skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is terrible advice. There are almost always unexpected unknowns.

There's a human (irrational) bias to be risk averse, but that doesn't mean it's always safer than we think. We also have selection bias as a counterpoint. There are plenty of similar posts with the opposing view based on the later bias, too.

Instead, let's try to be more rational and understand probability:

Probability Theory: The Logic of Science http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/prob/book.pdf (draft)

http://www.amazon.com/Probability-Theory-Logic-Science-Vol/d...
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PG could be in your house stealing your megahertz right now.
With the google app store coming into effect with html5 games(and apps), those game creators on fb maybe lured or tempted into trying their games in a new segment. I for one use facebook less and less. Purely as a place to go when I want to communicate with a friend who likes fbmail over email.
Prosecutor: "Is it true Mr. Hollerith that you self-identify as a hacker and that you frequent a community of hackers known as Hacker News?"

You: "Yes, but..."

Prosecutor: "A simple yes or no will suffice."

You: "There are questions that can't be answered with a simple yes or no. For example, you could ask me if I have stopped beating my wife."

Prosecutor: "Have you, Mr. Hollerith?"

In short, a jury of "peers" is not going to be comprised of peers. On average they are people who have a poor grasp of logic, statistics, and the personality of hackers. They'll judge you based on the way you look, talk, etc... And since you are all Mr. Smarty Pants, members of the average jury will not trust you, like you, or relate with you. As such, hacker types have a major disadvantage in court, even before tossing around labels that are considered as "shady" by the general public.
Ask HN: Who is the best freelance UI designer you have worked with?
Just curious to see some recommendations from the HN community...
We had the wobbly RAM packs with the ZX80, only they were white.

A sharp quote about the ZX80: With an unusable keyboard and a quirky BASIC, this machine discouraged millions of people from ever buying another computer.

http://computermuseum.50megs.com/brands/zx80.htm

I loved that machine. Most memorable was that as you used up nearly all of the memory, the number of rows displayed on screen started to reduce.
Except that carefully controlled studies have failed to support your claim that sufficient (whatever that is) exercise can reverse or minimize most of those diseases.
Someone should put up a parody dating site about this.
I read somewhere that it's easier to spot a lie in written communication than from listening to a tape. People are magnificent at bluffing, if you listen to the tone of their voice, but when you look at the transcript they become a lot more transparent.
I think I share some of his "quirks." If you see reality from a point of view far enough removed from the mainstream, some of the things you used to see as funny now just seem stupid. Some of the things you used to see as stupid actually have some substance, and there are other things you find painfully hilarious that most others just won't get.
Cell was notoriously expensive and hard to program for (at least, in comparison to the competitors). This has mostly been solved now though and afaik Cell is now, finally, paying off. The quirky architecture Cell is built around was a big risk for them.
What is it about pound coins that make them less likely to be used for tips? Is it the extra bulk in your pocket?
2 out of 10. And I even tried.
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"One of the contexts we used to validate our solution was scrollable panes rich applications like Eclipse" ..maybe that's only funny to me.
Might be the fact that it doesn't seem like a lot. A paper bill gives the impression that it's a lot of money, whereas a coin just seems like loose change.
There are a lot of wrong answers on that page.
The problem is that tech-savvy user will consider that evil and will be annoyed. They need the goodwill of the community to be able to hire very good programmers.
A company the size of Google isn't afraid of a lawsuit, nor has it been established that the search market is something those laws apply to; Google has plenty of room to do whatever they want with their search results including banning Facebook. They can say the same thing Facebook did, they're our competitors and they're stealing our customers.
Surprised no one has mentioned the Eden UI on Notion Ink's Adam. It allows you to run three apps side-by-side in compact view. Pretty slick, really. See: http://notionink.com
Thanks, these are great ideas. I never thought of doing this way.

The site dos not take in user generated content that is immediately displayed. The data is first curated and verified so the attack will be a bit harder. So there is fresh (delayed) content constantly.

That is exactly the reason of the captcha: to give a person something to do that wastes a bit of their time and that is familiar to them.

Yes, in other sites I have used captchas to prevent automated abuse.
I understand where you're coming from. I'm from the UK as well, and it's not the best feeling tipping with coins.

Whether it would cost service works tips is debatable though. Especially considering most people pay by card nowadays, and tips are included in the bill.
My first computer! Although I started programming on the Acorn Atom just before that. The combination of wobbly RAM pack and thump sensitive keyboard was not a good one. But those were exciting times.
> Deliberately removing a direct competitor with as high a profile (and deep pockets) as [...] is a different kettle of fish.

I realize Google couldn't ban Facebook, and that they'd be sued for that, but I do find it funny that the opposite is completely okay. Is Facebook not trying to become a monopoly ad provider on its own site?
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Review my HTML5 game
I noticed the standard of most HTML5 games is quite low. The only popular shoot em up out there was Crystal Galaxy and while it looks pretty I dont think its much fun to play. So I wrote my own. Uses graphics from the open Tyrian project.

Any feedback welcome.
This is unrelated to the parent and I don't know where else to ask...

What is the karma threshold on down-voting?
I noticed the standard of most HTML5 games is quite low. The only popular shoot em up out there was Crystal Galaxy and while it looks pretty I dont think its much fun to play. So I wrote my own. Uses graphics from the open Tyrian project.

Any feedback welcome.
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Is it that an automated car could break a chain of overcompensation?

This sounds really interesting could someone knowledgeable elaborate?
There is a phrase I have used often: "Nothing is as good, or as bad, as it first appears."

Similarly, "Nothing is as risky, or as safe, as it first seems."

Also, I disagree with his dismissal of subjective risk. If taking a particular action feels bad to you, then it feels bad. A better course than trying to deny that would be to learn to accept your feelings but to go on in spite of them. Feelings are much easier to change over the longer term, usually by short term acceptance - your unconscious will eventually realize that the feelings are overblown (if they are) and you will come to react less strongly with repetition, over time.
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As the very overweight will attest, "hungry" and "full" are very subjective terms. Eating when they are hungry is what got them into their present state. Laughing won't do much about it, nor will acquiring a drinking problem. Stopping worrying about it leads to the troll-fest of pro-fat discussion boards.
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Ask HN: Web host without root access that doesnt suck?
I started with cheap n dirty JustHost but left in case my sites got too much traffic and they cut me off.

After much looking around, I went to MediaTemple's Grid-Service, which costs more but should handle spikes without incident. However I find their servers slow, especially when querying MySQL. In one case, this page http://worditout.com/discover-word-clouds took 30 secs for PHP to build, as I can see in the html comments at the bottom of the page in the #everywhere div.

I cannot find an alternative that doesn't require dedicated or virtual serving. So assuming that my code isn't causing the speed issues, please suggest hosts that meet the following criteria:

* No root access (I don't want to worry about securing my whole OS, I'm not pro enough)

* Not for beginners (I have custom PHP code and MySQL, SSH access would be preferable)

* Won't cut off my sites in case of excess traffic, I'm prepared to pay more if necessary

* Is nippy, doesn't have to be CDN fast but can serve page with MySQL query within a few seconds

At the moment this problem is killing me, I work a lot to make my sites optimal and then the hosting let's me down..
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Facebook will then sing it big together with Bing, which might work towards Bing's advantage. I can see in a future Bing and Facebook eating more and more into Google's advertising dollar. Which can only be good as in competition is good.
Even if it is legal, Google won't do it.
Their power comes from having a search engine and index that reaches across the internet. They simply won't drop Facebook from it unless they have an completely legitimate reason (I believe BMW or one of the other high-end car brands were temporarily banned for shady SEO tactics).

Similarly in the mobile space, even though Google is in head-on competition with Apple, they still develop iphone-optimized versions of their apps. That's just good business.

Just the same way Microsoft won't make Google/Apple products not work on Windows.
> This makes it clear he has no idea what he's talking about.

I propose that we check on him on his 125th birthday to find out. If he's dead, then you're right. If he's alive, then you're wrong.
There goes the business plan for the 4 "businesses" so far this year that have asked me to build their website that's going to compete with Facebook. That's a shame. They all seemed so talented. </sarcasm>
> Microsoft IS NOT going to suggest that people download Firefox or Chrome.

I've heard (I don't own or use Windows) that they were legally forced to enable choice in Windows (like shown on screenshots at http://www.freeemailtutorials.com/microsoftWindows/defaultWe...)
How long until someone plays on this idea and makes one of these warnings that work on any outdated browser, including ie8, and points them to a choice of chrome, opera, firefox etc... has this already been done? I'd so use it on my sites.
Exactly; I click on Adsense ads often and I bought stuff I wanted via those ads. They are often good for my purpose. I made quite a bit of money with Adsense as well. Facebook ads are quite the opposite; I have seriously never clicked on one, because, even though I spend time on Facebook, I never saw even one that looked remotely interesting to me. I hear the same thing from all my friends and read this on most forums/sites I frequent. They have power in numbers, but besides that a lot needs to happen.
They could both be right that their diets are healthy. They could not both be right that the other side's diet is poison.
I'll soon be running on multiple (2 min) servers in different locations, for availability. Will probably stick to Linode. I use Webmin to monitor all processes and get realtime alerts if something amiss occurs.

Performance wise, there aren't many bottlenecks right now. Switching in Resque for my job queue (replacing Delayed Job) will make everything a little faster. If the queue ever starts to get large, I can quickly fire up another server as a dedicated worker.

I am leveraging AWS Cloudfront as a CDN for the widget JS, so the widget will load super fast for everyone. I offload all static assets when I can. Google CDN for JQuery.

The only immediate point of concern is the real-time API. That will soon have some throttling/limits on it to prevent abuse. I highly prefer people use the Post-back method to get notified of verifications (push is always better than poll).

As for proving reliability, I'm thinking of putting up public Pingdom reports for transparency.
Thousands of lean startup devotees bravely endure shaky YouTube
I've been happy with AdKnowledge's Cubics platform. I tried one other provider though, who came recommended and saw pretty dismal performance. So I think results may vary...
I really hope The Startup Visa goes somewhere:

http://startupvisa.com/
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I'm not so sure if I agree with what you're saying. I have few vices. I cook everything from scratch, don't smoke, rarely eat red meat and have a very nutritious diet. My main vices are a lack of exercise and alcohol (as I like to make cocktails, learn new ones and experiment I probably drink more of them than most).

Exercising more would probably give me more enjoyment, but at the opportunity cost of what I'm doing instead. Cutting out alcohol will no doubt extend my life (after all, alcohol is a fairly poisonous chemical to start off with) cutting it out would reduce the net pleasure I get not just from drinking cocktails, but introducing new ones to others and watching the pleasure they get from experiencing them.

You can't consistently make great cocktails if you're teetotal anymore than you can consistently cook incredible meat dishes if you're vegetarian as there's no direct feedback mechanism.

I'm not saying that the net pleasure doesn't go down in all cases, but there are definitely some. I'm sure giving up mountain climbing can extend life, but there's a drop in pleasure for a mountain climber too.
Cool. Do you mind sharing how much s3stat pulls in?
It is facebook. What would you expect? It is the same thing if Google didn't allowed facebook in their search results. Both "own" a monopoly and shouldn't be allowed to do such things.
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When it comes to evilness Google has been posing as the good guy for a long time, while collecting a lot of personal information from their users in the background.

Facebook, on the other hand, is based on the users voluntarily and involuntarily (through friends etc) providing their information and isn't so discreet about it's attempts to leverage this data to profit.

This is known even by non savvy users (personally, I've met a lot of non technical people that were worried about Facebook's collection of data with regards to personal rights/privacy, but haven't once heard about Google's tactics) and has bitten them before, e.g. Beacon.

So I feel that Google won't be stigmatized by such a move, considering it's against an opponent perceived by the public as more evil.
Are you looking for freelance UI design? Or wanting to see a good example?
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When you buy a used product, you're still upping the value of the product. Knowing you can sell something after using it raises its value. Additionally, you're likely funding the seller's purchase of another product, likely from the same company.
Cool read, it reminds me of this post by James Altucher on "How to Live Forever", some great tips in there - http://jamesaltucher.com/2010/11/how-to-live-forever/
Engineering and science are not the same thing. The astronaut's footprint, earthrise, and atomic bomb are all examples of feats of engineering, not science.
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All these goof-ups by the FBI don't paint a pretty picture about the agency

Do you mean the agency founded by J. Edgar Hoover?

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoov...

Its founding principle was that there are baddies out there who need a special force of investigators who have powers far exceeding the regular police and who collect dossiers on suspicious citizens rather than simply waiting for crimes to occur and then investigating.

In a certain sense, they aren't being incompetent, they're doing exactly what they were designed to do. The problem isn't the execution, it's the mandate.

Here's another tidbit:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/COINTELPRO
I think its a better user experience to always show the number on a screen. Otherwise the user has to listen to the computerized voice recite the passcode, and they have to memorize it before punching it in.

This way, temporary memorization of passcode is avoided in both cases. The passcode is always rendered to pixels (computer screen or phone screen).
When I search my neighborhood and use "food," the results just don't make sense. It seems its pulling in the closest things (geographically) that are related to food.

Wouldn't people be more interested in seeing top rated results? I would, at least. So maybe a filter to search by location, price, rating, etc
Seriously. Tweaking your search algorithms to the detriment of some providers and to the benefit of others is one thing (that Google does now, and which they won't be sued for). Deliberately removing a direct competitor with as high a profile (and deep pockets) as Facebook is a different kettle of fish.

Ok, I can understand that. So, what if all results from *.facebook.com were moved after the first few pages of google's results for the relevant search terms?

Would that be enough for an antitrust lawsuit?

As for the target group of users we are discussing, it would have virtually the same results.
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I'm interested in looking at some CPA networks for an upcoming project. Would you mind listing who you consider the top CPA networks?
I'm amazed this got to the front page. It's a terrible article about a computer that was the precursor to the computer that completely revolutionised the UK's computing industry, was father (or grandfather) to millions of British geeks and nerds, and taught a generation how to program.

Some better links for those wondering what the hell this is all about:

http://oldcomputers.net/zx81.html - Includes the pictures of the ZX81's other key use as a door stop

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81 - A highly informative Wikipedia article not just about the zx81 but covering some of the business end of things as well.

http://www.1up.com/features/spectraspective-history-sinclair... - A great article covering the history of the successor (the ZX Spectrum) including the ZX81.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEV1gefvy_k - 3d Monster Maze, the great-great-great grandaddy of Doom and Wolfenstein 3d. Skip to about a minute in if you're not bothered about the loading noise.
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I'm in such a scenario myself. Typically you'd have an offshore company in a place like BVI, Hong Kong or ironically in some states in the US, like Delaware (if you are not a US citizen).

For most countries in EU at least, you are only tax liable if you spend more than half the year there.

I spend my time between Russia, Denmark and Asia and I am less than half a year at each place, in a given year. This means my only tax responsibility is corporate tax, and in such places as I mentioned above, that percentage is 0.

As for visas, this varies of course from country to country. A lot of countries will allow you in for 1-3 months at a time, as long as you do the necessary paperwork.

Some countries like Thailand, gives you "visa on arrival", while some countries like Russia, require you to get a visa before you even arrive. When a visa is expired, some countries allows you to get a new 1-3 month visa, after just leaving the country for a day (such a one-day trip is what's referred to as a "visa run").

Working is generally allowed as long as you are a one man operation, doing your own thing with foreign clients. If you start to deal heavily with local companies, or start renting offices and hiring local personnel, you'd need to get a work permit and often also a locally incorporated company. Getting work permits are often much harder to obtain, as you'd generally also need a full time living permit for that.
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It doesn't matter. It's the most popular operating system in the world, no matter how old it is.
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Eh, I'll spend a little karma. I believe the laws of physics, and it's the laws of physics which make the spontaneity of sandwich-appearance much less likely than the arising of homo sapiens based on billions of years of causality we have determined experimentally and then many many years of the very mathematical process of evolution. The big bang theory has some issues, but the idea that things were once really close together and now are expanding at an accelerating rate is pretty nailed down. Evolutionary theory is similarly nailed down, I believe both those propositions with a fairly high number of bits. I'm willing to admit I'm wrong, but not by merit of the possibility that I could be wrong. Not all possibilities are equal.

Can you point to some atheists who are as you say? As an atheist I've never considered this a particularly wonderful and full of life world (sure I like it and want to preserve parts of it but there's a lot of improvement to be made) nor have I considered the mysteries of the universe are incomprehensible. We are as Sagan said "the universe trying to understand itself".

You may say our lives coming into being by the known fundamental laws of physics is as unlikely as Santa existing, but here we are, the evidence is actually in front of us, humans and quantum mechanics. I've never seen Santa, yet I've seen humans and studied some QM.

Edit: oh hey, I almost forgot. http://lesswrong.com/lw/i8/religions_claim_to_be_nondisprova... "The earliest account I know of a scientific experiment is, ironically, the story of Elijah and the priests of Baal."
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Well according to the article a basic tenant of Christianity is that only the gullible need apply.

I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children

to think of ourselves as being "wise and understanding" - is a serious barrier to seeing clearly.

No, according to the verse quoted actually being wise and understanding is a barrier to believing not just thinking you are.

I know Muzza was too nice to bring it up, but there is the whole cannibalism thing. I find that a bit off putting.
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For HN Readers who care little about an obscure computer from the UK, Micro Men is an incredible movie about the people behind the 80s UK computer revolution and the chip design at the core of pretty much every modern smartphone. It's as much about the egos, the business behind it all and the race for dominance over the burgeoning home computer market as anything else, and has Martin Freeman and Alexander Armstrong in title roles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEV1gefvy_k

Incidentally, Acorn (who ended up getting the BBC project) went on to design their own CPU for their next generation computing lineup, a funny little chip design called the Advanced Risc Machine, or ARM, now the most use CPU design in the world.