skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe that's true. I see a "Deactivate" button in my settings. Or is that not the same thing as "deleting"?
I can't wait until the page title trick makes its way to the next revision of the Azure Management Portal.
I initially thought this was just shilling for the Romney campaign until I saw the action button at the bottom.
Nokia X2 gunned down in Syria, saves the life of its owner
Written in 1997 - interesting, but don't click this thinking you'll get a recent defense of PERL.
The application allows you to select between 1:2 and 1:10 redundancy.
Protecting critical state infrastructure from the aftermath of a nuclear blast
The core of the editor is YMacs (http://www.ymacs.org/).

I just integrated filepicker.io.
The source is at https://github.com/tageorgiou/ymacs
To know Perl is to understand Larry Wall. If you don't get him, you won't get it.
My left brain wants to call Larry Wall to task for using a simplistic pop-psych brain-lateralization analogy when the truth of the brain is vastly more complicated but my right brain is like "Eh, he's from the Pacific Northwest, up there they believe in whatever makes them happy."
Integrating App.net with 70+ Other Apps in Less than 30 Minutes
Doesn't appear to be open to most users just yet.
This is pretty darn cool and pretty darn freaky at the same time.
It may want to use both front and back cameras to see if someone is coming at it from the back since it won't be able to get back up on its own. :o)
Definitely. I posted pertinent info recently that was also modded away and swore not to contribute anymore in disgust. Censorship is about the least "hacker" thing around. I still scan for news, though less frequently. Posting this comment is the first time I've logged in since.
Seems like the best solution from where I'm sitting.

Listen, if you don't trust Stripe's JavaScript, just use their HTTP API instead from your server: https://stripe.com/docs/api
Well, proof will be in the code. And the terms of service. Right now it is mostly intention, great intentions. It gets progressively harder to deliver these as scale pulls use cases from a larger population. And interop will stay hard until identity and personal data ecosystems a la http://www.idecosystem.org/ and http://personaldataecosystem.org/startup-circle become effective federations.
Microsoft Office is inherently collaboration unfriendly. It adds platform incompatibilities on top of inertia (which is likely the biggest obstacle).
Yeah Google better kick them to the curb on this one. Man, for all the quibbling over Google latest activity being evil or not, they still do a much better job with basic ethics than Facebook and their ilk. The non-stop attempt to actively change privacy norms by constantly defaulting existing users into more and more revealing new preferences is starting to get really irritating. Facebook I sort of have to put up with because of friends and family, but Quora I'm done with until they reverse this braindead decision. Seriously I don't know who they think they are.
Google paid 151M for Zagat - is that considered cheap? Would be surprised if the Frommer's price was even half that. http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_21301531/google-...
I'm very skeptical of anything with so many typos on the front page.
DomainTools is Hiring a Marketing Director
Vertical integration. Those who own content distribution (I.e. search) buy up the content. This solidifies / extends their unique ability to deliver relevant content.

A good analogy would be Comcast buying NBC. Of course google is at a higher scale than any previous distributor, so they can easily buy up lots of small but very valuable comtent producers.

Scary.
I appreciate that. Please contact me should it ever become a problem.
I'm thinking that some monkey software buried in the human psyche is interpreting giving someone money as an act of submission, while another bit is assuming that free is a promise of all-you-can-eat and thereafter interprets limits to that as cheating.

Someone with actual professional psychology experience could probably shoot that full of holes.
You actually make a huge assumption - that somehow the $2.8 Trillion shortfall is going to be addressed without altering the numbers you are reporting. At least put a prominent error bar on the Romney side of the graphic, showing the potential range of extra taxes that must occur somewhere in the Romney plan.
Dabbleboard will be shutdown August 31, 2012
KeyPass has always treated me well, is free, and runs on multiple platforms.
Is this just one of those "dumb customer requirements"? At least for me, geocoding-by-ip gives a result that is wrong by about 250 miles.

Why not just use HTML5 geolocation? You'll get much better results if the user grants you permission, and if you don't get that permission, you probably shouldn't know the location anyways... HTML5 geolocation is really easy to use.
This sounds a bit like the problem of the proliferation of news on cable TV and on the Internet. With there being so many choices for news, people tend to migrate to the source that aligns with their preconceived notions. So instead of being presented with information that may run counter to what they believe to be the truth, they only get their views confirmed.

With so many sources available, it's difficult to correct misinformation. People tend to believe what they want the truth to be, and now they have sources to confirm it.
Personally, any fixed element on a webpage drives me up the wall. I've had to install adblock just to manually hide divs like this.
Pretty Cool. I hate having to download files from Dropbox just to upload again when I need to save. I think this might do the trick.

EDIT: I just realized that it's not clear. I do use the client and it works really well from my computer. It doesn't work very well from a computer lab.
http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/ may be worth a shot.

Don't know how accurate the data is or how often it's updated, but we've used it before without any issues. I will note though that the geolocation functionality was a secondary piece in our software, so we weren't really concerned with accuracy of the data.
They aren't. Not even close.
That's exactly the kind of thing I feared upon hearing of Quora's focus on real names back when they launched.

I expect the bubbling up of such things (stuff that is somehow "interesting", but not useful) is a problem for the majority of social sites.

I tend to think the like button / upvote concept is just busted and largely to blame, but I certainly don't know how to solve or supplant it.
I'm looking at this from a different direction. I don't want my fingerprint to be unique, unless it is truly random on every request. I don't want any server to be able to tie any two requests of mine together without my permission (in the form of headers/cookies). That's the whole cookie/tracking argument right there. If you are isolated from a crowd, unique, then you can be tracked and analyzed.

I used Panopticlick, and no one else who has used Panopticlick had the same fingerprint. The meat of the uniqueness was in Browser Plugins and System Fonts. Think about that... If you've installed a few random fonts you found online, you're probably sending a unique font signature. If you've grabbed a few plugins, messed around with extensions, then you're probably sending a unique plugin signature.
YouTube wins Gold, Yahoo -Silver, BBC- Bronze medal for Olympic site web perf.
The Internet (and life) is full of the silent majority. Unfortunately it's hard and unprofitable to report on the silent majority, so the loudest opinions are always taken as true. Teach the controversy. That's why it's hard to find valid community reviews; people who don't have a strong opinion are unlikely to voice that opinion. My laptop works just fine. I'm not in love with it, but I don't dislike it. It's a tool for getting my work done, and it performs its job exactly as well as I expect it to. Which is why you don't see ThinkPadRumors.com, CultOfLenovo.com, or The Unofficial Business Machine Weblog. There's no Fake Yang Yuanqing twitter account.

Being high-profile creates buzz, and creates controversy. Controversy sells, and makes a product more high-profile. You always have to take into account that the people who are yelling are the ones who have something to yell about. Behind them, there are people actually using the products who don't care either way.
Google Places Packaged Apps Against Windows 8 Store
makes sense...the putting together part could even be automated where you pre-define transitions and how each clip would fit together before assigning to friends/creators...and once clips are done and uploaded, you just watch your movie take shape...
Would you care to go into detail about what you changed? Wouldn't changing too much make a user agent stand out?

Now I come to think about it, changing the GB to US in my user agent would probably make it less unique.
Google+ Starts Rolling Out Vanity URLs For Some Accounts
Users make my head explode sometimes, even when I'm expecting it.

I've caught users recommending a product of mine (feels awesome), then they turned around and insulted it in the same conversation. Upon a little anonymous interaction, they were upset because the CSS didn't match Google. Users, WTF???

Thank god for A/B testing.
Yet another HTML5 "Game Changer" which has already been available as part of the Adobe Flash Platform[1] for the best part of three years.

Just saying :)

For those down-voting me; I find this attitude very strange. If the tools were present in another widely deployed runtime, but were heavily under utilised then why are people getting so excited about them this time around?

I guess some people just love to hate Flash.

[1] http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/cirrus/
You can't fit everything into one blog post. Derek has written about his pains and failures separately: http://sivers.org/loss
Since Skype is moving to fully centralized service that can be even more easily wiretapped by Governments around the world (not just US), I'm very excited about the "revolutionary" (literally) capabilities of this protocol, as people will be able to speak 1-on-1 without interference, if the communication is also encrypted. Does being encrypted or not depend on that specific WebRTC client, or does it come encrypted by default like SPDY?
They raised over $142M including $100M in one round in Oct 2000. Wired article:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.12/jamcracker.html
unrelated discussion. did anyone think this site is hard to read? the font size and color...
Check out the "Web micro-framework battle" by Richard Jones talk. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYjPIMe0BhA, slides: http://www.slideshare.net/r1chardj0n3s/web-microframework-ba....
I like your analogy with learning a language, and I would use that analogy to say the current education system is only teaching grammar rules. Imagine sitting for hours a day for an entire school year conjugating verbs without ever reading a story, listening to a conversation, or trying to pronounce words.

There is so much more to mathematics than calculation. Proofs, number theory, and simulations can all be understood by children and are much more important to their education than long division.
thanks cliff. A compliment coming from the Big "Walmart" Data guy himself :)
I set right next to Bryan while he did this. He went from not ever having seen the App.net docs at all to fully functional in less than 30 minutes.

That's a pretty good testament to the App.net API.
I've played around with QuantLib's Excel plugin, and I don't find it easy to use - the hybrid system they set up to merge Excel with the C++ structure of QuantLib is unintuitive. I've had better luck just pulling the functions into Python and going from there.
Apple to release new iPhone 5 followed by 7 inch iPad at same October event
Well, there's a non sequitur if ever I've heard one!

I said a cruel sort of logic. His logic is wrong. Misused logic is a sort of logic. Unfortunately, his misused logic leads to cruelty. Sort of like the logic that says you need to forcibly sterilize disabled people to reduce those who have genetic abnormalities from polluting the overall population.
There are way bigger problems to fix on this site than table usage. How about the mysteriously broken log-ins? The lack of a way to recover the password that it claims is erroneous? The abysmal performance? The "you're posting too fast" even if you haven't posted anything in two hours?
It seems that almost every week I read about yet another "social" company breaching longstanding societal norms regarding privacy. Quora is just the latest example.

What happens next has become rather predictable: a few voices criticize the company in question, the company (maybe) issues some kind of public apology, and then... nothing seems to change.

Maybe our society doesn't really care that much about privacy.
Just in time for Google Fiber here in Kansas City. Excellent timing.
This:

>I am not arguing with you about these claims. I am just going on what you say to me. The combination of those claims LOGICALLY ENTAILS that unemployment, being driven by weak demand in every sector, and NOT just by weak demand for certain skills in specific sectors, MUST be driven by weak demand for labor overall, across sectors;

Does not entail this:

>in other words, every single sector does not need any more labor of any kind.

If there is weak demand for labor overall, then there will be a weak demand for labor, not zero demand. Additionally, labor does not follow normal supply and demand models, and if you're not aware of the evidence for this I'd suggest you read an economics textbook.

Your argument is similar to that of people saying that because North Dakota has low unemployment due to its energy boom, a massive energy boom would cure unemployment. But North Dakota's energy boom only has such a visible effect because of the state's small population; Pennsylvania has added a similar number of jobs and it has barely changed the unemployment rates, as the the state has a much larger overall population.

Likewise lack of skilled employees in, e.g. the technology sector does not necessarily indicate unemployment is caused by structural shifts in unemployment, unless the tech industry is looking for millions of new employees and can't find them.

Between December 2007 and October 2008 the unemployment rate doubled. It seems far more likely that the United States hasn't yet recovered from the financial crash rather than experiencing an unprecedented shift in its economy at exactly the same time.

Unemployment didn't slowly rise during the boom times, it spiked because of a financial crash and has been slowly declining since. Any claims of a structural shift require extraordinary evidence, and all you've provided are non-sequiturs.
Good start. What's the timeline for the elisp interpreter? :-)
You can't do that without incurring a PCI Audit, can you?

The best answer is "don't link to Javascript URLs that you don't control and audit on your website". Nobody likes that answer, but that doesn't make the second-best answer any more meaningful.
This is such a great piece of writing. Tongue in chic at every turn, but it really washes over me when he talks about the art. It makes me remember that computer science is less about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
More “Transmittable” Short URLs
One way to deal with ambiguous tags is to use aliases and related-to indicators.

But I agree with you that a system can't discard the file hierarchy without discarding important qualities many people need.
Well stated. For further deep thinking and a wonderful read, I recommend the original, "A Mathematician's Lament" by Paul Lockhart (2009): http://www.maa.org/devlin/lockhartslament.pdf [PDF]
Also the video was painfully long... I agree a package manager should be used. I stopped looking after those 2 issues and never even got a chance to dive into the, what looks to be bad, code.
> You know what I do during my lunch time? Trying to re-prove Fermat's Last Theorem.

How many other students did you know who did the same? There are some people (you, in this instance) who like Math in the current form it is taught. But the sad truth is a large majority of the world's student population (that includes Asia) find Math a boring, dry subject that forces too many drills upon you for not much practical application later.

> The problem is no so much that they dump down math. The problem is that they alienate the students from math. When you do math, all of it, the result is made of your sweat.

Wolfram advocates using programming to drive the concepts better by making students write programs to solve the problem. You can't do that without really understanding the concepts behind it.

> I hope you see my point: there is no elevator to interest in math. Math lovers must have toiled and slaved over stupid calculation over and over, until a point that they could actually produce the trace of math working, just like the zone in programming or any other art. That trace, that focus, that absorption builds the love for math.

Again, that definitely has worked for some percentage of the population. But it in no way is a guarantee that there aren't ways to better it. The 'elevator' to interest in Math might just exist.

The point of the talk was that Math the way it is being taught only teaches students to do hand-calculation, but doesn't give enough importance to other crucial aspects (asking right question, modeling and math formulation). It also brings in Computers as a great tool to help students understand Maths better: by procedurizing learning and using programming to help students understand concepts better than just handsolving problems repeatedly.

> You know where self esteem is from? It's from holding a piece of paper on which a problem has been solved and solution has been neatly presented; it's from the overcoming of frustration and challenges that the problem presents.

It's also from running the program you wrote which solves a challenge well. That is an important idea that Wolfram presents in the talk (it is by no means new, but nothing much has come of it yet). How is understanding 'how' to solve a Mathematical problem and translating it into executable code less 'frustrating/challenging' than learning by rote a specific method to attack a specific pattern of mathematical problems and using that technique mindlessly to solve them?

I find that the comment fails to address those actual points in the talk, but instead raises rote learning and hand-calculation drills as something worth aspiring for, and something that separates the chaff from the grain. I disagree. There are many students out there who find Math (the way it is being taught now) boring and worthless, but would have loved the subject if it (the teaching style) appealed to their intelligence better.

(also, please don't overwork the students any bit more. its hard enough already for most)
Is this really a win? For most small problems or subproblems, a person who has solved similar problems many times before can solve it mentally much more quickly than by consulting a computer.
Looks really similar to If This Then That:
http://ifttt.com/
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See my earlier posts about this. I deleted my account and asked for confirmation this was done, they stated it was - but all my info, comments, edits etc are all still there just simply no longer under my name!!
That is quite a gap... Average sale $30, but people spend $50,0000?
this is pretty neat, thanks for sharing
geolocation works good for mobile, but on the desktop its pretty annoying, you get a popup that you have to confirm which most users aren't used to, plus its javascript so you can't do server side stuff before you return your content (or in my case, redirect the user to a country specific version of the website for the online shop).
I agree. It's quite messy. That's why I use the C# swig bindings instead and if I had to use Excel as a UI, I'd build my own plugins in C# rather than use the ones they provide - in a similar fashion as you've done with Python.
Yes, it does imply. Extrapolated conclusions may not be correct, but it does imply. Sure there may be a sensible rational explanation proving the implication is wrong, but until reason is provided to analyze that motivation, it does imply. For many such allegedly misunderstandable implications, odds are high the implication is correct.

heyitsnick posted on Hacker News. Looking at just one post, and even noting that the post has absolutely no technical or business relevance, is a VERY strong indicator that heyitsnick has a strong interest in technology and business.

The fact that Quora publishes, by default, every user's every viewing will, in practice, pretty much demolish the "but it was just once" claim by making public whether such viewings (whatever the subject) were, in fact, just once.
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You can't do that without incurring a PCI Audit, can you?

Exactly. There's no way I would be serving up third party javascript to a logged-in Tarsnap user, even inside an iframe, if it weren't for the fact that dealing with PCI auditing would irreparably damage my sanity.
What about pricing a B2C SaaS? It seems to me that all of the advice I've found leans towards pricing B2C and charging a lot more money. Will applying the same techniques work for B2C where customers will be more stingy with their money?
I dislike ads so much I would stop using your service if it wasn't possible to block them. I would much rather pay for all the ad-supported (well, not by me) service I use.

Everybody should be looking for ad-free ways to support their services.

If you are not paying for something the provider has incentive to sell your data, not so much if you paid for it. Example: I'm currently on a free Dropbox account simply because I don't need much storage. I would love to pay for the option to have my files encrypted. This would mean that Dropbox can't save space, thus it's alright I should pay for that.
Ian Lance Taylor (author of the gold linker) wrote a wonderful 20 part essay to how linkers work: http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/38

I'd also recommend reading the rest of his blog, at least the programming section. It's very insightful.
Back to problem of American math schooling. Here is my prescription: just make the damn students do it. Require them to work on math. Forget about the whole, um, personality and uniqueness and whatnots. You know where these things are from? The toil of work (for students, that's studying) builds personality, values, and one's importance and uniqueness. You know where self esteem is from? It's from holding a piece of paper on which a problem has been solved and solution has been neatly presented; it's from the overcoming of frustration and challenges that the problem presents. Artisans take pride and esteem in their works. Students take pride and esteem in their tests and homework (except when you tell them that the football players will get the praise, the money, and the sex, and only these 3 things matter). Stop worrying about overworking them. Actually, overwork them to the ground. Leave them no energy and time to experiment with drugs and sex and alcohol.

Um, no, this has nothing to do with hard work, and everything to do with the way mathematic is taught. I am a programmer and I would love to understand mathematics the way I understand programming. There got to be far more to mathematics than simply learning how to follow steps.

As a programmer, I write, debug, fix and improve code. With math, I don't understand why am I merely following steps when computers can do it at far higher reliability than I could.