skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you to a degree. I would like the Apple Tablet to have those features except I want the Apple tablet to have the same screen that it does now. I know that a good portion of HN readers appreciate the difference between a TN Screen and the IPS screen that Apple is putting in the iPad. The epaper screen in this tablet is just not the way that apple wants to go with a tablet. It's also a direction that I don't think that apple should go because battery life and readability in direct sunlight are the only real draws to the epaper screen.

The real thing that makes an ebook readable on a computer screen is dpi and the dpi on the iPhone is good and they continued this with the iPad. This is not to say that the kindle et al are not readable but they give up a lot just to be good book readers. The iPad is not aiming to be just a ebook reader. It's aiming to be a portable media device.
I worked at a shop where I wrote C for almost 2 years and we ran into this case twice. It was a compiler bug in the optimizer, and only happened when it tried to also optimize the way specific structures were laid out in memory. Using the zero-index array at the end of a struct to get a pointer to the following buffer in this case caused the offset to be wrong and we were over running our buffer.

This was xlC though.
Mudﬂap: Pointer Use Checking for C/C++
Does this even matter in this context? It appears that Evernote provides all the platform specific software for free, the Android app is listed as free in the Market. The service is free no matter what platform you use, and the ability to "go premium" doesn't have a condition for platform either. There are many Linux users who pay for on-line services, like Evernote is. Flickr pro accounts would be one example, and there is no flickr provided uploader app (which are free on other platforms too) that runs on Linux.

The chance that Linux users would or would not pay for software have nothing to do with the lack of a native, supported client for a specific platform when all the other platforms are provided for free. The choice to build software you're going to distribute for free for your userbase should be based on the platforms the userbase is using, not if they would pay for something that you aren't going to charge for anyway.
That swivel camera would be a nice addition to the iPad.
There are few books that I read in which I say to myself "Man that is a well written piece of literature that could not benefit from a bit of editing"

I think that 1984 was a good book, maybe even great, but I would not say that it did not get a little long in the tooth and repetitive near the end. Don't get me started on the dan brown novels and the male chauvinistic nature therein. I just don't get why he needed to include a clueless female character in every book he has written just to provide someone whom the main character can lecture condescendingly.

BTW. this is coming from a guy who is not overly sensitive to female equality issues but was smacked in the face by them after reading the Da Vinci Code.
How about this? Don't do business out of your house. Move the precious coins to a safe place instead.

Rule 1 about being pissed off that someone told someone else something about you that you didn't want disclosed: do NOT make a big deal out of it. It just draws more unwanted attention.
"reverse italics (‘linkskursiv’ = ‘left cursive’ or ‘rückwärts liegend’ = ‘lying backwards’) are often used in cartography, traditionally to indicate waters"

http://www.linotype.com/1410/roemisch-family.html
The metrics Google gives you are a bit coarse, you only get total downloads and active installs. Not sure if this translates to unique users, iTunes Connect is so much nicer in this regard.

Google Market publicly give out your download numbers in brackets, 50-100 downloads, 100-1k downloads, 1k-5k, etc.

We have two apps in the 250k+ bracket.

We've been on Android for over a year and the last few months have been insane. The day of the Droid launch we saw our traffic triple, and things seem to be picking up steam since then.

Feel free to email me at [username]@snaptic.com or hit me up on GTalk [username]@gmail.com

We love the Android platform and it would be great to have more folks building on it.
Many civilizations have had justice systems that worked exactly like that. "An eye for an eye."

In practice, it doesn't seem to work very well. There's a reason why most legal systems today rely on a third party to enforce justice. Civilizations that don't tend to devolve into a cycle of retributive violence, eg. medieval blood feuds in Italy, duels in the Wild West, and lynchings in the Reconstruction South.

I'm not entirely sure, but I suspect it's because every action you take not only has its material effects, but it's also taken as a statement of how you want the world to be. So if you steal something, you not only have taken the object, but you've declared that you want to live in a world without property rights. If you rape somebody, you haven't only traumatized her, but you've declare that you want to live in a world where sex can be used as a weapon. If you kill somebody, you haven't only taken their life, but you've declared that you want to live in a world where lives can be taken by conscious action.

If someone then does the same thing back at you, they don't just cancel out. Instead, both parties have declared that they want to live in the world where that crime is accepted behavior.
Sane people do not always have sane exes.
should maybe note that this was written 10 years ago.
Perhaps an iterative culling of the herd, destruction of the wicked kind of thing. Think of a farmer tending an olive grove, burning branches, transplanting here and grafting there. At some point you get left with a species that can decide among a myriad of interesting choices but all decide to avoid making that one.
The word "rape" has multiple meanings. At least one of which applies and is not necessarily connected with anything of a sexual nature. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rape
If you clicked that link, you have not actually disabled your public profile.
As someone who's spent a considerable amount of time analyzing twitter data, the most tweets come from a small cadre of "social media experts", which is the web 2.0 term for useless spammer.

Seriously, #1 should have been "the bot"
This kinda reminds me of IGLOO, Actel's 5 µW flash-based FPGA that can run an ARM Cortex-M1. Their product page even has a similar image as the OP with a little chip next to a penny.

http://www.actel.com/products/iglooseries/default.aspx

Has anyone ever worked with one of these?

(disclosure: I wrote some unrelated software for Actel a few years ago)
Android? Chromium? These are not exactly traditional desktop OSes.

Ubuntu I'll concede, but if they're putting Android on it by default it will be a lot closer to the iPad than to your Windows/Mac desktop. I think this was something you brushed aside too quickly earlier. Android was shown in the video, and if they want to compete with the iPad it's a very good starting point (being at least in the same league, if not on par with, the iPhone OS).

As far as I know, there are no files in Android or Chrome-OS. Android also has a touch interface (and this tablet doesn't have a mouse anyway).
This reply is pretty interesting: http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread_archive.asp?fid=1&thr...

Myself and some friends have been wanting to take such a tour for a while now. Hopefully some day soon, I'll actually get a chance to. It would be an amazing experience/
Otherwise, it's basically the same concept ...

In that case, cell phones aren't a new concept. Its the same as talking to my neighbor, only through this speaker...

Or maybe a car isn't a novel concept. It is, after all, the same as walking somewhere. Only slower.

Or even a book. Its just another representation of stories that have been told verbally for thousands of years, after all.

Sharing functional similarities in use with something that already exists doesn't mean it isn't a drastic change in how the function is performed.
That's bound to throw off the Java and Python numbers quite a bit. JDK 1.2.1 was problematic, and I think a lot of its poor performance there could probably be fixed with no more than a simple recompile. The past 10 years have also seen a wide diversification of Python implementations, including IronPython, Jython and the JIT-based interpreters. It would be very interesting to compare the performance of the same programs across platform implementations to try to knock down the variations and get to the effects of the choice of language itself.
I can't speak about the price discrimination in the fitness industry, but having experience in the Hotel industry I can say that this a very difficult situation to be in. On one hand, you have a product that is perishable in the fact that if you don't sell it (the room in my situation, or in this case the space in the fitness area), you can never sell it again; So in certain situations you will have to sell at any cost, or lose that potential gross profit. In theory, all is well until you have two people checking in at the same time, and customer A is paying 30% less than regular rate while customer B is paying the regular rate. In the case of people checking in together as a group, and checking into the same type of room, its always best to ensure that there is a common rate because obviously those people will talk and no one wants the short end of the stick.

In dealing with the situation, I think there are a few things one can do as the seller.
You can simply budge, and go for the lower rate. But you wouldn't be very good at sales if you did that.
Instead, what I often do is look at the emotions of the individual and you can normally tell how to handle the situation. In the hotelier industry, when a rate discrepancy occurs I usually state that you must book through a different distribution channel to attain the rate that the individual is arguing for. I go on to state the channel they used, and explain that the package/rate is no longer available, but what I can do for them is give them the special managers rate which is a 5% discount (or adjust until satisfied). This lets the customer feel like they are winning, all the while keeping your rate integrity. Another way you could handle the situation is stating that they are receiving rate X and that the rate at the current time is actually 10-15% higher than their current rate, and most people are okay with this, believe it or not. In the end, you have to either give the user some sort of value (such as a complimentary upgrade if there is a better room vacant and its late at night) or budge just a little. Otherwise you will have a bitter customer, and they will never be pleased nor will they ever return. In the end, how the customer is acting emotionally really determines how much you should give up, but you should always give up just a little and then add a little extra value - I believe this practice can be transferred to the sale of any product or service.

On the other hand, I have experienced very irate customers who act like total assholes, and they just end up with a higher rates. Don't be that guy.
What if some blackhatter cracks the link algorithm and then uses blackhat affiliate marketing techniques to get people to click the links? He gets very wealthy, and many people find their accounts drained slightly.
Yes, it does. The trouble is that the connotations of the word are still very highly sexualized, even when using an explicitly non-sexual definition.
WOW, a real computer actually.

This is pretty much what I was expecting the iPad was going to be instead of just an oversized ipod touch that doesn't run real applications but a bunch of jokes from the app store.

After the iPad was officially announced I thought I was going to have to get a joojoo instead but this looks way more promising.I think I will wait a few months then.
Android has a file browser. Plus, it seems to be designed around small, portable devices. Which the iPad (and the tablet in the video) isn't.

And are there any devices with ChromeOS available or about to be available in the next month or two? It was announced months and months ago. Can you write apps specifically targeting it yet? Do you even want to? What kind of device is Google targeting with ChromeOS? Whatever it can fit on? How is a ChromeOS app different from an HTML5 app on the iPad?

I don't even know what Google's intentions with ChromeOS are. At least with Android, theres some sort of direction, even if it does get hijacked and thrown away by other companies. With the iPad, you know what market the OS is aimed at. Not so with ChromeOS or Android, to a lesser degree.
Indeed; for some aspects of the study ten years ago was
a different epoch.
One thing I wonder about is - how well does the http server stuff scale? I think using something like this to create a small and manageable RESTful service would be cool to look into. It could help spawn a larger professional market for functional development.
This is a great concept, but it might be more useful if it aggregated problems people have instead of apps people wish for. From a technical perspective it would be harder to pull off, but we all know that end users rarely know what they're looking for.
I think there's a difference between relying on a third party to enforce justice (a concept which I have no problem with), and relying on a third party to choose punishment. If the punishment is exactly in kind (by default), then no choice is required. It's only because the sorts of punishments our society uses are completely different in kind from the initial offense that a choice is even necessary, and that same difference means that there's no "right" answer to the question. There's at least some hope of finding a right answer to how much damage was done to someone after having a TV stolen or being beaten. But even knowing how much damage was done, how could you translate that into a given amount of time in prison in any objective fashion? Is a beating "worth" two years or two months in jail? There's no right answer to that question.

In the system I advocate, actual settlements or punishments might vary widely, but as long as the convict always had the option of taking a similar beating to the one he gave the victim, we'd know that the punishment or settlement couldn't be more than warranted. As long as the victim can refuse any proffered settlement in favor of having the default punishment administered, we know that the settlement can't be less than warranted. The "eye for an eye" standard is just a tool for allowing the convict and victim to negotiate a settlement, and I think it would be rarely fully carried out for anything major, if the victim has the option of accepting some amount of money to forgive some or all of the offense.

but it's also taken as a statement of how you want the world to be.

I don't think people who steal a TV would agree that they want to dissolve property rights. They don't want to have stuff stolen from them, only to get away with it themselves. One of the reasons that law is possible is that even thieves want to have their own property protected, and even burglars want to protect their homes from entry by others.
Think, that $25 he can pretty much guarantee will come back in cash flow.

The advantage is pretty obvious here.
This may help restore suspension of disbelief: just because we don't have any evidence doesn't mean this "god" is wrong.
Why Europe's south refuses to downsize
"We quickly realized that we didn't get everything quite right. We're very sorry for the concern we've caused and have been working hard ever since to improve things based on your feedback"

Not the best possible apology (it's closer to "sorry you were concerned" than "sorry for our mistakes"), but not shabby as these things go.
I'd guess this is what he's objecting to: http://maps.google.com/places/us/florida/stuart/sw-3rd-st/30...

First of all, Google didn't create this information, they just scraped it. The first "More about this place" link has the same address. So if anything, he should be be suing that site.

But really, it's his fault, because something publicly available suggested that his home address was the address for his rare coin shop.

More importantly, there's a link at the top that says "Business owner?" that allows him to suspend or edit listing.

He's not going to get very far in court. Luckily for him, it won't cost much because it said in the report linked to in the article said he's representing himself.
British astronaut in space answers Twitter questions
NB. This is more of a Botnet construction kit than a standalone Lisp language. It was part of a distributed computation kit that, ummm, orchestrated disparate systems under the command and control of a single "admin".
You don't think Shakespeare and Wilde had to work pretty hard to get their wit onto the page? The average weblog commenter who tries is rather less successful.
the power outlets will have to be waterproof though, or with plastic covers.... I remember them cleaning down busses with a hose
Getting Geekier: The Evolution of “The Big Bang Theory”
Actually, they may not be making ANY money off of his friend. Most 'charter' deals and seasonal specials are loss-leaders for gyms. The former, as part of the initially pre-financed membership drive and the latter when they're already below break-even capacity on a per-membership basis.

Keep in mind he's asking for more than a 8.5% discount on the stated price even before excluding the bogus initiation fee.
You're thinking of the MOSREF library that comes with it (which is based on the Mosquito Lisp MOSREF stuff):

http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2009/11/28/using-wasp-lisp-secu...

Not so much a 'botnet construction kit' - more of a penetration testing system.
There's a benchmark comparison that the wasp lisp author did of the HTTP stuff:

http://waspvm.googlepages.com/dragracingagainstthttpdusingsi...
The camera is one of those things that makes you say "why didn't I think of that first."

I was kinda allergic to all the tablet hype that is surrounding the tech scene lately, but this really makes me consider one. I want one, actually.
Orson Scott Card is a complex and fascinating person and writer, who writes nuanced and sympathetic characters (Athiests, Catholics, independent women, housewives, nuns, children, Aliens, etc.) with not-clichéd interrelationships.

I find knee-jerk reactions like yours here pretty odd.
"The sea-level statistic was used for background information only, and the updated
information remains consistent with the overall conclusions," the IPCC
note states. Nevertheless, the admission is likely to intensify claims by
sceptics that the IPCC work is riddled with sloppiness.

I think that quote needs to be highlighted before people start making claims that this doesn't matter. This just shows (again) how political motivations affect science (which isn't to say that science is safe from monetary motivations either).
Well, you don't need to understand your code fully to effect changes in the simulation. The point is that it is a simulation, and you control the code. So you'd be omnipotent, just not omniscient. You know, that scenario would actually explain a lot about this world. The reason why evil exists is because God did create a rock too heavy for Him to lift, and that rock is us. Be patient, he may be in the process of debugging the system. :p
More than that, his characters and societies in 1984 are so one-dimensional as to be completely unrealistic, and therefore frankly pretty boring. In the real world (even in the worst totalitarian dictatorship, or in e.g. prison torture camps) motivations and relationships are always complex and usually confusing. 1984 is much more of a fairytale than “great literature”; the latter requires sympathetic human characters. (For instance, compare with Shakespeare’s heroes and villains.) I think one of the reasons that 1984 and Animal Farm have been so enduring is that their simplicity allows people to ignore Orwell’s actual intentions or message.

Down and Out in Paris and London and Homage to Catalonia are much more rewarding reading than 1984 or Animal Farm.
this is interesting, yet is somewhat uninspiring
I do not think that is possible for the human race without some serious brainwashing. Either that or look out for the school/office shooting types and make sure they get constantly laid, for the good of all humanity.
Overcoming Bias (Robin Hanson's blog) have decent discussions for a blog...
This accurately explains why I don't like twitter.
This is pretty true, and always something I think I struggle with. Clearly, one needs a mindset like this to choosing your life's path, or to your job/studies/whatever is most important. But where is the line drawn?
Is there anything wrong, for example, with the 9th grade cross country races being fun diversions?
Ya even there are still many things which is really annoying about this big bash Google Buzz..Hope they can fix it asap. Thanks for the heads up.
Houghton's "quote" has become one of the most emblematic remarks supposed to have been made by a mainstream scientist about global warming, and appears on almost two million web pages concerned with climate change.

It is interesting that not only is Google used as an authoritative news source, it is considered authoritative enough that it doesn't even need to be mentioned as a news source, even when they are reporting a number which is for all practical purposes flimsier than the flimsiest speculation ever to escape a scientist's lip regarding global warming.
I was going to say "too little, too late" but it would be more accurate to say "just enough, too late."
SEX MACHINA: Sex Aids
I am a big fan of Chrome OS, but iPad is simply a completely different model of computing, whereas Chrome OS is a completely different foundation of computing.

At the end of the day, for Google to succeed, one of Chrome OS's achievements has to be to match a lot of what desktop computing is today. In fact, one "ideal" scenario is for Chrome OS to simply be the same as desktop computing today, except "better". For example, it would be faster (launch more quickly, open apps faster, etc.); the deployment model would be simpler (over the web, no more software updates for apps, etc.); and more secure. However, while these advancements are certainly great, these are all very much simply an evolution of the current desktop model. Most of the "revolutions" in Chrome OS exist for developers, not users.

On the other hand with iPad you have to admit that it is drastically asking you to reanalyze what it means to use a computer. This isn't a value judgment: it remains to be seen whether this new model will be good or intuitive or successful or what have you, but it is different.
They don't want to have stuff stolen from them, only to get away with it themselves.

But whether or not they want to have stuff stolen from them, that's the message they're sending to the rest of the world. Hell, your proposal enshrines that into law.

It's like the observation I saw a while back on HN: People judge themselves by their intentions, but they judge others by their actions. It doesn't matter whether they intend to send the message that they don't think property rights are worthwhile, that's the message that will be inferred. And if both the criminals and the government agree on that message - what will the citizens think?
And the King James is even better still, having been translated to English from Greek by a German man

What? That's not true at all. It was translated by a committee of English scholars and clergy. It is also a landmark of literature and history that contains some of the finest English ever written.
Recognizing that difference in how people react is what puts you into the first category of confident people in the article.