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Where do I start? Hobbes or Machiavelli? More to the point, I do not believe that people/humans are "good by definition", there needs to be a higher thing that regulates our behavior so that we will not do harm to each other. Hobbes believed in the "Leviathan", there are other people that believe that the magical "assembly" of some of their representatives (a "central" Government, if you will) would make the latter more responsible and less eager to look for their own good and prosperity, and then there are people like me who believe that the free market is one of the best tools in solving the inherent conflicts between humans.

Like they say, money has no smell. Anyway, it's a very long discussion :)
If only they provided links to that information right on the front page of their site.

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home
Thanks for the feedback. The one thing I was considering, was asking him to join the rest of the team by quitting his job. I'm not saying this will make him into some epic team-member, but what I do know for sure, is that his current lack of motivation is due largely in part that he hasn't "burned his ship" so-to-speak. IF i presented that, and IF he actually said "okay.. i'll do it". Does that change your analysis at all?
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People rip off fonts all the time, and many of them do it for major commercial projects.

As someone who does pay for fonts legally, and who makes his own living creating knowledge works, I find this intensely annoying.

But I've still never heard of a single project being undermined or seen anyone suddenly change their branding as a result of a lawsuit about font usage rights. For a start, if the font is being used to generate graphics or for anything in print rather than embedded electronically, you'd have a tough time proving any kind of infringement in jurisdictions where the design of a font isn't subject to protection.

Frankly, I don't believe that most small type foundries have the will, the time or the money to go after anything but large-scale, flagrant infringement anyway, any more than my company would realistically go after a client who didn't pay a small invoice. Whatever protection the law theoretically affords, in practice the overhead of exercising your rights are greater than the benefit you stand to gain by doing so. Pragmatically, your best bet is not to work with people who are likely to rip you off, which you can do by working with nicer people or by reducing the incentive for less nice people to screw you over.
> This post really has nothing to do with techniques or "bad data" or a bayesian vs. frequentist debate.

I disagree, but maybe I'm missing something. This early quote, regarding 'bayesian vs. frequentist' seems to sum up O'Neil's view of Silver fairly well to me:

"What is not reasonable, however, is for Silver to claim to understand how the financial crisis was a result of a few inaccurate models, and how medical research need only switch from being frequentist to being Bayesian to become more accurate."

And later on regarding 'bad data,' a point she reiterates several times:

"In other words, it’s not that there are bad statistical approaches which lead to vastly over-reported statistically significant results and published papers (which could just as easily happen if the researchers were employing Bayesian techniques, by the way). It’s that there’s massive incentive to claim statistically significant findings, and not much push-back when that’s done erroneously, so the field never self-examines and improves their methodology. The bad models are a consequence of misaligned incentives."

I do think in the above quote O'Neil is equivocating between the idea of a 'bad model' and the skewed data or overreaching significance applied to the model.

Her fundamental point, which she could have done a better job communicating I think, is that it wasn't the models themselves that were bad, bayesian or otherwise, but the data in the models and at times the inordinate significance applied to those models that was the real cause of the meltdown.
If you are wanting to properly support IE7 (as mentioned in the README), you may want to downgrade normalize.css to 1.0.2 as normalize.css 2.x only supports IE8+.

There are only a few edge cases that are affected but they can bite if you were expecting full compatibility.
True, but perhaps more could be done to trim the fat. There are quite a lot of dependencies, and jQuery UI is quite a large library. Am on my phone so can't dig down to see how necessary it is but I'd hope the authors will be able to streamline the dependencies in the future
It doesn't work like that.

Yes, it does. Every Congresscritter takes an oath to uphold the Constitution, just like the President does.
This comment doesn't make any sense. He didn't say he doesn't like braises, not liking braises doesn't make you "not a foodie", it's ridiculous to question whether someone "is" or "isn't" a foodie when they say they are, and the rice cooker only admits to a couple simple variants on braise applications. If you're making stews without browning your meat first, which you can't do in a rice cooker, you're doing it wrong.

In addition to not making any logical sense, pointlessly sniping at Matt doesn't add anything to the conversation. It would have been easy to disagree with him without doing that.
Sorry, but I can't parse that.

You're right that there isn't an objective standard for "value" (or at least, I don't know one, nor how to get one), but multivariate analysis can assign a number to an item which is broadly aligned with my intuition of the concept of "better". As a result, I'm trying to home in on finding items that my system predicts should be "of value" so I can read them, even if they don't make it to the front page.

Consider, I can train a Bayesian Filter with the page text of many submissions, and get that to predict what I'm likely to find "of value." But that means I don't see what the community might have found interesting but would be outside my core interests. These, too, are "of value" because they stretch me. I can't just train the filter with what makes the front page, because the evidence is that many things that "should" (by some definition) don't, and that would damage the training.

So it's complicated. I'm trying to find ways to improve the community and help me get more out of it (obviously) with less effort. I'm trying to help, but the hassle I get is just encouraging me not to make these observations out loud.
No, don't give him a chance. If he is unresponsive for days and wants to be a co-founder without doing anything, he shouldn't have any equity in your startup (if he didn't get the initial idea). Just write him, that if he'll not invest (financial or with his work) he can't be part of the startup.
Well, that specifically would not work for him, because he actually has money. Financially there's only about 4k into the project, primarily because me and the non-tech guy helped some living expenses for the back-end developer, who's not as fortunate as us. If we parted ways with the non-tech guy, I'll have to reimburse him 2k, which is not a big deal.
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Of course, but that is part of the debate build vs buy. For every cloud API there is almost always an OSS that does the same thing.

But you'll have to maintain it, scale it, etc..that's the beauty of cloud APIs. You buy, and leave the boring part to others.
From a 30,000 foot level how does IFTTT and Zapier differentiate from each other? IIRC, Zapier is focusing more on business-related APIs but those are lines that I see eventually becoming very blurry.
Interesting — I've gotten the opposite sense anecdotally: that MVC has become basically "the way" to do ASP.NET these days.
Can you explain in an objective way, talking about taste or whatever terms foodies use why rice-cookers cannot cook good food?

I'm inclined to think that this is subjective and just one man's opinion, but artistic types have been defending their subjective opinions in objective terms for a long time. For example designers talk about hierarchy, organization, affordances, even though design is artistic.

I'm curious to hear if you have something to say along these lines.
The company where I currently work at (Etsy) is really good at allowing remote work. Could you send me your resume to my HN username @folksonomy.com ?
Not really. The reason 50 Shades gets its scrutiny is because it has enough exposure. There's some damn good male pornography (yes, it's literary; yes, I read it) out there, but it's not for sale at Barnes & Noble.

That's the patriarchy angle, if you actually want it.
That is a great point. It would almost be fun to learn in this type of way.
> As long as the 'photos' link relation does not change, it can point to whatever URL it wants, and that URL or URL structure can change over time without damage to the client.

So here's where my skepticism kicks in:

How often are you really expecting your URL structure to change, in practice? And when the URL structure does change, what percentage of the time does the change in URL structure also coincide with a change in semantics that clients logic will need to be changed to take into account?

In my experience the answer to those questions is 1) Very rarely. 2) Nearly always.
Is it a safe assumption, though, that in the future writers will have the tools needed to more easily and cheaply present their stories in this manner?

We are already seeing tools such as Mozilla's Popcorn Maker (https://popcorn.webmaker.org/) arise.
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You can definitely get browning in a rice cooker, but it usually means you've done something wrong. This is very definitely a downside of Ebert's rice-cooker meals.
>Looks like their servers have had a meltdown //

No no, didn't you read it's just "scheduled maintenance". No biggy, nothing to do with extra traffic at all.
To be fair to him, and provide you with more details... he was on a business trip for a few days. Within those few days, I had sent him about 4-5 emails, 2 of which specficially requested some details for an accelerator application. It took him 3 days to respond to it, and he still hasn't actually provided everything I needed. It was literally just where you gradated, what year, what's your best accomplishments, etc.. I want to be fair to him, but I'm personally kind of a "don't bullshit me" type of person. I personally find it unreasonable that even in the midst of your business travel, you can't find 10 minutes to email back your co-founder when he's doing your job anyways. Am I being unreasonable?
Then a competitor could just provide the same "super" features for free. Facebook's best strategy is to profit off the network/user base itself, since that's something they have that no one else does.
Kansface, the main pros for lua(jit) are reduced memory footprint and generally superior code execution performance to js. There's also the FFI which is more sophisticated in lua(jit) than node.

So depending on the details, I think there is a strong argument for luvit over nodejs - particularly when the breadth of the nodejs ecosystem isn't required and when a stronger language implementation is required.
Nothing wrong with slabtext, since looks great.

It was just fun to get through my 10, see the completion page, and I instantly thought, "done with slabtext!"

It's your own fault, you're training me to spot these things!
I'm a little confused by your comment, but as someone with an advanced math degree I might just not have noticed what you're referring to. Can you point out what in the course you felt involved a heavy emphasis on math?
Congrats, Tcl/Tk team! A long wait, but it seems to be worth.
Hah - bother - too distracted with other stuff. Oh well, never mind.
Non-digestible fiber helps your bowels move. Digestible fiber actually slows bowel action.
Not quite the simple template I expected this to be, so I created my own: https://github.com/Vheissu/Actually-Barebones-HTML5-Template — Most of these HTML5 templates I use I strip 99% of the crap out anyway and only need the doctype, head and body tags.
I've honestly never been on reddit. Didn't even know that segment existed.
Can you describe how the ecological fallacy is related to Simpson's paradox?
I would worry that if you convince him to "burn his ship", and the company goes down in flames, he will hold a lot of resentment against you.

I really think that he needs to be in a place where burning his ships is his decision.

No matter how awesome your company is, things are going to get bad. There will be long nights, rejections, technical problems, and failure will loom large. You can make it through this with a good attitude if you really believe in what you are doing. If he is just tagging along with you, I'd worry that he wouldn't have the kind of emotional investment that would see him through the bad times.

But more importantly, I think you would want to bring people into your company that add to the momentum. You want people who inspire you and push you harder. Creative ideas, fresh perspectives, and emotional encouragement aren't going to come from a reluctant, non-committal person who is only there because he burned his ship.

My two cents. =)
I think this works because the little videos in the breaks actually do a great job of complementing the content of the article (and happen to be pretty).

There was a link yesterday on HN that used a similar technique, but the breaks were static images that didn't really add anything to the content of the article [1]. Sure, they're pretty and novel, but I thought the breaks did more harm then good for somebody actually reading the interview. They were more distracting than anything.

I have a feeling that we'll see a lot more of this technique in the future. I personally hope that it doesn't just get slapped on for its visual appeal, but rather as a medium to present value-added content (like this NY Times article did).

[1] http://womenandtech.com/interview/heather-payne/
I want to do this. What do I buy, and where do I get recipes?
Can I just say I really really love this new design? It's wonderful.
If you are in the Bay Area, finding housing can be a pain and the key is to e-mail a listing immediately after its posted so you can skip the open house and view it privately.

This recipe allows you to get e-mailed as soon as Craiglist has a new listing: https://ifttt.com/recipes/79
Sometimes people say that we don't have to respect people's rights if they aren't Americans. I think that we should respect their rights because we are Americans.
Boxed stock (the "organic" stuff and the "low-sodium" stuff) is uniformly terrible compared to real stock. I'm not quite as aggressive about this as Michael "USE WATER INSTEAD" Ruhlman is, but he's right: box stock makes dishes taste muddy and don't bring much real flavor to the party.

Real stock does take time, but it's unattended time. The trick is to do it in the oven instead of on your cooktop. A slow oven running all day with some chicken bones and some wings will produce reliably good stock.
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The vikings actually were mostly crop farmers. Due to the weird way Caribbean waters flow up through the Atlantic and past Brittian.

http://www.danishnet.com/info.php/vikings/farming-152.html
It would be interesting to see an API museum arise. Not just a prose history of APIs, but a history that is accompanied by "snapshots" of said APIs at given points in time.
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I'm using "contract" in a somewhat figurative sense here. Obviously the Constitution isn't an ordinary contract, but it has many of the characteristics of one. Also, I think it's a modern conceit that one cannot be bound by obligations agreed to before one was born. Society and government are continuous, and we "consent" to the governing rules by being born and choosing to remain a part of a particular society governed by a particular government.

As for the laws described in the article--they are not the product of Congress "ignoring the Constitution." The appearance of "ignoring the Constitution" is itself the product of certain civil libertarians believing the Constitution says more than it does, or focusing on what they wished the Constitution said rather than what it does say.
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I like number six, but not in the sense that you should pay for privilege. When issues arise for customers of the company I work at, we certainly take a close look to see if everything is "right" with the customer. We look at how frequently they order, if they pay on time, how often they require our attention, etc. We don't necessarily punish anyone, but we are more willing to bend over backwards to retain good customers.
Would you change that suggestion if the fresh grad had near 100k in loan debt, some of which was private and high-interest? The benefit of 10k sitting in savings when it could pay off a savage Chase loan seem less great.

(To be explicit, that person is me, and I tend to throw all buffer money right at student loans before they grow like a hydra, faster than I can kill them.)
I'm also waiting for the mail with the license key, maybe more than 5 hours.
> Learning would be fascinating.

I thought it was already, for many subjects.
They will probably charge for heavy usage and enterprise connections (Salesforce, Basecamp, etc.) similar to Zapier: https://zapier.com/app/signup
I think this was on HN recently. http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/quantum-entanglement-...
>Personally, I'm looking forward to a world where the very best explanations / analogies can bubble to the top.

Please do keep in mind that there isn't one best explanation per subject, just a "local maximum" explanation that is best to a class of people sharing a similar way of thinking. Personally, the normal explanation of "representing (approximating) a complex cyclic function as a linear combination of complex trigonometric functions" made the most sense, while your explanation reads like a convoluted mess of analogies. Therefore, try to have a few completely different explanations per topic, rather than just the one which makes most intuitive sense to you.
Is "Business Process Decoupling" the next major strategic trend?
I predicted in our book, B = mc2, that one of the core strategic force driven by the Platform is the "decoupling" of business processes, for pretty much any business. This is happening.

Hotels had created value by optimizing the coupling between booking, provisioning and checkout processes. You should expect that many companies like LiquidSpace will start implementing specific processes, leaving the provisioning and/or logistics to the physical space/store/product while they handle and optimize others.

Why can we create more value that way today? Because we have the ability to integrate more tightly with the job customers are trying to accomplish. LiquidSpace, and others -say birthday party companies, ...- can do that much more efficiently than Marriott could ever do.
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You're right, though I think that AppCode is an unusual case; you can only use it on OS X, right? It is a completely different beast.

For IDEA, though, you can indeed get the same functionality of PHPStorm, PyCharm, etc, by simply using their respective plugins for IDEA. However, the plugins are sometimes behind the stand-alone IDEs, in terms of features.
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There are some neat recipes on IFTTT: https://ifttt.com/recipes?sort=popular
If you have kids, you shouldn't be working at a startup. This will happen to you again.
> music recognition services compare recipes, not individual drops

What does this mean? I understand 'recipes' here, but what's 'drop' in this context? A continuation of the food metaphor?
Which kinda makes me think that that particular example, while very cool, is not actually worthwhile. I mean... whats the usecase of being able to scroll through a table with 1000000 rows? I mean... what are you even doing/looking for when you're scanning through tabular data quickly? Wouldn't it be far better to just search or have the data visualized or filtered in a meaningful way?
Every low-temp recipe is basically the same: find the ideal temperature for your protein (135 for steak, 145 for pork and chicken, &c). Make a guess as to how much collagen is in the meat --- in other words, how tough is the cut? --- if there's lots, cook for 24-48 hours; if there's only a little, cook for 1-8 hours (you're good after 1).

A good place to start on equipment is Serious Eats; search for "sous vide" (again, we're abusing that term). The Cooking Issues website Dave Arnold ran had an excellent guide, but seems to be down.

If you want to geek out, here's the best setup I've seen online; I own a pro circulator and still want to build this thing:

http://seattlefoodgeek.com/2010/02/diy-sous-vide-heating-imm...
What version are you running? Have you tried File->Invalidate Caches?
All I saw was a white screen. Turned out to be Ghostery blocking some content. Ghostery, you have a twisted sense of humour.
A "right" is a legal rule applicable between two people within a framework of law. Foreigners don't have any "rights" as against the American people not because they're bad or we're more important or anything like that, but because they are not part of a common legal framework with us.
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That's not the same as saying the Constitution gives non-Americans the same protections as Americans.
Seriously, if you really want to work, you should have no problems finding work, provided your description is accurate.
It sounds like you just freaked out.

I would suggest being a little flexible on your side in terms of location, as Chicago is full of awesome opportunities, and then don't grab first thing, but look for something you would enjoy doing. Like, hit LightBank and other accelerators and see what they have. Have first relaxing holidays, then chase work, as others suggested.

Happy Holidays
Oh, I just noticed you're the author of the blog post.

If I had realized this I would have changed my tone (FWIW). The point stands though. Your domain name and your use of bold scream 'quackary'.

Like I said, I haven't read the post so, who knows, maybe it's insightful after all. But I definitely think you have a problem with presentation.
show me the money! how much did they get?
According to etymonline[1], it comes from Arabic through Swahili.

[1]http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&s...
Pretty laggy for me with chrome stable (my default browser) and my 2012 13'' MacBook Air. I suspect it was probably because there were half a dozen or so million-row tables -- some with complex graphics. But for basic tabular data, this looks awesome. Good work!
>well, not the eradication of smallpox, but pretty close.

Heart disease kills far more people than smallpox ever did. You have a 20% higher chance of heart disease if overweight.
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Interesting. None of these things compel me to use IFTTT.
Point me to a project you think (a) lots of people would have paid attention to and (b) is using typefaces that they haven't bothered licensing.
The presentation is impressive. May future articles be so well-presented.

The people killed in Tunnel Creek and around our region on the same day were good friends, parents, and people.

This slide, in particular, has attracted so much attention because those involved are professionals and because the event resonated so strongly within the ski media community.

Missing from a lot of this accident's coverage is how very much life the slide victims had lived. We can honor them by living as well as they did.

Jim Jack, head judge for the Freeride World Tour, skiing with kids on the hometown hill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sQ2gU0OJ30

Those of you at startups may find resonance here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuDR5_qbwPQ