skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>unless by "sustainable energy" we mean proven technologies like nuclear, which leftists inevitably don't

Yeah, proven to need billions of dollars on a Government subsidy to limit liability to 10 billion dollars, no matter how much the plant makes, and no matter how much damage it does (wipe out a state? that's ok, 10 billion should cover that).
These are great points. IF you can get away without a phone number, you train your customers early on to use other means. Yes, you may lose out on customers, but this is built into your profit model.

Taking phone calls costs money. Typically, people who would prefer to call are going to be not as technical, and will indeed require 'support' that goes beyond your product, because if your product isn't working, you have to fix it or at least diagnose it on that phone call, even if it's because their networking is down. You essentially become their "IT" department.

So, not having a phone number will cause you to lose sales, but probably with those sales are the 'expensive' customers that you probably would not have made money on after factoring the extra support costs.

That being said, if you must have a phone number, increase the cost of your product to cover the extra cost of that.
1 week ago they announced their Virgin America site, and now categories? Wow, amazing back-to-back releases - keep up the great work guys!
Glad to know you only wear a potato sack. Do you spend the absolute minimum on clothes, or do you replace your t-shirt when it gets a permanent mustard stain on it?
More that I couldn't write on an iPhone keyboard:

What I'd like ICQ to do is something like: Recognise that the account has been unused for a decade and that it doesn't matter if I am an imposter and agree to clear the profile at least.

Or, provide some hints to the email address and see if I can complete it.

Or, ask for some sort of proof of ID, given that the name is real and fairly unique.

Get rid of their dismissive don't-care "there is no way to delete an account, just edit your profile to clear the details and forget it exists. If you can't get back into your account with the email-me-a-password feature then that's it, you will need to register a new account" policy.

Or, at least, have some way of talking to them and someone who gives a toss. The forum has lots of completely ignored "please delete my account" posts - I've even seen three with passwords, at least one of which works(!). I was going to be nice and login and reset the password - but the only way to reset your password is from the ICQ client(!). Sod that.
Rails people rant against Django folk. We are all guilty, so who exactly is being apologized to? I suppose 'A Programmer's Confession' would be a more appropriate title.
Removing New Zealander's right to due process and court trial before being found guilty
If Google tried to pull something like re-writing links into affiliate links they would be called evil.
The thing is that, unless you actually come up with a solution yourself, you "cheat" by either learning someone else's solution or by one of your two other solutions. But only the former can really be interesting and something that you can "show off".

I'm not judging you though. I did the same thing but practiced on speed instead of the algorithm :)

Surprisingly, it does have some sexy points. Recently, I was pushed to solve one during a party and, while I was feeling like a total nerd, people looked sincerely impressed.
4000 boxen? Just restoring from backups?
There's a quick way to completely fail any RTO you might have set..

1 week would give you 2.5 minutes for each box.. (obviously you could do things in parallel - but not all at once) If you had to pull backups off tape - then you'd be limited by number of tape drives - 100 maybe? If you were pulling it all in off a SAN/VTL then you've still got a whole pile of bottlenecks - disk speed, fabric, network, etc..

Remember: Backups are not a DR solution. (and conversely - a hot-site or equivalent is not a backup solution!)
>At some point everyone must trade their labor for goods other people produce. This transaction incurs taxes that you must pay in dollars, or you go to jail.

If everyone just worked for non-profits focused on providing for people, that statement isn't true =P. Not exactly what you meant...
If your idea existed, it would have to be working with voice-recognition though to insure that people turn crazy.
Emails okay, but digest format
Why not just include macports?
It renders the entire article almost unreadable on my MacBook's 1280x800 resolution.
Firebug -> Inspect -> Click on freaking floating picture

Console -> $1.style.display="none"
Registered for account, was happy there was no confirmation email. Wanted to get quickly to core game, so dismissed tutorials. I tend to believe that games should be self-explanatory, going over tuts isn't much fun. Got a taxi and was very confused trying to double click around the map. I got near what I believe may have been the passenger I was supposed to get, but didn't know how to pick them up. Tried clicking all over the place, gave up and closed tab.
Thanks - I added that as an option.
And I believe, this should be configurable, so people who choose one way (digest/email) or no way, should be able to set it.
This is a good point. I assume the testing measured how many sales were made during which days. A more thorough test would be 1 month intervals for say 6 months (even better would be for them to figure out how long the sales cycle typically takes from the 1st visit, double it and add a day, then alternate for that period).
Submitting your site to Hacker News can yield insightful comments, new users, and potentially result in an investor taking some notice. That isn't the same as deliberately pitching investors, though. I don't see how charging a specific fee for a specific service in an up-front fashion like this is predatory. A barrier to entry such as the fee charged probably makes the quality of applications and applicants better. That being said, at this point, I can't imagine myself paying for such a service. I prefer to network the old-fashioned way.
Maybe Twitter could detect whenever a product name is used in a tweet, and turn that into a link to a list of places to buy it.
Maybe kickboxing exams?
Thanks for the summary - the huge font and floating panel make the article unreadable on my macbook.
Google allows users to spy on ISPs
Google is flexing its net muscles with an ambitious new initiative that allows users to find out if their internet service providers (ISPs) have put access restrictions or other network controls in place.
Do game companies retouch screenshots? Yep--Activision is hiring for that job
It would be great if you put a big shiny button on your website: "Play now" or "Test drive" and let people try it without registration.

Also, I think if you start charging money for premium services and make some features paid-only you will immediately look more serious and increase satisfaction from game for those who pay, it's human nature.

Just my 2 cents.
Amazon Announces Strong Results
Damn. You beat me to it.
Does Perfection Have to Have a Price?
It's called irony.

Everybody is talking about an offline version of gmail, as if such thing is a progress... I had being using offline mailers from the old Internet times.

And about reading a few chapters from his book... don't make me cry, my life was spent on computer science research and I don't need to show any "credential" to you.
I disagree. Sort of reminds me of the mess on ebay where buyers were afraid to down mod sellers because they were afraid of retaliation. Not quite the same here, but I trust the rest of the community to take care of any problems. If a poor comment stays there, it's probably because at least some agree with it.
That the line has a bug where it doesn't do what the programmer (apparently) intended yet correcting it so it does would cause two other bugs to appear, makes it worse not better, I think.

Also the rant does say what the program should do - if it can't write to the folder, raise an exception and alert the user.

Also, whether there is something to learn depends on who you are and what you know, it's not an objective property of the information you're looking at.

PS - "epic fail" is very descriptive and fear-of-being-called-a-fanboy-peer-pressure shouldn't be what stops you from using it.
Is College Working?
I don't think "logical" means what you think it does. Are you sure you don't mean "moral", or "acceptable"?

Do you believe there are any cases where one could justifiably kill in self-defense, or are you a pure pacifist?
Another method:

Right-click picture, "Inspect Element"

Firebug expands

Right-click highlighted img element, "Delete Element"
Good point. A better way would be to randomly sort visitors to the site into either the A or B group, and make that sorting sticky over time (cookies aren't perfect, but are a reasonable approximation). No magically disappearing phone number!
+1!

Totally agree. There are serious angels who co-invest fairly regularly with other angels they know and trust - but these organized groups, especially the pay to pitch ones are a bad neighborhood.
Next up, on How We Make Powerpoint Presentations:

1) White text on black slides: yes.

2) Black text on white slides: yes.

3) White text on blue slides which have gradients going all the way to white: no.
'regularly'
> A whore or slut is a person who has sex with bad or immoral motivations.

Does that mean that sex that is not motivated by "bad" or "immoral" is acceptable or are there other categories?

How about a list of "bad" and "immoral" motivations?
Education is about learning how to learn. You can either learn by yourself or with others. Learning with others is more effective and enjoyable, which is why sites like HN exist. Learning to learn with others is something you get from going to university, i.e. interaction and struggling for ideas.
Agreed on the virtual goods part. By letting people complete offers to get points, I've been getting over $5 CPM.
> Even people who enjoy casual sex don't enjoy a history of casual sex in previous partners

I learned a long time ago to not tell other people what they enjoyed, wanted, etc.
I second "Certain to Win".

Game theorists might define a strategy as an approach to optimal decision-making while you are surrounded by other actors whose actions interact with yours. Chess strategies are a good example.

The author of Certain to Win, Chet Richards, takes a different approach. He defines strategy as "a scheme for creating and managing plans." It is a means to generate, act upon, and discard plans. Strategy is how you "plan to plan." OODA loops are a good example of this approach.
Upmodded in case any math-loving high schoolers (or their parents!) are reading this.

Also upmodded for the garden of constants, which I remember fondly from my own high-school summer programs at OSU.
Package Design Research - Pretty cool analysis
Check out the FBI affidavit at http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/files/fannie_complaint.pdf.

The accused seems to have done the following
- SSHed in with his user id and gained root access to a dev server. The DHCP address for the client IP was last assigned to his laptop

- Created a cron job that ran a script. The script checked whether it was January 31st, 2009. If so, it did the following

- Disable internal monitoring systems to disable alerts
- Create a list of all servers,walk through them and disable logisn and clear out logs
- Wipe out data by overwriting with zeros
- Uninstall software and turn off the machines
- Clear itself out and zero out the root filesystem

The 'smoking gun' seems tenuous at best- the person accused seems to use similar naming conventions for his personal temp files (the .x, .y format) which I agree is unconventional. I think the real smoking gun is the fact that his laptop and his login was used
Alternatively, you could use BackType Subscriptions to do this, as well as follow threads you're not participating in:

http://www.backtype.com/subscriptions

We have a bookmarklet too -- so adding subscriptions can be less painful.
Hmmm, guess no-one here is in the military? The (American) military branches all publish their own reading lists, updated annually, that'd be a great starting point.
http://www.af.mil/library/csafreading/
http://www.history.army.mil/reference/csalist/csalist.htm
and the National Defense University has a big compilation:
http://www.ndu.edu/library/readinglist/PMReadingList.html
I really like how you communicated your point by repeating it in 5 different ways, including an if statement.
Git Submodules in Rails
Cipher Prime giving away Auditorium to people who donated
Novel technology could produce biofuel for around €0.50 a liter ($2.49 a gallon)
Yesterday I made a feature request to slinkset to be able to sort users by date jointed. Yesterday evening they had it running. Congrats guys!
Water lilies inspire scientists to create large-scale graphene films
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=443913
Hoever, I wouldn't use share price as a major determinant of company choice.
I löve working with Lua, and have used it two of my gaming projects before to good effect when handling character AI and item/world scripting. I would be greatly interested in seeing LÖVE extended to add support for 3D gaming projects, perhaps even if as simple as adding a simplified FBX model/rendering wrapper, a là .Net/Xna.
Your example is of misspellings, which are incorrect. But the use of "literally" as an intensifier is common usage and can't be called incorrect. Languages evolve, and the meanings of words can change as they are used by their speakers and writers. That's how it works.
Classic: "adding an umlaut makes anything awesome, just look at Motörhead."
because your fuzzy allocation is going to change from table to table, it would probably be best to keep a master table of fuzzy allocations.

something along the lines of

columnname, lowvalue, highvalue, weight

that way, you could keep all your weightings for whatever column you wanted to test on and do your joins on the low and high values.

it would also make it easier to modify your weightings and see how the queries you generate change their results without having to change any sql. And if you wanted multiple kinds of weightings for one column name you would just add a name field.

eg:

create table fuzzy
(name VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL,
colname VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
lowval DECIMAL(10,2) NOT NULL,
hival DECIMAL(10,2) NOT NULL,
weight DECIMAL(10,2) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (name, colname, weight),
INDEX fuzzy1 (name, colname, weight),
INDEX fuzzy2 (name, colname, lowval, hival),
INDEX fuzzy3 (name, colname, hival, lowval)
);
> Please justify this claim, or shut the fuck up.

We've seen the unicorns and butterflies. (I missed the poetry) Now we're seeing the shining armor.

I'll go out on a limb and guess that you haven't had an SO for the majority of your post-15 year-old life. You have deep friendships with women who tell you how wonderful you are but they have someone else or do without. In some cases, they even say things like "why can't my boyfriend be more like you".

Here's today's clue. When women say "it's not you, it's me", they're lying.

LJBF.
Also:
What is up with the umlaut in LÖVE?

We can't really say that we're making love, now can we? Plus, adding an umlaut makes anything awesome, just look at Motörhead.

Edit: simultaneous post with nuclear_eclipse... hahah.
Or their webmaster got an offer they couldn't refuse.
I wish I could give you 20 karma for that. Nice sleuthing!

Do you think his attack would have worked?
Certain restrictions are impossible to encode in protocols where one's computer acts as their agent. For example, it's impossible to restrict the duplication or longevity of a document. Remote attestation restricts what code can be used to run a protocol, and thus enables implementation of such naive rules.

I don't currently use remote attestation for anything, but it's a matter of time until some bozo decides that remote attestation is the way to solve online banking security ("if only we could be sure they weren't running malware!"),
and brings the technology stack mainstream.

When that happens, the non-techies (seeing no distinction) will enforce their business rules on end user's computers (they occasionally try to do this now, but run up against reality). Client-side-only verification of form fields may be laughable now, but won't be so funny with no incentive to fix it because common people cannot exploit it.
You might also want to read Nagl's book: "How to Eat Soup with a Knife." (who knows how that period/quotation thing works...)

Anyways, he covers insurgencies fought unsuccessfully by Americans and successfully by the British, and why they succeeded and failed. Nagl doesn't come out and say the reasons are X, Y, Z. It's more here are important events A, B, C and here are important structural and cultural facts about the militaries that can help explain them.

Another book to read is "A Savage War of Peace." It describes the Algerian insurgency during French rule. While Petraeus based his strategy in Iraq on the French's strategy, it is also relevant due to the strong similarity between what happened with the French populace and what is happening with our own.
At the same time, "normal people" who don't know that domains are for websites will not have a prayer of understanding what domainpidgin.com is about.

How do you expect these "normal people" to find domainpidgin in the first place?
Freedom is in the lead, which is my point. The biggest enslavement we tend to have is financial.
Why can't I take a picture from a "corner" and get 3 sides of the cube at once?
A look at revision history vs the publication of the original article?
signup required. ugh.

i won't register before i know if i like it.
There are lots of reasons to comment in different places. HN has a more pleasant UI (not as nice as Reddit's, though), I don't have to wait for the blog owner to approve my comment after moderation (or worry that they'll delete it if it's critical), I don't have to worry that it'll be rejected because it's too long or cites too many sources, I don't have to try to figure out what goofy markup the blog expects, and I can go back and see the replies to my recent comments fairly easily. And with the voting system it's easier to find the good comments.

There are advantages to doing it on the blog post itself, too. People who find the blog post a year from now will see comments on the blog post itself, most blog comment software at least supports more markup than just paragraphs and italics, the blog author is more likely to read it, etc.
Very true!
In my first job at a small hardware manufacturer, all we had was phone support (this was late 80's - early 90's, email wasn't widespread). The people who needed the most support often became very good customers because they knew they could rely on us to help them when they needed it. Almost all customers needed pre-sales support and a fairly high percentage needed tech support after purchase depending on what they bought. One of our product manuals was always being upgraded because the product was so complex that we began to anticipate the customer questions and answer them explicitly in the manual. The average sale was probably around $300 but we had a high number of repeat customers many of whom we knew by name.

As you said, the cost of the product must cover the anticipated support. If you are covering the cost, then make this an opportunity to differentiate your company even more by offering excellent support beyond what your competitors do.
I love the Stackoverflow discussion format
Reading the article on stackoverflow on bad habits the other day (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/164432?sort=votes) I noticed how much I loved their discussion format.

Generally, discussion boards for techies opt for full threading, while nontechie boards are completely flat. Both methods have significant flaws that annoy me to no end.

Stackoverflow has a format that I hadn't seen so far: A flat list of answers (sortable by score or date), with a flat, chronological list of comments per answer (hidden by default).

I love it! I think that it might be a superior choice for almost any forum.

Has anyone seen it before? Does it have drawbacks?
No, illegal is bad. I could not be happy if I were freeing myself at the expense of others.

One route I have in mind is living overseas. According to my calculations, it should be possible to save up enough money over, say, about 5 years, to live entirely off the interest in a less developed country. However, less developed does not mean bad. The majority of my childhood was spent in a third world country. I greatly enjoyed it, and it was much less developed than what I have in mind. Also, I think there are places in the US that are just as affordable, but I haven't researched the issue much yet.

Here is a bit of research I've done. I need to take into account more variables, and be a bit more rigorous, but it seems a plausible method.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=122341
> The key isn't kept secret from the machine's legitimate owner

Please explain how remote attestation can work if the machine's owner has access to the signing key.

(edit: having just read up on the newer Direct "Anonymous" Attestation scheme, I see that the signing key is no longer a permanent part of the TPM chip, but is generated with an issuer. Still, this generated key is kept secret in the "trusted" module, and my question remains)

I know the article is talking about secure storage and I'm picking on remote attestation, but they're both part of a technology suite which treats the end-user as an attacker.

A simple rule of thumb - if the capabilities of the hardware cannot be emulated by a VM, it's not in the owner's best interest.
Personally, I've had more trouble with macports than necessary. (Mostly because whenever I type 'port', I still get command not found.) It's much easier just to download the source, ./configure, make, and sudo make install.
I upmodded you for correcting me. :) I guess it was a sign of the times, then, sort of like Obama's BB.
How often is there a new feature and not just a bugfix in git? Honest question as I don't use git.

And does git really use up that much space to be an issue? I imagine the problem is just conflicting binaries/libraries which can be fixed pretty easily in .bashrc...
Sorry, ompletely unrelated, but I also recently looking at doing some 'mining' on NBA stats. Where do you get your raw stats from?
basically, you throw out an answer and who really cares whats in the comments. doesn't foster discussion, only question/answer.
Thats because macports installs itself to /opt/* which isn't in your $PATH. Easy to fix. But macports still causes more problems then its worth. So does fink for that matter.
Programming Turtle Graphics in Javascript
To clarify, I think feminism is, in general, good. Some aspects, like saying women aren't feminists and don't respect themselves if they are against sleeping around, are very bad.

Also, we do need a social stigma against cads. Cads are men who take advantage of women. Why is this good?
Can anyone parse out of this statement how much the collective web services made?
That's how Balsamiq uses Twitter for advertising. He has a Twitter alert for things like "mockup tools" and when he sees someone expressing a need his product fills, he sends an advert prefixed with a $$.
If you have all the free energy you need, doesn't that make it easier to transport?
I'm curious if Wired's account is to be taken as the literal truth (I know, bear with me). Why is someone being fired for a single scripting error? What the hell is QA for?

More-over how stupid does Fanny Mae management be to fire someone who can write and deploy logic bomb that meticulous in half a day? Let alone let any of their staff have that level of data center access.

I'm sure we aren't seeing the full picture here.