skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Creationism makes no predictions.

Quoted from the parent post of your post to agree with what you say. I think creationists do make one prediction, but it's a prediction that has been proven wrong, so it is not often brought up by creationists. I'm referring to the Biblical account(s) that humankind was specially created as a separate act of creation (and, by implication, through a special process) different from the creation of other animal living things. The prediction is that human beings are radically different in some discernible way from chimpanzees and other living things. But in fact genes and even junk DNA can be traced by common descent not only throughout the primate line but all the way back to the last common ancestor of human beings and fruit flies. The science of molecular genetics has completely blown to smithereens any hope for a "creation science" that is credible to open-minded people. I write this as someone who grew up with very close associations to scientifically educated people who were willing at least to entertain the possibility of young-earth creationism as related in the Biblical texts.
There are those who have split the theory in two: micro vs. macro evolution.

http://www.ridgecrest.ca.us/~do_while/sage/v1i4f.htm

Some people who have normally shunned the entire concept of the evolution theory in the past have now integrated micro-evolution into their belief systems yet vehemently oppose macro-evolution.

No matter which path you take (creationism vs evolution), I guess it's just turtles all the way down. ;)
My short reaction: Good lord, you know all that and still feel like the article is targeted at you? Or at Rails as a technology?

Long reaction: You missed the point of the article, which is that keeping on top of the latest and greatest technologies is almost never necessary, and it is never sufficient under any circumstances. You don't have to know what a mongrel is. You do have to understand the orders-of-magnitude difference between different levels in the memory heirarchy. (RAM is much better than disk -- a simple, stupid fact that people ignore all the time.) There are lots of people running around with credentials and hot technologies who don't know what they're doing, and there are lots of young people who worship those guys and spend their time running after trendy stuff because they haven't yet figured out the difference between learning technology and deciding what to wear. (Which might not be as bad as relying on engineering principles to choose your wardrobe. Hmmm, personal food for thought.)

Sure his article isn't particularly original in intent or execution, but the need for this article is perennial. You have to keep updating it because it's aimed at people who only pay attention if you talk about the current latest and greatest. That's why Rails was the perfect victim -- that's where his target audience is right now. (And the Microsoft stack is the perfect frumpy foil to Rails.) Not that the Rails community doesn't contain other kind of people; it evidently does, or posts like yours wouldn't exist. But it is also The Trendy Thing and is therefore cursed with attracting the naive my-favorite-band-is-better-than-yours types who think "follow the buzz" is the successful strategy for all domains of life.

Fast-forward ten years, and I'm sure he'll have written the same article with the blanks filled in with another hot technology. Which is a good thing.
I've been asked by an ex-Googler (a recruiter), on the difference between an algorithm and a logarithm :(
Random Walk - Thesis attempts to visualize randomness
I think you're still stuck with a financial liability if you decide to have kids with non person you aren't married to. Plus there are tax breaks for being married. But that is just monetary.

In reality most people in the US aren't as inclined to have life partners without the marriage part. And frankly, there is something special about professing your commitment to another person in front of your community that somehow makes your bond with your partner stronger.

Is marriage required? Probably not. But I think you are missing a good part of it by claiming financial reasons for despising marriage.
Ummm, this might be just me but I don't see any actual reason for sessions being bad?

Of course anything that you dont need a stateful connection for you wouldn't use a session (that is a surely logical). But there are other things that DO need a stateful session to work so....
If you buy a house in SV and rent it out, you get about half the after-tax return that you'd get in the rest of the US.
More of Apple's Snow Leopard caught on camera
you can't really write a business plan for a startup, either. ;-)
Ask Mac Users: What Do You Keep In Your Dock?
I had a breakthrough over the weekend when I realized that most of the apps I have been keeping in my Dock are useless, or that I open them up using spotlight more often than not. I am just curious to know, what do you find essential for the dock?
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted, but I think it's a fascinating read. This is particularly powerful, I think:

We shouldn't be scared of trying things that aren't best, and if something is genuinely good, it shouldn't fear criticism and rivals. If it's good, it will beat those rivals.

There's something so true in that. There's nothing weaker than a guy that gets furiously jealous if his wife/girlfriend talks to another guy. It's the confident ones that know they are the best that aren't afraid of competition.

Thank you for posting that. A very good read

Edit: on second thought, perhaps it's just a little bit off topic (it talks about marriage, but not with respect to startups). Perhaps it would be better as it's own submission.
Customer Experience is an Investment, Not a Cost
Software development advice for startups
The areas where I have experienced dropped calls or no service with Sprint all have very low population density. Examples: US54 between Dalhart, TX and Tucumcarin NM, Parker Dam area of AZ (move a little and the signal changes to 5 bars) and SE KS (Pleasanton, KS).
* Children
* Taxes
* Commitment
Hrm by checking the ads in their gmail? I know gmail knows when I am looking for a job, judging by the ads shown contextually to resume requests and offers.
Cuil made it on in the special category for the "Failure to Launch" award as did MobileMe.
i think he's trying to say that the result of sessions is that it makes page content transient. if you send me a URL, it may or may not be the case that we both are seeing the same page content.

this is true, this is bad, and this is also an easily avoided, definitely bad way of using sessions, imo.

p.s.: he lost all credibility with me when he used the word "thru" in his "book excerpt"
Despite seeming a little jargon heavy, I was able to distill out few useful ideas.

For example, say you're considering a cool new CAPTCHA for your registration page. The article would advise doing an "A/B split test" before phasing out the old CAPTCHA.

Such a test would involve creating an alternate registration page with the new CAPTCHA, and randomly directing x% of users to the alternate page. You could then obtain registration completion % from both groups, which would drive your decision to switch to fully switch to the new CAPTCHA.
Intel goes after Microsoft with Linux-based netbook OS
oooh, interesting. I don't know anyone but I might just go! ^^
It's not really relevant to anything. I could say it's another reason to go back to using BBS's instead of the WWW, but that's not really a useful observation is it.
Google Takes Over NYT Homepage to Advertise Chrome - Broken When viewed in Chrome
It used to be that marriage was a contract between you, your intended spouse, and God.

Now, it is a contract between you, your intended spouse, and "The State". And therefore when you marry you are giving the State some measure of control over your life.
Here is the actual story:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124269038041932531.html#mod=...
how about philosophical, political, legal, and financial?
For those interested in laying their hands on some legitimately free audiobooks, often of excellent quality: http://librivox.org/
perhaps it installs "blue pill."

Blue Pill doesn't run under Intel Celeron, older Pentium Dual-Core, or Pentium M processors (which lack the necessary VT technology), so if such a payload were included, it wouldn't load on my test system.

For those who want to test it, here are some ideas on blocking and detecting Blue Pill-like infections:

http://northsecuritylabs.blogspot.com/2008/06/catching-blue-...

More information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Pill_(malware)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_VT
"Digital Universe" now 487 Billion Gigabytes
When you look at the entire human population, you will see very different statistics for marriage and divorce. Now many people who marry young will get divorced (at least in the United States), but then so will many who wait until later in life to marry. Your sample there is too small to draw any meaningful conclusions.

As marriage relates to a startup or any entrepreneurship, the fact is that you only have so many hours in a day. Most spouses like their mate enough to want to spend some nontrivial amount of time with them. When this time commitment cannot be fulfilled due to wanting to the entrepreneur working insane hours in the basement or whatever else, it will put strain on that relationship. In short, having good personal relationships requires a major time commitment. Any startup or other entrepreneurial project also requires a significant time commitment. Depending on how these are managed or not, it can lead to a successful startup and failed relationship or vice versa. If you take greater care, then you can make both work but that won't be easy. After all, nothing worthwhile is particularly easy.
Why is cohort analysis a buzzword? It's a specific technique for doing longitudinal studies.
11 percent of murder victims were killed by an "intimate"
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/intimates.htm
Guilty as charged, but it appears the statistics are all over the place. The census bureau claimed 50% in 2002. The 43% figure was for marriages under 15 years. By that statistic I'm still married.

http://www.divorcereform.org/rates.html
Small Changes That Helped UserVoice Raise $800,000 From Investors
The caffeine hypothesis may be contradicted by the experiences reported here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/health/nutrition/26best.ht...

I'm disappointed that the BBC article doesn't specify how to find Dr. Elisaf's study; I suspect he's far more detailed. The work appears only to warn that muscle weakness is more likely with large amounts of "cola" -- I presume Dr. Elisaf give some quantification of "large". They're suspicious of fructose, sucrose, and caffeine; a commentator here has already identified a fourth possible culprit. It could be specific amounts of any of those, of other ingredients (perhaps least likely, the Kola nut? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_nut), or of some combination of them. "Further research needed" is the only practical message I get from the BBC article.
Meeting new people is part of the fun!
The paper, published under CC attribution: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna....

Blog discussing their decision to publish at PLoS One: http://everyone.plos.org/2009/05/19/plos-one-introduces-darw....

Short overview and collection of links: http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/05/introducing_ida_-_the_....

They hired a marketing company to make that flash website because they have investors that paid one million dollars for the fossil, probably because the investors saw money to be made. I would blame the investors for the hype rather than question the motives of the scientists.

The paper is published in PLoS One under CC Attribution which cancels out most of the badness of having an all-flash marketing site in my opinion.
Feh. Only has half the revenue of carsfortwogrand.com.
How many major awards for websites are there, and where does Webware 100 rank in terms of prestige and accomplishment vs. Webby Awards, etc.?
Source Reveals Specs & Release Date of Next iPhone
I see your point that this can just be used to be making up for bad management. But this method will get more information than one person normally knows.

A boss might not know that the employee has recently requested a transfer that has been denied. Or he might not be aware that the employee has filed several complaints with h.r. Sure there are major privacy implications with what data is being analyzed, but data mining might be more accurate.
In Mac Vs. PC Battle, Microsoft Winning in Value Perception
I agree. Audiobooks are often recorded by fine actors and speakers. Listening to them improves one's sense of the rhythm of language, emotional nuance, pronunciation of new words, etc. They make it more real.

One's own diction and language is then improved during subsequent conversations.

There's a masochistic streak amongst educationalists. Something like: if you aren't working hard you can't be learning. Hence reading is better than audiobooks; novels are always to be preferred to movies.
Cool App: Gossip Girl Character Sentiment Mashup
If you're in the USA, and you're male, don't do it. In the US, she can leave you at any time and by default get the kids, house, child support, and alimony. For a variety of reasons, the deck is obscenely stacked against you.

Regarding the kids, you have no idea how much you'll love your kids when you have them. But if she decides to go, she won't care one bit about that.

And I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "Ah, but you don't know her. She's different. She'd never do that." I'll tell you what: people change -- in unexpected ways. Especially after the kids come.

Do some research. Google for "dads", "divorce", "custody", etc.
Sony Unveils 3 Entry-Level D.S.L.R.’s
Message in What We Buy, but Nobody’s Listening
Microsoft to Debut New Search at D: All Things Digital
Yes, but I'm just that tired right now. :)
Definitely not true if you are a foreign national...
I'm wanting to make some lewd joke about iterating rapidly and keeping a keen eye on your key metrics, but I've been told it's not the done thing around here.

If I tried really hard, I'm sure I could work out an exit/IPO into it too.
Axiis - Flex/Flash data visualization framework
you can be absolutely certain

I would be careful with the declarative statements. My direct experience is quite different:

Company U: late 90's/early 2K's startup. Free food was selected primarily on the basis of the cheapest stuff we could get for $1000/mo at the local discount club. If $50 steaks would have made developers work 24/7 they would have still been outside of the budget.

Company H: Selection primarily based on what employees asked the Kitchen managers to stock. If you wanted free-range organic tofu breakfast bars, you got them (provided the price was at least semi-reasonable).

Company S: (My wife is the director of finance here, I know enough about the selection criteria although I've never been a direct employee) Primarily cost/budget driven as well.

None of my experiences have ever involved people who consciously plot after-hours retention ratios of various foods. It has pretty much always been a recognition along the lines of "if people want to stay at work, it's cheaper to feed them than pay them to make them feel valued". No one had ever been coerced into working more just because of these kinds of perks.

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BTW, to the comment below (HN seems to limit the level of replys), I just came across some unused TicketMaster gift certificates this weekend from another company. There was a monthly raffle for these tickets and other "out of the office" local goings-on...
Relationships take a lot of work and a lot of self-sacrifice, regardless of whether you are married or not, I'd say.
Paid Twitter services coming by year's end
Using Wolfram Alpha in researching investments
Agreed. Also, Palm is using Prototype (http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-core/browse_thread/...), which bolts some nice Ruby-ish features onto the base Javascript classes.
Some time ago I wrote this:

http://antirez.com/page/cachetest.html

AFAIK the bug I shown is not currently fixed. The idea is to perform a request for an image in the target site (usually the logo), meter how many milliseconds it takes, if it takes very little (near to zero) you already visited the site. If the latency is instead in the normal range you didn't. See the article for more info.
Uh, you are aware of the concept of a pre-nup, right?

I'm pretty sure a marriage + a solid pre-nuptial agreement would put you on much better legal/financial ground than a "committed non-martial relationship" without a written contract.
How come you switched to using eventbrite instead of anyvite like last time?
Well, I suspect they're also "overhiring" a lot of the time -- bringing in people that are on the high end of the intelligence spectrum (if not experience) ... and then putting them in boring jobs. That's a sure-fire way to see a significant chunk of your work force churn every few years.

And they may even be accounting for that -- this may only be half-way to prevent employee loss, but just as much on managing and understanding it.
To be honest with you, I don't get it. Seems to have a pretty precise meaning to me.
The introduction talks about "networking whores". The last line is, "[D]on’t expect your networking to pay off within a few weeks or months, it can take years before you see a ROI".

When do friendships ever "pay off"? Thinking in terms of return on investment with regards to meeting people is specifically being a networking whore.

There are no secrets to meeting people. Just be a good person.
How so?

Seems more like a contract between you and your spouse that has been approved of by the state.
Pre-nup. Problem solved.
nothing. just running application. i use quicksilver to open everything. if i could make the dock go away and get the trash on the desktop and not lose expose, i would.
addendum: one of the main advantages of science is that it admits that there are holes.

also: I don't think the debate over falsificationism is quite over.
My first thought was that great, now I can get spam in all kinds of languages
More iPhone/iPod touch apps from X-Plane's creator
Hm. Cuil didn't fail to launch so much as it failed at launch.
It is conceivable that a Blue Pill-like rootkit could be implemented purely in software, in a manner similar to the pre-hypervisor VMWare.
The ad worked fine for me (Google Chrome 2.0.180.0 on Windows 7).
The hype about this being "the" missing link strengthens the case that the exception proves the rule--it is almost an admission that the evidence for evolution was lacking.

Incidentally, creationists are also able to use this fossil to bolster their argument for a biblical creation and worldwide flood:
http://answersingenesis.org/articles/2009/05/19/ida-missing-...
And, I'd like to add, witnessed by everyone important in your life.
Oh no it isn't. I'm not going to reinstall multiple versions to check every one, but 2.0.180.0 has no problems whatsoever. So there.
I guess this conversation precludes same-sex couples.
Metric #1: Reads Hackernews
If you jailbreak an android phone you get this, more or less.
the persistence of zero-sum thinking in economics greatly disturbs me. mercantilism should have died hundreds of years ago!
Cuil is a winner. That tells me all.
Indeed. I found the choice of font less critical on light backgrounds but that might be because I'm a white-on-black fanatic and can't bear a light background for long anyways - regardless of font.

But I, too, noticed the difference and I don't think it's just subjective. Black-on-white is generally easier on my eye in the short-term but for the long-term (e.g. coding sessions) I strongly prefer white-on-black because staring at a mostly white screen for extended periods of time makes me dizzy.
Based on the way he described her spending habits for her children and household, that doesn't seem particularly plausible to me.
Yahoo Search, As We Know It, Is Over
Latest round of Google Reader improvements
The Underground History of American Education
You're missing the point. If it comes to a question of "Do we give them free food" or "Do we (say) give them free theater tickets", free food would probably win even if the cost was the same, because it's more likely to keep the employees at work.
What's to prevent the company form writing off the perk and counting it against the employee's "real" salary?
Most of the time I open up things with quicksilver. The few that I don't are firefox, xcode, cyberduck, and terminal.
I guess I am a very visual problem, so without something visual to latch on to my mind starts to drift. This means that often I lose track of where I am in the story. If the same happens while reading a book, it is far easier to simply go back and read again rather than mess around with a program's ocntrols until I get to the right point.
It's an interesting example of money and PR agencies corrupting science. Probably inevitable when you have a topic so PR friendly as this one.
How is bandwidth used any more abstract than electricity used?

Grandma wants to video chat! She doesn't know how much bandwidth it uses! POOR GRANDMA!

Grandma wants to run the air conditioner! She doesn't know how much power it uses! POOR GRANDMA!

Maybe grandma should learn, eh?
A little background about the author - John Taylor Gatto:

He was named New York City Teacher of the Year in 1989, 1990, and 1991, and New York State Teacher of the Year in 1991.

In 1991, he wrote a letter announcing his retirement, titled I Quit, I Think, to the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal, saying that he no longer wished to "hurt kids to make a living".
I don't think disabling JS by default is equivalent to going back to BBSes. IMO it's how JS and other client-side scripting technologies should have been implemented from the very beginning, on an opt-in basis with the onus on the site developer to convince users that it's worthwhile to enable the feature for their site.
The title makes two points, neither of which appear to be true... flagged.

(Showing an ad is not "taking over" a page, that's just how ads work these days.)
Oddly, the link 403s for me.
Lets say that the lotter involves guessing the correct 1 digit number (0-9). There is a one in ten chance of winning.

The guy in front of you has a 1/10 chance of hitting the winner. You ALSO have a 1/10 chance of hitting the winner.

The likelihood of you BOTH hitting the winner in a row is 1/10*1/10 = 1/100.

So, yes, the person in front of you winning DOES decrease your chances of winning. You could also think about it like this:
I just want to know how that thing got OVER the rail road track into the middle of the tracks.
Only in third-world states.
I don't know if I've seen any privacy exploit that (1) compromises this much personal data, and (2) is as easy to execute. Can anyone think of one?
Seems like it's applicable to parts of the WWW, but not all of it certainly. Most pages are updated far less frequently.

I can only assume/hope that Google tries to take into account how frequently a page is modified in scheduling future crawls. I.e. if they crawl daily for a week and there's only one update, only crawl it every 3 days in the future. (You could probably have a much more aggressive backoff than this.)

It would probably make sense for Google and Twitter to do something on a level lower than HTML if searching Twitter feeds is really that big a deal (and I'm not sure it is). It doesn't make sense to pull down and index an entire user page on Twitter just to see if the most recent post has changed; using the API would be more efficient. There are probably only a few web services this would be worth implementing for.
Alternative URL: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1238844.1238846
Those types of ads are commonly called "takeovers," so...