skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Structured procrastination" is another attempt to use procrastination in a positive way:

http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/

It utilizes the principle:

...anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't
the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

Robert Benchley, in Chips off the Old Benchley, 1949
Poverty is a symptom, not a problem.

Also, I'm not sure what observations could be offered in support of this rather bold contention you're making here. Yet you seem to be stating it as if it were something intuitively obvious, practically standing on its own merit.
Unless something has changed, the US government doesn't own the copyright - works they produce are automatically in the public domain. Most journal put wording on the paper to that effect.

So if you have access to the papers, you should be able to post them for free somewhere without violating copyright.
"Every minute you spend shopping for groceries or cooking your own food is one less minute you could spend at work. So you live on fast food and a big chunk of your paycheck goes to a fast food restaurant."

Do poor people resent fast food restaurants for providing them with cheaper food than they can make at home (including the cost of their time)? I presume they don't. Fast food restaurants provide a valuable product that poor people want to have. I wouldn't call that fleecing.
wow didn't know that..
I just want to say is funny how some people downplay Orkut for being full of Brasilians and Indians when those are 2 of the most growing consumer markets in the world.

You have companies all over the world fighting to get those markets, Apple went as far as building a factory in Brasil to get a foothold there.
MotionCAPTCHA doesn't actually solve the CAPTCHA problem, it just adds a hurdle for human users to your submission form. There is nothing in your "roadmap" that prevents bot spammers from trivially circumventing this hurdle.

The only "protection" it offers is that, as long as MotionCAPTCHA does not become very popular, it won't be worth the effort for a bot spammer to write the circumventing code.

However, you can get exactly the same amount of protection without inconveniencing your users by obfuscating field names and doing the same JavaScript form action replacing trick you already do.

The simple problem is this: The challenge to properly submitting the form is tied to the fact whether your plugin has replaced the form action url to contain the right value. But this is not tied in any way to the user actually having solved the motion captcha. Which means that any bot-stopping power it possesses can also be achieved equally well without forcing the user to pass the motioncaptcha test.

And while the motion captcha looks really neat and fun, it is still always a better user experience if they can submit a form without having to jump through a hoop at all.
Something I think is being overlooked is that Craigslist's belligerent lawyers and antediluvian website hurt the people who really do own the ads, as much as they hurt the millions of users who have to sift through them.

So... how about if Padmapper were to change its approach, and start acting like a value-added front end to Craigslist? Landlords and realtors could post their ads on Padmapper instead of going directly to Craigslist. Padmapper would then do two things: first, it would immediately forward a copy of each ad to Craigslist on the user's behalf, as if it had been posted there originally, and second, it would host the same ad itself, with all of the accompanying maps and metadata that Craigslist refuses to support.

If a given ad was originally submitted to Padmapper, their right to show it would be absolutely indisputable. If Padmapper is indeed more user-friendly than Craigslist, then more and more users will come to rely on them, and ignore Craigslist altogether. At the same time, users who prefer to stick with Craigslist wouldn't see any disruption at all.
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wow too bad. craigslist is just killing itself.
Have not reset to test that it rewrites the change, but enter the below in the Additional DNSMasq box of services tab, and it should work as intended.

server=/bbc.co.uk/###.###.###.###,

ip would be for the alternate nameserver
No, but reductio ad absurdum is a poor argument technique.
At Internet scale (~2 billion connected users) it's minuscule.

0.005% of all available users.

Within the United States, it would fall well below the 100th most widely circulated print magazine, as a monthly circulation statistic. I'll assume that monthly stats are a few times higher than the daily usage metric, but you'd still have to hit roughly 1 million to break into the top 100.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_magazines_by_circulati...

From an advertising perspective, unless you're extremely focused in your interest base (and there are markets of interest within the HN readership), it's tiny.
>The fact that one percent of the nation's richest individuals control 42 percent of the nation's wealth is, to me, a stunning revelation in the wake of a recession.

OK, but IMO disparities in income is a more relevant in a discussion of poverty, and disparities in income in the US are not as high as disparities in assets.
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Ironically, Dan doesn't use technology himself and still manages to make millions a year off of the internet... I would take a Dan Kennedy on my team over all the growth hackers on the planet every day of the week.
As a marketer the formula is simple, "anything you can break down into a formula or process you can automate...

This is a bunch of engineers trying to pretend they are marketers... News flash, I can hire an engineer with chops to implement, I can't hire a Dan Kennedy!!!!
You've answered your own question.

The last time someone really thought about scroll direction was when they invented the scroll wheel. The implementors associated it with the motion of the position indicator in the scrollbar rather than the motion of the document. The reason this is wrong is because it's an unnecessary indirection from the document itself. At the time computers could not documents quickly enough to have any kind of physicality, so the scrollbar + indicator were critical UI elements simply for performance reasons (ie. the scrollbar is what could be drawn fast enough to enable responsive dragging, and the window wouldn't redraw til you let go). Once people got used to it, there was no reason to question it until the modernization of touch interfaces where suddenly the inconsistency became apparent.
Here they are as a Readlist, which one can send to Kindle all chapter-ized. http://readlists.com/eff6d6d6/
? It's been that way for a long time. It's to discourage joke jobs.
"Or is there some idea of libertarian "efficiency" that this is all going to produce?"

There's efficiency to be had in aligning costs with benefits. As a society we probably pay for more Classics degrees than we should. Beyond that, minimizing the amount of money that is forcibly taken from people is inherently good.

I agree with the ends that most social democrats seek. I just think they should be funded voluntarily, perhaps with some help from the government to inform people where additional funds would lead to the greatest benefit. I don't know if such a system would be practical, but it seems like the ideal we should strive for instead of using force as a first resort.
I hope this is titled in reference to the album "the shape of punk to come" :-)
When you talking income, you don't want high risk/high payout, because your going to have serious cash flow problems, if you don't win, which the most likely case.

A small chance of winning, but with otherwise serious cash problems? Or high probability of a nice stable income?

I know what I would choose.
The work they do behind the scenes to keep the site running is massively under-rated because few people run such sites.
To be clear, I don't think everybody on the internet should be using their real name all the time. Anonymity is great, and (in all seriousness) I hope 4chan is around for years to come.

The problem is that if even a few users are anonymous, the entire community takes on a different character. You might not care, but some people, at least some of the time, might want to avoid places like that. This requires a website to force you to give up your anonymity. If you don't want to join a community like that it's your choice. If a website you're already a part of wants to become like that you can yell at them. That doesn't make it inherently bad though; it's just a preference.

If there were legislation being passed about it, that's another matter entirely.
This article is kind of BS.
It refers to another article by the same author (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/five-reasons-why-windo...) on why windows 8 sucks, which doesn't even make fair points.

The problem is that too many people evaluate Windows 8 as being solely Metro, even though you can use it just like you would Windows 7 and pretty much avoid Metro. The fact of the matter is that Windows 8 (as a Desktop) is snappier and more featureful than 7.

This article seems like it was written by a non-power user attempting Windows 8 in an hour, not someone who has been "working with Windows 8 for months," whatever that means.
Interesting post, but the title (and subject) is actually "
Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing". The 'How' is absent.
Climate results turn sceptic: 'let the evidence change our minds'
PadLister lets you submit to PadMapper and repost to other places, but I think that may actually be the sticking point, and might be harming PadMapper's efforts to be an effective search engine if it's viewed as competitive with other sources. So, I may need to shut it down to keep going with PadMapper's mission.
This is why I think some Lisp (probably Scheme rather than elisp :P) is a great introductory language: very little is magical or built into the language itself. So you learn about things like OOP as patterns rather than as the one and only way to do stuff (cough Java cough).
My (perhaps limited) understanding is that in CL everything, including integers and similar basic types, is an object - nothing has to be boxed or unboxed, nor does one necessarily need to instantiate objects in order to use them. That's not to say that there are not objects similar to those of Blub made available through CLOS, only that as is typical, Lisp muddies the waters when using terms like "object oriented." $$

$$ Reading Let Over Lambda is what done it to me.
Math is cool, and at least to me is lots of fun. The problem, at least at my university is that all of the lower division math classes have been commandeered by the engineering programs. I enjoy doing a substantial amount of recreational math in my spare time. Unfortunately, the classwork at the lower-levels (basically the calc sequence) basically involves regurgitating formulae over contrived physical problems. At its best, Math can be an extremely entertaining way to spend an evening, or a rainy day; It's at least as much fun as writing or reading poetry, or reading a good novel.
Sanitation ninjas can't be far off. You'll think you're in the clear and drop that wrapper...
The TimeClass:relative() function is a bit nasty, how many times do you need to calculate date('d/m/Y', $time) ?!.

[edit]
Or, time() for that matter, in fact this could be a subtle bug, as the return value of time() may vary throughout the function (unlikely, I know!)
NGiNX reverse proxy can take care of this and does so securely, am I right?
If you don't think bin men are important, try living in Naples.
Your edit makes no sense to me. Let's assume that you're saying that tax dollars went to bailouts that could've been used for social welfare. Even so, you can't assign the same wealth to multiple people. It's the taxpayers' wealth, not the potential future benefactors.
Hear, hear.
I have just recently donated (to a friend) a fully functional (and very fast) early '06 Mac Mini with an SSD upgrade running 10.6.

6 years has been kind to that machine, with minimal upgrades (RAM 3 years ago, SSD and 10.6 last year).
The above is not why a lot of poor people eat fast food. A big part of the reason is that many of them don't know how to cook, so it is easier to buy something tasty than to make it.

If you know how to cook, it is pretty easy to make very inexpensive and tasty food that is also healthy and quick to prepare. It is definitely cheaper and faster than eating fast food too. In many parts of the US, the very poor do cook all of their meals because it is a skill you learn when growing up and a great way to save money. A lot of the guys I knew who weren't raised that way always ate fast food because they'd never made a meal in their life. Not knowing how to cook was a significant gap.

I always knew how to cook, so it was easy to eat reasonably well on $10-15 per week for one person. Some of those recipes were fantastic so I still make them even though I'm not trying to pinch pennies.
I think there was some gray area during the transition to digital/not over the air broadcasting, but I. Doubt there ever was some true pirating. If there were, surely the Beeb and/or Hollywood would have taken legal action.

Also, see http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2011/01/27/kpn-tv-get-domesti.... The reason that the Netherlands has BBC television probably is historic (and fairly weird; even in the west of the country, one needed precisely the right kind of atmosphere to receive a fairly noisy signal), but nowadays, money does change hands.
Hey, at least they're stating consciously and openly what a lot of investors have been practicing unconsciously and covertly since about as long as the craft has existed.
Probably they can.

However, I don't know anything about using nginx that way. If you give me a link or something like that, I'll happily add it to my article. Or I'll just investigate later.
If you want to check any 3rd party apps or frameworks that you use you can set up a proxy like Fiddler, configure it to do a MITM attack on you, and see if the client/API blows up with an error or just keeps on truckin'.
No, but you shouldn't tell anybody who wants to go camping sometimes (i.e. avoid modern technology for a bit) that they should just avoid civilization forever.

We can have both anonymous and non-anonymous communities on the web. It's a pretty big place.
I think that we are really starting to be able to model a lot of the details of the human brain and that is very exciting.

https://vimeo.com/23225093
"don't get done on time"

What is "on time"? If things aren't getting done on time surely that is at least partly the fault of imperfect estimation practices.
As a web developer, I think that using BrowserID in its current state without browser support is better than implementing my own authentication. As a web user, I'd prefer to use BrowserID to sign up for sites than use individual authentication systems. A system that is better for developers and better for users has a clear path to adoption.
Ah, but pure mathematicians see themselves as having the clean fingernails, studying the mysteries of the cosmos unsullied by practical application. :)
I don't see why you'd want to do this. You want to keep the username in plain text for many reasons, and hash the password for security reasons. If you put them together you either keep it in plain text and lose security, or hash it properly and lose the ability to display usernames in your site.
better than /etc/hosts approach, yeah
Ah, the thing about marketing is that successfully calling yourself the new VP Marketing is most of the battle for being the new VP Marketing.
The illusion of progress lights a fire
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance
Does the magnet even have to be implanted? I'd think that you could just stick it to your finger and get the same results without resorting to surgery. Perhaps just use one of those little rubber fingertips that administrative assistants use while filing?
Thanks for the heads up, slyall. I'll be sure to check so nothing weird happens.
Google Fiber: 20% of Neighborhoods Already Met Sign-Up Goals
Readlist looks great. Thanks for the hint.
I think i will use this from now on instead of copypasting like a monkey. ;)
Although our current poverty situation may be due, in part to income inequality and policies that favor the wealthy. I think it has more to do with how we deal with poverty, which is essentially to throw money at the problem and hope it goes away.

I'm a big fan of helping people help themselves. Many people live in poverty because of poor financial decisions or because they don't have skills to succeed in the workforce, not because their taxes are too high. In fact our current tax structure incentivizes people to stay in lower tax brackets because as you start to earn more money, you have to pay a higher percentage of your income to the government. I think the following changes would go a long way to solving the poverty problem.

- Focus on providing the basic needs (housing, food and medical attention) by providing those goods and services to those in need instead of just giving people money.

- Stop giving loans (especially high-interest loans) to people who do not have good credit. In my opinion the government should not allow loans to consumers to have an more than 10% annual interest.

- Stop using the IRS and tax policies as a welfare assistance program. They are probably one of the worst entities able to determine if someone is really in need.

As others have pointed out, American poverty doesn't really even compare to situations of people in third-world countries. Poor in this article refers to a statistic released by the census bureau, which best I could tell is calculated using thresholds based on one's income and how many people live in a household. Instead it should be based on whether someone is getting enough to eat, has somewhere to live and can get medical treatment.
Are you saying that having an appropriate domain name is no longer relevant because the simple fact that Google is aware of a site, people (read: potential customers) have a likely chance of finding it?

Domain names containing relevant keywords are given a boost in Google SERPs for said keywords. For instance, google "marketing click" (no quotes) -- three of the top four results have the keywords in the domain name (click-marketing.net, clickmarketing.com, click-marketing.co.uk).

While not always true (google "juice fast"; you'll notice that none of the top 10 results have the keyword in the domain name), there is plenty of evidence to support a clear benefit for a domain name to contain relevant keywords.
The assumption of Windows8 (and WinCE before it) has always been questionable - "device agnosticism" is a fancy way of saying you don't care about your users' experience.
It'll most likely be a panel of people explaining what's happening as they get data coming in, shots of the team as they cheer/look nervous, and eventually a bit after the landing there might even be a photo from the martian surface taken by the rover.

At least that's what it's been like on other similar live coverages.
This is awesome. But, I hope Blake is fine with this. I did the same thing earlier, scraped the posts and created a epub. He immediately sent me an email:

Please remove the ePub version of my notes that you put on Github.

Peter Thiel, Clarium, and I are still figuring out what to do with the content. Very likely we will be publishing something ourselves.

As you do not own the content and did not ask for permission, please take down the doc immediately

(You can of course do this for personal use. Just please don't distribute it right now.)
I Love Craigslist, Here's How To Make The Most Of It
You might be simplifying the argument too much; I don't see it.

The complexity (and expense) isn't Office or a database, but relationships between the various bits.

Move it to Google ... the complexity doesn't go away. Might increase, depending on the legal bits.
In this age of high-level languages, why do I still have to worry about this? I don't mean 'security' I mean 'managing certificates.' My local framework/API should complain if I don't have a trusted root and should then make it dead simple to provide that root.
Since always, that's how they make money. What did you think they're revenue model was?
The CEO of my company is a micro manager - how to make it stop?
The CEO founded the 30 person company, and there are no other investors- it's all his money. He's a micro-manager who won't let the VPs of sales, product management or engineering make any decisions without his OK. Basically, the CEO comes up with all strategies, and the VPs execute his vision. He smart, and he knows it- which makes him super cocky and he can't be contradicted. I'd like to think that the VP of sales can figure out how to sell our software, and the VP of engineering can be responsible for making it. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Anyone have any advice on how to tell a CEO with no superiors to let everyone do their jobs?
Still true of some parts of pure math...
I'm not sure I buy this argument.
What if Padmapper folks were to create a site, lets call it PadBay and start scraping eBay lists and then provide a nicer UI, auction format and so and so forth, technically the same argument would apply, but eBay would rightly go after PadBay and would be correct.

The data that a user has posted to CL is indeed CL's data since CL is storing it. CL is not claiming copyright on the item, rather the post to CL.
The user is indeed allowed to repost it elsewhere and that would be that site's data.
I'm a CDO and occasionally feel the sting from it being such a new term. When the press covered Referly's big new features last week (an API, shopping experience and design overhaul) the ones that mentioned me put my title in dick quotes - "Chief Design Officer" instead of Chief Design Officer. And it sounds too similar to CTO to just say CDO when you first meet people, so I just say I'm a cofounder.

It's ok though and stuff like that's rare. Overall I feel a growing responsibility to represent design founders and it's what most accurately represents my role anyway. CDO is more fad-proof and less limiting than other titles like Chief UX Officer (too much focus on function, plus UX is industry jargon) or Chief Creative Officer (too much focus on visuals and marketing, plus it makes you sound like a Don Draper wannabe).
Wow, that's incredibly interesting; thank you for explaining it to me. I think my view of a lot of a lot of liberal arts majors (the curriculum, not the students) had been tainted by the people who coast through, however your explanation seems far more accurate. Your assessment of the social abilities of the respective majors is dead-on in my experience as well (especially concerning communication skills). Again, thanks for your time and extensive response!
s/capchas/captchas/
"CERN likes cheap students' work, and sell if off as stellar examples of innovation by CERN. "

And this is different from all other labs... how?
I never tried the live streams - the time difference was inconvenient enough.

Live content gets licensed differently to the catch-up content, which you can view without paying the license fee. Given catch-up is usually more restricted (some programmes unavailable for example) I imagine the only reason Limelight is globally accessible is because that's the default mode of operation and the iPlayer website is considered a sufficient region restriction mechanism.
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Tapered polygons made from wood with splayed miter angles (video)
How does this not violate the No Derivatives portion of the content license?
I prefer someone keep rolling for sanity loss & resume the work on isolates!

Web serving is OK & all, but I'd love if node could be an ideal runtime for petri-nets and webworker meshes too.
Exactly.

Security is something that should just work - arguably, the first thing with such requirement. Even though it simply can't just work in many cases, it should be as close to just-working as it can.
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