skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with his premise, though I don't entirely agree with his conclusions.

I've come to think that the problem with our approach to global warming right now is that it's been yoked to environmentalism as a broader, and in many ways, spiritual cause. Many of us are guilty of using the threat of global warming to shepherd other goals in there...e.g. renewable or alternative energy, resource conservation etc.

I happen to be inclined toward spiritual environmentalism myself, but if the earth is REALLY warming up due to human caused carbon inputs, we are fucked if we think a few extra wind farms and energy-conscious homes are going to solve anything.

The only solution I think mankind is even capable of undertaking is a technology solution...i.e. we need to find a way of getting carbon out of the air and into the ground. It may not be pretty, cheap, or some nirvana of holistic living, but it's actually how the problem will get solved.

Don't know if I'm making sense, but this is just what I was thinking about recently.
That is brilliant.

But you're still replacing one waste of time with another!
Microsoft could face $8.5 billion in damages for "Vista Capable" case
My friend built postcard.fm in a day, and got on lifehacker. It helped promote the real business, www.thenextbigsound.com

It works.
it doesn't help that Python's interactive console is named Idle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDLE_(Python) and they have an IDE named Eric http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Python_IDE
HN is entertainment, but it's productive entertainment. Better than playing solitaire or freecell or something like that.

There are posts here that make our lives better. I come here while I'm compiling code or uploading code or waiting on something for a short time...
Thanks you made some good points here.

But since Groovy and Grails are now part of SpringSource, I think it's popularity will grow.
I was speaking entirely from the point of view of my own aesthetics. The more unnecessary images, the worse it is. It's why I like Hacker News' aesthetic so much: for what it does, it only uses two different images, one on the main page.

I think and have thought for a long time that having a 5-star rating system to create a massive opinion is unnecessary. It's good for when you have a focus on the individual, because then it focuses on the user's own tastes; for a site like this, I don't see why up-and-down wouldn't be sufficient.
Gizmodo is rarely formal. It's nice at times like this, less nice when they raise damaging rumors like they have in the past.

Monty Python shows yet again that they're not just funny, they're very bright and very business-savvy.
Probably not in this economy though.
Yeah. It's not a zero-sum game: on the Internet, people can see more and access more, and they can do it quickly and more effectively than they could in the past. So everybody wins.
Will someone please invent the germometer?
I'm so glad I'm not the only one that feels this way.

As far as I'm concerned, CSS is a miserable piece of work.
Witness how hard it is do a simple three column layout. It fails half of the simple edict:

Make easy things easy and hard things possible.
Funny - and so true. There's a working business model online, and people who take advantage of it will most certainly benefit.
+1 for cheating, and for BluePrint - it makes CSS bearable for those of us who aren't pros. 960gs (http://960.gs) is also a very nice framework.

One correction though, Blueprint isn't from Blue Flavor, though they did do an article on it. It's by Olav Bjorkoy, and currently maintained by Christian Montoya.
Don't game the algorithm, game the social
making 1 happy is damn near impossible ;) jk
Awesome.

Though at first I thought you were opening Hacker News then going back to a relationship or something.
Why you can't find a library book in your search engine
Generally the best approach is to contact someone who is part of the security world -- they'll both know how to approach the right people and have the credibility to get people to listen.
That and lots of Amserdam's inner city predates motorized traffic. It's much, much easier to bike through Amsterdam than to ride a car.
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HN is the closest thing to communicating with like-minded people since leaving university. As long as it retains its diligent, unpretentious and insightful membership, it is a good use of time, so long as you don't overdo it.
What makes Grails so powerful, out of curiosity?
Still, not a bad idea (shit, it's working!)
This, I think, is the key distinction. Running a business is a whole lot of work, and much of that work does not make your guy a better software developer. Running a side business is probably going to diminish a programmers productivity.

Writing an application (and ignoring the business and customer service side of things) likely will make your programmer more productive, 'cause he learns all this new stuff.
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4 hours reading The Guardian every day -- holy lord...are you independently wealthy? Try just reading The Economist on the weekends. Maybe you'll feel less guilty about all the time you also spend on HN.
Why Darwin was wrong about the tree of life
what schools are you trying to join? (feel free to reach me at jtame2@illinois.edu)
Awesome...I mean, sure, a part of me dislikes government anything, but if they have to promote education, this is a pretty sweet way of doing it.
"People with debt", by definition, don't have wealth to transfer. Debts are supposed to go up over time, which is the point of interest. The only reason I should borrow money is if I can invest it to make a better return.

The situation should not be such that most people are in debt. People with wealth are free; those in debt, not so much.

> a rising dollar encourages people to hoard money rather than spending it

This is also referred to as conservation, frugality, delayed gratification, and saving for a rainy day. Placing value on the future is generally regarded as a good thing.

The effects of deflation really are terrible. Look at the tech sector where Moore's law assures that prices on computers are always dropping. I don't think I know anybody who owns a computer - everybody is waiting for them to get cheaper before buying.
I for one, welcome our CAPTCHA-weilding overlords.
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you can see members of news.ycombinator.com by region at http://www.hackrtrackr.com
Even facebook in the beginning took that approach by limiting the schools you could sign up for.
Most Successful U.S. Startups 2008: Cuil is number 8?...
The fact that

- it uses entreprise proven components in a convention over configuration way.

- it works out of the box with existing java code/java libraries

- Can be compiled in .class

- Is now owned by Springsource (from the spring framework)

- Deployed as .WAR file in any JEE container

- other ideas ??
be a thing to do in an evening or a week, not three months.
As someone who wrote an AVR RTOS kernel for a class in Realtime systems I agree, but you're comparing apples to oranges. I can write, and have written, a real-time control system (RTCS) for a set of peripherals in an evening or a few days, but that's not the same thing as an RTOS. The RTCS is a specific case, the RTOS is the general one and as a result it's much more complex because it has a more open-ended specification. My RTOS took me about 4 weeks or so before it was usable.
Twitter API: Call for OAuth beta participants
Of course, if you didn't have this service, you'd have to RTFM.
What do you get as an advantage for being part of this? I set up my school: now what is there to do?
There is a protocal. The Open Microblogging Specification. It allows different servers to interact!
There is a protocol. The Open Microblogging Specification. It allows different servers to interact!
I won't serve that debt. I'm rather certain I'm going to be filthy stinking rich, but I am never going to serve that debt. I asked my friends at college, and they aren't paying either.
The employee running his own business is going to be somewhat distracted, just like an employee with a family or kids. It's something else that is more important than his job. The thing is, an employees interests don't exactly align with the business owners interests. As a business owner, almost everything I do is focused on growing that business. The closest you can come to that in an employee, really, is a single person who is really into programming. these people will have hobby projects, but that's ok, especially if they can be things kindof related to technologies your business uses. Like the SysAdmin who writes apache modules.

That said, you don't always just fire people when they get married. the question, simply, is 'Is the employee, with all his or her distractions, still worth his or her salary?' - Most of us are unwilling to remain single and completely dedicated to our jobs for our whole life. Right now, for instance, if you want to hire me, you have to put up with my business being my primary focus, otherwise I won't work for you. (but then I'm a contractor, so that's not unexpected.) And just imagine the outcry if you acted against people who valued their family over your business.
I had a similar experience building songerize.com (since sold/redesigned). I had built some MP3-finding code off of the SeeqPod API for another site, and on a whim decided to make a UI for it. A few weeks later, it spontaneously got covered on Lifehacker, Mashable, CNet, etc, all in one day, with essentially no promotion on my part. Strange how the things that take the least work can get the best results.
Throw in a disqus widget so people can state their case à la the show.
I found this site through yours. Hand crafted keyboards. Check 'em out: http://www.datamancer.net/keyboards/keyboardfaq.htm

Regarding your site. I'm interested. Thumbs up.
I used to design using tables, then I learned how to do it in CSS and now I use CSS exclusively. There are only a few instances when I don't, namely:

* When I want vertical centering and the column height is not fixed.

* When I want the width of a column to expand to the width of its widest element, but no further.

* If I wanted a background color to run the full length of a column, not just where the content was. (Actually there are CSS hacks for this, but I don't love them. I myself never use this design pattern any more, so it doesn't matter.)

In other words, you can still deploy tables non semantically to address certain, specific challenges that are not easy in just CSS, while still predominantly using CSS for layout and tables for data.
Ask HN: Should Python be named Monty?
Look at the cover of most books about Python, and you'll see a snake. The kind of snake that might, say, squeeze you to death. Not friendly. Not funny. That snake probably has a poor sense of humor.

Start programming in Python, and you'll soon learn that it was named after Monty Python. You'll realize that it has a charming community, and that people often insert references to the British comedy troupe in their code. Python is a happy go lucky language with a bizarre sense of humor.

Huge deadly snakes don't give me the same happy go lucky feeling as this language. Nor are they absurd, which would be OK given Monty Python's sense of humor.

I think it would make more sense for the language to be called Monty, which not only makes me think of Monty Python, but The Full Monty, gambling, a funny looking guy in a cap and other things that are more aligned with the spirit of the Python language and community.

This is clearly not an actual suggestion to change the name. Just my 2¢. Thoughts?
He said he wanted to work on something important.
Ask HN: What web framework(s) do you guys use?
What web framework(s) do you guys (and girls) use? And why not their competitors?
But it's a moot point, since anyone who really wants to defeat captchas en masse, can just go mechanical turk, or even better just setup their own 'porn/warez' sites etc to show your captchas and have random internet users solve it for them.

There's no defense against that... Which makes captchas just a big irritating bag of fail.
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Someone should do up an app that has two frames, one where you type in the URL of the site you want to review and the other that contains a text entry area that lets you type, press enter, type, press enter, creating a stream of consciousness of your impressions of the page in the other frame. When you're done, you click save, and the review is saved to the app and you get a tinyurl style link to paste here for people to see your review.

appreviewr.com is available...
If an employee on your payroll starts a business, they're not doing so with your best interest in mind and their work's focus will change accordingly.

Fuck. That. Shit.

Everyone is a contractor. There is no loyalty on either side of the employer-employee relationship. It is a hurtful delusion to harbor fantasies otherwise.

Judge an employee on their performance. Nothing more, nothing less.

What happens off the clock is none of your business. Literally.
hmm.. what about the domain your school uses? (all of the stuff after the "@" sign)
1 Sock live = 3$/1sock live > 5day 1 US CVV full info = 15$/CVV
1 US CVV( visa) =3$/cvv 1 UK CVV full info = 20$/CVV
1 US CVV( master) = 3$/cvv1 1 Paypal with pass email = 30$/paypal
1US CVV(Amex,dis) = 5$/cvv 1 Paypal don't have pass email = 20$/Paypal
1UK CVV(visa, Mc) = 3$/cvv 1 Banklogin us (personel) = 200$
1 UK CVV(Amex,dis) = 5$/cvv 1 Banklogin us company = 400$
1 Uk check bins = 8$/1cvv 1 Banklogin uk (personel)= 250$
1 Ca CVV = 2$/CVV 1 Banklogin uk company=500$
1 CA CVV(Amex,dis) =2$/cvv
1 EU CVV = 5$/CVV
1 EU CVV(Amex,dis) =8$/cvv
1 AU CVV =5$/CV
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I did read the whole article. The point you just made was the same as his, laying off 5,000 is meaningless.

I agree, but that is not the same as a reason why Microsoft should lay off 50,000 which was my complaint.
I totally agree on the downmodding (although I disagree with the comment you refer to). Apparently some people find the use of words challenging.

There is a big difference between the use of voting for filtering large amounts of content and using it as a way to express opinion. The former is serverd perfectly well by upvoting. The latter is unworthy of intelligent beings in my view.
It needs a forum.
Honestly, I've used CSS for as long as I've been slicing web pages (which is now a couple of years) It'd probably cost me more time designing with tables than with CSS. Once you understand the principles behind it, it's not that hard... (for me it feels like a lego-construction snapping together when a design falls into place)

On the other hand, a professional designer often needs to know how to design with tables as well as it is practically the only way to design an email newsletter decently.
That answers the question of "How can Microsoft get by with so many more layoffs" but not the question of why it would be a good idea. Specifically, the author identifies Microsoft's real long-term problem as the growing irrelevance of the PC and MS' inability to control the various markets that are supplanting it. How getting rid of half of the employees in the company would fix that problem; I'm not sure.
Cool.

Looks like the cookie the only thing from keeping people from voting more than once.

To everyone here:

How else could you keep people from vote bombing low friction (no required login) sites like this one?

Does it even matter in this case?

Why the hell are people voting NO?
I agree. Eleven years old is ~6th grade; she probably hears words like "fuck" on a regular basis at school.

The only logical arguments I've heard for not letting kids swear are:

- It's against the social norm (it'll get them in trouble)

- It lessens the words' value.

Since kids invariably will encounter swear words at some point, trying to shield them is pretty hopeless. The best solution is to mitigate the two problems above; teach them when they shouldn't swear (mainly in front of adults) and not to swear like a sixth-grader ("Hey, man, what the fuck are you doing today? Shit, I've got a fuckton of goddamn homework.")

Swearing at people is another thing entirely, though.
someone told me about that, and another suggested using facebook for all of this, but i like being able to see what skills, startups, and club affiliations a person has too.
He's saying they should lay off 50,000 people because that would still leave them with one of the largest staffs of any company in the industry, but would shed the large amount of dead wood he repeatedly alleges remains inside of Microsoft.
That I'm ok with. I don't think many people have ever been opposed to that.
I like quick projects like that. I put together http://isthemarketdown.com in 3 hours, but I haven't spent much time promoting it.

The twit this button is a good idea.
I continue to be amazed that physical credit cards don't require any authentication. Losing one is like losing (someone else's) cash. Why don't the stores or banks require a PIN number when using a credit card?
Thanks for the 960gs, looks great. As I'm starting a small side project without a frontend developer and I hate writing CSS, I'll consider using it. The previous candidate was Malo (http://code.google.com/p/malo/).
Why is it that you can generate automatic passwords that are > 20 chars in length for us, but we can't enter passwords that are > 20 chars in length?
We just dealt with one guy that just voted 2800 times from the same IP. Deleted the rows, and made it one vote per IP.

It works because to see a Yes/No it depends on if you have the cookie set, but to actually vote it checks the IP.

So if someone legitimately votes from a multi-user IP that already was used to vote, it'll show a Yes/No, get sent to the vote page, but won't go in–but it'll seem like it did :)
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A agree. In the end it is about what is going to save you the most time.

For example, if you decide at some point you want all page titles to be bright green and placed below the main text of the page, how much work will it be?

The whole argument about separating content and presentation is about speed. If they are separate, and changes need to be made to one, then you don't have to get knee deep in the other to change what needs to change.

CSS based layouts mean the changes might only require editing the one .css file. Table based layouts might mean that you have to edit each page, or if you are using a decent templating system, it might be a single page

The same goes for accessibility. Will it take more time to make your site usable by screen readers and small screens while using one layout or another? What types of accessibility are even important to you?
One inference I made easily from the article: if most of what Microsoft is doing is increasingly irrelevant, then they may be heavily staffing projects that are not strategically valuable.
Ha, someone just did that. We took care of it. It's fun to break apps, but 1000 no votes was a tiny bit much :-). She's not THAT bad looking. Regardless, were getting like 20 votes a minute legitimately.
In a speech to industry leaders, Sarkozy said it was legitimate for the state to consider the print media's economic situation.

"It is indeed its responsibility ... to make sure an independent, free and pluralistic press exists," he said.

...he then ate a baby and declared his responsibility to not corrupt children.
http://dnsthru.com
Built in few hours to have quick access to dns lookups. If anyone has ideas how to improve it, more than welcome to contribute :)
Has anything other than biometric authentication been used as ultimate identification for the past 100,000 years? What would you replace this presently-ubiquitous identity system with?
Step 1: Define question begging.

Step 2: Show that the statement does not use your definition of question begging.

Hoisted by your own circular logic, question-begging petard!
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This is well discussed by a biologist and his scientist friends on Pharyngula:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/01/speaking_of_media...

I was not previously aware of how many times before the New Scientist magazine has muffed reporting on science issues. Some examples are linked in the blog discussion comments on the latest article.
OK. I didn't see any mention of the API in the 'Code Manager' section and didn't think to search specifically for it.

In any case, it looks like it's best if I stick with what I've got if I want to maintain error display... I have functionality in the form that's not possible to add with CSS, I'm using jQuery to set up ajax form submission / error display, and XPertMailer sends my messages through a gmail account on the back end.

Thanks for the info though.
it appears i have more than a few bugs with this, as some of the user passwords are mysteriously resetting =[ i'm going to add a reset pass function, and try to understand what's going on. i probably posted this on yc news a bit too early, as i have a proficiency exam monday that i still have to study for and haven't bug-tested this thoroughly. ack

edit> there is a reset pass function on the login page, but i need to track down this mysterious bug.
Can we leave these inane issues to reddit?
My email is slava [at] cs.sunysb.edu
It's funny how consistently, for such a long time, year after year I see this as-a-matter-of-facty drops of "... when desktop disappears ..." into sentences. Seems like everybody else but me surely knows that it will, and understands why. I can hear Eric Cartman whispering into my year "You're so stuuuuupeeed."
Maybe it needed more unit tests.

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What is wrong with combining diverse metrics (fingerprint, iris, retina, height, weight, pulse, body-temp, voiceprint, gait, etc.)?
Same news, better written and with less misleading title:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=445543
Those activities aren't perceived as risky. They are to some extent, though probably not as much as riding a bike on high-traffic roads (with or without a helmet). Most people drive their car every day and will never get in a serious accident. Every frequent bike rider will hit their head on pavement a few times.

But again, it's all perception. Driving without a seat belt is considered similarly stupid. The reason is that the cost of wearing a seat belt (like the cost of wearing a helmet) is trivial and the benefits are (or at least would seem to be) significant.

The last thing you mentioned is something entirely different, called altruism. That's shown in many animals, and is a case of choosing replication of a gene over survival. It's entirely unrelated, and it also occurs a hell of a lot more in movies than it does in real life.