skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, I've spent literally two minutes as I'm in the middle of something urgent, and I'll come back to it later, but my impression is that while the result is interesting, and the authors may have used computer experiments to gain intuition about what was happening, it's not a computer proof. It's a tradtional proof of something that's relevant to computers.

If I'm wrong please provide a better summary so I can read it with your insights to guide me.
Why defend freedom of icky speech?
Yes, he is quite the character and a legitimate mathmetician^. I also looked into him and questioned his validity after first reading his opinions.

I read a paper by him on ultrafinitism^^ a few years ago and was intrigued and entertained.

^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doron_Zeilberger

^^ http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/mamarim/mamarimPDF/rea...
Just because a study of college students showed that the wealthier ones were a bit more "stand-offish" does not mean that the way their parents generated wealth in the first place was by being rude. Yes, it makes sense if one has wealth one is going to be naturally protective of it, which can translate into being rude occasionally I suppose. But to generate wealth in the first place, I really think being rude would be counter-productive. So I would say: charm you way to the top, then, once there, if you want to be a drama queen that is your prerogative!
Way to summarize their only complaint.
Two advancement are working in favor of fixed-width sites

1. Monitors are getting wider more than it is getting taller.
2. The latest browsers replaced "increase text size" with a zoom entire site feature instead.

Liquid layouts are useful if executed correctly and only if there has to be a lot of content to present.
next: how do you click your mouse?!
It's lighter than iPhone... :)
Stuff that was Cool: The Jump On It Dance
Hi, the CS3 installer did indeed take longer than the current installers. More context here:
http://blogs.adobe.com/OOBE/

(Lots of text here at Hacker News on that year-old plaint...?)

btw, if you're developing for Chumby, there are many options besides Adobe's Creative Suite:
http://osflash.org/
http://swftools.org/

jd/adobe
Here you go! --> $$$$
I don't recall him using YC as a platform to promote his views. Everyone's entitled to make comments on a story without it being considered "abusing a platform".

I probably spend more time than most having heated arguments with axod on IRC, and I enjoy these. It's a mark of civilisation to be able to discuss viewpoints other than yours.

As they say, diplomacy is about talking (constructively) to your enemies, not your friends. Arguments are about discussing topics (constructively) with people who disagree with you, not with people who agree with you.

Edit: For the record I strenuously disagree with axod on that topic as on many others. In fact, I'm giving him a bollocking for it on #startups right now.
Care to share more? I would love to know how much money they are making.
I didn't like them, but it was a good experiment.
As the owner of a semi-popular anonymous forum (with some moderation) I have no sympathy for these idiots. They are decent people caught being in a wild and crazy mob? How is that not contradictory.

Flaming is ok, but calling for these women to be raped and so on is just disturbing and weird and anyone doing it is a bit far from a decent person in any context.
not HN, but awesome.
I don't get what's with all the down modding. There's nothing wrong with refusing to do business with someone because of their personal views (even if their personal views don't affect my interaction with them).

It's effectively just a boycott.

Personally, I would rather have a civilized discussion on most issues - but if you really want to boycott that is your right.
Interactive Graphics for Data Analysis (book)
Firefox has not enabled by default "tracemonkey" yet. If you get one of the beta or nightly builds it should be turned on.
Actually, I thought the article pretty clearly stated the opposite of your last point.

One, the women were far from litigious (depends on your definition of course but to me taking a year and using everything from humor to begging in an attempt to resolve the case without going to litigation is the opposite of litigious).

Two, they did not have the resources to sue the posters - unless I misunderstood the article, Google's legal firm is representing them for free because Google wants to have control over any legal precedents that affect their ability to index non-moderated online forums.
Wait. You're asking whether the commenters deserve to lose their reputations over.... participating in a baseless attack on someone else's reputation?

Why yes. Yes they do.
Startup life 101
Hmm. Either this dance still is cool, or I've been doing a lot of embarassing myself at parties.
Wow, what a gross generalization and over-simplification of human behavior.

I doubt Warren Buffet has gone on many diatribes in his life.
I think it is worth noting that although this is a good step in the right direction, Recovery.org is not going to make it easy to find unpopular information. It would be unreasonable to expect President Obama to highlight things that he believes in, but knows will not be received well by the public. There are other sources besides Recovery.org that may serve as a better data mining resource.
hmm...

1) With my right index finger (right handed)
2) With my left index finger (left handed)
3) With my TouchPad (laptop)
4) I have a special mouse (please explain)
5) I don't -- mice are slow * (prefer keyboards)

* http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000825.html

On a more serious note, I use both shift keys. How/why are some people only use one shift key for typing? From whom already voted, why is the left shift key more popular?
I'm disheartened by people's inability to immediately spot such academic fluff.
steps to academic success (apparently):

choose two behaviors/phenomena

collate the data and look for correlations

write a paper that implies possible causation

profit

it works best if one or both of the things you choose are already controversial (see Freakonomics: Abortion and the Crime Rate?! ZOMG!)
Hey I just saw you're the one behind Review Robot. I saw your presentation @ CUSEC/Democamp last month. Prior to working on Clusterify I was developing an iPhone app (which I still haven't got around to publishing), so that was quite interesting.

Le monde est p'tit.
While datavisualization.ch has some great projects - this is just blogspam.

http://www.interactivegraphics.org/Home.html is the actual site for the book.
Yep. Add to that, the acrobat installer, silently without notice or any option to avoid it, installs Adobe AIR without your consent.

I take this as a sign of a company entering a stage of decline. Successful companies on the rise do not need to use subterfuge to get deployment of their products. When a company starts to become hostile to its own customers you can tell the rot has set in. These days it is nearly impossible to download simple software without getting crapware along side it (Sun is another prime offender, and even Flash tries to shove toolbars down your throat.).
Apple sales downturn -- as Linux and netbooks become the new hotness
Not the article I needed to see the moment I finished ordering my G1 but the bad keyboard review makes me feel slightly better. Nevertheless, go Android!
Great article. Striking a balance is not that easy because your mind is constantly thinking about your startup. This is something I still need training on.
as the UI of popular products bloats over time, a market opportunity opens up for the people that the app originally served: people who just wanted a simple_____.

Mint.com is a perfect example of filling the vacuum left by accounting programs like quickbooks becoming too complicated for the average person.
The legal profession, medicine, and a host of others depend on personal reputation. I can see an employer, recognizing that it is all baseless, passing because he doesn't want to explain to clients or colleagues that it is all baseless, particularly when there are plenty of other candidates. Suppose you or your SO were Googling a potential pediatrician and got pages of molestation accusations?
DB2 support for Django is on its way. What would you like next? (Poll)
The U.S. Navy should learn from this. Last Summer there were 5 carrier groups in the Persian Gulf. If, all of a sudden, the fleet's fighter jets can't take off because of a computer virus, would it be too wild to presume that the AAA and anti-aircraft missile system isn't working too well either? 30+ ships parked in the Gulf as defenseless sitting ducks is not a very effective deterrence strategy, is it?
This is HN poison. Kill please.
Intriguing title. If the story is valid, perhaps all other nations have attempted to drop in on that site in hopes of learning the trick... 'cause something seems to have taken down that server.
If I poke you once each day it would probably be annoying, but you would keep on going on with what you were doing. But if I shot you with a .18 derringer, it could get serious.

Also see "livelock".
Exactly how would it do that, pray tell?

There is zero contradiction between that statement and materialism.
Have you done your startup's 2008 tax yet?
Have you done your tax yet? Who is doing tax for your startup? TurboTax? Your friend? Yourself? or somebody else?

Thanks
Maybe the "legalism of the defense" wouldn't be so effective if the prosecution had some vague idea what they were talking about.

Perhaps any group planning on bringing this kind of case to bear should require that every member of the prosecution team use torrent sites for a number of months before they start the case. Know thy enemy. At least that way, they'd have first hand knowledge of how torrents work and what the technical details actually are, so as not to come off looking like complete idiots when they get half their charges thrown out almost immediately.

But then I guess there's the risk that prosecutors might change sides? :P
Well, I don't have the exact numbers... but the main message was that the revenue in comparison to other ad channels was insignificant (!).
Twitter: Testing A More Integrated Search Experience
The Facebook brouhaha isn't only about privacy. It's about (increasingly) huge corporations making arbitrary power grabs with little concern for individuals (i.e., customers, paying or not) who give value to the corporation's business.

And it's about: changing the rules in mid-stream: kind of a bait-n-switch. Glad it works for Wilhelm. Doesn't work for me.
that's a real classic implementation of the 'trojan' concept, I googled a bit, here is a mention of it:

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11397?ref=rss
Statistically speaking, hiring a good marketing person is going to be much more effective than a long term strategy of becoming a thought leader in your target market (how many target markets have thought leaders anyway?) and then exploiting your massive popularity for an instant word-of-mouth network effect when you launch your first product. Even 37s themselves did not engineer this success. Instead they focused on doing what they do well. They did not get where they are by picking some outlier to emulate.
It depends. I never could have had a business with my ex-wife. But I enjoy helping my SO getting her career and business as a painter and photographer going. A lot depends on personalities. (Who gets the blame for problems.failures.) I think success is more likely if levels of abilities and contributions are equivalent. Good points in the article.
Of course, social capital goes out the window. Some people like to be surrounded by family, friends, and neighbors that they know. This used to be our society's "safety net" before everybody associated that term with the government.

I guess nowadays, everything is turning impersonal and people are losing the value of connection and belonging. I'm not sure the benefits of greater mobility are greater than the cost.
Considering that, IIRC, the G2 will only be available over seas in Europe, I don't see how you should be feeling bad at all. Not to mention that the G1's sliding keyboard is really nice to use, far better than any on-screen keyboard you could possibly get, and will never take up your screen space to boot. And to top it off, the G1 should be receiving the updates from the Cupcake branch anyways, meaning that with the G1, not only will you have the bigger screen and better keyboard, but you'll have all the saftware benefits of the G2.
It just belongs elsewhere... it's a toxic subject.
All you did was repeat that you'd like them more if they were making less money (or making empty gestures). I don't doubt that you think that, I'm just wondering why. Is any of your content on TPB? Have they stopped you from running adblock? Why would you want them to have less of an incentive to serve you?
With my right hand; clutch with the left foot.
This is hardly surprising given the massive scale of adsense (content and search networks).

It doesn't mean it's not a large absolute number though.
It would make their attitude seem less hypocritical.
I guess I should be more clear. Their defense is probably the best strategy for defeating the charges in a court of law. But the tone of obvious righteousness that the defendants and the internet community has taken on seems unwarranted given the flimsy nature of their arguments.

Or maybe someone can explain to me why helping people break the law should be legal.

Arguing minutiae might be a good way to win in court. But outside of court, the term "legalistic" has a negative connotation. Legalistic arguments are seldom a good way to convince people that you are right. I don't understand why they seem to convinced so many people with such a legalistic defense.
this one is particularly true: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion78.html
ShareThis.com Aims to Become A Big Data Platform in the Next Web
Found in Space
a) impossible to do in a distributed fashion, b) may leak information about your operations to competitors. of course, OP may not care about these things.
Does anyone here actually use a netbook as their day-to-day computer? I, for one, can't imagine coding on the small screens and typing on the small keyboards for eight hours. They make good travel companions, for sure, but that makes them a good secondary computer and not a primary -- in my opinion anyway.
Even if that study implied causation it would be the other way around- the students are rude because they are rich, they are not rich because they are rude. C'mon...borderline link bait.
Is the pirate bay making money?
It is not a large number, and they do have a lot of
inventory. The ads are just not as effective.
Also, 3rd parties (aka you and me) do not get these ads, nor
would we get the great pricing that google does.

So, to be clear, this is the fringe.
Inside the Meltdown
What is overseas for you might not be overseas for me :)
I am glad to hear the other points though. I did not know that it had a smaller screen.
I haven't used Photoshop in years, so I can't really comment. But I was a fan of Illustrator for a long time, and Lightroom is probably one of the best UIs ever. The thing is that when you get proficient in their apps you get really productive, so I can see why professionals go for their products.
I've never even heard of this dance. But that kid is hilarious.
This worked for me:

(attribute a title opstring)
(def byline (i)
(pr " by ")
(let u i!by
(tag (a href (user-url u)
title (string "karma: " (karma u)
" | created: " (text-age:user-age u)))
(pr u)))
(pr " " (text-age:item-age i) " "))

I didn't really look into the performance cost of calling uvar for every byline; that's probably not ideal.
The Gallery of Exploding Servers
Are these molestation charges backed by the names of real families, or are they anonymous? There's a world of difference between the two. There's also a clear distinction calling someone a child molester and calling someone "cheerful and big-titted".

If a person isn't willing to put their name behind a statement, then we shouldn't lend it any credence. As lurid as the statements were, I don't think its any different from what went on behind closed doors fifty years ago. Barring wishful thinking, people didn't really believe third-hand rumors, so why should it be any different now?

I wonder, though, if this story would even be a blip on the radar if the two girls' names were replaced by some pop star. Maybe it's just that the bar for celebrity has been lowered to the point that all it takes is to be an attractive girl at a prestigious law school.
"I've never seen -- but often wished for -- a fluid-width layout that automatically scales its text so that the average line in the main content has 8-12 words on it."

That's easy to do with a fixed width in units of ems:

min-width: 15em;
max-width: 35em;

For IE 6/7, conditionally add:

width: 35em;
Hollywood makes Hulu deprive Boxee users of its programming, dammit
Hulu requests removal from Boxee
Reminds me of the trouble a large number of users had trying to install CS3 on Vista. The installer wouldn't initialise properly, and of course it didn't print any meaningful errors. Eventually I found a fix for this on someone's blog which suggested changing one of the environment variables.

After searching the Adobe forums and finding many users with the same problem, it seemed pretty obvious that Adobe just didn't know what the solution was.

Edit: found the relevant paragraph in the below mentioned Adobe blog:

"In CS3, there were some serious problems that customers faced and the time it took to resolve those issues in customer support made the initial experience with CS3 painful for some customers."

Painful? Oh yes...
..proprietary apps are usually more polished..

Well if they weren't they'd already be dead & you'd only know of the open source version. It usually takes a different business model (eg opera), or microsoft to prop up an inferior proprietary product. And opera's pretty much dead.
That was my first thought too before I actually saw the poll.
i strongly disagree. fixed width works in the world of 1998...everyone with a 17 inch monitor on their desks. today screens tend to be very big (24 inch monitor) or very small (iphone). the only viable method for addressing the inverse bell curve of monitor size is with liquid layout.
The Firefox extension "Web Developer Toolbar" has a Resize menu wherein you can define your own window sizes (based on either the overall window or the viewport). I've come to use this as a reading aid, with a few preset sizes that work well with my monitor and the sites I frequent most. Drop the menu and click a preset size, and I'm reading at a convenient width. Maximize the window to undo.
The article says how to be rich, not to get rich.

Experiment with trust fund babies for the former, entrepreneurs for the latter.
One feature that I think will make a difference visually is to hide the items you've saved so everything on the new or home page will only show items that I haven't read before. I think it creates a better flow for screening through the topics. So a reader doesn't need to stop for a microsecond to skip over a saved item.
Here's a thought: perhaps they're all rude because they're rich college students, which usually implies that they grew up in a wealthy family and certainly didn't become wealthy on their own. The researchers should have studied their parents.

This article should be titled: "Want to come from a wealthy family? It's about being rude to people."

Which obviously makes no sense, but then, neither does the article.
How to Seed Your Own Manhattan Project
No, I haven't heard them saying hollywood makes too much money. It's usually something about right to share, or subverting other countries' laws.
That's all very true, but it won't help you one bit in the court of public opinion. People will take the path of the least resistance they're not going to go and look for a balanced weighing of all the pros and cons, they're going to go for a snap judgement and they'll be looking for negative stuff, not for positive stuff.
I love Gaiman, and have ever since my first reading of "Sandman", and it's a beautifully written diatribe on the importance of the first amendment, but I've always viewed the issue as more of an encroachment issue first and foremost, and less to do with distrust of the law, though I suppose they're intimately related.

I just always feel like any block of censorship pushes the bar inward upon us. And while it's of course natural for people to not want to see the things that disgust them, what censorship does to our rights on the whole is far more disgusting to me.

It's intriguing to see the sorts of things that were once banned, or considered 'way too inappropriate' for human consumption... and how some of them have transformed into required reading for education.
I just realized that there is a right shift key
I'd bet against it ever making a billion without being bought.
Big Media Forces Hulu To Pull Shows Off Boxee
wordpress made their TOS free to copy.
I think you are correct in that commercialization can put on the finishing touches needed to sell a product.

But that doesn't mean it has to be a proprietary commercial product either. See MySQL, Firefox, SugarCRM, etc.
I really hope that you will never be on the receiving end of such a protracted barrage of online harassment.

There is nothing funny about being accused of all kinds of stuff by anonymous individuals, it can do very real harm.

If the perps had been identified, do you think they would have even written all that stuff ? And if they had not then they would not have been pursued.

To claim that they are going overboard is to take away from them the one defense that they have, which is to sue the site owners to get to the data they need to be able to go after those that actually 'did it'.

Sure, they set out to make an example of the people that committed these acts, but that's fine by me.
AutoAdmit simply should have banned the abusers from their system and nulled their posting history. It does not take a great deal of imagination to see that an anonymous jerk identifying people and calling for vile acts to be performed on them has no place on your forum, your T.O.S. should take care of that.
The simple fact that they are anonymous is what gives them license to do this, if they were id'd then they'd never do any of this. Anonymity brings out the coward in people, and nowhere more so than online.
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It very much depends... I've been in this position once and it worked out great for the business but our personal relation definitely suffered because of it.

Being both spouse and business partner is hard, and you'll only find out just how hard it is once you're doing it.

Speaking for myself, I think it was a mistake.
I may have missed the point, but I didn't attack a generalization - I thought you said "libraries are less necessary because things are easier in Lisp(s)" and took that to mean "what's the problem with having to reinvent every wheel?" rather than your further explanation's "you don't need libraries as much".

Not surprisingly, people who believe that programming mostly consists of writing glue code that calls libraries have trouble conceiving of that.

Thank you for your explanation.
Why are people attacking the logic of a clear satire?
I don't really view banning things because they "could lead to more undesirable behavior X according to this study". I'm getting sick of the lack of personal responsibility that is democracy bleeding into every aspect of life. The Bill of Rights is there to PROTECT us from such mob rule knee-jerk reactions. I don't know what they teach in civics class but our society is not as rock solid stable. It is a precarious balance between the will of the majority and the rights of the individual.
Fjord's Mobile Trends for 2009
Toyota lost sales last month, too. Perhaps Toyota should come out with a Linux-based netbook.