skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to endlessly grow the thread so I won't respond with an essay, but: [green causes] have everything to do with forcing us into using less energy at whatever the cost is where we disagree. The environmental goal is to reduce externalities which damage the environment and result in costly future problems. Energy efficiency is one strategy in pursuit of that goal. In short, I feel you are discounting the future cost of pollution management.

it would have been disastrous if humankind had sat down in 1989 and decided to implement a world-wide scheme that would essentially dampen economic growth and development

You say you don't predict economic ruin, but you suggest that more attention to environmental considerations in 1989 would have been 'disastrous' - hmm. Conversely, it would have been advantageous if we had sat down in 1989 and committed more resources to renewable energy sources instead of dismissing their utility. For example, British engineers had developed promising wave-power technology in the 80s which now enjoys a renaissance, but when North Sea oil was discovered investment in that technology was halted. It would have been better to exploit North Sea oil and funnel some of that windfall back to R&D. Some background on this particular case: http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article1018.html

I really don't want to get into politics or point-scoring, but I basically believe you are naively discounting the utility of environmental stability.
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Anymore I write more software on Saturday & Sunday than I do M-F. So which one is my weekend?
the promise of changes at the edge of the network are now happening.

Validation: With microblogging (or other forms with video and audio) and > 3G mobile new data forms will create massive new opportunities that will disrupt - search, UI, enterprise computing - this is the real time web

The Real Time Web is only value if it solves Real Time Needs

I'm very bullish on the real time but not the way most startups are approaching it. Most are missing the boat big time. Great opportunity for developers and entrepreneurs.
Free software is dead. Long live open source
Not many decent companies have come out of seedcamp. Mybuilder is the only success story.
While the bank obviously made a monumental screw up, Google's initial response to the bank is at least in part to blame. Regardless of the privacy rights of the person who's Gmail account it is, there obviously should be an interest in protecting the confidential information of the 1,300 customers.

Google could have responded by helping the bank recover and delete the file, as well as sending an unmissable notification to the Gmail user.
Apparently, the judge who ordered this doesn't have very good judgement:

"In 1998, Judge Ware was reprimanded by the Judicial Council of the Northern District Court of California for fabricating the story of being the brother of Virgil Ware[5], a 13 year old black boy shot by teenage racists in Alabama in 1963 on the same day as the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. According to a story Judge Ware had told many audiences, he was riding his bike with his brother Virgil on the handlebars when Virgil was shot and killed by white racists.[6] The incident was a real one, however it happened to a different James Ware,"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ware_%28judge%29
Have you tried vim like browsing?

http://vimperator.org/trac/wiki/Vimperator

For keyboard lovers.
Ignoring stance, I am just curious -- am I the only one who did not expect this thread to collect so many points and comments?
There should be some way to fight this. It is not acceptable for some one send you a wrongly addressed email and then make court deactivate your email account. I wonder how could a Judge rule this way?
Yeah, but I can almost guarantee that anyone using Cream will think "How is this any better than <GUI editor of choice>?"

In my opinion, the only way anyone new to vi is gonna be sold is by struggling through the learning curve. They'll have an "ah-ha" moment soon enough.
yeah CPA really sucks. I have a car related site, and I have a bunch of CPA ads, and they aren't making any money whatsoever.

Statistics:(40K users, 450K page views)

Insurance(banner): 36 clicks, 0 sales
Tires(multiple banners): 82 clicks, 0 sales
Tires(click here type links tied into content): 213 clicks, 0 sales
Leasing: 12 clicks, 0 sales
he is referring to the amount the investors pay into the seedcamp fund, not the amount given to teams
I like the idea but it could use a little sprucing up to become actionable:

1) Let me enter conversation topics. Or just ice breaker topics. In my head the table headings would read: Hi, I'm | @ | on | for | interested in |. Interested in would then be the place for me to dump some suggestion for breaking into a conversation. I could say "Ponies and Unicorns" so that someone would just have something comfortable to say to me other than "uh...hi, i saw your on this website". Or i could put "Communism and the fall of the USSR" to ward of small talkers.

2) I know you probably want to avoid having people log in and junk like that but it would be nice to (optionally) let people log in to their favorite social service (facebook, twitter) so you could pull their profile image and display it in the table. It helps with identifying people.

Sounds like a great idea.
NetBSD comes with nvi, which is a clone of the original vi:
http://www.bostic.com/vi/
Who cares? Why does that matter?

Ask the guy who made the slides debunking the "myth".

This is not about hiring or recruiting people. This is simply about language readability.

I have been using perl longer than any other major language except C, and I still have to review basic syntax crap every time I have to read perl code.

... just like every other programming language ever written.

Not true. Perl requires significantly more language-specific trivia than most other languages, and for marginal benefit. Differentiation between scalar, list, and hash is not especially useful most of the time. It doesn't significantly help readability (or writability) and makes the code more complicated.

A nonstandard default array index is one piece of trivia. In fact, it can be deduced from the example I gave, and if you aren't sure you can check. I highlighted several in that one perl example.
Sure, with a court order. Why should Google randomly delete emails from an account just cause some company/bank asked them to?
I have no trouble believing that MS can innovate. I just thought it was odd that they came out with a weird-sounding animal name that happens to be almost identical to a weird-sounding animal name one of their big rivals recently used for an experimental project (they renamed it to Nitro when it was released), and I find it hard to believe that MS doesn't have people who go carefully over everything they do in public looking for legal or PR issues, or that they didn't notice how much "Barrelfish" resembles "Squirrelfish". On the other hand, it's hard to see that they gain any particular benefit from it, and I'm not much inclined to start making up conspiracy theories, and maybe the resemblance isn't as obvious as I think it is. Dunno. ... So, wanting to draw attention to the oddity but not having anything very coherent to say about it, I just made a joke out of it, but unfortunately it seems to have been insufficiently funny. Can't win 'em all.
I don't understand why the order is to deactivate the account, and not just recover/delete the email and maybe release the identity of the account owner?
I do not consider getting a tiny subset of the tech audience using OpenID a case for it being a success. In fact, it did that years ago and has gone nowhere since.
I've hit ctrl-w and closed a window while taking a test in class.
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If you're worried about sites conspiring behind your back to join your identities together, I take it you use a different e-mail address on every site you sign in to as well?
Good finding. I hope there is some way to appeal in a higher court.
Yeah, I'm getting 600k monthly uniques and 3m page views and not even coming close to covering the cost of my dedicated server. I think big brand advertising is where it's at, but it's not easy to get.
By the same reasoning:

1. If I "accidentally" send an email to the bank I could get the court to kick the bank off the interwebs.

2. If I send a sensitive snail mail "accidentally" to the bank, can I get the court to lock down the bank's premises and order a search for my mail (and any copies of it)?
from seedcamp site:

"It is important that if you decide to accept the invitation for Seedcamp Week, that you participate with the intention to accept a Seedcamp investment. We have streamlined this week and process to help entrepreneurs and speed up a historically unnecessarily lengthy investment process. As such we believe teams should provide the same good faith and participate with the intention of bringing Seedcamp on board as an investor."
You've got to wonder who's paying the judge's salary
The amount of false dichotomies and developer stereotypes Spolsky and Atwood manage to get spewed from ordinarily calm and logical people is astounding.
Some combination of:

Programming, Reading, Drinking, Poker, PC Gaming (Urban Terror, StarCraft, UT3, Quake), Magic: The Gathering, Catching up on entire seasons of good shows, Movie theater, Shopping (food), Walking (w/dogs)

Big fan of being home on the weekend. I like my home.
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Actually, you would use an ftplugin or autocmd to :set keywordprg=ri only when ft=ruby, which is what the ruby.vim files do. In fact, they are already part of the standard runtime files distribution.
You don't need to invent a brand new password for each site you sign up for, but it's more secure than reusing the same password on every site. The new OpenID+OAuth hybrid protocol described in the linked article greatly improves convenience by allowing a site you are signing in to to request access to e.g. your contact list at the same time - so two clicks and you're logged in and have granted access to further information. http://trendly.com/ is a great example of this flow in action.
You don't have to type your password as often, remember as many passwords (if you would use different ones for different sites), or keep passwords in sync (if you would use the same password at many sites).
I like it! As usual, the issue will be enough traffic to make it worthwhile to post. Otherwise, my interest in posting will trail off over time because of few successful link-ups. "Network effect" relevant here.
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Well, its not rare for a judge to make a bad ruling, and "the way to fight this" is to appeal to a higher court. Rulings are reversed all the time.
> My memory is fading so I'm not sure Mirai brought SubD first... did it?

I'm sure it wasn't the first one. LW had MetaNurbs before that, and Catmull had paper before that also - which is funny since Pixars RAT incorporated SubD's only later.

What Nichimen did was show the world a new way of doing things, that how we got things like connect poly shape in maya and other tools which didn't yet have proper SubD support.

Funny you've mentioned working on FF the movie (I still have nice rejection letter for being too young :) ), I still reference that kilauea parallel renderer paper now and then. It was a real feat. I also remember reading somewhere how you guys had only a handful of shaders in your pipeline - first time I've heard about someone actually making and using ubershaders in production.

Nichimen Mirai tech was bough by softimage and later some of the features made it into the XSI (poly bridge and other cool stuff).

Maya is still IMO a great platform, you can extend it to whatever you wish.
While it's a reasonable view to hold that temps have been falling since 1998, it's hard to point out a source (on either side) that hasn't been called into question. Just google on "global temperature since 1998" and similar, and you'll see lots of partisan debate and screaming about it on the front page. Unfortunately, everyone on both sides seems to cherrypick data to avoid letting facts get in the way of Truth, and it's very hard to know who, if anyone, has an unbiased desire to present data.
This would set a pretty nasty precedent in which Google would be helping companies delete files from individuals email accounts without their knowledge.

Wouldn't that be the definition of what we'd call Evil?

I think they did the correct and ethical thing by following their privacy policy.
Which points to a really huge invisible elephant: what do you do when a judge is plain wrong?
Someone should accidently send some confidential info to the judge's email account.
Vim's power comes from the fact that it's interface is more or less a command language.

Remove that (or hide it) and you've more or less gotten rid of the major advantage of vim. You'd be better off using eclipse/geany/... over cream.
Surf, learn and practice bushcraft techniques, daydream about owning a campervan for kids/bikes/surboards, take photographs of clouds, go fishing but never catch anything.
I believe The Irish Times is funded by a grant. If the starting grant is big enough, in theory, it can sustain itself for ever even without additional donations.

But theory and practice are often different in practice.
How do they know he didn't already download a copy and keep it? (not that I think they ought to pursue that, I just think that if the bank is worried about their security - they screwed themselves over long ago!)
I brew and/or drink beer! Camping, computer games, ultimate frisbee as well.
All the sites I visit remember my password. My browser remembers my password on top of that. My browser is synced to all my other browsers, etc.

Given the StackOverflow example, it would take exactly 5 seconds to type in my usual username and unsecure password and start using the site. The whole Open ID thing seems like a hell of lot more work.
Once he received the email from the bank about the mistake he would be in definite hot water if he distributed the list. I believe even if he hadn't recieved the email from the bank he would still be in trouble if he distributed it but I'm less certain of that. IANAL of course so take this with a grain of salt.
Contrary to the article, the pdf doesn't appear to be locked in any way.

If you run the pdf through "pdftotext -layout", you get a very readable text file which is probably easier to parse than any XML they'd come up with. (Probably easier to deal with than the HTML that Word produces.)

If you want to extract metadata or break it into sections to load into your custom web app, it'd be a couple hours work with your favorite scripting language. (Anything with decent regular expression support.)

(If you want boldface/italics, I'd recommend tweaking the backend of pdftotext.)
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It sounds like a solution in search of a problem. I don't really need security for my slashdot account or hacker news.

Now combining with OAuth is interesting, but I don't have a "contact list" anywhere. I don't really have any information that I need (or want) to share between sites. It's definitely a cool option though, so I won't bemoan it's existence. However, I am annoyed at sites that require OpenID without the standard alternative.
And some wider perspective: "Practical Guide to Controlled Experiments on the Web: Listen to Your Customers not to the HiPPO" http://exp-platform.com/hippo.aspx (downloadable pdf).

I know, its from Microsoft. And worth reading.
I would be glad to share, but I cannot remember.
Problem is, it doesn't discuss much on what those savings might be, only that they exist.
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Some govt spending might meet that description, but do you really think that it all does? If not, what fraction does?

And, even for the money that is spent that way, how do you get from "everyone needs" to "should be funded by govt". For example, everyone needs shoes. Should govt provide shoes?
Go to a concert
Go kayaking
Work on the house
Dishes, laundry, groceries, lawnmowing
Drive to another city (east coast megalopolis FTW)
Stay in and chill with me wifey
Work on music stuff
Ups.

Thank you for clarification.
I spend two weekends per month just at home, mostly coding +reading/playing video games. The other two weekend usually involve concerts/festivals or just visiting friends.

I need that balance, too much activity on weekends means my head won't calm down when i need it to... and too long without seeing normal people and i get lonely :)
I, however, am waiting for an FPS, vim-style!
Appeal. (In theory).
I play my favorite video game: emacs.

Joking aside, I make sure to do a bike ride on Sunday, and lately, I spend lots of time with my daughter.
My main problem with Perl is references and contexts. Most of the experienced programmers I work with find themselves unable to write or debug code that requires the use of these Perl concepts.

For example, my co-workers and I find it easy and intuitive to work with lists in Python

xs = [5, 6]
xs.append(7)
print xs[2] # prints 7
xs.append([]) # easy to append lists to other lists
xs[3].append(6) # easy to append to the inner list
some_func(12, "hello", xs, True) # easy to pass to a function

In Perl this would be way more complicated for reasons that are obvious to someone who knows Perl well, but a mystery to people who use Perl casually.

$xs = [5, 6]; # must be a reference
push @$xs, 7 # deference $xs as a list
print "$xs->[2]\n" # still not too bad
push @$xs, [] # add a nested list reference
push @{$xs->[3]}, 6 # omgwtf?!
some_func(12, "hello", $xs, 1) # not too bad

Understanding "push @{$xs->[3]}, 6" is asking a lot just to deal with a nested list that you need to pass to a function, especially compared to the easily understandable "xs[3].append(6)". For that matter, it's asking a lot to make you understand the difference between a list and a list reference. It's asking a lot to ask to understand the concept of "evaluating in a ___ context", especially when other languages manage to do the same things without these concepts.
I care a lot more about being able to understand the problem domain and maintain the code than merely being able to read it by way of familiarity with an Algol-derived language with class-based OO support and dynamic typing.

Surely being able to read the code makes it easy to maintain: the reason you might use perl is for existing libraries/support and the level of abstraction available.
Language design has a direct impact in maintainability.
Does anyone know what sort of precedent is set for the rights someone has who unintentionally receives confidential information? I think that it would apply directly here.
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plus I still have to see a use for it. Usually I just go linewise or, inside a line, with movements like f) or $.
The idea of OpenID is that you can use any OpenID provider you want, google or yahoo or facebook or run your own, so security generally depends on which server you choose. There are some brain-dead simple options for end-users. For example, just type your Blogger address (e.g. sep332.blogspot.com), you'll be redirected to log in to your Google account. The server just vouches for your identity.
Boardgames.
How does one learn enough about the value of the seedcamp folks before seedcamp to know whether one would want their investment?
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This would be because there are very, very few people, even among your programmers, that can actually consider all of the needed cases when dealing with "business logic".

So you end up having to have an ability to do something dangerous and disaster prone to keep the whole ball of crap from falling apart in a most splendid way.
The stealthiness is debatable.

Suppose that it is pretty easy to look at money printing and figure out how much devaluation results (eg: prices will wind up 10% later).

Even if that's true deciding when to raise your prices (and how much to raise them) has a lot more to do with supply (of your inputs) and demand (for your products) and also what your competitors are up to.

EG:

- you raise your price now, but your competitors raise it less; they take a lot of your business pretty easily

- your customers haven't gotten "their share" of the printed money yet (eg: wages haven't caught up with the devaluation, or they haven't raised prices proportionately yet, etc.) so you lose more by raising prices than you lose by leaving them as-is

...that kind of thing.
I think there is a difference between politics and economics. Not to say that they can't be mixed, but I think economic theory is of interest to a lot of hackers.
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Oh, so the US has 30.5 thousand million barrels of oil in reserve? Personally, I like to call that number 30,500 hundred ten-thousands.
Sorry about that.. Although, by posting the 3rd page it shows I actually read it before submitting. :p
"Hi, you received an email from us yesterday with confidential information. Please contact us immediately and destroy the file. It's the email with the subject 'Re: Do we have a way to back up our data?'"
My question is what does deactivating the e-mail account accomplish? If I received that e-mail and I intended to sell it or use it for my own malicious purposes, I would have saved the data off somewhere by now. Deactivating the e-mail account doesn't seem to accomplish anything.
In this case, the fact is that they have arrived at questioning the availability and integrity of one dataset (which is not the entire basis for theories of climate change) only after years of empty rhetorical or scientifically absurdist arguments.

It's like being told that 'true scientists are open to new information, you are too close-minded' by an astrology advocate. Astrology buffs love using this argument, for the same reason they love the poster of Einstein with his tongue sticking out and the caption 'imagination is more important than knowledge'. That does not mean they like science.
OpenID 2, which was the first version intended to be broadly useful outside of LiveJournal, was published less than two years ago. In that time, OpenID has gained support from every major identity provider and most major consumers. Anybody who uses LiveJournal, Wordpress, StackOverflow, or thousands of other sites can use OpenID instead of a traditional login.
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John Crighton did this on farscape...it worked really well!
Arial would be better than Verdana by orders of magnitude :)
Yes,I believe that's the traditional Chinese way.
1) Continue playing taxi by driving son to engagements.
2) Downtime from taxi work: movies, hang out at beach, etc.
3) Step back from implementation and think big picture. Meditate on what I have been working on. Veg-out. Let the mind wander. It has often wandered interestingly.
But that's kind of the point, regardless of what you think about global warming you should be wary of "you're either with us or against us" type arguments.

And for the record I don't know much about global warming, it seems at least plausible, and I certainly don't reject it. I'm just wary of the kind of argument from urgency that's become so popular lately in American politics (and I'm sure it's been an effective political tool since the beginning of time).
> The science should continue. Until there's a good body of scientific evidence that what we're doing is safe (and at the current rate, that's very unlikely), there will still be the need for change.

The question is not "change or not?", the question is "what change?"

When the "reduce carbon" folks start seriously pushing nuclear, as in breaking ground for a nuke/month in the US, I'll believe that they think that AGW is a serious problem. As long as they act like it's just a club for political ends and feel-good moralism....