skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even so, the current certificate issuing process is lengthy and expensive. Requiring SSL would be a major hit to the mom-and-pop type websites that just want a simple webpage on their own domain for their business.

They'd now have to pony up for an SSL cert, which at least doubles the website ownership cost, as well as potentially go through a very complex process to get the certificate issued.

It also completely eliminates the possibility of them having a free website on their own domain, unless an easy and free method to obtain an SSL cert becomes available.

The gain to them in these circumstances is negligible, if they aren't doing any e-commerce.
The supposed impact is merely a data point that could be used to interpret Earth impact periodicity. It can only contribute to our to our current collection of data. Defining it as evidence in support or against periodicity is premature.
The downside of yield management is that it upsets the buyers. A couple times a week I go to my favorite lunch spot, and I know exactly what I'm going to order and how much it will cost. If one day I walk in at it costs $20 to buy a burrito, I'd find somewhere else to go and I wouldn't go back.

Also note that a lot of sites would rather run house ads instead of squeezing every last drop of $$ out of an ad space, for aesthetic reasons.
The nicest thing I can say is that it may inspire some neat scifi stories. The author has some very odd theories about junk DNA ...

Anyway for those who'd like more background on Mr. Vendramini:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/origin-of-a-big-idea/...

edit: though to be fair, he does have a good point about the anthropomorphising assumptions behind all those "artistic reconstructions" of what Neanderthals might have looked like.
Forgive me if I'm overlooking some heavy sarcasm, but I'm genuinely surprised. I would have thought more people would have objected to the stereotypes and generalizations that plague this article.

I don't know the writer's background, so I can't figure out if this is a "non-technie looking in" or "techie explaining to the world" post. Neither is an excuse to assume that the hypothetical nerd has control issues, a cave, or an obsession with gathering knowledge.

I dearly hope no one attempts to interact with me based on this.
I'm no statistician, but based on their "web poll"-style methodology, I'm not sure their results mean anything at all. They seem like they're at least one step above a CNN.com "do you like Obama?" poll, because users apparently have less idea about what questions they're going to answer. Hmm.
What a whiner. MySpace was an ugly hybrid of a social network and a music site. I'm glad that it's gone. Just because he hates social networks doesn't make MySpace excusable.

TheSixtyOne? Lala? Bandcamp? All more elegant and more precise tools than MySpace ever was.
I'm missing how javascript has the abilities to touch the transport layer in such a fundamental way -- could you explain?
I could say Most conservatives in the US are old, religious, and or poor. Then again I could also say the same thing about Democrats. The simple truth is belonging to any group with millions of other people says vary little about you other than the criteria for joining that group.
It seem that statist bias is unaccounted for. This mean libertarians/anarcho-capitalists and anarcho-commies are left out because they're anti-statists.
I wouldn't be so afraid of Google being able to unilaterally effect change without consensus. Even getting adoption for their Chrome browser seems to be an extreme uphill battle.
I've noticed this before, although I've always wondered how much of it was just red state/blue state. (Or "lives in a major cosmopolitan city" versus "lives anywhere else", for that matter.) It would be interesting to see if there were any major differences after controlling for, e.g., geography, income, age, etc.
Writing a program is maybe 10% what you want it to do, and 90% telling the computer how to do it. So I think the question of when we won't need another programming language can be answered as: when the default programming language of the day has libraries and/or syntax that grow to include every "how" that's been done before. This way you only have to specify the "what" unless you're doing something nobody's figured out how to do.

So I guess my idea of the limit programming language/environment would be that it's automatic (or at least trivially easy) to make 90% of every new program into a gem, and then automatic/trivial to find the gem that does exactly what you need, as well as to debug it. (maybe rubygems are already this good, i haven't looked into them).
I believe the piece is intended as informative satire. Yes there are many aspects that will not apply to every nerd. Also, from what I can tell the author is writing as an insider explaining nerds to the world.
If You Want To Make Money As A Musician You Need To Be A Musical Entrepreneur
"Namaste" means "peace". It's not an inherently religious word.

That guy gave lots of secular advice and ended with the word. This post is all "Go to Jesus." There's a difference.
Those damn neanderthals look scary as hell. I'm telling you, I felt an primeval gut reaction looking at those pictures.

Maybe he's on to something.
Awesome as always Dustin. Love reading your blog. Keep it up.
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Studies show that 51% of people like being polarized into two opposing groups.
Indeed. Work hard enough, and your own unsalaried labour might even be able to make you poor. Much better for everyone involved.
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As you might guess, the ownership over the data is a tricky issue, where there are many variables that aren't under our control. Our objective is to make the information as open as possible within these constraints. One thing to note, however, is that the userview portion (i.e. the data that an app WRITES to the API) does remain under the app's control (i.e. developers don't relinquish ownership). Over time, we do think there will be an opportunity to have developers contribute their improvements to a common pool of information to benefit everyone.
In this case I am my own resource, having been a programmer for some 25 years, and observed the slow, but steady adoption of many languages.

The wishlist for 3.0, PEP 3100, was created in August, 2004. PEP 3000 was created on April 5, 2006, and marked the beginning of the development process. A year and a half later, 3.0 was released, and it hasn't even been a year since.
The section "Your nerd has built an annoyingly efficient relevancy engine in his head." should be recast as "Expect social incompetence and rudeness from your nerd". This is not something people will accept or should accept. Nerds have to realize that when they do something like this they are performing a trade-off. As outcasts, they had to lower their need for social contact. The discrepancy between their lowered needs and the need of others is what causes these conflicts.
most intelligent people regardless of political persuasion tend to eat and live healthy. i can't decide if this study is intended to make us more stupid, to show that most people are stupid, or both.
That would be more plausible if many other android apps got the same bump in sales on that day. Unfortunately we don't have this information yet. Personally, I suspect that it had more to do with the app advancing to the final round of the ADC2 contest, which happened on the same day.

"I'm attributing the recent uptick in sales to 2 factors: (1) The release of the Droid phone and (2) Car Locator being in the final judging round of the ADC2 contest."
Well, I'd assume that the brand is obvious in the work and that any savvy employer could verify your inclusion. Will you be happy with what is said about you? If so, then yes - if it is public work, I see no problem. However, to include special parts like drafts or docs is probably not cool in public.
Summary of the results:

If you are liberal, you eat overpriced, pretentious food.

If you are conservative, you eat bland, unhealthy food.

Hooray for reinforcing the expected stereotypes!

I'm going with it probably saying more about whether someone lives in a major metro area. Speaking from current personal experience, a lot of the "liberal" food just isn't available out here in the middle of nowhere. The political angle seems more like mild linkbait, along the lines of the semi-trollish but entertaining race/religion posts from OkCupid's blog a while back.
"Women can go to basically any party with decent people, whenever they want, with no money and no transportation, without knowing anyone very well, and be fully confident that they can get home safe later."

That's very much not the case. How the hell do women judge whether the people at any given party are "decent" without knowing anyone very well? Given the very real risks and dangers women face in these situations (mainly rape), they can't really know. It's one of the more serious problems that women face.

I'm not saying you have a bad overall point here, but this particular example is way off base.
There will always be a free plan with a relatively reasonable volume - at minimum, it will always be a 'fremium' kind of thing. At which point we start charging is, frankly, to ensure that we can at least cover serving costs.
I think what your looking for is inner peace (as cliche as that sounds). I would love to be able to say something right here to be able to make you comprehend what I mean by "inner peace" but I'm not that capable yet.

Read the "The New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle. It'll explain to you what you need to know. Based on that you can make your decision.

The best part about that book is that you will be able to make your decision from a place which is not fear.
A Successor to Moore's Law: Nanotube Transistors through DNA Origami
With due respect, I am offended by your assumption of heteronormativity. By assuming that "get people laid" refers to a traditional dominate male submissive female sexual dynamic, you clearly reveal your own sexism.
While we're talking about StarCraft, I'm on the MIT team and we're hosting an exhibition match against Caltech on Saturday. It'll be streaming if you want to watch: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=105...
the correct url : http://aws.amazon.com/startupchallenge/
Hi - it's actually quite different. As of now, we don't (yet) have a forward geocoding api exposed. Rather, most of the API functionality that's live is for backward geocoding. As in, with Google's Geocoder, you give a string and you get back a place. With us, you give a place (i.e. lat/lon) and you get where that place is and what's around it.

That being said, a number of people have been pinging us about getting simple geocoding functionality, so stay tuned for that as well :).
Facebook VP Leaves A Love Letter For Apple
In the werks :)
"kerfluffle"

Awesome. If "Issue9" doesn't take off, I suggest we call it "Kerfluffle". And if that doesn't fly, how about "BikeShed"? :)
I haven't read the report, though it might seem interesting if I had the time, but I would love to see more about the data between the groups. I want to see which relationship is the most causal one in food choice: political orientation, or possibly age.

When I heard the food choices I imagined age/lifestyle over political leaning. Older people are generally more conservative than younger people. Older people might also prefer old-fashioned comfort food and wooden kitchens.
From the article:

15% answered "conservative"

54% answered "liberal"

31% answered "middle of the road"

Perhaps "conservative" is seen as slightly derogatory by some conservatives. Maybe the "middle of the road" conservatives got left out, because they see their views as mainstream.

Also, I would imagine that liberals are more likely to lie (or exaggerate) about preferring funky ethnic foods than conservatives.
I don't know about transcripts, but there are some pretty detailed summaries (minus the mathematical derivations) available here: http://www.sirlin.net/blog/category/starcraft-class
How exactly did the training work?

Thinking out loud, for a fighting game you have two obvious measurable criteria (your health bar and the health of your opponent) which constitute a 2D coordinate system. Any action you take which is expected to reduce your opponent's health more than your own is going to be a beneficial one (unless it will push you to death, in which case you need to go for attacks that have minimal cost to your own health).

The game state would be the positions of both players on the x-axis and the health bars for both players. If you had jumping and kneeling, you might want to record positions & momentums for both players in x & y.

Now a very simple kind of AI could look for periodic subsequences that could return it to the same position while causing more damage to the opponent than to itself. That is, do some sequence of moves (strike, jump, block, etc.) and then return to the original game state except that both health bars have changed.

Then do this again, as you've "reduced it to a previously solved problem".

This of course would be too simple a thing to do because the opponent's responses would (a) be nonrandom and (b) he would not return to the exact same position. So you would need to build up a statistical database of expected countermoves to each moves (and update that for each new opponent). You would also probably want a similarity function for game states.

I guess overall this shouldn't be too difficult to do if you recorded the game states of many real games between two players, because the game rules don't change over time. Once you've got a few difficult-to-counter loops that cost them more health than they cost you, you can run them over and over again.
freelancer - servant of a dozen different bosses (without the benefits of being an employee)

there, fixed the chart for you...
"You Fade To Light" (Giant OLED disaply wall)
Artists.grooveshark.com - we work very hard to get new artists heard and our analytics solution helps show where you have the most users listening to your songs so you can tour in the most effective places.
Lies, damned lies, and coverage maps.
You can even see homeless people with cellphones nowadays. I doubt they have the cash to drop on the initial purchase of an iPhone let alone the monthly costs associated with it.

require ThinkingCap if $action->is_posting;
I can understand where you're coming from but I've never run into that issue because I never quote commands or keywords, instead I change the typeface. Still, I'm a huge fan of altering grammar in small, consistent ways for the sake of clarity (that's where style guides come in).
Thanks for the fantastic feedback roundsquare.

I will definitely keep the idea of more Excel parallel examples in mind for future tutorials.
Or stream the MP3
Good advice here, especially the fundamentals that can be done now (e.g. exercise.)

"What Color is Your Parachute" is a great career-change guide; in particular, on evaluating skills based on what you enjoy. It's enjoyment both in the doing and the having done. i.e. happy in the process of it, and proud of/satisfied with the outcome. Not suffering for a great outcome; nor blissing away for nothing - instead, bliss for a great outcome. I belabour the point because it can be elusive to achievement focussed types like myself.

This exercise puts me back in contact with what is actually fulfilling and meaningful to me. Without this information, it's hard for me to carve out a job that I like, even if I'm the one creating a job for myself (which I am).

Like the old guy said, "know thyself". Good advice for the lost.
If the Internet is to be cleaned up, then this is the way to go. You can't crack down on file sharing and turn a blind eye to these types of scammers. And the "wild west" days of the net are numbered, for better or worse.
Stream the mp3, listen to it in chunks.
Porsche SE posts 4.4 billion euro loss after failed VW takeover bid
A friend of mine has a Lisp machine sitting in his living room. It (the hardware) runs about half the time. He occasionally has to go in and fix the thing. Software looks old, but can still impress!
> It would be hard to prove carriers are conspiring to inflate date charges incurred by user error. The placement of the services could just as easily be a ploy to legitimately lure customers in.

I find it more likely that the expensive services are placed up-front to draw in users. They just happen to serve a secondary role by pulling in revenue through accidental usage.

Now, the carriers have to realize that they have all of this extra revenue coming in from accidental usage. They probably all actively choose to ignore it. "Why should we spend the time and effort to change something that will make us less money?" That is the unethical part. If they know that they are profiting off of their customers in such a way, but decide to turn a blind eye to it because the money is 'rolling in,' then they've definitely crossed the line.
One afternoon, Nasruddin and his friend were sitting in a cafe, drinking tea, and talking about life and love.

"How come you never got married, Nasruddin?" asked his friend at one point.

"Well," said Nasruddin, "to tell you the truth, I spent my youth looking for the perfect woman. In Cairo, I met a beautiful and intelligent woman, with eyes like dark olives, but she was unkind. Then in Baghdad, I met a woman who was a wonderful and generous soul, but we had no interests in common. One woman after another would seem just right, but there would aways be something missing. Then one day, I met her. She was beautiful, intelligent, generous and kind. We had everything in common. In fact she was perfect."

"Well," said Nasruddin's friend, "what happened? Why didn't you marry her?"

Nasruddin sipped his tea reflectively. "Well," he replied, "it's a sad thing. Seems she was looking for the perfect man."

From http://www.sysindia.com/emagazine/mulla/mulla.html
This is the type of article that is destroying HN, we need to stop posting/upvoting articles like this.

1. It's not really interesting, or related to anything HN related.
2. It's sloppy thinking.
3. It promotes lots of meaningless speculation/arguments a la reddit.

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Credit to a friend of mine in software: one single trial user is a perishable resource, because their propensity to convert declines sharply the longer they have been in your database. Accordingly, before they "age out" it is worth taking a few stabs at finding an offer they'll respond to.

My friend has no price listed on his website for the software -- you pay the price the software tells you to pay. There is a bit of a secret sauce involved but, in general, the idea is that it costs $X on day 0 but you'll be given an automatic $5 discount on day 5, a bundle deal with a $10 off coupon later, etc etc.

Other software vendors have expressed skepticism that anyone would ever put up with this, but he apparently does pretty well for himself.

Incidentally, he has a desktop app but I think you could get scary sophisticated with a web app for this, because you can make the marketing correspond to user behavior. For example, I got bored one day and implemented a FAKO score (like FICO, except fake) which predicts a trial user's likelihood of converting based on their observed behavior. If I extended that a bit to take into account some lifecycle related factors, I could hypothetically mail everyone with "sitting on the fence" FAKO five days into their trial with a $5 off coupon, with the goal of pushing them over.
Well, it took a patent clerk to find the missing pieces to Newton's laws, and that took 150 years , so an "amateur biologist" evolving Darwin's theories? Why not.

But I'll agree it's unlikely. After all, the first comment on this site "I couldn't put it down once...etc" is from Don Burke on Radio 2UE ... well-known to all Australians as the long-running host of our favourite gardening program.
Given how closely correleated geography and political inclination are, and how closely correlated these food trends are to major-metro and small-medium-town, I'm not sure how seriously you could take these results at all.

I know plenty of conservatives in Chicago, and can identify no significant trend towards dislike of Thai and Sushi.

I don't know of a single Thai restaurant in western Michigan (a conservative stronghold, and where my family vacations).
That offer sounds fair to me. If they don't have funding, then where's the cash coming from? If it's coming from the other founders then they deserve to own more of the company.

Joining an early stage company isn't about getting paid market wages. It's about job satisfaction (assuming you like having responsibility, working hard, and don't mind chaos).

There's a lot of people who think that the only people who get rich in a startup are the founders and investors. I believe that. If you do the math on a good exit, let's say $100M after six years including earn-out and dilution from A&B rounds, then your very-good-case scenario is a personal payout of $300k after taxes. If you think this company has a 1/10 chance of a good exit, then your average benefit from these options is $30k (spread over six years!!!). Looking at it that way, I can't see why anyone would work at a startup for any reason other than it seems like a lot of fun.

I loved the two startups I worked for but the benefits were getting responsibility nobody else would give me, excitement, and seeing how companies are started.

I guess that's not a very direct answer to your question. Here's my direct answer, ask for 2%. But don't make your decision based on whether they say yes--make it based on whether you're excited for the company and team.
Language X is essentially language Y under conditions Z
Traditionally, that's called a geek. There is in fact a distinction.
I guess this is why most of us are just reading HN and are uncertain if we want to take the plunge :) This story is exactly the kind of worst-case scenario I'm afraid of.
The servant-mercenary-artisan terms aren't really necessary.

A good maker is also servant - to a vision, a muse, a genius or an ideal; or to the pragmatic makers who are also sellers: to a market need, to customers.

The diagram for an employee is also a little misleading, as today, most employees will have a series of employers over time, just as a freelancer mostly have a series of projects over time (though they can have them simultaneously).
Playdar: Linux For Music
I was going to simply say that all the tales seem to be various distractions that don't seem to be factors for success. But then there is an idiom in Chinese 破釜沉舟 which roughly means breaking your cooking utensils and your boats (removing your means for a retreat) and fighting, which has historically proven to be a great psychological motivator. So I wonder if that psychological urge outweigh the time spent on these distractions. I have to say tho, it must take a special kind of a personality to deal with that kind of stress and uncertainty.
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At least there's some consistency, I guess. If child porn was posted to your Facebook page the cops would knock on your door and say that it's your account so you are the one that posted it. Though I wish that -- in general -- law enforcement would wise up to how things work with respect to computers.
"then goes ahead and mis-represents to them that he is an iPhone Cocoa whiz"

There is a difference between a creatively solving a problem and an unethically solving a problem.
There was a noticeable bump for many apps when the Droid was released:

http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread...