skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1.) 'Crackpots' labeling is an easy way for corporate mass media to label the truth tellers to discourage you from researching further
(If you look at 2005-2007 CNBC interviews, they called alot of these people 'crackpots')
2.) Most of the time these 'truth tellers' are way early in their calls. It's up you to look at the numbers/charts and figure out when the said phenomenom should occur.
Have you tried it? Is it flexible enough to run big, serious projects on?

I believe it is and am betting with my startup with hosted apps targeting SMBs with CRM (http://crm.ifreetools.com) and Online Database App Creator (http://creator.ifreetools.com).

If you are from RDBMS, at first you will have to become flexible to accommodate to the BigTable way of things - no group-by, joins, etc., - and find alternate ways of doing things. Once you make the switch, if will indeed be good enough for big or highly scalable projects.
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Current isn't energy, so no.
What about Paradise Lost by Milton? The Aeneid by Virgil? Candide? Anna Karenina? War & Peace? And I prefer the Count of Monte Cristo over the Three Musketeers. The entire Divine Comedies, not just the Inferno.

Also liked to know why people think whatever author or book should be read.
"It's amazing the amount of information you can pick up from a good fiction book "

But that's not a compelling reason to read fiction; you'll get more facts from non-fiction.

Fiction helps you learn how to think about the world. It provides artificial situations for practicing empathy, moral reasoning, character assessment[0]. It exercises your imagination. It presents not just what is, but what may be. (Yes, non-fiction often has "but what does the future hold?" conjecture. Fiction offers this on a much grander scale.)

Deriding fiction because it's not "real" is like dismissing sports because they're contrived competitions (e.g., they're not war or whatever sports may stand in for).

[0] Some more modern fiction seems to be less about life and people and more about language and writing. Some works by David Foster Wallace come to mind. In that case, the fiction works more like puzzles or brain teasers.
In emacs, hs-hide-initial-comment-block works miracles. I'm sure other editors have ways to do that as well.

(That said, I totally agree with you. I wouldn't use them at all if I wasn't forced to at work.)
I'd bet that app was poorly written and doing something else in the background. An app that is just listening for data from an open connection should be using roughly zero CPU. But we'll try science; I've signed into AIM on my Nexus One and left it running in the background. The battery is at 81% now, I'll report back in an hour.
'I wonder how much people "pick their moments" to submit around here'

I've started doing that. I've submitted items around midnight PST, and they get little traction. The same story from a different link from someone else that next morning or afternoon gets more attention. Could be the title, etc., but I really think it's the time of day.
Can you explain why you think the writing is "god-awful"? I've read both books, and I don't agree with this at all.

(I'm not trying to be sarcastic. If you're correct, you should be able to make your case with more specific examples.)
Obviously you've never used an Amiga.

No swap file + no virtual memory + lots of stuff pre-cached onto RAM disk = snappiest user experience ever.
Attachment to what is impermanent is not heaven, it is a cause of suffering. When what one is attached to ceases to exists, pain fills it's place. By minimizing the amount of attachment one has to the world (in all ways, not just attachment to a person) one lessens the amount of suffering one can experience.

From the Dhammapada:

From what's loved is born grief,
from what's loved is born fear.
For one freed from what's loved
there's no grief
— so how fear?

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.16.than.h...
It highlights the potential danger of learning from fiction books; you have to watch out for the actual fiction :)

However I think the Dan Brown books are a great example - you have to side step the made up crap particularly in the lost symbol. But his earlier books have a lot of excellently researched information.
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But fiction is not about "real history, geography and so forth", nor about "natural history" nor about "the military and military hardware etc".

It's about human nature in general. Which is the reason why Jane Austen is still worth reading even though none of us are, in this day and age, clergyman's daughters and why Dickens has written soap operas with ink black characters that still guide our moral compass today. Or why my favorite writer Kafka is the only truly worthwhile teacher on how to laugh at your pointy haired boss.
I read about half and half when I am actually "reading" but most of my internet reading is nonfiction.

Might I recommend microfiction to the HN crowd. Sort-short stories (usually <2 pages) that are a great way to change your mental state into "fiction" mode without taking up lots of time (used on amazon for $0.01).

http://www.amazon.com/Sudden-Fiction-Continued-Short-Short-S...

http://www.amazon.com/Sudden-Fiction-American-Short-Short-St...
Isn't that the method which was already known on iPhone but not published, exactly because they were waiting for iPad to come out? (so they could use the same method on both)
>I guess they have a lot of reverence for Great Thinkers who hand down Deep Insights, whereas to me this guy Searle sounded like an imbecile.

Have you ever read the Chinese room article? It's pretty clear if you read it that Searle isn't an imbecile. The vast majority of "refutations" of his argument simply miss his point entirely. (Which is basically, "Why on Earth would you think that merely performing the same computations as a human brain could cause conscious experiences?")

> I guess they have a lot of reverence for Great Thinkers who hand down Deep Insights

Really? I've never met any philosophy students who fit that description.
> But that's not a compelling reason to read fiction; you'll get more facts from non-fiction.

I only touched on it but I think one compelling reason is that it is easier to digest the information within the context of fiction. Kind of like historical culture is often easier to learn within the context of classical fiction

(I agree with the rest of what you had to say)
Those problems were recorded by Brian Dean, he's now a prof at Clemson University http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~bcdean/ He's a fantastic teacher and actually made good use of his tablet pc to help with teaching. If he didn't have time to finish a proof in class, he would email us a flash movie recording of the full proof and he also graded our homeworks in the same way. We'd get back a flash movie containing our typeset submission and he'd comment on each solution and sketch out any improvements or fixes. It was really fun to get feedback like that.
That's the "systems reply", which Searle addressed in his original article. So I'm not sure which argument you're talking about.
Some more modern fiction seems to be less about life and people and more about language and writing. Some works by David Foster Wallace come to mind. In that case, the fiction works more like puzzles or brain teasers.

Which we (as a culture, not we personally) don't read that stuff. I happen to like DFW, but I'll be the first to admit that it has little to offer beyond, as you put it, puzzles or brain teasers.
The evidence is that they made a one-way bet with an insurance company, rather than a hedge with a derivatives trader. That's like buying fire insurance for a smoking building that somebody else owns.

You are accusing Goldman of speculation, not fraud.

Incidentally, insurance is a derivatives contract. Any insurance company is a derivatives trader, AIG Financial Products in particular.
I doubt it would be worth the time and money of litigating in court to collect damages on a copyright case anyway unless you're Google or Microsoft.
Thanks!

As per some instructions on the web, we created a "classlet2" Twitter account. When logged in, there is a help form where you can open a ticket. It took a few weeks, but they eventually released the account to us.
Facts are not knowledge. For instance, I've seen "facts" about Henry VIII all my life but it wasn't until I watched The Tudors that I gained some context to appreciate how those facts work. The Tudors might not be completely accurate but it was engaging, and with that context in place I can fill in the gaps and replace the erroneous facts here and there in a meaningful way.
A credit default swap is insurance on a bundle of loans being defaulted on.

Being collateralized doesn't change the facts. Goldman had the choice to exercise the option right away. It wasn't because they were forced to do so because the contract said so.

They knew AIG was going to be insolvent soon, so they wanted to get the money out of there as fast as they can.
A couple years back, I remember reading an article that argued that housing was way overpriced because the rents were only about half the value of the house. They should be in line with each other.
Well, i have atleast running:
Facebook, twitter, rss aggregation, gmail and k-9mail imap idle, gtalk plus weather and my phone is at around 30% end of a normal day with a few calls and around 2hrs rss reading on my way to/from work. Only one day battery life is quite sad compared to featurephones but i'd say it's normal for the smartphone of today. Oh, and i have gps/wifi turned on that day. Android 2.1 admittedly has some big improvements around that, as on my G1 wifi/gps made a much bigger difference.
According to the battery stats the display is draining by far the most power anyway.
The article had rather little to do with men or women not listening. Rather, it was a summary of the pseudo-science commonly evoked to justify the stereotype "men don't listen".
Will a Bursting Bubble Trouble Bernanke?: The Evidence for a Housing Bubble

November 2005, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/reports/will-a-bu...

(Baker has papers going back to Oct 2003 on it)
> It's about human nature in general.

It is indeed; but it's not exclusively about that!

> But fiction is not about "real history, geography and so forth", nor about "natural history" nor about "the military and military hardware etc".

Actually, it is full of things like this - human nature is the story set within such context.

Dickens is worth reading for the morality; but also lots of information on Victorian life. It might not be something you notice picking up (and not why the book was written) but I'm betting readers of Dickens will be able to recall all sorts of facts about those times.

Fiction is often full of facts :)
I used DNN awhile back and it's not horrible. If they're a Microsoft shop and the app is working and their growth is incremental, let sleeping dogs lie.

If they're bringing you in to make a clean start with the best web frameworks available, then one of the Ruby/Python/PHP frameworks others mention would be better IMHO.

If the answer is somewhere in the middle, you might have a look at the Castle Project (http://www.castleproject.org/), which I've had some good results with in the past.
Yes, definitely a great way to get people involved. Although I can't believe with this design it's a new site.
Thanks for your post. I about to graduate college and am already in a 5th year program working on my MBA. I subscribe to the hacker lifestyle even though I don't program and I really value this community. It's sad to see educated people make logic defying statements like: I can't think of an MBA who started one of Silicon Valleys innovative companies, hence MBA's can't start innovative companies.
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The lessons from Atari and Nintendo would seem to indicate closed has been a better strategy in the past.
1) 'Crackpot' labeling is also an easy way to label the crackpots, to discourage you from wasting your life either believing nonsense or trying to argue against it. It is not worth my time to do independent research on the question of whether the Americans actually landed on the moon.

2) You know what they say about broken clocks and being right. Someone who is always predicting a collapse will successfully predict any collapse.
>If the iPhone wasn't here, people would be buying it in droves

What about the article's point that if the iPhone weren't here, Android would not be nearly as good as it is now?
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"The Tudors might not be completely accurate but it was engaging, and with that context in place I can fill in the gaps and replace the erroneous facts here and there in a meaningful way."

But how do you know which are the fake parts? This is one problem with Dan Brown. He'll present a bunch of stuff, some of which is true, some made up for the sake of plot. How do you tell the difference?
Well, her habit is that whenever she has a theme that she wants to emphasize, instead of demonstrating it, she just says it; either through the narrator's description of things, or through some huge silly speech like Galt's famous monologue at the end of Atlas Shrugged, Francisco talking about the beauty of money, or Dagny's dialogue with James Taggart's wife. That's ridiculous. Either Rand doesn't have the skill or inclination to demonstrate through story the philosophy that she foists upon us, or she doesn't trust her reader to be smart enough to figure it out.

Besides that, generally purple prose, one-dimensional characterization, and way-too-exaggerated melodrama. I think I have a copy in the pile of books over there so I'll see if I can't find any passages that exemplify my complaints.

Anyway, I think there's a lot of people besides me who feel the same way, so if you search around online you should be able to find plenty of folks bitching and moaning about Ayn Rand's fiction.

EDIT: Atlas Shrugged, page 316 in my edition (I opened it randomly.) Dagny Taggart met Hugh Akston in the diner and is riding somewhere on a train. I did not italicize the following or quote it because it's quite ugly on HN, but it's verbatim.

It was the chance conversation of two men somewhere behind her that came beating suddenly against her closed attention.

"But laws shouldn't be passed that way, so quickly."

"They're not laws, they're directives."

"Then it's illegal."

"It's not illegal, because the Legislature passed a law last month giving him the power to issue directives."

"I don't think directives should be sprung on people that way, out of the blue, like a punch in the nose."

"Well, there's no time to palaver when it's a national emergency."

This impels Dagny to go grab a newspaper and read about the awful directives, and so on.

How inartful. Good fiction does not spoonfeed arguments like this to the reader; it leaves the reader to argue it out himself, in his own head. It presents him with a story, not a conversation. And it doesn't present half of the story as an endless series of straw men waiting to be knocked down, as Rand treats all her "evil" characters.

EDIT: Atlas Shrugged, page 567 in my edition. This is what Ayn Rand wrote about Counterfactual Rand's famous theatre production, Progressive Atlas Just Held It:

The man in Roomette 3, Car No. 11, was a sniveling little neurotic who wrote cheap little plays into which, as a social message, he inserted cowardly little obscenities to the effect that all businessmen were scoundrels.

Oh dear!
Actually yes, that is exactly what I am saying.

And just so you know, the chairman of the Fed is Ben Bernanke, who has never been part of Goldman Sachs. The fact that Goldman is so successful is because Goldman members like Henry Paulson are unelected politicians, the worst type.
OK, somebody make a product for that.
Yet they only listen to 3K.
Well put! I'm a relatively avid reader of both fiction and non, but have always had trouble explaining to my boyfriend (who only reads non) what substance I get out of fiction. Reading this post definitely helped me better articulate my feelings about this.
My parents read both. Doesn't seem like a pattern.
GWT (Google Web Toolkit) lets you write webapps using only Java, the GWT compiler compiles/translates the code to optimized and cross-browser compatible JavaScript. If you also use Java on the serverside, you're down to one language. There's also a plugin that integrates nicely with Eclipse.
They'll increasingly be niche products. Once there's a solution to the limited screen size of phones, they'll replace laptops in most scenarios.
" I happen to like DFW, but I'll be the first to admit that it has little to offer beyond, as you put it, puzzles or brain teasers."

The value in people like DFW may be like that of the Velvet Underground. They may have had a small audience, but they end up influencing the direction of the art form. (Brian Eno said that the VU may have only sold 10,000 albums, but everybody who bought one started a band.)
That's my main problem. I would rather take public transportation, but by car it takes me 35-60 minutes depending on traffic, against at least an hour and a half.

So, total time is a factor, as well as restricted schedules. (i.e. no options after a certain time)

On the other hand, the answer to this might be to find a job where public transportation is an option. (near future plan)
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I got back to reading The Invention of Air, which, so far, is presenting all sorts of historical info in a compelling narrative. It's non-fiction but has the (good) qualities of a novel. A ripping yarn, you might say.

There's little chance I could read some dry recitation of facts about that same topic. The story and thread-weaving is key.
What do you mean they didn't see it coming?

The Fed engineers this stuff.
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I don't see why companies even bother doing this, if it'll just get jail broken a few days after release....especially if it's such a popular product like the iPad.
Unfortunately there are also real crackpots, and they all claim to be marginalized by the establishment. If I have to look at the numbers and charts and figure it out myself, then I would rather also find the data myself. Then I avoid getting data that is doctored or otherwise deceiving.

That said, it is often worth paying attention to those who are a little bit outside the mainstream. That goes especially in economics, which is far from an exact science, and is full of political agendas.
And a lisp-hacking CS dropout! ;-)
Regular, non-power users won't jailbreak.
These prices certainly support your argument. Are online goods priced at least as competitively as in physical stores?
Agreed; you put it better than I did :)
Printing Ghandi's mug on every single bill hasn't worked to shame anybody yet, so I'm very surprised that this works. Happy that it seems to though.
"Well, her habit is that whenever she has a theme that she wants to emphasize, instead of demonstrating it, she just says it"

http://www.exploreaynrand.com/1957/

Have you seen Diana Hsieh's page and podcasts on this? If you don't have the time or interest in the podcasts themselves (I highly recommend them, however), the questions alone reveal depth that almost no one gets when they read her book the first time (this was certainly true for me!)
The Journey of the Magi. Dare I conjecture that you were thinking of the Return of the Jedi? :-)

(More seriously, I'd put the Republic ahead of the Apology, and the Waste Land ahead of Prufrock, much though I like Prufrock. Also, for the benefit of anyone wanting to lookg things up: Hemingway; Stendhal; Alexandre Dumas. For the avoidance of doubt, I'm only bothering to quibble because I think your list is a good one.)
Yeh, definitely fiction is not to be considered factually conclusive or anything. But The Tudors was great for light information about Tudor life, The Da Vinci code was insightful in terms of classical history.

The idea is that if stuff sparks your interest you can always go read into it in more depth. Otherwise you have at least a baseline; I have absolutely no interest in the Tudors, really, but the TV series means I could at least try to have a worthwhile conversation with a Tudor history buff :)
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There will always be a distribution of opinions and therefore people with "foresight".

The real challenge is to design a system with more stability.

My opinion is that while we have had many putative capitalists in charge of regulating markets, we have very little understanding of what it takes for markets to function well. One thing missing from the debate is an interest in reducing informational asymmetries. If I have two bags of apples one paper and one see-through plastic, you are going to buy the plastic bag (environmental issues aside).

Our financial markets don't work very well, because financial accounting is the opaque paper bag.
ad hominem?
Does that justify spending (presumably) tons of money and time on trying to prevent power users from jailbreaking?
Well, it was a “too long, didn’t listen” but I’m not sure anyone read. Alas.
iBooks (#1 Free App) is free but a lot of content is extra. We will have to wait and here about book buying habits. Netflix (#2 Free App) requires a paid Netflix account.
“It’s a tradeoff” and other uni-dimensional thinking
In the same way, any naively "constant space" algorithm that indexes into an array with a fixed number of pointers or indices is technically O(log n) in space, since you need log n bits to index n objects. So a space factor of log n can generally be treated as constant in practice.
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what earlier books? I lived in rome for about 20 years and trust me, "angels & daemons" is way far from 'researched' even at the obvious geographical details.

Though I agree his works do have a lot of crumbs of informations to put someone on a long wikipedia spree :)
Yes, because if it is non-trivial then more people will do it...
The enterprise is the justification. If a device is stolen and can be jail broken, then the remote wipe and where is tools won't work.
They apparently think it does.

Philosophically and personally, I prefer more open platforms, but it's one of two things - either they're running some cost/benefit analysis that says it's a good move strategically - more sales or easier to preserve a better brand image or more secondary sales. Or, and this is quite possible too, they agree to some basic security measures by contract with a partner of theirs - perhaps AT&T in Apple's case.
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Hmm, yes, geographical was perhaps a bit of a stretch for Brown novels. But I did learn a lot about the Vatican, for example, from that novel.
Wouldn't take 100 gigs of ram as previously stated... they could probably do the trick with raid ssds. I mean, people will pay $500 for a video card, recently Newegg had great 40gig ssds available for $99. Three or four of those still cost less than top end video cards, and the prices are only coming down. Plus, a lot of end users aren't doing much with their multicore amazing i series processors these days... mostly going to waste in a lot of systems. This is vaporware until proven otherwise, but I look forward to finding out which one ;-D.