skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where were these students in years past? With their head in the same place as Americans that didn't feel the cost of paying for war: because it was all paid with debt, not current revenue. These students are behaving exactly the way most of America is behavior right now. We would like to think that people that are educated enough to be at Berkeley would have preempted the problem, but time and time again, the most base human behavior prevails.
I am not aware of whether or not any of the following exist:

It worries me that all of this data about is stored, where someone at some point will potentially be able use it against me or my family.

I mean, I would feel violated if my Google web history was brought into court because I searched "Anthrax" at some point in my life.

Or worse, if I share a link of police brutality on twitter and I am harrassed by local police force for doing so.
Processing logs in real-time
God link
i've never considered posting here but the God post disappeared, it really struck a chord and now it feels like it was an apparition. where did it go?
>There was also some call (Probably from EU) to give criminals in jail the right to a vote. Which I also strongly disagree with.

Going by the stats at http://felonvoting.procon.org/viewresource.asp?resourceID=28... felony disenfranchisement is not that popular in western democracies.
recent thread about this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=935241
Funny thing is that when I went to read the posted article, I realized I did not have that bookmarklet on the particular browser I was using and immediately went to get it.
Here's the URI, for those who didn't see it: http://journal.rinich.com/post/249408496/god

It might have been deleted by whoever posted it, auto-deleted if enough people flagged it, or removed by an admin (pg, others?). I have no way of knowing, but it doesn't seem likely that it was flagged off by the community. (Even blatant spam often takes a long time to get flagged; good-faith posts don't generally seem to attract enough flags before they reach the upvote threshold and become immune.)
I wrote the article (noticed it was posted here because my site suddenly started getting loads of hits); by the time I saw it it was deleted.

I don't want to say if it was appropriate for HN or not, but can a moderator at least explain why it was deleted? I'm curious what in the article violated guidelines.
So it's good that they had the control group in Spain, too.
I use my desktop keyboard, a Happy Hacking Professional, with my netbook. Both fit in my standard laptop backpack with plenty of room, and then I don't have to compromise on the keyboard. (The small screen doesn't bother me; xmonad makes it easy to deal with.)
I believe you're holding Nate Silver up to an unrealistic standard. This is obviously not a complete refutation of all of the stolen data, nor does it claim to be. He is instead taking an instance of what people are complaining about -- a pretty standard example of the things that get pasted about this story, from what I've seen -- and pointing out that people are blowing this particular one out of proportion.

Maybe you're complaining that no one is really complaining about this specific email, but to me, this one looks a lot like the others contained in the stolen data that I've seen. From my perspective, it seems a lot of people are reading what they want into the emails, though I'll readily admit I haven't spent my day pouring through it, nor do I really intend to.
Very impressive, it won't be long or people will be using their webcams to scan 3D avatars of themselves. "The Street" isn't that far off.

the original article:

http://www.fabbaloo.com/2009/11/real-time-3d-scanning-with-w...

Homepage of the guy that made it:

http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~qp202/
Dude, mod_rails is not the preferred nomenclature. mod_rack, please.

Do your part in the neverending fight against Rails parochialism in the Ruby community.
My pirated videos continue to be ad-free and work fine on my TV. When will the media companies learn that you can't punish your customers when they can get better versions of your product for free!?
So it's a sort of mixture between accountable reading scheme for the whole bible in a year and a book club? Looks like a good start. If you can wait a couple of days I might be able to rough some design out for you.

Incidentally I normally use gospelcom and blueletterbible for bible study - the former because it has a lot of versions and the later because of the hebrew/greek concordances and Strongs reference material. As you're aiming for readability it might be good to offer some variation in versions ( NASB, CEV, The Message, see eg my post http://alicious.com/2009/18-bible-translations-range/ or google it).
I use a PC to drive my TV. It's small, it's quiet, it wakes up from sleep instantly, and it doesn't break when some third party changes their API.

The only downside is cost; I think it cost like $500 a few years ago. (It's a Core 2 Duo mac mini.)
Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.

You just copied chunks of upstream documentation, and added the copypasta <pre> blocks of sudo apt-get install... that are the hallmark of Ubuntu blogspam.
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This is because creationists don't believe in evolution. So they try to get scientists to run around, and do a lot of work to come up with evidence that doesn't yet exist (though the existing evidence is more than adequate).

This is in stark contrast to the debate in climatology, where scientists would like data to be publicized so that they may verify the results. The first is Zeno's paradox in evolution ("here's a fossil of an intermediate species between the X and Y species", "that's nice, now show me a fossil intermediate between this one and Y", ad infinitum), the second is just plain science 101 ("we spotted a new supernova in Canopus last night", "oh really, can I see the data?").
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After reading a few dozen of emails, I've got a mixed feeling. On one hand, some emails seemed to be from people doing science "in good faith". On the other hand..

"Of course, if it does get published, maybe the resulting settlement would shut down E&E and Benny and Sonja all
together! We can only hope, anyway. So maybe in an odd way its actually win-win for us, not them. Lets see how this plays out..."

This says that Michael Mann hopes to have E&E shut down.. just because they post papers opposing his views.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_E._Mann
http://www.multi-science.co.uk/ee.htm
This really reminded me of a Steve Yegge essay: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/08/business-requirement...

The easiest way to build a product that kicks ass is to start with someone else's great idea (camcorders, for instance), and take stuff away.
If you are allowed to buy a font to make images for your website, why wouldn't you be allowed to sell those images to others? Professional web designers do it all the time.

(Video rentals are similar. First sale, and all that.)
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Martian landscapes & the mysterium tremendum
athenahealth in Watertown, MA is hiring developers and system administrators.

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Glad I could help. Hope it works out for you!
Reproducible results are supposed to be at the core of what science is about. Kinda defeats the purpose if you hide your data.

I don't see what the fourth amendment has to do with this.
A moderator killed it. If you turn on 'showdead' in your profile, it's still there, it's just not displaying.

Possibly it's the title, because Hacker News has a no-religious-stories clause, but the article itself isn't remotely religious.
It's a link to the torrent of the illegal copy. The link does not lead to an illegal copy.

Also, is copying really illegal? What law and jurisdiction are you referring to?
Making the first computer virus
Agreed. But I think the political skulduggery based on your position regarding the data is also concerning. If you define the enemy as someone with an opposing viewpoint you are obviously not in a position to properly consider that viewpoint. I'm not a sceptic but this sort of attitude does open up the possibility in my mind that the scientific consensus in climate change could in part be an artefact of this political skulduggery.
> would you say that to my face?

Why not? Are you a thug?
Could someone quickly summarize the technical differences between RSS vs. PubSubHubBub?

[Yes, I could google it myself :) -- but am also interested in various 2nd order issues (e.g. which is trending up/down, why does Winer not like PubSubHubBub) which would take more searching to learn.]
Interesting, I'll have to check out the keyboard. I use wmii, but same idea. ;)
There seem to be a lot of complaints about the fact that images of text break accessibility. That is completely untrue, as long as the designer also includes alt text. I use a text-based web browser from time to time, and I've found that most designers do a good job of this.

This also doesn't break resizing any more than any other design element on the page would. Try going to any blog and resizing; the layout breaks. That's just how it goes if you want a page that looks nice. (Even HN doesn't resize nicely, and it doesn't use any images at all.)

So basically, this is a non-issue for 98% of the users. For the 1% of the users that use w3m without images enabled, they can still read all of the text. The 1% of users that are blind, can still have all the text read to them by the screen reader.

Sometimes I think people make these arguments because other people have made the same arguments for years. It's like a disease....
Also, the way to see the actual link for a dead story once it is killed is to change the URL for the story from item?id=x to edit?id=x
Government funding = public is entitled to the data.
What really matters is your ability to execute as a team.
I was 24 when I started my last company with a co-fouder who was 31 at the time. We had completely different backgrounds, and polar views on the world, but we worked well together as a team. That's really all that matters.

Before my last company, I had been the youngest employee at every company I received a W2 from. Now I'm an old man at the age of 30 realizing that none of the engineers I've sat down with for dnsworks would have any recollection of the Challenger Explosion or the wall falling. Merely a sobering side note.
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What percentage of stuff normal people did with computers 10 years ago was on the web?
How to "get" Bayes' Theorem
The Analytics Engineering team at LinkedIn is looking for engineers to work on Hadoop, Project Voldemort, and the A/B Platform:

http://bit.ly/hadoop-linkedin
Well, you could argue that there will be greater economic productivity from subsidizing education and allocating college places solely on merit than there is under the existing system, which causes students to graduate with significant debts. This model seems to work quite well for a number of other countries. Ireland does this, and the proportion of young adults (25-34) with degree is ~30 higher than the EU average, at 41%, plus Irish universities are highly rated. There are discussions about reintroducing fees, but I think they need to be seen in the light of Ireland recently getting hit with an economic triple whammy after a period of unrestrained fiscal growth.

Alternatively, one might increase the available tax deduction for interest on student loans, which is capped at $2,500 per annum. I fail to see what economic purpose is served by having students graduate with $40,000 or more of debt when their earning potential is lowest.
If doom and gloomers would publish their data and code maybe I would start to believe their fantastic visions of the apocalypse.

The burden of proof is on you... and the only evidence we really get is a giant appeal to authority and a billion dollars spent on commercials.
I worry as well. Who stands to profit? Unsurprisingly, PB's employer. I'm not going ad hominem here, I am just in the habit of asking such questions, and there may be sharks in open water.
> (that is, no scientists) is pocketing money and running here

Are they getting paid? (If not, who is paying their living expenses?)

Is it "money" only if it goes for hookers and booze?

> There is no incentive for them to do anything other than get published, and this by no means requires any lying or forging of data.

Scientists are people.

Refereed journals only publish what the referees believe and what they find interesting. (There were the equivalent of refereed journals for ether, phrenology, eugenics, etc. and I suspect that there are still refereed journals for astrology.)

Getting published may not require "lying or forging", but they can help in certain circumstances. So can being sloppy in the "correct way".
ChromeOS is a linux like Android is a linux. Which is to say: just barely.
Maybe my choice of words was too strong, but it really is nice for those times when A) you completely run out of power B) you need to reboot after updates C) Decide to turn it off as many normal people do, even with Macs D) The first time you turn it on.
Nobody is being payed to help some random fool. If he wants them to assist him sign up for a masters at a major university and plenty of people will help him because they are then being payed to be helpful. It's not that they are trying to cover something up they just don't feel like wasting time when they get zero benefit from it.

PS: Call up a research assistant and say I will pay you 200$ an hour to help me, and they will fall all over themselves to help you out. Although buying the computer time to actually run some of these simulations would get real expensive really quick.
Rapleaf is hiring as well: http://www.rapleaf.com/careers
If nothing else, this will make people think twice -- if even the moral crusader Nate Silver admits that it's common to fudge data to make things look more compelling, they'll think about that next time someone tells them what the temperature change over the next thirty years will be.
I thought the discussion of computers from smoking households was interesting.
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Bah, you beat me to it, now I can't mention those great positions we have on our Metrics team looking for people who love to tackle big data problems and make cool visualizations and then go and talk about them instead of hiding them under a rock.
Oh wait.. I just did. ;)
> Imagine if Microsoft had vetted every DOS and Windows app

We associate the BSOD with Microsoft software. However, in the majority of cases, the bug is in someone else's code or is a hardware problem. These days it drivers, but in early Windows (pre-NT), applications could cause the system to die.

I suspect that Apple are vetting to avoid bad apps from tainting the perception of the platform. The platform is what they care about, "like Google cares about search".

If an app is buggy and fixes or new features don't turn up the end-user blames the app vendor. If the device crashes, the end-user blames the platform vendor. Those things can stick; witness how the BSOD has influenced perception of the Microsoft platform.

Avoiding that is a reasonable thing for Apple to want to do. However, I agree that the way they are doing it is probably counterproductive.
> But what if there were a new device that costs less than $100 that JUST does cookbooks and other things I need in the kitchen? I would buy one. A Chrome OS is all that’s needed for such a specialized device.

So someone would deliberately cripple chrome to prevent you being able to access the net on it? What a genius idea! What about an Amazon kindle that can only ever read one book? This is surely the author's vision of world with a simple UI for everything. No longer will users have to twist their brains to conceive of getting all sorts of information through the one device.

Somehow I don't see this as being in the spirit of what google has in mind. I'm sure you could configure it to start of on a recipe site/content and package it as a cookbook for those who are not so tech savy. But totally crippling a general purpose device is a terrible waste of resources and is not the way forward IMHO.
so 5 days to create using a sophisticated framework you created over months (years?) - that makes more sense.

I'm amazed by your team's work. you're now bookmarked and on my 'check back often' list ;)

i'm looking forward to checking out flixel when I have some time.

keep up the great work.
The latter is an attempt to remove polling from the architecture and thereby make the updates more realtime. A client would actually run a small server (in the "listener" sense of the word "server") that a "hub" would hit when there's a resource update.

Dave made significant contributions to RSS, and I suspect that he's experiencing the motherly instinct to protect his baby. Note the phrasing of point #2, and how he refers back to it from point #15. He's underscoring how he's not in "competition" with Google. But that doesn't mean that his ego is completely decoupled from the success of RSS.

On the one hand, I abhor polling and usually love to see it removed where possible. On the other hand, I've never thought RSS was insufficiently realtime. I tend to flood myself with too many feeds, and then it becomes an issue of self-discipline to trim or ignore it.
What?

Title of modrails.com: "Overview — Phusion Passenger™ (a.k.a. mod_rails / mod_rack)"
http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/wiki/ComparingProtocol...

Scroll down to the diagrams. RSSCloud is a "light ping" protocol and PubSubHubBub is a "fat ping" protocol.
Since the entire money system is based on debt, the difference between credit and currency is difficult to discern.
I spent a summer disassembling the code for Bolo on the Apple ][e, giving myself infinite lives or invulnerability, dissolving the maze edges and wandering around in general memory until I segfaulted the machine, disabling the enemy tanks by forbidding them from turning left - it was fantastic! I had printed the entire dump on green bar to do it.

Remember green bar?

I'll bet that printout is still at my Mom's in the attic somewhere.
Looks like it ended: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/11/20_wheel...
> Wild accusations by people with political agendas hardly counts as "scientific scrutiny".

Actually, it does.

More to the point, you're cherry-picking the skeptics. The skeptics found that all of the ocean-rising data is due to a single measurement station. The skeptics found that the "hottest year in the US" data was wrong. The skeptics found that the hockey stick wasn't. And so on.

And no, motivation doesn't actually matter. Only facts and interpretation do.
"It's a link to the torrent of the illegal copy."

Technologically speaking, that's not really any different then saying "That's a link to a page that solely consists of a link to the illegal copy." Whether the protocol is HTTP or BitTorrent isn't really relevant. "Oh we don't host illegal stuff we only provide torrents, all the stuff is distributed elsewhere" may be (though quite possibly isn't) a valid legal defense for the torrent site hosting it, but doesn't really have any place when discussing the appropriateness of linking to it from here.

And obtaining an unlicensed copy of the fonts from those foundries will be illegal (definition: something that you can be successfully sued for by said foundries in court) in essentially any First-world country. Certainly in the U.S., where OP, you, I, and probably the majority of news.yc are located.
If you're doing a serious deployment, check out Unicorn instead: http://unicorn.bogomips.org

Basic overview of its architecture: http://github.com/blog/517-unicorn
Climate skeptics used to say, "there's no evidence global warming is happening." Then they said, "there's no evidence global warming is caused by anthropogenic CO2". Then they said, "there's no evidence global warming is going to be a bad thing." Continuing to move the goalposts and trying to get scientists to run around is a tactic in both arenas.
It's far more illustrative to debunk (or in this case, merely explain) a single case--which Nate points out is what "the conservatives are mainly zeroing in on"--than to address all "hundreds or thousands of e-mails and documents." I'm sure Nate COULD have done so, and probably to the same effect, but what explanatory purpose would that serve?
They could take a lesson from the UC regents. Mark Yudoff, who's the president of the UC system, takes home $600,000, although I have a hard time believing that he's busier than, say, the president of the USA who is only paid 2/3 of that amount.

The Cal State football coach gets an annual salary of $2.8 million, and the university is spending $430 million on improving their football stadium. I kind of sympathize with Berkeley students who wonder how there is so much money for this but janitors and security staff are losing their jobs. I suppose sports brings in the alumni $$$ or something, but frankly I fail to see why universities are involved with a sport famous for the number of players who suffer permanent brain damage.
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I'm getting quite tired of spam being on the new page literally for hours after being flagged but postings like this disappear in minutes.
Most of them were in high school or junior high, and too busy being teenagers and worrying about the things teenagers normally worry about. All they are asking for is the same opportunity their parents had. You know, those people who actually were old to behave like responsible adults, old enough to vote, and actually did vote through all those costly initiatives and tax cuts that led this state to it's current dismal condition.

Compared to their parents, UC students today have to pay more, have to go deeper into debt, and to expect fewer services, and that's not their fault. Just be glad the UC system hasn't instituted the mandatory furloughs that the CSU system has, effectively shortening each semester by more than a week. College level education in this state is an utter mess. They have every right to be upset IMO, even if they are doing the silly protest and all that that college students always do.
I found it amusing that "lowering or renegotiating tuition" wasn't one of their demands... since that was the reason they gave for organizing the protest.

Also, totally amazed that Berkeley is only $10k/semester. For some reason I assumed it was like twice that. I often forget that it's a public school, since it so often gets lumped in with private schools like Harvard/Stanford/MIT.