skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet, if you follow the responses both positive and negative, also not so great.

Let's imagine I'm to python hacking as Giles is to restaurant criticism. I punch out such a cracking piece of code that Guido himself wept on his first reading. A hapless QA engineer rewrites my punchline, a lambda compressing not less than six lines into one, back into a six line function. (As to whether Guido would in fact weep at such code is topic for another discussion).

I fire off an invective harangue to the QA manager. He posts it on the intranet.

The other grey beards nod in agreement: "Fucking QA engineers", they mutter, "'bout time someone showed 'em!"

Meanwhile the rest of the company thinks I'm a pompous, sanctimonious twat. With a single missive I've repositioned myself from wronged to wrongdoer. And perhaps simultaneously emboldened the stupid wretch.

Never underestimate the didactic value of a discreet word. (This is, mind you, a one time offer: Next time said QA engineer gets it in the neck.)

Let me add that I love Giles and have immeasurable respect for him as a writer and critic. He is easily the best fuckin' part of the fuckin' F-Word: He just over-cooked this one.
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Sorry, I don't see anything exaggerated about intentionaly trying to hurt epileptics to "make them aware of the precautions they need to take."
Please move the comment form to the bottom of the page.

It frees up space at the top of the page for already posted comments and It would encourage reading or at least skimming through previous comments before adding a new one.
Interesting. They say non-hackers can't tell whether a programmer is a great hacker or not. Is there a symmetry? Can great salesman tell who's great and who's not?
Oh no! Where would people find documentation of underage girls and their webcam pics?!
JIT Compiler for PHP
He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither </quote>

I don't want a political debate here. My e-mail is in the profile.
What's with all the MSM coverage of 4chan lately? Why, of all Internet communities, does the New York Times write about its filthiest cesspool?
"if you have 200 photos that hang together to tell a story, whether it's of kids growing up, travels, or some other activity, then OurDoings is just plain better"

why exactly is your service better when someones uploads 200 pictures?

you've said it yourself, the mainstream user uploads average 3 pictures
Personal protection products Self Defense Weapons
You can find all your self defense products at Safety Protection Technology. They carry stun guns in all different sizes and voltages, some are small like a pager and some even look like a cell phone, and they have Taser guns. There are also many sizes of pepper sprays you can get, some to carry on your keychain, in your car or at home. They carry personal alarms, home alarms, blow guns, self defense dvd's, air guns and many other self defense products to help protect you, your family and your home.
But Internet escapism is in large part a rejection of these long-evolved customs. The people who flock to places like /b/ want a place where everything goes. Sure, there will be the equivalent of "private buildings" on the Internet, but there will always be free-for-all places, just as there are places in the real world where typical customs are more relaxed (e.g. Burning Man)
You can tell this a really educated guy. He's a restaurant reviewer but he draws vocabulary from chemistry, talking about the "dual valency" of a noun.
Although they would require very small amounts (I think). I am pretty sure catalytic converters in cars and other industrial devices use tiny amounts of Pt, and they aren't a real cost burden.
It's kind of funny how mean/trollish a lot of the comments to this article are here.
Acidic water?
u mad? Respond to the content, not the form.
Chatting with a salesperson recently, I thought it was interesting how he described there being different kinds of sales people. There are some getting by on people skills and knowing everybody and their brother, and get the foot in the door that way. Others are extremely technical and make an impression that way. And so on (sadly, I forgot most details). So I could imagine that there might have been a customer who would have been the perfect match for the clueless first hire. Like if at the other end there was also an idiot hire, maybe he might even have fallen for the "it has A, but C is totally super, and B is awesome" stuff.

I don't know how those companies handle the matching of sales people to customers, though.
How is the article exaggerating? It's publicizing (and arguably somewhat glorifying), but I don't see where it's inaccurate.
Worth following the link to see awurl in action.
I honestly don't understand why this is getting modded up as much as it is.
I just think word of mouth is usually stronger than any marketing campaign, so if people are telling their friends that they hate something, trying to convince them otherwise throught advertising looks to me like a waste of money and time.

Anyway, most people who buy a computer and don´t buy a mac can´t escape from vista, linux is not mom ready yet, so why waste time convincing people to choose vista rather than telling them they may need a new computer?
I've had this thought too. I've considered getting a totally non-technical job where I have to deal with human beings all day just to see if I'd learn anything.
NYTimes is really getting along with the times.... I'm rather impressed :)

Excellent article, btw..... I wonder if it's possible to find out who Delta hired to design their system (if it's not in-house, that is)
You're right; it's not like bows require ammo.

I'm sure arrows would be real effective against zombies too :)
"If these companies don't like the terms, they don't have to use the spectrum."

That's right - they don't. But the current owner of the spectrum - the FCC - is an illegitimate one:

Read Declan McCullagh's June 7, 2004 column for news.com, "Why the FCC should die" (http://news.cnet.com/Why-the-FCC-should-die/2010-1028_3-5226...)

If you really want more competition in the telecommunications industry, you'll find the FCC standing in the way. They don't serve any technical purpose anymore (except to keep technology down and to allow old radios to work), but they sure as hell get in the way of new companies that might compete with existing ones.

Keep in mind that without companies to build the radios and service the networks and so on that make the spectrum valuable, who would be able to use it, other than a few thousand engineers? What good would all the oil in Saudi Arabia do you if someone didn't know how to get it out of the ground, how to refine it, and how to build cars to use it? Remember that when you declare something like spectrum public, you inherently lose the ability to maintain everyone's rights.

"There is no limit to the amount of greed."

Not true - at and above a certain price for any good or service, customers won't buy. This is econ 101 stuff.

"limited spectrum" - you would do well to take a signals processing class. Spectrum is only limited in the physical sense (the electromagnetic spectrum is what it is), but beyond that, there are many ways to transfer more information across the same spectrum through additional processing. Surely you know about things like DSL and 802.11, neither of which were possible before cheap processors became commonplace.
A discourse on web-frameworks
* Zeus would rather write his own.

<Pandora> your own what?

<Zeus> Web framework.

<Pandora> I don't know what that is

<Zeus> Pandora: An app that takes care of the glue for web applications

<Pandora> what is the glue?

<Zeus> Pandora: Well, you need a webserver, usually a templating system, a nice interface to the information provided to the webserver, a way of routing URLs to specific modules, &c.

<Pandora> why make it so complicated?

<Zeus> Pandora: As opposed to what?

<Pandora> simple

<Zeus> How do you propose making it simple?

<Zeus> Pandora: There's a lot of bookkeeping involved in any web app of a decent size

<Pandora> what sort of bookkeeping?

<Zeus> Forgetting, for a moment, the issues of making a webserver (say you're using FastCGI with Apache or something), having bits of HTML scattered through your program really isn't a neat way of doing things, and it becomes completely unmanageable very fast for applications of any appreciable size

<Pandora> ok so you need lisp macros

* Zeus laughs.

<Pandora> am I wrong?

<Pandora> what's funny

<Zeus> Pandora: Do it and show me.

<Pandora> Zeus: I still don't know what's funny

<Zeus> If you tried it, you would.

<Pandora> Zeus: exactly what is it I have not tried?

<Zeus> Apparently, designing any kind of large web application :-)

<Pandora> Zeus: that is the problem right there, you are complicating things

* Zeus laughs.

<Pandora> Zeus: Why would anybody write a large program instead of a small simple one?

<Zeus> Er, because as great as the UNIX philosophy may be, sometimes people need an application that does more than a single string transformation.

<Zeus> I direct you, for example, to http://www.amazon.com/

<Pandora> Zeus: Right, and there is the false assumption, there's no reason a program that does more than a single string transform has to be complicated

<Zeus> I see

<Zeus> So how do you propose offering the features of Amazon without the program being complicated?

<Pandora> Zeus: You're only asking me that so you can laugh again

<Zeus> Of course.

<Zeus> That would be why you didn't answer this question last time, either? :-)
Actually, catalytic converters are pretty expensive, and their theft is on the rise. I know someone who had his car stolen in Oakland. The police found the car, but the catalytic converter was sawed off. Supposedly they run a couple hundred $ minimum.

* http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/us/29converters.html
Only a coder could love such a naming convention.
Brian, I have been following your progress for a long long time. After all this time, I feel I should be blunt. I think your product is interesting, but your execution is very poor.

There are a lot of things you are bad at. Your copy, design and interface are inadequate. Most importantly, your name does not work. For a consumer product, these failings are deadly.

You need to find someone who can do those things for you.

You also need to stop using Lisp. I could build your product in a weekend using Python or Ruby. It would take me four years to do it in C. It took you four years to do it in Lisp...
I kind of hope the father of an epileptic shoots one of these griefers with a deer rifle in order to "make them aware that they should be wearing ballistic vests".
Well, from looking at the article it looks like the discreet word has been had already ("we discussed your turning three of my long sentences into six short ones in a single piece"), and this is in fact the getting-it-in-the-neck part (he does acknowledge that there is a chance that it was not the same guy as before editing with his review, but the implication is that this chance is very slight)
My advice is before this goes any further down the track of who sues who, Jim and Bob need to have an urgent face-to-face meeting (or telephone call) to try and resolve this amicably rather than wasting their time and money involving lawyers.

Don’t worry about what the contract says or doesn’t say – legal precedent picks up on what is left unwritten in contracts. Jim needs to work out a reasonable negotiating position (such as getting paid for the hours actually expended in exchange for handing over the work done to date) and not worry about things like consequential income losses, which are very difficult to recover at law.

If after both parties have used their best efforts to resolve the disputes and there is still no agreement; then consult the lawyers.
According to wikipedia, electrolysis is currently around 65% efficient, with a theoretical cap somewhere around 90%. So this could help, but it's not going to be an order of magnitude improvement.

Also, storing large quantities of (I assume pressurized) gas has got to be expensive. The nice thing about liquids is that you can store them in a vat, or a dammed up canyon.

I didn't rtfa, its probably cool tech, but hardly a revolution. Good luck guys.
I hope no one is shot.
What, no 0% option for tips? If it's mandatory then it's not really a tip anymore is it? Seriously, I thought taxi is about getting from one place to another, what's the point of tipping rather than giving them decent salaries.
Long story short: car dealers want to sell the car above sticker price and will do everything they can to get you to buy it at that price. Also, use websites about invoice prices to know where the upper bound is and negotiate over the phone. Apparently, car dealers hate the "internet" so car buyer should love it.
Well its obvious what this article wants, for the government to step in and regulate people from hurting your feelings.

Seriously when have we become a country of pussies?
Opt-in or opt-out? Street View case echoes privacy debate
Its Pogue. He might have a valid thing to talk about, however some of his arguments concerning it are ridiculous.

And I can't remember when the last time I saw a separate screen for desktop icon, start menu, and quickbar shortcut. Even Pidgin, which has the worst installer experience I can imagine, doesn't do this.
What about business who have won their monopoly not by the strength of outstanding execution and innovation? Should they be left alone?

Are you saying that all anti-monopoly/oligopoly regulation is bad? If so, you need more to back this up than a couple of examples of bad regulation. And if not, then you can't defend the telcos on general principle. You should explain what makes them the "good" kind of monopoly.
"Dammit, should have signed a contract and waited for the government to get me out of it."

I'm pretty sure that you were just kidding, so I'm not directing this at you, but it is worth saying anyway: there are quite a few people (not all) that bought into subprime mortgages precisely because they thought they could get something for nothing, and that the government would "do something" (bail them out) if their overreaching got them into trouble. A fraudulent mortgage is a way bigger deal than a stolen phone, but the difference is just a matter of scale.
exactly

It was easy to see why women were turned off. I'm sure if the guys realized how desperate and needy they came across, they'd be able to do a better job of hooking up.

I think there is still a stigma attached to online dating that people are scraping the bottom of the barrel- amongst women especially. In fact, while researching dating sites (I was thinking about building a competitive dating site for Australia in 06/07) I've often come across the phrase "I cant believe I'm doing this" as the first sentence in a female's profile.

You can have the best dating technology in the world, but the reality is that there are a significant number of people just dont have profiles that are any good or a real judge of a person's character. I think this problem is compounded when you consider that often people dont have very descriptive profiles when writing something about themselves and often write about tastes that are seemingly universal but non specific. EG, if I wrote I liked movies, as opposed to writing I liked Tarantino and Kubrick films.

Often I seen profiles (of both men and women, so this problem is not gender specific) where people are just trying to meet minimum word counts. Any kind of matching technology based off keyword matching in this kind of situation simply fails.

I think for a technology like this to have any decent chance, there would need to be a couple of core components.

1) Point and click profile writing, where people can click on hobbies and it can attempt to write something for them. You would also have to ensure that profile's dont look like canned responses.

2) Photo touching up - Often when I've touched up photo's in photoshop for others, I find myself using the same techniques, with often very similar settings on the sliders - if there was a way you could automatically detect and touch up photos, then it would be fantastic. I'm not sure if there are any sites out there that currently have this feature, but it would make a great standalone site too, especially with photo sharing sites and social networking sites being popular.

3) Profile exporting. If I've written a profile for say match.com and I want to goto eharmony.com, I dont want have to rewrite significant chunks of it to match the new format, especially given a large number of people have trouble writing even one profile.
And this is what scares me when I read about things like vertebra (http://www.slideshare.net/ezmobius/vertebra) - how in earth could a company that sells cloud computing not already have a message queueing architecture!
Have someone proofread.
For searches on misspelled words
"Type Less Words" s/Less/Fewer/, though your search doesn't match fewer results when more search words are added.
"Type Words Correct Spelling", perhaps just "Correct Spelling". But, if a word does not match anything, run it through aspell with an aspell dictionary created from your product lists.
I doubt it's a anti-ticket-theft measure. Southwest and other airlines' kiosks don't ask the same dumb questions.

And trying to board with someone else's ticket -- when the TSA checkpoint will give you extra screening without ID, when the airport is plastered with cameras, when you'll be in a specific seat if the real ticket owner shows up -- has to be one of the dumbest crimes imaginable.
Noted, but my intention wasn't to list products rather to name some technologies that are available and open for MQ.
I agree, it is a long story. But it's the details that really make the story of going undercover as a car salesman what it is. For instance, a salesman might ask a prospect the price they're willing to pay every month. After the prospect comes up with a number ("uh, $300"), the buyer says, "Up to?" ("Well, up to $350."). It's all about the insidious little details.

Furthermore, the concepts here can be applied to protect oneself against rent-seekers in general, including salesmen of all kinds, lobbyists, marketers, and some VCs. It's a three-hour read, but I found it was worth it.
There are a number of different kinds of events. One of the nice things about the Bootstrappers Breakfast (http://www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com) is that they take place in the morning and are more low key, allowing you to meet and compare notes in a quiet setting with 8-15 people so that you can get to know them a little better.

A good way to be memorable is to follow up with someone within 48 hours with a piece of info or a person that can help them with a challenge they are facing. The best way to do that is to focus as much on them and their challenges as who you are and what you need when you talk with them.

I jot notes on the back of their card or on a separate 3x5 card if we have a longer conversation so that I don't have to trust my memory.
My guess is that they do the "throw-stuff-on-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks" method of sales people to customer matching. Or maybe you can hack up a social network that does specifically that lol. A social that matches sales people to customers. Ergo some kind of CRM.
Apple's customer service: The wrong kind of 1%
Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border
He got an education. The suggestion for a face to face discussion is an excellent one, if he can keep his cool. Don't waste any time suing over what appears to be a small amount of lost time: he would be better served to invest his time finding new clients and being more proactive in future about issues that are preventing him from delivering them results.
The sub-editors' reply: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/29/sundaytimes.pres...

Apparently, this was written a long time ago, and only recently surfaced: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/mediamonkey/2008/07/indefinite_a...
If you are using Google AppEngine, jsonpickle should be good to go since it depends on simplejson. The other project, jspickle, requires cjson so probably won't work.
Exactly my thought. del.icio.us worked as expected, and I for one didn't wish any new feature. I just want to bookmark currently visited URL with tags, and that's it. That uber-polished design is completely unnecessary, even distracting. Even the former URL del.icio.us was more cool that this one.

I am sad.
Why cellphones didn't work during the quake
I was very frustrated when I bought a Nokia N82 so that I could have an unlocked GSM phone, only to find out that the only service that works in my area is AT&T anyways. But hey, I already bought my phone, I should just be able to get a non-contract plan, especially if I'm willing to pay the full (phone-subsidizing) price each month, right?

Nope. You can't get a normal monthly plan without signing up to at least a one-year contract. I even had to pay for the freaking sim card, not to speak of the activation fee. So I paid something like $500-550 for my phone, sim card, and activation fee, and I'm still in a one-year contract, all for the same monthly rate that I would be paying if I had gotten a plan that came with a free phone.

Something is wrong here.
He states he uses Vimperator and listed Vim before Emacs at the end of the article--he uses Vim, not emacs.
i think i read this somewhere else like 6 months ago?
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So what's the catch? If there is none, then this could be huge.
Illegal filesharing: A suicide note from the music industry
That's not the conclusion I got from the article.
I just had an idea for how to turn the trolling phenomenon into potentially very lucrative profits for a startup. Anybody interested?

On the one hand, I don't want to give away my idea. On the other hand, implementing it might take several people working on it for a few months. What should I do?
Because it seems too obvious, or because you disagree?
Didn't Yahoo make them rewrite it from Perl to PHP... probably accounts for a fair bit of time.
In the podcast (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;1162018/DC2) Nocera explains the process perfectly. This "missing link" in electolysis has been the production of O2. Now this is possible. And now a closed loop of water splitting and water production is possible for the first time apparently. So, this could indeed be a possible way to store energy for times when there is no sun or wind available to produce electricity. Nocera also mentions that there are already alternatives for Pt for the hydrogen production and they are going to test them.

However, indeed nothing is said on the efficiency of the whole process and thus the economics of this process. How large a system do you need for a household and what would it cost? Hopefully we will get answers soon.

Still you need photovoltaic cells or windmills to produce electricity for your house, your car, etc. And you need extra electricity to produce H2 and O2 for times when there is no sun or wind. PV cells still cost a lot and still are not efficient enough (thus take up too much space). So, there are still other missing links to solve to really start a electricity revolution.
Makes for better reading than a rant.