skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point here is really about what you might call advertising economies of scale -- if one good nets its producer $10 per sale and another $100/sale but the price and effectiveness of advertising are the same, it's much more exciting to advertise the second than the first. Google is segmenting these markets in a way that newspapers and tv can't: only one person can buy the top keyword per search, so while TV advertising is wall-to-wall insurance, loans, and cars, the same phenomenon expresses itself in google terms through high-priced keywords.

As to cord blood:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cord_blood

claims that

"The cost of private cord blood banking is approximately $2000 for collection and approximately $125 per year for storage, as of 2007."

which sounds to me like a pretty high-margin (in dollar terms) business, hence the attractiveness of advertising.
I've never been involved in any philosophy department, but those I know who are talk a fair amount about the high level of ad hominem attacks that occur during debates.

It seems like the superiority complex is fairly ingrained in their discourse. While my friends find it somewhat strange, they say eventually you start to tune it out and listen to the other arguments.
(One of these days I am going to write a "Rhetoric for Hackers"...)

Please do. I for one think it sounds interesting.
Philosophy taught me to ask the following question: "What is the purpose of our university degree?" If the answer is: "to secure a well paying, promising job after college", then I think at worst, philosophy is on par with a wealth of other majors. Consider however that the answer might be: "to find oneself. To discover what what causes in us joy, sorrow, anger. To provide us with a lens through which we will view the rest of our lives. To equip us for the magnitude of our future mental, emotional, and physical reality (of which our occupation plays only a part). To teach us how to understand our own mind." In this case, is there any major more important? One thing I can promise is that your salary, your achievements, your success - none of these will bring you peace.
Rural ND on a reservation. E911 was implemented not too long ago (5 - 10 years). UPS in ND was always good at getting you your package. The drivers knew everyone and where they worked (or knew who to ask). Packages sent to my home actually got dropped off at my work (in person, well except the furniture type stuff, then they would warn you they were headed to your house so you could put it in the house).

The Post Office didn't do a route on the reservation (come pick it up - all PO Boxes), and FedEx was the most pain in the rear, evil group ever (drive 2 hours to pick up you package because we stop delivering in late Dec). You can work up quite the mad driving two hours to pick up network cable in a ND winter.

Around 1996, I actually had to tell a vendor we couldn't do business with them anymore because they had to ship FedEx. FedEx did get better, but don't mix up FedEx and FedEx Ground else there will be a lecture.
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Picasa Web Albums was never that way. It becomes that way automagically when the same Google account is used to subscribe to Google+. That's what I'm questioning.
Right, but wouldn't that make PHP code too good looking? The core devs wouldn't allow it ;)

My only wish is that they implement something that evaluates {} to (object)array(). It would come in handy when used with anonymous functions.

Anyway, I am pleased with the new syntax, but sadly, I have to use 5.2 as most of the time I'm working on WordPress projects...
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Not really , Cappuccino focus consists in bringing the whole Cocoa/Objective-C style to front-end development (actually you can run Objective-J on the server too). On the other hand, WebAppKit goal seems to be using Objective-C in the backend
It's not about innovation or invention; it's about protection.
That applies to everyone. Everyone will be, is likely to be later, or most likely IS addicted to something: caffeine? their lovers? orgasms? money/credit? shopping? chocolate? unhealthy floury carbs? cheese? power over underlings?

if any of these are hard to go without in their current consumed amounts, they're addictions.
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There's also a decent python application that does what you need called "blogofile".
On which passport? I have two.
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It's not about what 4chan does to its members—I couldn't give less of a fuck. It's about what they do to the rest of society. Things like Anonymous and LulzSec, which end up on the NYTimes frontpage, are is a direct result of places like 4chan.

Additionally, as a member of the Google+ community, I'm glad to see Google cares for its quality.
You can see that in the comment from a prosecutor quoted in the piece that refers to "options". If you really wanted to ban some kind of behavior, the ideal outcome would be that everyone who does it is arrested, and nobody who doesn't. But from law-enforcement's perspective what they often want are "options" for prosecution--- so that when they find someone who they're pretty sure deserves to be arrested, they can dig up a statute that justifies the arrest. In that setting you actually want them as broad as possible, so you always have something in your back pocket to get someone with. Of course you don't prosecute everyone who uses a web browser... but if you find someone doing something "bad" but in a way that isn't specifically criminalized, it's always nice to have that "did a bad thing while using a webbrowser" charging option, eh?

I can sort of see the motivation; nobody likes to see someone who you're 95% sure is guilty manage to beat any charges because you technically couldn't get anything solid. But it's more dangerous a cure than the disease, I think.
I guess google+ won't like Filipinos then:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspon...
I use a pseudonym to shield myself not so much from my current but my next employer. Or landlord. Or girlfriend's family. HN gets what's really weighing on my mind, while Facebook gets heavily censored, cheerfully inoffensive pablum when I bother to participate at all. As I see it,

true names : pseudonyms :: villages : cities

and cities are the wellsprings of progress because people can reinvent themselves and unpopular but good ideas can find support.
"Disgusting" is purely a judgement call, which I admit may have some value in the case of smoking it. Fortunately there are plenty of other ways to use it. Vaporizers are great, and cooking with it... just yes. (You also of course do not need to make a 'habit' of it. I haven't used it in over a year myself)

As for antisocial? Well I can't speak for your experiences but for myself and the people I know it has been nothing but the opposite. Everyone needs to decide for themselves, including your kids.

Aside: Interesting fact about those restaurant/bar smoking ban laws: the reason they need to pass laws specifically for that purpose is because air filled with second hand smoke does not exceed the relatively very loose air quality regulations OSHA has in place. If that smoke were put there by anything besides smokers, nobody would say a thing.
Do you mean location for ease of getting funded or solving user problems?

At the end of the day all that matters is giving the users of your website/app what they want that helps them solve their problems. The last I’ve heard users really don’t care where your located.
I guess that's because how brain receptors work for anyone. Still, author is talking about people that are LESS satisfied than the norm, so they always need more (like addicts).
Fragile? Compared to what? Not going to argue with verbose though, and I also wouldn't choose it for web apps.
As other posters have noted, many Chinese have the Chinese-lettered name eg "strong army", the pinyin version and if they move to a Western country they pick their own English name like "John" or something. In writing, Choi/Choy (and I think Chua and Chow) are the same. I will skip the philosophical discussion of what reality is to the viewer.

I don't understand the linking to a real name. Give everyone a private number, and then the user links whatever names they're known by to that number. When a searcher finds the name Skud and adds Skud, they will forever see Skud and whatever other names Skud has chosen to have visible to that circle. The link is the number, and the name is just a display.
I wonder how they would deal with a woman who changed her last name when she was married, and reverted to her old name after the divorce. And she's also an author writing under a pen name (like Stephen King/Richard Bachman/John Swithen).
It seems obvious to me but nobody's done it so there must be some unique flaw. Can any commenters enlighten me on why the unique private number idea is a bad one?
Ron Paul's approach to the economy is deeply unserious. If he were to implement his monetary program, especially right now, the economy would collapse. If the economy collapses, lots and lots of poor people in America will face very bad situations, and many around the world who rely on U.S. foreign aid will die.

Even if we like libertarian views on the internet, please don't vote for Ron Paul.
Objective-c could be a good fit for web development, unlike c++ it's dynamic, unlike ruby it's fast, and it's runtime and libraries are solid (its verbosity is a downer). and I say could, because it's crippled by the fact that half of its strength - the full runtime and libraries - is proprietary, closed source and platform specific. It puzzles me that Apple cripples its adoption this way. Yes, I'm aware of CFLite, cocotron and GNUstep, I don't think any of these solve the problem.
Ohhhh, yes! This sounds awesome, I've been meaning to write something like this myself. Essentially, a node.js equivalent, but for Cocoa. Of course, I'm way too lazy to add that to my work-load, but I'm very glad somebody did.

Now, if only I could use this in an Amazon EC2 environment. I guess with OS X Server supporting virtualization now with Lion, it might be a possibility?
Can you be more specific for what you had in mind?

Do you want to bounce your ideas off somebody else? Or vice versa?

Do you just want to meet others interested in startups?

Can you provide some background on yourself? Your profile is blank and doesn't include any contact info.
I find it hard to believe that Zynga knew about -none- of those games. I could believe 1 or 2, but to have pre-existing examples of every game they are trying to sue over... I just can't believe that.

It sounds to me like Zynga forgot its roots.
Then I suggest you become a recluse because what you want just does not happen in the real world.
Regardless of whether 40-70% of grant money going to overhead is reasonable, there is still the point that most science is funded by medium-large scale grants, and no doubt some of that overhead goes towards maintaining facilities used for teaching Molecular Biology undergrads.

I'm not sure what fraction of a humanities professor comes from the University vs. outside funding agencies, but it's at least a commonly held opinion in the sciences that research money is subsidizing humanities instruction, rather than vice versa. Anyone have any detailed analysis to the contrary?
No self respecting rich guy paid that much...You have to talk about the effective tax rate (both personal and capital gain). This was always around 30% in the last 70-80 years!

So the best thing to do is to abolish all deductions for the rich and reduce the top tax rate to something like 28% (which the new debt commission recommended)
The risk-taking, novelty-seeking and obsessive personality traits often found in addicts can be harnessed to make them very effective in the workplace. For many leaders, it’s not the case that they succeed in spite of their addiction; rather, the same brain wiring and chemistry that make them addicts also confer on them behavioral traits that serve them well.

This is ridiculous in some ways. Yes, certain personality traits predispose you to certain things. But environment also plays a role. I imagine most leaders suffer from something I would call "bored gifted kid syndrome". And if they find a means to be adequately engaged, it goes away and stops being a "personality problem".

In fact, framing it as "addictive personality" helps create problems by vilifying them in a way that seems inescapable -- like "you were born defective". My oldest son is profoundly gifted and was prone to "addictive" behaviors (not drugs or alcohol, but video games and such) and when we figured out how to meet his needs for mental stimulation adequately, he went from behaving like your typical grumpy, socially defective addict to being one of the calmest people I know. I never told him he was "defective". I didn't frame it that way. And it helped him find his way out of what often ends up being a psychological trap.

Edit: There is a book that addresses the social aspect of creating addicts by imposing expectations that it is out of their hands -- for example, cultures that blame alcoholism on the alcohol have higher rates of it than cultures that hold the individual responsible. Title: "The Truth About Addiction and Recovery". One wife of an alcoholic who tried to hand me my head for recommending this book then went on to talk about "dry drunks" (people who remain "addicted" to alcohol while not drinking for years at a time) and that the real problem with alcoholism was all the "isms" (by that I think she meant beliefs?) not the alcohol per se. She was on such a tear, I didn't bother to point out that her remarks supported mine rather than refuting them.

EDIT: Since comment scores are not visible, I will note that this is being upvoted, downvoted, upvoted, downvoted. I would be curious as to what is so seemingly controversial. Any thoughts?
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Yeah, that's a fair point. But what I was getting at is that no one has ever been convicted for endogenous possession, and no one ever will, so in this case my point stands.
Reminds me of how the Tetris company likes to sue copycats left and right. But regardless, indies don't care.
You want to build your MVP as fast as humanly possible.

If you already know .Net, so go with .Net. You don't have time to learn a new language.

Don't get swept away with the romance of a new language. .Net is a proven technology. It will be able to do whatever you need it to do.

And between DreamSpark and BizSpark, there's no licensing costs.
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You're talking about the creative aspect of science. For that aspect, this method may very well work. However, for turning that idea into an actual process or product, it won't work well at all.

Randomness is not as valuable as logic when working towards a specific end. That is, if you already know the beginning and the end, using randomness to find the path between them is probably the slowest and least likely to bring results.
This 2 minute chat just rocked my world :)
What is the formal difference in Scala between braces and parentheses?
Jekyll fits most of your requirements. You may want to look into GitHub Pages as well. http://pages.github.com/
For browser-based website monitoring the best ones are AlertFox and Browsermob
I paid $32.68 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, GrabCent.com
imagine being able to search for faces in images and videos on the internet as easily as we can search for words in documents.

it would be amusing to find oneself in various peripheral crow footage / holiday photos. it might also have an effect on the porn industry. any other consequences?
"It may have taken just the weekend to build the project but it doesn't include all the initial learning."

By that logic, everything takes a lifetime. That's not a useful metric.

No, those weekend projects really did take a weekend. They started without the project before the weekend, and they had the project after the weekend. That's a weekend project.
The next step is releasing a decent terminal program for Windows. The standard console app on windows pales in comparison to those available on Gnome, KDE, and OS X based desktops. Copy and paste is difficult, resizing never seems to work right, and it has terrible font rendering.

The reason many people don't know to much about PowerShell is that cmd.exe is still the default windows shell, even after 25 years. PowerShell has been around for 4 of those, and only in the last two years did it start shipping by default with a Microsoft OS.
A lack of resonance doesn't prevent some concepts from being universal.

You're taking it too far by saying that no concepts are universally applicable to human beings.

If I made a post saying "We need to eat to live a healthy life", would that not be a universal truth? If it doesn't resonate with some people (e.g. some quibble: "We can puree our food and drink it" or "intravenous injection works for me", and ignore the serious disadvantages of both choices) is the scientific truth of "we need to eat to live a healthy life" not true?

Relativism to an extreme degree is next to nihilism.
Not for name violations. For name violations users just get their G+ profile suspended.

"When an account is suspended for violating the Google+ common name standards, access to Gmail or other products unrelated to the Google+ profile are not removed. (Of course there are other Google-wide policies (e.g. egregious spamming, illegal activity, etc) that do apply to all Google products, and violations of these policies could in fact lead to a Google-wide suspension.)

It is not our intention to shut off access to all Google services when an account is suspended for violating our Google+ common name standards. This is a misunderstanding, and I wanted to clarify it."
It seems like a good idea for a big tech company to invest in this thing to hedge against patent suit risks. It's still probably a net loss for them, but probably less so than if they didn't hedge. The real people left footing the bill are whoever is funding the courts.
Skud observed (http://infotrope.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/plus06.png) that she "can’t use Google Takeout to export [her] profile and stream" after having been suspended herself: http://infotrope.net/2011/07/22/ive-been-suspended-from-goog...
Seeing pretty women with little clothing is considered antisocial by some societies--and even amongst some of the Christians in America.

Where do you draw the line. I am ok with banning something for health reasons. Not so much merely because a subset of people find it "antisocial".
I saw the untag feature, but it shouldn't be my job to monitor facebook 24x7 to untag embarrassing photos.
Anonymity is not related to lack of forum moderation or escape from consequences. It just means a username is not recorded or displayed. BTW, posting underage obscenity, inflammatory statements, neo nazism etc gets the poster ip banned.
[1] /b/ is an isolated case which is often quoted. It is only one of 40-something forums on 4chan. Please, go back and browse /adv/ instead. Same anonymous people, supporting and helping each other with advice. Anonymity is not the issue, it is the community which people create through their actions and expectations of finding other like-minded individuals in the same virtual space.
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Thanks for your response. I've been developing a side project which has outgrown it's role as pass time. The idea is well formulated and the prototype is working hence I thought to share with some people to figure if it can be a viable business.

It's a software that provides usability insights into your Ruby/Rails applications (I'm aware of newrelic, mixpanel, etc.)

I'm a senior software architect by profession.

You can get in touch with me here yeshsriram @ yahoo.com
Isn't this basically what WebObjects did back in 1995?

(WebObjects used to be written in Objective-C, but Apple switched it to Java sometime during the server-side Java boom in the late '90s.)
I think an even bigger problem recently is nonactivist bank regulators: the country would probably be much better off if Geithner had allowed Sheila Bair at the FDIC to wind up Citi, Wells, BoA, etc.
The first example is exactly how I search for things, because I can never get the right syntax for find.
The equivalent to your analogy is the "My Pictures" folder we all have on our private computers. Google is not this. They are a giant corporation letting you store your photos with them for free and they have documented that tagging is sharing.
"...there is no body of widely accepted answers to commonly encountered questions like reason for belief or standard of proof, such as might be found in a natural science, for example."

I laughed out loud at this. "Science" is not distinct from philosophy, it is a child of philosophy. It exists on the borrowed epistemological currency (and naively at that) first set forth by the likes of Bacon, Descartes, Kant, Husserl, Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, etc.

The author points out that philosophy has not provided definitive conclusions in any of its fields. True enough, but that means that science persists on a borrowed, naive philosophy of knowledge. That is, unless you think Popper and falsification solved the problem once and for all, and if you do, all I can say is <sigh>.

It's a little like the philosophical equivalent of the debt ceiling. We've been borrowing for so long we no longer understand that there were ever consequences, or anything at stake to begin with. There's really no question that we live in an era of deeply, profoundly naive epistemology, as evidenced by this post's bracketing 'Science' as a sovereign discipline independent of and even superior to philosophy.

The question becomes, then: what will be the long-term consequences, if any, of our childlike faith in Sovereign, Benevolent Science? I don't know and I don't have any good speculations, but it worries me. The best and brightest of the Enlightenment put tremendous effort towards resolving the problem of skepticism and couldn't (Hume, Kant, Hegel and their Contentinental inheritors -- Hume, Compte, Russell, Ayer, Quine, Dennett and their Analytical inheritors), and yet now I can't count the number of times I've had conversations with otherwise bright, literate individuals who think that Science is a free and sovereign endeavor unencumbered by the high-falutin abstractions of philosophy -- pah!

Was it really that simple -- all we needed to do all along was pretend there was no epistemological question, even though positivism, phenomenology, and even Popper's falsification (please) are inadequate at a fundamental level to provide even a basic rational first principle in which to ground the entire enterprise?

If the naive reductionism of the current crop of Science-enthusiasts and dogmatic futurists like Brockman, Dennett, Pinker, et al, work for you, then more power to you. Go watch Star Trek and be happy. I just don't see how anyone with any sense at all of the history of ideas cannot be disturbed by the current state of our culture's philosophy, or lack thereof.
I value your contribution to this discussion, but you might have missed this part of the article: "Wendy Olson, the U.S. Attorney for Idaho, said the men were on an archeological site that was 13,000 years old. "Folks do need to pay attention to where they are," she said."
That site is great! (And the original blog post)

Checked out the post and followed with 20 minutes of Freewriting on 750words.

I don't think it should all be interesting. Actually that is the point. If you write down enough stuff most of it will be crap, just like most ideas. But eventually something good will come out. Also, if nothing good comes out- at least you have gotten better at writing and clarity of thought.