skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Doctors are urged to be vigilent for a new bug that has arriving in Britain

This has broken grammar, and they can't spell ‘vigilant’. In the second paragraph. Don't the Telegraph writers use a spell checker? Well-written text is kind of important for a bloody newspaper. I'd send an errata to the author, but they don't provide an email address and the author's profile takes me to a 404 page. Also:

> Antibiotics are widely available to buy without prescription in India and Pakistan and this has meant hospital doctor there have had to resort to

Waves arms about.

Hello!? Writing standards!?
Someone will definitely write a tool to extract raw audio from this DRM'ed sausage of a format.
Review this app: SixCentral - client & proposal organization & management
http://www.sixcentral.com/

This isn't my app, but I'm submitting it here on behalf of the guys who made it (http://www.frenzylabs.com/). Target audience is mainly freelancers. It was built in Django (a Python web framework) by two programmers and a UI designer. They came out of beta just yesterday.

Here's a short interview on it:
http://www.fuelyourapps.com/behind-the-app-six-central/

EDIT: weird formatting.
Spanish isn't a bad one to know if you live in the US. I decided to switch to Spanish while on a trip to Germany during college :)
That was brilliant.

Coincidentally, I just poked around on Facebook again today-- I log in about every 6 or 8 months-- and the whole experience creeped me out bigtime. I can't even begin to imagine why I'd want to be involved, even in a virtual way, with people I ignored/who ignored me back in high school (or earlier).
Fair enough, I can concede that.
That's a very strange account of how bullying works. The impression I get from what people tell me and situations I have witnessed is that the lonely male bully described here is a very rare exception.

The typical situation is a group of people led by a smaller sub-group acting against an individual in pretty obvious ways. The victim is sidelined and ridiculed openly so everybody knows. Teachers always know.

The authors describe the bully as some kind of genius who always selects the right victims and always chooses occasions wisely. That's complete nonsense.

People who become victims are completely random. Take any closed situation where people can't leave at will, like schools, military camps, prisons, the workplace, and anyone can be made a victim. No need for the bullies to choose wisely.

There's just no way anyone can defend himself against a socially dominant group who decides to bully them. The only right way to react is to leave instantly. Victims can be harmed for life if left in a situation like that. That's what I learned from someone very close to me who was a victim of bullying and researched the whole thing extensively later.

If you have kids who are being bullied, just take them away from the bullies immediately!
No, I expect that, and I'll have had girlfriends before her. That's normal. Hookups and one-nighters, on the other hand, are sleazy, unnecessary, and detrimental.
Done:

http://github.com/tenderlove/neversaydie/commit/b686cf5ebc08...
California Won't Accept Its Own IOUs
Like prison guards, school authorities and the police won't protect anyone from bullies. So, just as if you were in prison, you have to respond to bullies yourself.
I agree. What would prevent something like 20q.net? Compile a database of make/model/year, symptoms, and eventual repairs... People enter their car type then answer questions like "Did the car start? Yes/No/Sometimes?" "Does it make a grinding noise when you turn the key? Yes/No"... then using past results it tells you it's 85% likely to be the alternator, etc...
Life is a bitch after all.
Your health-care example is not quite accurate, at least in my experience. Many insurance plans require that people telephone to "pre-approve" (non-emergency) hospitalizations, precisely to be able to discuss the coverage with them and make sure the costs payable by the patient are understood.
The author isn't even really making the argument that this won't be effective, but just that your kid won't do it:

One hallmark of a bully is a sophisticated ability to pick victims who won't put up a fight. When you urge your child to stand up to a bully, you're asking him to do something that the bully already figured out he was unlikely to do. That's why the bully picked him in the first place. Bullies tend to choose victims who are socially withdrawn, seem anxious or fearful, are nervous in new situations, or have some physical characteristic that might make them more vulnerable.

What makes me angry is that the author is essentially arguing that the kid should continue to be vulnerable and passive, rather than stand up for themselves.

If bullies tend to pick on people who are unlikely to fight back, you should fight back so they'll move on to an easier target.

Analogy: this is like saying that you shouldn't advise someone whose website just got hacked to secure their app, because they got hacked because they didn't follow proper security protocol, and are therefore unlikely to follow your advice.
What's a Good Final Year Project?
So if I said to you that my laptop "weighs a ton", it will diminish my credibility with you simply because its mass is not literally 2000 pounds? That seems rather cynical, or at least uncharitable.
Avoid a Void: eradicating null-pointer dereferencing
Nonsense. You have it backwards. Matte screens really require the ideal lighting conditions.

Easy test: take one of each, and go outside.

Sunlight washes out a matte screen to the point of being impossible to use.

Glossy screens reflect much of that light away, leaving the screen still legible.

As someone that used to do a lot of work outdoors on a laptop, there's no comparison. Glossy screens are usable in FAR, FAR more varied lighting conditions. Too much direct light and a matte screen becomes completely useless.
Next they should address the spider problem.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/meth_addicts_demand_gov...
Raising money from the crowd
"People who become victims are completely random. Take any closed situation where people can't leave at will, like schools, military camps, prisons, the workplace, and anyone can be made a victim. No need for the bullies to choose wisely."

This is patently untrue: it's always some particular subgroup that's bullied. School bullies usually target smaller kids, "nerdy" kids, or unpopular kids with poor social skills. Prison bullies usually target small, young, white prisoners who are not members of prison gangs.
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?

I'm not "randomly" bashing the ruby community. 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".
That's why Apple made Photo Booth and the blue screen backgrounds.
Is this an attempt at FUD to stop people from going overseas for inexpensive treatments? Or is my cynical conspiracy theorists hat on a little too tight...
Good advice. Every semester register for an extra class, then after the first week drop the one with the worst professor.
I see you are pretty new. Welcome.
Many of the commenters here seem not to understand the setup: when a bullying "relationship" has been established, it already has become a difficult issue.

Standing up against a bully works - but only when it is a fair show of balance of power. Let it be sophisticated or vulgar. If this doesn't happen very soon after supposed bullying starts, it is probably not going to happen. And if the resistance works, where is the bullying here?

It can be observed that even in this flow of comments it is not seen that a shy kid is entitled to life without bullying. By not cutting off the bullying, you're raising the shy kid into accepting that yeah, he truely is a victim, and nothing can be done. It's a jungle, live with it. "Civilization" is just a word, "justice" is a joke, and "human rights" just an invention of a twisted mind. The only way left to put things back in balance for a tormented kid is by getting a gun and showing everybody the exact reason why everybody should have some kind of elementary respect to each other.

People, kids, do have different temperaments. The mind is not tabula rasa. You can't tell a shy kid "stand up and show them" and expect it to happen or have any effect.

It is completely useless to offer solutions which apply only to those who don't really have problems.
When I downloaded "The Slip" off Nine Inch Nails' website (for free), I chose the 320kbps MP3 package... each MP3 had embedded artwork and lyrics, and the album came with a PDF that had artwork, lyrics, credits, and all that. Their previous release (Ghosts) came with desktop & mobile wallpapers, as well. Both were released under the Creative Commons license, with "Ghosts" being listed by the band on sites like The Pirate Bay, Waffles and What.cd on the hour of their release.

I later bought The Slip's physical release - the CD came with a DVD with rehearsal videos of nearly every song on the album. (it also came with... stickers!)

I'm betting the revenue from both of those legally-free-to-download releases will be more than all the profit made from sales of CMX-format albums combined.
Was your friend's name Charles Norris?
I was just pointing out the irony, not trying to prove you wrong.
Applying adult standards to child behavior is so fraught with flaws, I don't even know where to begin.

Suffice it to say that, with near universal applicability, all human societies throughout recorded history have made clear distinctions between the boundaries of acceptable social behavior (and punishments for breaching these boundaries) for children and adults.

There's also quite a large accumulated body of modern scientific measurements which suggests that children and early teenagers lack the sufficiently streamlined cerebral pathways (pre-puberty) which would allow them to make the social judgment calls and impulse control to both avoid being a bully and/or a bullied victim. In both roles, they can not balance the short-term costs against the long-term consequences.

You also make a gross assumption about the training and responsiveness of a local police force to situations involving minors in the custody of a school. Baring extreme violence, a history of criminal behavior, or property damage, in most municipalities, this is the fiduciary responsibility of the public school district. For private institutions, a specific set of liability clauses and insurance is part of the enrollment contract.
Dangerous Xbox 360 Update Killing Homebrew
All I can think of is a subscription-based model that would aggregate all of the URLs and give you stats on it. Like, $5/mo for a URL shortener that lets you see how much something has been clicked on, who clicked, when, and so on. This would also serve as a history of shortened URLs.

But really something like this is probably best rolled into the services that require them, like Twitter. Twitter should provide it, I think.
It seems better, but I'm pretty sure it's an illusion that comes at a cost of color accuracy. The glossy screen reflects more light before it hits the actual display, reducing the amount of light needed to be absorbed to give a true black, and also causing the color-matching issues described in the article.
I don't think the authors are claiming that bullies are geniuses. You don't need to be a genius to know who you can get away with bullying. You just need to know that if you abuse X then the only people who might witness the abuse are people who are highly unlikely to snitch.
Whatever happened to the planned Penthouse/FriendFinder IPO? It actually had some significant coverage in the industry, and would have been the first significant public porn company (aside from some of the mainstream media companies that have soft core porn subsidiaries).
Agreed. It seems he believes the children have Dweckian fixed/entity mindset. And that would be a very bad thing for a psychologist to believe.
You're mixing theoretical odds and practical odds, which might be considered sloppy.

Additionally, unfair coins can trivially be used as fair coins, but unbalanced roulette wheels cannot easily be used as fair roulette wheels.
After a few weeks, redirect the incoming links to a splash page that redirects the user after 15 seconds.

Makes me feel skeezy just thinking about it.
I like Awe.sm's approach. You own the domain and they do the URL shortening and analytics for you. Costs $99/year. I haven't used it, but it seems like a good way to make money in that area.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/04/its-awesm-create-a-powe...
I don't remember seeing the link the first time and I did look - but I could have missed it. Thanks for the heads up. :)
Ohh, nevermind then, I thought I read something about hating the genre. Most of every genre sucks
Umm...sorry, but for what they're doing, streamy.com is an awesome brand. It's pretty short, fairly memorable, makes perfect sense for what they're doing, isn't too specific that they're locked into exactly what they're doing, not easy to misspell, and it's easy to tell someone verbally.
Couldn't it be disguised while being an actual embedded scheme interpreter, and not be boastful?
A previous day job of mine was at a company that does DICOM viewing and transmission. They did/do it pre- and post- HIPAA. HIPAA isn't too bad for software vendors. Just keep your records in order, and follow basic software engineering & security practices. They like to see documentation, especially design docs and test plans.

The FDA comes out every year or two, and of course they keep digging until they find something to ding you on, just so the inspector looks like they're doing their job.

EDIT: I now realize I was conflating FDA certification and HIPAA, though you'll probably have to deal with both while doing DICOM.
But isn't the point of a laptop portability? The glossy screen makes it significantly less portable -- in anything but ideal lighting, everything in front of the screen is reflected in a way that interferes with the intended image. That just doesn't sound conducive to usefulness in a laptop.

If you just use it inside your home office, why buy a laptop in the first place?
> Nobody would cheat then.

Depends. Perhaps somebody would try to bully (i.e. play a game of chicken http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_(game)): "Either you lower your share in my favour, or I will claim too much and you get nothing."
Just a data point: I got an estimate for an alignment that I recently had done at a chain for $85 and they gave an estimate of $120 to $153.

What keeps the repair shops that they surveyed from giving them a higher price quote in an effort to skew their estimates?
And the thug says "What do you mean, 'the next time you do XYZ'? I never did XYZ! If he says I did that, he's lying!" And since the third parties to the abuse are other kids who don't want to have reputations for being snitches, the thug can continue to abuse with impunity.
there's no clear way to monetize URL-shortening unless you're the dominant player (and can sell stats);

How much money is Google making from selling all the stats that they gathered on people's behaviors, cicks, etc.?

The problem with URL shorteners is that there is no space to put ads.
Founder at http://reasonr.com It's an improvement on forums/Yahoo Answers for troubleshooting technical problems. Similar technology to hunch.com but applied to a practical use.

Warning: Still young, obviously needs a lot more polish before prime time.
The key to the solution is for the kid to come up with something. You want the kid to feel some power over the situation, some ability to help themselves and change the context, so they no longer fit the victim profile anymore.

The last paragraph links to a sidebar full of sites with more information and research.
Wouldn't the preview version have less load than the current version, and is likely to be faster simply because of that?
That would make the market more efficient.
This is also the the service we offer with TinyArrows:

http://➡.ws/info/custom/

For statistics, we provide info down to the IP address and user agent that clicked on the link.
Ruby/Rails segfaults often enough for this to be (even jokingly) useful?

[Edit] Why downvote a genuine question instead of informing me why you think it's inappropriate? I would never have expected someone to write a fatal-signal-ignoring-handler for a scripting language, even as a joke, so I was curious as to whether Ruby/Rails processes did semi-regularly crash.
If one were to create such a standardized bundling format I can't imagine spending more than a day developing it.

But they didn't develop it: they almost certainly hired some IT consulting firm who billed them six or seven figures and spent months (or years) coming up with this ground-breaking innovation.
I wish they would offer some decent resolutions as well...the 13" with 1400x900 would be nice (like on a lenovo X301), and 15" with 1920x1050 (like you can get on a dell xps 1550) would be so good! Who wants to lug a 17" lump around to get decent res?
Putting it all on black - The mathematics of gambling
Microsoft doesn't care? They remove the oxygen supply of some competitors...
But surely that's assuming it'll only work on Windows...

... oh, wait. Carry on.
The 1KB CSS Grid
Whatever else you may have to say about how this is "total bullshit", this article isn't the standard half-educated reporter writing whatever comes in their head for The Guardian. Alan Kazdin has more scholar hits in his field than anyone commenting here has for theirs.

You're right that there's not a lot of data in the article that backs up his point, but you'll be wrong if you follow that logic to the conclusion you seem to want to take it to.
Except by $800, they mean 99c. She paid people a total of $800 to finish an app she'd already started.

Not sure why this is surprising/new. Margins on software have always been high.
Improvements on the Fundamental Concept of the Linked List
It was being supported by expansion, which I wouldn't necessarily categorize as artificial or unsustainable, more... incredibly fragile.
I don't understand how the IOUs are constitutional

Article 1 Section 8 (Powers of the Federal Congress)

"To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;"
Why Can't My Clocks Keep Time Accurately?
People writing tired, repetitive, biased articles ad-nauseum while over-emphasising the negative qualities of the company while under-emphasising the positives?

Apple really are the new Microsoft.
Clearly states and townships are allowed to borrow money.

Which means that they can issue bonds.

If a bond is tradeable on the open market, how is it different from currency?

In short: financial engineering has evolved a bit in the last 200 years, muddying some formerly clear cut issues.
Just throwing in one of my favorite places to hear/read about new apps: http://www.creativeapplications.net/
I never, ever learned anything from a newscientist.com article. Those articles are cute, but one learns nothing deep. I say we go directly to the source! Here is it, Ed Thorp's The Mathematics of Gambling:

http://www.bjmath.com/bjmath/thorp/tog.htm

which is the true "bible" of scientific betting. For the mathematically-inclined, I also recommend:

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

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

and if you still have some energy left, try this:

A Markov Chain Analysis of Blackjack Strategy http://www.ece.rice.edu/~crozell/courseproj/MCBJ.pdf

Have fun! And remember: life is too short to read crappy articles!
It can be hard to use a desktop sitting on the couch in your home office. The laptop takes up a lot less room when your home office is also your entertainment room.
Why is this story in English? The only people who care read Portuguese.
Orkut still exists?
It might be the new "Apple is dead" FUD... :-)

http://www.macobserver.com/appledeathknell/
I'm really meant to believe that Twitter can be expected to foster an ecosystem of URL shorteners? Can I instead be pissed that Twitter hasn't simply ended these efforts by not counting URL characters?
Well that settles it: my wife is definitely not part dolphin.
Yeah. I'm VERY glad I'm not a vendor to the state.
In 99% of life, when quantities go down and demand stays the same, prices go up.

Software engineers? Check.

Concert tickets? Check.

Fruit at a supermarket? Check.

It's only in areas where government creates an artificial monopoly - and the price becomes a POLITICAL matter rather than an economic matter - that prices are broken and unable to create a smoothly functioning market.

Gas lines in the 1970s? That's because the government fixed the price of gas.

Water use in Sacramento? That's because the government fixed the price of water.

Etc.
How hard might it be to catch a bully in the act with a hidden mike or a friend with a cellphone or some such? That sort of thing was completely impractical in my day -- I'm not sure what tools kids have now.
I stand by what I wrote. His position may be backed by reams of data and rigorous scientific study, but this article is bullshit, for three reasons:

1. None of that data is presented.

2. He leverages mockery to preemptively discredit people with real-world experience that disagrees with his position, despite offering no evidence, experience, or data of his own. Come on, linking to a standard response that someone who disagrees with him can use to come up with their own formulaic response? Clear anti-intellectual mockery, and hardly the mark of a rigorous scholar.

3. His logical process as presented in this article makes absolutely no sense, particularly with regard to why telling your kid to stand up for themselves is a bad idea.

To repeat an analogy I used in another comment: this is like saying that you shouldn't advise someone whose website just got hacked to secure their app, because they got hacked because they didn't follow proper security protocol, and are therefore unlikely to follow your advice.

To accept the article as a well-written and well-argued piece on the proper response to bullying, just because the author is a leading scholar in his field is just a bizarre kind of reverse ad hominem.

Edit: reworded a few things
You have to pay taxes on your income, but you cannot pay taxes with your income.
Because talented musicians, providing value to the consumer and intelligent music marketing has very little to do with container formats.

edit: (totally off topic, but i can't wait to see them in NY the 25th. NIN is my favorite band. Saw LiTS tour four times last year.)
Caveat: "Thousands" in this case means "$2,903.39 so far".

That's after paying Apple's 30% share and $800 to outside contractors, but ignoring any time and money she spent herself, including hardware and the dev program costs.
I was gonna recommend OCDJ
If it is a PR stunt, it's pretty crass. But I doubt it's PR - they don't make any money on links, so a hike in traffic just means more costs.

Considering that they did intend to keep the old URLs functioning, and that users can get the same free service from dozens of URL shorteners, the whole thing just seems weird.
I'm confused by the bar graph. In the final month, it looks like her gross income was ~$1,200 with net Apple fees of $800. That's a 2/3rds cut, not the 30% mentioned elsewhere. What gives?
"This is exactly what is wrong with the Ruby community. Rails has an option called "disable whiny nils"."

whiny_nils is an option to provide additional information with an error, not an option to disable errors. It's not remotely related to this and you clearly have no idea what you are talking about.
It seems like there are two conditions that must be met for something to be a lie: there must be a falsehood and that falsehood must be presented with the intent to deceive. Hyperbole, exaggeration and sarcasm may, strictly speaking, be falsehoods, but the intent is clearly not to deceive.