skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prediction:

Touch interfaces will comprise the new end-user interface vocabulary. As happened with mouse/keyboard/overlapping windows, a de-facto standard set of UI conventions will be established as a new mainstream.

Apple will be a trailblazer of this with the iPad. They will be too greedy with their IP and their closed corporate policies will drive the creation of a different but similar standard that they do not directly control. Hopefully, it won't be Microsoft that jumps in and does it this time.
You're repeatedly making the claim that you can differentiate, with near 100.00% accuracy, between street fighters who can and can not fight effectively (or get lucky in this one fight).

That strikes me as bad math.

(and I guess then it comes down to "is he planning to attack me")

On this we agree. If there is clearly going to be an attack, then figuring out an optimal fight strategy is wise. But if there is an option not to have an attack, that seems even better.... even if you're confident that you have a 100.00% accurate ability to differentiate between superior/lucky and inferior/unlucky opponents.
I'm sure their search technology is significantly different as well. A large part of Google's success is being able to crawl well (their index is incredibly fresh), sort through spam and SEO gaming and then raw speed over many billions of documents. It's a lot easier to efficiently crawl and search an intranet.
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A fraction of a second delay probably wouldn't be noticeable to the end user - you'd only ever lookup the number when actually making the call. DNS may be distributed but that's part of the problem - you can't just set your address to redirect to another number when you're out on lunch - it'd take too long for the changes to propagate through the system. You wouldn't put email addresses at the DNS level, so why do this?
And write C++.
1. No matter how certain its eventual coming, an event whose exact time and form of arrival are unknown vanishes when we picture the future. We tend not to believe in the next big war or economic swing; we certainly don't believe in the next big software revolution.

2. Because we don't believe in technological change (we only say we do), we accept bad computer products with a shrug; we work around them, make the best of them and (like fatalistic sixteenth-century French peasants) barely even notice their defects — instead of demanding that they be fixed and changed.

Collorary: If you want aim for something world-changing, you need to aim high enough that most Slashdotters won't immediately get it and say "meh."

I think this level may be out of the reach of most startups now. (Google, Facebook, and Twitter are notable exceptions. But I think the low-hanging fruit has been largely picked from the current set of user interface kit.)
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
Bug-free software? Dream on
I think the relationship between IQ and effort is due to two factors upbringing and our understanding of the self. The upbringing factor is easy to see; a smarter child doesn't work as hard growing up since he isn't challenged enough in school. You went into this in your article.

The understanding of the self however is a little more tricky. The more we understand what makes us happy on the inside, the more the value of the world on the outside decreases. You mentioned becoming a CEO; I think a person with a high IQ who has a good understanding of him/herself has a pretty good idea what he/her wants. And there is a very little chance that the "CEO" position can offer all or most of that. Jobs and positions in the real world rarely translate perfectly to what we want in our minds. Also, smarter people do a better job of synthesizing their future in their minds; they tend to look farther into the future. So essentially they are looking at the future wondering, why do I have to work harder to get to a position that offers very little of what I want.

You can argue that the CEO position is really quite valuable and that the smarter person should want it. But a side effect of their "easier" upbringing also means that they don't have the desire to work hard for things.

I think the biggest part of working hard is to trick your brain into thinking you want the outcome that the hard work is going to bring.
There was another hedge fund guy in Dallas who made billions betting against mortgage securities, just like this guy. But before he invested, he spent years explaining to everyone that the mortgage market was doomed. People laughed at him. He finally placed his bets and ended up being right.

From your comments, you have a fundamental misunderstanding about how these markets work. Investors in CDSes don't cause anything to happen. It's like betting on a horse race. Your money has no impact on how fast the horses run. If you want to be mad at someone, why don't pension fund managers hire analysts to do their own research rather than blindly trust the sharks on Wall St.? Ultimately, it's their fault for losing everyone's money. Wall St. merely sells the products that people want.
Joel Moses' memoirs - a personal portrait of AI research
What difference does it make if the EU gives you the boost or if Google does? Either way it helps take the internet out of IE's hands, lets just be thankful for that.

Also, woot Opera. I really do feel it could be a dominant browser if given a chance. It has the best mouse gestures interface, built in torrent support, excellent dev tools, fastest js engine on the market, superb standards support, and a very sleek UI. Good to see it get some attention, even if it is a bit forced.
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A lot of arts make it look a lot easier than it really is but it is also not as impossible as others in this thread seems to believe.

The main trick is accepting the fact that you are going to get hurt. Get past that then you can focus on minimizing that hurt by taking the other guy out as fast as possible.

[aside]
It can be a lot of fun to play with this with a buddy. Go to staples and get a 12-pack of coloured sharpies. Your buddy gets a sharpie and you get nothing. Spar with your buddy with him/her seriously trying to mark you (none of that "telegraphed motion" crap most people use in regular practice). You win the round if you make your buddy drop the "knife" or he ends up on the ground with you still standing. Your buddy wins if she marks you in any one of [your core, neck, back of your knee, hamstring, inside of arm] or marks you more than twice anyplace else. Use a different colour each round so it's easier to keep track.

After you use all the colours, switch roles.
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Note that the OP had a highly trained unarmed vs an incompetent knife. That's way easier.
Sure, if the querying is your only concern.

The trade off you make to get the performance attributes, scalability, schemaless flexibility, etc from a NoSQL storage solution is that you end up in a different query situation. Things like joins aren't as easy - but at the same time the cost of doing what in RDBMS land you'd consider "Denormalizing" (potentially duplicating data as needed) is much, much lower.

As for translation, the Mongo guys have produced a JDBC driver (for those of you stuck in java land, but at the least it's a code model for "Howto"; disclaimer: I haven't had a chance to use it yet) that supports some automatic translation of SQL statements to Mongo queries - http://github.com/erh/mongo-jdbc
How many clicks does it require to share a file or folder?
Crapware authors are too dumb, or too busy making money from Windows OEMs, to care about writing software for Linux.
can also with

$ rsync --progress file1 file2
Well, they both have their strengths and weaknesses obviously. One thing I'd say in Android's favor is that if you make a really kick-ass game, you'll be a big fish in a small(er) pond. I think with the iPhone there's a higher risk/reward, but with Android you have a chance to make a really big splash.
I have no problem with Nokia vs Apple. They invented much of how mobile phone networks work (hardware) and have standard royalties with FRAND terms for the IP. Apple is the only major manufacturer to not pay. They aren't exorbitant fees and Nokia isn't trying to sink the iPhone by refusing a license. If Nokia hadn't gone after Apple they would realistically face other manufactures who decided that if Apple didn't have to pay they wouldn't either.

If you read Nokia's suit the "damages" they want are simply the past due royalties they should have paid in the first place and ongoing royalties for future sales. No injunctions or multipliers. Very reasonable as far as patent suits go.
Normal = X
Normal after realease = X * Y
What they saw: (X * Y) < (X * 3)
One problem with having a software patent have a validity of seven years is that it often takes seven years or in some cases even more to get a patent through the USPTO.

If a patent's validity is up before it is issued, it is pointless.
It seems like a rather superficial change to me. If you were to sit down and use it, you would probably get used to it quickly. It didn't take me long to get used to Windows 95 putting the menu bar inside the window, or its menu-title-min-max-close pattern instead of close-title-lower-raise.

Also, as for breaking conventions, OS X breaks many conventions a Linux/Windows user would be familiar with, but nobody is suggesting that Apple restyle their OS to look like Windows.

That said, I can see where working regularly on both OS X and Ubuntu's new branding could get frustrating, because the buttons are in the same place, but different.
XMPP might be suitable
I'm in the same place. I was waiting for updated Macbook Pros with a Corei7 and now I'm going to take a pass. I don't like the way Apple is going and the biggest vote I have is my wallet. I'll probably end up with Ubuntu on a laptop from Lenovo or HP.
There's so many possible explanations for why these apps were yanked (battery conservation, legal concerns over war driving, compatibility issues) that the lack of clearly naming at least one is a little frightening. With Apple yanking political apps, scantily clad apps, and now Wi-Fi apps, I really don't get the rush by media companies to secure a place on it.
It's very nicely done. Movement via keyboard is done by JS (not surprising), though all animation is done by CSS. JS just defines where to stop.
Doctorow on the fallacies of prediction
Intelligence is hardly a knife. One can put a knife aside and try training without it to better improve the "other" skills, same is not true for intelligence. And also, isn't true intelligent people are more inclined to self-improving?
I think that declining your experiences is NOT intelligence.
Free will is an illusion, biologist says
>A fraction of a second delay probably wouldn't be noticeable to the end user

It is (try it), and retries/outages would be very noticeable. One of the applications I'm particularly interested in is directory services, and as you can imagine browsing through trees is extremely sensitive to responsiveness. Dialing a name should also be near instantaneous.

>DNS may be distributed but that's part of the problem - you can't just set your address to redirect to another number when you're out on lunch

You can (.tel allows you to switch between "profiles").

>it'd take too long for the changes to propagate through the system.

You can set TTLs to whatever you like (60 by default).
Obligatory esolang wiki reference:
http://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet
Absolutely fascinating paper about one of the more interesting pieces of software created, and the people involved with it. Extends from early days of LISP (back then) through to how culture might influence AI approaches.
I was robbed at knifepoint many years ago. I gave up my wallet willingly.

I did so because I cared far more about being present for my wife and children than I cared about the fact that some assholes would enjoy the contents of my wallet.

At the time I was practicing both boxing and karate on a daily basis, so I probably had decent odds in a fight... but why bother? I can get another wallet and some more cash. I can't get my daughter a new dad.

If this makes you think I have no backbone... well I suppose we simply have different principles.
"We received a very unfortunate email today from Apple stating that WiFi Where has been removed from sale on the App Store for using private frameworks to access wireless information," explains one developer, though Apple has apparently declined to explain exactly what rule the scanning applications are breaking.

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Well if they are using private APIs as the quote suggests, there's the rule they're breaking right there. If so, this isn't news, move on.
But now even those have vanished as Apple decided
they were using a "private framework", and has
pulled them off the shelves without explanation
or apology.

Apple does not like you messing around with the private frameworks. If this is the reason, these developers should have seen this coming.
Its nice to think that people factor benevolent principles into situations like this. However, when people fight back under high stress situations like a robbery, it is probable that the moment is not about defending society; its about survival.

Statistics say if you cooperate, you're less likely to be harmed. If you decide to push a physical confrontation, then you're more likely to be harmed. If you measure the cost/benefit ratio to each action, its a no brainer.
There must be something else. Symbian still has the lion's share of the market (47%). Apple only has 15%: http://www.canalys.com/pr/2010/r2010021.html

Is it much easier to develop for the iPhone over Symbian phones? Are iPhone users more willing to pay money? Or perhaps Apple makes the payment process easier for developers, who no longer have to set up their own payment processing?

I don't know what the answer is, but it's not just market share.
i'm an android guy also, but it's really more of a iphone thing. if you think about it, iphone is a platform for stuff that works with no tweaking, whereas android is more robust yet fragmented and that creates a different user-base.

i just feel that the type of people who play games (like facebook type games "oooh i got to feed my fish!") are more of the iphone crowd
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He actually clarified that you should only yell for the police if you are in a place where help is likely to arrive quickly (as well as several other clarifications). I skipped the caveats and clarifications since they would mess up the pacing of the story.
But you can lose the value of the patent .. at the negotiating table

True, it comes down to people and what they think you will do, not what you can do.
Dooid - digital contact cards
Rear-view URLs
I'm not exactly sure what a private framework means. Is this like a shared library that they are all using? What is the problem with doing that from Apple's point of view?
How Would Your Phone Calls Look in Person?
Why is this better than OpenMicroBlogging, pubsubhubub, or whatever it is StatusNet uses? And why are you not using HTTP? And if you're making a new protocol, why have an unencrypted connection?
The example given is in the lower level imperative javascript you'd use to speak directly to MongoDB.

Often you'd layer a more expressive declarative language on top of that, which is what drivers like MongoMapper or Mongoid provide.

Even within the JavaScript interpreter you can be writing declaratively, like this jLINQ example:

http://somewebguy.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/jlinq-in-mongodb-...
Well duh, they're underpriced. Given the time to develop, even at minimum wage, the vast majority probably never even get close to matching their costs. Unless you include a bajillion which were made to solve problem X for user & programmer Z, and they'd like something when they may have released it for free. And the app store makes that a brainlessly simple choice.

$1 is well below the impulse-buy threshold, and $1 might as well be free for most people. But the difference on the developer's side is that they get something, instead of nothing. $1 compared to a $0 app means a single sale is an infinite (fine, undefined) increase in income, which totally eclipses the chart's 11% net income increase from a %1 increase in price.

From another angle: what if your favorite free software cost $1 instead? Would you still use it? How about you donate that $1 to the developer directly? You'd be in the extreme minority of any who donated, I guarantee it, and if they had charged $1 they'd probably get several times the income from that freeware in a year than from all their donations.

To make matters worse for app-store developers, people are arguably even less likely to donate when downloading from the app store, because it's not built-in.
I'd prefer not to treat all my customers as morons.

(Regardless of how many are...)

EDIT: What's with the boom of posts demonstrating how stupid non-computer people are? It's rather elitist...
It's a non-documented/non-public API. Typically these APIs are either likely to change without warning, haven't been fully tested for 3rd party app use, or can cause issues (battery life, interference with other core iPhone features, etc...). Whether it's the iPhone SDK, or your favorite web app dev framework, using non-public APIs is generally a bad idea.
"We received a very unfortunate email today from Apple stating that WiFi Where has been removed from sale on the App Store for using private frameworks to access wireless information," explains one developer, though Apple has apparently declined to explain exactly what rule the scanning applications are breaking.

So Apple told them the removal is due to the use of private frameworks, but they don't know what rule they're breaking?
Turn Your Body Into Your I/O with Skinput
Asking for an injunction is saying Apple can't use Nokia's claimed technologies:

http://stadium.weblogsinc.com/engadget/files/Nokia_Apple_III...

Arguably, Apple's not a maker of GSM devices. "Apple bought the chips and components that use the patented technology from a licensed supplier. Nokia doesn't get to double-dip and be paid twice if Apple's suppliers have a license to use Nokia's patents and Cupertino's just buying phone components without dictating design."

http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/nokia-vs-apple-the-in-dep...

Anyway, "suing to make Apple pay up like everyone else" seems again about wanting to hedge against Apple's disproportionate profitability per unit.

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More context on Nokia's claims that Apple is using the technology in seven patents--related to user interface, digital cameras, antennas, and power management, and to create "key features" in its products--here:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/12/nokia-hurls-new-sa...

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/nokia-adds-additio...

More on why Nokia started the fight, here:

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/10/22/why-nokia-is-suing-...

Counter argument (it's actually not sour grapes, it's just very complicated) here:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/nokia-vs-apple-the-in-dep...
A Typology of Crowds
Crime problems are mostly social/economic. Regular people shouldn't have to fight robbers. Thats what police are for.

Responding to being robbed isn't an exercise in patriotism.
I know a bit about JSC. They are brilliant at recruiting and have some amazingly smart people.
Well, they were told it's because they were using private frameworks. Which means not-locked-down APIs. That's just inviting them to be yanked at some point, as they're just waiting to break. Frankly, it's surprising they got through at all, Apple was being rather loose with their rules in this area.

Plus, they're duplicating functionality, which they've been rather explicit in the past about not allowing.
Xulrunner takes 40 megs on a good day...
It took effort to create our _free_ app. We originally believed that having a highly branded app would outweigh the costs of development. One issue we're facing is negative reviews. Out of the thousands of downloads, we've had 25 one star reviews. The people who enjoy our app just aren't prompted to give us a review. We're down to two options.

1. nag/prompt the satisfied users for a review inside app
2. price it $4.99
Most people aren't saying it's impossible. I'm not.

In practice, I can actually do fairly well against unskilled people. I can disarm/stab them maybe 50-60% of the time, unarmed vs knife. The highly skilled people can win 90-95% of the time against newbies, 80% of the time against me.

A 95% chance of not getting stabbed still sucks.
Can Open Source Principles Transform Data Center Design?
That does not make any sense.

Maybe there is a way to make the snake eat it's tail. After your payroll paycheck bounces call up the state employer regulators and see if they will make your paycheck whole.

Then post the whole thing to the web as a performance artwork
I found the opposite on his abstract (though Googling around says that his claims are often disputed):

"This study assessed the impact of sixteen types of victim self protection (SP) actions on three types of outcomes of criminal incidents: first, whether the incident resulted in property loss, second, whether it resulted in injury to the victim, and, third, whether it resulted in serious injury. Data on 27,595 personal contact crime incidents recorded in the National Crime Victimization Survey for the 1992 to 2001 decade were used to estimate multivariate models of crime outcomes with logistic regression. Results indicated that self-protection in general, both forceful and non forceful, reduced the likelihood of property loss and injury, compared to nonresistance. A variety of mostly forceful tactics, including resistance with a gun, appeared to have the strongest effects in reducing the risk of injury, though some of the findings were unstable due to the small numbers of sample cases. The appearance, in past research, of resistance contributing to injury was found to be largely attributable to confusion concerning the sequence of SP actions and injury. In crimes where both occurred, injury followed SP in only 10 percent of the incidents. Combined with the fact that injuries following resistance are almost always relatively minor, victim resistance appears to be generally a wise course of action."
Funny how life works... I just asked my wife about this the other day. It freaked her out a little bit, but I'm still thinking about doing it.
An AirBnB for travel
"The first thing to remember is that if you take and maintain control of their wrist..."

That made me think of this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2REG3-Wb5gM
Python seems to be the preferred programming language, I find it interesting given that the founding team is from Facebook which I hear was originally built using a lot of PHP.
Interesting! Thanks for the link! I'm gonna put that in my "must read more about" list!
yeah... could have gone my whole life without knowing this
> You're repeatedly making the claim that you can differentiate, with near 100.00% accuracy,

Im not sure how I give that impression.. I've deliberately tried not too.

The point I am making is.

If your well trained and you are happy that your assailant is unskilled then it makes sense to take action :)

(well that was the original point anyway r.e. the Israeli we were originally discussing)
The idea of those barcodes is to maximize the reliable, storable information, regardless of format. If you make the information bytecode for a programming language, people would be able to get mobile phone apps from soda cans without needing to program in an esoteric programming language.

Using something like piet doesn't maximize reliability (error correction) and thus isn't good for that domain.
What makes you think it hasn't been given a chance but Chrome/Firefox/Safari have?

Aside from IE, it's a pretty open market for browsers and thus far Opera hasn't dominated.
Here's a good SMF resource, by the ever reliable c0t0d0s0!

http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/4144-Solaris-Features-Servi...