skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I think the point is to get emotionally changed aspect out of the way so the following discussion can be a bit more rational. I'm not sure it succeeds but it's making an effort.
I'm loving this blog. Have we seen match percent vs reply rate anywhere?
A Letter To The Programmer (Skype bug)
Yeah, I was wondering about this too.

Palm seem to have decided they can ape Apple with this - launch the awesome new phone first, come out with a third party developer platform second.

The problems are, of course:

* Apple had Mobile Safari, so you could build iPhone-specific content (with restrictions, but still "iPhone" specific) from day one.

* Apple was there first. They got to take their time to find their strategy. Today, both iPhone & Android platforms have App Stores. Palm needs to compete with that up-front (for both developers & for users.)

... and "brand new platform", "ironing out bugs", "great user experience", yadayadayada. Someone high up decided it wasn't a launch day (or launch quarter, maybe even launch year) priority.
I see what may be two separate questions here:

1) Why did the court consider motivations to be important in the US v Microsoft antitrust case? The body of law and precedent requires that it does, in this case. Though I am not a lawyer, a quick google search found a key phrase in Judge Jackson's Conclusions of Law document: "once it is proved that the defendant possesses monopoly power in a relevant market, liability for monopolization depends on a showing that the defendant used anticompetitive methods to achieve or maintain its position."

http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f218600/218633.htm

That last phrase "to achieve or maintain its position" may involve the consideration of motivations. Otherwise, a defendant might say "we weren't dumping our product; we were merely giving our customers more for less!" The discovery of telling quotations such as the two above would give lie to such a defense, and this is why the "cut off their air supply" quotation was considered so carefully during the proceeding. That document is very interesting to read. It discusses motivations in several places.

2) Why does it matter today, now that browsers are (for the most part, Opera and others excluded) free?

Well, I guess it's really the Consent Decree and the Rule of Law that makes it matter today. If the terms of your divorce say that you're not allowed to see your ex-wife's children, it doesn't matter if 8 years have passed and you have since stopped drinking. You must abide by the terms of the decree to avoid contempt of court.

I said "8 years" in the above example, because that decree became effective in 2001. It's interesting to note that there was a prior decree in 1995, and Microsoft did actually have to go through a contempt of court proceeding for not being in compliance with its terms:

http://www.techlawjournal.com/courts/dojvmsft/Default.htm
"Lazy authors!"

But there's extra money to be made by selling the solutions manual!
Quite true, but it's hard to do all the work required for objective reviewing with no revenue.

To stick with the camera example in the original article, for any expensive purchase people will likely read reviews on a few specialized sites (eg dpreview.com) and on discussion forums where they can ask experts, other owners etc. But I'd wager there's a lot more ad revenue that goes to, say, cnet.com even though their reviews are superficial and crap. In the old days if you wanted to buy a decent camera you'd buy photography magazines and pore over the reviews, readers' letters etc. - and that's where the glossy full-color adverts from Canon, Nikon etc. would be (and still are, but the magazines have really shrunk). I don't think websites do nearly as well as the print magazines did even though they may be putting in just as much work and delivering just as much value to their readers.
This whole duct tape programmer thing seems like a huge - and obviously working - marking tactic in order to sell that book. I mean, how often have we seen this story on hackernews since Joel posted the original article?

I have to say: Well done, and everyone that blogs about it helps to spread the word about the book.
At some point though, you definitely want the teachers to be experts. This may not be true for most undergraduate curricula, true, but are not most undergraduate courses already taught by graduate students, lecturers and adjunct faculty? At the graduate level, you really want people who are active participants in their fields-- and this is probably true for the arts as well as the sciences.

I guess what i am saying is this: if all research moves to national labs and private institutes you will discover graduate education migrating there as well.
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A few things:

1) Weak filtering/action rules. You can get pretty elaborate with Outlook or Mail.
2) Weak, non-real time, search. Have to wait for page reloads to resort things for example.
3) No mail preview plane. Lots of back & forth to the message list.
4) No easy way to backup your entire mail store
5) No way to change the number of lines previewed. I would prefer 4 or 5 versus a partial line after the sender/subject.
6) No saved searches or Smart Folder-ish functionality. Labels don't quite cover it for me.

If these things exist they are dong a terrible job with the GUI because I can't find them.
customer1.mysite.com is easier to do.

First, you setup a DNS record:

customers.mysite.com IN A 12.34.56.78

Then, your customers setup CNAME records:

sub.customer1.com IN CNAME customers.mysite.com

Next, depending on your webserver (going to assume Apache), you setup virthosts:

<VirtualHost :80>
ServerName customer1.mysite.com

(etc...)

</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost :80>
ServerName customer2.mysite.com

(etc...)

</VirtualHost>

The reason you setup the customers.mysite.com record and have EVERYONE CNAME to that is because when you eventually change servers/hosts/IP addresses you simply update that single record (which is under your control) and then everything else follows. Same logic for when you eventually need to insert a load balancer or an haproxy auto-failover maintenance page.
This is a bit inane, given the N billion dollar gorilla already in the room is the people that actually own/licence the content.
I was going to post a comment directly disagreeing with this, and citing the large number of Jewish dating sites, but these are really only used by people on the more religious end of the spectrum, so it is possible that the effect is more prevalent in the Hindu-Hindu match calculations than in Jew-Jew match calculations. I would posit, however, that this effect, along with the self-selection bias of using a multi-cultural dating website, is almost certainly the cause for the tendency for higher matches towards non-relgious people.
The answer is quite obvious.

While traditional institutional fear make it invisible.

It is sad even Mozilla execs cannot see the obvious solution raised by the question Google has asked.

Browser vendors could standardize at an even lower level.

A system following the heart of Unix could allow for shared architectural components between the vendors and rapid innovation in the industry as a whole.

Why shouldn't MSIE be able to use the rendering engine of Chrome + the Javascript engine of Mozilla?

A simple "chassis" for W3C supporting browsers isn't some technological utopian vision. Just simple, stupid, good design.

Getting vendors (and the developers "on the ground") to work on something would be the hard part.

But oh what a wondrous world it would be.
They need to make it a little more clear that they're not trying to say anything bad about a particular group.
Bingo!

Medical billing is essentially a fishing expedition. No hospital in the US publishes it prices. Even more, the standard price is just "what we'd like to get". The indigent pay less than this but the insurance companies pay even less still. But the hospital's full prices are certainly still used - it allows them say they gave someone umpteen thousand dollars in medical care when the person winds-up not paying and they can charge them for things like voluntary plastic surgery, when they can truly clean-up.
If you use OS X, Postbox will do this.

http://www.postbox-inc.com/

I'm sure clients exist for other platforms which do the same.
Often it isn't the main goal of the research that's monetizable. Instead there's an assumed body of knowledge that is "well-known" and "solved" - but in fact there are only a few people in the world that truly understand it, and it could make a large impact in the industry.

If you can get deep enough into a field to sense those ideas in the air (and this is much less work than you need to publish original papers yourself), you might find a goldmine.
That sucks. Just a note to anyone attempting Canadian immigration (at least US->Canada immigration), the Buffalo office is supposedly the best way to 'fast-track' your application instead of sending it to Alberta... Even if all of the paperwork says that In-Canada applications must go through Alberta. But I am not an immigration lawyer so your mileage may vary.

I'm married to a Canadian citizen so that might have helped. Instead of just trying to immigrate 'cold.'
I usually use mutt outside of the Gmail interface, but IIRC there is a Ruby-based console mail reader that aims to do the 'conversations' thing.
With BREW you pay $400 at a minimum to be able to sign applications, which is required to run on the device. Consoles and portables invariably end up in the thousands (assuming you're an established developer). Even Microsoft's XNA platform for the Xbox360 is $99/yr. and doesn't even allow full access to the device.

In terms of openness, the iPhone and Pre are somewhere between these and desktop operating systems. From one side they appear terribly draconian, but from the other, very appealing. This is why you see Apple putting a lot of effort into courting game developers over, say, hobbyists.

I'll be damned if I pay an annual fee to deploy my app on my phone.

I understand where you're coming from, but if all you want to do is deploy your own app on your own phone, then you're not really using most of what that $99 ostensibly pays for. The people who are paying are generally those who are going to make use of what else it affords them, e.g. the ability to distribute or sell that application to tens of millions of others. They don't really have it backwards--they're just paying for something more than what you're wanting to do.
Extending this existing government programs certainly will break the present health care system. So will just about any plan which extends the current trends. It is that bad.

Socialized medicine, ie, clearing the decks and having a single payer, could be a completely different animal, though not one we're likely to see until whatever doomed-to-fail plan is approved and, uh, fails. Then who know?
Uh, technically, you still don't get the care.
> I'm married to a Canadian citizen so that might have helped.

That makes a huge difference actually.
> The fact they've acknowledged and responded to jwz's post at all is a good sign.

Really? Seems far more of a neutral sign considering how much attention his post got.
6) No saved searches or Smart Folder-ish functionality. Labels don't quite cover it for me.

How is that? Anything that you can construct a gmail search with can be used in a filter to 'tag' incoming emails. The only thing lacking is a way to 'filter' based on tags or to order the way that filters are processed. (i.e. you can't tag emails based on the other tags they are already tagged with, and even if you could it might not work since the filters for those tags might happen after the filter looking for them)
Given the choice between launch without an app store or wait and fall even farther behind, whaddya gonna do.
I realize that, but the process was going really slowly until my wife appealed to the local MP and things sped up pretty quickly... at least 'quickly' for immigration.

We know people that were married that took years to get their paperwork through and they were also US->Canada.
Google Wave presentation - abridged (10:00 video)
He just smiled and gave me an iSnack 2.0 sandwich
Ants inspire new computer antivirus software
Agreed, who cares about their word choice. The fact that they've even acknowledged a problem puts makes them much more responsive than most of their competitors.
Good thing she did that, likely saved you years.

We were coming in under the 'entrepreneurial' banner, about 750K invested in to the Canadian economy, 12" of paperwork including 5 years of bank statements for 3 companies and god knows what else.

The weird thing is that as long as we were still in Europe we were assured things would go fast, but after moving everything ground to a halt. Only to speed up again after we threw in the towel, but by then we really didn't feel like going back. We still have 2 100 acre farms and a skeleton business there (about to be wound down). A total waste of time and money, but the time spent there was quite enjoyable (even though the winters are terribly harsh).

Northern Ontario is absolutely gorgeous.
Yup, they're as free to attend the same industry events as anyone else. The same way girls are just as free as the boys to play football, the same way men are just as free to be interested in ballet or (to borrow an example from above) crocheting as women.

How many times have you skidded away from attending an event (professional, social, whatever) because you didn't know anyone there? How many more would you have avoided if you knew everyone there was Not Like You, in some fundamental, if suck-it-up-able, way?

I'm still on the fence in terms of whether minorities (numerically in this industry) deserve 'special treatment' - but if members of a minority choose to reach out to each other (networking events, dinners, scholarships), who are we to criticize?
hehe. Graphs look an awful lot nicer when you use the pdf terminal with it. Gotta love that anti-aliasing.
I just get blank pages
A little free product development advice
I use dropbox and am happy with it. I save files to it every day. I share files using it about once a fortnight and I grab files via the web app about once in 2-3 months.

I'm at 23.1% of 2.5 GB.

I don't think I will upgrade soon unless I start to use two machines regularly.

I would guess less per average free user (maybe as low as $2 per year). I would guess that 1/15 conversion is also a high estimate. But I might convert in a few years time. I imagine that it'll take another year or two before they really know what conversion rates look like.
Ok, to make good on my promise, I've amended the estimating page, it is about 3 times the original length now.

Probably the way I'm going to continue this project is to flesh it out slowly and to continue to subjects that deserve a page by themselves.

I hope the additions are useful to you, you can find them here:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/be-consultant/estimating
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hmmm.... I wondered this last week.

Another thing I noticed is that if you have been getting it on (not in a long term relationship context), you will find that for some reason women find you more attractive.

There is some subconscious changes that happen in a guy, (has an easier time to chat women up, has a more 'not give a f.' attitude), that women pick it up, and makes the guy more attractive their eyes.

The basic premise of the article is that women are complicated, and the reason they sleep with a guy are also complicated, and some of them downright silly.
Better that than type coercion!
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Keep in mind that the 'Match %' is based on OKCupid.com's algorithms that number crunch against quiz answers that the users answer. This has nothing to do with 'success rate' of users on the site hooking up with other users.
I had a big long pompous comment here and it's just not as good as tumult's comment, which sums up the situation nicely:

"Yeah, but I mean, if I took up a sudden interest in crocheting or something and the best way to get connected and start learning was to go to a crocheting convention that's 99% female, I'd feel a little awkward/discouraged."

Bringing more women into the profession is a good thing. Having the woman in my life able to throw down in jQuery and even sometimes beat me on pentests is a good thing; you have no idea how much easier it is to build a company with your spouse.

Let's find something else to get all huffy about.
This reminds me of all the clever kids in school during Black History Month who would ask, "And when is White History Month?"

The canned answer is, "The other 11 months of the year are White History Months."

This answer has become trite at this point, but the argument at its core remains valid. Unfortunately, there are serious biases in our society. Correcting those biases is a worthy goal, and one we should pursue. In the mean time, we can use Black History Month and Ruby Workshops for Women to compensate for the biases and at least try to treat the symptoms.
Arranged-marriage.
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Sure. My question is, what led to that situation happening in the first place?
You don't even have to get into a discussion about whether meaningful biases persist. It's hard to go to a dev workshop if you're extremely rusty because you've been taking care of kids for 2 years, or because you've been forced by circumstances to work part-time.
I'm very grateful for your response.

What kind of info do you need?
> It's 'interesting' but not 'rigorous'.

Of course it's not rigorous. To some degree people interacting with OKCupid's site are a self-selecting bunch. You really need to take this at face value. This is just a blog post showing some number crunching on their site. There are no sensationalist headings like "Muslim Males the Most Hated Group of People." Keep in mind that this is also not a scientific journal, not peer-reviewed research... nor is it claiming to be.
Assuming they didn't deliberately shuffle the ordering just to confound people like you.

Your results look depressingly plausible, though, so I'm guessing not.
A set of standard contracts would be great, but it would also be nice if there was a "why are these things in here and what do they all mean" document for each contract.
librsync (http://sourceforge.net/projects/librsync/) does this. It's LGPL'd so I wouldn't be surprised if they were using it. Certainly a lot simpler than reinventing the wheel.
Interesting - curious how they are actually implementing the 'digital ants'. I think there is a lot of potential in modeling systems after nature.
... which means that the Hindus using OkCupid are those who are specifically not looking for a Hindu date.

Or maybe they are specifically looking for a non-Hindu date. I mean that they might be looking for a uncompromising relation, maybe easier with a person with different roots.
It's way past my bedtime here, and judging by the moderation I'm not able to make my point, which is simply this:

If you are going to be making sweeping statements about people, even including race and religion then you really should do your homework, or if you're doing it out of curiosity, keep the results to yourself. By presenting the data in a format that looks as though very hard work went in to its creation and by hammering home the reliability of that data you are creating the illusion of something that is scientifically solid when in fact it isn't.
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So we've seen Microsoft and Mozilla whine about Chrome Frame, how about anyone without a vested interest in seeing Chrome fail?
I constantly have the opposite problem -- for some reason freetards just luurve en_GB. If you really want superfluously coloured language, set your locale!
good read. it's a lesson that's emphasized by many successful authors, in addition to every writing professor i've had.

a great orwell essay with similar messages: http://www.george-orwell.org/Politics_and_the_English_Langua...
An odd coincidence to be sure, but Hans Reiser[1] also skipped high school and went to Berkeley via the same program Mr. Boles did.

1- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser
The flaw here is that how people interact on their site has very little bearing on how those same people will interact in real life.

I still find interesting to know how they interact online.
data shows murder causes death

Are you making the claim that the word "data" is singular? It's not. And when you use a collective noun, you use the singular form (datum, in this case).

Along this line, though, what does sound jarring to me is the recent trend among the tech lit (and maybe others) to use company names as plural, as in, "Microsoft are keeping quiet about their new product." This is totally non-standard. First of all, Microsoft is a singular entity, identified by its articles of incorporation. What these authors are doing is using a lazy shorthand for, "Members of Microsoft management are keeping quiet about their new product."

See, for instance, "The Bedford Handbook for Writers" http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/newcatalog.aspx?isbn=0312595...
Hey, this is the same company that was bragging about their growing marketshare in the PDA market in 2006. That's PDAs, not smartphones.

I'm impressed they made it this far.
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Uh,

This just looks like the processed results of a survey.

However I would think that any serious study of motivation would have controls in place to sift between the actual deciding factor for a behavior are and the reasons people merely give for a behavior.

This is more than just a question of "will people tell the truth". It's also that people's ability to really know what makes them do things is limited and the mind tends to confabulate reasons that have nothing to do with the 'real' reasons for doing an action...
I agree with Mozilla.

It would become an easy way out for people to just have 2 click plugins for their website instead of forcing people to take the hard way and install a full browser.
I don't like the fact that my parents is pressuring me to go to college even after enduring four years of high pressure boredom.

Either I go to college, or I get kicked out.

I don't have a programming job yet, barely able to drive, and generally not prepared for life beyond high school life.

I feel like the world is closing on me and I have no idea where to go other than the painful path my parents and sister set out for me.

I wish I have the capability to navigate life on my own term, without sacrifice in life quality.

Sure you went to school for 4 years to get what it look like very high pay but do you really want to be stuck in corporate cubicle for the rest of your life?

I don't even know what drive kids to sacrifice their time for schooling and at the same time have a life. They probably know calculus like it was the back of their hand.

As for me? I just program for fun and do electronic hacking as another side hobby. I can't do math even if my life depend on it. Beside my undiscoverable underground hobbies, I am just very unremarkable student in a pool of remarkablely bright students.
Noteworthy that the "IE Tab" is a popular Firefox add-on:
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The idea is that they're acting against a "tyrant."