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Ethics: What do you think about sites that show people what they want to hear?
This is an ethical question. I've noticed lately that some of my friends have been telling me sending me stuff from Huffington Post or Daily Kos or Fox News or basically websites which offer a highly biased point of view while censoring or strongly downplaying other points of view.

I'm working on a project which allows people to personalize their information and find information that's relevant to them. Then this ethical question dawned on me. I have a personality which encourages me to search the world and find different viewpoints and find the truth.

Unfortunately, I find a lot of other people I find have the opposite. They want to find information that suits their thought or their preconceived notions and reject anything that opposes that until reality hits them on the head with a brick. Even then, they still want to defend their views and use strongly biased sites to help strengthen it.

As I go further in my project, I'm realizing I'm helping create a way where they can completely ignores everything about the world and thus create a place which tells them ONLY things "they want to hear" even if what they want to hear is wrong.

I'm worried about this ethical question. I mean, there's a ton of money to be made in the "Tell People What They Want To Hear" space but I'm worried about the long term consequences of this.

How do you guys figure out an ethical questions like this?
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Here's the earlier thread about this story :
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2266924

still one of the best programming stories i have heard
If you're interested in this you might also be interested in a talk that the developer of Fortress Craft gave. Fortress Craft is (in its simplest form) a clone of Minecraft for the xbox 360 indie game thing, he gave a talk at an event a few weeks ago and he explained all the sales figures. It's the biggest grossing game on the indie game thing so far.

http://www.fileplay.net/channels/iseries//13607/fortresscraf...

He starts talking about sales at 16:00.
The NORDKYN logo at the end of the article drives my OCD mad.

I love it!

(Although I question whether the general audience would understand the point of the radar chart)
That's just a step off. I think the exciting thing is opening up a line of thought and possibility that we'd have another dimension to wearable computing.

Instead of just LEDs on nerd shirts, or tracking your day to day habits, we may have avenues for dynamic expression as well.
it's on the list of things to do, however one of the challenges is that those sites are always changing or updating their templates. So it's nice to have the most up to date links to hit against.

Goose also pulls all the images down as well to inspect them to try and find the most likely main image for the page.

It will probably be split into an online/offline test. If that sounds like something someone wants to help hack on, the more the merrier!
Homes isn't really a strong point of the US. They are extremely cheaply built and leak temperature like a sieve.
Readable doesn't really want to be "better" than Readability. In all, they're actually very different beasts.

And I honestly don't consider Readability to be my competition. Readable first started because of my own desire to have text formatted a certain way, no matter what website that text happened to be on.

Unfortunately, Readability beat me to the launch by 2 weeks -- otherwise you would all now be talking about Readability as a version of Readable :)

The only reason I didn't kill Readable after that, was that it was different enough from Readability to diverse it's own shot -- plus, I love working on Readable's text-parsing algorithm; it's a very cool problem to solve.

P.S.
The extension you pointed to is based on the first Readability bookmarklet -- and it's made by a guy who also made an extension based on the first version of Readable.
Reasons stop mattering proportionally to your power and influence in the organization. From the janitor to the CEO, your ability to change things for the better increases. Therefore if something fails, it's not because you didn't have the authority to make sure it was done right but because you failed to observe and act.
Cool!

(FYI: horizontal scrolling results in broken styling on Chrome.)
It's great that Linode offers the backup system, and for a reasonable price, but I have several Linodes and wanted to be able to restore individual files from different days. Say, for example, if I futzed around with Apache config and ended up rendering it useless, or if I forget the "where" clause in a "delete from".

So we use BackupPC (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/). It's not as easy to set up as Linode's backup -- it requires some configuration, and securing it takes a little bit of effort -- but it's a great solution. With file pooling and compression, I can store months of backups for multiple Linodes on a single other small Linode instance.
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Indian Students interview Warren Buffett
I also suggest test-ipv6.com which gives interesting results and feedback

For exemple, today while looking to replace my DSL modem local DNS server for different reasons (http://en.blog.guylhem.net if you want to know) I realized usual DNS servers such as 8.8.8.8 or 4.2.2.4 couldn't work for aaaa.v6ns.test-ipv6.com.

Yes I know, using 4.2.2.4 makes baby jesus cry, but it was easy to remember and faster than 8.8.8.8. Yet now I've got a new favorite - ordns.he.net

Try it for yourself : dig aaaa.v6ns.test-ipv6.com at your favorite server and see if it works.
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I was trying to figure out why the overall quality was so low. This explains it.
"Readable text" does not mean the same thing for everyone.

I look at it as the long tail of text formatting preferences; and I think it's everyone's right to have text look exactly the way they want -- no compromises. That's why Readable is so incredibly customizable.

So don't worry: justification is optional; and hyphenation will be too.
Why not release it under the MIT license?

http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
Can you release it under a dual license? GPL for open source GPL code (or perhaps a custom GPL-like license that does not allow commercial redistribution) and commercial license (with support etc) for commercial use? This is more or less how other open source based companies operate.

This means that non-commercial users get to make changes and distribute them for free and commercial users may not redistribute it.
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Is there any way to get residential IPv6 access easily?
Why do you strip quotes? Specifically, you're doing:

blockquote, q {
quotes: "" "";
}

and

blockquote::before, blockquote::after, q::before, q::after {
content: "";
}

You'd be better off completely removing this to begin with, as even if you did specify the quotes (which should only be on <q>, not <blockquote>, and it makes no sense to include <blockquote> in that rule anyways), you would have to re-define the quotes for every single language (q:lang(...)).

If this wasn't intentional, you should really pay attention to what your CSS reset does and make sure to explicitly define everything it resets.
Almost any Slovak can easily understand Czech and read pretty much anything written in the neighbouring Czech republic (where paid internet media are quite unlikely in the near future), but I guess that they are interested in what is going on in their country, general worldwide and Czech news won't do.
I think ntpd only does it for small deviations (+-128ms by default) and only slews the clock by a small margin. Larger changes are just stepped.
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Get the habit of starting a new side ("weekend") project every 2-3 weeks.
The lawyercats seem to be quite successful in keeping people from experimenting on their own time. That plus the nebulous list of product areas which might be "tainted" somehow makes it dangerous to guess.

Worse still, if you go and ask if a certain idea would be a conflict, you risk showing your hand. So, anyone who's serious about trying things is likely to leave, and it will only get worse as more business areas are roped in.
Actually, I'm going with "rules aren't precise because people disagree strongly over stupidly minor details so we have to abstract them to reach consensus."
Absolutely, I thought the variable logos were a really awesome idea and would be very engaging for users to look at it.

Even if they don't understand it at first, think of it as a well-liked art piece or a clever idiom that requires your friend to explain it to you first. Blowing minds with your logo - good idea.
Or just attempt to load a dual-stack site. A few examples off the top of my head:
http://www.freebsd.org/
http://www.debian.org/
http://www.ucla.edu/

Each of those has been dual-stack for years now. If you can load them without an egregious delay then you'll have no problem on June 8th.
This has been my experience too. If you specify exactly what you want down to every little detail, Indian teams can write the code. But if anything is left hanging at all, you get results that are subpar.

My take away from working with graduates of Indian universities, both abroad and at home, is that these schools do not impart critical thinking skills as well as they should. This definitely hampers employability for many grads.
The other side of the coin is that, depending on the team, mercenary coding might not be what they signed up for, at all. So, while it may feed them, it might also break the team.
Your comment was not meant in a spirit of helpful critique, saying either that Stallman could work on his oratory or should optimize and spend his time writing more. I'll quote your original comment: "Let's hope he can write better than he speaks."

(As for 'prosody', yes, my bad. I was misled by 'poesy' and 'prose'.)
Similar: What happened to Californian school book procuring?
Not necessarily. Sometimes the better advice is to tell someone to _not_ go to school. Someone who might be a very effective (and well paid) tradesperson, but has no aptitude for University, would be much better served (and probably less stressed) by entering the workforce as young as possible, becoming a journeyman, and raising through their career without a formal education. There are at least three reasons for this:

1. By entering the workforce as young as possible, total lifetimes earnings (and more importantly, savings) are maximized for a longer period of time.

2. If the individual has no aptitude (or desire) for higher education, then there is a very good chance they will neither get the credentials, nor the knowledge that comes with a high level education.

3. Even if they did manage to squeak by and, through sheer grit and determination and stubbornness, acquire the higher education - they might now slot themselves into a field of endeavor for which they are singularly not suited for - only to find 10 years after working some white collar position, that they really, really wished they had been in construction/electrician/blacksmith/what have you...

Frequently the path to maximizing total lifetime earnings, happiness, impact, and productivity is not through higher education. I think that there is a lot of observer bias on most of our part, because most of us have gone through at least some post-high school education and would to believe it generally offers value to those who do likewise.

I've got a least one friend who really should have never gotten his Computing Science degree. He is brilliant in ways that I'll never, ever, match - and should be building houses, not trying to work in IT - just not his gig.

On the flip side, i have a quite comfortable six figure income, and never completed university - I just have an aptitude for working in IT.

I really believe there is a correlation/causation problem with the "Higher educations leads to Higher Income" - the one exception being that a Yale/Stanford/Princeton/Harvard/MIT/Ivy League graduate probably raises the ceiling (and position opportunity) for candidates above what someone without those credentials would have. But now we're talking about the difference between making $150K/year as a mid level manager and $750K/year as a Sr. VP - not as relevant to the masses.
feeling better? ;)
This is a bug; thanks for catching it. It will be corrected.

As for the intentionality of that CSS rule: it was intentional -- but some time ago; when quotes were redefined in another part of the CSS.

Blockquotes are included because some browsers quote the content of that element too; don't ask which browsers though, as I honestly don't remember -- but older versions of one browser or another definitely did this.
Did you consider fractal trees?

http://tokutek.com/presentations/bender-Scalperf-9-09.pdf
You have a point there, but I wouldn't be quite so sanguine. Look at the different participation rates of graduates and those without a HS diploma. The difference is huge, and I think it tells us something about the real unemployment rate.

Another issue is that those counted as employed include a large number of underemployed, i.e people forced to work part time because they can't find more work.
Rails is a quite heavy framework to learn. I have to internalize models of how rails work and how they fit together. Plus, you still have to write good models/controller/etc code anyway.
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Oh, I agree with you. I think the space could be better utilized in other ways, but I also don't find it terribly strange when it is used for bathrooms.

(For the ten minute walk thing, you just need a tiny toilet+sink room, you dont really need that many showers...)
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Good enough in web design is a website that is kind of clear and kind of converts.
If it's ok for the customer it's ok for me, but considering that I hardly believe it's ok for the customer here we have a big problem.
And there's no such thing as a "perfect logo" :)
Looks like the blog url is a timestamp, 1276624594.

ruin:~$ date -r 1276624594
Tue Jun 15 13:56:34 EDT 2010
Developer experience: Applying user experience techniques to devs
As soon as I get a few free minutes, I promise I'll look over licenses more carefully and re-release the code.

In case anyone is interested in using the source code right this second, just come back to the site tomorrow and you'll find the new license explicitly stated.

If you have any cool ideas for what to do with the code, let me know -- I like hearing cool ideas.
Why would the first road be "scary" and then the other be "just as fair"? "Fair" is a positive description.

If both roads are just as fair as each other, there isn't one scary one and one happy one, there's either two scary ones or (more likely) two happy ones.

Anyway, shouldn't it be ONE road diverged in a yellow wood? If TWO roads diverged, that would make four.

The poem is about a man who, "years and years hence", will be remembering his life, and up there near the top of his memories to tell people about is how he chose which of two almost identical paths he took when walking in a wood, once, and they were roughly the same. Does that sound like the sort of memory someone who would pick a scary road would choose to reminisce about? Does it sound like the sort of tale a habitual liar would tell? No to both. It sounds like the sort of tale a really boring person with no interesting memories would tell.

He was walking through a wood, not trying to get anywhere in particular and not caring where he went. It was probably quite pleasant, and it wasn't the hundred acre wood or the Lord of the Rings evil forest, both roads came out the other side of the wood and then he went home.
What I would like to know is, is there support accessing values by nth-largest key?

I had to roll my own b-tree library specifically to get this feature since nothing out-there had it.
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Not sure if this is legal for US citizens, but you can play poker here now.
Well - if possible - try to be clear about what kind of filter is applied, and let users disable it.

A related Ted talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bu...
I assume you just mean that test-ipv6 gives you the warning:

"Your DNS server (possibly run by your ISP) appears to have no access to the IPv6 internet, or is not configured to use it."

I get that too (I have IPv4/IPv6 connectivity)

I really wouldn't worry about it too much. We're FAR from the day when anybody could contemplate publishing their public DNS zones using just IPv6-only nameservers. Therefore a recursive IPv4-only server will continue to work for a LONG time.

The more immediate problem is publishing servers running IPv4-only (making a fully-recursive IPv6 only server impossible) The good news is that the large DNS-providers seem to be mostly on the ball about this. There are, however, still a few TLDs with IPv4-only DNS (.co is one example)
I'm working with a team doing amazing things to ready the the HP TouchPad launch and webOS 3.0 for launch. We wouldn't be working so hard if we thought this platform was dead on arrival. HP has big plans and I'm glad we're a part of it.
I may have missed this in the article, but I am wondering how much this game sells for. I am not familiar with the pricing of indie games on xbox live.

Congrats btw for releasing your game! Very interesting article!

Edit: Ok I poked around a bit and found that the game is listed for 80 Microsoft Points. On my account it is $14.50 (not sure if this is Canadian or USD as my account is Canadian) for 1000 points, making the game cost about $1.16.
The problem (if I understand the issues correctly) is that the GPL does not allow restrictions on use, like only allowing non-commercial use.

I understand I need some kind of dual-licensing, but I was hoping to be able to use two existing licenses, rater than creating my own. But maybe the combination of charging for the software and available source is uncommon?
Ask HN: Online presence: pseudonym or real name?
I'm really interested in building up a decent online presence. Putting my code on github, writing articles on things that interest me (and hopefully others), etc.

Problem is, I've mostly used the web as a read-only media, and am a little cautious of putting my name all over it. I kinda like the idea of having a pseudo name to hide behind online, probably due to the fear of doing something really crap and it forever being attributed to me. But I also have a feeling that it's a bit lame, and alot of the people that I respect online are open about who they are (whether that was a conscious decision or not).

My name is fairly unique, in that if you type it into your favourite search engine, you would get results relating to only me.

I've been trying to decide on this for a few months now, and in the mean time doing neither, so I have given myself one week from today to decide either way, then just stick with it and get some stuff out there.

I would be interested to hear if anyone else has thought through this sort of thing for themselves, or has any pointers/thoughts on the pros and cons of either side. Or am I just over-thinking the whole "online privacy" issue?
As for the license the code is under, I say "Yes and no" and detail them both. The "no" part address the fact that Readable's code isn't (and probably won't be) in any public code repositories.

If you're interested in the code, though, you can find the bulk of it here: http://readable-static.tastefulwords.com/_r/bulk.js

And, yes, it is open source; currently under a variation of the Creative Commons License; but, as detailed further up in this thread, that'll probably change by tomorrow -- as, apparently, Creative Commons isn't recommended for source code.
The fact that working in a sweatshop 16 hours a day at age 6 is a terrible life is not contingent on any particular "western" philosophy being correct.
there's bitcoiner: https://market.android.com/details?id=net.lwi.bitcoiner
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Maybe a funny question but why have the word device included as part of the unique key? Wouldn't 1-leto, 1-paul, 3-duke and 2-jess been ok entries for the unique key?
What I'm pointing out is that "what you want" or "your spec" is wrong.
What you can and should ask to a designer is: here is my homepage, I want people to understand this and then signup.
What happens now is that customers ask for a website they like.
You see the problem?

You're probably a developer (my wild guess), you don't have a problem like this. If I have to make a parallel, it's like your CEO comments your code because he coded on the CBM 64 during the 80s. Exactly the same thing.
Design own theme? Sure, why not. How does this work?

Here's a bug report for you.
Using Win7,32bit/Opera 11.10,
the text field for specifying custom font families doesn't really show because the borders aren't visible.
Screenshot http://i.imgur.com/gwb2O.jpg
Any currency collapse is never an IF, only a WHEN... however, indeed this would indicate the end of a depression, not its start. Meaning after any kind of collapse, economic activity is bound to pick up... hit the bottom and the only way is up.
Nokia FM Transmitter?
Hi,

First, sorry for my english :)

I have a Nokia n72 and i want Fm Transmitter for nokia

Can you help me:)
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Perl's behind the scenes C code is rather gnarly. Trusting a new tool to get it right the first time is a bit much. Once I'm comfortable it's had some time to age properly, I'd be more than willing to deploy it.
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Show HN: A possible Hacker News account phishing site to avoid
One announcement that I really look forward to, is a system with multi-user support. Since webos is kind of new (or at least will get a proper re-release at this point with the first tablet device), I hope this option will be included. The first tablet device which allows separate accounts for each user at home gets my money as soon as it's released.
Just a quick question on attire, am I correct in presuming this is a casual event and therefore we should not dress up like we would for an interview?
Summary: Advances in medicine has increased the life expectancy of Americans. As a greater proportion of people live longer, there will be stresses on our economy and healthcare system and society's expectations/perceptions of the elderly will change. We cannot predict the future, but much medical research is being done and we hope that can address problems associated with aging.

No offense, but this article doesn't say anything insightful or novel about aging other than rehashing what is relatively obvious.
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Sorry about the email adress, it is now corrected.

About your questions, I am sorry I can't go into the specifics but I don't want to damage our brand. I would be more transparent if the situation was desperate but we are not there yet (that's what I want to avoid).

Here is what I can say :
- our product is a complex (pc/win) software.
- it requires some investment but not much (domain expertise is too strong a word).
- most customers can find alternatives even if much more costly
- our own market could grow (especially under a focused marketing push).
- our company culture is quite informal
- I suppose we could accept outside direction. Not sure, though, I never thought about it.

Don't hesitate to contact me if you want details.