skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"you are tired of people calling you out for relying on Google University for your knowledge on controversial subjects"

I think it's funny how the more books I read, the more 'controversial' my knowledge becomes. I realize this is about as self-serving an argument as possible, but honestly I don't think I'm inherently interested in controversial topics, I think it's just that the more you know about something, the more wrong you're going to sound to the average person.

To give an example that most people on HN will agree with, why do you think the general public thinks eVoting is completely secure, while CS folks are generally horrified by the products that are actually used in elections? The same phenomenon applies to virtually every other area of life. Doesn't matter whether you're talking about medicine, agriculture, religion, climate change, education, etc. The more you know, the more wrong you're going to sound. (C.f. the presidential debates.)

Also, I'm usually fairly anti-Wikipedia these days. That's why I generally avoid linking there in the first place, though also to encourage people to actually read quality books or academic research. Wikipedia is often useful for finding primary sources, but

A) it's rarely comprehensive. Usually they just link to one or two primary sources at random, rather than the best ones or all of them.

B) it generally does a poor job at properly characterizing the arguments for or against something. Usually you just get 'some people believe this, other people believe that' without any indication that the case for one side might be much stronger than the case for another side.

C) It also tends to be out of date at any given time. Often not seriously so, but if you look up any of the statistics that the CDC or BLS publish on an annual basis then more often than not you're getting last year's data.

D) I agree with Jaron Lanier's point of view in his Digital Maoism essay. Specifically I think knowledge is inherently tied together with authorship, and that an article of 'facts' without a voice is just a "faux-authoritative, anti-contextual brew."

Granted Wikipedia has a lot of advantages, but I think it's a poor substitute for reading actual books. And I especially think that it's generally a dick move to pretend that you're an expert on something after having only read the Wikipedia article, except for in certain niche areas where there is no authoritative source.

And again, I'm not trying to claim that I know everything by any stretch of the imagination, just trying to explain why some of my comments may seem 'controversial'.
The Antirez Principle
Nice, I'll be upgrading my VM. IE 10 lets you switch between IE 5, 7, 8, 9, and 10 modes. Interesting that 6 isn't in there. IT 9's compatibility modes are super useful for testing.
So.. guarded by people who die easily and can't shoot straight?

Someone! Call Con SOLO!! Obi's WAN Kenobi died suddenly!
Definitely. Working on that now. In fact, we're going to have a trial period when beta launches (or just make the whole thing free during beta).
I'm just pointing out the difference between arguments in the Platonic sense and real world arguments. Credibility is never an issue in a logical argument, but there are very few real world arguments in which credibility isn't an issue. A number of the logical fallacies, like ad hominem and tu coque go straight to credibility.

That's not a reason to ignore the argument of a hypocrite. It is a reason not to ignore credibility as an important factor because of a misguided application of fallacies.
The are a lot more pictures on the "An Inside Look" page of the data-centers page.

Gallery: http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/all
Web-Page: http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/

Blog post: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/googles-data-centers-...
Feedback is a dialogue, not a monologue

You may be the CEO and you may be telling somebody about something that you don’t like or disagree with, but that doesn’t mean that you’re right. Your employee should know more about her function than you. She should have more data than you. You may be wrong.

-- This is a process
Careful, you'll be updating your VM to a preview.

Might want to wait on that a bit.
Infograph: Learners Collection Of Best IOS Apps.
Time Recovery Hacks
> IE10 is really good.

I feel like people have been saying that for every upcoming version if IE after IE6. It's kind of like how every new version of Android promises that they've "solved" smooth scrolling. I'll believe it when I see it.
I take this as next step in my 'getting of the Twitter' treatment :)
no windows version or mobile native apps?
Pyramid is amazing - I use it in production for my startup and it's solid, flexible, and very modern (I love Traversal over route mapping).
As someone who'se mildly colorblind, a few of your charts were near impossible to read. Especially the bottom three lines in Average Score by Category. Just a heads up.
I've never before gotten to see data like this from a popular website,
so my questions might be a bit ignorant or naive.

Do popular sites normally have the big (daily?/weekly?) swings seen in
the HN traffic data?

Have you done any research correlating the high/low days versus
the submissions present on those days? (i.e. are the swings content
driven?)
There were compromising photos of minors on creepshots in addition to jailbait, which is another subreddit that prompted the outing of "violentacrez".
I can't speak for AP classes, whose quality depends greatly on the teachers, and I believe the many of these classes offer very high quality education.

However, I think AP exams are a "scam" in a sense. The scam isn't financial, but educational. You can undeniably save a lot of college tuition by passing AP exams, but that alone is not sufficient for truly understanding the material.

Because my school didn't have AP classes, I self-studied for 5 AP exams in my last year of high school (Calculus BC, Biology, Chemistry C, and both Physics C exams). I got a 5 for all exams, except Electromagnetism in which I got a 4. However, now, I can barely recall any of the content I crammed for, except for calculus for which I took more advanced courses in university, and I feel poorer educationally as a result.

The biggest problem with AP exams is that they're so easy to pass without truly internalizing all the concepts. The exams are graded on a bell curve, and if you look at the average scores, they are disturbingly low. Anyone who truly understand the course material should be able to pass these exams without difficulty, but the only conclusion I can make is that AP classes are pushing extremely unprepared students to take these exams, probably with the lofty goal of giving them a step up in university.
Reddit was following an internally consistent rule pattern when banning links to Gawker.

(You can argue that following the rule pattern is stupid, like something that comes out of a large bureaucracy instead of a <10 person startup. I'd agree.)

this commitment to free speech will last only until the next shit storm occurs

Since reddit has shown the only times they ban anything is in response to shit storms, they have unwittingly set themselves up for more shit storms. AFAIK the people who hated creepshots got ignored when raising the question to the admins, so the only other option was to create a new shit storm.

Reddit probably thinks they are sticking to their guns, but by not having any kind of release valve beyond a shit storm, they're bringing them on.
Sorry, I can't code for Windows.

Mobile app wouldn't really work, because the application has to find out what websites are open on your computer.
To anyone curious about the actual transgression, here is the WP article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click#cite_note-16

The FSF called for a boycott of Amazon once but then reverted its decision: http://web.archive.org/web/20081121093238/http://www.gnu.org...
If anyone has credibility here, it's Bezos (for reasons listed in other posts). Not sarcasm.
Ownership of Blue Bottle Coffee Changes Hands
The Viral Iconographer
I disagree. Drupal makes it hard to do easy things, creates a lot of unnecessary HTML, and makes it very hard to do things not The Drupal Way.
Could you add Firefox?
This is false. Pyramid was not known as "repoze" which is a project to port interesting/good pieces of code from Zope to be standalone libraries of code.

Pyramid used to be known as repoze.bfg or just bfg. It made liberal use of modern "light-weight" framework architecture decisions along with much more advanced and flexible workflows and code introduced through other repoze.* libraries (from Zope).

In general though, I agree that Pyramid is well suited for large projects and ill-suited for small ones. Although I do use it for my small projects.
10.7 support please. Out of radical optimism I tried changing the target and rebuilding but of course I got a bunch of errors I don't know how to fix :)
Typekit releases improved browser type rendering samples
Pyramid's ACL + Traversal is unmatched. I love Traversal (makes building RESTful API's super easy).
Yeah I'm pretty sure the rails benchmark is IO-bound. If that is the case it is surprising there is any noticeable difference at all between the three different Ruby template engines.
I've deleted my account for precisely the opposite reason.

Reddit sold out. Their latest statement on the /r/creepshots debacle is too little, too late. If they honestly believe in free speech, they should have weathered the /r/jailbait storm rather than giving into popular pressure.

Reddit is too big of a target to continue the free speech advocacy line. Back when it was a niche community that the press didn't care about, it might have worked, but not now.
Strangely, double clicking on the binary opens Chrome for me.

Oh, just noticed there is a little creepy eye watching me in the menu bar as well.

But it shouldn't open Chrome.
Hacktivists out Amanda's tormentor
I personally don't blog - its something I've been wanting to get into. Just seems nowadays Tumblr is the norm since its easy, shareable, social yadda yadda
Take a look at Oracle Berkeley DB:

"Berkeley DB is not exposed to the end-user. It is totally hidden below the SQLite APIs. It acts as the storage engine in place of SQLite's own BTREE. An application written to use the SQLite version 3 API can switch to Oracle Berkeley DB with no code changes, simply re-link against Berkeley DB."

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/overvi...

I haven't had time to read the full paper, but it looks very interesting.
"They are already treating Windows 7 users as second class citizens."

Really? How so?
Will I be frisked when I attend the NTSSUG meeting at their facilities tomorrow? Or do I have to open my laptop and show the Windows 8 image running in VMWare to gain entry?

If IE 11 and a few shitty "Formerly known as Metro" apps is the only thing that Windows 7 users are missing, I wouldn't call that discrimination.
My parents bought an ipad and then paid $100+ for a keyboard case, they use their ipad like a laptop - even though that's not really the intention of the ipad whereas it is with Surface
No matter how credible you may think he is, he is still right.
I'm a big fan of SelfControl [1]. Though again, OSX-only.

[1] http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol/
The government has been pretty busy with the debates, I don't think they have attention to patent wars.
I will always be thankful to a former boss of mine, who took the lead on firing a developer that just wasn't up to scratch, and asked me to be present when it happened.

He kept it very, very short- the rationale being that if someone is expecting it, then they know the reasons why. If they aren't expecting it, then the shock means they're unlikely to listen to anything else you tell them anyway.

If they want feedback at a later point, great. But in that moment, it's easier on both of you to just get it done.
I love hackathons like AngelHack. Great Api's from awesome sponsors but you aren't required to use them.
I am a programmer for Guild Wars 2, AMAA
Bezos's 2000 open letter on patents: http://oreilly.com/news/amazon_patents.html

Good sentiment, but it's twelve years later and the only positive action we've seen from Amazon concerning patent reform is an offhand comment to a reporter. How's that prior art database coming along, for example? Forgive me for not getting too excited.
Million Puppet March rallies against Romney's "Big Bird" comments
Needs to be a bit louder, or even customizable :)
cputhrottle: OS X command to limit the CPU usage of a process
How My Drugstore.com Basket Got Turned Into Facebook Ads
This seems incredibly useful; for someone who wants to try it out, which is a good, open-source, cross-platform CL to try it on? The example uses SBCL, but I know none of the tradeoffs.
In case people are wondering what the Perforce front-end/interface to Git was, I believe it's their "Perforce Git Fusion" product: http://www.perforce.com/git-fusion

Webinar's next week, and I may sign up to see what this is all about. (Disclaimer: Certified Perforce Admin here, and no, I don't work for Perforce.)
Interesting idea, easy of use will be the key for developers and businesses. I feel like starting up my own Publishers Clearinghouse Sweepstakes with this API.
Faster ? NO. In my use case I have one domain object with 30 embedded relationships. MongoDB: one request. SQL: 30 joins.

Durable ? NO. It is trivial to distribute data between multiple nodes using MongoDB and have writes be on some or all of them. I have yet to see a clustering SQL system that makes the process as simple as any NoSQL database.

Fewer application errors ? Well this just makes no sense. Why would a database be causing application errors ? Either the fetch/store request fails or it doesn't.

Lower TCO ? NO. MongoDB has an order of magnitude less TCO than any database I've used. Period. It is trivial to cluster, shard, deploy, manage and being schema-less there are no migrations to worry about. Ease of use is one of the big reasons why MongoDB is popular right now.
Android 4.2 to include SE Linux and other security features
Someone's going to make a FPS map based on these...
Would love to know how many times of those attempted emulator launches didn't actually fail ;) I tried to use your site repeatedly but it failed each time.
India also has issues with government corruption, and needing to pay bribes to officials to get anything done. I think that software piracy is the least of the issues there.
> If motivation and investment capital are negatively correlated

At early stages, yes.

PG has it right, small investment enough to keep motivation high = food. Deliver and get another round = toys. Grow your user base and get another valuation = perks. Then you are ready to sit on the big table, with your balls, your morale and your thick skin.

If you give it all at once in the beginning, you lose motivation, morale, and your balls too.

Early money is the machete that will castrate you and turn you into a digital eunuch.
No need to code, but need to “speak engineer” (Technology for PMs from GA)
SMS Unread App Acquired on Apptopia for $3,000
Not sure it's a front-end (looks like it's a Perforce front-end to Git), but I believe it's an interface that makes the two work together: http://www.perforce.com/git-fusion
Geez guys, when someone hands you a victory, take it.
Ryan Dahl: "scala, clojure, ..., C#, ruby, perl need to be euthanized"
Why not port the Linux kernel to Common Lisp?
PhoneGap: a misunderstood hybrid framework
Denver getting in on Learn to Code model
They did that with 1 in Germany: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmageddon#Controversy
This is somewhat similar to Cuil.
Bizelo Founder Ron Schmelzer Praises Bootstrapping Trial And Error
Why Apple will never bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.
This looks amazing. We've got a few QA servers, but still run into the same problem.
Why is he a hypocrite?

To exist as a tech company today, you'd be insane to NOT patent as much as possible. Seriously, if you're developing tech to compete with Apple (or any large tech co), but have no IP of your own, you're defenseless. Thats the impression I get, anyways - that you're best bet is to patent as much as possible. The more vague, the more absurd, the better. It offers more bargaining chips. Because lets face it - can a non multi-million dollar company survive a couple of lawsuits by one of the tech giants? I doubt it.

Patent warfare is a systematic issue; its not unreasonable to attack the system (Gov't sponsored patents). That's what I take from this message. I'm sure there's a Game Theory term for this, but its clearly not something that can be resolved outside of the system. Anyone who stops the lawsuits (or threat of) quickly disappears.
Depends on how tests are graded.

The Kangaroo Maths contest (which admittedly isn't a graded test, but the first example I can think of) involves a multiple choice test, where you lose points for wrong answers, and just get zero points for a blank.

The number of negative points it calculated to give you 0 points on average for blind guessing. If you can eliminate a few possibility and guess between the rest, your average score goes up.
I looked into it, but there's no easy way, Firefox doesn't implement AppleScript API. :-(
Apple Acquires HTML5 Web Firm Particle
Any specific examples you'd like to site? I always enjoy learning new things by seeing how people might re-factor or rewrite existing code samples.
I may be misinterpreting your comment, but the massive amounts of data associated with torrents don't actually go through the trackers. The trackers just manage peers while the data goes directly from one user to another.

(or at least that's how I understood it)
Perhaps I should've expanded... I agree with you totally.

What I think is that those who find the content distasteful should either to seek to lobby to make that content illegal, or ignore it. But seeking to force self-censorship is not the solution.

I agree with you. But I would point out that if the people want to re-define unacceptable behaviour then through representation they already have the means, reddit and other sites will comply with the law.
Understood, which is why Google, if it's going to all the effort of setting up open door press days, is missing a huge opportunity by not employing hypervisualized metaphors/exhibits to demonstrate how truly amazing a modern data center is, not to mention reinforcing how critical it is for so much of what the average user does every day.

They should probably contract a couple Disney Imagineers and do it right. They could benefit from the the humanizing effects and even create a quirky, niche destination in the process. Hell, throw in an "Android Experience" showroom and it'd probably even have legitimate commercial value.
> is a strawman by the name of tu quoque

I think you mean "logical fallacy", not "strawman". Strawman is another, unrelated logical fallacy.
It varies based on claims and size of the filing entity. There's a fee list here:

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee100512.htm

Of course those are just the filing fees, most filers will file using patent attorneys which bring the ~$500-ish dollar cost up to $5k-10k per application.
There are two related cases I can think of where a task is easy to describe and reasonably easy to do, but tedious enough that I'd consider paying someone. One is 'port functions x,y and z from library A to language B' and the other is 'implement algorithm X as described in paper Y using language Z'.

Basically cases where the description bit is already done by someone else and a reference implementation to test against already exists. In fact I have just such a task that I've been putting off (I have a paper and a matlab implementation, and really want a python/numpy version), that I might throw up on the site to see what happens.
This is the best they could come up with? Am I the only one who does not like this "redesign"?
I don't think you understood him. There would not be many joins. You can use an RDBMS as a document database by storing documents in a single column, with key values in another column. For example, storing JSON in a text field (Postgres also has a native json type now as well I belive). You'd also want an Indexes table. Another approach that will also work well is to use a document model, you might have three tables, one of which has columns like (key, name, value) - all your data is in that table. Reddit uses something like this approach based on previous Hack News discussions.
What about her 'friends'? People who went to school with her and ridiculed her 'irl'. Personally, I think they are the bigger culprit here. The guy behind a computer screen would not have been able to blackmail Amanda and indeed would have no power over her if the people around here were not as cruel.

When it is easy to blame one person behind the computer, larger blame (and I hope jail time) will go to the people who hurt her physically in real life.
+1, Playing by the rules of a broken game does not make you less credible when you say the rules need fixed.
It should be called Everything You Can't Read About the Surface because of that stupid floating bar at the left that blocks the text. #FAIL
Marketing is like sex, only losers pay for it
Well IE10 in Windows 8 scored first at RoboHornet web performance benchmark which is released by Google http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/robohornet-pro-ie10-web-... .
Agreed. It's hilarious to watch people who keep trying to setup this RDBMS versus NoSQL situation. As though every data model can be perfectly handled by a RDBMS if only I learnt enough SQL.
Sorry. Irrespective of your lifetime or economic resources, a weekend lark would violate the laws of physics.
PC Repair Glasgow
Are they going to continue with the silent updates for consumers? In 6 months, IE9 should be in the low single digits and IE10 should be the most widely used IE browser.
He can always update a copy of the VM.
There were very few on /r/creepshots from what I saw. Making the discussion about creepshots one about "compromising photos of minors" is disingenuous and grossly misleading.

I don't see how /r/jailbait is relevant to this discussion. violentacrez's involvement in that subreddit does not somehow justify his doxxing.

Besides, there was nothing wrong with most of the content on /r/jailbait either. Almost all of it was legal, rarely were any photos sexually suggestive, and actual child pornography was strictly prohibited.

Reddit only shut it down because the media furore over it was threatening to damage the reddit community as a whole.
Microsoft Will Finally Release A Preview Of IE10 for Windows 7 In November
Very true, but the way I see it is that I've been given ~4 years to find the 'right' position for me. Now that I have done that, I am happy to be "handcuffed" in order to get a green card, because I know my company isn't a ridiculous parody of The Office.
That's the beauty of virtual machines. You take a snapshot, you experiment to your heart's content. You don't like where you are, one click and 3 seconds later, you're back to where you started with absolutely zero data loss.
There's no hypocrisy here. It's perfectly moral to ask a saloon's owner to ban guns, even if you currently carry one for protection from the other patrons.
Confirmed Alpha Centaury B has a planet, announced Oct 16th
And yet the environment in which they work encourages more granted patents, as the new patent examination facilities being promoted by the administration imply (to me). Obama's/admin's stated reasons are to grant more patents faster.
The link to academic dishonesty is tenuous, but the use of it as a way to enter a discussion about admitting you don't know as a first step towards knowing is a critical point to make.