skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never ever give up your email password to a 3rd party you don't really trust. My only exception is Mint.com so far, not even Facebook or LinkedIn.
Does L7 count? http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/README
I got a few of these emails from IDrive yesterday (one pimping IDrive, and the other pimping IDrive lite), and I was wondering what the hell was going on. At least now I know they've earned their place in my spam folder.
Shareflow shows the future of group communication — and it’s not email
While from this thread alone this may look like slashdot, the community happens to put a much higher emphasis on _conversation_ rather than praising an individuals wit.

At the risk of being down modded myself for not contributing to the thread I just thought it might be worth pointing that out and reminding those that seem to have voted on this particular thread as though the emphasis was on humour.

I'm not exactly one to throw the first stone, as my karma/comments/submissions are far from exemplary, but I do try to stay in keeping with the ideals of the community.
That was my first thought - but to me it sounded more like they were contacts already downloaded to his iPhone, or the contacts file you can download from GMail for your own personal backup. I don't think he gave them his password - unless I'm mistaken?

edit: in any case, your advice is still right on the money, and I'd have to second it!
IIRC this will also work with PLT Scheme and (I think) Common Lisp (I can't remember if you can use unicode names in CL).
If people didn't find it interesting, it wouldn't be on the front page. It's not like it's not newsworthy. And it will be there today and gone tomorrow. I thought we were beyond complaining about what makes it to the top page.
For some situations, like proposing a law, you might want to consider the Condorcet method:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Condorcet_met...
Well, if you're rational then you believe that there is some chance that any belief you consider "true" will turn out not to be.

I think of agnosticism as saying "I am not capable of knowing", whereas atheists say "Sure none of my beliefs have a 100% probability of being true, but as a human I need to use what provisional knowledge I have in a meaningful way."

In other words, evidence is worth more to atheists than it is to agnostics, who (in spite of evidence) still focus on their inability to know for sure.

I think we're having the "strong/weak atheism/agnosticism" debate... I happen to consider myself an atheist b/c I act as though I believe there is no god just as I act like my laptop is not on fire when I type this.... and it works.
I quit after i failed to hit the red circle. Too slow of a process to complete at work.
I have a feeling that article could be condensed into something way shorter.
I wonder what happens when the GPS miscalculates which road I'm on and cuts my speed limiter to 25 MPH on the freeway.
But you're missing the point that you could have spent the time you spent developing Glow on extending jQuery to do all of these things that you want Glow to do. Then you would have the benefit of everything that jQuery does plus everything that Glow does... but going down separate development paths is not helping anyone at this point.

Unless Glow is doing something nifty that jQuery is not other then supporting screen readers and older browsers.
It sounds like Apple would be the right people to complain to. Just pull the app from the App Store, then let IDrive appeal.
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The Catholic church, for example, has had quite a head start, during which time it's done things that make Scientology's worst alleged misdeeds look quite harmless.

I don't think anyone is required to donate, though there are varying amounts of pressure in various religions -- Catholicism focuses mostly on estates and wills to amass its billions.
I had no idea who Perlis was and submitted this mostly for historical interest.

I thought this one was clever though: "A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing."
I don't know if CS could have solved this - it's not as if the spam was a mistake/glitch. "Proper" customer service would not have made the spamming any more palatable.
some of it actually makes sense. how is google going to make money from this?
Mob Rule! Mob Rule! Mob Rule!
I wonder if in retrospect the big buildup to its release spelled doom for its ultimate acceptance.

We do often see policemen using them in the parks in downtown Chicago.

But as is pointed out in comments here, it fits an odd space in the personal transportation choices. Maybe three or four times faster than walking, slower than a bicycle.
The sad thing is, even if it led to a net increase in death and injury due to the causes you described, the traffic regulators would likely still see it as a gain, because it would reduce the number of "traffic deaths". (Even if it lead to a larger increase in "crime deaths" and/or "medical trauma deaths".)

It's another case of being careful what metrics you use, and what you optimize for.
I wish there were more Weekly World News links on HN.
OK. I've read all 15 days. You are doing very well.

You do a good job with the joking/banter - like with the girl in the elevator. It's not important to be smooth, to be cool, just be real (e.g. 'what the heck is the name of that sandwich place')

In the first 13 or so days, I was a little concerned that you are not having as much fun with this as you could be - I mean, if you approach talking to cute girls as a job that you have to do - they really pick up on that. However, around day 14, you seem to have reached a good level where you are confident and it shows - you don't care what happens - and you have fun.

> "So. Right off the bat embarassing. There's no way in hell I would've asked her had I seen the headphones in her ears."

"success requires a persistent misreading of the odds" - Believe me, there are many guys who would not even think of approaching a woman with headphones on. And women know that (effective flirt barrier). Regardless of the fact you didn't see them, the fact you did that is major. And, regardless of that fact that some people might be so stuck in their head as to not appreciate someone initiating a conversation with them, the fact that you are doing this is major.

If you are looking for what I believe is one of the best guides to conversation (which I see you learning now - less 'Do you X' conversation openers and now more just throwing your feeling/opinion out there in the form of statements) - google charisma and arts
The importance of unit testing and functional testing
"I'm very sorry about that. We'll give you a full refund, and our next version will fix this."

Would he have written the same blog entry now? It's slightly fashionable to call out good customer service -- perhaps the entry would be about how they screwed up and completely redeemed themselves.
Eyeballs. Couple that with data mining and targeted ads and you end up with something that doesn't really fall outside Google's tried-and-true business model.
Perhaps in the photographer's house you can climb a flight of stairs five steps only to find another flight of stairs that lead you back down. He likes to exercise, but only just.
Not really. Designing the circuits is the easy part. The hard part is figuring out why it didn't work after it was manufactured. It usually comes down to tiny details like if a certain pin on one chip was soldered at the factory correctly.
The real issue here is not Wikipedia. It's the fact that for 6 months a single call was enough to shut up the whole global press. Just imagine how often the others call: governments, corporations, Scientology...
Why Google’s Chrome OS Bomb Has Minimal Fallout On Apple
By driving more eyeballs to the web and away from desktop apps.
I'm not actively disagreeing, but could you elaborate on some examples? Your assertion is an interesting one and I'd like to know more.
I have read some other articles about poker bots and the attempts by the site operators to ban them using captchas and such. Does anyone else think it would be a good idea to build an online poker site where the bots are actually encouraged? I don’t know about betting for real money but I would bet there are lots of people and/or groups that would love the build the strongest system in the world.
Zero money down, not subprime loans, led to the mortgage meltdown
Yes, it can. All programing languages are equivalent in power, as you can write interpreter of language A in language B for, I think, any two programming languages A and B.

However, some languages will achieve some things much easier. Your language apparently makes it pretty easy to create new functions such as sum or product.
I guess maybe

1)helping encourage widespread html 5 and better javascript support so more people can run google apps

2) deals with hardware vendors
PEEtroleum rules!
Everything suggests that the American bonds seized at Chiasso are real
When the other option is death, I'll take the speeding ticket.
The article is vague on when MySQL was dissed, but the closer you get to 2002, the more common MySQL 4 was.
As I read it, the point is less about providing more functionality than any existing library and more about tailoring the features that Glow does support to match the very specific requirements of the BBC. (If you happen to think some other library is a better match for your needs then I'm sure the folks at the BBC would urge you use it.) But what would happen if the BBC tied all its web apps to one of those third-party libraries and then that library suddenly announced they were dropping support for some minor browser or screen reader the BBC were mandated to deliver to? They'd end up having to maintain some parallel version modified to match their own particular needs. I hardly see how making the work they've done open source and free for everyone to use they're hurting "the JS world."
Really? So you'll be working away, on your document or your spreadsheet, or you'll be playing a game, and some ad will pop up, and off you go, zero attention span? Why would anyone want that?

$50 on your Netbook isn't much if it means you hand your thesis in on time...
HN fades only non-link text. Example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=401885
"And it will be there today and gone tomorrow"... I disagree. We'll see it cropping up for at least about 1 or 2 weeks, then the posts will start dying down.

It's just like how humans gossip about pop culture media events, but, on computers... about computers.
"Because Chrome is shit. Just utter, utter shit. I mean they've got all these big brains at Google and you'd think they could make a decent fucking browser. Jesus, the freetards at Mozilla can do it. But not Google. Nope. They gave it their big best effort and what did they come up with? Chrome. It's a joke."

Seriously? Maybe I'm missing the satire or hyperbole here, but I really don't see it that way. Chrome on Windows is one of the fastest, most stable browsers I've ever used. And minus plug-in support, it's getting better on the Mac every week (I haven't tried the Linux version). When add-on support is added, I see no argument at all for calling it shit or a joke.
In case anybody is interested, the position might still be available: http://ajaxian.com/archives/ajax-web-developer-240k-per-year...
The military is NEVER "amazing", only peace is.
APL was capable of doing something similar. It would be nice to have keyboards with extended set of characters.
I think testing is an ok thing to be obsessed about... Oddly i just wrote that in my profile just a few minutes ago.

I like to view the Ruby VS Python discussion as pointless. There's a lot to learn from each other. In my opinion those two languages are poised to, if not already, lead web-development into the future.
I'm confused as to why the photo was altered in the first place - even without the shop job it was quite striking in its symmetry.
Ironically, two of the first three comments on this thread are hilarious. Sad, but I guess every community has its breaking point.
Chrome is my default browser at work where I run windows.

The toilet paper comment made me laugh hard though.
I don't know if it will be of much use but take a look at http://www.jsoftware.com/ it is similar to apl in style
I really hope this doesn't go anywhere. I hate this idea. If you have the option to speed but don't, you are still free. If you don't even have the option you aren't.
Well, I certainly prefer it spelled "sum" -- trivial to understand and viewable with any font.

In idiomatic Python, with only basic language features needed:

-sum(p(x) * log(p(x)) for x in l)
1. It isn't that fast. That makes it a no-go for suburbs/rural areas.

2. It doesn't really fit in a bike lane, or on the sidewalk, or on the road. That makes it harder to get around cities on one.

3. Standing? That's for bipeds! But seriously, it's a less preferable way to travel when compared to sitting for most people.

4. Range. 15-25 miles isn't a great range on a 10 hour charge. You can't count on 25 miles given that you don't want to abandon it by the roadside and the charge time is too long. That's for the i Series. The p Series is capable of 6-10 miles. I live very close to my work, but at about 4 miles, I'd be at risk of having a p Series die on me (given the round trip). Eh, maybe I could plug it in at work. Suffice it to say, range is a problem.

5. It's expensive. You could get a nice motor scooter where you could sit down, drive on the road, get to speeds of 30mph, etc. for less money. Plus, while they don't use much gas, many do run on it and therefore you have the opportunity to refuel in seconds rather than hours.

I thought the iBot wheelchair was amazing and it was really sad to see it discontinued, but the Segway doesn't offer much. Sure, the gyroscopic stabilization is awesome, but (partly due to how things are laid out) it doesn't offer a better experience than cars, scooters, bikes or walking for most people. A bike is cheap. A scooter will let you use local roads much like a car. A car is great as a fast/long distance vehicle. Walking works best in close quarters. And the segway, while cool, just doesn't hit the right spot except in a few occasions.
Reminds me of the time the NYTimes swiped a collage illustration I made on my blog and ran it without attribution:

http://gojomo.blogspot.com/2005/04/nytimes-republishes-my-ar...

It took two emails of gradually-increasing emotional load -- I added the 'plagiarism' label to the second -- to get them to run a correction.

It wasn't a giant deal -- a recreation of another blogger's (Niall Kennedy's) concept -- but to see that just like any blogger, the NYTimes may just carelessly clip things from the web was eye-opening.
Its a little funny, but completely tasteless.
It'll be worse than office assistant paper clip.
Your comment made me try out Bing for image and video searches. Recently I've been searching for videos quite often on Google, and most of the time, I've been disappointed. Bing is nice. I particularly like being able to easily select the source.

A quick Bing success story: I was showing Bing to a cousin from abroad who was debating going to Vancouver. The Bing background image was The Sunken Garden at Butchart Gardens in Victoria. Great coincidence.
You can. For instance, SBCL introduced support for it around version 0.8 or so (years ago).
R:

entropy <- function(x) -sum(p(x)*log(p(x)))
It might be, but my point was more than you have no control over it, especially after it's already on the front page. Sometimes the front page is really interesting and sometimes it's a lot of shit. The problem is that everyone's definition of interesting and shit is different, so the community just decides that stuff. Sometimes we agree with the community; sometimes we don't. It's just the nature of the site.
It worked because it was a reasonable request. It wouldn't have worked so well for unreasonable requests (e.g. hiding US torture policies).
From what I understand, you aren't seeing the truly original photo in either of those examples. You are seeing the published versions, and the 'mirrored' version. They are attempting to prove that the published version was also mirrored by looking at the comparison of the 2.
I was talking about the people who are in a panic right now. I do all the things that are "best practice" for a ssh server currently but that will not stop a 0-day exploit in the wild. My main point was to remove the servers that you are worried about from any connection to the outside world if you are able to do it without disrupting your operations until a full report from a trusted source is disclosed.
Maybe airports would be another good use, or other big buildings. Except that probably you have to train before you use them? Would you fun if you could rent them at airports like the trolleys, and zap from gate to gate.

Maybe they should create a segway for two persons, so that a pro could drive around the passengers (a ka segway taxis).
Sex Is Always Well Worth Its Two-Fold Cost
"Having a language that lets you declare constructs that look very similar to their mathematical definition is a huge win for readability."

I'd agree, except every mathematical definition I've seen used infix notation. Minus a function for summing a series, the C version at least keeps the symbols in the same order. Anyone with even a passing familiarity of C can read this and recognize it as the same thing.

double entropy(int x) {
double e = 0.0;
for (int i = 0; i < x; i++) e += p(i) * log(p(i));
return -e;
}
When your single call is "if you run this story, one of our reporters will die", the reporter on the other end of the phone is going to take that call very seriously.

That doesn't mean a single call that said "don't run that story about the real reason Sarah Palin resigned" is going to work the same way.
Nah, his point is that he can use the standard mathematical symbols directly because his language is Unicode-native. That's hard to retrofit.
I know that I'm probably wrong.

Sergey Brin and Larry Page are neeeerdddssss, not business school kids that decided to make a web app.

There is a good chance that they're doing this just because it's really really cool, and because they can. I imagine that if I ever had the sort of cash that they have, I would be doing the same thing that I do on the weekends NOW, but on a larger scale: geekery.

Building a linux distro is geekery of the highest order. Good for them. Google makes billions and billions of dollars from their other projects. This is one that they can figure out later. :). (or I can figure it out for them now: adsense, lots of it.)

I understand that google is a publicly traded company; they have shareholders to answer to, but I imagine that all they have to do is point at their earnings and go "trust us, guys...trust us".

If anything, this will drive more traffic to their moneymakers.
only thing lacking chrome is the plugin support and support for RSS feeds. come on! google, that should have been there from day one!
Start with the section "The Blub Paradox": http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
You just sidestepped the point of the original comment. Wales didn't have to do anything. The request was directly in line with WP's stated policies. During the 4 months I spent on WP in 2007, WP:BLP was a constant presence in edit wars.
Gotcha. Yeah, I agree completely. By the way... Did you hear about the new Chrome OS?

:P
EVERYTHING? Oh, come on, the United States treasury knows very well what kinds of bonds it has ever issued, and it has denied that those were genuine United States bonds. Although "there is no news that American experts have inspected them in person," that doesn't matter if the description of the bonds from the Italian authorities is sufficiently detailed to exclude any genuine United States bond ever issued.
Jeff explained it better than I can: http://blog.jeffhaynie.us/google-chrome-os-its-a-great-time-...
And do you think the same result would be achieved if the person wasn't a reporter?
As search has essentially become a commodity, it seems that marketing would be the way to erode Google's dominance.

Also, just wait for msn.com to take on the Bing branding.
23andMe Launches $99 Kit To Spur Its ‘Research Revolution’
Works nicely in Ruby 1.9:

#!/usr/bin/ruby -Ku
# encoding: utf-8
module Enumerable
def sum
inject { |acc, val| acc + val }
end

def Σ(&blk)
map(&blk).sum
end

def entropy(&prob)
- Σ { |i| prob[i] * Math.log(prob[i]) }
end
end

EDIT: And in 1.8 if you pass -Ku.
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I wrote that a while ago here and got flamed for it in a pretty heavy way. I really object against any third party applications or websites that ask you for your credentials, it is asking for abuse.

The more people get conditioned to supply their credentials to parties other than the original service the more we'll see this kind of problem.
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Yes, and in fewer tokens:

(def entropy (x)
(- (sum [* (p _) (log:p _)] x)))

I like macros, but I wouldn't use them in this case. Summing is close enough to mapping that the form above is easy for any Lisp programmer to understand.

I'd also argue that code size is a more meaningful measure of readability than familiarity. There's nothing intrinsically right about sigma notation. Some people are just more used to it. But since whatever notation you put in a language will eventually become familiar to its users, you should factor out familiarity when making design decisions, or at most use it to break ties. The notation above is honestly more readable to me, because it's what I'm used to.
One of the most dangerous jobs is... farming. Tons of guys get arms torn off on tractors, etc.
If we listen to Hal Turner then not only are the bonds real but Holocaust was an elaborate hoax.

He's not exactly credible ...
Since this last came up on HN, I looked up the biography of Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales

The day I saw it (and again today), it was locked, but it definitely included unflattering information. If Jimmy Wales is on the side of Jimmy Wales, he evidently acknowledges the principle of posting objective information in Wikipedia.
I think Apple is first and foremost an industrial design company.
For people who hate this article, can you please share why you hate it instead of just saying it sucks?

It was meant to stir things up obviously, but I thought that the various points brought up were really valid.
Update: Some Yahoo! subdomains have 'em.

Yes:

http://search.yahoo.com/robots.txt
http://groups.yahoo.com/robots.txt
http://realestate.yahoo.com/robots.txt

No:

http://maps.yahoo.com/robots.txt
http://omg.yahoo.com/robots.txt
I don't think it's a good personality test (the instructions are often unclear), but it is a fantastic production.
This is more of an insight into the perverse incentives created by bankruptcy/foreclosure law than it is about the way in which un-hedged systemic risk led to the crisis.

Still an interesting article.
It could be the the solution, if it was working :-( The "Claim your comments " section is very confusing:

* it did not like my Disqus login. When I click on submit, there was no error message, just a thin pink border around disqus. It took me several attempt to understand what it means

* I entered 2 other URLs (from my websites). Go the error "One or more URLs are already claimed". I doubt it. It would be nice to know which one. When I go back to "Claim your comments", the URLs disappeared, as well as all the login I entered previously.

It doesn't look like I can use this website, unfortunately.
no, i was thinking that in certain scenarios where it might be possible to control the name of the file being shown, using jar:http:// could do a remote request and possibly expose some information.
Scribd is quite annoying. I mean, this is probably a deal between Scribd and Anderson, but wouldn't the actual optimal solution be releasing it simultaneously in PDF and HTML formats?