skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have to accept me as a buddy before I can send you a wave, this will prevent spam but make it harder for wave to replace email. Incidentally, this is also why "solve this turing puzzle before I accept email from you" type of anti-spam solutions are not widely accepted.
I wonder how much improvement there has been between more recent models of cars. I doubt that there are many people driving the 1959 Chevy Bel Air on today's highways, but there are probably plenty of people driving cars that were built in 1999. I'd be interested to see how much of a difference in safety there is between similar car models from '99 and '09.
I felt that article and the video were a bit fluffy too. That ice test was hardly scientific. I imagine competitive nature may play more of a role than pain tolerance - at least that would be the case for me.
sweet, upvoted.
It's good, with a heavy focus on frequentist statistics and maximum entropy approach
There's a "Spam!" button in Wave, for marking wavelets as spam.
I see what you mean now, but there are several threads in this discussion that use "tank" to refer to old cars (i.e. made-out-of-steel rust buckets.)
It is grammatically correct. (Not that I could care less.)
I have driven some of those old boats, and they do handle very poorly, but not really worse than a lot of truck-based SUVs today. Looking outside of the US where large boats never caught on, the improvement in active safety appears even smaller.

I came to the opposite conclusion regarding '90s Crown Victorias vs. Contours, however every Crown Victoria I've driven was a sport or police model with stiffer suspension than normal. Comparing to my grandmother's Buick Roadmaster, I'll agree with you.

Again, I'm not saying modern cars aren't better. I'm saying the difference in active safety is not as big as the difference in passive safety, and I'm wondering why that is. Today's best handling cars are much better than the best cars of decades ago, but the average isn't nearly so improved.
Folks interested in using logic programming for building distributed systems might be interested in some work my research group is doing: we've built Hadoop, HDFS, and Paxos in a high-level distributed variant of Datalog, which is another logic programming language in the same family as Prolog.

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-11...

http://neilconway.org/docs/netdb2009_paxos.pdf
Not looking for a job, so grain of salt, but I particularly like the name and think it has a straightforward & casual feel.
If you want the name that badly, trademark it and have a lawyer start the ICANN dispute process to take the name from the squatter. This will cost you some $$$ in legal fees, but probably less than the squatter is willing to spend in defending the name.

see:

How To Trademark a Domain Name: http://www.allbusiness.com/technology/internet-domain-names/...

ICANN Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy: http://www.icann.org/en/udrp/udrp.htm
I can't help but feel sorry for the dog.
I think it's unfair to compare cars from 50 years ago against cars today without comparing the behavior of the drivers, improvement of safety education, improved laws, better police enforcement, etc..

see what i did there? ;)
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Thank you.
It's not that I'm not ready. It's the fact that I even have to balance it.

Also the startup is much more interesting. School is just an unnecessary impedance to the startup and if I am serious about it I wouldn't even care about school (which I don't). The problem is my parent's aren't going to pay for me to relocate to silicon valley or fund a risky project. They'd rather fund college.

So my options are to find a way to fund myself so I have a legitimate reason to focus full time on the startup, or balance school and startup. The problem is I have a hard time enforcing a balance and the startup gets more of the attention.

So ideally I want to be in a position where I need no balance and focus solely on the startup.
amen to #10.
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An invite would be fantastic. Thanks!

hmmm.. this should be at the bottom :\
I personally agree with your objective assertion (it's not a question of affordability of healthier food).

But it's awfully dirty pool to build straw men and convenient demons and then pass judgment on anyone advancing a contrary position with a judgment about their motivations.
I think the author's point is that this is no different from the mark as spam button in email. So basically wave and email are equivalent in terms of being at-risk wrt spam.
Point taken. I guess what I really take issue with is when people have these concepts (i.e. 'the computer is the monitor') and then you try to tell them different, and they fight you tooth and nail to keep you from changing their 'view of the world.'

It's like someone knows that you're knowledgeable about a subject so they ask you a question, and you respond by informing them that most of what they think they know is wrong (and then telling them how things really are). Then they get pissed off and basically tell you that they know more about the subject than you do.
Dell definitely looks to be trying to get away from their original image as the cheap computer maker. Additionally, they're definitely targeting business with this system, which has always been their strong market.

I'm not sure how good the edge-touch bar on the right would be. I'm a big fan of not having to extend my arm.

The best feature of this laptop is definitely the wireless docking station and charger. Apparently you just have to put the laptop down on a desk and the wireless docking station will automatically detect the laptop and start external display and USB devices. Pretty slick.
I don't think it will have that much effect; the Internet works and will keep working as long as ICANN continues to basically do nothing.

ICANN is funded by a tax on domain names. IMO that money is wasted, but at least it's being wasted in a harmless way.
Google Wave on the iPhone
> But what about the long-term impact of living pulse-free? That question is a matter of lively debate in the cardiac device community. Akif Undar, a clinician and cardiac researcher at Penn State University, says pulse is important to get blood to all the small capillaries feeding the organs. "I think you would see organ damage in animals given a [non-pulsing] heart," he says.
R is a great language. I have been using R for a while. However, I wonder if someone could make a free,nice,simple yet powerful user interface for R. For my fellow biologists who wants to do some data analysis,the learning curve of R is just too steep.
FWIW, aesthetics matter. Yeah, you can force yourself overlook them, and I did so when I was taking a look at the site, but it's natural (and probably reasonable) to use aesthetics as a quick heuristic to determine quality. Most people don't have the time or energy to evaluate all the possible factors that determine something's quality, so we use "irrational" methods of rapidly gauging whether something is worth our time and attention. An abrasively designed website is like a dirty grocery store; just like it's hard to find the clean piece of fruit when bugs are circling your head, it's hard to evaluate an application's merits when the color scheme is buzzing in your mind.

Now, that being said, it's not helpful just to scream "UGLY" and move on whenever something doesn't project the disaffected techno-chic image that glossy buttons and minimalistic icons could give it (heh heh heh). But it isn't too much to ask the colors to not be actually painful to the eyes. That much has been fixed now anyways.

I, for one, am interested to see where this project goes. Good tutorial software and formats are important, and I think the effort is commendable. I wish I could offer more feedback, but I haven't had time to listen much of the content on the site. And that may be a problem common to many of the posters here: audio-based tutorials are a time commitment, and when you're asking for that, all the little things like design start to matter even more. I've decided that I'm interested and that I will take the time later to look at it and give more thorough feedback precisely because Paddy (the OP) seems like a genuinely nice guy, and he's controlled enough not to take the color criticism too harshly.
Why exactly does this need to be a full-on Firefox extension rather than a GreaseMonkey script? As a GreaseMonkey script users can use it on multiple browsers...
Amusingly enough, this one tidbit has been the primary subject of conversion this article has spawned, both here and on reddit.
This is a well known problem. Healthy food is just too f-ing expensive.

If anyone is looking for a billion dollar idea, try making a healthy tasty affordable fast food chain. And no subway does not count, it tastes like cardboard.

The biggest problem with the healthy fast food chain is supply of fresh produce. One of the main reasons bad food is so much cheaper is simply because it lasts longer and thus can handle the long nationwide supply chains that are currently prevalent.

But that is the exact type of problem that should be solvable with present technology. You could connect all the small farmers in an area in some kind of online market and allow them to sell produce directly to restaurants at weekly or daily auctions or even sell contracts for future delivery of produce. Thus, the restaurants can have a way to get their supplies cheaply and reliably and directly from the farmer.
I'll return the favor to others if I get an invite!

http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01Rjs8jzt7fSzHtyV40bhm_Q==...
Don't feel too bad for Fuzzy, we adopted her from the humane society & she now lives by eating steak and going to the beach everyday,
I'll skip the Intel / AMD thing, it is already being looked at. It seems as though it would be considered anti-competitive.

Google is buying a placement (they pay Mozilla and probably Apple). This really doesn't do much in the way of restricting the activities of other search players. Google is more likely to get themselves in trouble with the FCC over Google Voice.

Apple does not have the market share to matter. There are plenty of phones and Apple's share is tiny compared to someone like Nokia. Restricting the types of apps for a closed system hasn't got anyone in trouble yet, since you have to do a lot of logic leaps / market segmenting to get to a monopoly position for Apple. Heck, the iPod and iTunes are nowhere near monopolies.

Microsoft, in order to protect Internet Explorer (product A), charged higher prices on Windows (product B) to OEMs that wanted to include Netscape Navigator. This is an illegal tying of products. It is considered a restriction of trade. Given Microsoft's market share (and probably, sadly, Microsoft's at that time low contributions to political parties), this is major league anti-competitive behavior. Tying of unrelated products is the problem.

As a side note, I get that you are trying to prove a point with the logic "everyone does it, so it is fine", but I am neither fond of that particular phrase nor do I believe it is true for that matter.
Excellent, I think I will use this nearly every day. Found a small bug - Tools->Boomtango->Open Settings->Categories->Click the Visit Boomtango for plugins link

Get a 404 trying to reach page:
http://www.boomtango.com/trackers/
What do you dislike about Berkeley DB? I've been using it for a little while for a pet project, and it seems decent. I'd like it to support range-based join cursors, but that's not a major complaint. Granted, I haven't yet had to deal with database recovery, so I don't know how it stacks up there.

Also --- what do you plan to replace it with? I know that AllegroCache started out based on BDB, and ended up not using it. The Franz guys said performance wasn't up to par, and I always wished for more details.
I think this is a great idea. First impression, I would reconsider the colors. I think there's something to be said for being playful, however I'd like to see colors that are a bit more businesslike. The colors say toy, but this is a tool.

Granted, web 2.0 has proven that a pastel color scheme can work, and I do think it can work for you too but you either need to pull back on it or take it a step further and support it with some more stylized design elements.

Specifically, if your site name in the header felt more like a logo and felt a bit playful, you'd be signaling that this lightweight, airy feel is part of your brand identity.
Right now there's some disconnect there.

The dark blue you are using is nice, I think maybe just making that a bit more prevalent in your design would serve to ground the overall design a bit more.
That's a really cool idea, and I'd like something with that too.
It depends on how much prep you're prepared to do. You can make a hearty lentil curry very cheaply, for example, if you buy the basic ingredients in bulk. 'Course this presupposes that you know how to cook, but that knowledge is very nearly free, the only investment is in time.
I think #4 is also very important.

Here in Brazil, globo.com hired a stellar team, apparently from a couple years at FISL (kind of OSCON for Latin America)
That's good to hear.

I emigrated a while ago and we did everything we could in order to bring our dogs with us, it probably cost more to move the dogs than it did to move us.

But a dog in the city is also no good so I can see at least one good reason why the current situation is better.
You already use and like jQuery. It's good. It works. You know it. Stick with it.
I think handling spam would be pretty easy with wave, since it's ACL is deny by default (whitelist) instead of email, which is at best case a blacklist. The most I could see someone doing is flooding a user with "buddy" requests, which would be pointless because it would not actually sell anything.

For example, let's say you sign up to a website that uses wave to confirm you. You would just login, accept the request for that site to add you (thus allowing it to send future communications without this step), and that would probably be it, you shouldn't even really have to click a link or anything, since the site would be notified that you accepted it.
Sweet work, and congrats! I wrote and maintain archivd.com and before that dowser.sf.net. Anyone who helps users archive and search is good people.

I suggest working on the visualization design, ie find better ways to compactly represent the important information inside arbitrary webpages. Also think about inferring structure, for example, if a user searches Google for "foo bar" and clicks on a result, that result should automatically get a "foo bar" tag.

Good luck!
Also, the audio is pretty far ahead of the text making it hard to follow.
What is the user action for opening a program or document on the desktop?
That's why OkCupid gives you aggregate percentages instead of ruling people out or anything. An aggregate percentage says you mostly agree with this person on the things you care about most. It doesn't mean you have perfect harmony, nothing means that, but it gives you an easier starting point.
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OpenNIC Project: Get your own .geek domain
Actually, there's a bookmarklet for non-firefox users. Check out the home page for the project:

http://www.longurlplease.com/

Still, I think you're on to something; Greasemonkey might be the best of all worlds.
Is that hypothesis backed up by any data?

Australia and New Zealand have (almost) no agricultural subsidies, and yet have the sixth and seventh highest obesity rates in the world.
I'd smuggle her to the Bay Area in a heartbeat, but she's got to stay with the ex. :(
I find that the form, "begging the question", still gets the point across.
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I'd love an invite:

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Google Apps gets 16 GB video uploads
Not really. The main reason we'll never see a flat tax is because as soon as a flat tax is enacted, a politician can easily gain votes by promising to lower taxes for 99% of the population by raising them on the top 1%.
This approach to generating images generates a lot of benefits when you're working at scale. Before, when we wanted an image that's been thumbnailed, cropped, or modified a certain way, we would generate the image (or check if it exists) at page render time, and pass on the URL. This meant that page rendering blocked either checking if the image exists or generating a new image. Further, when our flaky file store starting freaking out it meant the entire site went down.

By encoding all the relevant information in the URL, like Amazon does, we offload such work asynchronously to different web requests. If there's info in this URL we want hidden from users (spam-protected email addresses) we encrypt it using Base64-encoded AES. If the file store were to go down--which hasn't happened since we switched to using S3--users would only see broken images instead of the entire site crashing. Further, we store the images on S3 using the exact same URL as we fetch it from, and have our static web server check there first. That means if the image is cached it never hits our application stack.

Now, when we generate a page with one of these dynamic images, our app stack only has to generate a URL instead of relying on the vagaries of our file store and image processing libraries. It's made our site more reliable, easier to manage, and faster. If we suddenly start serving up many more images, we could easily replace our image generation service with something higher-performance or more reliable, since it's just a web service. Right now, it works great.

Clearly Amazon has seen the benefits of the same approach.
Modeling a system theoretically capable of evolution is a great idea. However, I think EvoGrid would be better off modeling a system with some simple interactions rather than the real world biochemistry. The real world biochemistry is very redundant and the chances are higher that a simpler system would produce evolving life on the same computer power.
Assumes my screen has the same RGB order and orientation as the Mac where the images are generated.

Unacceptable.
I don't get where the price of land comes from?
It's just a unique patch of dirt that they own, that I want and I can't get anywhere else - why do they want to so much money for it?
It's not like they have built an office block on it like I want to do!
try making a healthy tasty affordable fast food chain.

Well, there's Sub--

And no subway does not count, it tastes like cardboard.

Oh. Well, that points out the real problem, then. People have different tastes. It isn't that there are no tasty, healthy, affordable fast food places, but that you don't like healthy affordable fast food. ;)
You mean the green? That's my favorite color for text.

It's also by far the easiest color to read for the brightness. The human eye is most sensitive to green, and the high resolution receptors in the eye are most sensitive to green.
Yes, you or a 3rd party would quiz them.
Thanks for the report. Customize bug fixed in trunk. Will make it to the next update.
The problem is that there are approved iPhone apps which are overtly politically charged, like this one: http://www.conservativetalkingpoints.com/

So there's obviously a double standard, though I'd guess it's at the level of individual reviewers rather than Apple policy.
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I'd appreciate one. Address on my profile page.
I'm thinking even simpler than that, although your approach is interesting as well. Psychologist have gotten very good at using a series of questions to figure out basic personality traits. If you could develop a test that generates values which can be shared in a standardized manner with any program, then those programs could all present data in ways that make sense to the user.

Example: Macintosh has several different options for how you interact with files (cover flow, collapsible folders, icons) If all of the programs that allow for file interaction knew that I am visual and prefer to see coverflow by default then I'd feel much more at home as an end user becasue my interactions become more consistent no matter what program I am using.

Other areas that could benefit: color usage/dialogue boxes.

Overall paradigms for file organization - I, for instance am very spatially aware, whereas many people would prefer rigid folder hierarchy as the method of choice for organizing and finding files.
Have you actually done this, or is it a theory? ICANN is clear about what constitutes bad faith: "circumstances indicating that you have registered or you have acquired the domain name primarily for the purpose of selling, renting, or otherwise transferring the domain name registration to the complainant who is the owner of the trademark or service mark or to a competitor of that complainant, for valuable consideration in excess of your documented out-of-pocket costs directly related to the domain name."

If you aren't registering for the purpose of selling to the complainant, it's not bad faith. And it's hard to have bough it to sell to a TM that didn't exist when you registered. You really don't have to tell that much of a story in order to justify your squatting.

See, for instance, (.doc, blame WIPO) http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/word/2009/d2009...
I know this is far less politically correct than discussing subsidies and prices, but can it be that poorer communities just assign less value to eating well and staying healthy and are not necessarily looking to maximize nutrition per dollar?
Do they import cheap food from abroad?
Could you tell me why it's a bad thing? All I can think of is that it gives someone more info so they know where to start when cooking up an exploit
See also: http://www.scene7.com/solutions/dynamic_imaging.asp - used by many huge e-commerce sites (including my >$1B employer).
And if you need to, you can decide to buy a bigger table!
That's no different than a politician saying they will lower taxes if they are elected right now. Granted, the simplicity of implementation would be easier if it where a flat tax, but the difficulty it always in getting the legislation passed, just as it is today.
Fair enough. Decent analogy, but not quite to the point. Land prices are adjusted over time due to quality of land, location, and surrounding. Domain prices are all relatively the same price new, but theoretically the next day someone can turn around and sell a new domain for tens of thousands of dollars.

If you're doing to make the real estate argument, then new domain purchases should also have variables pricing from the same domain provider such that somekeywords.com is more than gobblygook.com, don't you think?
I don't understand why Amazon has to make image cropping/resizing thing on fly. Good image resizing algorithm(cubic/seam curving) is time consuming. Even good algorithms(poisson?) for image modification(add logo) is computational expensive. Just don't get the logic why storing image is expensive than computing one.
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