skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if someone is going to criticise Chomsky, they need more than strawman arguments to do so. Of course proper criticism would require proper analysis, and thus probably be a lot longer than a typical Amazon review.

What do you find interesting about this review?
InstallMonetizer were in the Winter 2012 YC batch (according to their site & TechCrunch), but they've been around since mid 2010. The YC folks had to know that installing toolbars was InstallMonetizer's business model... surely?

I don't want to hate on YC, I was just very surprised to hear they'd invested in this company, and I'm interested to hear what their reasons were.
It also has a tie up with Bing for supplementary results /follow on searches this could hurt Googles market share.

I wonder if Larry,Eric or Sergey have thrown any chairs though a window :-)
Nothing like a good old scapegoating.
Why The WSJ Got The ’iPhone Demand Is Crashing' Story All Wrong
I suppose it depends what you want to do. I wouldn't dream of allowing a JS app, in general, to run without the server working. This may not be the case in your particular JS app. Local storage or no local storage. I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that most web apps depend on sessions.
I was thinking specifically of the statement "[D]eleting the concept of marriage from law entirely is [...] probably undesirable."
I'm one of those blind users who absolutely love Ninite. Have you ever considered managing the postinstall, too? I envisioned something which would monitor the %appdata% path where any user-specific data goes, as well as maybe the registry. Any changes get synced back to my shiny new Ninite account to be incorporated into the next install. Clearly this would take a bit of work, but since you're already imposing a selection process on your apps, and a majority of them are already well-behaved in terms of how they manage their data, it doesn't seem impractical.
Ninite is generally the first thing that I run on a new Windows install. Pulling in my data feels like a natural part of this, and if you could get some kind of reasonable implementation worked out -- a background service syncing %appdata% regularly, a simple merge model which simply picks a winner instead of trying to reconcile the changes, etc, at first blush it seems quite workable.
This is silly. Single women 28-35 are more likely to try different methods of dating because people in their late 20's and 30's are likely out of college (where there's a large pool of possible mates that are easy to find) and more likely to be settled into a life situation (where their circle of friends/acquaintances is stable and does not generate many potential mates) and more likely to be bored/done with the club scenes.

So, just like men, single women 28+ are more likely to want the internet to generate a pool of people that they might possibly date.
Interesting thing about Noam Chomsky: he goes face to face with the US government on a lot of issues and is smart enough to not have ever got in serious trouble over it.
I didn't realize you need a damn Quora account to read on there now. What a horrible move. Sorry. The post for easy reading:

Don’t Make Your Customers Steal
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Nearly three years ago, I founded a small type foundry, Grilli Type [http://grillitype.com]. A type foundry designs and releases typefaces, which you may know as fonts.

Given that I’m both an avid internet and media user, I always think a lot about content piracy and what to do about it. As a content consumer that means I was easily swayed by Spotify’s offer for unlimited music for a tiny sum each month.

As a content producer, I was very unsure what I should do. Designers need to be able to show typefaces in use in their designs for their clients to sign off on those purchases. Because of this and font files’ tiny file sizes, digital font piracy is and has always been rampant. Most designers have thousands of illegally downloaded fonts on their computers.

A little over a year ago, we decided to do something about this. We started offering one of our typefaces as a free trial version, allowing our prospective customer to download and use it – with a limited character set – in their native design applications. The sales of that typeface roughly tripled after we started offering it as a trial version. Definitely a commercial success.

So from today on, we are offering free trial versions [http://grillitype.com/free-trial-fonts] of all of our typefaces. A demo version of our fonts, so to say. We’re only the second foundry [http://swisstypefaces.com] to do so, and it’s hard for me to understand why.

What I learned from this is that it pays off not to treat your audience as pirates even if most of them usually are. It validates my belief that if you give your audience a great path to pay for your products, your audience will pay. Give them a chance to do the right thing and those who would have ever paid for your product will do it even more gladly now.

Even the sometimes slow to adapt type industry can change. So let’s have some hope for the movie and music industry, too.
Ask HN: Want to create software with me?
One of my goals for 2013 is to create something of value and validate that by having someone I've never met pay for it. I'll consider a free site that generates advertising dollars validation also.

I'm looking for anyone who would like to team up with me on creating something. I currently have a full-time job, a pretty good one actually, and I know that I can't achieve my goal without the help of others. I could just contract out work that I don't have time for, but I believe there's more value and enjoyment in a truly collaborative process involving others. I'm hope this will reach others that are in the same situation. I'm not a scam artist, I'll sign NDA's, share my ideas with you, whatever makes things legit.

My background is well rounded between development, business, and leadership. I've worked in start-ups and in corporate America. I'd like to collaborate with people who understand design, user experience, marketing, sales, specific industry experience, etc. Although, the only real requirement is that you think you've got something of value to contribute and we'd have some shot at successfully completing a project together.

You can email me partnerincrimehn @ gmail.com and we'll see what happens.

If this post is somehow in bad taste, please let me know how I should go about things.
The content is actually hosted on blogblog.com, one of Google's Blogger servers. Do you have a problem accessing that?
Why not run an opensource SaaS product?

You can pay us to make your life easy, or you can maintain everything yourself.
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/affVX.png . Links:
[1]Scripts http://scripts.mit.edu/
[2]IS&T http://ist.mit.edu/
[3]SIPB http://sipb.mit.edu/
[4]Alex Chernyakhovsky https://plus.google.com/115426459041235345279/posts
The Scientology Ad
Those things to the left of the timestamps are usernames. They belong to individuals. Individuals post their opinions on HN. Do not conflate the opinions of individuals with some sort of concept of the stance of HN.

The set of individuals posting on one thread may have little or no overlap with the individuals posting on another thread.
When trying it out I thought that I would be impressed but end up not using it. I left annoyed.

They did do a great job making it clear and easy to delete your account though. Kudos for that.
Influence in Art According to Wikipedia
Visualizing wikipedia's art influence graph in Gephi
It completely baffles me how any person who can add could look at state budgets in our country and come to the conclusion that our problem isn't guaranteeing massive levels of debt for work done decades ago.
Swartz is dead, so I don't know what pardoning him now would accomplish other than securing a useless symbolic 'victory'.
Even better do it collaboratively on a pad.
Bespoke passwords
Did Prosecutors Go Too Far In Swartz Case?
This seems more like a bug in opacity than anything. Logically, opacity should have no impact at all on layout positioning, only on blending. So this is more of a workaround created to speed up processing of elements with opacity less than 1 that introduces a design bug in the spec.
You are correct, although I would modulate this by adding that techy types like us are likely to undervalue people search compared to the average person.

Conversely, this kind of feature has obvious value for journalists, who are thus likely to overhype its game-changing quality.
What you describe sounds eerily like the äppärät from Super Sad True Love Story.
Ah, gotcha. If you have the console open at the time when the warning is triggered, you should be able to get a backtrace by clicking on the arrow beside the warning -- that will show you whereabouts in the code the problem is.

At least that's how it works in Chrome, I think Firefox does the same.
I've learned never to add rules to the asterisk ever, after being badly burned on other projects multiple times.

At first glance, this rule appears more innocuous than others I've seen, because position is never inherited. (Unlike a font-size in a plug-in that broke every inherited font-size on the whole site).

But extra position:relative declarations can cause big problems on mobile browsers (including iOS6) when combined with CSS transitions. Don't ask me why, just browser bugs. I'd be extremely wary of any kind of global layout-fixes like this.
It took me a while to figure out that Simple is actually a company name. That's like naming your company "Red", also an adjective.

Honestly though, what is Simple? Everyone else seems to know it.
More Young People Are Moving Away From Religion, But Why?
Unfortunately USAA limits mobile deposits to full members. That makes it tough to use as a checking account.
Installing the MATE and Cinnamon desktops on Fedora 18
Are you using NoScript or something like it? The page needs JS to render.
TL;DR an opacity value < 1 creates a new stacking context.
right - that's why i missed it too. it was just the title that made me think "where's the report?". so i waited for something to happen (animation or so). next i tried to klick the page - maybe that would trigger the next slide? and finally i did scroll...
nice butt by the way :-)
I don't go to MIT, but a commenter on a previous article about this said that MIT's network had been having trouble for weeks. That is, before the Aaron Swartz tragedy. Is there some other reason why someone would be DDOS'ing MIT?
The Twitter feed predates Google+ by several years.
Site management [Drupal] startup Pantheon now serving over 1B pageviews a month
GFX Card Status: Current GPU of your Mac
I remember vividly clutching at the door to my room, trying to hold on to something while the world spun around.

Maybe I'm a bit too simple or pragmatic but I sincerely hope that this was simply hyperbole. If not, I think we might have an early glimpse into a special, yet troubled, mind. From a lot of things I've read about Mr. Swartz since his suicide, it doesn't seem like he was all that mentally stable.
It's all well and good to minimize the amount of stuff you accumulate, but I wonder how you handle having kids. Children are natural hoarders--I can't remember a single Christmas where I didn't want more and bigger toys. I spent almost as much time flipping through Lego catalogs fantasizing about playing with the biggest and most elaborate Lego sets as I spent playing with my actual Legos. Sure, you can just get your kids less toys, but then your kids have friends who have more toys and they pick up this kind of greed as a consequence of that. Is minimalism something kids can learn, or is it something you have to mature into?

On another note, my parents passed away awhile back, and the single most overwhelming day-to-day challenge was how much stuff they had, which in effect meant how much stuff I had. It didn't really hit me all at once, though, since every single object was its own epiphany. By no voluntary effort of my own, I own a chainsaw! A shotgun! A bookshelf filled with deranged right-wing books! A C-band satellite dish! Another chainsaw! Another shotgun!

Fortunately, there's such a thing as an "estate sale" where other people will actually come in and sell all of your stuff out of your house for you. All you have to do is go through and pick out the things you actually want to keep, as well as papers and photographs. The trick to this is, you don't actually have to be dead to have an estate sale, although you probably need to have so much stuff that it's worthwhile to take the time whitelisting the possessions you want to keep rather than blacklisting the ones you don't want to keep. Ironically, this only exists on the backs of the hoarders pg writes about. You can get amazing deals on "perfectly good" stuff at estate sales.

The papers and photographs alone, though, can be overwhelming. Easily most of the stuff I kept were papers and photos. [1] I could justify all the advances ever made in computing simply by looking at an attic full of papers and photographs and contemplating the fact that they would all fit in my hand were they digitized.

[1] The rest were either items of genuine sentimental value or--my own weakness--"perfectly good" "vintage" computers, including a pair of NeXTs! If anyone here knows of a good Apple museum, by the way, please email me, because I don't want my attic to be it.
Perion (Nasdaq:PERI) has the same model, also from Israel. There's a whole crop of Israeli companies that have similar businesses, in fact.
I don't think that branding is for users. I think users will always just see "Facebook Search" when this is eventually rolled out broadly. The "Graph" part of "Graph Search" is for us geeks and for Wall Street. The idea is to obviously differentiate this against Google's "Web Search", "Image Search", and other Thing-Searches.
Facebook Graph Search
Facebook Graph Search - for when you want to know stuff about your friends, but you don't want them to know you asked...
Am I the only one that doesn't usually click on "like' things? I mean things like 'dancing', 'outdoors' or 'Game Of Thrones'. Even if I like them.
First, because I don't think one day "hey, I like dancing, so I think I should state it on Facebook so everyone knows!"
And second, because most of the times, liking something gets your timeline full of useless updates.

Not sure if is something that adds real value for users. We'll see...
No, but if lots of people who aren't associated with you have liked a specific dentist, then that dentist would be top of the search for dentists in your town.

One of the side effects of people actually using graphsearch would be that businesses need to have more likes than their competitors, to enhance their FB SEO. Therefore, we'll likely see even more FB ads for nearby businesses trying to get you to like their page.
Automattic venture round http://gigaom.com/2008/01/22/wordpresscom-creator-raises-29m...

SugarCRM venture round http://www.sugarcrm.com/about/sugarcrm-investors

CouchBase venture round http://www.venturecapitalupdate.com/funding/08/16/couchbase-...

If you raise tens of millions of dollars you can put off the need to become profitable for quite some time ;<).
That's the underlying reason - the same is true for position, if they didn't create new contexts rendering would be an impossible mess.

Adding opacity to the span has no effect because it already has position:absolute.
His presumption here is that if the United States changes its behavior, that terrorist attacks will then cease. Islamic terrorists, in fact, want a pan-world government under Talibanesque repressive sharia law, a vision that mandates the overthrow of all free nations beginning with ours.

First, It is not the US's fault it got attacked, Gandhi changed British foreign policy with peaceful protests. The terrorists chose murder and the attacks are their fault. Having said that.

We have Bin Laden on video tape explicitly explaining why they attacked the US. And why they did not attack Sweden for example. And it is because of the US foreign policy in the middle east. Supporting the regime in Saudi Arabia, etc. Straight from the hose's mouth.

If you are going to claim Chomsky is just plain wrong, please provide supporting evidence.

And please try to stay away from equating critique of US foreign policy as "demonizing the USA."

And "we may soon lose our nation." is just plain baseless fear mongering.

And the fact that Chomsky is an "avowed atheist" has nothing to do with anything.
> I used to think books were special, too. Having thousands of books is expensive:

I almost added books as a third category above.

A year ago I had 10,000 books. Now I have 5,000.

It'd be nice to cut that in half every year for a few years. There's no reason I can't get it down to 500 or 1,000 WITH EASE.
A guilty verdict from a jury is not an automatic maximum sentence. The mostly-mandatory Federal Sentencing Guidelines would have called for an actual sentence of 4-10 months in this case.

In the federal system, broad classes of crimes ("murder", "robbery", "wire fraud") have been assigned maximum sentences. For example, under no conditions can a sentence for wire fraud exceed 20 years (you get to the theoretical max of 35 in this case by adding the other charges, but they in the case everything would likely be folded into wire fraud on sentencing because all of the charges were based on the same conduct).

But most defendants convicted of wire fraud (even by a jury) don't serve 20 years. In fact, many first-time offenders don't serve anywhere close to that -- it's usually under a year.

Instead, the Federal Sentencing Guidelines [1] are a mostly-mandatory (there are constitutional reasons why judges are allowed to depart from the Guidelines, but it's rare and requires justification) system to calculate a range that a defendant will actually serve following a jury conviction.

Here, wire fraud is a "level 7" offense.[2] That offense level can be adjusted upward or downward based on other facts of the crime (e.g., was stock fraud involved? add 4). Assuming that Orrin Kerr was right and the total loss was $5,000 or less, there would be no adjustments and so Aaron's offense level would be 7.

Take that to the sentencing chart[3] and you can calculate that if Aaron had no priors he would be in criminal history category I and have an offense level of 7, which would be a sentence of 4-10 months. That's unpleasant, but it's a far cry from being "likely ... to get 35 years."

In fact, if you look at the sentencing chart, the only way for a first-time offender to have a Guidelines range of 35 years is to be above an offense level of 40. It takes serious work to get there: even a wire fraud of more than $300,000,000 in damages won't get you to that offense level. To get an offense level of 40, you're looking at first degree murder.

Familiarize yourself with the sentencing guidelines and you can see what was actually likely. A judge _could_ depart from the guidelines, but sentences significantly above the guidelines for a first-time offender are all but guaranteed to be struck down on appeal.

To take another example of the difference between maximum and actual sentences: the maximum sentence for murder in many states is death, but not everyone convicted of murder gets the death penalty.

[1] http://www.ussc.gov/Guidelines/2012_Guidelines/

[2] http://www.ussc.gov/Guidelines/2011_Guidelines/Manual_HTML/2...

[3] http://www.ussc.gov/Guidelines/2012_Guidelines/Manual_HTML/5...

Edit: Incidentally, the prosecutor is constitutionally _required_ to inform defendant of the full statutory maximum sentence, even if it's not realistic in a particular case. Failing to do so can be grounds for reversal of a plea or conviction. That doesn't mean the prosecutor has to tell the media, but he/she must tell the defendant.
The Challenges of Taking Dell Private
If it becomes common enough (i.e. a "meme") then suddenly everybody will "understand" it.
I find it amusing that you described Austin, the one big area of Texas that leans dramatically against the rest of the state, as the most liveable and put together. Kind of proves my point relative to the Legislature at large.

For what it's worth, Texas has never had a $25bln surplus. In the 2011 biennium, the budget had to cover a $27bln shortfall. (Note that all Texas budgets are written to cover two years, as the Legislature meets for 140 days on every odd-numbered year.) This biennium's budget will start out with approximately $8bln in unspent revenue (mostly left over from dramatic cuts made in the 2011 two-year budget) and starting out with $5.3bln in "unpaid bills" around the Women's Health Insurance Program and natural disaster spending. (http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/texas-legislature/he...)
To add to your qualification:

you are living in the US

AND

you have money.

I don't mean this as a criticism of you, but instead the minimilist movement in general: There is something self-indulgent about middle class, talking about how "cool" it is to throw away stuff, and be minimalistic... It's almost a statement about how privileged you are.
Yes, Phil, there is an iPhone Mini
Serious question: why do stacking contexts exist? They seem to defeat the whole purpose of z-indexes, which is a global way of determining what shows up in front of what else.

I'm trying to wrap my head around them -- I guess the main takeaway is, if you don't ever want to have to deal with them, then don't ever use nested elements where both have z-indexes?
Hmm, it does seem that the page is being returned but I get JS errors in Chrome, Firefox and Safari on OSX (blogger not defined). Oh well, never mind - the Pastebin and screenshots above give the gist of the story!
I'm a programmer and it took me about an hour to implement and test a basic Two-Factor authentication algorithm using Google Authenticator. That includes creating the QR code, creating the secret string and calculate the current one time password. If you have a decent programmer for your web application then the one time cost involved is very minimal for the benefit that it provides.
Please Stop Attending MIT
I suppose the one silver lining is that this could be useful data for MIT admins to locate weaknesses in their network.
This does _three_ things: third is severely slows down page rendering.
I think it's fair to think of a toolbox, or a kit, or a kitchen as one thing just as you can think of a bookcase as one thing. The only time it's ten thousand things is when you move, and maybe not even then. Ever since college I've had a "fix it" crate filled with cables, toolboxes, a sewing kit, etc. and whenever I move, I just move the crate.
Everybody Jump
> Moreover, you can get a physical copy in minutes, or at most a day (Amazon prime).

Do that a few times a month, and after a few years you end up with full bookshelves :)
a bank https://www.simple.com/
Ugh mail chimp. Isn't it incorporated in Belize? Former home of John "badass mutherfucker" McAfee? Home of endemic corruption from highest levels of government? And we hand over our email addresses? What?
Killing the HBase zombie table
New social shopping website offers free marketing tools for clothing websites
I always hated google' urge to skew objective search for information with results derived from social networks using my cookies or currently logged in accounts.

Now i got into habit of using chrome in private mode to actually Google for information.

Google is great for indexing and search global information database, Facebook is great for social connectivity and sharing.

No need to breed cat and dog into universal pet or judge that cat just become a better pet.
I do not condone the attacks that may be occurring. However, if you are trying to get someone's attention- it makes more sense to get the attention of the students rather than the administration. Today's MIT students are tomorrow's death-ray designers, robot-maintainers, and policy makers. They are tomorrow's administration- and they may not have made up their minds yet about ethical issues of intellectual property or the nature of doing and sharing science. It doesnt make sense to target the administration of today. They have already made up their minds.