skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a "normal" situation then, youll get that someone whos always wanted the job as the first pick to fill it, wich makes the randomnized promotions all that much desirable.

Also, the stickness of the promotion in your comment, sounds pretty random too.
In the end, the proposition of "... using random processes to mitigate the pathological effects of deterministic models is extremely solid..." seems to hold.
Indeed, and Mrs Browl has suggested I use this form professionally for a little extra sizzle, or even the Irish version (Eamon Mac Robin) for an exotic flavor - I work in the entertainment industry and even behind the camera personal branding carries a little more weight than in some other fields.

Other readers might be interested in this census document on the demographics of common US surnames; turns out there's a 44% probability someone named Robinson is African-American, for example: http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/surnames.pdf
O, how quickly we forget the lessons of the 90's. MS did not outright ban their competitor's software because they were always in the cross hairs of the justice department for antitrust. But they did everything they could to make life for their major competitors difficult. Every new version of windows would screw up and break the major word and excel competitors.

And as far as the other search engines go, at one point it got to the point where they effectively not only banned their competitors but banned any useful site out there. Towards the end, Altavista was so blatantly selling search results, that no matter what you searched for you would always get a bunch of porn with a couple of pages selling those stupid Ethernet cameras sprinkled in.

I do not know whether Google is truly not evil or wont become evil in the future. But they had much more integrity than their competitors and that is one of the reasons they became successful.
I've seen this effect used litely on other sites before to create the perception of depth in a background, but still 2D. This is the first I've seen the technique used to create a 3D view. Very cool!!

Check out the source ( http://www.romancortes.com/ficheros/meninas.html ) and you'll see it was no simple task.
I don't know what the world will look like in 2020, but I know what Kurzweil will be up to: still trying to turn a buck hustling bizarre 'life-extension' supplements. That is, if the 100+ pills he takes daily or the weekly transfusions don't kill him first.
i think stretching and squeezing the parts near and far the mouse position does/would do the "depth" effect. too bad he didnt do it for the y-axis as well.
Use the right tool.

This is a cool effect but it can be done very simply in Javascript. The CSS for this is a mess after adding line breaks it's 500+ individual CSS selectors and gads of additional markup to track the position of the cursor.

Someone spent a lot of time on this though.
I was hoping this article would be a list of keywords search terms, like people use to find webcams.
Yes there is a book: The Practice of System and Network Administration, Second Edition. This is the best Operations book I've ever bought. Worth every penny.
Sorry, I put quotes around evil because I don't think Google being in China is particularly evil, just that it's a good example of them being more interested in making money than avoiding any hint of questionable business practices.
Thank you for clarifying my terse statement; I can see how it could be taken as knocking the operators, which was not what I meant at all. Of course, the operators weren't a bunch of dimwits -- they had seriously flawed information about what was going on in the reactor, and the error-reporting system wasn't designed to cope with the kind of cascading failure that they saw. I wasn't criticizing the operators, but rather their actions, and that wasn't their fault.

(I can't even conceive of a reactor operator who would just start randomly fiddling with valves. That's just so far removed from everything I know about them, it would be like a horse reciting Shakespeare.)
Good catch. Updated to include _bg2.
Totally agree on these points. The Joel-Atwood experience is not that of two programmers starting a company. It's a story of two programmers learning about System Administration.
Yea, I know what they are, just curious as to why they're there.
MS did not outright ban their competitor's software because they were always in the cross hairs of the justice department for antitrust.

Yeah, kind of like how Google is tiptoeing around that now?
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In defense of the OP, one of Gruber's favorite pastimes is his so-called "claim chowder". This involves excerpting and/or linking to a columnist's vehement -- and, as it turns out, spectacularly wrong -- past arguments about the existence/success/profitability of (usually) an Apple product.
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I was not hired to replace Don Dodge. I was hired because the person who previously held my role moved internally.

I actually don't know much about Don Dodge - I haven't met him yet. All that I know is that he is well liked and respected.

I can only hope to earn a similar level of respect from the startup community.
He needs to find a benevolent benefactor-company that will employ him to freely work on Clojure full-time, the way Google lets Guido work on Python full-time, and Rob Pike,Ken Thompson et al. (presumably) get to work on Go full-time.
It sounds like you are accusing Google of violating its privacy policy. Do you have any evidence that this is the case, or is it just speculation?
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Do you have any reason to believe that Google does this, despite Google publicly stating that they do not? I really doubt Google would stake the entire reputation of an already extraordinarily profitable company for the sake of the stupidest conspiracy ever.

I mean just think about it... How valuable is goo.gl to Google really? It will probably be used by a tiny fraction of users and at best would give Google a tiny bit of extra data on you. Absolutely nothing, compared to Google Analytics or most of the other Google products.

Now how much would it cost to run an air tight conspiracy and block all whistle blowers in a large corporation like Google? Note, even one verifiable leak would create a gigantic shit storm, probably knocking billions off of Google's market cap, not including lawsuits and fines.

I think I'm going to side with occam's razor on this one and say it's probably safe to use goo.gl.
Interesting, for two reasons:

1. It states that it was only in a beta release of Windows 3.1 and was removed for the final product. Is this really the basis of your argument here?

2. They clearly went about it in a deceptive way, but is what they were doing at the core wrong? Was Windows 3.1 considered an upgrade from MS-DOS? If so, I don't see how requiring users to have the base package is wrong, any more than Apple is unwilling to allow you to upgrade from Windows 95 to Snow Leopard. Maybe I'm not understanding the situation?
But what about the vast majority of people who don't click either ad? That's the "ad impressions" that didn't lead to a click. Shouldn't those count somehow in the statistics?

No, they shouldn't; those are "mistrials."

I don't think those are mistrials. Clicks vs impressions is a separate test and should be treated as such.
lots of people want to, but it can seem overwhelming. i'm quite technical as a programmer, but even i avoid IT muck whenever possible.

that's probably why companies such as dropbox are doing so well. making backups/restores easy is sweet.

(ps - thanks superduper! http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription... "heroic system recovery for mere mortals")
While this might work for H1B visa applicants who would probably be able to secure above average paying jobs, I think you'll be hard pressed to find undocumented immigrants who can afford a house at all much less one that costs 10% more than the median home price.

I'm not sure if US Housing needs to be "saved". The average house price was ridiculously high. I purposely held off from buying a house because the cost was just too high compared to wages. House prices were doubling or tripling (or even more) while income stayed relatively flat. Prices had to come down. They probably still need to come down a bit.
What Clojure's getting reminds me of Haskell.
Well, technically, "brilliant engineer changing the world for the better" and "sociopath exploiting customers" aren't actually mutually exclusive categories...
I didn't think I was expressing opinions about facebook, just bringing up things that others have brought up.

I probably should have mentioned I work at facebook and all comments are my own - mainly to insulate myself. I just added this to my news.yc profile "[every comment on this site is my own opinion, and not that of current or past employers]"

I think it is silly to suggest as some have that every comment requires a caveat. The comment replied to Paul Buchheit, also at facebook, who made no caveat. My profile is a click away, as is google http://www.google.com/search?q=ivankirigin

People get overly sensitive about this. I don't think my employment changes my original comment at all.
Haha, I'm amazed that anyone has actually encountered a machine rigged this way in reality!

Your website says you work as a forensic analyst which I guess at least partly explains your run-in with a booby-trapped computer.

Have any other stories about crazy data protection schemes that you can share?
I see nothing wrong with that. More tools means more art means more fun.
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Please help us tell the Canadian Government to let founders start up here without the red-tape.
In a previous job I had a so-called system administrator laugh at my paranoia when I suggested that his awesome backup system -- protecting the equivalent of several dozen person-years of scientific data, millions of dollars' worth -- wouldn't protect us against a fire in the building. Or, for that matter, a thief who liked to steal computer hardware.

Job security note for sysadmins: When someone suggests a disaster scenario, don't open your response with a laugh.
I've long maintained that you should only post online what you are comfortable with everyone - your coworkers, your friends, your employer, your parents - knowing. Now we can add the government to that list.
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The two aren't mutually exclusive; you can do both.
The documentary mentioned in the OP, Mondovino, is a great watch if you're interested in wine.
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Wow this person sounds really bitter.

99designs, Logoworks, etc - they are what they are. No need to get all elitist and snooty about it. Some people aren't looking for the whole package - some people can't AFFORD the whole package. Why look down on these people? I have yet to use any of these services but I have considered using them. I'm not looking to hire someone who can define a vision for me - I have something in mind already and I'm looking for someone with the ability to make my vision a reality. Maybe it's naive on my part to think I can do a serviceable job on my own but I'd rather put my money elsewhere at the moment.

From what I've seen it looks like a good value for the money.

I know, I know, they're cheapening your craft or something. Get over yourself.
The new server can stream 30,000 concurrent connections. Imagine buffering 30,000 files, each 5-10 MB. That's 150-300 GB ram. I expect a server with SSD is cheaper than one with 300 GB ram, and you don't even have to manage a RAM cache.
for (1) the purpose was (as rumors go) to scare off OEMs from DR DOS.
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It's still putting the url in a string. :)

Perhaps there's a way to do it without any sort of syntax like the quotes or #u using macros?
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Well I wouldn't assume the story is accurate - obviously she wants to make a good story. So applying for "identical jobs" might have some poetic freedom in it.

In any case, if she went to see the client face-to-face or by phone, all sorts of other things might have happened. She might have fared better on average than a man. There is no way to tell from her story.

It really is just a story, all sorts of other parameters could have affected the outcome. What sort of thing is she writing? Some subjects might be more readily associated with men, other with women.

The choice of names could have an effect in all sorts of ways, not only by signaling a gender.

Really, there is no substance here at all, I am sorry. If people want to get worked up about that story, it is because they want to get worked up about it, not because there is real substance.

For a better experiment, take the one with randomized CVs with randomized names, where black sounding names fared a lot worse than white sounding names. That is a proper experiment, because all other things besides the names were equal. This story here is not science. She herself is drawing a conclusion from her experience, but her subjective explanation doesn't really explain anything.
> Much more friendly and option 3 will give them greater revenue.

Or perhaps not: if this were the option offered, no one would pay for standard EC2 instances at all, they'd just put up spot reservations and take the lower price when it's available, paying the ordinary price when it's not.

They can do that now, of course, but there's significant more complexity involved.
My dear fellow, if you insist upon maintaining such a patronizing attitude, at least be good enough to provide some documented evidence, even something that can be "Googled up". So far you've offered nothing but blanket statements of supposed fact, hand waving, and sarcasm.
That was a fairly minor point in the article to me. I believe the concrete facts of the experience are far more valuable than the few lines devoted to an, as you say, simplistic description of the broader problem.
That sounds like it might be a little awkward to parse. I think I prefer the Lisp+PURI syntax, just because you can see where the URL begins and ends easily, and don't have to worry about how the syntax interacts with the rest of the language.
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I'll bet the 200% tax on car purchases helps to encourage bike commuting: <http://wallstreetpit.com/12684-denmarks-200-pecent-car-tax-c...;
First, the über-fancyness reported is purely COP-15 show-off and nothing else. The bike-counter, for an example, serves no practical purpose. I don't even know what the reported LEDS are.

It's true that it's very nice to be a biker in Copenhagen, but I believe that it's a case of chicken-and-egg: I think most of the amenities are there because Danes enjoy biking in large numbers, and not the other way around.
Seems to me determining what systems are "visible" is a monumental task in and of itself, requiring the scientific combination a lot of fields that don't usually talk to each other too much.
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Not really (sadly). You do find crazy stuff inside computers; various drug caches, underwear etc.

Infrequently though.
Very similar to Start3d, http://www.start3d.com - which can apparently generate these images as well as display them for 3d glasses.
Indeed. And the result is that our car-fleet is one of the oldest, least environmentally friendly and least safe in western Europe.
Among orchestral musicians, which is not the same field but at least similar to writing as part of 'the arts', blind auditions, in which a curtain conceals the identity (and gender etc.) of an aspiring performer from judges, have made a ~30% contribution to improvements in gender equity among job seekers. Rigorous paper: http://www.faculty.diversity.ucla.edu/search/searchtoolkit/d...
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Fairly certain the LEDs he was talking about were the turn-lane indicators, that warn a turning car if a bicyclist is on the way. That's kind of amazing, and would potentially do wonders in a city like NYC. We already have some separated bicycle lanes (with obstructions between the cyclers and the autos), separate bike traffic lights, but only in a very few spots (8th avenue has a large stretch).

One of these days I'll get one.. :)

Also, if you watch the video he mentions that it's taken thirty some odd years to build out this infrastructure, and that it used to be a much more car-centric city.
That's a great explanation, and now I'm very intrigued by this movie, but I only want to know one thing: can I comfortably wear the 3D glasses over my regular glasses? I don't have contacts, and I need glasses to see the screen properly.

This is a big concern for me.
National Geographic video of an octopus eating a shark:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9A-oxUMAy8
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I don't have my own blog and I'm not sure of the etiquette here. I've been using this jQuery plugin I wrote for awhile now and am just curious what other people think/if they find it useful...
I think the idea was to show that he's in it for the art, not for the money.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10415298-56.html?tag=newsE...
Gruber's a smart guy, but he's also a completely reliable Apple apologist. If the Apple position is that there's no iPhone, then Gruber shows why the idea is stupid. If Apple suddenly reveals an iPhone, Gruber shows why it was inevitable. Look to the recent kerfuffle regarding AT&T's network for another great example.

Daring Fireball can be a fun read, but it has the same relationship to Apple that Fox News has to the Republican party.
Is it possible to use this with Chrome? I haven't seen a way yet. It seems kind of silly to leave out support for their own browser. Google toolbar requires IE or Firefox.
Yes. I wear glasses too but the 'RealD' glasses handed out at most modern theaters remain comfortable for the whole film, I find. I gather there are some limitations, eg people with truly severe astigmatism, but mine is pretty bad and it hasn't been a problem.

Not to swamp the whole thread with my own links, but the projection technology is damn near as interesting as the acquisition technology. I got a far better grounding in the physics of both light and sound from working in this field than I ever did in school: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealD_Cinema
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You missed the point. Well, several points. My Library was written years ago and the idea was to support "ancient" browsers like Safari 2 as well as all future browsers. As the fairly torturous test page still works in IE8 (all modes), Safari 4 and Chrome it would seem a rousing success. In the meantime, jQuery has been virtually rewritten to get rid of the browser sniffing. Guess where they got the ideas (and figure they botched their implementation).

Yes, memorizing camelized styles would be more efficient, but then the library doesn't deal with hyphenated ones in the first place. It's used in exactly two places and neither has anything to do with styles. Instead, it deals with (very rarely encountered) hyphenated _attributes_ (you should have guessed, or God forbid read the code you were criticizing).

And aren't you just picking one (tiny) bit that you can sort of relate to and mouthing off without any real clue about what you are talking about? <whine>And why didn't _you_ report it to the author to be constructive, build a community, etc. What an awful jerk!</whine>

BTW, your version will blow up in Safari 2 due to the function passed to replace. Good luck with that!
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Nice job. What are using to parse the source HTML?

I like how you got the initial version out there. No commenting, etc. but the start of a decent HN client. Comments are now easy to read (though I would round the borders just a little for a less sharp look)

On my scope creep list, I would like a landscape orientation with lock (might be private API though there is a news reader called News Feed Elite that does it). And a way to bookmark/"watch" certain comments.
Jon Stuart Leibowitz decided that Jon Stewart was a better TV name. In America, we had had "Irish need not apply" signs in windows in the 1800s and early 1900s, but that prejudice is basically non-existent; if you think it'll give you a leg up, do it.
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HFCS 55 is actually (according to Wikipedia, anyway), about as sweet as sucrose. Even pure fructose "is generally regarded as being 1.73 times sweeter than sucrose," so I'm not sure where they're getting the six times number.
I really don't see much of a downside to making programming more accessible to more people.

In fact, the vast majority of programming done today is at a much easier and more accessible level than it used to be. You no longer have to break out the soldering iron to debug a program. You no longer have to program in machine language, directly in binary. I think that's a good thing.

Of course, the more difficult ways of programming will always be there to challenge and entertain the elite, but there's a lot to be said for getting more ordinary people involved.

We should embrace and encourage newcomers instead of telling them that "maybe programming isn't for you."
And you don't know what you are talking about either. To save time, responses are aggregated here:-

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/browse_t...
cheap brand reinforcement. I'm sure someone will pay the Turkish domain registry enough to overcome their aversion to creating a high-level domain such as twi.tr before long: http://www.101domain.com/tr.htm

Edit: I see some enterprising soul in Italy saw the possibilities back in 2005: http://whois.domaintools.com/fuck.it
found this article to be very informative and makes me feel better about having never made a business plan
So if I may ask--how to use sourceforge/google code/github without looking at open source? Perhaps you are contributing without reading?
SSDs still have substantially higher sequential read speeds. The specific one they are using (the Intel X-25E) has over two or three times the sequential read speed of 2 of the fastest standard drives.

http://anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3631&p=21
"an object is a particular piece of memory, structured according to a class" does not sound like a particularly useful way to think about objects unless you are working at a low enough level that you care how objects are laid out in memory.
These days, the commonly accepted wisdom is that movies were always as bad as they are now, and anyone who says otherwise is just idealizing the past. I offer the following evidence that the quality of movies is not constant over time:

1939: Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Gone With The Wind, The Wizard Of Oz, Stagecoach, Ninotchka, Wuthering Heights

1940: Rebecca, Fantasia, His Girl Friday, The Grapes of Wrath, The Philadelphia Story, The Great Dictator

1941: Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels

Rather than relying on personal taste, I took these from various 'top 100' lists. I haven't seen all of them myself, but the ones I have seen are a mile apart from anything released this year, or any recent year.
Why? (Honest question here)
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