skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the problem is that everyone is so certain particularly on the side that man-made global warming is real and a serious threat. This probably the biggest cause I have for doubting it. The philosophy of science is very interesting to me and one thing that's a recurring theme is the discussion of the limits of empiricism. Another thing to consider is the awful track record of prediction from virtually everyone who is deemed to be an expert. I find it difficult to take seriously people who don't make serious room for their margins of error and who rely on computer models of the future to predict.

All that being said the people who promote global warming as a serious issue that we need to do something about could be right of course. It could also be that they're missing some key piece of information that they don't even know exists. The unknown unknowns here seem impossible to get your head around for something as difficult to understand as climate change.

I'm not sure where you find information that isn't biased one way or another on this topic. I've pretty much given up.
Most industry collaboration tools cost hundreds up to thousands of dollars a month (or more for really large projects)... If anything, I'd say we're too cheap.

To be fair, this tool is designed for the collaboration that occurs between multiple companies, often with drawings (often as PDFs) rather than raw CAD files.
I don't know. Is an organization like The Climatic Research Unit (http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/) politically motivated?
New Jobs on 37signals Job Board
This is an interesting bug, but the whole article would be worth reading just for the comment by "BONUS" about Haskell documentation.
What's up with using github as a blog? Now when I see a link that says github, instead of classifying as "might be interesting code" I have to think "might be a personal rant"?

I get that its an experiment; and I think it's a moderately clever idea... I just like that github is all about the code. If this becomes popular, I think github needs to roll blogging into their site as a feature so that it can sit in a separate namespace than code projects.
Overblown. Amazon lets you sell public domain books. Big whoop.

The examples seem a little stretched too. I tried reading the original paper, but it's quite dry and 75% footnotes, but one example was a school textbook that reprints the constitution and claims copyright (over the whole work) without explicitly uncopyrighting the public domain bits. That's explicitly allowed. You can copyright arrangements and collections of public domain work, to the extent that there is original work involved in the selection.

On the whole, the summary seems to be "some people tried to use public domain work and other people complained but they shouldn't have."
InfoQ: Agilists and Architects: Allies not Adversaries Presentation
"I've pretty much given up"

Well, at least I wont be alone if I give up too ...which is very possible :)
Do you have experience with PRGMR? It looks great, but I don't know how trustworthy it is.
This is very one-sided. Hiring someone is a big investment (spending time and risking company culture, in addition to the money). Having more information is always useful.

I've looked at Facebook profiles when judging potential employees. I've never ruled anyone out because of it, but one person got a lot closer to the job when I saw that that he spent his off hours talking about what he'd spend his work hours doing.

Basically, there are three possibilities when an employer looks at your Facebook: a) they like what they see (so they have better information, and you're more likely to get a job, b) they are neutral (nobody loses), or c) they dislike it (so by denying them access, you're artificially boosting your prospects -- cheating them out of the employee they want, and cheating that employee out of a job).

It's good to be suspicious of people trolling for personal data -- but I'm much more suspicious of efforts to hide information.
So it's like Alltop for tweets?

Why not talk with Guy Kawasaki about this.
I feel for Kayak. I used to get so angry when I'd catch a competitor blatantly ripping us off. Once I had to call a company's CEO and bitch at him about it (to which he completely denied any similarity between our sites and continues to ride our coattails). In the end, you just learn to deal with it because if you're better you'll usually stay on top regardless of how much of your talent they attempt to siphon. That's also why I stopped having a heart attack every time I'd post a blog entry just to have it slurped up by a dozen spam sites.

Though in this case, if Microsoft (or whoever down the chain is developing this site) were blatantly ripping off my design I’d PISSED OFF TO NO END. They have way more money for marketing. ;)
Twitter, an Evolving Architecture
Cocaine is God's way of telling you that you have too much money, except in Peru.
Awesome news for them and good news for you too if you can build up a developer ecosystem.
The moonwalk actually existed years before MJ used it.

Here is a clip of a guy doing it in 1955:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VbPd2iu4bg

Later, street dancers in California incorporated the
move into their style known as "popping." It was these
same street dancers that taught MJ the move. And I mean
these people were literally hired as teachers, not that
he just saw people doing it.

But none of that takes away from what Michael accomplished
as a dancer and as a singer. Clearly the man was a special
talent.
You have to be trolling...come on. You can't possibly believe what you just wrote.
Excess Pounds, but Not Too Many, May Lead to Longer Life
You're right, nothing is stopping them. But people that rip off layouts are extremely lame and I'm glad that Kayak is complaining about it. Why is such a big company making these amateur moves?
Here's a link to a body mass calculator that takes either customary United States measurements or metric system measurements:

http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/
Somebody or somebodies chose not to show it in the US for a decade. The episode was not offered to US networks at all. The official reason given was the presence of hallucinogenic drugs, even though four or more other episodes featured drugs. I doubt it had anything to do with the audience, it was likely backroom manoevering.

The US Networks didn't "ban" it, they weren't offered it in the first place, so their hands are clean of censorship. Did they tell the producers that the episode was unacceptable? I don't know. Since they didn't receive it, it never went as far as the FCC or whomever issuing a ruling against it.

The video lined in the post gives an account using the verb "ban" and I went along with that.
Here's the presentation slides from the author's blog:

http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2009/03/13/qcon-presenta...
Have you tried it out, out of curiosity?
Can't see him in the video or understand what he's saying.
JSON Hijacking - vulnerability in some GET situations
_why on teaching kids to code
I think most of the actual science is pretty good. It's when people start talking about what should be done about global warming that things get dicey.
via http://project.ioni.st/post/2738#video_2738
They appear to be a government funded research institute. The bigger the fear over global warming, the more funding goes to such institutes. That does not mean they do bad science. But it does not mean that you should not take their reports as the unbiased truth. Institutional selection effects ensure that people who have views harmful to a given institution will not rise to the top of that institution.
Internet groans under weight of Michael Jackson traffic
I'm not sure why his earlier post on JSON vulnerability wasn't picked up here, but as a web dev who's on verge of having to get JSON-savvy, I'd really appreciate expert assessment from some of you on this and on haacker.com's day-before post:
http://haacked.com/archive/2009/06/25/json-hijacking.aspx Gracias.

Edit: Or maybe respond to earlier post, now linked at HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=675678
The FireQuery add-on ends up disabling Firebug on my machine. Too bad because this looks useful. Is anyone able to get it to work?
I feel as though adding new syntax to JSON is antithetical to the whole idea.

{ json: [ my stuff... ]}

Isn't that sufficient? Use that when returning sensitive data, just normal arrays when not dealing with sensitive info.
I have watched a ridiculous amount of popping in my life.
I've been to several of the premier popping events and I
have also been to many underground jams. I also have
watched a ton of video.

And while I will say that there are a large number of
people that dance "better" and certainly more technical
than MJ...

I have never seen anyone TOUCH his moonwalk. As far as
I am concerned he was the greatest there ever was at that
move by far.
The appropriations act?

Someone needs to explain modularity to lawmakers.
I already checked studenthousing and SVA and they both offer housing for much longer periods (semester/year) and much much money. NYU asks for a SSN and since I'm from Europe I can't apply.

I contacted HHH, let's see what they say... Honestly, I thought that for a student/intern this would have been very easy!
Ask HN: Which blogging platform for startups?
I'm in the process of evaluating a few blogging platforms for my startup's blog. I have experience with self-hosted blog engines, but am now considering hosted platforms as well. My logic is that if my main site were to go down, I could at least communicate the issue through my blog hosted elsewhere. Do you have any thoughts or recommendations on this?
I don't think I've ever hired anyone without first Googling their name, if for no other reason than curiosity. That said, I've never not hired, or not interviewed based on something I've seen in the SERPs.
I cant say what you should do. But, have a look at the technologies (if, any) that you have built while trying to build your product. It may be quite possible that the kernel of your effort might be better applied somewhere else.
So, let us assume that facebook/linkedin/twitter/livejournal postings are completely irrelevant to an individuals suitability for a job.

What about previous job experiences?

Is it acceptable for an employer to query previous employers/coworkers as to how effective they were in related jobs? Let us say you are coming into a company applying for the position of a kernel developer, and your last two positions at companies were doing the same job. Is it okay for the hiring manager to talk to your previous managers and coworkers to see how good you were at your Job, how effective a developer you were?

Or is it the case that all screening outside of A) the interview and B) the references that the candidate hands over, are off limits?

In silicon valley it's a pretty common procedure to ask for internal suggestions when a position comes up, and people think of who they've worked with over the last 10 years that might be suitable for a position - to some degree that's an "off-the-books" reference check, and I'm wondering if people feel that's an acceptable thing to do when hiring?
I don't think we have to worry too much about this becoming popular, especially since GitHub pages allows for git-based blogging from your own domain.

Also, raganwald's blog is usually all about code, which is why he set it up on GitHub to begin with. This seems to be a deviation from the norm.
A personal observation: I'm also a hiring manager, and I struggle with this problem on both sides of the table.

I Google candidates for their professional opinions and activities. But what do I do if I find their profile on a public site like HN? Some of the comments are going to be useful fodder for an interview I noticed you posted a comment on HN suggesting OOP has had its fifteen minutes of fame. What do you see replacing it? ... But I might also read opinions about politics. What if the same person has posted HN comments about Obama the Magic Negro? I really don't want to know what they think and why in the context of hiring them.

Worse, what if I see a comment from the same person saying one of my posts is absolute garbage and that I'm an idiot? Now I may have compromised my impartiality.

I don't know the answer. I wouldn't look up a candidate in something obviously personal like Facebook or MySpace, but I have no idea how to handle stuff like HN that contains what I perceive to be a mix of relevant technical opinions and personal, wrong-side-of-the-privacy-line stuff.

I don't know.
Asking to see my facebook profile is like asking to see my family photo albums including any pictures that include my friends.

Would your manager allow you to look through every photograph ever taken in their life?
When we say liberal we mean what the Americans call "libertarian".

When Americans say liberal, they mean what we call "socialist".
The hiring process is a negotiation between two sides. The more information you have, the better you'll do.

It's not fair for an employer to look in your private life; any more than it is fair for the potential employee to look at confidential company data. How would you like that? The company is hiding information, thereby cheating you into a job.
You have solved an important issue with Twitter - grouping different kinds of people so readers can separate them and read only the kind of tweets they are interested in at that time.

There is a higher level problem - reading only certain kinds of tweets from certain groups of people. For e.g. I am interested only in tweets about Ruby from the Ruby people. Put this way, the solution is to simply filter on words related to ruby. But this is not powerful enough for the user to be able to say I am interested in any tweets about technology from the Ruby people. Now your dictionary will run into hundreds/thousands of words per group.

We are building a solution to this problem. In fact we don't have any twitter api code yet since we are focusing on the core logic first. This would be really useful to us.

Edit: plus we use django as well!

Re-edit: Your ranking algorithm for tweets is pretty cool. You asked why we should get the project. Here are the specific reasons:

1) We are building something useful that adds to your solution, something that (we believe) people want.

2) I have a strong background in text analysis and classification - it has been my bread and butter for almost 4 years now. (I'd be happy to go into specifics over email) My partner is a talented programmer, also from GaTech with a background in AI (among other things).

3) We use the same framework (python/django) so integration should be easy

4) Our weak point is a UI - our current UI is pure HTML, only functional not pretty, although we have a very good idea of how we want it to look. You have a better UI for twitter (which we will improve upon)
This story was covered a while ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=347421
Every unjust law ir unclear sentence is just a boost for the pirate movement. They might have gained something if there were no opposition. The politicians ignore the issues because they don't want to show weakness, because every time they try, they just end up sounding ridiculous. There is a huge knowledge gap between Sweden's youth and Sweden's politicians. Even the son of the prime minister joined the "Free The Pirate Bay"-group on facebook :)
One thing to do is to NOT read the WSJ opinion page. Don't be seduced by this article's cheerleading for the skeptics.
If it's public, you've got to expect people to see it, including potential employers. It's ridiculous to expect anything else.

If they don't like it, they don't necessarily need to talk to you about it. You just might end up not being considered.

The signing in in front of them thing is an exception but it doesn't seem to actually happen anyway, so that's a red herring.
if you use pgf/tikz in latex, you can do commutative diagrams pretty easily in a matrix style environment where you then indicate how to draw arrows between various entries and such. It takes an hour or two of playing with to get a hang of the notation, but its pretty nice, despite its quirks
obligatory http://posterous.com/ comment
Quite a number of uk.techcrunch.com articles have been posted and upvoted here...

Interestingly, despite the domain name, it's actually supposed to be TC Europe rather than TC UK. Of course, there's also a TC France, which makes it all rather strange... but anyway....
But the "making you log in" bit is the crux of the post. That's crossing the public / private line.
Jackson had been famous since he was 10 years old.

Sure, he hadn't been stealing recent headlines from Lindsay Lohan, but it's not like the millions of people familiar with him at some point during the 70s, 80s, or 90s just forgot about him.
Having your blog hosted by a third party is a good idea for redundancy. You need to make sure your DNS will still resolve in the event of your startup's machines going down though.

I have experience with wordpress.com and tumblr.com so I can speak to those. For wordpress.com you must have a paid account to do a lot of layout customization, which is annoying. For tumblr you have a lot more latitude in regards to customizing design, but the functionality may not be what you want for a company blog.
This might seem a little crazy, but I would suggest taking a look at Hotwire, Priceline, and other discount hotel websites.

I did a quick search, you can get a crappy hotel for $60 a night through Hotwire in the NYC area. Consider what you get for that price: free use of clean towels, linens, pillows, etc, free breakfast -everyday-, free toiletries, and possibly room for a second person. You can save money by packing less and buying less going this way.

Compared to a hostel @ $80 a night in a private room, that's a pretty good deal.
Facebook says new Intel and AMD chips don't deliver
Most people who post anonymously are afraid of doing something wrong (or saying something stupid) and losing respect for that. Either that, or they are trolls.

But thanks for the tip. I will update my HN profile and hope to do not say stupid things :)
Quick Start Guide: Building an open source YouTube uploader app in Adobe Air
Argh, too many levels of indirection.

The paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=787244#Pa...

Article on The Register, referenced by the Slashdot post: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/26/copyfraud/
lets fix the reasons why you aren't still engaged. Because no one is using it.

I bet with some marketing you'd be 100% all over it.

Here's how you do it - man, its so easy to market your app. Do this:

a) get a better catchier name. One that can be tweet'd as "Cool, just got listed on x"

b) go thru the most influential twitter names and group them in cool ego-massaging groups. Not celebrities, you can't reach them. Smaller than that. Go for the @ryancarson style people. Create flattering groups, then tweet all the people in said groups and make it sound awesome that they're included in such an elite list, beg them for a retweet of your link.

c) allow users to submit users to groups on your service. So I can tweet your service "@tweettop @plc #founders" and it'll add @plc to the #founders group on your site. Awesome. People can RT that tweet to support it.

Then you're pretty much made - the crowds will decide if your app is useful. If it isn't its kind of pointless in general...
Ask HN:  Why certify pilots but not journalists in their area of coverage?
Just as pilot certification is critical for public safety, one could argue that journalists should also be certified in their area of coverage.

For example, uncertified journalists could mislead the public on various technologies resulting in the failure of startups that should really have succeeded for the better public good.

To preserve freedom of speech, one might simply have journalists certified in the area on which they have written an article indicate this so that their article is taken more seriously.
Mod parent up.

This is why Bjorn Lomborg is reviled: not because he doubts that anthropogenic global warming is for real, but because he has the temerity to suggest that the cure (spending a kajillion dollars to achieve relatively small changes in climate) may be worse than the disease. See http://www.ted.com/talks/bjorn_lomborg_sets_global_prioritie....

And dancing about, declaring that the science is settled, and claiming to know the One True Solution to something as inherently complex as climate is indicative of failure to understand the science, which leads to politically motivated footballs like this: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/25/source-inside-epa-conf...
Gibbler: Git-like hashes for Ruby objects
because pilots' actions lead directly to loss of life and property damage if they screw up?
I have a personal friend who was called into his manager's office one day. The manager had my friends' myspace page open and was browsing through pictures of him and his girlfriend. This apparently went on for a couple minute with my friend standing there.

The overall gist of the encounter was an attempt on the part of my friends manager to scare him into closing down his accounts (The employer was afraid of my friend talking about the company he works for online.)
I don't buy the cause and effect with regards to 360 degrees in a circle. If anything, 360 comes from the close approximation to 365, since pre-civilized humans would care more about the length of a year than divisibility. It's possible that the base-60 system was in fact back-ported from this more important and naturalistic number.
I was looking at Postereous, but it's not clear to me what's the advantage over something like blogger.com. I hope someone can clarify this for me. Are they any good for displaying code?
The notes on the page says that it "works with Firebug 1.4" which is the current beta of Firebug. I can't tell if that means it works with it or requires it, but perhaps that's your issue.
Stop serving images? Obviously creating a text-only template is best, like another poster said, but the images are going to be the biggest drain. Simplifying your layout could help if you are under huge strain, but not as much as removing images.
The actions of journalists could also lead to loss of life and property damage.

For example, journalists may give credence to alternative medicine.
Many companies I've interviewed at have shared confidential company data with me so that I have more information to make my decision. # of shares outstanding, expected future rounds of funding, development practices, upcoming projects I might be working on.

Information in negotiations works two ways: oftentimes, it's prudent to release a bit of information as a signaling device, because it shows that you're confident the information will work in your favor.
Windows 7 on a thumb drive? It's an inevitable stopgap measure.
No one's using it because I haven't told anyone one about it.

The reason I'm giving this away is because I simply don't have time to maintain multiple projects. I'm focusing 100% of my energy on Divvyshot.
Rock climbers have known this for a while. Climbing long sustained routes builds endurance, but not strength. Short strenuous bouldering problems build both endurance and strength.

Personally I think climbing is the perfect hacker sport. Climbing nearly always favors forethought and elegance over brute force. Bouldering problems are so named because they ideally require several iterations to find the optimal path. Sometime a single moment of insight is all it takes for a problem to go from very hard to trivial (in the hacker sense of the word); yet there is always something new to learn, even from trivial problems.
I'm not sure I understand the analysis. Surely this vulnerability (is there an exploit?) is a problem with the security model, not the fact that JSON data is exectuable javascript code.

As I understand it, this exploits the fact that some browsers (which?) allow one site to overload a handler that then sees data from other sites. How is that not a huge XSS hole right there? Why drag JSON into this?