skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how much money you could raise targeting even lower-net-worth individuals, perhaps in exchange for something like a product or a service?
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The red bar is "net Apple fees", or "the amount of money left after you take away Apple fees". "Net of Apple fees" might have been a better description. (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_really_meant_by_net_of_fee...)
I thought about using this service, so we'd have control over our URLs...but the fact is, I don't trust awe.sm to stay in business forever any more than I trust bit.ly or tr.im. In the end, I decided to implement our own (haven't actually done it yet, but this is one of those cases where the people claiming to be able to replicate this feature in fifteen minutes aren't exaggerating).

Interestingly, I guess, this did make me stop and think about whether I wanted links to my company and products to disappear when these shortener services finally all come crashing down. Which is why I decided I needed to control it myself.

I'd already bought a pretty short name a couple of years ago with the intention of putting up a mobile version of our site on it.
How about this: Orkut is not Brazil-exclusive. It has large groups of people from India, Iran, Pakistan, Japan and even the US. These groups of people most likely don't speak Portuguese, but they have English as a second language.
The problem is that I assume there are ruby users out there who think this is a good idea, even though I support that claim with the evidence of "disable whiny nils" in Rails?

The problem's actually more subtle than that. The implication of what you said is that this is a problem with the Ruby community more so than some other communities. You provided no evidence for that claim at all. The disable whiny nils thing, by the way, doesn't do what you think it does.

I'm not "randomly" bashing the ruby community.

Sure you are. You're taking one library that happened to be written in Ruby and using it as an excuse to generally bash Rubyists.

This is a clever hack, but an extremely bad idea to use in production, and it comes fully packaged as a ruby gem that is ready to be deployed with "gem install".

This library is literally a joke. Although maybe not. I think Aaron is also a big fan of using Enterprise Ruby in production, which is why he released this: http://github.com/tenderlove/enterprise/tree/master
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I assumed that you quoted a point from the article: Anecdotal experience isn't proof of statistical relatedness.

Edit: And about the GP's claim that the author's being incompetent and writing unfounded advice. Check their jobs at the end of the article. (They might be incompetent and/or wrong, but they will certainly have lots of relevant data in published papers!)
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I don't think it's any violation of the Constitution per se.

Put it this way. As is pointed out in the other comment a Bond is not considered currency and states issue those. A Bond in is just a certificate of debt. Whoever issues the bond is borrowing money from you and then paying you interest in return. So it represents currency but is not in itself currency.

An IOU is simply a Bond that doesn't collect interest. California is in effect using it's governing power to force it's vendors to buy high-risk, no interest Bonds from them.
Given that the state of California's budget has been getting progressively worse annually, I can't wait to see what next year brings :(
190 participants, properly selected, can actually give extremely trustworthy results to a fair confidence interval. Sample size isn't everything...
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You already pay for "nanny"-state regulation and those quacks are most likely violating consumer protection laws, the very same laws that protect you from other much larger corporations that have the money+lawyers to screw people easily.
See also this companion piece: http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14165460&...
To see the proposed climate engineering solutions, look for the Climate Engineering/Read More link on the bottom right of the page.

I don't know whether to be impressed by the technical audacity, or horrified by the hubris.

Given that we currently can't predict the weather accurately for the medium/long-term, nor reliably prevent and cure disease, nor create bug-free software on time and on schedule, I lean towards the latter reaction.
Ah, oops. That's not what I'm saying.

If you disagree with the basis of the hyperbole (i.e., that Gimp's UI is bad), the rest of the conversation derails, as seen with a few comments posted here. If you agree, then it fits and nothing goes wrong.

If you recommended listening to new band A instead of my preferred band B, I might listen to new band A. If you recommend new band A after saying my preferred band B sounds worse than a dying giraffe, I will probably be okay presuming I wouldn't enjoy new band A.

(I would, however, say that band C sounds like two dying giraffes, band D like a sick weasel, and band E like a happy songbird with bronchitis.)
An IOU is simply a Bond that doesn't collect interest.

A dollar is a t-bill with an interest rate of 0% and a maturity of now.
Deliberate hyperbole is not a "lie" in any sense of the word I understand, because it is not designed to deceive anyone. It's generally done as an expression of hand waving. You are being deliberately imprecise, either because you genuinely don't know the real value (in which case "guessing" would be presenting a deceptive level of precision which you do not actually have), or for humorous effect - to make a point more emphatically.

The laptop example used below is good. Saying "this weighs a ton!" is much less deceptive than if I took a guess and said "this weighs 2 kilograms". It obviously doesn't weigh a ton, because its density would probably exceed that of all known elements. Saying it weighs a ton has two connotations: 1) That I don't know how much it weighs (or it is irrelevant to the conversation) and 2) I am finding it difficulty to carry because its weight is beyond that which I can carry comfortably. Saying "this weighs 2 kilograms" does not convey the same information.

Similarly, making an overstatement like "Gimp's UI makes me go blind" is clearly not designed to deceive anyone. It is physically impossible that Gimp's UI would have made a person go blind. The person saying this is not asking you to believe it, instead, he is saying "I find Gimp's UI very visually unappealing, and the reasons for this are not important right now).

So, in summary, hyperbole is not the same as lying. Lying is not "anything that is untrue", lying is deception, and the suggestion of deliberate deception where none exists is quite offense to most people!
Sounds like Tweetdeck, but less useful because only works with facebook.
Bit.ly offers this functionality, for free.

I think bit.ly are the only ones that have a chance of making real money. Their model is:

1. Build a very good URL shortening service

2. Have a close relationship with Twitter, get them to choose you as their URL shortener

3. Hope Twitter will get bought and then buy you, like they bought Summize for search.
I think there might be a play in the behavioral targeting market. This is similar to selling stats, but in a more commercial format, e.g. AlmondNet.

When a person submits a URL to the shortener, they analyze the URL to figure out what the content is about.

Then when somebody clicks on the shortened link, part of the redirect process is to implant a behavioral AdNetwork's cookie with the proper tags, based on the content that's already been analyzed.

You can then monetize the core service without interrupting the redirect flow.
Imagine the problem they would have if they did take them as taxes. Ultimately CA must pay back its debts with federals, and the federals must come from taxation, eventually. (That or a bailout) Taking IOUs instead of cash is a serpent-eating-its-tail scenario.

This is actually how hyperinflation can occur, as CA has, in a sense, two forms of money--one they don't control, and one they do. For now, the one they control -sort of- has value, while the one in which their debts are denominated is uncontrollable. If the US and CA were separate countries, and inimical to one another, the US could drive those IOUs down to nothing.
>> I'd like to see [the author's] data. I admit mine is anecdotal. I bet his is too.

Sigh, just Google his name: www.yale.edu/psychology/FacInfo/Kazdin.html

Edit: I am also stupid. :-) Just check the end of the article.

"Alan E. Kazdin, who was president of the American Psychological Association in 2008, is John M. Musser professor of psychology and child psychiatry at Yale University and director of Yale's Parenting Center and Child Conduct Clinic. Carlo Rotella is director of American studies at Boston College."
Sorry, but I want to hear about the big ones. Orkut, not so much, but if a top 100 site drops support, that's news to me. It'd help me convince my clients to drop support, too.
I have so many problems with my matte macbook pro. Dust collection mainly. I will definitely go with glossy on my next mac.
Great reason not to do business with the state. In any other transaction you get to dictate the form of payment, but in the government's case it's the other way around because you have no recourse if they renege.
Sure, the government can already do this, but certainly not so easily. Things like building high-tension powerlines or rezoning require many steps involving proposals, reviews, environmental impact studies, community input, etc. before final approval. There's also eminent domain, which I didn't mention, but again even that requires lots of review, justification, general consensus, and approval.

There is definitely a difference between those things and the government being able to arbitrarily seize your property with no justification at all, other than that you've arguably undervalued it, regardless of whether they pay you what you valued it at.

So, while this may not really give the government power that it doesn't already have per se, what it's doing is removing a ton of barriers.

Assuming you over-report the value, you'd be making a profit on the sale - enough that moving wouldn't be much of a issue for you.

This is assuming that all you care about is money. What if you don't want to give up your home regardless of how much they pay you for it? There are some things people are not willing to sell for any price. And being forced to relocate would be far more than an inconvenience to some people. In these cases, how much should you be forced to overvalue your home by as insurance that the government won't arbitrarily seize it if you get on someone's bad side? 25%? 50%? 200%?
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You: "No evidence or data is presented to back up any of the points."

Did you even read the article? The authors link to six websites that each describe research on the subject of bullying. In addition, he specifically cites comprehensive review books and papers.

You, on the other hand, cite nothing but anecdote and "analogy".

A simple PubMed search on the term "bullying" gives pages of results on the topic, and I daresay they mostly are consistent with the advice given by the authors of this paper, and not yours.
Then WTF was that in your waterbed last night?!?
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[I did a quick search, didn't see anyone mention games yet, so I thought I should]

People bitch and moan about this, but the fact is that for a lot of developers this won't be an issue. Why? Because the game market for the iPhone is HUGE and you can bet there will almost never be an issue with duplicate functionality or explicit content because a game can incidentally download the Karma Sutra.

Games account for about half of the top selling apps (12/25 last I checked), and some games are getting so many downloads they are getting installed on almost a third of all devices (Tap-tap revolution got to 30%).

The game market is huge and will continue to thrive. The video game industry is entirely accustomed to this! It's just another console to them, albeit one with LESS restrictive rules. No price restrictions, no strict content or style guidelines, and no content requirements. Apple is hands-off compared to Sony and Nintendo.
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I have reached the point where I recognize that I am trying to do too much. And I spend more time thinking about what needs to be done first rather than acting.

I am not a control freak, I just don't know how to connect with people I can outsource specific projects.
I'm assuming this algorithm isn't: "Give each party a knife. Survivor gets the cake."
Yeah, but that's just because of the expense of a new media type. As the media becomes cheaper to duplicate, I'm sure the price will drop...

Wait...
This is pretty useless since the price point can vary widely based on where you go to. You can go to a dealer, you can go to a national chain, you can go to a hole in the wall garage.
Incidentally, if I wanted to put my math skills to work in a casino, I would play poker. This game is one where the odds have not been stacked against me and a little math drastically alters my expected values.
He has written over 600 papers and 40 books. Perhaps his data about the efficacy of standing up to bullies is somewhere buried in that writing. But it's not obvious at all that it is given your Google search. I'm not particularly interested in his background or qualifications. I want to see the actual data that substantiates his thesis quoted above.
Just because this is an enumerated federal power doesn't mean it's automatically denied all other entities, and money issued by sources other than the federal government was once common in the US. See:

http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/Commentary/2007/010107....
> They have a monopoly on non-horrible smartphones

That's like saying, "Arby's has a monopoly on good-tasting fastfood." You can't have a monopoly on being the best at something. Just because you think that the iPhone is the best phone on the market doesn't mean that you can claim that Apple has a monopoly just because you don't like their competitor's products. (Well, you can -- freedom of speech and all -- but you're wrong)
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Were bonds actually issued to the small business owners in this case? The article only mentions the nebulous "IOU's"
It was voted because you asked people to flag it
I'll let the community field this one.
When I was 7 I read a choose your own adventure where you had to try to get to Utopia. I read through it 4 times without success, so I flipped the pages to find the picture of Utopia in the middle. Scanning through page by page, I realized there was no way to get there. Fuckers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_UFO_54-40

Edit: Just saw that this enraged and educated other kids just the same.
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I expected a lot better from the Telegraph. However it seems online right now they are more interested in chasing digg traffic with sensationalist articles and headlines.

(see http://econsultancy.com/blog/3801-telegraphs-social-media-st... )

Eye-catching and descriptive headlines attract clicks on Digg, and The Telegraph has plenty of these. Some of its most popular Digg headlines are listed here. Some are sensational too, which can help catch the eye of Digg users. 'Fish with human faces spotted in South Korea' got 1,759 Diggs, for instance.
I understand that too, but most of the people I saw talking about tr.im were saying "Go figure" not "Please stay". This on top of the asking bit.ly for money rather than saying "Ok" to keep the links working, while complaining about money issues.

It seems like this was a ploy to get people's attention for tr.im so they could try to sell it.
Absolutely. Get to know them and not just for recommendations. Let them know that you're genuinely interested in the field and they may be able to hook you up with a good undergrad research project (and publishable paper) and a little grant money. They can help you figure out grad school plans, if you want, and can either help you get funded to stay there or refer you to other universities where they know people.
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This hasn't been my experience at all. My previous lappy had a glossy screen, and I simply couldn't use it outside, and it's one of the reasons I didn't buy an Apple laptop when I got a new one a couple of months ago (bought a Dell Latitude with a super bright matte screen that works great indoors and out).

I think saying, "Glossy screens reflect much of that light away, leaving the screen still legible" is magical thinking. The reflected light goes into your eye, just like the light that's coming from the screen.

A sufficiently bright glossy screen and placing the lappy out of direct sunlight could overcome this problem, but I'm pretty darned sure matte screens work better than shiny ones outdoors.
Yeah, the SEC determined they are "securities" or bonds...they pay an interest rate.
Yeah, but when companies issue bonds, they use the real money issued from the sale of these bonds to pay down debts of creditors. In this case, if the IOU's are like bonds then they should be sold on the market, and the real money collected should be used to pays these small businesses, which are the state's creditors. I know a state is not a company, but when raising capital via debt, you can't just force someone to accept these IOU's when they are owed money.
1. Linking to six websites on the general subject of bullying is hardly a well-reasoned presentation of research and evidence to support an argument. In addition, several of these websites specifically contradict the advice of the author and encourage kids to stand up for themselves in the face of bullying.

2. The average reader is unlikely to conduct a PubMed search for research and scholarly works related to the subject of bullying.

3. I was specifically referring to the lack of evidence to back up the position that standing up to bullies is rarely effective, not everything in the article. You're right that this wasn't clear. My mistake.

You seem to have missed completely that I'm not primarily disagreeing with his position (though I do), but rather with the shallow presentation of that position.

EDIT: removed a mistaken reference to the Guardian
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I don't understand your first paragraph. Taking their own IOUs is equivalent to reducing the debt. The problem is that they effectively want to borrow money against the IOUs for free, by refusing to accept the IOUs as tax payments.
I can't believe this post has over 35 comments (+1 for mine)
Sounds like they've got, at the very least, some internal confusion.
Orkut is the 125th most popular site in the world according to Alexa (yes, I know that's an unreliable metric). This is fantastic news... if you're in Brazil.
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Not so much a critique of sixcentral.com itself, but it does seem like a case of developers writing developer tools. Is the freelance web design market large enough to support a site like this?
I never said anything about them being incompetent. And publishing data in other unrelated (and unreferenced) publications doesn't make an argument unfounded. They didn't support this claim in this article, either directly or indirectly by clearly linking to relevant studies or research.
At the risk of just sounding negative, the "improvements" are making a doubly linked list of arrays. I didn't really see any improvement over the fundamental concept of a linked list. I've got to question if the author read an algorithms book or took Algorithms 101. There are several solutions to the problems he presents that are better than his proposed solution.
Look, I didn't make the rules. But the bottom line is in economics there is currency and there is debt. Is debt just the absence of currency? Isn't Debt worth as much as the currency it represents? Does that make the line blurry?

Yes on all counts. But that's how it works. Debt does not count as currency.
I've been using the 960.gs for a while now and really find it efficient. At first I was critical of such systems but the ability to reuse css classes is great and it's a nice having a starting point for new site layouts.
Yes there is probably a name for the affect of things like gloss, or brightness in a shop causing increated sales (yet its actually an inferior feature). Its the same reason LCDs have brightness and colour cranked up in shops, stereos are played loud etc...

Having said that, the glass on the unibody does look easy to keep clean.
I think this really perverts the concept of private property, though. In order to thwart domain squatters, you'd eliminate property rights and create a fluid pool of domain names that could be forcibly purchased by anyone else at any time. Domains would become like oiled pool balls so slick and slippery that no one would be able to keep ahold of them long enough to do anything useful with them. That is, without massively overpaying taxes on them to insure they couldn't be taken at any time.

I think one of the most important things about private property is not necessarily that you can demand its fair value when you sell it, but rather that you alone can decide whether it is for sale in the first place.

From my way of thinking, domain squatting certainly isn't a dignified way to make a living or something to be proud of, and it's certainly a pain in the ass to everyone else, but I think it certainly is within the rights of those who choose to do it. Who cares if someone has a better use for a domain name? If you bought it, it's yours whether anyone else like it or not.

You might argue that squatting is not within the rights of those who do it — according to ICANN regulations — but then I would say that there's already process in place to resolve those sort of disagreements. Whether there are issues with that process is another question. That process may be imperfect, but I think what you are proposing introduces many more problems than it solves.
But what does a sorting algorithm sound like?