skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a nonsensical criticism IMHO.

If someone is giving pure opinion then you have to evaluate the source. But if someone is presenting facts you have to evaluate the facts and there's no real point in evaluating the source (sources can give incorrect facts but that's exactly why you're evaluating the facts themselves). So in the case of someone stating facts the source is irrelevant because they are just serving to draw your attention to facts which you should then independently verify yourself.

In the article he makes several factual claims that can be verified to be true or false...

"They keep lowering the temperature increases they expect, from 0.30C per decade in 1990, to 0.20C per decade in 2001, and now 0.15C per decade"

"In the United States, nearly 90% of official thermometers surveyed by volunteers violate official siting requirements that they not be too close to an artificial heating source."

"satellites say the hottest recent year was 1998, and that since 2001 the global temperature has levelled off."

"The Earth has been in a warming trend since the depth of the Little Ice Age around 1680. Human emissions of carbon dioxide were negligible before 1850 and have nearly all come after the Second World War "

Those facts are what's relevant and it's those that should be evaluated (to the best of my knowledge all but the 1998 being the hottest year claim are true). Then you can draw your own conclusions based on those facts plus the ones you already knew. Who the author is or what he's published is besides the point.

Edit: on the 1998 claim I found this with a quick Google search: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/02/a_tale_of_two_thermo...
In my view, the comment scores made the site more fun and more social.

One thought is that maybe the score gets hidden if it is 1 or less. I think that scores are especially interesting when it highlights a great comment or provides feedback to the person making the comment.

The ordering of comments without a score is a good example of why a visible score is needed. You assume that the best comments are on top but it is not clear how good are the comments below the top one.

Since the scores were removed, I have been commenting less often and often ignoring many of the comments below the top ones.
Is the Apache Xalan project dying quietly?
The first rule of Usenet: don't talk about Usenet.

But seriously, a comparison:

* This service appears to do a full download, unpackaging, and will even transcode. If you download binaries from Usenet, you've got to deal with sometimes incomplete NZBs, hunt down the PAR2 files that are never included in the download, ...

* There is a free offering here. Decent binary Usenet service costs money.

* Subjective: I always have a hard time finding good solid NZBs on Usenet -- this isn't bad because I can leech much faster, but it's still annoying to get a passworded download.

>The only advantage I can think of is when ISPs block access to Newsgroups

This isn't really a huge worry for most -- you don't use your ISPs news server, because the retention is terrible. If you are using Usenet for binaries, you are paying for a high-retention service.

In the end I'd personally still prefer Usenet, because the average seedbox -- and let's be honest, that's all this is -- gets very slow, unreliable, and eventually dies under the weight of DMCA hits.
I bet only Joyent has as much node.js servers as you ^^
"The web page from wich you came" is just the HTTP "Referer" field; almost every web site in existence collects that as a matter of course. To claim that it covers universal monitoring of all users' web traffic is obscene.

I'm also fairly sure that one can find personally "identifyable" information from URLs that go far beyond mere IP addresses.

Why is ant.com domain info privacy protected anyhow? Seems pretty fishy to me.
"\e[A": history-search-backward
"\e[B": history-search-forward

In .inputrc lets me just start typing a command and then press the up arrow to search the history, no need for ^R.
I wonder if this was intentional?
The protests are not only because unemployment, in Spain the the two main political parties are at service of banks and corporations, the protest is also against the other big party not only the one in the government, people want a change and a real democracy. There are big problems of corruption and personal enrichment in both parties.
Thanks for the whole quote. While not a W fan, I think it is also clear in the quote that you have to take action to be against us: harbor or support terrorists. The default, do nothing, state is "with us".
When election season comes around, go to http://www.votesmart.org (I just found them on google)

It allows you to look up politicians and see what their voting record is. I find this more useful than anything a person says or what their political party is.
hm. do you have an email we can contact you at?
If this makes money, then anyone can make money.
I think this will really open up how people use CSS3 animations on their sites. It's important that this isn't used as a crutch, though. Minor animations should still be coded by hand so the designer/developer is aware of how everything works. Cool stuff, though. Curious as to how this will match up against something like Animatable (http://www.animatable.com)
> All my points mentioned are relevant to see where these fellas are coming from and why they won't succeed.

From your original comment:

> Most of them are obese. And usually don't shower. And don't know how to dress. It's pathetic.

> The funny thing is that their agenda was 100% predictable from their physical appearance.

Obesity, lack of showering, and bad fashion sense are entirely irrelevant, unless presented as reason that popular opinion will not support them. You also might want to provide citations for those three facts, as it comes off as you being abusive. Being able to predict their agenda from their physical appearance is entirely irrelevant.

> Not everything you don't like reading is against the guidelines.

Applicable guidelines:

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.

You are primarily insulting them, rather than presenting a well thought out criticism of them and their political views. You have exactly one sentence which comes close to doing so.

> Be civil.
The Annoyances of eBooks
Agreed new users must be flogged into compliance. And the experienced ones should be rewarded for following the pack.
What exactly would the chain-yanking look like? "Make your online banking suck!" "Charge random fees in an opaque manner!" "Make your customer service worse!" ?

And if they do have their chains yanked, they can switch their provider. It's not like banks have "coverage" to lock you in, like mobile networks.
Yeah, in its infancy, it's natural for all of the participants to be congregated on the inaugural thread. :) Comment scores for people who have the extension should show up for any comment they've made in the past two weeks, though, and it should start filling in around HN as more people start using it.
> When comment scores were visible, it was obvious that many people would just vote with the herd, downvoting comments with lots of downvotes, and upvoting comments with lots of upvotes.

Hmm. First of all you had no way of knowing that people were voting because of the high (or low) scores. Your theory seems to be "Hmm, the score on this comment is un-naturally high, therefore people must have just been voting on it because it was high". Secondly, now that we can't see the scores, you've no way of knowing whether the points awarded are just as 'un-naturally' high as they were before scores were shown. For example, one of my comments in this thread has got 11 points in the last ten minutes or so - that's without scores being shown.

In the past, you may have attributed that score to herd-voting. But clearly that can't be the case, as no-one can see the score. ( except the few who've installed the points plugin!)
It sounds like iPad sale are (puts on sunglasses) booming. YEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHH.
In some ways, they're over-reaching. Sure, people hate the banks right now and it seems like a cash-cow industry that one could really disrupt. However, banking has a lot of competitors including not-for-profit ones in the form of credit unions. It will be very difficult to offer higher rates, better service, etc. than a non-profit credit union while one is trying to make a profit.

However, if I were BankSimple and you said what you and I have said to me, I'd respond that banks are crap at IT. I'd say that we (BankSimple) are basically a better IT department for your bank. We're going to create a banking technology stack that you'll enjoy using while getting you better rates than the large banks (BofA, Chase, etc.) offer you and better terms (like ATM refunds). We're going to do this by using wholesale banking offers from FDIC-insured institutions.

Will it work? Maybe. I'm skeptical. Refunding ATM fees and better terms are going to eat into margins a lot. The wholesale bank is going to take their margin. That doesn't leave much for good rates. Plus, some banks are starting to get good at IT. Wells Fargo and Bank of America have deposit-scanning ATMs. Chase has an iPhone app that lets you scan checks. When it comes to terms, I already have a bank that offers me 0.55% checking and 1.25% savings with ATM refunds.

It isn't an easy road for them, but what they're trying to do is create a better technology package for users. That might mean making a card that can do both credit and debit in one card - I've wanted that. That might mean NFC payments faster than banks will support them. That might mean better Mint.com-like tools than Mint. That might be the plainer, easier to understand language they're pushing.

And, even if they don't completely succeed with a retail venture, they might end up with a great OEM package for banks and credit unions to outsource their web and mobile technology stack to. Most small banks do outsource their interfaces and BankSimple might be creating the best OEM package for small banks (if/when their retail ventures fail) inadvertently in the process. I've seen plenty of banks with horrid web interfaces and very few allow for check scanning on either desktop or mobile. BankSimple could do well in the OEM market even if it fails to convince consumers of its retail ambitions.

/just to clarify, I'm not affiliated with BankSimple, it was just a pleasant way of phrasing that paragraph.
Enough with the upvotes. It's not that insightful.
> However, in IE4-7 the JS garbage collector isn't responsible for handling DOM nodes and vice versa.

It's a little sad that you don't expand on this, for those in the audience who do not know of this issue. So I will:

In IE up to IE7, Javascript lives in the jscript engine (equivalent to one V8, Tamarin, Rhino or what have you), but DOM objects are actually COM objects. COM objects are handled with a COM runtime, and there is an interface through which jscript interacts with COM.

MSIE4-7 has no issue with jscript circular references (it uses a mark & sweep GC, immune to the issue), and the COM engine ensures there are no issues with circular references in the DOM (COM uses refcounting but — as in Python for instance — has cycle detections).

Issues, as usual, arise at the boundary: if a jscript object has a reference to a (COM) DOM node, or a DOM node has a reference to a jscript object, it creates a foreign reference which will not be cleaned up until the holder object on the other side of the interface is done with.

For both garbage collectors, those foreign references are completely opaque, the only thing they know is that those exist but they have no way to know what happens on the other side of the jscript-COM interface. This means if there is a cycle crossing the boundary (twice), neither garbage collector is able to clean it up. And there is no Breach, able to take care of boundary issues such as this.

And it leaks.

A lot.

In fact, it leaks so much that a few years ago a tool was tested with the sole purpose of reloading a page and carefully monitoring the objects which fail to be cleaned: drip.
Does this application allows full customization as well, integration with 3rd party api's? Is the code available once you download the app?
I had a total of one customer until now, and that is not recurring so, 3 bucks. I was happy that day, though.
> I meant HN in the months before the change

me too, I'm about the same age-user as you.
Apple: An 'App Store' Is Not a Store for Apps
> Without carbs, your body overuses ketogenesis for energy, releasing toxic byproducts into the blood that cause kidney and liver damage.

This only happens in the case of ketoacidosis which is caused by things like type 1 diabetes and alcoholism. A ketogenic diet isn't inherently unhealthy (they use it very successfully to treat epilepsy in children).
I wouldn't say there's no way. It's not as though people can't reply to the memes and aggressive or otherwise poor comments and say, "This is HN, and we don't do that here. And this is why." And I think that for all the new kids, a fleshed-out explanation does far more than votes can, and you minimize the bandwagon effect that they're so prone to as well. Since a lot of these newbies are probably coming from Reddit et al, I think that's an important thing to minimize, because not only are the cultures of those sites different, but the voting, in the context of each community, is as well.
Yeah that would solve it. (even better, make the shade of colour relative to the number of votes deployed on that page. So it's indicative of the percentage of votes on the page, rather than some absolute value)
people want a change and a real democracy

Are you claiming elections in Spain are rigged? Or does "real democracy" mean "folks in power we approve of"?
It's very possible that I've eaten this in a dish but never knew what it was. Thanks - I like learning about things like this!
I'm not sure if this is still the case, but you used to have to make an account and log in to actually install an experimental add on. There was also a clear warning as well.

I definitely agree with setting a time limit, if feasible.
I'm pulling for BankSimple's success thanks to the abysmal nature of banking customer service. Hidden fees, long wait times on phone calls, ATM fees, ridiculous procedures to dispute charges...

With that said, how is BankSimple anything but a middleman? In my eyes, they fill one of two potential roles:

1. They're a customer service wrapper for banks, which means banks pay them to provide support. So banks are their customers, right?

2. They actually manage your money for you---a "broker for personal accounts." How do they generate revenue in this case?

#1 and #2 are both problematic. In a way, I'm the opposite of Aloisius: I clearly see BankSimple's benefits (Mint + support + SmartyPig), but I cannot understand how they will generate revenue while staying loyal to customers.
http://keynotopia.com/
http://www.heyryangiggs.com/ - I see the Streisand effect is in full force
"In Europe in general, and in the UK in particular, some reporting in the US is regarded with distaste, encroaching as it does on what the British regard as privacy, all in the name of "freedom of speech." "

Not true in my experience. The brits take second to nobody when it comes to prying into the lives of celebrities. Consider the british tabloid press, whose readers could care less about privacy as a principle. The british red-tops (and nattier dailies as well) enjoy tremendous readership, even though few brits profess to actually trust the journalists.

I have heard brits express puzzlement over why we care so much about the personal lives of politicians, which is strikingly ironic, given that the politicians are the ones with the ability to screw us.
Also more of Europe is plain old walkable or bikeable. When I lived in Oslo I didn't even own a car. In the states there are very few spots you can get by without a car. Even if I wanted to bike from my house to some places there flat out are not sidewalks in a lot of places. Walking is looked down at. There are plenty of blog entries of guys that go without a car even though they could afford it and find dating near impossible not because they live in a city, but because it is such a powerful signal here.
im building a site in the same niche as yours, we should connect.
I'd love to see someone like this be the first place to seamlessly incorporate a Bitcoin exchange into personal banking.
When has that happened though? Music, arguably the first form of media to go digital, has also gone non-DRM. What about the Internet, the largest collection of non-DRM information ever in the history of humankind? How about freely available lectures, via services like Open Courseware? Or distribution of virtually any kind of media via archive.org? That's not even going into non-legal methods of exchange.

For the content you want, there may one day be no alternative, but I find it unlikely. The trend through all of RMS's posturing and windbagging has been more and more free exchange of information than there ever has been.
And a duck isn't an orange. His point was that an OCR machine would be easier to make for the kindle--just have it press the paddles. His point was not that an existing OCR machine for books would work on a kindle.
And the average life expectancy of a caveman was what, maybe 20 years? Cavemen perished too soon to have to worry about the diet-related health problems that we deal with today.
I'll absolutely agree that its damn hard to do control what people are eating in experiments, but I disagree that exercise plays the role you say.

You can eat something in a single meal that will take SEVERAL HOURS on a treadmill to burn. It is incredibly easy for the number of calories you need to burn to pass the number of hours possible to exercise.
Starting is not an event
For individuals, e.g. blogs and the like; sure. Something which seems awfully like a company (it looks like they're trying to build a search engine); that's much dodgier to my mind.
This is hacker logic

I would expect it to be hacker logic, but I still don't agree. Company X hired a contractor to produce keys. Contractor Y produced more keys than he was authorized to produce, and sold them on the side. Are those additional keys "fraudulent"? Was he authorized to produce and sell any number of them as long as he paid for them? Clearly he had no intention of paying for these, but that doesn't make the keys he sold on the side any less valid than the keys he was authorized to produce. He is certainly liable for his contractual obligations (the money owed per key), which the article states the MBTA is trying to recoup.

The actual legal system will look at this like printing fraudulent checks on authentic check paper.

In this case, by the payroll company that was in charge of printing checks. Does that make them fraudulent? Is cashing them a crime? I would expect the payroll company to be liable for the damages, but I would not expect the company to be prosecuted for fraud.

You have picked a particularly poor example because an unauthorized check deprives the account holder of the value of a check. An unauthorized MBTA pass deprives the MBTA of the possible revenue that a customer purchasing a discounted pass might have contributed, and additionally increases the operating costs (generally fixed) of the MBTA by little to none.

specifically, hacker-who-is-committed-to-piracy-being-noncriminal logic.

To my knowledge, most piracy cases are civil cases. I don't recall any being prosecuted by the Attorneys General.

(EDIT: I am wrong. High value for-profit cases are prosecuted as criminal offenses by the FBI under Title 17 §506.)

The illegality of this is about as controversial a proposition as "Javascript is a programming language."

I don't know what kind of argumentation that is supposed to be, but it doesn't suit someone of your stature. This is a complex situation that few or none of us are properly equipped to resolve, but I still expect reasonable discussions, or else what's the point of being here?
Before the advent of the printing press books cost as much as a small home. Only the wealthy could afford them, and libraries were created to others could use them. Arguably you could say an actual book was more valuable than the material it contained, on average.

Before the advent of the personal computer, computers cost as least as much as a small home. Arguably you could say the computers time was more valuable than the people using them, and people shared them in research and industrial labs.

Both items have become many orders of magnitude cheaper and plentiful to the point of commoditization. eBooks are still competing with hard copy works so the price differential isn't quite there. But once that industry capitulates look for them to drop significantly.

Personally I like the scenario where a friend recommends me a book for $2 that I can purchase for $2 myself vs. him paying $10 and letting me borrow. I like to pay for things that bring value to my life, and in a way he's subsidizing my usage.
> so I didn't understand this bit:

That's because it's wrong.

> It was confusing because JavaScript uses mark-and-sweep collection, which can handle circular references just fine.

I don't think that's mandated, you could probably implement a refcounted JS interpreter.

> The problem is that the DOM is reference counted (at least in some browsers, at least back when that article was written). So, you can get memory leaks in cases where JS intersects with the DOM.

And the main culprit was, as is usually the case, Internet Explorer.
I believe it's more that the majority of the market was playing on the sites that were recently shut down. Less online players and play opportunities would correlate to a reduced interest in playing aid software.
and on that note, I'm not that impressed by this because it's mostly about what to do once you've got an app developed. It's pure marketing/ad/promotion stuff. Covered in slimy Google AdX goo.
from the associate: "One of the biggest misconceptions is the assumption that if someone is not a Partner, then he has no say in any of the decision-making process at the firm. Thinking that it is a waste of time to talk to Associates or that only the partners need to be on board is a potentially dangerous view for an entrepreneur to hold. Associates almost always have an influence on the decision made by the firm. Sometimes an Associate is the primary champion for the deal and other times they are responsible for doing most of the legwork required to determine which entrepreneurs are worth pursuing."

Agreed. Be yourself with associates, pitch to the partners
> Has this actually been tested? Does it really create a leak, and does the second code really eliminate it?

it does not create a leak in any modern browser. The only older browser in which it does is Internet Explorer, up to (and including) version 7.
I read entire novels on my laptop.
I know what I'm talking about when it comes to reading.
What you're saying is not obvious.
You can't use an Internet research to know how something feels.
I wasn't bashing anything. Please take the time to actually read what I write and don't assume I mean anything else than what I actually write.
Ancient life expectancy numbers are misleading because of very high infant mortality. And even if that weren't the case, your reasoning is faulty. I have more or less the same gut as a caveman, so it makes sense to eat what they were optimized for. The fact that we have surgery and antibiotics and aren't at significant risk of being eaten by saber-toothed tigers isn't relevant to diet.
There is no difference. That's why people who want to retain their sanity disallow Flash. And it's really fucking close that I don't disable all JS too.
I just started this in January so I thought I would give it some time to spread the word out with the low-pricing, then maybe make it more stable with a monthly fee.

Unfortunately I was selling this for about $200 and I wasn't getting any buyers at all, so I was forced to switch to a lower price.