skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been peevish about that too. 4" off-square makes no sense.

Solved it by getting a Cal-king. Much happier, more snuggling with my wife, and my toes don't hold up the end of the blankets any more (I'm 6'2").

The only problem I've had since is that 4 Cal-king sheets we ordered in a row were mislabeled, and in fact Kings (or some other shape/size. trust me, they've been pretty weird). But that could be because I'm in the Midwest, where Cal-anything is mostly unheard of.

To get back on topic, the article is rather amusingly complete... I'm quite impressed someone would put this much work into this (though not surprised. A (math) geek, obsessed? never!).
Here are some relevant links:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150561

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=708640

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=186369

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=963838
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Yeah I got your meaning. I just think perhaps you'd do even more reading if you got a kindle. (Well it can't be less..)

Like I've been running through lots of academic papers recently. I just loaded the empirical bayes paper from the front page & I plan on reading a few pages before I sleep. Tomorrow I'll compare it with the dozen other texts I have on the kindle.
Definitely doesn’t beat the iPhone IMHO, but Google are moving at such lightning fast pace, I'm guessing we might see a Nexus 2 before the end of the year.
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That might be an interesting question to ask HN, "How did you find about HN?"
I also do this whenever possible. I've been told by the person handling checking in that I may face an enhanced screen or words to that effect but have always breezed through without any issue.

Edit: My experience is travelling from the UK to US and Europe and back.
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A much better reading format, thanks for the link!
I don't know, depends on your definition of "big hit". Is crushing industry expectations and becoming the best selling phone in the world a "big hit"?
I was just making the point that justifying swerving out due to some undefined 70 mph effect is incorrect if you don't know what you're dealing with. And that whoever came up this 70 vs. 35 mph effect justification should realise that it mostly applies to e.g. the truck example you gave and somewhat to cars of significantly different mass / size. Therefore it's confusing advice and obscures other possible good reasons for swerving out.
Contrary to what Political Pundits might say our leaders really aren't idiots. For several decades now we've been pursuing alternate fuel sources [..] while denouncing foreign oil use [..]

Are you kidding? Our leaders have done no such thing and if they had, they really are idiots because they have been stunningly unsuccessful on both.

I don't think the USSR has much to teach us about the middle east, the situation is completely different. And the USSR was never a vassal state - indeed it's probably the only other country that could be considered an equal to the USA in recent history, along with China. So it's really quite an inappropriate comparison to make.

But I wonder if, long term, the USA really "won" in the first place. Remember "the only way to win is not to play". Well the Russians just decided not to play - or were unable to continue, at any rate. And whose blood is being spilled in Afghanistan these days?

Anyway, I wasn't intended to start a futile political argument, so let's agree to disagree : D
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Stopped reading there.

He got a silver medal at the International Olympiad for Informatics, and the following year his team won the ACM programming contest.
The recent Morgan Stanley reports on "Mobile Internet Trends" (15. Dec. 09) portray the rapid growth in pretty much detail:

- http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/mobi... [List of Reports]

- http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/pdfs... [PDF, 92 Slides]
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Maybe this small change will help with that. If you use two colors instead of one, a "did my task" color and a "did not do my task" color, you'll see a good chain followed by a bad chain. That may have enough psychological impact.
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Could I get an invite, if you have any available?
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I don't want to sound negative, but 'greatest program ever written' is really an overstatement. He has created this program, because he needed to fit into 1k. If it was needed nowadays, hundreds of programmers could achieve this result. (I would be so happy to code these kind of things at my working place instead of the bloated overcompilcated softwares...)

If someone would create a prize (a prize like the netflix prize or the Hutter prize) with $100k or something, to create the smallest chess program, I suppose hundreds of contestants would fit into 1k. But the competition would be high, and the winners would be probably very sophisitcated algorithms, which might deserve the 'greatest program ever written' title. But without competition it is easy to be the best.
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A bit more information about it here http://bellard.org/pi/pi2700e9/
In Sweden there is a law stating that numbers have to be portable across carriers, no need to use pre-paid to achieve that.
I'd love one too. email in profile.
IMHO this 128 Byte(!) 3d demo is even more impressive: http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=53871 (Click on the Youtube link at the right to see it running)
Ok, so Twitter is basically doing everything wrong in your view, and yet they are tremendously popular. Have you considered the possibility that you are wrong, and they are in fact doing it right, in light of their success, I mean?
I'm not saying terrorism works. I'm just saying Google is not a non profit organisation promoting free speech.
I don't necessarily agree to saying that the mind works by mental tricks, but that's mostly semantics. I do think it's generally better to operate by intention, and I also think that those intentions should be based on sound values and rigid beliefs and dreams.
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The article I read was about one of these freeware applications (something starting with "G", and a green Logo or mascot I think, I can not remember unfortunately), which installs the spyware if the users does "Express Install". Buried in the TOS is "we may use your computing power". It was by a third company, which in turn is supposed to be used by 80legs. Perhaps 80legs is not even aware of the shady practices of that company.
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> Muslims are neither that educated

That is an interesting comment.

I dont think your right BTW (generally in your comment). I expect it is simply Google is avoiding any fall out. It's one of those current affairs terms that eventually somone would think to Google then write a blog post titled "look what Google suggests for islam is..."

Lose-lose all round. Best to go for the option the least amount of people would give a crap about.

EDIT: google doesnt offer suggestions for any of your other examples either btw.
Whilst this is interesting technology wise and may open impressive possibilities... so what? Without a solid install base why would I spend my time writing impressive software that is tied to this machine? Profit? No install base = no customers. Hubris? No install base = no one to impress.

I'm fully aware this is a chicken and egg situation...

(I say all of the above as a total Amiga fanboy from back in the day!)
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The vote is clearly in, and the majority is siding with Apple. I haven't changed my position, though, and the more you write in this thread, the more convinced I am that you don't know what you're talking about. The technical reasons are not strong; SSE2 is primarily for floating point ops and SIMD vectorized ops. Most user code does not use floating point, and it's hard for compilers to extract latent parallelism to produce vectorized code.

However, if you put the technical reasons aside, and only focus on the business reasons for making a choice here, it's clear to me that the best way to go is to fall in line with the existing precedents for the platform. That way maximizes your business upside. There is no business reason for wanting 16-byte alignment, only business reasons for not wanting it.

The technical case would need to outweigh the business case in order for it to win. But I don't see the technical case as being that strong. Floating point code is rare. Outside of scalable vector-oriented UI libraries and domain-specific number crunching, it's hardly ever used. Many architectures survived for decades with only optional support for floating point, in a coprocessor. Many embedded architectures still use emulated FP, if it's needed at all.

And I really meant it about shockingly naive back there. It tells me everything I need to know about what you know about commercial compilers: that you think of them in the academic sense of being the bit that turns text into code. There's more to it than that in the real world.
> It's part of a trend of going out of the way to avoid offending Muslims specifically.

A lot of other "<something> is/are" terms are filtered too. I dont think this is specifically about offending Muslims.
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In Germany I can get a mobile flat for 15€/month (or even 10€ if I were willing to go to O2, I think). That would be slowed down after 1GB of traffic, but I think for the time being I would be fine with it. So the TCO numbers are really nonsense - why mix up the price of the phone with the individual whims of network operators? Besides, the network costs should be identical for all smartphones.
I suspect if Jerry Springer: The Opera hd been written by a group or country that certain sects of Christianity want dead then the response would be the same.

It was groups of hardliners with their own agenda (aka not representing the religion) who, for the most part, provided the extreme reaction. The majority showed roughly the same response as to JS:TO.
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Well, there were nothing like iPhone back then. Now we have 3G and 3GS.
And on EDGE "web meets phone" will happen veeeery slowly.
It's a smartphone. They existed before the iPhone. Even app stores existed before the iPhone - at least in Europe, some companies made millions by selling J2ME apps for "classic phones". They discredited themselves by exploiting gullible teenagers, but still. For all I know, they might still be raking in the big money - they certainly still do TV ads.

What exactly makes a phone an iPhone clone?
* ...you can use the original Google Maps JavaScript API to do what you need.
* Not all portions of the original API were carried over into this plugin,
* Less than 10KB of JavaScript.

So 10KB extra data on the page, I can't really see why this is better than just using the Google Maps Javascript API. The Google API doesn't seem that complex :/
Ask HN: who's visiting SF for the crunchies?
I just saw Kevin Hale from Wufoo on the Mixergy interview say that he'd be visiting this weekend and he likes to meet the teams from each YC session. Who else is making a trip out this weekend or sometime soon?
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Maybe that's why the incentive not to break the chain is so strong?
Did anyone else get the vibe that Wufoo is a lot like 37signals? It wasn't just the reference to meeting Jason Fried at SXSW, it was Kevin's answers to a lot of varied questions about revenue, company culture, interface approach, dedication to support, etc.
Twitter is quite like the emperors new clothes. Lots of 'hip' people talk about how wonderful it is. But when you actually look at what they've done:

* Create a simple pub sub backend message system
* Limit it to 140 characters
* Allow everyone uninhibited API access to it

That's a great public service they've done, but for me, it's not a great business.

They've definitely done a great job at appealing to a certain demographic. However, twitter isn't about engagement. It's not about communication. It's about broadcasting 1->many. It's about producers and consumers. That's IMHO what limits its usefulness.

As a business decision, giving away access to 3rd party developers seems like favoring short term growth well above profit and the future. Most people don't use twitter.com which if I was an investor would be worrying.

Facebook OTOH is far more engaging and compelling in its usefulness. You can quickly paste URLs, images, vids, etc. It's more about communication.

I'm not sure being popular should be the aim of a startup. You can be wildly popular for a year or two, then go out of fashion. The people using Twitter aren't particularly known for their loyalty either.
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I had a ZX81. Drawing was indeed done by writing directly to a special address space. However, you didn't write pixels directly but rather bytes which where rendered as characters on the screen by the system.

The ZX81 did not have colors.
Do you see any value of it being "realtime"?
I'd assume he means to use 'old' when it's not possible to determine the age of an article, but that it's known it's not recent. There are a lot of articles out there that don't have a publication date allowing you to easily say '2007' or such.
I'm not sure if this applies, but... can't you convert any recursive algorithm into a looping one? In which case iterating over the loop will let you say anything. But this seems to take the metaphor too far :-)
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There are special ramp pieces you are supposed to use for that purpose and bridging blocks that allow you to elevate regular track. I've never heard of this brand but it used to be called "Brio" when I was a kid, http://brio.knex.com/
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I think Nexus One is best... bcoz i have these two in ma hand..
It's not functional programming if you don't have nested functions and/or closures, is it?
+1

It is standard for everywhere except the USA; mobile usage has been traditionally significantly higher in Europe than USA, so you wouldn't really want to miss out on that market!
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Indeed, just see here:

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/NIST-certified-US...

To see some NIST certified "AES-256 encryption" which turns out to be easily sidestepped - an example of the difficulty of verifying whether it works as they say.
The children can learn to count. The issue is reaching the age when your brain stops forming new connections without having language for certain concepts. If you lack the language to describe something you can't understand it. The only way an adult understands new concepts is in terms of previously known ones.
Of course, I can't help thinking of Greenspun's Tenth Rule when I see this sort of thing.

That said, my day job is C programming, and I am of course a heavy user of function pointers (how else can you get anything interesting done in C?). But C's type system does tend to get in the way, so you end up casting all pointers to void*, and things like that, just to shut the compiler up. Some Lisp-style macros would certainly help with this!
You could also argue that the tablet market is already interesting despite Apple -- e.g. Lenovo's Skylight, ChromeOS, other Android tablets (e.g. Archos') and even Nokia's venerable N800 series.

And that's ignoring fully Windows/Linux capable systems like Samsung's Q1's, and Viliv's range.
But this is circular. They don't think about it because they don't have a word to describe it... because they don't think about it....
> This leads me to believe that there must only be chips that support one or the other.

IIRC, Qualcomm are preparing the very first baseband/radio chip(s) that can support both. I believe it's a soft-radio, so you can reprogram it for whichever frequencies and protocols you need to support.
If no one ever reinvented the wheel there would be no competition.
How is this on the front page? We've already got a well discussed thread on the nexus one :[
If my banks ATM's start rebooting more than about once then I'm finding a new bank.

The Fail Whale is fine for twitter - less so when there's real $$ involved.
Thanks - very helpful to know. One follow-on question - you mention you use 2 machines, is this in a failover capacity or do you use another piece of hardware/software to balance in front if nginx ?
Larry Wall has been using it for quite a while. His essay about the problems with regular expressions as they’re known and used today is insightful and carefully argued: http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/apo/A05.html (from 2002)
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Good to see such a considered approach in this day and age.

In my eyes, there could be no TextMate 2, and I wouldn't complain. It is such a sturdy, reliable piece of software (with comparatively little in the same league), that it seems unlikely to experience a Quicksilver-esque exodus (although that was dead, not just on the slow burn).
Much discussion already:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1032063
"Functional programming" is one of those terms that's so undefined (and, really, indefinable) that it basically boils down to "I'll define it to mean that what I'm doing fits and what you're doing doesn't".
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Recently I've become very interested in celestial mechanics, specifically the Sun/Moon/Earth relationship. For instance, the Moon orbits in the elliptical plane, so it's always between the Sun and the Earth.

Here is an example of something I'd like to figure out: three weeks ago it was a new moon, so when it was noon somewhere in North America, if you could look up and see the Moon and Sun, I assume the Moon would appear a little lower in the sky since it's closer to Earth. However, a week ago, it was a full moon, so at midnight the Moon would be at it highest point in the sky, and I think North America would have been swung a lot closer towards the elliptical plane, because of the Earth’s tilt, so the full Moon would appear higher in the sky than the Sun does at noon. Finally, at what point in the Moon's cycle this month, would it's highest elevation in the sky be at the same elevation as the Sun at noon?

I'm looking for a good book that will explain all these things with an Earth-centered approach, and teach me the correct terms, like the ones satellite technicians need to know.

Thanks!
It was not that Commodore detested the Amiga. They were just aiming it at the wrong market for too long. They kept the Amiga a home computer. Finding a niche in videomaking allowed it to survive for some more time. It's analogous to what happened to the Mac - it was failing until desktop publishing created a niche for it. The difference is that it didn't work for the Amiga.

The Amigas were built around TV signal timing. When it became common to run home computers with VGA screens, it took too long for Commodore to build a machine that could drive them. The Amiga 3000 was the first one with a VGA port, but, by then, it was depressingly clear the low-cost PCs had won.
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Thanks, I'll pass on the love...
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Quicksilver is dead?? I still use it every day. Where did people go? :-/
Thanks.

I had the idea of a more booklike PDF.

I wonder if the author would seriously object to that.
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This seems like the sort of thing you complain about/discover well after buying the phone though.

For now, yes. When enough people have complained about it after getting their phones, though, it may be a different story.
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