skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=654414

The European Comission: "If the Commission were to find that Microsoft had committed an abuse, the Commission has suggested that consumers should be offered a choice of browser, not that Windows should be supplied without a browser at all."

That's quite a different situation than what MS imply with their response.
Lets not post links to cnn anymore. They tend to be misleading, and rarely involve more than surface analysis of the situation. The statistics involved are often either inaccurate, irrelevant, or both. The methodology used to create the statistics is rarely (if ever) stated. I'm sure we can find a better source for economic news.
10 men and 1 woman
HN so needs a +1 funny mod ;)
It's not ridiculous at all. Microsoft were using their monopoly in desktop operating systems to gain browser market share. This doesn't benefit anyone apart from Microsoft.
To each his/her own. The popularity of the site contradicts your view. I pay more for handmade item as they are usually one off and I can see value in owning a unique item.
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> Flash is more popular because of inertia, and because many designers use Macs and have invested heavily in Adobe tools.

A minor irony, Flash has had a bad reputation peformancewise on the Mac platform for a good decade now... and the migration from PPC to Intel hasn't helped matters much, as is my understanding.
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Going further, and to know why LSD-25 helps sorting out complex things I recommend John C. Lilly's (http://www.johnclilly.com/) book "Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer" (http://futurehi.net/docs/Metaprogramming.html)

The first pharagraph sounds like:

"All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood in the world today are programmed biocomputers. None of us can escape our own nature as programmable entities. Literally, each of us may be our programs, nothing more, nothing less. "
When did video games become so boring? About 1998
They could. One workaround is to record the IP address a post came from (generally a good idea) and keep showing it to that IP, too.

They can still ask a friend to look, but the goal here is not to be perfect but to make any kind of improvement.
Yikes! Are you really showing everyone's email address?? You have to fix that immediately!
Yes definitely, see Sicko (documentary) for more info about the standard of the american medical system.
You could create use a function to generate lists of substrings, and places them under tags. Then you could wieght the tags, giving user generated ones highest prioity and higher priority to tags that more fully match the domain. You could then organize the results by the value of matched tags.
Why "next-gen games" went gray, brown, and grey.
Suicidally strong IP?
You can also do it with two lines of Javascript using Google's AJAX API:

http://labs.mudynamics.com/2009/04/03/geoip-tracking-with-go...

Official Docs here:
http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/documentation/#ClientLocati...
Amen to that, although it sure does not sound as exciting as taking some magic potion.
The human body saves a lot more energy than one frankfurter bun though sleep by simply not moving all that much [...] Bats, sleep 18-20 hours per day vs. giraffes which sleep 3-4 hours per day etc.

I see. I think what you are talking about is not even energy expenditure but what we call "the null hypothesis". Basically says that there might be no other active function than sleep other than resting as a mean to escape predators and not using energy. This is far from being the accepted hypothesis on sleep function: in fact there is basically only one guy who still talks about this (Jerome Siegel, UCLA); the rest of the community is pretty much convinced that this is not the case.
I'd suggest you reading this on the matter:
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.... (it is open access).
Comment systems are dead simple, and Ajax should be too, to any experienced developers. This is neither a good example or particularly uncommon, so hardly newsworthy.
"""•Bias : For parallel computing involving heavy CPU
processing, I much prefer message passing and
cooperating processes to thread programming"""

Of course you prefer it .. you have no choice!
I don't really care about upvotes, I just voice my opinion based on my own experience.

The other replies to your post have already covered what I would have said, I would just add that having a fixed belief that if something is illegal, that it must be bad for you, is ignorant at best.

Almost all of the illegal drugs are also prescribed in some form of the other. There is the massive painkiller industry built on opiates, ADHD and amphetamine salts, Air Force pilots in the USA are given 'go pills' as were SS troops during WW2. There is a terrible double-standard in our society when it comes to drugs, where for some reason we are expected to believe that these use cases are somehow fine, or are somehow safer, than an individuals own experimentation with using the same substances for their own performance gains.

The human body was designed thousands of years ago, and evolved its capabilities based on having enough energy to gather enough food to survive that day. With no additional substances to give us an extra push, we simply weren't designed to be able to concentrate on complex tasks for 16-18 hours in day.

If you are able to with just coffee and cold showers, then good for you - there are some of us who, like the Air Force pilots, seek a bit more of a push. I don't distinguish between coffee, vitamin supplements or any other drugs, they all have a purpose and we all should be free to use or not use each as we choose.
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It may be delusional to not deal with the software is viewed. But the thought that it's strictly a cost is itself a delusion. I have seen firsthand corporations being choked by bad software. (A certain cell phone manufacturer and a certain car rental company come to mind.) I've also experienced good customer service enabled by flexible software, where I'm amazed, "You can really do that?"

Amazon wouldn't be nearly as good as it is if it wasn't for the degree of software quality that they have.
the only such large gender differences that have been found are in masturbation

Citation Needed. !!! What I know empirically leads me not to believe you, not even a little.
Google tests 'revolutionary' cloud-based database
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Why does it matter which browser has bigger market share as far as antitrust laws go? Nearly all browsers are free and have been for donkeys years, so does it really matter -business wise- if one company has the majority?
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> I pity those that feel you need drugs to accomplish, because that's just not true.

How would you know? As somebody who has never used drugs you are unqualified to argue from experience about how they affect creativity and performance.
Done! It was a simple fix for a thing I had changed last minute last night. I've updated the version of the script at Userscripts so please just delete and install the script again at http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/51281. Sorry for the bug!
What? Like drugs?

It doesn't become pointless. It merely becomes a tool which can be selectively enforced against whomever those enforcing the rules don't happen to like.
Does this mean that AOL will finally have an excuse for sending out all those annoying CD's again?
That would be a persuasive argument if a more significant quantity of music, tv shows and movies were legally available in digital form and in formats that don't place unacceptable limitations on the purchaser.

But that's simply not yet the case.

Also: it would help if there was any sort of actual competition in pricing.
I would've never guessed using a library would be easier than coding the functionality that the library provides.
Readers may also be interested in this more in-depth article about LSD being used to solve engineering problems encountered by Kevin Herbert, a Cisco engineer:

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/01/70015
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http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v18n1/v18n1-MAPS_21-23.pdf
Quite simply, the people who know how to use command line tools to install their favourite browsers would be significantly smaller than the number of people who would install firefox as a default browser when IE comes pre-installed.

So in essence, all this does is penalise everyone else except the command-line users, which would be a quite small subset of the total possible userbase. Essentially hurting the web rather than helping it.
Stat geek ? Becoming one too ! I'll track yours if you'll track mine.
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Ouch, forgot that. Well, I guess the database could use Null values internally, but they should be translated into exceptions as soon as possible - as in, throw a NullFieldException if the field is accessed. However, checking for these all the time would be just as wasteful as checking for null values.

I now see the advantages of the monad way.
If IT is only a cost, and not a competitive advantage, then your company doesn't need IT in house and should outsource entirely.
I would just like to add that monopolies do not deserve the same rights as ordinary businesses.
Great article. I've always wondered why so many games this gen are boring brown and gray. Playing through Fallout 3 makes this readily apparent.

The other thing I'd like to see change is the complete overuse of bloom shader effects.
If you do a search for "masturbation frequency gender", it quickly becomes apparent that your empirical data are based on a non-representative sample.
Ok, in all seriousness, It's very likely that there will be an icon on the desktop, such as "Set Program Access and Defaults," which will open an application to let you choose from a number of popular browsers, in which people can rate the browsers. That's how the search engine selector works in IE. In most cases, the OEM/vendor will have already chosen a "bootstrap" browser.

From the article:
The company said it would make it easy for PC makers and users to get at and install the web browsing program.
If you could go back and change your decision, would you decide not to use LSD?
PC World still thinks paid (premium) content is the way
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I am quite sure that complete compatibility with any one release of .NET would silence a lot of FUD by Microsoft and make pointy-haired bosses less reluctant to sign checks for deploying .NET/Mono applications on non-Microsoft platforms.

If it's you who are developing, it's easy to code around the holes, but if you need a closed-source application designed to run on .NET (and I don't know why people want these things, but they do) you have little to no choice but going Microsoft.

And that's a dealbreaker for Mono more often than you imagine.
You've piqued my curiosity. What are you using Mono for if not to run C# outside of Windows?
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I'd love to shuffle around my project priorities in return for sponsorship. :) I've emailed you at m@..., my email address is in my HN profile in case it gets filtered or whatever.
The article states that Microsoft will make it easy to find and download browsers, which is essentially the same thing as having a choice of browsers.

The EC is probably referring to Windows XP N, which didn't include a media player at all, and sort of left users in the dark as to how to play media files using it. I'm sure MS got some criticism from that from the EU and will not repeat the mistake.
What 1.1 things don't work?
I thought they were fully 2.0 compatible?

It has been quite good in my experience, obviously if you are doing windows specific things like registry or security it won't work, but that is to be expected.
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Excellent article. Good insights into the tech that has influenced the art direction of recent games.

I do think though, that art directors should pull themselves out of that rut and strive for more variety in upcoming titles.
However, I take it almost no murders have ever been committed for the purpose of distributing pictures of them.
Maybe, but wouldn't you hate a company that pulls every dirty trick to harm you, your reputation, your business and that is absolutely committed to extend its monopoly by destroying everything you worked so hard to help create?

And, BTW, to replace your beautiful creations with the crappiest code seen on Earth?
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Humans prefer cockiness to expertise
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For one thing, there are lots of C# programs that can run on Mono outside of Windows, even if some parts of .NET are not yet implemented.
"The problem here is that no one outside the IP lobby, not even those who strongly support copyright and patents, believes that these things are property that can be stolen."
That's quite a strong statement that is not backed up with anything.
Ask HN: any doc format with built-in ads feature?
It looks like Scribd's ipaper no more supports built-in google adsense feature for the content owners, however the same feature has a potential to become major revenue earner for the publishers - does any one know whether there is any other document format that allows you to put ads along side the content.
I never realized AT&T was in a smear campaign against the use of competing C implementations.

Mono implements a _subset_ of a proprietary offering that is Free (as in speech and beer). GNU is pretty much a greatly enhanced superset of AT&T UNIX.
I get "brown", but what's the difference between "gray" and "grey"?
The article seems rather light on cites from modern games. It's not a very convincing case.
The reason the friend was able to steal the pictures was because the recipient left his e-mail program open and unattended. End-to-end crypto is useless if either of the ends are compromised.
Anti monopoly rules are usually unfair sounding. Why shouldn't a larger company use its position and money to dominate a new market? The thing is, monopolies can be so damaging to society that treating them in a manner that seems instinctively fair is often bad for us. Like it or not, they are different, and they must be treated differently. It's important to remember that corporations are not people, so if they're treated unfairly the only reason it's a big deal is if society as a whole loses out as a result.

That said, I think the browser market is competitive enough nowadays that MS including a browser really is not that big a deal - OSes include browsers in the same way that cars come with steering wheels. I think this is more about punishing MS for past transgressions than anything else.
I clarified it later on: I was not talking about the artsy/individual stuff you'd find on etsy, but about repetitive production like weaving baskets or carpets.
this is great info, much thanks.
This, I suspect, explains the absence of men. They are immune to the allure of this fantasy. They have evaluated the site on purely economic terms and found it wanting.

Yeah...men are so great at economic evaluation. Like my 2 startups that have netted be about $0.10 / hr for the hundreds of hours of my free time that I spent on them. I'd be waaaay richer if I had just been selling handmade beer coozies on Etsy.
It's Stanley Cup Final (because there's only one final round). The NHL's grammar is much better than the NBA's. They actually call theirs Finals.
"In that way it gives Linux an inroad it didn't have before Mono."

No, it doesn't. For internal development you have a wide variety of options. Java is quite good and very popular among those who consider the option of not running their wares under Windows. The only way Mono can appeal to Windows-only houses is by making it possible to run unmodified (and proprietary) products that run under Windows on other platforms.

Were I insane enough to allow my business to run on .NET and Windows, I would only consider migrating it to other platform if I had the assurance of being able to run it unmodified.

And, BTW, as it is, Mono is a patent minefield. Do you really trust Microsoft to act as a responsible corporate citizen when doing the right thing would cut their profits?

I wouldn't even if acting responsible would be profitable. Playing dirty seems too embedded in their corporate DNA.
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This article is based far to much on supposition and has very little to substantiate it. One can hardly assume that the primary reason for selling on the site is to make money. I tend to be very artistic and I know a lot of artistic people and money is usually simply icing on the cake. Then again, I'm male and I own a sewing machine so obviously I'm a little bit odd.
I'm not one to poo-poo a good hacker story from the 70s nor something that challenges the US government's woeful drug policy. But I couldn't help thinking: how many complicated computer problems have been solved _without_ the use of psychedelics?

[Insert obligatory joke about Linux, BSD, Perl, Lisp, C, etc here...]

Admittedly I've never written a compiler in 360 assembly on or off LSD, but it seems like the better thing to do would be to take a step back and think through the design better (that would have been my first reaction at least...).

Put another way: I'd say LSD is code smell. :)
How long is the video, and what is it about?
One means that you've got a President and the other means you have a Queen.
I can't find my source (I only save stuff that directly impacts Dawdle), but I've repeatedly seen that 95% of registered Etsy users are female and 67% of visitors are female.
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"The findings add weight to the idea that if offering expert opinion is your stock-in-trade, it pays to appear confident."

What implications does this have for online discussion?

P.S. after edit: I've related before one observational study of men picking up women in bars. When the men were prompted to act "confident," they had limited luck in getting dates. When they were told to act "arrogant" they had much better success. That's rather dismaying to me in what it says about women. I don't know if this result has been replicated (he said, to be honest at the expense of looking confident).
A non-admin can't even install Silverlight on a Windows box! The installed base is close to zero and, at the same time, Flash is everywhere, with about 100% market share.

One doesn't need to look any further to understand why Silverlight is not the platform of choice for rich internet applications.

And, with HTML5 support on many browsers, I hope it never will.
There are many, many "rational" ways to develop software. Most of them don't scale, most of them impede progress with red tape or big egos. The Free Software ideology is one way of thinking about software development that encourages a particular set of behaviors. The behavior of developers in the Free Software community is a direct result of their ideology.
We were on the schedule for a total of about 2 weeks (widely regarded as not enough time).
How do you get an ftp client without a browser?
I guess "I don't know" is a bad answer to your question.
Ooh, John Lilly. The original dolphin-researching, consciousness-exploring, LSD-experimenting, sensory-isolation-tank-inventing counterculture hero. HN goes DFH!

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the mind, there are no limits.

Edit: interesting use of the term "metaprogramming" in 1972, no? And typical Lilly: extremely plugged-in metaphorically and just as hard to pin down.
You see this affect the way start-ups are being pitched as well. Cocky sales pitches are preferred over cautious or realistic pitches (even if the buyer says otherwise).

So be cocky and back it up with expertise when they start digging. :D
Michael's works are remarkable. Many things he writes about seem obvious in retrospect, yet I find myself thinking differently after reading his wording.

It's also awkward talking to people who haven't read him as I end up coming from different perspective and grasping for common references. Hence why I plug him everywhere I can. :-)
Windows Explorer has an FTP client built-in.
If Microsoft chose the other way and provided a set of alternative browsers with its OS
1) Would they be required to provide tech support as well?
2) Who whould chose the browsers that'd go in there?
Reminds me of http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...
I don't think it connotes that to everyone. At least, to me, it only suggests high promiscuity, which isn't a bad thing in and of itself. Nor is it necessarily true in this case, but to those who formed our worldviews before omnipresent recording, sex-themed pictures of someone intuitively imply promiscuity. We'll just have to get over it; the world has changed.
The author doesn't mention the concept of anchoring.

A $40 HDMI cable sounds expensive.

But when you're buying a $400 bluray player, another $40 for the cable doesn't sound so expensive, because you're mentally comparing the price to $400.

Anchoring is a well-known concept in pricing. Since retail stores are almost always selling HDMI cables as add-ons, they can take advantage of a much greater willingness to pay by customers who are anchored by the high-price blu ray player they're buying. The online stores that sell cheap HDMI cables (monoprice FTW!) sell ONLY cables and can't anchor.

PS I always prefer component cables to HDMI cables. You get the same quality without the copy protection bullshit. There are too many reasons the HDCP DRM crap sucks, for example, it is impossible for AV receivers to display on-screen menus or even on-screen volume sliders so you have to adjust your volume without seeing what you're doing.
Any interesting in helping brainstorm an open source replacement for government?
What I'm proposing is building a system, a system that looks at our current democratic government systems as competitive products, and tries to do it better. We analyze the stakeholders, the problems government solves, the technology and organization of our competition, etc., and try to tackle those problems using an information system.

More at: http://iamanopenist.com

Thoughts, criticism, ideas, etc?
Not just online...

It leads to dishonest, non-candid discussion.

"Better" to attack with ad hominem; wild; fallacy filled; etc. "arguments" than to show any human authenticity.
Before anyone rushes to try LSD[1], please do your research.

Please speak to people who have used it (like me) and can assess how you personally will handle it. I will say LSD is a broad-sword drug and should be used with care. It is not playful. It will last as long as the dose, which may be longer than you had planned to trip. Generally only sleep will stop you tripping, and if you are tripping hard, you will not e able to sleep. One does not 'sober up' like beer.

A lot of the effects depend on your personality, id, self confidence and any bad experiences you may have locked inside. Your biological reaction may be the lesast of concerns.

LSD takes you on a journey, and you may not come the same person. It may give you a bad-trip, where your worst fears and memories manifest x 1000.

I have seen many stable friends flip out, even when having the same dose in the same environment.

Always have supportive straight friends who understand each time you are experimenting. Bear in mind you may be up for 36 hours as a result and they need to lead their normal lives.

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[1] Or increase your dose significantly