skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like.. 5 minutes of revenue for Google. I guess that fine will let them remember to respect the privacy of the users. Oh wait.

Irony aside, I thing this fine is too small for Google to learn something useful.
This is pretty neat, I'll try and post it about a bit. On the FAQ, put the 'what is this' and the 'theme' sections ahead of the instructions. Your target market is musicians, not programmers. 'How to use it' is unhelpful if you're still wondering 'what's it for'.
"without being so engaging that you can't put it down"

I find re-reading (good, entertaining, no too serious) novels that I have already read before, works best. Since you have already read the thing previously, it's easier to put it down in the middle.
Gittip is pretty young. If it takes off, these numbers could easily change by an order of magnitude. I hope they do.

Also, I am a high school teacher who does a bit of programming on the side. I have a couple open source ed projects I've been wanting to do, and the Gittip model might be interesting to try. I see Gittip serving people who make good things happen in any field, not just in tech fields.
resubmitted. The original was closed, because the images I posted contained my friends' names.
Isn't that what a disruptive business is all about? You can't replace an old business model with entrenched interests by asking "please" as far as I know...
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Downtown Vegas needs revitalization. I would imagine with a tech oriented spaces and some cool night activities it could compete with the Strip. I would imagine tax breaks make it compelling for investment as well.
> As a business strategy, this kind of brinkmanship wouldn't make me sleep well at night.

Isn't this what we want thou? Why ask for permission when asking for forgiveness is so much better?

As long as the offering is neither unsafe and done with customer obsession in mind, it should be a win.
I've disabled chrome extensions, and tried firefox, and this still seems to be happening. Unless, I have some strange virus from my recent download of paint.net, I think this might be legitimate testing of in-timeline ads.
It's sad that in order to stay in business, start-ups might have to instate a position as CPO: Chief Political Officer.
I was mostly making a jibe at the notion that there is a single, correct, and reliable method for identifying stuck/hung processes.

There are in fact fairly reliable heuristics for noting when things are going pear-shaped. The edge cases get sticky though.
I'm wondering who in his right mind can like this particular politician. Mormonism (as recently said in Sam Harris' last post) is as crazy a religion as you get; and it all goes downhill from there. Geez, even Clint Eastwood admitted in cover words that he wasn't taking his party's candidate seriously.

(I'm European BTW; as you know, something like 80 or 90% of Europe would vote Obama without thinking twice about it according to the polls).
"And yet, where are the hunter gatherers? Seems the agriculture people won, for the most part."

There are no hunter gatherers because agriculture will guarantee a more prosperous and growing population. There is absolutely no doubt about that.

However, just because hunter-gatherers died off doesn't mean their average health was less than the average health of the agricultural population. In fact, the hunter gatherers that were proficient enough to survive were probably much, much healthier than agriculture population. (This is assuming both populations are getting enough nutrients that malnutrition is not a factor.)

Even though the average health of the agricultural population may have been lower, the methods allowed more in the population to survive. In a food constrained world, this is the optimal solution for health.

We don't have the problems of food constraint (at least in the first world provided you have an income). That is why now we can look back out or diets and selectively pick and choose the most optimal combinations because there is no longer a problem of food scarcity.
or if you have the time to build a styleshit for this crap. lol
If this becomes an important money maker for Canonical, you just know that they will find a way to make it hard to turn off. This seems like the first step where they are willfully making the user experience worse rather than better, to fulfill a shortterm end. If this is the only way for Canonical to break even on Ubuntu, that says a lot about the future of desktop Linux in general.
From August 9.

No clue why this one is making the rounds again, nothing has happened recently to make it relevant and I've seen it in multiple places.
How much bits are needed to perfectly recreate the human brain?
Right, the headline is misleading, at least to me. Sleeping on someone's couch usually means said sleeper is having a rough time and needs a roof over their head. I assumed this story was about an investor who turned Joel down, then hit a rough patch and ended up needing to sleep on Joel's couch out of the necessity of shelter.

Still, a good story.
Depends greatly on the domain. While certainly true for areas in which products are created within months if not weeks and new technologies come and go every few months, it's very different for areas in which product development stage lasts for years and active product maintenance lasts for a decade or two.

It seems that further the domain is away from the fundamental concepts, the more it relies on ad-hoc stuff. I guess that's what abstraction layers and exposure to "general public" does, lots of leaky abstractions going to all directions imaginable. Perhaps someone finds this progress fascinating, I certainly don't.
"There's something seriously wrong with the medical profession if doctors only wash their hands 90% of the time"

It's not that they're failing to wash their hands 10% of the time, it's that they're not washing their hands properly 10% of the time. We don't know if the incompleteness is significant or insignificant.
The headline is a bit sensational — a $22.5M fine? A pin-prick to a Fortune 500 company.
Stands on what exactly?
I don't agree. I've personally emailed every single one of our IgnitionDeck customers, about 20% of which reply. It takes maybe 2-3 minutes extra per reply. Initially, I used TextExpander, and later, Intercom.

These are paid customers though, so were I offering a free service I probably wouldn't have done so.
Steven Randy Waldman of the blog Interfluidity has a great post which makes the case that "Wealth is about insurance much more than it is about consumption."

http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/3487.html

It's a great insight, and the thought experiment to "[c]onsider a libertarian Titanic" is illustrative.

(Though, it's a unfair slur to label the scenario 'libertarian', as that word does not mean 'everything is reduced to dollar purchases' except in a caricature promoted by critics. Just calling the scenario a 'pay-to-play Titanic' would be descriptive without extra partisanship.)
> I wish it were more common.

Me, too, cause I suck at technical interviews. I have a portfolio of code, i've been at this for a while, I read the whitepaper and was able to talk about it intelligently, what more do they want?
What was the date they started in the UK? How much cash on hand did they have at that point? A billion or so in the bank maybe?

It all started with public data. Google was born out of a project at Stanford centered around the idea of "online libraries". They had lots of practice using public datasets. The crawlable web is itself a public dataset.

Your point about OSM is the reason I mentioned the generosity of MapQuest.
Actually there is some (possibly) good news on this. The CDC guestimates that central-line associated blood stream infections (CLABSIs) declined by 58% in ICUs, from 43,000 to 18,000. While this is only a rough estimate (not a measurement) based on poor data, Provnost (the guy in the New Yorker article) did refer to the results as "the first national success we have for patient safety in this country." (So this is positive, but note the implication.)

The bad news is that the majority of CLABSIs happen outside of the ICU where there is no previous data. For these non-ICU settings, the CDC writes, "efforts to improve central line insertion might have limited impact." ("In 2009, an estimated 23,000 CLABSIs occurred among patients in inpatient wards and, in 2008, an estimated 37,000 CLABSIs occurred among patients receiving outpatient hemodialysis.")

Also, CLABSIs account for only a very small percentage of all hospital acquired infections.

Sources: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6008a4.htm/

http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2011/03/14/prl20314.htm
I agree. It doesn't require anything extra to use an email address that accepts replies. Even if they go into a dark hole and are never read, at least you aren't sending a message that you don't care what the receiver thinks.

When I receive a no reply, I assume that the company doesn't care about my opinion as it relates to their communication, and in that case, I share the sentiment. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

The exception, I suppose, would be something like an Amazon email notifying me of related products.
Those are pretty standard in cryptography, the equivalent would be "foo" and "bar".
Wu Wei?
So Uber should pass out flyers to all competitors before it moves into a town?

As long as good ethics are used, it is called business competition and is generally a good thing. Do you think Uber is doing anything unethical? From the parent link, it appears not, and some of the rules Uber pointed out seem arbitrary and downright anti-competitive.

What really pisses me off is when people try and use legislation as a competitive advantage. That is unethical and it does make them look like your description: "By the time the city & existing cab and livery drivers notice and want to do something about it, they've look like the bad guys, are anti-competetive and they've turned the public against them."
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This offer shipped in November 2011...
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Not sure what your problem is with the article, it's a basic intro article. Clearly the people that find it useful are the people who do not know the material and don't need to deal with this on a regular basis.
"Mormonism (as recently said in Sam Harris' last post) is as crazy a religion as you get;"

Come on, what religion isn't crazy in reality? Grading each religion on their value based on their "crazy factor" shows most of the world's religions would get a failing grade.
Xrandr? Check out my post on messing around with this in openbox (if it helps): https://sites.google.com/site/thomasroderick/blog/9102012--x...
Ah, that makes sense. I retract my statement.
I have tried several WM from DWM, Awesome to XFCE4 and Gnome. There are things that Archlinux community doesn't want to do as a part of their philosophy. I am not saying it is wrong. I just like already set up distribution for now.
Of course, exceptions prove the rule. Sometimes CSS and HTML are not good enough and you'll have to resort to use JavaScript.

But you shouldn't make it the default go-to.
Pfft. They have tons better privacy protection than the US. Privacywise, the US is pretty terrible due to a business-favoring regulatory regime.
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Split images in tiles with css3 transitions.
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Linux Mint (as far as I'm aware) doesn't directly attack your security with a default package.
Ahhh! The burning! My eyes!

I think I may have nightmares about this now. The strange broken slidey scrolling animation bizarreness is a wonder to behold. I wonder how many meetings it took to get all of that agreed and signed off, and if any of the people who were given the job of implementing it are still sane.
Whats your point? I know the site is ugly, but i have seen worse.
It's like a criminal racket, except it's the city doing it.
Thanks, I thought about it before posting.

Parents can be the customer. Often they are, sometimes they aren't. Sometimes government is the customer. For some interventions, like public health education or vaccination campaigns, government is the only customer. Or perhaps a volunteer clinic. Or a concerned neighbor. Or...

In none of these cases is the baby the customer, which is my point: market mechanisms alone don't solve all problems. Which is why we have things like "parental love" and "public service". Markets are tools, not magic unicorns.
That Ekirch article is great reading. Thank you.
This is just personal experience, but I have a hunch that a lot of sleeplessness is also caused by weird schedules. In the weektime you get up at 6, you go out on Friday and sleep until noon, and then on Sunday get up by 10, and then back to 6 AM again on Monday. In high school and college, it used to take me about an hour to get to sleep, and I'd always wake up tired after hitting the snooze button for three, four times.

Since about half a year ago, I've been getting up every day at 6 (week or weekend and in the first weeks of trying this out, whether you're tired or not) and all my sleeping problems have disappeared. To make sure I don't think about it, I hit the shower first and then decide whether I want to go back to bed... which at that point, you never do. Not tired. Easy to fall asleep. Don't need caffeine in the morning to stay awake.

I know there's more to insomnia than just bad habits and I don't want to be the kind of guy who argues that sleep problems are "just inside of your head", but I do wonder whether the fact that sleep issues are so pervasive in our society might have to do with a lack of routine in most people's lives.
Wow. The UI is slow and clunky, the layout gave me a headache, and everything seems to move a lot longer than it should.

The fact that they need the tutorial on the topbar should have been an indication that the design should have been scrapped.
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Well if you are disrupting old established markets then they will have already coated themselves with political armor, that the livery business goes back several centuries its not surprising that this is so. That said, it would behoove more companies that are attacking such markets (music distribution, and publishing come to mind) have a person who does exactly this, they look at public policy and the way it is being manipulated by the 'competition' and work to counteract that manipulation. John Gage at Sun had the title Chief Science Officer but his day to day duties involved understanding government processes, political movers and shakers, and how those processes worked for, against, or neutral with respect to Sun's goals. He was instrumental in getting me access to the NSA when we wanted to ship strong encryption in an interpreted language.
"but who also place a huge premium on minimizing dilution and maximizing founder control. These are the independents. The ones who, by design, want to defer or even avoid VC funding so as to build their ventures on their own timing and on their own terms."

I find the entire discussion about "terms" and getting the best deal for startup founders laughable.

While there are certainly people who are truly unique and doing truly unique things (just like there are people in high school who are so "hot" they can choose which quarterback or cheerleader to date and still get dates no matter how they treat people or people who can go to Harvard, Yale, Princeton or Stanford with fully paid scholarships) I believe most likely the majority of people would be glad to just get funded and would take any reasonable terms to get an investment. By the way, if you, mr/ms founder, are such hot shit there is nothing to prevent you from renegotiating your value or terms later either (celebrities and sports stars do this when they are exceptional, right?)

Getting funded on any terms and having success of course will allow you to move to something else in the future because you will have made contacts and have your ticket punched. If you succeed as we often see even if you fail.

Participants on Shark Tank on TV exhibit this behavior as well. You have a chance to get an investment and advice of, for example, Mark Cuban for your crappy little company with a marginal "maybe" idea that you haven't been able to do by yourself. And you're going to kill a deal with him because you want to only give up 15% vs. the 20% he is asking.

It's interesting how the startup world is always complaining about how they get taken advantage of by VC's, angels etc. and trying not to get "screwed" and playing games. I think they actually are giving the funding sources a run for their money in many cases. Nobody wants to loose out on the next big thing and since they are expecting failure it's not as if they can easily corelate when they impulsively get manipulated and give founders to good of a deal.
I might understand if the Taxi drivers were fighting back using better business practices-cheaper prices, better marketing, actually being able to guarantee taxis, an iphone app of their own, etc.

In some places, such as Manhattan, taxis actually are better than Uber. Because the traffic in Manhattan is so high that it usually takes less time to hail a taxi than to wait for your Uber to arrive.

But in DC they're not. They're fighting back purely by trying to pass legislation to prevent better companies from offering a superior service. In those cases, the old, unreliable, inconvenient taxi industry 100% deserves to fall.
As a Libertarian I find this downright revolting. Unions and government working together against progress and free market forces. It does nothing to improve quality of service or to allow competition to lower costs. It is simply repugnant. When will people realize that unions --and those in government who favor and feed them-- are helping destroy this country from the inside out?
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I use Vimperator, which has a similar sense to it

Among the problems created: overlap and conflict between browser and site keybindings.
The problem is a barber shop can be a startup. It can have fierce local competition and global aspirations (Supercuts anyone?) It feels like a brave attempt to solve the question that regularly to torments these boards but I don't feel any closer.
Don't retinafy at all. You should not assume your user has LTE speeds on his shiny iPad. As long as webdevs won't have a better navigator.connection, retinafying should be avoided.

On the web, loading times trump beauty.
Some scenes from the inside:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/dc-taxi-official-t...

I like the imagery of the murderous taxi kingpin driving a gold-painted Mercedes. (page 3)
I don't think people are as concerned with the advertising itself as they are the privacy implications.
I read an interesting book a few years ago written by a guy exploring the different states our brain goes through during a twenty-four period; this included experimenting with polyphasic sleep. He spends (IIRC) a month living in a cabin in the wilderness, sleeping according to the rising and setting of the sun; after a week or so his body reset itself to a two-phase sleep cycle as described in the nytimes piece.

Overall a very enjoyable read: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Head-Trip-Fantastic-Through-Hours/dp...
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this looks so messed up on 1920 x 1080 laptop. and when you enlarge it it really breaks up. not just clunky, unusable.
You had me until you solely ripped on unions. If there was one or two taxi companies they would be doing the exact same thing.
Larger image dimensions don't mean larger file sizes, see http://mir.aculo.us/2012/08/06/high-resolution-images-and-fi... for an explanation.
In the UK we have Curriculum Vitae. The term resumé is not used.
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And to think what motivates them to try so hard to do this is purely because of their self-interest.
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In an industry as tightly regulated as medicine, it's not surprising that such enormous inaccuracies have not been worked out. No matter what medical professionals might say about wanting to save people's lives, the ubiquitous motivator of economics is a much more powerful incentive. Unfortunately, since the industry is not open to being influenced by the free market, it will be very difficult to break into the industry and jump start that innovation.

It will be very interesting to see if developing countries manage to leapfrog our current system and establish a medical industry that is less dependent on people.
A quote from Tanenbaum is mandatory ;)

Cryptographers love tradition. If we were to use "Andy" and "Barbara" as the principals, no one would believe anything in this chapter.
Can you elaborate on that? $0 for privacy and related controls but > $0 if you could control how it looks? What do you want?
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Although Jon refused us, he was kind enough to spend over 30 mins giving me feedback. Of course rather than listen, I was spending the 30 mins trying to convince him to give us a shot.

I remember exactly where I was during the call. Good times.

I am happy I learnt early never to bun bridges. You'll never know when you might need to cross.
Reminds me of the gang theory of politics, that the definition of the government is whoever are the current most dominant gangsters. I find this is not necessarily a good general model, but for certain specific circumstances it can be pretty accurate.
An ugly website is one thing, there are millions, but an ugly website that has found an entirely new way to be ugly is impressive.
That would make it very non-free software. And that is what ubuntu is trying to not be.
I don't think you should set an alarm ever if you can help it.

If the theory is that bi-phasic sleep is ideal and natural for us, you should fall into that pattern naturally. All you need to do is go to sleep around the time that the sun goes down. It's just that "easy".
> for bitmapped images, go high-resolution and let the browser scale down

Wait, I should use more bandwidth than I need, and impose a client-side performance hit? What is wrong with a little CSS to serve the right assets to 1x, 1.5x and 2x pixel ratio devices?
Did you mean 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang? That's what I find searching for your title.

http://www.amazon.com/Things-They-Dont-About-Capitalism/dp/1...
The site is horrible, but why blame an ad agency. This could have been done in house at P&G, or been done by an ad agency, I don't think we know who did it. However, it is just a bad design, it doesn't have to come from an agency.
A supreme example of 8-bit artwork. That stuff belongs in a gallery. The care that must have gone into setting up the color palettes and painting the scenes is every bit as impressive as a master painter making the most of a canvas.
That does clear things up a bit. Thanks!
Yes, it does.
Not linear larger files, but larger files at constant quality. His examples are conveniently chosen to sell his book. 20% bigger is 20% too much for a non essential asset.
Ubuntu One is not a competitor to EC2/S3... is that what you meant or am I misunderstanding?