skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been messing around with GPU coding lately, the speedups I'm seeing are pretty scary for some applications, likely you are using a lot of ffts, have you considered looking at GPUs to see if that might be a way to speed up the turn around time ?
Killer of Sheep: A cautionary music rights tale
I'm working on my dream requirements management tool, it's basically just a big graph visualisation tool http://blissapp.wordpress.com/

Back to the data warehousing day job tomorrow though, so lets hope that the development of Bliss doesn't slide another year...

Also, trying to get my head around the ycombinator concept, wondering if the recursive magic that i've seen might be useful for fast graph traversals.
Not censoring. Just not actively suggesting certain things. That stuff is all reachable if you want to type the whole thing yourself.
T-Mobile, AT&T Push HSPA 7.2-Mbit/s Upgrades
Now that Android is picking up market share, what do people think the chances of Apple adding background abilities are?
I don't think it's removed for the reasons you think it is.

It seems to be driven by what people search for. First option under "dead b" is "dead baby jokes". Try "death and r" and "death and return of superman" is above "death and resurrection of jesus". And one of the options under "death squads" is "death squads health care" If people don't use "Islam is ..." all that often it's not going to be part of their suggestion tree.

PS: First option under "muslim is " is "muslim is wrong". Muslim is not actually a religion, but I think far more people in the US use it than islam.
However, the behavior of intelligent non-pushy sales is not what people want. Customers have voted with their wallets that they want the cheapest price "no matter what".

These days, most big companies use off handed tricks to boost their sales, whether that be selling Monster Cables or stacking magazine subs to the tickets. The notable lack of these tricks seems to be Wal-Mart though.
check out the publicly available figures from radar logic, they aggregate residential real estate transactions in the boroughs and NYC and publish a daily price per square foot. an interesting technology they havent figured out how to capitalize on but relevant to you nonetheless.
...and now it's broken again, for different reasons. These things happen in cycles.
Yeah I wasn't able to get a trial account for the new Loopt App. I figured it was running a process/service in the background tossing up GPS points every now and then. So, the new Loopt still doesn't really run in the backgroun huh...

Anyone think it will ever happen? Our app uses only Bluetooth or WIFI.
If Microsoft wants to have some real fun with bing they add that option.

I might even switch :)
This becomes pretty obvious when you read their blog announcing the URL/store/Nexus One carefully.

Notice that they mention the online store prior to the Nexus One:

Well, today we're pleased to announce a new way for consumers to purchase a mobile phone through a Google hosted web store. The goal of this new consumer channel is to provide an efficient way to connect Google's online users with selected Android devices. We also want to make the overall user experience simple: a simple purchasing process, simple service plans from operators, simple and worry-free delivery and start-up.

The first phone we'll be selling through this new web store is the Nexus One ... It's the first in what we expect to be a series of products which we will bring to market with our operator and hardware partners and sell through our online store.

(quoting this here because I didn't see it directly quoted in the Ars article)

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/our-new-approach-to-b...
The problem here is that the mind works by mental tricks. Just because you don't think of them as tricks doesn't mean they aren't.

Don't you think it would be better to select the tricks that operate your brain by intention rather than by accident?
That's an advance fee scam, nothing more.
What I wonder is how the autosuggestions are generally generated.

From what users type in?

If so, and certain phrases get censored from autosuggest (even though "Islam is" is specifically in the censor list, it is not the only phrase that is specifically on this list), then my conclusion would be that the majority of phrases that googlers type in that start with "Islam is" are hateful? Hence the exclusion. In fact, what phrases get excluded might even be data driven as you can deduce sentiment from the most common phrases that users type in.
Hmm - you could be right, but as the article takes pains to note, all of the obvious analogous searches do return suggestions, which I think is evidence against your idea.

Still, it's been pointed out that queries like "Muhammad is" still "work", which I think is evidence for your idea. :)
@brandoniles Isn't the iPhone the only smartphone that doesn't allow this currently? Wondering if the upcoming tablets/slates will put pressure on Apple as well to let background processes run.
I just launched a mobile group communication tool recently. A fun yet grueling process. I am eager to see yours in action. Will it be available on the iPhone?

feel free to reach out to me to chat. lefstathiou@gmail.com

my app is called groupie. www.groupie.mobi
i think it's because editing doesn't apply the mysterious scrubrules, might be intentional.
Google is also positioned to compete, either through a payments for streaming copyrighted content and especially through targeted advertisements.
That's true for ordinary programs, but this is math, not software. Glancing at the code in this case is kind of like glancing through some program's object code or disassembly and trying to understand how it works: theoretically possible in principle, but not really doable in practice. In math the proper analogue to "glancing at the code" is "skimming the paper", which is here: http://psoup.math.wisc.edu/papers/h2l.pdf
How many shoe retailers and state governments even know how to recruit and retain the type of talent that produces great software?

IMHO, this is the truth nugget. Where the rock stars go is where you will find great software and the company culture that works is "stand back and let the rock stars do their thing". That culture can't exist in the enterprise. It doesn't even exist in most startups. I never wanted to believe this but after years of first hand experience, I find the conclusion inescapable.

Agile methodologies can't extract excellence from mediocrity, but they might allow half-decent software to be made without the use of rock stars, by plugging the holes that mediocre developers typically fall into. But is half-decent software even worth making?
I work at Google running open source compliance, code release, outreach and on public sector engineering management. Management, meaning, I don't code much anymore, although I added a totally trivial constant (1729, Hardy Ramanujan's number) to the calculator recently :-)
according to google.com/phone verizon support is coming in spring 2010. I wonder how they're planning to support that... does the Nexus One also have CDMA built in?
Developing an online platform for independent/unsigned musicians. Functioning as a radio/library, store and ticket application.

Looks like some great projects on this page.
I can't speak for anyone else here, obviously, but I've never had my head cut off, whether by Islam, Muslims, or any related noun. "The plural of anecdote is not data" and all that, though, so take my story with a grain of salt, eh?
As did, I. I am a professional programmer now and didn't go through the CS school ( To all sophomores out there: We do exist. ) Do they really not teach this sort of thing in a formal CS school?
yeah matty 22, you're right: https://loopt.com/loopt/background/

Anyone know of an official explanation from Apple they don't allow third party background apps?
The father's efforts would have been wasted without the son's motivation. Mozart practiced, guided by his father.
I don't know what your theory is ("everyone knows exactly why"), but I'll put forth my thesis.

1) Autosuggestions are a sample of the most frequent phrases google users type in

2) This autosuggest list is analyzed statistically and a sentiment score established ranging from 0 (friendly) through 1 (hateful).

3) If the autosuggest list statistics reveal a certain characteristic (e.g. all hateful, or very controversial, etc.), then no suggestions get returned.

If I'm wrong that at least in principle this is an automatic, data-driven behavior, then I really feel sorry for the sod who is maintaining a list of what phrases aren't kosher.
The answer is people. People you trust to not provide you with crap. Sometimes that's friends, sometimes that's family, sometimes that's strangers. It's never social media webcocks who want to "friend you", never bloggers offering you "n Ways to X your Y" for their $5/mo. in AdSense earnings, and only rarely the nebulous "crowd".
Right, I think the author of the article is not really interested in uncovering the (presumably) interesting heuristics for inclusion/exclusion in the autosuggest list, and is rather just throwing his prejudices out in the open.
IPhone vs. Nexus One
Why do you think "jews are" doesn't autocomplete? Or how about "jesus sucks"?
P/E is just one indicator of the value of a stock, and one that really doesn't make a whole lot of sense given how accounting works. Personally if I'm going to invest in a company I look at free cash flow and the growth of the free cash flow way more closely then the more arbitrary P/E. Amazon is phenomenal in this regard.
Cool Twitter and Facebook Tricks
I'm working (slowly) on an interpreter for a minimal, non-strict, pure untyped lambda calculus. Bonus features include syntactic whitespace, some basic optimizations, simple tracing/debugging features, and support for "compiling" multiple source files into a single program.

No, it's not supposed to be useful.
If having adsense ads reduced your search traffic, sites would just use some other ad service. Would you want to remove all sites using advertising of any kind? "Google bans advertising on all sites other than Google."
It's an Android limit, apparently: http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=29157252&post...
I just tried to say that out loud and find it quite a tongue twister.
via http://twitter.com/WIND_Chris:

Wow! Lots of interest in the Nexus. http://bit.ly/5XZQ9e
Yep, works on AWS, and we're chatting with them... will
let everyone know soon.
Sprint also uses CDMA.

From the very beginning, everything I read convinced me that it's a superior transmission mode, both for me, the end user, and for the carrier.

As much as heavy-handed regulation makes me cringe, perhaps if we legislated modular rf sections, this would become a non-issue. Phones are small enough for that, now.
Isn't that how most religions get their start?
Common reasoning - What happens if I need a new Clojure or Lisp programmer!?

That's a reasonable argument when read as "What happens to our Erlang+Ruby crystal palace when management takes over and talented devs won't touch us with a ten foot pole and we are forced to hire Java monkeys who think lambda is something you barbecue on a skewer?"
That would also allow for a more even wear across the mattress. The center (from left to right) of our current mattress becomes soft and saggy over time, which can not be solved by anything but a quarter turn (or a new mattress).

We have tried to rotate the duvet and pillows to get the same effect, only to find The Boy's head at my feet next morning.

If you really want to rotate your mattress: IKEA used to sell round beds and mattresses. It's a bit too "Playboy Mansion" for my taste though, and it severely limits your options in sheets and duvet covers.
I'm not sure about this. By all accounts, Verizon is the one that would win in a straight quality fight, so one would think they would want to compete (and they have been competing on quality terms in their commercials railing on AT&T).

As a former Verizon customer and current iPhone lock-in, I would LOVE to switch from AT&T and Verizon if it were possible with the phone of my choice.
You can run background processes on both Blackberry and Android. Apple's taken a hard line so far, except for apps they've written themselves. For example, you can run the iPod app in the background and surf the web.

As for the rumored slate... who knows at this point.
...so "buddhism is bulls__t" is where on that scale?
Ask HN: Office share in SOMA?
Is anybody interested in putting together an office share/co-working space in SOMA?

Looking at the co-working spaces like Parisoma, the one word that comes to mind is "Overpriced". When I look on craigslist, I see serviced offices and subleases that run $12-14 per square ft. Even if you expect 25% overhead for DSL, power, whatever, on a 2,000 square foot office space we're talking $2,500 - $2,900/square foot. Share that with 15 people, that's $166 - $199/month/person.
I think that is mostly a matter of degree.

You could conceivably make it switchable so that you only cut out certain advertising networks.

MFA seems to be by far the larger part of the problem, possibly other ad networks would see an increase but nobody has the advertiser volume required for that other than adsense.

Of course the final outcome of something like that remains to be seen but I'm fairly sure it would be a net positive.

And they could always default it to 'off'.
They're not infected with spyware. Some of the computing power comes from the users of freeware applications, who are asked _during install_ if they want to enable the grid system that powers us.
There will be a completely different model with a different radio. There are chips that do CDMA and GSM, but those are usually focused on CDMA domestically and GSM abroad. I don't know if those chip support T-Mobile's somewhat non-standard frequency ranges.
Do you have personal experience with mechanical engineering projects that suggests that most work best with large, lowly-paid design teams using management-friendly technology, or are you just assuming that they would?

I'm just curious, because I would have thought that this would work about equally well on software and mechanical engineering projects.
Why would slovac authorities want to test the security of Irish airport security?
Almost. It's the interaction between the two, google can't cut off the MFA sites from their serps without hurting their bottom line.
Trying to find ways to attract more US-based mappers to OpenStreetMap.

First stop: support my buddy Lars' map rendering to get this beautiful map http://toposm.com/ma/ to cover the entire United States. Anyone out there have some spare CPU cycles and/or memory to donate for the next couple weeks?
so, all of you who think they have algorithm to restrict suggestions...

what is the algorithm?
Happy to hear it! Any feedback on the recent redesign is greatly appreciated.
Maybe it works in that if you reached a long streak once, you're probably already got into the habit of doing it. At this point, you might have realized that doing it everyday isn't that hard…

But I see what you mean. It's much easier to give up again once you had to start from scratch once.
I really hope this article is spot on and we'll soon see carriers adopt this trend in the US as they do overseas. I've long lusted after various Sony phones (if only for their aesthetics), but I've never actually bothered to look into how good they are. You can't get them on Verizon and it's the only carrier I'll deal with at the moment. I would love to be able to choose nearly any phone I wanted to use on Verizon's network.

Surely there are larger cell phone manufacturers that could've forced this issue a long time ago, but none of them have stepped up to do so, or so it would seem. So I'm all for Google giving it a shot and I'll keep my fingers crossed that others follow suit.
I believe they were testing their own airport security, and it failed, resulting in the man getting through to Ireland with the planted explosives.
Here's a micro reading list on FP(cut/pasted from another thread). The Cesarini/Thompson Erlang and Halloway clojure books are really excellent, tho it should be noted that clojure's a fast moving target and lots has happened in release 1.1 that promote new coding techniques.

-- Cesarini/Thompson, Erlang ; Logan, Merritt, Carlsson, OTP in action

-- Halloway, Clojure (supposedly, besides the Manning MEAP PDF book, another Manning and a Apress book are in preparation)

-- Scala: (all 3 books out look pretty good, tho I haven't spent a lot of time digging in, and haven't decided if scala's language syntax is denser than clojure's; The Odersky/Spoon / Venners is the largest and not an easy book to get thru, but probably authoritative. The Payne/Wampler text freely available online

http://programming-scala.labs.oreilly.com/

-- haskell: Real World. content freely available online.

http://book.realworldhaskell.org/
I don't think a blacklist is plausible. There are similar phrases that yield negative results such as "is Islam"

Perhaps there simply are not enough queries for "Islam is" in your region.
Haven't seen Blackberry in my country or any neighboring country, EVER.

Maybe by all countries you mean both US and UK? :)
I think the counterexample to this theory is "Christianity is" which returns 7 negative suggestions, 1 ambiguous, 1 positive, and 1 t-shirt.

Another argument is that typing in "Islam i[letter]" where [letter] is some common consonant usually returns suggestions.
Its actually cheaper than all the other popular smartphones when purchased without a contract:

iPhone 3Gs: $599
Palm Pre: $550
Motorola Droid: $599
Incredible collection of vintage advertising . . .
Google could learn a lot by analysing which suggestions are presented and how the user reacts [chooses one, presses enter as is, leaves site, types something else]. You might be able to correlate this with how useful / how hateful the suggestions are.
Most likely there will be a separate phone for CDMA. Keeping costs down is important, especially since I believe that, at the same price point, the average consumer will have a hard time choosing a product over the iPhone.

Qualcomm's GOBI platform seems to support basically everything but is currently only available as a miniPCI card:
http://www.gobianywhere.com/files/gobi2000_overview.pdf

<speculation>Maybe Apple's tablet will have one of these.</speculation>
Maybe if it came from a muslim himself.

Google is just being wise here. Why would they risk offending people who are already offended?

Not many would be offended when the completion suggests "niggers are.." - it is a thing of past; "jews are.." - they are sane and educated enough not to go batshit; "indians are.." - pretty well integrated with the western society. Muslims are neither that educated nor integrated well with the western world and we have a stinking situation in hand like occupied countries and a threat of having more occupied countries.

The minute after Google suggests completions about Islam there will be forward mails like "GOOGLE IS RUN BY JEWS AND THEY HUMILIATE US ALL!!!1". It is an effective bit of propoganda and there's a possibility of causing a loss of market share. And mind you this is the least of what could happen. So, again, why would they even risk it at all?
Because Google is supposed to not be evil and treating one group of lunatics differently from all other groups of lunatics is.
so how exactly does this guy propose content sites get paid if they can't use advertising to support themselves?

Are they supposed to charge for access to read things that are readily available online?
NOTE: IMMAD Deleted this from his blog. It seems he cannot accept criticism, just comments.

Ignoring the obvious laughable fallacies (" Since I live and breathe the Internet, I’m more adept to make better judgements of companies than the market."), I'm suprised you and your business partner both read and reviewed this and still felt comfortable posting this.

At first I wonder, how much research could you have possibly done if you put a company on your list that was acquired last year?
Then I saw your response to someone suggesting Skype "I love Skype. Adding it now." A clear example of the amount of research and methodology you've employed to come up with these weak sublists.
You've simply chosen companies with products you like and have listed them, arriving at conclusions no different than that of a casual user of the internet.

In the end, you finish up with a facile paragraph:
"I am very optimistic about the Internet."
Amazing!

"I am certain that at least 100 other companies will be on this list in 10 years time "
Really? You are certain that in 10 years at least 100 more companies will fall within your classifications of winners, neutral, unstable, or failures? That's quite a bet you are making!

"and most likely even my favorites will disappear."
What? You just gave a list of companies you project to be successes (great job on noting that rising star "google" by the way) and now you are telling us some of them may disappear? Have you even read what you wrote?

"The Internet is still in its infancy, and there is still room for tremendous growth. It certainly is an exciting time to be in the industry!"
Tell me less.
10 minutes? Really? I've found screen to have a huge learning curve. From inside screen, I have to keep looking up what the hotkeys are, and I can never remember the exact Control-A hotkey I'm after to operate it. Imagine teaching an entire class how to use screen, before you can even begin to touch on your real lesson material!

If anyone else is struggling with screen, I recommend launchpad.net/byobu, for a more humane/learnable/menu-based multiplexing program
Well I think it's mainly a hardware limitation. I still get kicked out of apps from time to time due to low memory. This is probably due to errors on the programmers side. However if this happens with a single program running, you can imagine what would happen if other programs get memory hungry. It raises a lot of questions, what is acceptable amount of memory to use in the background? Which program does the OS terminate first? Save state when I'm told to go away?

I think Android has handled a lot of these questions very well. We'll see how Apple handles it in the future, but I don't see background processes being compatible with older models of the iPhone.
isn't that kinda what the Yahoo directories were supposed to be? Didn't turn out too well, from what I remember.
Yeah I met these guys when they presented at Rice a while back. I can tell you they aren't doing anything with Spyware. It was actually really frustrating because they had to keep answering this question over and over.
Hasn't Europe and many parts of Asia been like this for years? World's first = US' first?
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And my personal blog, http://www.StartBreakingFree.com

Yes, I have too many projects :)
It's a bug. It will be fixed.
How long before google launches their own mobile carrier?

There are plenty of smaller parties in Europe they could gobble up to get a foothold, gain experience with the tech and the roll out on a much larger scale.
http://www.playfirstlife.com
http://www.badvideojoke.com
In the long run google will probably be competing on something other than price, I'd expect them to roll out a whole pile of android specific service improvements.
Gorgeous...those buttons/themes are pretty sweet.
Pyapns - A Universal Apple Push Notification Service Provider
Traditionally carriers like Sprint and Verizon, that use CDMA have been the more draconian as far as rules go on their network (e.g. locking down phones, only allowing ringtones through their service, disabling bluetooth OBEX on phones, etc). That's why people tend to see GSM carriers in a better light (also because GSM phones are compatible with carriers around the world).
Lol...is that a turtle with a space helmet? Love it!