skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It doesn't surprise me the extent some people go to to generate revenue in what I must think is a small market.

I agree there, but (and I'm in the minority here) it actually surprises me the extent the developers went to block ads in such a small corner situation.

NoScript's behavior started out shady, but it feels like Adblock developers escalated it into some sort of weird war. A war against ads that appear only rarely and that only a small number of people probably noticed? Was that really necessary?

It seems like you'd just uninstall NoScript if it was a major problem seeing their update pages. I mean, someone specifically installed NoScript and it could be serving ads from their local machine if it wanted, right? Do I really expect AdBlock to try to protect me from other extensions to such a level?

I don't use either extension, but it bothers me that extension developers are turning this into a one-up-man-ship for something so minor in the scheme of things.
Unfortunately,the objective-c group has had all sorts of trolls from the days of some nitwit writing a version of the language and saying NeXT's wasn't valid (even though NeXT actually owned the trademark).
It will cost them around $2000 to file a UDRP complaint. They will most likely win.
MySql == DB2. That was the plan. Now IBM needs Plan B
Maybe yes, maybe no. There is a BIG difference between knowing enough to understand what someone is writing about in a given field and being able to work, especially doing original work, in that field.
yeah, that's what the article says
Zillow does not need to go through the courts. They can just file a UDRP complaint for $2000, and there is a very good chance that they will win. After that they can just take your domain away.
Well I did a little research and it looks like when gas powered cars reach 40-50mpg they achieve the same level of pollution as an electric car in terms of net BTUs required to run them.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-schildgen/evs-vs-gas-power...
I get it--as it gets impossible to find out who came up with what, content creators are an indirect casualty but historians are a direct one because that's their actual job! That's sort of funny. I guess they'll have to use fancy statistical analysis like everyone else now.
That probably means amateur involvement in space elevator projects will remain sparse, because it is now mostly a material science / nanoengineering problem. No super-high-speed adrenaline-pumped flying into the sky here.

But once somebody gets up there (and stays up there), different story :D

Alas it looks like a far-fetched idea. The hope is that fuel costs don't become prohibitive when it comes around.
"plural of anecdote is not data"

Yes it is. It's just not (or probably not) statistically significant.
I think it goes very well with this article about how to get big projects done: http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/11/getting-big-projects-done-b...
Some background in the author's previous post: http://drcoddwasright.blogspot.com/2009/04/sunrise-sunset-ga...

Note final line: "adapting to SSD should only be a baby step away."
I hate the term "judgemental". It is almost as stupid and self-contradictory as "opinionated".
I'm not sure if the t'Hooft page is a joke or not.

It is no joke. Nobel laureate in physics t'Hooft wrote the page to give serious advice to people who aspire to understand theoretical physics.
I'd like to know what its total emissions are. I presume they would be using a petrol or diesel compressor.
I set my homepage to TiddlyWiki that's stored on Dropbox via a file:// link. The two are a fairly powerful and convenient combo.
> ought to be determined huristically

Third time's a charm! :P
It's not a disease. If I couldn't talk about things I don't understand, I couldn't talk about anything. Being involved is more fun.
Of course, it would be great if the public had better grounding in legal education, just as it would be great if we all knew more quantum mechanics.

A lot of lawyers do volunteer time and effort to educate the general public about the law, and I am one of them. I write mostly about the law of parental freedom in education, my chosen legal specialty, and I welcome questions about that area of law from anyone.

I think people are more accepting of expert opinion about quantum mechanics than they are of expert opinion on the law because most people have preexisting lay opinion about the law before they seek advice. But, yes, we should all be talking with one another in a democratic republic as the law-making powers revise laws.
Sure they can. And you then have the choice NOT to use it.
This Genera stuff looks like shit. I think someone had to say it.
Your comment reminds me of the #2 fact from the book "Facts and fallacies of software engineering" which states that the best programmers are up to 28 times better than the worst programmers but nobody, including themselves, is aware of that. This makes them a great bargain because their paycheck is not nearly proportional with their quality.

If all the best people were aware of how good they actually are, they'd have a really hard time finding a job where they wouldn't feel underpaid. Also, it's probably better if we don't have to deal with people on zour team constantly thinking how they're 20 times better/worse than some other guy.
So how do we get more women into Rails?
Well, historians work with primary and secondary sources. The internet collectively hoards and archives insane amounts of information, so it's a lot to dig through, but sources are often still there somewhere, and they are often copied verbatim.

A big part of history has always been gathering and interpreting sources, to figure out the validity of assertions like that (whether contemporary or retroactive). Hearsay and speculation are nothing new. As the article notes, history isn't about reciting names and dates, it's about making a case to support or refute an interpretation of what happened, based on available evidence.
Go, Sammy, Go!!!

Seriously dude, great coup getting EFF involved. Long live the proletariat!
I am reminded of something I read in Isaac Asimov's book on astronomy, where he talked about his great idea for how to visualize the size of distant objects and how lamentable it was that people don't use his obviously superior method.

I stared at the pages unable to comprehend how he thought the size of a penny held a mile away was easier to visualise than the alternative.

Likewise Eliezer's "Intuitive" explanation of Bayesianity - I've read through it twice (lightly) and it's thoroughly not intuitive. I'd need to study it not just read it.

Presumably there is some distance from my current mental state vector to any with a comfortable grasp of Bayesian probability, and some explanations will take a quick route and some a less direct one. Hence, I think there are different 'best' explanations for different people depending on what they already know, what they want to know and what they want to touch upon along the way.

I'm skeptical that there is one "_the_ best way" to teach probability, or anything else.
NetBeans, using the GWT4NB plugin for a GWT-based project. It's funny you should ask, as I've started looking, longingly, over at the better GWT support in the Eclipse world. (Google writes the plugin for Eclipse, so it's a well-worn path...GWT4NB is a small, volunteer effort with no official support from anywhere.)
Is Jim Gray - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gray_(computer_scientist) - considered dead?
Comixology and the future of connected commerce
Web designers often send me half heartedly formated html that is full of repetitive nested structures that I do not understand. When trying to turn it into a collection of partials I have inevitably destroyed some important tag. Everything breaks and I have to start over.

Turning it into haml has two benefits. I can visualize the structure of repeating elements so I have a better idea what to break into partials and I will never forget a closing tag which causes everything to break in some horrific way.
Thank you @brk
The thing you can do when you have a house like this is host fundraising parties. Dr. Stewart definitely likes hosting parties. So over Stewart's lifetime in Integral House he will end up raising a lot of money for his pet charities.

http://www.uc.utoronto.ca/content/view/379/1855/ is one I found when googling more info.
I'm getting goats to mow my field. They make great pets! They're about like dogs, with more human eyes. The hard part will be keeping them out of the crops, and from escaping. Goats are highly intelligent escape artists.
This map would be good for finding things very close, or very far away, but the area in the middle is not well represented.
Ray Ozzie on Cloud Strategy and Technology Clusters
Easy screenshot sharing with Dropbox and Hazel
http://www.json.org/json2.js

and here's the appropriate comment:

// In the third stage we use the eval function to compile the text into a
// JavaScript structure. The '{' operator is subject to a syntactic ambiguity
// in JavaScript: it can begin a block or an object literal. We wrap the text
// in parens to eliminate the ambiguity.

So um, json.js does use eval, same as jQuery.

On http://www.pcapr.net, we use tons of javascript and I've noticed returning "large" JSON arrays makes quite a few different browsers croak.
Assuming you're not using solar, wind, hydro, or nuclear power sources.
Does anyone know of any other cases of DMCA take-downs for this kind of content about Apple products, and how it turned out?
Also read this about native JSON:

http://blog.mozilla.com/webdev/2009/02/12/native-json-in-fir...

Which could make the speed comparable, but just on FF31
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I can comment on this from the perspective of an affiliate promoting products on networks like CJ. Affiliate programs can be a very profitable way to gain customers, but there are lots of issues that come up. In particular:

-Before your product is listed on an affiliate network, you need to put down a significant investment- mid to high $XX,XXX as a prepayment to the network

-Especially for a webapp, there could be issues of rampant fraud-affilites using VCCs to sign up and so on- this is something you will need to be proactive about filtering out

-Products that do well on affiliate networks have a large target market- if your webapp is niche affiliates won't bother to take the time to set up campaigns to promote your product
I'm an experienced Debian/Ubuntu guy, and decided to start playing with OpenBSD. A hardware compatibility issue[1] made me go back to Ubuntu Server, but I came away with two main impressions:

1) It's actually pretty easy to install, once you get past the whole "it's different" bit. I had no real trouble.

2) Updating/upgrading is a PITA. Having to upgrade by patching source code -- WTF?

What do you do if you have a fleet of 100s of OpenBSD machines? I may be spoiled by apt, but I can upgrade the several hundred machines I'm responsible for in an almost trivial manner. (And updating a single machine with apt is absolutely trivial.) That doesn't seem to be possible with OpenBSD. (I suppose you could write a custom shell script to do the update, and distribute that to your machines, but...certainly not trivial.)

What's more, I would be willing (if not completely comfortable) to update a remote Ubuntu/Debian box to the next release -- that doesn't seem like a good idea (or even possible under some circumstances) with OpenBSD.

This seems even stranger when you consider the security reputation of OpenBSD, and how important updates are for security, even for something as well-audited and well-written as OpenBSD.

Am I missing something here?

[1] http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/openbsd-misc/2009/2/8/4924...
How To Get Your Affiliate Marketing Business Off The Ground Quickly
The new catchphrase in the affiliate marketing business is multiple streams of income. Unless you understand exactly what this phrase means you won’t get too far with starting your affiliate marketing business.
aren't there some HNers working on a more sophisiticated variant of this sort of idea?
I agree with the author on editor support for closing tags. I often find myself noticing something is wrong when I tell the editor (emacs) to auto-indent everything and it doesn't look the way I expect it to. I also find ERB to be quite simple and straightforward.

That said, I'm quite interested in using Sass.
Saw this late, but anyway...

You can make a good argument about lambda-notation and Lisp, etc. BUT people talk about creators of types of mathematics. Newton and Leibniz developed calculus, etc. (Maybe sloppy, but a common colloquialism.)
Regards to the prepayment, you sure there aren't networks that just bill when fees are due?

Regards to fraud, that's definitely a real issue.

Regards to niche, from what I've learned from doing some affiliate work and research, niche is extremely important and much desired by affiliates - even though my product isn't narrowly targeted - just saying..
In fact, when we started YC Jessica was the only one of us with venture capital experience (having worked at a major investment bank in Boston since before she met PG.) She had a lot to do with us getting into the business, and her judgments about whom to fund have proven to be accurate.

Sorry to disappoint you by not being an all-girl seed funding firm with thigh-high pink boots.
The biggest change will not be the HDD -> SSD transition, but rather the SSD -> MRAM transition or, equivalently, the point at which there is suddenly no speed difference between RAM and secondary storage.

At that point, there WILL be no secondary storage. Or, rather, CPU cache will become very large and be the primary storage and (M)RAM will be the secondary storage.

In either case, given that CPU cache is (designed to be) transparent, the whole computing landscape will be irrevocably altered.

Think about it... what would a computing environment look like if it was based around a system in which all your data and code was just as instantly addressable and accessible as all your other data and code, and it was just ONE address space?
Despite the linkbait-ish title, this is actually a very thorough and well written article.
Summary: Apple will try to expand the iPhone's market share. To do this, they will consider working with other carriers and creating different models of the product. One model will have more features and one will have less. When will this happen? Not sure, but it could happen this year or next.

Very informative!
They only deleted the stupid stuff they didn't share.
Most networks won't do this because it opens them up to risk or a merchant not paying and still having to pay their affiliates. Also because different affiliates get paid at different times so a big affiliate might be net 10 or even net 5 most will be net 30 or 45.

Make sure you design a good landing page and test test test. No one will run your campaign for more than a few days if it doesn't convert reasonable well.
I could see a lot of value in have a consistent interface and features (sortable columns, zoomable graphs, filters etc.) and reliable data sources.

Wikipedia articles are often condensed information that is on google, but the condensing it's self is useful.
I wanted to distinguish between raganwald the blogger and Reg Braithwaite the person. This essay really was a Reg Braithwaite thing. But it is a temporary measure ;-)
"For men, the outlook was radically different. If you go along with the crowd and play it safe, the odds are you won’t have children. Most men who ever lived did not have descendants who are alive today. Their lines were dead ends. Hence it was necessary to take chances, try new things, be creative, explore other possibilities. Sailing off into the unknown may be risky, and you might drown or be killed or whatever, but then again if you stay home you won’t reproduce anyway. We’re most descended from the type of men who made the risky voyage and managed to come back rich. In that case he would finally get a good chance to pass on his genes. We’re descended from men who took chances (and were lucky)."
This actually strikes close to home. Two of the closest people to me are lawyers, and they hate discussing law with me.

The problem as I see it is that I'm interested in what the best law/result would be, and they're focused on what's likely to happen in the real world. An abstract problem for me is making sausage for them. Of course, they might believe that the sausage is also the best result, and that there is no platonic ideal solution, or they might have just learned not to care, or something else. I don't know.

In any case, if you believe in being a responsible citizen in a democratic society, you should spend some time thinking about how government should work, and part of that is how the legal system works.

If you think that's all a pile of BS we teach our kids to keep them innocent, you probably aren't wasting your time on thinking about these kinds of problems, as it's just how lawyers justify their existence (in terms of making a living).
I made that connection as well, but I wanted to present Dr. Seligman's work as directly as I could without editorializing it and then move on to discuss my own opinion of how it relates to hacking and programmer culture.

He may have had extremely good reasons for maintaining the subdivision between the three axes that are too subtle for me to grasp. For example, it could be that when writing tests to identify optimism, he found that he could only get a strong correlation between score and behaviour if he included questions from all three groups.

I don't know :-)
That's a really, really great insight. may I add it? Or better yet, would you like to fork homoiconic, add your comment, and send me a pull request?
Forgive my bluntness, but I was rather hoping to peel back the emotive language and ideological rhetoric and have an objective and technical discussion.

I gauge programming languages by their effectiveness at solving practical problems. Do you believe Clojure's design makes it less effective at solving problems than other Lisps? Or are your objections to it purely ideological?
First, let me just say this paragraph alone made the article worth the read...

Seeing all this, the feminists thought, wow, men dominate everything, so society is set up to favor men. It must be great to be a man.

The mistake in that way of thinking is to look only at the top. If one were to look downward to the bottom of society instead, one finds mostly men there too. Who’s in prison, all over the world, as criminals or political prisoners? The population on Death Row has never approached 51% female. Who’s homeless? Again, mostly men. Whom does society use for bad or dangerous jobs? US Department of Labor statistics report that 93% of the people killed on the job are men. Likewise, who gets killed in battle? Even in today’s American army, which has made much of integrating the sexes and putting women into combat, the risks aren’t equal. This year we passed the milestone of 3,000 deaths in Iraq, and of those, 2,938 were men, 62 were women.

With that said I don’t agree with the premise of this article.

The problem I have with classic feminism AND the people making counter arguments (like this article) is it’s all inherently irrational. In the end the rational thing to do in society is to match each job with the person who has the most compatible skill set. Whether that person is man, woman, monkey, or whatever doesn’t really matter.

Now some say these arguments have to be made to stop people who believe women are inherently inferior to men. Well the problem with that is you’re trying to use a rational argument to convince someone who has decided to disregard any rationality. It’s dumb foundingly obvious that some women are better than their male counterparts.

In the end the most disturbing thing about this article, imho, is the fact that someone felt the need to right it in the first place. I mean, if there really is someone out there who thinks either sex is expendable is there really any point in trying to convince them otherwise?
Rockets DO fail. Scattering dangerous radioactive waste over a large area doesn't seem too bright.
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Next paragraph: "The hard part is what comes next: getting the mind into position . . ."

Get it?
Rockets DO fail. Scattering dangerous radioactive waste over a large area doens't seem too bright.
I don't understand why an article wouldn't mention it. A lot of articles are written because the subject stands out in some way, and to not address that seems remiss to me.
"Jquery + Haml is a very close impedance match" - is that another way of saying they're a good combo or is there more to it than that?
mu!
because we don't have that feature. This program adds the ability to not do things. It is very important to the software ecosystem.
Now some say these arguments have to be made to stop people who believe women are inherently inferior to men. Well the problem with that is you’re trying to use a rational argument to convince someone who has decided to disregard any rationality. It’s dumb foundingly obvious that some women are better than their male counterparts.

This makes no sense. Obviously when you say group X is better than group Y, you don't mean that the worst member of X is better than the best member of Y. You might mean that average ability in X is better than average ability in Y, or perhaps, that the best people in some domain tend to come from X.
Good luck Sam!
No. Next article!
Knowledge and genius
Go Sam!
Not really. You're taking things out of context by putting things in the macro instead of the micro. I have no problem with someone saying "men are usually stronger than women." That's statistics.

But Anti-discrimination laws are designed to keep someone who is offering a job from picking a less qualified man over a more qualified woman. So if someone had a job that required strength and hired the man even though the woman was stronger that would be irrational.

So you see, one's a macro discussion and the other's a micro one. In the macro using statistics is rational in the micro it's not.
Please see: http://mattmaroon.com/2009/05/01/hacker-news-disease/
In recent times, if you want to maximize your chances of finding a wife, it's better to have a safe career as an employee with a stable income. The only risk involved is in aiming for a career for which you have insufficient ability.

Maybe it wasn't like that a long time ago. Maybe having an average job then did not generate enough wealth for the survival of a family.
Who would argue with you about the micro? That's obvious. The article is about the macro.
Objective-C and Cocoa Best Practices
Ah, fair enough. I was hoping that the general, personal, and permanent nature of my praise along with the temporary and specific nature of my criticism would not be lost on you. :P
Proggy is nice if your screen is 640x480 and CRT, but I think LCD screens and font smoothing has made that font irrelevant.
I use real code to show how HAML kicks ERB-ass: http://railsnotes.com/395-response-to-thoughts-on-haml
I like James' perspectives, but the "If programming X irritates you, get better tooling" argument reminds me of another programming language, Java.