skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find my eyes drawn to the headline and as long as headline and some text is clearly visible I'm not annoyed as I can start reading immediately. So I don't think there is a need to devote majority of your above fold area to immediate content.

In fact the blog is annoying because I couldn't read even a single line of text without scrolling down. The picture was completely irrelevant. Atleast in nytimes, everything except the banner ad, above the fold is useful. often I find myself clicking on the tech category soon after reading a tech article.
If you walk into a bookstore and steal a bunch of books, even on a slow business day and it causes the store/publisher/author to lose sales, but not that much, is it a victimless crime?
How many customers did Amazon lose this weekend that will likely never hear that this was a hack? He directly and irreparably harmed the reputation of a company, how is this victimless at all?
I agree that we shouldn't pigeon-hole children, but they do find their niches, regardless.

Personally, as a father, I think the more interesting application of data like this (if true, I tend to wonder about the order of causality as well) would be around how can I get my child out of their comfort zone. This is not shouting at my timid child, it is exposing the highly methodical child to free-form creative activities.

Also, coming from a family with a history of substance abuse problems, knowing that a child had a particular predisposition towards abuse would be useless without a solid way to do something about it. Otherwise, it just becomes yet another thing a parent needs to fear and become over protective about.
If people want to get upset because of the production energy/resources, they should be more concerned about beer, wine, milk, soft drinks, juices, etc. Water is practically free compared to those things. I've never understood that part of the uproar over bottled water. Why isn't it an uproar over all consumer beverages?

I would think milk would be considered the worst offender. How many gallons of gasoline + water does it take to produce a gallon of milk let alone ship it? I guess if people had their own dairy cows then maybe there would be a big uproar over bottled milk too. "Why don't you just go milk your own cow, yuppy scum?"
It is worth finding out what your state's family services covers, especially if you are low income (about $45k/year). Depending on your income your kids and even you might qualify for medicaid. There are also dozens of other programs around. I live in Ohio and there are programs for pregnant women, disabled, blind and aged. There are programs for emergency care for aliens and the hospitals usually will give discounts for low income. If that is not enough there are lots of cheaper and even free clinics for health and dental care, around here they generally work on a sliding-scale based on your income.
It is sort of an unofficial shortcut in UNIX. less use it as well.
Kaiser tends to get ranked FAR ahead of all other health insurance / health provider companies in the consumer surveys I've seen - and their rates tend to be very competitive. Your broker may not quote Kaiser rates, though - you might have to inquire directly.
Posting a message that you got food poising from a local restaurant will cause them to lose money without you breaking the law. Would you say it's reasonable for them to sue you if you where telling the truth?
I was kept awake at night racked in guilt by my refusal to join twitter; but lo! Slate absolved me and my conscience is light as a feather once again.

But wait! It doesn't look like that dude will absolve me for not being on Facebook - oh well, I'll just have to learn to live with my moral miasma.
Well-reported?

Yes, I mean it was reported well enough to see some of the holes in the study.
If I were Sun, I would probably be complaining about how nobody is going to buy Sun hardware anymore when they can just run their Java apps on GAE for pennies a day.

The incompatibility actually helps them -- if you want "real" Java, you are going to have to get a "real" server.

Finally, I don't blame Google for omitting core classes. Java's standard library is some of the worst code I've ever seen -- the interfaces are horrible (do they even know what OOP is?), and the implementation shipped with the open source JDK looks like it was hacked together by some high-school kids on crack. Google is smart to kill this shit off.
How do you equate doing harm to another person with reducing revenue for a collection of entities (Amazon and its sellers)?

Consider the small startup eating an established business's lunch; surely the startup isn't liable for the losses of the larger company.
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This really takes some of the best of Mozilla and PrototypeJS's work (or the ideas from them) and incorporates them into EcmaScript. Function.prototype.bind, JSON object, DOM prototypes, and Mozilla's array helpers. All super great stuff that has been hacked into the language via libraries/frameworks thus far.
Your characterization of online social interaction is plain wrong. You can't assume everyone else approaches Twitter or Facebook the same way you might. People learn from each other online, argue with each other, start relationships, start/run businesses, share photos and videos, etc. I have no idea how you can overlook all the positive things to promote such a negative view.
We both were health young guys with no families that needed to be covered and just ended up getting Tonik health insurance.

During hiring we mentioned that we would cover up to X amount of personal health insurance. Since our hire had a family though we are now looking at getting a group plan even though the company only has 3 people, the man reason was getting family plans is much harder to get cheap personal plans while the group plans have better benefits for families.
Maybe you could. The funny thing is, most of the science on this issue suggests that the "you" that is supposedly fighting either environment or genetics...is entirely composed of environmental and genetic influences. So if there is a "you" that can fight environment, it's the genetic you, and vice versa.

And it's not like you're Mister Spock, with one half of your personality fighting a completely different half. It's more like a smoothie, where you can't tell what part is the banana, what part is the strawberry, and so forth, except it tastes like a mixture of both. So really, what you're saying is a lot less coherent than it sounds.
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"Above the fold" is something that we worried about 10 years ago when we were concerned that users didn't know how to scroll. There's lots of evidence to indicate that people really don't mind scrolling that much.

You can only make the article text so wide before it becomes hard to read. It is already twice as wide (at least) as the printed version. If you have one article per page then you are going to have a lot of leftover space when somebody has their web browser at an insane width of >1400px at 144dpi. They might as well fill that space with advertising.

He is kind of stacking the deck to support his point. He has his font size pretty small--probably too small for most NYTimes readers to comfortably read. If you crank up the font size to something readable then the proportion of the page "above the fold" dedicated to the article is much larger.
Let the record note that I am a tab fan. Hey, `Python` thinks it makes sense too...
I especially liked how clear their pricing was. There's a place on their website where you can look up exactly how much each procedure costs. I'd never seen anything like that before. It made it easy to weigh the HSA vs traditional plans.
It's not on the AP. I did more differential equation stuff in the AP physics course that was taught in parallel with the AP calc course. Mostly simple stuff like coming across the differential equation "a = -w^2 x" and having to solve it (x = sin wt -- simple harmonic motion). We didn't often have to solve new ones on our own. This lecture would definitely be understandable to the students in that class though.
Because it's redundant. Water is literally piped into most buildings and homes in the Western world. Bottled water has no added value in places with drinkable tap water, but it has a significant extra cost in terms of resource usage.
> Your value system may be different from mine. If the advice doesn't make sense to you, move on, try something else..

Your reasons for downvoting may be different from mine. If you're being downvoted, move on, try something else..
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You may have the right to reproduce, but as to "who can tell me what I can or cannot do", the answer is always "whoever has all the guns". Whether or not they're justified, the government usually gets to tell us what we can or cannot do, assuming they catch us. This is generally considered a major risk of having a government.
Good point. The picture was more confusing than helpful. But, it was a cool shot so I forgive the guy.

The main problems with the blog in my view: (1) There's a big banner at the top complaining that I'm using "IE6 (or below" and recommending Firefox, but I'm using IE8; (2) I literally cannot read its logo. I can barely make out "optimize" after double-checking the address bar to see what it is supposed to say.
"counter-intuitive" is your code word for "I can't justify it but I like it anyway?"

If his hack involved writing an innocuous demo script and presenting it to Amazon or at a conference, this would be one thing, and society is better off for the freedom to make such discoveries and talk and write about them. Society is certainly better off when it accords freedom of speech. But academic freedom ends where you start to impact other's freedom of speech. (Like effective censorship of Amazon listings.)

All my life, I've had this background occurrence of strangers have coming out of nowhere to try and haze me with some racial epithet. Almost all of these idiots carry this air of striking some sort of blow for truth and beauty, as if they're defending motherhood and the American way through their yelling and insults. To me, Weev and his ilk have the exact same sort of misguided self-righteousness.

I'm sure the one who hazed that young girl into committing suicide on MySpace felt just as clever and justified.

(Many of those Weev targets may have the same self-righteous chip on their shoulder as well, and may be just as bad in their way. It's just not a productive way to expend mental energy.)
Does it include the Trac hosting as well? I couldn't tell with certainty.
I was doing consulting for a few months and considered not getting insurance. I decided to take the safe route and payed $550 a month out of pocket for personal coverage. I eat healthy and exercise (on and off). Long story short, I ended up hospitalized for a week with some crazy stomach infection. To this day, no doctor knows what it was or how I got it. The bill would have been 50 or 60 thousand dollars if I didnt have insurance. Better to be safe then sorry, accidents do happen. I will always get the best coverage possible now.
The first update to JavaScript in nearly a decade and rather being happy that the revision introduces some nice new features, fixes some of the biggest problems with the standard, and has been embraced by all parties so should have a relatively quick introduction, people would rather moan that it's not enough.
Finally Microsoft is putting IE6 to death
For the US, where will the energy come from? Given current
car usage I find it hard to believe it will come from wind
farms.
> Three Grammar Rules You Can (And Should) Break

I see what you did there (i.e. using parentheses to denote parenthetical comments rather than matching commas, an incorrect grammatical construction I prefer).

"Parenthetical phrases have been used extensively in informal writing and stream of consciousness literature. Of particular note is the southern American author William Faulkner (see Absalom, Absalom! and the Quentin section of The Sound and the Fury) as well as poet E. E. Cummings. In most writing, overuse of parentheses is usually a sign of a badly structured text. A milder effect may be obtained by using a pair of commas as the delimiter. If the sentence contains commas for other purposes visual confusion may result."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket
On a simpler scale, can't you do this the Google Maps way? Which is to say, specify a center lat/long and a zoom level. This way you're not bookmarking any data specifically, but bookmarking your view instead.

Depends on use case: the case I was in was just that I wanted to show a friend what was available in a particular neighbourhood, as opposed to a specific set of postings.
Whoa, this is smacking of rationalization.

How is what your're saying different from, "I didn't send those DDOS packets, the lusers executing my trojan program did!"

How about: "IMHO, that shouldn't be illegal. Mrs. Smith was extremely silly to believe that a consumer door lock and sticking her life savings under her mattress was a good way to secure money."
The sad truth is the scenario you describe is not that different from what has been done in countries like China. The difference here is that China had an irrational desire for male children.

Where as here there might be a rational reason for the Government to step in. So the very scary scenario that forms is one in which a parent's right to reproduce as they desire is pitted against a governments understandable need to keep society moving forward.

At least, that's what I'm afraid it might come to.
Now is it just me, or is finding the person you want to hire, and then advertising for the position locally, getting the cart before the horse? Whadaya bet the advertisement is overly specific and tailored just for the guy they want to hire?
Ok seriously, now I know we are becoming reddit.
You have the right to reproduce sexually. The right to engineer a child through genetic manipulation is much more likely to be prohibited than protected. I expect that we'll make exceptions for diseases, but I can't imagine human culture on this planet as I know it going for wholesale improvement. Not for the foreseeable future. Doesn't mean it won't happen eventually, but a dramatic change in values would have to take place because there is such a taboo associated with engineering people.

Imagine if the news broke tomorrow about a better, smarter human baby being engineered. The result would be outrage, ferocious anger and prohibition.
By some accounts, the history of politics consists of a conflict between individual rights and the public good.
I think that the biggest limitation is the number of qualified teachers. Surely not everyone has the aptitude to learn these ideas, but of those who do only a tiny fraction are given access to quality instructors. It was definitely not a part of my traditional instruction. I had to stay after and nag my teacher until he explained it to me. There's not much glory in it but it's really fun to think of ways to present "advanced" topics in an elementary form.
"Registering multiple false user names?

Giving false feedback?"

Well then, unless your actual name is "tjic" then we are both criminals right off the bat. And since when is the government in the business of checking whether feedback is "false" or not? That's the company's job. It's not illegal to lie unless you are under oath, and nobody was.

"Restraint of trade?"

I don't see how Amazon's trade has been restrained in any way, shape or form. Unless you consider criticism or bad reputation to be restraint of trade, in which case any criticism is fair game. Very dangerous ground.

"but I have no problem at all with the government enforcing laws against using aliases to log into a system and inject bad data in order to create a public relations firestorm?"

Who says it's bad data? What's wrong with aliases? You're trying to legislate against intent.

And your example of how Joe Schmoe should be protected even though he's slagging off Microsoft - MS will say that's bad data bringing a PR firestorm. It just doesn't work.

"I'd be somewhat pissed if someone used my flawed front door lock (pickable by anyone with a set of picks, 60 seconds to spare, and decent picking skills) against me."

Dear god, not this argument again. Look, physical security is NOT the same as network security. It is impossible to totally guarantee physical security. It is possible, even easy, to create perfect network security. The two are totally at odds. Creating a few fake accounts and submitting some votes (which Amazon encourages) is not even remotely similar to breaking into your house and placing signs advertising your partiality to child molestation.

You are giving Amazon a free pass for their lax security practises, and placing all the blame on some random guy who had the balls to admit he did it. And if it was illegal, the only thing that would change is that he wouldn't have admitted it. You can't have laws like that. You may as well try to make a law that everyone has to be nice.
If you mean it's not important which particular style you choose, well yes, that's exactly what the article is saying.
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History is littered with the blood of people fighting over social issues... We shouldn't be too surprised by the lengths, but the appeals for security concerns rings loud and true.
Actually, I think they do... at least, comparing personal income tax rates (the factor most likely to matter to a new startup), MA does reasonably well: a flat 5.3%, as compared to CA's 1-9% (with the highest rate kicking in around $50K or so).

Obviously personal income tax isn't the only one in town, but it's not significantly worse in MA than elsewhere.

Source: http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/ind_inc.html
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Because nobody likes a whiner.
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>I expect that we'll make exceptions for diseases, but I can't imagine human culture on this planet as I know it going for wholesale improvement.

Disease: an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning

Is downs syndrome a disease?
Is autism a disease?
Is Asperger's a disease?
Is a learning disability a disease?
Is left handedness a disease?
Is laziness a disease?

I think we can both agree that Downs Syndrome is a disease and that if were possible to fix via genetic manipulation we would. Other items i listed are obviously not so clear...

I make the point (again) that the health and state of my child is my responsibility and choice. If i want to choose to have my child be right handed, I should be given that choice.
Reducing income by out-competing another company in a transparent and open marketplace is one thing. Reducing income by manipulating information in a deceptive fashion (thereby making the marketplace less transparent) is another thing entirely.

There were ways Weev could've made his hacking skill known without such negative impacts. He cared more about the notoriety than preventing harm to bystanders. (Though to be fair, he probably has rationalizations for why these weren't "real" negative impacts.)
A more interesting treatment of Lagrangians, in my opinion, is Chapter 19 of Volume 2 of the Feynman Lectures on Physics. It's a bit more complex, but I think you can get a lot more out of it. It's here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/8321714/Vol-2-Ch-19-Principle-of-L...

I'm a bit uncomfortable with posting the link to scribd, but I guess it's fair use.
well, presumably, when you "found the person you wanted to hire" initially, you went through the the interview process and interviewed plenty of candidates. (In Google's case, probably both foreign and domestic).

This second check is more of a "okay, so let's double-check". And yes, of course the advertisement is overly specific- haven't you seen job ads recently? When ads usually have that long list of requirements, they are usually advertising for a green card. Someone who occasionally interacts with mySQL suddenly is a mySQL master and so forth.
Yeah, ultimately nature/nurture is a 'false dichotomy.' But then the whole concept of 'self' is bupkus :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atman_(Buddhism)
It certainly would be reasonable for them to sue you if you had lied.
The title is misleading; according to the article, BYD is a major battery manufacturer. They also bought a car company cheap and made it profitable. Now their car making branch is working together with the battery branch to make electric cars. If electric cars flop, they can still be profitable on batteries and regular gas-burning cars. I'm sure Buffett hasn't lost so much of his mind that he doesn't appreciate a no-lose situation.
I don't think handedness is a choice you'll be given. I think choosing that will be illegal, because we don't want humanity to be engineered, and that would be the result of your policy.
It's all justified as long as it is funny.

I guess it is easy to be a prick when you are only looking at pixels.
A company like Amazon should be able to deal with DDOS and CSFR in it's stride though. They should present absolutely no challenge.

The correct response IMHO is for Amazon to realize they were stupid, and fix it. If you sue etc you put out the signal that being stupid is fine - you'll be able to sue someone if they take advantage of your stupidity.

But then we live in an age where if someone doesn't tell you explicitly that your coffee is hot, and you spill it, you can sue them...
Trollish, but amusing. We do have a lot of resistance to this idea in America.
if you didn't have insurance, that bill would have been 5-10K, with the hospital willing to give you 10-15 years to repay it.
I've wrote a lot of Javascript, and have yet to get bitten by semicolon insertion. It's been a year or so since I really hacked JS, so I loaded up about 200K of code I've written and it's all braces-stand-alone.
You missed the point of the article. The interesting part is that personality was strongly correlated with and likely caused by structural differences in the brain that can be measured with a 'ruler.'
Ruhlman writes in today's post, "Cooks and bakers are distinctly different creatures. Cooks are the jazz musicians, bakers and pastry chefs are the classical pianists."

But certainly the importance of getting the proper ratio isn't limited to baking. Off the top of my head, mayonnaise, hollandaise, etc. are obvious examples. The "mother sauces", roux, custards, even certain stocks also come to mind. The 2:1:1 ratio for mirepoix isn't finicky but if it's mirepoix you want, you need to be in the ballpark.

I take the idea as, yes, of course there are a great many things you can cook by improvising and feeling your way. But armed with some basic, classic ratios, you can extend the same improvisational approach to riskier territory where you might otherwise want the guidance of a recipe. Whether it's successful at that I couldn't say.
Do you know every implementation detail of the database management system you use?

The fact that proprietary databases exist means that you can use libraries without understanding all the code in them.
What I do hope for is that one day when they get arrested that the officers let them know it's ok as they're going to prison for the lulz.
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Move to a country that takes public healthcare seriously.

I'm only half joking after reading the other comments here. The US. system is seriously broken.