty easy.

Edit: fix annoying iOS auto-correction.
velocity could be . . bullying instances/day? who knows, but increasing the amount of bullying sure is.
Complete Internet Blackout in Egypt
Yes lots of them do (e.g. Chalmers), but most of them don't by a fair margin.
Visualization of Top-selling 100 Books of All Time (with source code)
> because a video like that can be like pouring gasoline on a fire.

The question is who gave them the right to starve the fire? The internet is merely communication. If you can't deal with your populace communicating, even in a troubled time then you're already at your death-knell.

The danger here is that if the government steps in to tell me I'm not allowed to show someone a video of an abuse of power, then I'm going to be 10-times as pissed and 10-times as loud in the streets.
in terms of revenue underperforming,
of course it grows like crazy because everybody uses it to stream paid tv channels.
go on google and search for soccer games that are not broadcasted on free channels and you will see the growth.
anyways, i dont see a point in this discussion anymore.

i am out. (btw, keep downvoting :) )
Learning about the four elements is useful if one approaches it from the perspective of learning about how such models are built.

Its not always about the outcome, but rather the process of reasoning.
Interesting. As gilesc points out, this is only possible by reverse-engineering (i.e. decompiling) the Flash client to get the encryption and decryption keys (crypt_key_input.h and crypt_key_output.h [1]). It's actually pretty easy to do this--I did the same thing a few years ago as a weekend project. So why didn't I release it? Well, IANAL, but I think there are potential legal repercussions to this kind of reverse-engineering.

And, as gilesc also points out, Pandora regularly changes their encryption keys, which makes maintaining this kind of software kind of obnoxious. (The solution to that problem, I think, is to make the software download and parse the .swf file on startup or just on failure to yank out those fresh encryption keys itself, but I never tried it.)

I just cringe a bit when I see these sorts of apps, not because I think they shouldn't exist (seriously, Pandora, just release a goddamn API), but because I'm just picturing the lawsuit hammer coming down on the well-intentioned developers who are just Pandora fans.

Regardless, I applaud PromyLOPh's work and am keeping my fingers crossed for his continued lack of legal fees.

[1]: https://github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar/tree/master/src/libpia...
Except now they pissed off all 20 million (the guardian has a nice chart at the end of their article that states this) internet users. We will have to see but I think tomorrow's planed move will just have gotten bigger because of this move.
The SOAP vs REST argument is a bit of a non-starter with me. SOAP is independently awful, and made worse by the fact that it's dependent on XML (which is awful), and RPC (which is at least not-always-awesome). REST vs RPC is a worthwhile discussion (they're at least both analogous), but I've seen plenty of REST/XML APIs that rival SOAP ones in ridiculousness. Then again.. I've never once experienced the inverse (a SOAP API that wasn't awful)... Consider context though. SOAP came about in a time when CORBA and DCOM were popular remoting strategies. Hard to fault folks thinking it was a big enough step forward :)
It works, in a no-frills sort of way. I would much like it if I could get true embedding though.
It's expensive, true: but if you value your eyes, you should get something which is not fuzzy at common point sizes, but is still readable and with pleasing shapes even when rendering with sub-pixel anti-aliasing.

I do like Inconsolata as well.
Clearly this is a decoy to stop the audit.
That's how dictatorship work and why they often fail. You just can't keep this stuff working for ever. Egypt's dictatorship gov has managed to last this long which is impressive.
i used to go to justin.tv and view the highlights of justin's day. pretty cool, but how would this work with my friends? fun to see things come full circle.
Question: Are smaller search companies allowed to build off of the results of other search providers, or is this blocked by the TOS.
I just wrote a letter to the President asking him to meet PG. Seriously. You can do so also at:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
I'd really like to see a sample completed resume, a lot of the "recently viewed" profiles are just empty from people signing up to see how it works, it seems.
The author writes: "This is not true in floating point — also (a+b)+c may not be a+(b+c)."

But in the case he mentions, for integral numbers up to 2^53 double floating point would also preserve the above identity." The doubles are not bad as long as you understand them.
in Python, they make you chose between ZSI and a beta soappy release. Their site has a getting started video which mentions running a config script they no longer distribute. most docs are using a different module name. Oauth isn't implemented at all.

In JS, you have no client library so you're required to roll everything from scratch.

PHP has oauth, more demo code and better docs, I've recently been using it to build a JS lib for a work project.

The thing is, rather than maintain one client library, half maintain two others, and have a bunch of unofficial libraries, if they just made and documented a REST interface everyones lives would be easier.
try this - http://nivedithaa.resu.me/
http://arcturus.resu.me/

It's not bad! And I'd love to get aj.resu.me if available :)
the page actually will show a couple of more tabs if you are signed in .. like the RSS reader, job aggregator
Hulu may rebrand itself as cable-like TV bundle provider
It doesn't need to be everywhere, because protests happens like waves. So they cut the Internet (and probably SMS) for a particular region, so that information can't spread to other locations of Egypt.
That's a fairly sweeping generalisation of economic theory. Hayek, for example, explained that markets work for allocating scarce resources because they cause actors to share their incomplete information with each other through price signals.

Without a market, information is disjointed; everybody has some imperfect, incomplete part of the whole picture. Any planner will make irrational plans, he or she is dealing with a minute subset of information.
Damn, I love this site! It's even in FreeBSD's ports -- how awesome is that? Kudos to the developer!
He interned at my previous startup.
Ask HN: What B2C startups lean on their B2B products?
I imagine there's a number of startups that don't make much off of their consumer-facing product, but have leveraged their technology in a different capacity to generate some revenue. Any examples come to mind? Any links would be much appreciated!

-Adam