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I'm one of the original downvotes, and I also (rather rudely) replied to one of your comments.

I think the reason for the squelching of most of the discussion was because the tone of the questioning comments _was_ pretty conspiratorial. Comments like "Bollocks. Pics or it didn't happen", comments that treat "the government" like one coherent person, accusing people who believe the story of acting in a way that's "unscientific" and undirected "look deeper" sentiment tend to get shot down pretty quickly. (Note that these weren't all made by the same person, but they all got downvoted in the same thread.)

The posts that started with "Why did they report that XYZ?", instead of "Why should we believe that this happened at all" generated pretty good discussion. The distinction is somewhat subtle, but it's important for community management.
The concepts outlined in the article remind me of Ubiquity (the Firefox addon), particulary its combination of the speed of a shell with the discoverability and ease-of-use of a GUI.

For the few months that I used Ubiquity extensively, I felt like that was what exactly how computer interaction was supposed to work. Too bad they abandoned the app.
chron.com is Houston's major newspaper. We're cheering for more NASA funding. :)

I love this comment:

The Bible didn’t say anything about god creating life on Mars.
Will Software Patents Force the US to Pass the Baton of Innovation to Europe?
Randi Zuckerberg Quits Job at Facebook
did they file a patent for the method and apparatus of untraceable money funneling? I'm wondering as "one day" companies is a widely used tool in Russian economy and thus there is "prior art" that would make the validity of the patent questionable, or if granted and enforced successfully the patent would be a strategic threat to the Russian economy.
A NYC Student's thoughts on NYC rivaling Silicon Valley
For anyone starting to go through SICP, there's a collaborative class on Curious Reef working on it: http://curiousreef.com/class/structure-and-interpretation-of...
I didn't know there was none in Gnome 3. That's a dealbreaker, I think it's an essential app(let).
Staring at this website may make your brain melt
Different people learn differently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles#Fleming.27s_VAK...
Oh, one more thing in the footer - the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service links don't go anywhere. But it looks great otherwise!
I simply cannot understand how Google can be so short sighted about this. The simple questions: what about an in-the-closet gay teen? or what about a domestic violence survivor? should make their whole stack of cards fall down.

They should have thought these things themselves. In fact, they should have been so obvious that this conversation would be unimaginable.

I don't get it.
I absolutely agree that trading is socially useful, and markets would be much less liquid if we didn't have big companies ready to stand as counter-party to whatever buying and selling smaller market players want to do. It just makes me a bit sad that the profits that rightfully accrue to the sector are then seemingly wasted on HFT infrastructure, a competition that doesn't seem to provide anything useful above the standard market-making role.
What is the point of publishing if you have nothing interesting (yet) to say? He is talking about developing a voice before you scream.
Seriously? Remember, we all started as microbes.

Finding any life outside our planet would be a huge discovery; even if it's billions of years away from growing legs, we could learn so much about life in its early stages, which could answer some big questions about our own evolution.
It's extraordinary to me that you continue argue that a vehicle has a "right" to initiate a move out of their lane into a volume of space legally occupied by another vehicle.

> The truck driver does have a right to move into his blind spots if he has taken sufficient precautions to ensure that they are safe.

On the contrary, if someone is in his blind spot when he moves over, he has, by definition, failed to take "sufficient" precaution. The car not being legally responsible if the truck moves over into the area legally occupied by the car is what absolves it from fault. There's an entire industry of ambulance chasers profiting off the truck driver's absolute fault, and a phonebook size book of underhanded procedures the trucking companies try to use to duck that absolute fault.

Unless, of course, the driver crossed under his trailer from the other side, Fast and Furious style.

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

> If you get hit by a truck and die, you're still dead regardless of who's at fault.
Which, incidentally, is exactly what I've been saying this entire time.

That statement is correct on its face, and doesn't raise any argument at all.
Reminds me of TheDraw! :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw
Would this not be compensated in the end-to-end TCP checksumming? And couldn't the traffic to bit-squatting domains be accounted for by the myriad bots that constantly scan the web on port 80?
For what it's worth, I have been using Groove and have been loving it. I briefly looked into other options and the decision to go with Groove ended up being a no brainer - it's beautiful, it's made for people who want to hit the ground running (no learning curve) and most importantly, Alex is a fantastic guy. I don't know him personally...so I'm not just vouching for a friend, but he is extremely professional and ALWAYS receptive to all of the crazy feedback that I throw his way. As a 'customer', I can't think of a time that I've ever felt this special and appreciated. Great job guys!
I guess what got me thinking about it is because physical oil/gas traders have demurrage clauses in the contracts which kick in when a tanker is unable to offload its cargo by a certain time. This translates port congestion directly into hard cash that has to change hands, so for this specific problem that class of traders do very much care about the efficiency of the shipping patterns.
The styles for some of the languages seem quite different, had an issue with a translation from the French wikipedia being very informal in style, compared to English...
A Storm is coming: more details and plans for release
Because Mars is rather close to Earth. It's going to be very exciting to see what Europa offers us.
They don't deny recreating cookies.
There are actually many incredibly obscure articles that are created on Wikipedia which rightly deserve to be deleted for not meeting the pretty reasonable notability criteria.

There are also way too many articles with either no sources at all or with really crappy or biased sources. If the articles are obscure enough, they often never even get challenged or deleted. Many of those that do get challenged or deleted deserve to be.

The real problem comes in when articles which really are notable and information from sources which are credible get deleted for ideological, political, or other biased reasons (though, of course, the people doing the deletion will always claim otherwise). Wikipedia really has no good solution for this than letting the parties involved argue it out, or draw in more editors/admins (who have their own biases) in to the argument.

What usually emerges from these arguments is not "neutrality" or "objectivity", but rather a biased point of view of those people who managed to out-Wikilawyer, outnumber, or outlast the other side.
Sure does. (In fact, we're implementing some extra features for those who choose to pay.)
Yes. SICP is a profound work. I'd argue that it is a profound experience too. As is GEB (Godel Escher Bach). They are both a mind altering typeset form of LSD.
It would be nice if we had some screencasts of the winners at work.
Silicon Valley and the Immigration System
True, but again, it's about variation from that individual's norm. A groundball pitcher will naturally have a good BABIP relative to others. If one year it's abnormally high for that person's history, though, it doesn't necessarily reflect an improvement in skill, though often these kinds of upticks in luck result in huge contracts.

*fixed a typo
They are great lectures. Better by several orders of magnitude than the ones I sat through at university.
DNS is not a TCP protocol.
It's closer and we have so much evidence already on other phases of water (vapor and ice). This excites people since it will be the closest source of water outside of Earth and could be the motivation to send Man over there.

Europa is so much further and just to look for the fish would require equipment to penetrate the surface for the off chance there is water underneath.
POLL: Will You Buy Any .XXX Domain Names?
Do you plan on purchasing any .XXX domain names when they become available for development or re-sale?
Lists of resources of newly funded startups?
I'm searching for an opportunity to work with a very early stage venture, and am looking to work close with a strong foundational team for very cheap. My motivation is much more as a learning opportunity and a chance to develop a good working rapport - since I am new to SF, as opposed to making a lot of personal income. Does anyone have some advice for someone like me (non-tech, learning RoR though), like a list of recently funded start ups (like a ycombinator graduate class, etc.) that could use some cheap help from a recent grad? Thanks!
Google has been claiming the pseudonyms are a feature that they haven't implemented yet. It was just easier for them to avoid abuse in this early stage by enforcing real names. http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/07/google-plus-pseudonyms.html
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Definitely not conspiracy.

AirBnB is probably flailing around trying to figure out what is the best way to get to turn around this month long PR nightmare.

Orphan blog post probably sounded like a brilliant idea, until it hit hacker news and everyone sniffed it out.
Website Image Display System (help)
Hey all,

Asking for some insight/advice here. For my job, I need an image display system that features expandable thumbnails. Once the thumbnails are expanded, there needs to be the possibility to comment on the image and "like" it (or something along those lines). The "like" needs to be part of a rating system that displays the more popular images at the top of the page. A 4x4 thumbnail layout is desirable and possibly a geographic tag feature for each thumbnail image as well. I've been exploring a few options and it seems like jquery is quite popular, but I was curious to see if anyone knew of an existing product that was user friendly (or just had any advice or insight).

I really appreciate any help offered!

Thanks!
I think my favorite, horrible quote on this is from Facebook's marketing directory, Randi Zuckerberg:

...People hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want

Well, how dare people say what they want.
Google is not leveraging its search monopoly by giving away Android
The Social Engineering Toolkit v2.0 Released ~ Insecure Stuff
Ask HN: Is there a market for this? Buy and sell game components.
Google Responds To Microsoft’s "Gotcha": They’re Diverting Attention
I really liked his thoughts on this. While I understand social media is a powerful form of promotion, its not the be all end all, there is more too it, especially when you do something outside of social media that you are promoting. The part about going for the little applause was great, you get hooked on each tweet, each video, each blog post and its performance in regards to audience reaction, instead of the entire body of work you've created. It has the ability to chop your "art" into micro bits, because it has got to fit inside the constraints of social media. In a way you become your product, it sounds like he stopped being a musician and was selling John Mayer on Twitter, it wasn't about the music anymore.

Which is kind of hard to stop doing, because its what the majority of the internet audience wants. Jeri Ellsworth made an interesting statement about the electronics/hacks she creates, the audience likes the simple ones, and don't care much about the much more technical and in depth videos she creates. The audience to some effect seems to be only interested in the short and simple. Which I would imagine, if John Mayer spent all his social media time, talking about music, and music theory, and the kind of things you would think someone would want to know from a talented artist, I doubt he'd have the followers. Where as, if he sticks to the one liners, and small talk, its vastly more popular.

As for the mental changes is causes, I fully understand this. I've read a bit about how the human brain changes according to how it is use. And also, when I was still blogging, I noticed an interesting change in myself. I started consuming the world in a "how can I blog this" sort of way. Anything even remotely interesting that happened, instead of me enjoying the life experience, quickly turned to, how can I phrase this on my blog? The short time I was on Twitter, I found I spent more mental capacity, sorting through my thoughts to Twitterize them, than on the actual thoughts. If you're famous for social media, that is great. If your a musician, author, electrical engineer, etc, it has the side effect of changing how you think, and then how you create, if you focus on it too much.
Perogies and peas. Not so much because it makes me creative, but because it's just about the fastest thing I can make which isn't terrible for me. I boil the perogies and the peas together for ~5 minutes, and they're done. Cleanup is as simple as rubbing a sponge on a practically-already-clean pot.

You could substitute other vegetables, but I've found that of the frozen vegetables at my grocery store, peas taste the best. Also, peas tend to have more nutritional value than corn.
I got this idea by wanting to create an iPhone game, but I don't have thousands of dollars on to spend on a graphic designer nor the creative skills to draw characters. The marketplace would make it easier for people to create games.
Stocks Take Nose Dive On Economic Fears
Website position in a Google search + page rank 5 back link
Slidifier - create online presentations with markdown like syntax
I read the story and I enjoyed it. But I immediately wondered where he was getting some of his very detailed nuggets. There's no doubt that this was written to give most readers the impression that SEALs were, in some form, primary sources. So now we know, definitely, they weren't.

The real question: how in the heck did the New Yorker vet this thing, from a fact-checking standpoint? The New Yorker has what's likely the most venerable fact-checking process in the magazine business. Most magazines have dismantled much of their dedicated fact-checking staffs to cut costs. The New Yorker, however, has soldiered on (as far as I know). So how were these details squared? How is it possible to ensure veracity of details, such as those fingering the events inside the helicopter, without a primary source?

I tend to believe much of the spirit of the story. But this is not a ripping book account of the raid (where more liberties are expected to be taken), this is the New Yorker. It will be interesting to see how this unfolds...
I'd argue that that would be a really bad idea. You can't be a good software engineer without having a good grasp of Computer Science.
When I was in college I was browsing the library and I just grabbed this book on a whim. Had no idea what it was or that it was so famous. Began reading and got hooked, so I checked it out. Next thing I knew I had read the whole book and done most of the exercises. Not to be too dramatic, but it was a turning point in my understanding of programming.
Page views and site visitors are usually different metrics. I don't know how the Airbnb stats are calculated, but I'm guessing you've had fewer than 246 visitors—which means your conversion rate would be higher than 1%.
Could someone explain the reason why the "learn x the hard way" method has been so popular around here? I keep seeing the name thrown around, but haven't had a chance to look into it yet.
You are absolutely right and I have no idea why you are being downvoted. When is the last time anyone has done IRC in the browser?

What this widget does is potentially bring Facebook Chat or Gmail style Chat to your site. That's worthwhile.
This sucks. Why should I have to depend on a website to be able to use my hardware in whatever way I desire? What's next, making a request on a website to leave your house? Don't want too many people outside all at once, don't ya know...

Oh well. As long as they keep writing their bootloader and OS code in unsafe languages, official unlocks will continue to be unnecessary.
The New Yorker has been the publisher of the best investigative journalism about the wars, and so it does seem like quite a change that it would publish a sloppy article that implied a firsthand account when none existed.
Italy did not exist then as a country. It was unified by Garibaldi in 1861. Portugal is older, Spain, depends how you count it, but it was Castile and Aragon until 1469, and Granada was reconquered in 1492...
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http://500suniverse.com/
Open Source Google App Engine: AppScale version 1.5
Isn't this standard post Citizen's United?

Remember, when people can throw millions around under the table without any record of it in order to get favors with your tax dollars, that's Freedom.
Quote from the page you linked:

"He also says they are working on ways to handle pseudonyms, but that will be a while before the team can turn on those features"

I don't understand. Wouldn't the implementation of this "feature" just boil down to not deleting or disabling people's accounts when they sign up with a pseudonym?

I just don't see why this would take so much effort to do. I really don't see why implementing this particular feature would take all of the effort and energy that they seem to be indicating.
Sure, but her point still stands: the disclosure should've been upfront, and the gripping quality of the narrative should've been toned down in the name of precision. The writer is very careful to note his sourcing, and a very careful reader would see that certain declarative statements are coming from the specops officer, or of, say, "A former helicopter pilot with extensive special-operations experience..."

It's not to say that these background sources are wrong. But they're getting pretty filtered info...the after-action report which consists of the compiled recollection of the actual operators.

Again, that report may be 100% truth, and it may even contain known unknowns and concerns of the operators. But can the spec ops officer who talked to the reporter be trusted to have summarized that summary correctly?

Let's say Obama was the New Yorker's secret source. No one would argue that he is not an authoritative and extremely important source regarding the OBL killing. But he is just one source, far removed from the action (remember that there was no helmet cam or otherwise-indoor video), with a definite vested interest in having the first detailed examination of the incident looking good for the WH.
Don't get the negativity. Is there a Javascript-API scriptable, browser-based IRC client out there?
For more information see http://appscale.cs.ucsb.edu and the code site at http://code.google.com/p/appscale
Edamame. Very tasty and nutritious, http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable...
Do you have an estimate for when you'll announce pricing?
I think that autocomplete, as is known from programming editors (IDE's) would work really well for discoverability in a text based shell. I don't know if anyone have tried to implement that?
Are you sure you want to use your real name on this blog? You are advertising the fact that you are breaking the law in San Francisco (short term rental without a license) and violating your lease (subletting your apartment).
It can be either TCP or UDP. Regardless, UDP has a checksum as well.

The likelihood of a bit-flip is very uncommon. Even taking into account the volume of computers out there, the likelihood of a bit-flip at the exact spot (in the domain name) and moment of a DNS lookup (before the checksum is calculated) is astronomically uncommon. This article is garbage.
What's crazy is that they think it's some sort of race when they have no barriers to entry (either natural or fabricated)... so they rush in an stake all this land... what's to keep LivingSocial (backed by Amazon) from just taking it from Groupon (ie, by higher marketing spend or lower margins)?

Groupon as it exists is completely running on vapors and wishful thinking.
When Corporations Have Better Credit Ratings
The "interpretation of computer programs" part is nice to know, in my opinion. But the book gives a whirlwind tour of a sizeable chunk of computer science on the way, and the examples are concise to the point of being beautiful. Great book. Used it to learn clojure along the way.
Yes, she (edit: fixed gender) phrased it badly. The sentiment I think he was trying to convey is valid, though -- "People feel like they can create a hostile environment because they are anonymous".

People seem to think that anonymity is a license to act like an asshole. That's not conducive to producing a fairly pleasant, troll-free environment.
Good point. Access to a confidential source (Obama, a seal, a parent, etc.) would seem to motivate the author to point out its nature and possible fallibility of the account while still enjoying the license to use the account as the basis for a gripping article.

That this author did not do the former suggests a lack of precision that is quite unlike the New Yorker, particular insofar as the subtle "tropes" that its articles occupy are concerned. Even a byline like "Rumors from Pakistan" could have allowed the article to be appreciated at face value without the claim to factual detail that was made.
The proportion of cargo moved by truck has increased significantly in the past 40 years, for no good reason. Of course transport by truck is needed for the last leg (into cities). It's not needed to move the majority of the interstate cargo currently being moved this way.
The key to it all is this quote: “Real names” policies aren’t empowering; they’re an authoritarian assertion of power over vulnerable people.

People who, like me, are privileged white Americans can easily afford to use our real names, although I don't. What Google will get if they keep this policy is only people who don't care. Blacks, Latinos, rape, abuse, and stalking victims, people who have something controversial to say, gays, people in repressive countries won't join. It'll be a nice Stepford village.
Great thanks Rob!
you can find web position in 160 countries
I think what is implied is that they feel they can say whatever they want without thinking about the consequences.

This topic has recently become the subject of much discussion here in Norway, as recent events have brought more attention to the anonymous racist comments (and harassment) that are quite often found on public forums (such newspaper websites, etc.) There are some who claim that expecting people to sign their real names to their comments would raise the level of discourse, as people would have to take some responsibility for their speech.
Apple heading towards inevitable decline says EA founder
One reason would be that the cost of their warranty is based around the user having only restricted access, leading to less claims.

Once you brick your phone with a broken bootloader/firmware update, that should really be your problem, not theirs (and if the changes to their warranty specify that, them I'm fine with it)

Of course, I'd hope that there's some recourse for updating regardless of bootloader condition (JTAG, etc), but I can't imagine they're required to provide that.

The fact that they're willing to officially support this is a pretty good step when everyone seems to be going the other way into more and more lockdown.
I would buy it for Kindle!