skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was Freakonomics that theorized that abortion was the cause of the drop in crime (which occurred nationwide as it was happening in NYC, though not to the same degree). Gladwell has debated with the authors of Freakonomics (primarily the economist Steven Levitt) about this.

See
http://gladwell.typepad.com/gladwellcom/2006/03/thoughts_on_..., http://www.freakonomics.com/2006/03/09/malcolm-gladwell-on-t..., http://gladwell.typepad.com/gladwellcom/2006/03/levitt_and_d...
I was thinking that. If you rent some private security guards for an hour, show up at his door with overwhelming evidence that he has your stolen laptop, make a pony show for him about how he's 1 minute away from you handing it all over to the police and him getting arrested, but if he gives it back you'll cut him a break ... I think you'd probably get it back safely.
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I agree that colleges are really expensive and they are getting more expensive by day. This still does not take away the fact that college education and, in larger context, the existence of (high-reputation) Universities, is vital to society. The solution is to make colleges less expensive somehow, not to replace colleges with unregulated mentorships (which as I said earlier, will be effective only in hands of good mentors). There are numerous countries where college education is highly subsidized by the Government (example, India, where I went to college -- paid a total of $120/year as fees, for a top college). Universities also employ many scientists as professors and have a very good research output, that certainly has a bearing on our scientific progress.
Macjournal. It's alright, although I wish the hierarchical folder structure was more customizable.
It's a little slicker than intents since it's one click when you're logged in. It dumps you to the normal intent page when not logged in, though.
I enjoy how the alleged "stolen" macbook pro has absolutely nothing on the dock. This story is becoming less and less realistic and more and more like a plug of "Hidden".
What on earth functional laptop are you running for 80GBP? I've a Lenovo T60 which cost £300 refurbished. Had to get extra Ram, HDD and HDD bay. I really wouldn't want anything with a smaller feature set so I'm kinda intrigued!
Its a category I think of as 'hard interfaces' to soft data.

I agree that its a bit too light weight to make into a business just yet as there are easy substitutions (GCalendar and Exchange offer similar functionality) But as a subscription service / API for another web property to hook into (a middleware layer if you will) it might get some traction with an e-vite or a Meetup type site.
Reminds me of the koan, "Wash the dishes when you are washing the dishes."
Thank you for that Eric Mazur talk -- it really captures what I see. In particular the part where he talks about how his students, at Harvard, were solving triple integrals of complicated bodies to calculate the moment of inertia -- yet they didn't have basic high school level intuition of Newtonian physics.

We're so "drill, drill, drill" focused that we lose sight of why we're doing the drills (Eric Mazur calls it "plug and chug"). It's possible that these drills will in rare instances create the likes of a Colin or an Andrew Wiles, but for virtually everyone else you have a group of students that can solve triple integrals, multiple 5 digit numbers in their head, factor matrices into any form desired -- yet not have a clue why.
I'm looking at EtherPad, and it doesn't seem to offer a huge benefit. I'm not really concerned with WYSIWYG features, or whole-file versioning, rather, I'd like to see when I last added or modified a line, and possibly have it auto-convert dashes to checkboxes (I use - to indicate a new item, and x to indicate a finished item).
Future-Proof your Database  Change Log
4chan & /b/ An Analysis of Anonymity & Ephemerality in a Large Online Community
WHO Panel: 'Limited Evidence' Suggests Cell Phones 'Possibly Carcinogenic'
The question was how to allow clients to form a new consensus. I did not suggest using Bitcoins to verify transactions; rather, I suggested using verified transactions to verify the will of the Bitcoin community.
I think the system can and should be adopted for young programmers who would rather dive in than go to college, or even for college grads.

Structure it exactly like a kitchen in the fine dining world. Young commis chefs start with learning products and techniques by doing the low-level prep work. After that's mastered, they graduate to garde-manger where they generally are in charge of cold apps, soups and sometimes more. Not only does this expand their technique repertoire and palate but it introduces the concept of being responsible for your dishes, with no excuses. This continues around every station, with the cook learning more and being responsible for more as they continue.

While this is hard to reproduce exactly in a tech startup, it certainly wouldn't be hard to take on an apprentice who starts at the bottom and learns the basics under the mentorship of a more experienced developer while learning more and taking more on.
Google Translate API shutting down.
Debating the Value of College in America
Yeah all I see is genius plug for Hidden. This thing has some virality too. Good for them.
I agree. That is close to what I argued here -

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2604734
Thanks for your awesome comment.

Personally, I'm not familiar with these exact games, so perhaps I didn't grasp the full weight/level of competition they encouraged.

I do agree with you that learning anything requires a level of comfort prior to applying what you know. My assumption is that such a comfort would be achieved prior to using a competition as practice.

Food for thought, thanks.
this is correct - I've tried to reach out to CL ads to obtain early customers for a web app that would seem to solve their problem (and I'm very honest about it, saying it's our app), but it gets flagged as solicitation, with a note to post it elsewhere.
Found via Google Search:

http://www.vacationrentalscommunity.com/forums/t/2767.aspx
Note that this is a subject Louis Menand, the writer of this piece, has discussed extensively in his book The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in American Universities, which I wrote about in depth here: http://jseliger.com/2010/01/21/problems-in-the-academy-louis... .
Apple releases Mac OS X update to catch MAC Defender malware
It is not generally perjorative. Some people interpret it as automatically perjorative, feeling that any syntactic sugar must necessarily carry costs in excess of benefits, but they are in the minority. Sizable minority, but minority.

Concentrations of people who dislike all syntax sugar can be found in the Forth community and concatenative languages in general, Lisp, and to a lesser extent, in the Haskell community. People who think syntax sugar is the answer to everything can be found in the Perl 5 community, and Perl 6 is arguably syntax sugar spun into cotton candy, hardened, and used to build a glorious gossamer castle in the sky, which they are currently working on landing. I have taken this metaphor too far.
For the record, I don't think this is that bad of a thing. If all of this is actually true (I'm not 100% sure it is), then it's certainly not on the level "actual spammers" perform at. Spam is basically unwanted and harmful advertising, and nobody complains when someone gets e-mailed an actual useful relevant thing out of nowhere. If the thing you're being e-mailed is more relevant than the ads GMail is showing you then I'm not sure you have a right to complain too much. Sure it may feel slightly off, but calling them "completely unethical" is going slightly too far.
It was somewhat difficult to get pics of it, as it is a compact space, but I took a shot at it. (Pardon the pun.)

The "door" from my storage room:
http://hikingdave.smugmug.com/photos/i-KNkxxsb/0/M/i-KNkxxsb...

Looking in... Sorry that it is blurry, but you can see that is a not a huge space. I have a gaming chair to sit on, and I keep a big blanket in there. It gets cold, even in summer:
http://hikingdave.smugmug.com/photos/i-kpfwhfL/0/M/i-kpfwhfL...

The actual setup. 2 monitors, a laptop table, and my work laptop:
http://hikingdave.smugmug.com/photos/i-Lxmh7hZ/0/M/i-Lxmh7hZ...
Community Doesn’t Come for Free
They're both free apps.. The only difference is that clicks in Gold cost $99, as opposed to 99c.
The complexities of licensing
Manhattan Associates talks to Global Logistics Media (Video)
What I don't get is this: With more than 5 Billion people using mobile phones, according to the article, wouldn't we have already seen the first waves of a tumor epidemic?

I understand that children are particularly susceptible and the trend in children getting phones is a recent one. But mobile phones have been available en masse for over 20 years -- (I've had one for 15 years) -- so you would think that adults who have had phones for most of that time would have been exposed enough for there to be some obvious effect.
The author already claims he has access to professional spamming tools. All he has to do is spam people on craigslist pretending to be AirBnB in a way that can't be traceable to AirBnB. Then he writes an article complaining about AirBnB and asks "why would they hide behind shady tactics?"

You get maximum impact if you wait two years and post when your competitor gets really big so everything is forgotten and really untraceable.
Everyone's focused on the ethics here, but if this is indeed what AirBnB was doing, isn't it a massive (and repeated) violation of Federal laws on unsolicited emails (for one thing, you're required to identify yourself properly) and likely other rules as well? What this article alleges isn't just questionable marketing practices, it's potentially deceptive / illegal marketing.
Twitter to have systemwide integration in iOS 5?
the language they built and let everyone in the world use for free powers sites from wikileaks to whitehouse.gov, and its simplicity allowed a lot of non-programmers to write working code and sometimes even start new careers. so it is possible to be too uncharitable about them.

that decision, though, is unfortunate IMHO. esp seeing that the userland votes are overwhelmingly pro while the devs are con.
If courtesy means giving undeserved benefit of the doubt, I'm all for discourtesy. This is about rational discourse.

The statement that "It's like they don't even _want_ to fix the language" is inaccurate. It does not relate to the state of things in the real world.

Accusing the developers of some warped intent to keep it in a broken state is an understandable expression of frustration, but it does nothing to advance our discussion and contributes to a misunderstanding of the situation.
I got robbed in Brooklyn the exact same way a few weeks ago, but nobody was watching over my car. :(
What would be your syntax when you mix them? Which is perfectly legal to do:

array(1, 'bar' => TRUE, 3, 'baz' => 'socks');

But I do like this syntax idea.
This really highlights what is wrong with Wikipedia:
Communication - if you can't talk* about solutions and translate them into code that others can work with, learn from, maintain, etc. then whatever else you have doesn't matter. Your impact will be limited to that you can directly touch. You will never be great.

* "talk" most of the time means "listen and understand".
No problem. In fact, the second I wrote that message, it stopped from sending new confirmation messages. I think it happened because I toggled off/on a message.. Is that possible?
Thoughts on Competition Now That I found a Direct Competitor
IIRC in PHP every array is internally a hash (ie "associative array"), so $bar is {0:1, 1:2, 2:3} in any case?
Since those IDs are just the IDs of the tweets underneath, I don't think it has much to do with the elegance of this solution, per se.

Perhaps it would be cleaner use the Flickr approach to set URL naming:

/<item-id>/in/<set-id>/
Gmail has started suggesting friends to 'consider including' on emails. Personally, this has resulted in both me and my ex getting some very uncomfortable suggestions recently for whom to consider including in correspondence. It hasn't suggested we email each other, which would be forgivable, but a third party whom I had never directly emailed. And it highlighted for me what I consider to be a major problem with Google's social initiatives, which is that they've collected and employed this 'social' data in a completely antisocial way--behind your back, when you're using unrelated services. And it might be clever, but it can get very creepy.
Tmuxinator: Managing complex tmux sessions
In my case, 'flip the cutlery before placing it in the dishwasher.'

But yeah. The problem isn't that learning is unenjoyable, but that we don't enjoy it enough.
Good question. Originally I did do it all myself, I installed it and I had replication and all that set up, but it fell over and until you have a bunch of experience that means you're a noob who has to dick around in Google and IRC looking for answers for every simple problem, while part or all of your platform is broken.

Our servers are already in multiple datacenters which means we can either maintain our own multi-dc MongoDB cluster (not really an option w/ me at the wheel) or we have to eat some latency anyway.

In my opinion it's cheaper + easier to let MongoHQ handle it all, and latency .. as long as it's measured in milliseconds it's acceptable compared to doing it all myself.
> Americano is a based on the GWT-Presenter project...

And it shows: Javadoc-style function docs (leading to valuable comments like "eventName: The name of the event you wish to fire"), a class for storing "registered factories" for dependency injection, a base class for event handlers...

This is obviously a very early project, and I don't want to be too hard on it. But I don't think this will have much appeal outside of people who are only conversant in Java design patterns, rather than those of JavaScript. Just because CoffeeScript offers classes doesn't mean it's Java.
Do We Have Too Many Filters, Or Not Enough?
He has a full time job at Microsoft. You would be lucky to get 4 hours a day out of him.
Why Square could be one of the greatest Trojan Horses in recent tech history
I'm not sure I'd pay for this, given I already have Remember the Milk and Google Calendar. But I do agree that all elevator pitches are improved by adding "in your pants".
Off topic -- Where is the 'Edit' button on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic#Evidential_basis
?

The article doesn't say it's locked, but I see no edit button.

I was trying to replace "Opinions differ as to the efficacy of chiropractic treatment" with "Opinions differ as to the ability of chiropractic treatment to produce an effect", because I have a grudge against overly complicated language.
If you dig a little, the decision to delete the article on MogileFS was made by an editor with "schizoaffective disorder", despite plenty of great argument in favor of keeping the page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Secret
Just count in binary, everything will be easier.

110 * 111 = 101010

Very easy, don't you think? :)
The changes made in New York bore fruit within a few years.

The trends you're referring to take decades. And don't seem to have worked in Oakland.
Plus points for the Cavern love ;-)

Never really had any trouble in Exeter - couple of pushy situations, but that's about it. One of my mates at Exeter Uni (99-02) was Asian and was subjected to some dreadful abuse. It seems to have got better in the last 10 years though.
It's just a button, is this really worth the hoopla? I find it funny how Twitter can make the deal out of the most ordinary thing, like Fail Whale and of course the "Follow Button".
Versus having a coworker (or actor) take a few photos with it, and never having it stolen?
Have you tried using Firefox?

Everything you like about Chrome is in Firefox (ok, you'll have to use Firefox 5 beta for the tab closing behavior) if you install two extensions (for the expose and unified search).

Seems like most of the things you hate about Chrome are at least better in Firefox as well. (Though to be fair, they could be a much different experience on a Mac than I am experiencing on Windows.)
It's been a long time since I did any PHP, but are trailing commas illegal? Normally, it seems like languages follow one of these two patterns, depending on whether their syntax allows extraneous commas or not:

foo = [
'first',
'second',
'third',
]

or

foo = [ 'first'
, 'second'
, 'third'
]

The difference between those two examples and yours being that when you want to add a new entry, you only have to edit the line of the entry, rather than having to edit the line before the entry (to put in the comma) as well as the line that you care about. Just an idle question, really.

EDIT: pull unnecessary commentary
Will there be a way for developers to write their own triggers and actions?
yes, I get that - my point is, I don't think any of the apps i have installed are using it.
That risk certainly isn't just restricted to passive-aggressive people.

It's an issue with a lot of people from more polite cultures or higher context cultures than your own. They likely are giving indications of their discomfort. Unfortunately askers are usually oblivious to those indications and barrel on ahead anyway.
I hear you, however this is a competitive issue. It's an offense to craigslist by airbnb on craigslist, not an offence from person A to person B via craiglist. I suppose the first issue to look at is whether harvesting and then spam is against the terms of service. The content of those emails isn't genuine, Jill and Sarah aren't real people, they cannot judge the beauty of the properties they proclaim to have seen. It wouldn't be completely Winklevossing for craiglist to be pissed off.

If they turked each property one-by-one, I think that might be fair game.
Using DataMapper and Rails with Legacy Schemas
And this is one of the pitfalls of testing things internally at a company like Google.

There are a lot of important use cases in social networks around "me and my recent ex", but within a corporation you'll be unlikely to run into them. (Similar issues caused a lot of complaints for Google buzz.)
Unfortunately, that's not how it works. The "miners" are really "transaction settlers". It's the longest block chain that represents the globally consistent view of which transactions have settled.
Is it really expensive to implement?
Terrific idea, force them to answer a question too before continuing. Another good test would be for 'strong' or 'weak' typing, linking to this: http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/an-old-article-i-wro...
"But in the grand scheme of things, when you are a tiny start up struggling to survive, this is a relatively benign grass roots attempt at marketing which the AirBNB guys even probably regret doing."

Hmm. Maybe. If you built a billion dollar business would you look back and regret a part of it that may have been instrumental to your success?

I'm definitely not excusing them for their actions but if I were in their position, I don't know if I could honestly say I would've regretted the past.
For being JSONish it should be

$foo = {
bar: TRUE,
baz: 'socks'
};

where keys are unquoted. The less typing the better.
This is true of anything.

People die in car accidents. People die in plane crashes. People die in Space Shuttle crashes. People die from heart disease. People slip and fall in the shower and then die. People die for no reason at all.

Some day, you will die. If you try to prevent yourself from dying, you will fail.
preyproject
Open Cures: An Initiative to Speed Clinical Development of Longevity Science
Yes, we are really looking forwarding to being able to open it up as a platform. Working as fast as we can :)
It's only what, $8000? A drop in the ocean for Lodsys, and $1000 isn't going to do anything for these developers.
Apple would not get an injunction, but it could get a declaratory judgment. Apple could get a judgment for invalidity or non-infringement.

You are right though, legally Apple is in a different position from the app developers that are being sued, and that probably poses some problems. The terms of Apple's license with Lodsys might hamstring some of their arguments. Apple might not even have standing to get a judgment of non-infringement. On the other hand, if Apple had filed for declaratory judgment, it could have chosen a venue other than the Eastern District of Texas, the plaintiff-friendly federal court that Lodsys chose.

It's a complicated decision for Apple, and it's more than just choosing to stand up for developers or not. Apple was probably in the process of evaluating the strength of their position when Lodsys rushed the issue to the courthouse.
AirBnB is not a "Billion Dollar Company." Investment is not revenue or profit. The revenue numbers I heard are in the 5-10 million range.

When AirBnB posts a billion dollars in revenue, then it will be a "Billion Dollar Company."
Both are excellent points. IWB holsters are primarily used for the purpose of concealment so to see the handle sticking out of someones waistband would be somewhat unusual. I probably wouldn't use an iwb without a jacket so the jacket would have to open for it to be visible.
Because guns fire projectiles over the speed of sound, whereas people with hammers run at about the same speed I do.
Well one way to look at it if you are not pissing people off you are not doing it right. Personally do not care much about karma, other then the real kind. this is more group think.
> Do these "modern pharmaceutical manufacturing standards" actually buy us
> extra safety?

They certainly buy us jobs for bureaucrats. Recently the FDA confiscated all of
the birthing pools (related to the surge in popularity of water births).
Apparently inflatable pools should be classified as 'medical devices.' To quote
the FDA, "pregnacy is an illness and birth is a medical procedure."
I found the article irritating. He trisects reasons for colleges into three categories, which he sees as worthy goals, but which I paraphrase from a critical perspective thus:

1. Society is a machine that trains worker ants for roles in production which serves the goals of the society. The efficient operation of this machine requires that intellectual knowledge workers be identified, tested, corralled into specialties with a certification which is accurate and uniform so that factories can employ known quality product cogs to place in their production lines.

2. People are stupid and lazy and do not like to learn things. College forces them to learn things so they will not be so stupid no more.

3. People need specific technical skills and training to do technical jobs from nursing to product design. Colleges need to provide uniform quality vocational training to accomplish this end.

He also dismisses much of the research that shows colleges do not teach much critical thinking by suggesting that if a measurement gives a surprising result, the measurement is wrong since we know the result should be otherwise.

These are the arguments of a desperate man who does not understand humans or what education is.

This all said, I was fascinated and amazed that his three reasons for college match up with the criticism of educational reformers such as John Gatto, who argues that the problem with contemporary education is that it trains factory workers, performs vocational education and assumes people hate learning and must be forced to learn things when in fact people actually are built to learn and will pursue it naturally unless their spirit is crushed by institutionalized forced schooling.
Well it certainly hasn't been standard for all that long. I do not have dates handy, but I can remember a time in the not too distant past where Safari was the only browser that processed color profiles. It was actually a huge pain in the ass because you'd think something was working correctly and then later realize you hadn't stripped the color profile when you loaded it in Safari.
Prey gets the location of the computer using Google, I believe.