skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that most text editors are free, $45 is relatively expensive. Especially when, until this afternoon, an arguably superior product was available at no cost in your web browser.
Beyond training in programming, scientists creating production code need training in software engineering. The folks over at Software Carpentry (http://software-carpentry.org/) seem to have the right idea.

Just as important, like other forms of scientific experimentation, work based on computer analysis needs to be independently reproducable. A big part of that is to make the source code and data available to other researchers (ideally, to the public at large) and well-documented.

It seems like the CRU people failed in both areas.
1. Why? I've heard many people complain that it increases eye strain but I've yet to find a definitive study that says so. As a programmer I work on light-on-dark all day, I find dark-on-light to be painful to read, and I'm not the only one. http://www.darkbackground.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-on-dark_color_scheme

2. I can't find any use of verbing adjective noun in my blog post

I may work on an alternative css but switching this is not a simple affair, it requires reworking the entire theme.
Can you re-invest it in the non-profit that you created? i.e., accept the 5% and then just give most of it right back?
There's a difference between telling people what they want and telling people that they want something that they don't want. You have to listen to them. But bear in mind that if they
> a bad 3d version of geocities with more naked flesh

and flying penis.
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Absolutely!! The answer is always yes, sometimes qualified. The only no is when you decide you don't want them as a client and you find a reason to not do further work.
Today was NFP day and the newest statistics should have set off bells for anyone reading them. A lot of people are already aware of the difference between the U3 and U6 unemployment rates, but consider this:

-11000 jobs were lost in November

-there have been net job losses every single month since Jan 08

- the unemployment rate officially fell from 10.2 to 10.0 today.

This is kinda like saying a function's value has started growing while its first derivative is still negative. Reeks of bullshit through and through.
There's all kinds of stuff being done with SL. For one, there's a .NET global user group using SL for meetings. If I remember correctly, IBM has a large presence there as well as several other big companies.

The economy itself chugs along and practically prints money for Linden Labs, as well as the sellers.

They recently started selling servers to private companies as a means of allowing them to bring the control 'in house' instead of being open to the entire Grid.

To be honest, nothing happened to Second Life. It was just forgotten, for awhile, and will inevitably rise again whether it be through extension of this version or the creation of something new, like Blue Mars.
I'm perfectly with fine with Facebook recommending new friends based on their social graph - it's an entire other story when this involves snooping through people's emails.
Farmville has more users than twitter, but it's more addicting than fun
Calm down.

I am sure you're trying to look at things from a different perspective, but the tone and timing have struck a chord with me, and I am sure many others.

Stop creating drama where none exists. If you're worried about a few big companies gobbling up all innovation in silicon valley, please take the time and research the problem, give us figures, explore all the angles.

Right now what you're doing is mini-me Techcrunch. A cynical tabloid interpretation of the news of the hour. You're not the only one: Mashable betrayed this community by taking someone's casual words and putting it in dramatic head lines.

If all your insight and "unique" analyses are only applied to the current breaking news, you're, in fact, a provocateur, not a thinker. It takes wisdom to avoid the crowd and see the big picture.
here's one http://etherpad.com/music316a
Here's a test pad: http://etherpad.com/FQMBcRK9x2
The standard in ADC2 is still a mix between the semi-professional and pro apps.

Eg, Speed Forge, which won one of the games awards, is a racing game that doesn't have a pause option. Visit the menu and you just lost the race. Totemo, on the other hand, also won an award, and is incredibly slick.

Hoccer is cool and innovative (throwing and catching data physically), Car Finder is, AFAICT, the inbuilt maps activity with a bookmark function.

I'd love to see the figures for the Totemos and Hoccers of the Android world rather than the Speed Forge and Car Finders.
Presumably the 1 million 'residents' who logged on in the last month disagree with you.

http://secondlife.com/statistics/economy-data.php?d=2009-12-...

Although I don't use it any more, the vitriol and scorn that SecondLife engenders amazes me. I've no idea where it comes from. At heart it's basically a huge 3D chat room, albeit a fairly sophisticated one.
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You're right - that should be clearer. I've updated youos.com to more accurately reflect our history:

WebShaka went on to work on Project Wedding; when that site was acquired, the founders and YC had an exit.
They should pull a foursquare ;-)
You could just pick a different delimiter for strings within the interpolated string, and do a string-replace-all with \" before parsing. (although then you have to find delimiters that aren't used in the language normally, possibly the | or something).
Dude, check Twitter and the Etherpad blog post. Both are FULL of comments from people who feel very similarly. I'm reporting on this from a perspective that a lot of people share. Looking at your comments on TC's coverage linked here I can see you've said things like "it's better to know we have successful developer colleagues who sold to GOOG than it is to complain about your inconvenience as a user." So that's your perspective, you identify with the developers who sold the company. I'm reporting from another perspective.

Also, don't compare me to mashable if you want to have a civil conversation, that's just fighting dirty.
1. I was basing this on personal preference and I don't think I'm alone. There seems to be some support:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000340.html

2. "growing your blog"
Games, especially MMO's and Social Gaming exploit their addictiveness to keep people paying them.

Certain TV shows exploit similar addictiveness. CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: Trial by Jury . . . all still supplying ~24 new episodes a year during prime time slots. To put it roughly, 9 days worth of programming that is essentially identical. Then there's the more unique (to some degree) procedurals (IE NUMB3RS, Castle, etc. Incidentally, the only procedurals I like, I can't stand the CSI crap as my mind is violently raped by unscience almost every other episode I watch) that appear.

I personally did stop watching TV for a prolonged period, but for no elitist reason as I love TV . . . perhaps too much. However, I'm satisfied watching only the show, so I'm more a DVD person.

Movies, again, strike at this addictiveness with the 'unnecessary sequels' market. It's one thing when a movie plans multiple parts, a la the Borne trilogy. However, then there are the Bond series that maybe only hit a good movie every 3rd or 4th produced, but still take in millions. Then there are the totally unnecessary sequels that appear because the studios dangled hundreds of millions of dollars off an ACME sized mousetrap to bag a producer.

Books similarly can get into this trouble of unnecessary sequels. I believe Agatha Christie inadvertently suffered this problem as her publishers forbid her from killing off Poirot, it took her 40 years for the novel that killed him off to be published.

Ironically, the most addictive TV shows and books appear to be detective dramas. This is easily illustrated by the fact that Mystery/Crime novels is the biggest market in literature, and by the fact there are over 9 procedurals routinely running during prime time slots, year after year for almost a decade.
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Besides the normal stuff (newsletter, blog post, etc), I e-mail current evangelist users directly and ask them to spread the word.
Playback is an essential element of Wave; it's in there from the start.
I used JotSpot, not too heavily, just as a company intranet. Google Sites definitely streamlined everything. Maybe because I'm not a power-user or whatnot. But Google Sites is way easier, leaner, and faster for me at the end of the day.
The purpose of Yucca Mountain and similar facilities is not to store nuclear waste. Rather, they are built to be expensive.

This sits well with those who profit directly from their construction, and pleases environmentalists - who want nuclear power to be seen as astronomically expensive. Breeder reactors and proper reprocessing could eliminate the need to store anything longer than about one hundred years, and yet they are forbidden. Why do you suppose that is?
My preferred alternative to Etherpad, is etherpad.

Etherpad is more popular than email in my office. I etherpad stuff, tag it with firefox bookmark tags and share it around. When this was announced, there was a literal, biblical gnashing of teeth.

Etherpad guys, I'm happy you're exiting with style but I will miss you badly. And if I could pay you instead of missing you, that'd be peachy.
it's not tax-free to him, check his post above.
Interesting subject.
I just finish posting about a new feature 5mn ago
1. I write a blog post about the new feature (http://blog.snapabug.com)
2. I send a link to the post through our Twitter (@snapabug)
3. I send a link to the post from our Facebook Fan Page.
I will then later, add this new feature description to our monthly email newsletter.
I'd be curious to know how others do it too.
I had a friend sign up recently, and didn't realize what was happening, he thought it was that gmail and facebook were working together. That surprised him, but not as much as me explaining that he had effectively just been phished.
Not true. For instance, if a report is originally typed in a closed-source, commercial text editor, that has no impact on the repeatability of the science. Similarly, Mathematica is (to my knowledge) a closed-source program, but calculations done by it can still be independently verified (so long as those calculations are made public).

You're on the right track, but need to narrow down the wording some.
As an Australian that deeply offends me. Scientific research should be allowed to be critical of the environment that it is conducted in, any other approach is an anathema to the whole concept of science.

I know someone that worked for the CSIRO and they encountered a similar level of bullying. Apparently science is only ok as long as it also meets the political agenda.

I'm getting a little sick of seeing things like this coming out of Australia.
Thanks for your wishes! We're still lurking around news.YC.

We, WebShaka, went on to work on Project Wedding after YouOS; when that site was acquired, we and YC had an exit.

The four of us are all in startups of various maturities; as someone already mentioned: Sam went on to start thesixtyone.com, which was round #2 of YC for him!
Wave is a pretty good collaborative workspace in general. However, it currently lacks tools specific to programming: auto-indenting, code auto-complete, syntax highlighting, etc. I imagine such tools will exist as Gadgets or somesuch in the near future.
I really enjoyed the UI stuff in Ironman. It was futuristic to be sure, but a lot of it struck me as interfaces that, given the technology, a brilliant inventor might actually use. And I'm pretty sure there was an implementation of tabs, pads, and boards (http://design.cca.edu/graduate/uploads/pdf/IA_PARC_Ubicomp.p...) going on there.
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Axiomatic Theories of Truth
I read an article that explained SL pretty well. There were essentially 3 things that drove the second life economy:
Gambing, shoes, and porn.

I think right when Second Life started to decline, they also had a massive crackdown on gambling in the virtual world. (Before then it had been common place for there to be entire Sims devoted to gambling lindens).

So they killed gambling, so the only things left were shoes and porn.

But gambling had been the really big thing.

When I did second life I found it very difficult to meet anyone who was genuinely interesting. (not that there was no one interesting, just finding them was _hard_).
on our site we have an "announcements" section on the profile page (first page user sees when they sign in) so we can post something there. We usually will like the announcement to a longer story (similar to a blog post) where users can comment and provide feedback. We also have public feedback groups on our site, so we'll often post the updates there as well as let some of the more active users know directly.
- Julio from Experience Project (http://experienceproject.com)
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1. I'll come up with an alternative theme for accessibility's sake.

2. I don't know any rule of English that bars this construction, how about "Making your mark" "Having your cake" "Picking your fights"
Thank you! This is actually quite interesting since it's a meta-conversation about Etherpad, and Aaron of Etherpad includes this:

"Edits to the document are represented as mathematical functions that can be applied in any order, and have other special properties that make this realtime."

Unfortunately I don't have the math background to really connect what that means.
Good article. I like that you are consistent with your postings (unlike me :D).

Keep up the good work. Looking forward to more stuff from you.
Unemployment counts the number of unemployed active job-seekers, not the total number of people without jobs. It says so right in TFA.
I agree, but I also believe the market has to change. I worked as a reviewer for video games, movies and TV series, and I have to say video games are exceptionally lacklustre in the story department.

The biggest video game franchises (excluding the sport franchises) all have massive stories behind them. Virtually every FPS touts '10 hours of gameplay' as if it's a good thing. They're essentially an exceptionally long movie that's so deficient in story that if it were alive, it would have died from malnutrition. RPG games exhibit masses of story, sometimes unbelievable amounts for a video game, which is ideally where games should be headed.

A unique immersive single player games, like Mass Effect, GTA, Final Fantasy, Fable, etc, all seem to turn into huge franchises. The sand-box nature of many of these games then enables the whole creativity aspect to enter as people begin to play things like a puzzle. FPS's tend to use multiplayer competition to keep themselves played after the campaign is completed, although notably many of these games barely have a single player built in.

WoW is purely designed to be addictive, it appears to serve no other purpose due to the "oh you're a good boy, +1 level" rewards it deals out. Before WoW I never heard of games being 'addictive'. I heard about people playing games way too much, in fact I likely did, but that usually abated with boredom during the off seasons (incidentally the movie seasons).
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=497314
U6 isn't the "real unemployment rate," it's just the loosest definition of "unemployment" that the BLS calculates.

It's much higher than U3 because the definition is so much more broad. It is also, of course, much higher than U3 in good times as well as bad.

The cartoon tries to assert that U3 is not valid because it excludes people not actively looking for work, etc. While it's true that there are deficiencies in U3 (and that is the reason why the BLS continues to publish U4/5/6), the primary purpose of U3 is to provide an economic indicator, so we can tell if things are getting better or worse.

U3 is a less subjective definition than U4/5/6 and is more reliant upon primary data, rather than data from sampling-based surveys. It's the broadest definition of unemployment for which the available data is very robust, and thus less likely to drift due to sampling problems. Robustness is a very important quality for an indicator, whose primary purpose is to be compared to itself at some other t.

U4/5/6 are important to keep in mind, but calling any of them the "real" unemployment rate is disingenuous. Any one of them would be inferior to U3 as "the unemployment rate indicator."
The loss of jobs could easily have led to parents switching from 'employed' to 'home keeper'. I know people who have been fired, and because the cost differences between child care and income are negligible, they're better off being unemployed due to lower taxes.
Correct, that's one misunderstanding on my part that I have been trying to rectify for the last hour and half: forgetting there was another side to this, the end users'.

I will have to repent and become a consumer activist: I will boycott products A/B tested on humans.
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Mint explains…, then why is the link to techcrunch? Perhaps http://www.mint.com/blog/trends/unemployment-rate-video/ would be nice.

It isn't a pure link jacking, the tech crunchers did add a pair of facts from today's announcements.
I negotiated a $40k hospital bill down to approximately $15k.

That was still a lot more money than I had at the time. If I wasn't lucky with good credit, I would still be in debt.
My own experience of SL doesn't quite match the article's analysis. I didn't stay because it always seemed like a ghost town, even in its heyday, and the GUI program itself is slow as a dog (not to mention the network response).
A big difference is it doesn't highlight or denote authors.
i can't help but wonder, if anyone else except from me was using it for at least last few weeks? otherwise, it means i had breaking news at hands without realizing it :(
Ugh. I use etherpad. I want my etherpads to keep working! Argg

(end of selfish rant, congrats btw)
"I know people" unfortunately does not support your argument well.
Yep, I actually wrote a post about that a few weeks ago http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/15/android-market-app-stor...

About 2/3 way through the post I talk about a model they could use where they push apps to you OTA, which could be cool. Hoping they're paying attention. I also think it's weird that they aren't promoting ADC winners at all from within the Market.
It's the continual media love-fest for it, portraying it as a mainstream revolution in how our society functions... when in reality it's a moderately successful, extremely niche app that few people in the mainstream have even heard of, much less tried.

I think the vitriol directed at SL is somewhat justified - its creators have cast it as some kind of world-changing social experiment, but in reality it's a glorified 3D chat room. We in the tech community generally dislike this sort of unsubstantiated hype.
It's the relative change that's important. Doesn't really matter what 'scale' you use, the change in % is what is most telling about where we are headed.
> I'm talking from my experience of attending the most highly regarded mathematics undergraduate programme in the UK.

That's a bold claim. Which undergraduate programme would that be, and by whom is it the most highly regarded in the UK?
Your argument fails take into account the fact that the unemployment rate is a highly politicized figure in which the adjustments are by no means all for statistical accuracy.

The discussion of employment and unemployment at the Shadow Government Statistic website gives a good overview of this topic. See http://www.shadowstats.com/ (I've given the home page since they discourage deep linking - the article is at article/employment).

Of course, the original Mint discussion was hardly better than the parent's argument.
I don't see why they shouldn't replace the battery. To be quite honest, everytime my girlfriend or I had trouble with an apple computer it was fixed without any cost. I do call tech support myself, I ask the telephone number and take care of it. The way I see it, direct communication leaves out more space for errors.

I don't know if this has anything to do with the fact I live in Belgium and warranty is 2years, I've had issues with my battery a couple of times but batteries don't fall under the 2year warranty so they aren't forced to replace it.
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Excellent find! One of the best discoveries all week :-)
Been there with a paycheck like that also. It's really really hard to stay committed through a year of Ramen noodles and Taco Bell for those days when you want to treat you and your wife to something "special" once a month.

At any rate, I'm sure it was a good learning experience all around. There is something particularly unique about game development in the software field that isn't necessarily shared anywhere else. I've heard many of these sentiments echoed.
When you say desktop, do you mean web-based development or do you mean client-side apps? If the latter, in what context are you thinking?
Well, the BBC is a UK outlet; as per the story, it only became big then in 2007.
Google Visual Search Coming for Android Phones
The first version of Squad didn't lock people out, but after some testing we liked the lock out method for code review and help purposes.

The goggle wave everyone type at once stuff is like reverb in the 80's if you ask me. Too much.

Particularly when you are dealing with multiple tabs. What I want to do when I'm asking a buddy to take a look at or help me with code is see what he or she is doing.

The tool really wasn't designed to compete with/replace Etherpad. It was designed to make our lives as developers a little easier. I think Etherpad is awesome. I've used a ton for google docs type stuff, but never really thought of it as code editor.
Thanks for the recommendation. I've used LEO. However, I was looking for something more comprehensive, (perhaps more authoritative), and also in a more readable format.
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Ok here we go.

First of all, just because the ratio went up doesn't mean that rentals didn't go up as well.

Second, what are the units are that graph? 25? That's definately not 25x unless you've normalized it to the 1900s or so which is silly. That graph has an exaggerated axis.

Third, the metric for price-rent ratio is rather arbitrary. How is a rental for 12 months ever equal to the cost of a house? A house is not entirely equivalent to an apartment to be compared in this manner, and the number of houses for rent is inversely related to the market price.

Yes, I would have lost if housing turned out to be a good investment. This does not change the fact that your "legitimate buyers" were speculating.

The point is the people who were scalping first forced an artificial panic on the system. If they did not have the power to do this, people wouldn't have been highly compelled to follow them. Therefore scalpers are bad for the market. This is equivalent to a "pump and dump" scheme which is illegal when trading equities.

Also, if you are comparing scalping to text message prices, that analogy would only make sense if a single scalper (or a small number of scalpers) holds a monopoly over the market (either in tickets or houses). That's obviously wrong.

No you are completely missing the point. Scalpers have at least a regional monopoly. Is text messaging a regional monopoly? Yes. Did housing speculators buy up whole plots of real estate in certain areas? Yes. Did wii buyers hold a monopoly on wiis when they bought out the limited supply in stores and put them up on ebay? Yes. That's the entire point of scalping, to create an artificial lack of demand through a monopoly.
um.. http://tk./ ? or http://dot.tk/ ?