skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an atheist too, but Dove's point is a fair one. The fact that nature is filled with chaos and conflict doesn't conflict with the idea that it was created by a human-like mind, since humans have an aesthetic preference for stories and art that involve conflict. Presumably, God also saw it artistically pleasing that some children should live their entire lives in intolerable pain and then die before reaching their third birthday, but that's not even especially extreme by the standards of human literature.
> I would explain further, but since you don't seem to bother to read carefully, I won't take the time.

That's not fair. I discarded 2 long drafts of the reply above and went with the most succinct one I could find.

This is exactly what inertia is. "I will not move to $new because I truly believe it destroys all the benefits I get from $old and now I have to invest time and effort to learn $new and rework my workflow to account for it."

I sincerely believe that the original parent is describing inertia.

Also, the one leak destroying all my accounts is a misunderstanding of openid. You can use separate openid providers and openids for various services. (I do.) Login without openid is a n to n problem, after openid it becomes a m to n problem and you can choose m as and how you want to. If you want you can still go with n to n.

And again, can you elaborate on what current capabilities does openid destroy? I can't see any.
Once, to a long, rambling post that looked like a the product of overexposure to AI and OO combined with schizophrenia, I replied: "I want that algorithm. Not the one described in the post, the one that wrote it!"
It looks really, really interesting - the presentation they have here http://riak.basho.com/nyc-nosql/ explains CAP, Amazon's dynamo concepts, Map/Reduce beautifully. Definitely going to try it.

Only thing I am concerned here is that since the data is accessed over HTTP Stack, won't it become the performance bottleneck.
Yep I require a tool like this but already use Xenu http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
Quite right. The title says engineers aren't getting enough, when the article is complaining about the engineers.
Presumably, God also saw it artistically pleasing that some children should live their entire lives in intolerable pain and then die before reaching their third birthday, but that's not even especially extreme by the standards of human literature.

Yes, but while it's acceptable to write about horrible things in a literary context, it would be considered extreme to enact them. So presuming that I actually exist, and that those children actually exist, God shouldn't get the literary dispensation. (While on the other hand, Frédéric Mitterrand certainly should.)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/08/france
A fun addition would be an anonymous karma system. Tips that the boss finds helpful will be upvoted, tips that seem petty or false can be downvoted, and future tips will appear with credibility ratings depending on the anonymous tipster's karma, but without revealing their name.

Also, indicate in a vague sense how many prior complaints the tipster has submitted without giving an exact number. This helps with the concerns about workplace paranoia, since you don't have to worry about running afoul of the few idiots that make up lies about everyone they don't like.
This is like the Honda-mode built into some late model Ferraris~
Yeah. I made this post and it was really just a "throw away" piece for any of my subscribers who hadn't already heard about it - I'm as surprised as Obama is at winning the Nobel ;-)

I guess that even when a story blows up in the techie world, there are enough people who didn't hear about it that it can be repeated several times and still do well.
Yes, it was mostly a "if you haven't seen this stuff, you need to check it out" for my subscribers. I'm not sure why it's become so popular.. I guess a lot of people still hadn't heard of it! (So mission accomplished, in a way..)
This video has been submitted before:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=872759

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=871721
Who is world class? Is MobileMe any better than this?
OK, I regard this as an opportunity to learn. So far I have invested about 3 hours in trying to understand how I can use OpenID to do what I do now, and I feel none the wiser, and resent the loss of time. You appear to be that rarest of things - a knowledgable enthusiast who will try to communicate clearly.

So, here I am, approaching a new site that requires authentication. Under my current workflow I select a userid, which may, but need not, replicate an existing userid. I select a password which is unique, and an email address which is unique. I use these credentials to signup, then reply to the confirmation email.

Now I have an account on the new service using a userid with a unique password. If that password is compromised, none of my other accounts are compromised. Further, if the email address I use gets leaked, I know who leaked it. This is how I have confirmed that eMusic are email address leaking bastards.

This last capability is important to me, just as is the ability to use unique passwords wherever I go to avoid one leak compromising multiple accounts.

Can you now point me at a document that will show how to obtain the above facilities? I'd appreciate it.

Thanks.

EDIT:

In positioning myself to understand what you write or point me at, I have further found this:

http://www.links.org/?p=187

I'd appreciate your comments on that as well. Thanks.
I think he genuinely interested in helping startups and giving his knowledge away, also in being well known, so that is part of the visionary bit you mention. He sometimes talks about himself in the third person as if he thinks everyone thinks of him as this visionary already.

I doubt he run Mahalo in long term, he will want to get it established and flip it in the next 5 years, if not sooner, and I've heard him mention on the show that he is envious of $100m buyouts for companies and he wants that for Mahalo.

I think he building connections for his next ventures and company. He is aware of a lot early stage companies, he can invest at very favorable rates and then give the company a much better chance of success by introducing it to key VCs that he knows - which could make some very good investments for himself.
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Uncanny valley? What's that got to do with these sites?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
Indeed, I doubt there's much overlap between Protestant theologians and professional biologists.
If I felt "overly compelled" I'd be in the valley now looking for people to work with on a business or tourist visa staying in cheap accom until I could move forward. The downside is too high and my best alternative to any negotiated agreement at that point would be zilch so my leverage would be low in negotiating any agreement. I don't lack confidence but have to manage risk, or in layman's terms, I don't want to overly put my balls on the line unless I absolutely must.

Sorry about being a corporate exec in those terms, it's sometimes a decent shortcut, some execs know what they are talking about- maybe not so many consultants. I am definitely no corporate exec, and never worked in a large company.

Are you specifically interested? I am happy to complete the application and then discuss it with people who might be or are seriously interested.

I have developed a trust in my own judgments and ideas over the years seeing many come to fruition by other people. Unfortunately, I haven't been in the position to so far execute and capitalize myself.

edit: all I'm basically requiring is the benefit of the doubt (and I will have to check my idea isn't then ripped off.) Ideas do have value, it's not all execution - if they did not, why are there patents (incl business process patents) or business secrets.
I don't particularly like the OpenID either. It's crap security and crap usability, at least in all the implementations I've seen so far. I would love to see a great example of a great implementation. Anyone? :)
Yes. If we went that way, then apostrophe-s would denote a plural! (It's probably inevitable, anyhow!)
I think the key thing is that 'investors' shouldn't get any of that money. If you have to pay an 'investor' to turn up it's likely they don't want to be there.

If you pay for TC50 you are paying for the conference room hire, network facilities, promotion and organizing which are expensive.
Mochikit has this in Mochikit.DOM, which does this.

I wrote something like this for YUI.

http://bitbucket.org/woadwarrior/dombuilder/
I never said that the above-the-fold findings aren't true in many cases. Never!

In fact, I know they are true... in many cases.

However, there are quite a few cases where they are not true at all. For example, direct-marketing type sales letters, which work just as well on the internet.

Which is, again, all I said. Nielsen acts as if everything he says is universally applicable, but there are quite a lot of counter-examples that also work exceedingly well. Ergo the findings are not universally applicable.

HN is supposed to be a bastion of scientific thought. What is it about my argument -- that he leaves out evidence -- that is so hard to understand?
I would note - if you didn't notice, that ojbyrne wrote the first version of Digg.
Twitter as a forensic tool
Somewhat off-topic, but what's with the username? "hackernews"? Really? Is that who you are?

C'mon, be serious. Get yourself a better account name.
Good parallel. After all, they are both "advance fee scams", i.e. "you give us some money and we'll give you more money later".
Wikileaks Makes Muckraking Easier by Anonymizing and Protecting Sources
Offer varying frequencies and opt-in tests. This becomes a "freemium" model very easily.

Here's a challenge: Could a service also try to detect common problems with appearance and rendering? Can this be done without some kind of AI akin to OCR? Certain things would be easier to detect, like content text being overlapped by another element.

Maybe just Mechanical Turk it?
Serious advice: if you feel suicidal because of a company reorg, DO NOT start a start-up.
In case you didn't notice, it's not the same person who replied, so there was no clarification.
This is a fairly common problem in taxonomy, where to draw the line between species and subspecies. That is why you will occasionally see mention of "lumpers" and "splitters", those who include everything possible into one species, and those who break things up into multiple species rather than subspecies. (Lumpers and splitters also occur at higher levels of organization - genera, families, and even orders - in some classes and phyla.) Of course, in paleontology you also have the problem of different aged animals looking different and single oddities getting written up as species because of the extremely small sample size available.
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However you might feel about the topic, 24 work-related suicides at a single company in just two years is staggering. Do any US companies have statistics like this?
They didn't teach creationist theory as the absolute definitive truth, they tought it as a plausible element to many Christian worldviews

That's kind of the point, though. Creationism is not a plausible theory. It does not explain the evidence and is contradicted by the world around us. The only way you could allow for creator god that fits the observed evidence is if you posit that he does exactly what nature would do by itself. I.e. the only god that fits the observed evidence is nature... which is exactly the point of Eliezer's article.
This industry has an unhealthy obsession with youth.
Who ruined it?

Why, Satan of course
Could someone as an intellectual exercise explain how this exploit works? I understand the idea of how some strings can throw a regex FSM off its game, but I can't see how it would happen here.
Maybe because the youth lay a healthy lesson for the "mature", or in other words, because there are 365/366 tomorrows but only 1 today.
Oh and you can change your openid url on your stackoverflow profile page.

Have you tried? Is this a special power unlocked by high karma, or something?

My profile page displays my OpenID url, thank god, or (as I already mentioned) I would have no idea what it was. But where, oh where, can I change it? The displayed value is greyed out and unclickable.

I am staring at my stackoverflow Edit Profile page right now. It has handy fields for "Display name", "email", "real name", "website", "location", "birthday", and "about me".

Oh, and there's "change picture".

It is an apparently elegant UI, not too cluttered, and there is no field for my OpenID URL, which is an ugly-ass string of Yahoo-derived GUID. Believe me, if that string was on this Edit form, I would expect to see it. It would stand out like a pit bull in a hamster cage.

But maybe I just can't see it. Age has not been kind. So please tell me how to change it; I sincerely want to know that I can.
Indeed. If you were to write a novel about an Ichneumon wasp, you might be considered a little bit twisted, but so long as the novel was good that would be accepted as part of your literary licence.

If you were to create a world containing Ichneumon wasps, though, when you have the power to not do so, you're just a sadist.
Simon Bolivar was an 'unfunded revolutionary.' Under-funded for many of his campaigns, anyways. His exploits show that one can also derive significant energy from a general environment of horrendous suck.
As far as I know ALL carnivorous snakes and lizards are potentially cannabalistic, that's why herpetologists have to be extremely careful not to keep different sized snakes or lizards together.
Yeah, there really is no weight given to experience. There is a feeling that youthful enthusiasm can overcome all.

Not that I'm anywhere near a genius now, but I'm lightyears ahead of how clueless I was when I started down the startup road.

Then again, all that experience came from stumbling through, not just getting older, so the earlier you start, the quicker you can take your beating.
> I had written the code to grab my transactions and import them

care to share?
You mean Sauron, and his daddy Morgoth. He took the beautiful and perfect Elves and twisted and tortured them into Orcs. Now that's pretty screwed up.
There is also a new site for BlackBerry smartphones, let's see if this will indeed be a serious competitor to the many other BlackBerry forums out there.

You can check it out a http://know.bbhacker.com

It took me less than 1 hour to set it up and get it going. This could be really helpful for everyone who wants to create a custom support site.
It's not only "two app stores", it's actually applied to everything - literature, art, movies etc, etc.
There's always a "mainstream" which has more mass-market appeal, and then there is something more deep and complex, but it only is of interest to a smaller percentage of, well, "customers".
I certainly agree with you. In, say, a gambling situation (which provides a "special case type" of situation where the answer that satisfies the Kelly Criterion is equal to the Optimal f answer) we know that the optimal is very "delicate," (vs "robust") with respect to the distribution of future outcomes mimicing the past. We know that if it is off, even if just a little (magnified by the number of data points!) the outcomes are monstrously different. Profit maximization is clearly a very dangerous game.
By the time I read "The Selfish Gene" I didn't really see anything that enlightening in it. "The Extended Phenotype" is the one that I found most enlightening.
I think I do quite well at "root objective analysis". But I was hoping to see some tips that might help me hone that skill. I really didn't see that. An anecdote about the yak shaving that brought people to your product really doesn't provide any instruction in how to effectively engage in "root objective analysis" -- other than, as some folks here have noted, to suggest the solution is "buy my product".
Combined with a low bar to getting noticed and thought of as successful.
Those are all much less efficient than a single click on a known location. The point is that it's harder to do than in the environment that's familiar to me, not that it's impossible to do. This creates a little bit of frustration each time I have to do it.

I was suggesting that I could cycle through all open windows with Command+Tab, not those in the same application. Isn't that what Command+Tab does?
You are visually modelling program FLOW - something that is hard to visualize by just looking at text.

Visualizing the exchange of messages in object systems is just as hard. I think that that is a big impediment to teaching OO. Perhaps that's a bit more advanced than what this project is after.
The spirit of the soil
I think Netflix would disagree with you.
Functional Social Webscraping
I bet there are some awesome tweens entrepreneurs too.
Your average user uses "password" or an equally naive variation thereof, with a handful of username/password combinations.

Yes. And... that's a well-established workflow, isn't it? ;)

It's a degenerate case, so I don't blame you for not catching my drift. But my point stands: Any user who sees a username/password form knows what to do immediately, and does it fairly instinctively. Even if the instinct is to do something much simpler than it is secure.
It exists, it's called writing an e-mail to your boss, requesting a private meeting. Anonymity is out the window anyway, if the boss isn't completely worthless, he has an approximate idea of tensions between his employees and probably even their styles in writing. If he is worthless, no amount of technological shenanigans is going to make that magically disappear.
I'm sure nobody cares, but there's a huge body of psychological research that goes to show that such "negative motivations" do. not. work.

They are especially horrible when the person is in a real position of authority, like an adult over a child (parent, teacher), or an employer. It not only de-motivates over the long term, it causes a lot of damage to the relationship.

The military situation is a bit different, because of the pseudo-brainwashing ("break em down and build em up" approach -- downvote me if you like, but we all know that's an explicit goal to create team cohesion), not to mention huge legal obligations, and maybe because of the type of people who go into it to start with.
I taught Computer Science 101 in grad school. I think this has a lot of potential.

I wonder if syntax errors could be made friendlier by animating them as visual pieces that don't fit together or that do not stick? I can imagine an editor that always keeps the text syntactically correct (by adding in closing brackets, boilerplate text to be typed over, etc). A visual editor that behaved in the same way would be very useful. Especially if the program code would dynamically update in a parallel window!

I think that people can relate to some widget or puzzle piece fitting or not fitting onto another widget or piece. Certainly, one can relate to this more readily than cryptic messages like "syntax error."
>>Fix it yourself if it's open source.

Some Google engineers don't get this clear

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/05/hands-on-goo...

And most of the Google products are not open source either.
I'm not sure if they've ever claimed that its a not-for-profit event in the way you've described. Some of that money goes into the hands of the people organizing the event (who happen to be investors).
I couldn't agree more. As a programmer, Labview is very frustrating. What takes me an hour to "setup" I could probably code in less than 15 minutes. And its damn slow. And its errors are impossible to troubleshoot.

The only reason why I would attempt to do something in Labview in the first place is because all the hardware manufacturers ship with LabView modules.
Did you notice the "anymore"?
I'm curious what the satellite broadcasters are using for their HD streams. I've read anywhere from 8 to 10 mbps for a "good" stream (e.g. HBO), but since they encode variably I bet it cranks way down for other channels (like news channels or comedy central).
Gee, thanks. I rather liked "Before the Dawn", now I'm worrying that lots of it is his own weird misinterpretations of the actual science.
I'm an intern in a navy hospital. The most common, daily, reason for psychiatric admission of an active duty member (we see all services) is suicidal ideation or attempt. I'm not counting the malingerers. I'm counting people who have been through multiple psych interviews and psychiatrists who see suicide day in and day out agree this patient merits 24-hour observation. That's one hospital. There are dozens of military hospitals. I wouldn't be surprised if the US military has 24 new suicidal admits a day.
If you're one of the '50' you don't pay, and that's the pitching part of the conference, so it isn't hypocritical.

We were offered a free demopit ticket as the '51st' company as well.
I ran the conference and have been shamefully behind in cutting all the video. So far I've only gotten the video linked in the article done. Working on more today. They should all be available on that vimeo page when all is said and done.

That said, Bryan gave a fantastic presentation and really knows his stuff.
It's linked in the highscalability article but, for simplicity, the video of the presentation that Bryan from Basho gave on riak at NYC NoSQL is:

http://bit.ly/riakNYC

the slides are embedded through the video to help with clarity.
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- denyhosts

- +1 Drop signatures from servers and packages used to build your applications

- run nmap against your own system to make sure you haven't left any unnecessary ports open

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cut-throat environment? rather not.

if i want to complain over an incompetent coworker, i do that under my identity, openly.
Looking Deeper into Forges, And Not Liking What I See - esr
This is a followup to "Three Systemic Problems with Open-Source Hosting Sites", http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1282 .
The reason that this is newsworthy is because such people are rare.

Also newsworthy in this vein:
"Why the Granny Coder decided to make her first iPhone game aged 77" http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/Gelex/news.asp?c=15588
My old laptop isn't fast enough to play newer video formats, so I need DVDs.
As I predicted, not an answer.

>>Answering straw men was never a requirement.

You involved Godwin, I didn't.

Also, as I've written twice and you haven't commented:

All democracies I know of that had terror problems (Germany, Italy, USA, Israel, Great Britain) at least walked a thin line on human rights for the terrorists.

It seems governments would be voted out in democracies if they didn't answer attacks on voters without using all measures.

There is a pattern here. My guess is that the reason is that terror problems are similar to civil wars, which are generally acknowledged to be dirtier than coal power plants.

No, you don't have to like it. I don't either, but I don't compare modern democracies to Nazis.

The only real solution I can see is to work towards more democracy in the world -- and hope the democratic peace theory isn't a fluke...

(Sorry for answering late. It was Friday evening and I try to fake having a life.)
Jonathan Miller - Medical doctor, neuropsychology research, opera, theatre & TV director, wrote and performed in 'Beyond the Fringe', Sculpture, TV presenter, author.

(Not only did he do these things - he excel(ed/s) at them)
I'd add use of 1080i compared to better alternatives like 720p to that list too.
"...an online network dedicated to supporting and engaging with young people with an internet in the web, technology and entrepreneurship."

How is that even a sentence? Somebody needs to teach the young less about entrepreneuring[sic] and more about proof reading.