skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You fill out an application and send in a resume. Works surprisingly well.
Can’t wait for notifications to interupt me whilst watching The Wire.

That would be a great feature for a tablet like the iPad or a smartphone. Have the notifications come up on synced devices so the video screen can stay unmolested for the viewers.
I'm reading Homicide by David Simon right now (yes, Simon also created a tv show by the same name). The banter of the homicide detectives is a clear example of this, too. It's just one way we (by which I mean humans) cope when faced with constant, high stress situations.
If we could never have started Inkling, dayenu (it would have been enough)
Consider the line I quoted when I originally replied:

Apple and others are trying to create a future where closed systems are the default, and open systems are either illegal or heavily marginalized.

This does not express the opinion that Apple believes they can make more money from selling closed systems. This expresses the opinion that Apple's goal is not to make money but rather to impose control on people for... well, I'm not honestly sure what reason.

And that sort of implication is everywhere in discussion on places like HN, despite the fact that it literally goes off the deep end into unfounded paranoia; "Steve Jobs wants to keep me from using Google Voice" is taken not as a statement about how he'd prefer to have his company get your money, but as a statement about how he's an evil megalomanic obsessed with controlling peoples' lives. Which is really only a step away from (and logically about as sensible as) "he's working with the Bilderbergers and the lizard people to cover up the truth about JFK's role in 9/11".
I hope this won't come off as too critical, but you're using the word "penultimate" incorrectly- I've done it myself many times.

To quote Wikipedia, "The ultimate is the last and final item in a series. The related words penultimate and antepenultimate refer to the second-to-last and the third-to-last item in a series, respectively."
You're facing an uphill battle.
He doesn't want an iPhone either. He's using Nexus One instead. What is he thinking?! It's almost like he was working for a competing phone/os manufacturer... oh wait.
They probably have a higher quality recording than the one posted to youtube.
My point was just that there's a vast territory to be conquered in simply making TV watching pull and open rather than push and closed.

If the audience could vote up and link ads like they can on reddit.com, this would be a tool of tremendous power for marketers to take the pulse of their market. As a side effect, commercials would get more enjoyable As a result of more direct coupling to market forces.
That may be true and it's why a GDP recovery is not necessarily a jobs recovery. It could very well be that the US manages to export more, import less oil, turn the current account deficit around, and still suffer from high unemployment.
They may have been able to tell due to the position of the bodies after the attack.
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At 3:45 and until 4:25 everything is kinda suspect. It really looks like at least one guy is carrying a big weapon (could be an AK like they say or even some launcher) and by 4:09 one of them kneels at the end of the building with something in his hands then he quickly gets up, turns arounds and it seems like he's shooting something (I'd say he was trying to take a picture but that's not clear at all).

I believe the war was wrong, etc, but I can understand why the army was so alerted by this. I'm not shocked by it (until the van arrives, what happens next is not easy to explain, maybe that move happens a lot?) and while I'm completely against it, I also understand that this can happen sometimes.

To call this a murder is a much simpler version of what happened there.
I had nothing but problems with Amarok - trying to set it up was a long, aggravating and ultimately fruitless exercise in frustration. Rhythmbox, on the other hand, may be bloated but at least it worked as expected right away.
And yet one can't help feeling there's a double standard here.

When Apple released the original iPhone and told people they couldn't develop native applications but would get to write web applications for a great browser engine, there was outrage, and Apple's "culture of control" was blasted from all sides.

When Google announced Chrome OS and told people they couldn't develop native applications but would get to write web applications for a great browser, there was joy, and Google's culture of openness was praised from all sides.

"Nobody expects a Chrome OS device to be a desktop/laptop" doesn't hold up, since there are going to be Chrome OS devices which have specs at least as good as and almost certainly better than the iPhone and probably the iPad as well; why do we rant and rage and demand that Apple devices have to be "real computers", then, while giving Google the free "oh, it's just a netbook/tablet/appliance" pass?
I can't help but think this isn't a bad argument for a heavier investment in removing the risk to allied lives element from decisions like this, it's one thing to mistake a telephoto lens on a camera for an RPG as illustrated here http://collateralmurder.com/en/resources.html.

You might be more prepared to risk being wrong if, were you not wrong, you weren't potentially betting your life on the fact. The pilot sounded genuinely scared when he misidentified that RPG, one would not expect the same if it was a UAV feed.
You could use a built in object system instead of trying to roll your own?

Closures are wonderful, but when you have access to a high quality piece of software designed to make holding state easy, why not use it?
it's becoming a bit of a recurring theme it seems. not too hard to imagine a nearby future where consumers carry ipad (-like) devices and makers tote laptops running, say, ubuntu. it would be like the whole prosumer thing never happened.
I once hacked an older hotel pay-per-view system by ordering a movie and rearranging/disconnecting wires while it was "activated". Had free soft-porn (and other movies) all week at COMDEX (about 12 years ago, in high school).
They should have requested intel (more accurate images) for that zone. I think the Apache was clearing for enemies, because the ground troupes were near.

It was a warzone (?) and at the start of the video you can see it, because the journalists were sneaking at the corner (they were trying to photograph something).
Right. Paid developers now write the majority of code in Linux. I'd say they are as professional as anyone. But the companies paying them generally have different goals than making the iPad equivalent. So perhaps this can be better explained by differing goals than some high standards?

I guess the way to find out is to see how Android does.
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Writing an essay is an activity that involves a lot of techniques used for getting the reader’s full attention, from the essay’s title to the very last word. This is especially true when you are working on a speech essay, which you will later read in front of an audience. In such case,
It's funny that in technology people apparently want 'beautiful things that work well' when in food, music, fashion, film, literature, politics etc. people can be relied on to choose the most banal, pedestrian, cheap, ugly, self-destructive and obvious of things. And after a while the market ensures that only those kinds of thing are offered to anyone not willing to put the effort in to seek the better alternatives out.

Since this exact dynamic almost killed Apple on a few occasions you'd think it would be relevant to any theory built around the reactions to their new product. Denial of expertise is very apt.
I haven't read anything else from him, but at least that post didn't say anything about Nexus One. But it did say "I played with my wife’s iPhone for just a few minutes before I knew I had to have an iPhone".

That post didn't give any reason to believe that he doesn't want iPad because he works for Google. He said pretty clearly that he thinks it's awesome gadget, but doesn't suit his needs (tinkering, software...).
Isn't that true of everything ever recorded? What point are you making?
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http://duckduckgo.com/?q=suicide&v=

Will this be added to duckduckgo?
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One of my friends would invite me and others to play various board games, particularly Carcassonne. It was fun to play, but very slow, both setting up and moving along during gameplay.

I grabbed the Xbox Live version of it a little while ago and, wow. So much easier and more fun to play. You just jump right in and start going. You can usually get through a 2 player game in about 20 minutes. Scoring is automatic and quick (manually it can typically take 5-10 minutes to score a game once it's over, depending on how many players). So I'm totally sold on tablet-style board games.

Now if only someone ports Battle Chess over to iPad...
See http://norvig.com/21-days.html
Very cool idea!

Ads could even be swapped out and replace on the fly, meaning that it could match your profile etc. meaning more targeted advertising.
> He doesn't want an iPhone either. He's using Nexus One instead.

Eh?

> I played with my wife’s iPhone for just a few minutes before I knew I had to have an iPhone.
I would be surprised if Google doesn't make it possible to completely replace Chrome OS on any tablet device they sell. That would be a pretty big difference.
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A modern digital TV is a big monitor with a tuner slapped on.

I think that's precisely why we should not add a computer there as well. I expect to keep a TV much longer than a computer, so I'd rather be free to upgrade one without the other.

In fact, what I really want is to buy a TV-grade monitor without either a tuner (because the video feed comes either from my DirecTivo or my XBox) or speakers (because my stereo handles that stuff).
That's almost certainly why there's no urgency in the hiring process, but it doesn't really excuse it.
I thought hacking was about taking things that are purposed for one thing and re-making/re-programming it to do what you want it to do.

If people feel that Apple has created a walled garden they should get one and show us their vision on how it should operate.

The hardware is second to none, you want a camera put one in it's possible. Don't like the operating system figure out how to change it.

But don't just sit back and complain, that's easy.

I want one just so I can watch my 4 year old use it. The other she got a hold of my touch and was tapping away at it, found some app that simulates a brook, so when you touch it it ripples. So she decides to try and blow on it and see if it did anything. I thought that was amazing.

For me I will happily play in Apples garden, pay the fees live with the limitations, because it not only just works it works well.

If something better comes along I will change.
I like the service and just applied for an invite. The demo on the main page shows changing text can you also change css, swap images, or use different html elements?
How fast should a browser really be?
Well that's not true unless you publish the recording in some way so that everyone has a chance to watch it.
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Good point. I was just doing an inversion in the example to simplify the argument mechanics a bit.

But doesn't that wrapping rely on something else's developers realizing that the user might want to go off to the browser and back? What if it wasn't Safari in the middle but any one (or three) of the numerous other programs the user might want to take a side trip through. It gets back to the crap shoot of trying to guess every multi-application use case that will be wanted. All this to defend not putting together the general solution which is entirely doable to begin with.
Don't mutate data structures from within a closure :)
I completely agree. I don't know where many jobs would come from, if not created by consumer demand. Even with a weakened dollar American workers will not be on par with Chinese workers, and there won't be enough high paying jobs to go around.
My money is on Asana.

Edit: And in fact their homepage mentions a $9m round from Benchmark Capital and Andreessen-Horowitz.
So is it going to kill printers along with office?

http://government.zdnet.com/?p=8616
Whatever happens in the first five minutes of the video, killing unarmed people helping wounded is murder, it is out of moral and military code of any legal combat group.

The sad and disgusting part is this video was in the hands of the us military all along and they knew, what happened and how it happened, and they also tried to stop the video from leaking out actively to cover their malformed policy.

This video is proof of murder, disresctpectful combat, imcompetent ranking officers and blind trigger happy pilots.

Calling this video anything other than above is political bullshit.
And one of those elements of training is conditioning to overcome the basic instinct that prevents people killing others even when their own life is threatened, according to West Point psychologist Lt. Col. Dave Grossman:

http://www.killology.com/bio.htm
"Expertise needs schooling, maturation, taste, and quite a lot of attitude."

"Attitude"? Huh?

"This was the weekend those of us with high standards". Just what, precisely, is on that list of High Standards? Fanboy-ism?

"Don't talk to me about design and engineering principles....I'm too busy enjoying toast from my new, wonderful, life-changing toaster! It works great, so shut up."

:-)
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I think the point he's probably making is it's a lot easier for us sitting here in front of our computers with no risk to our person watching a video edited and subtitled with helpful descriptions of exactly what's happening after the fact than it is for a pair of soldiers strapped into a piece of military hardware hovering over an active warzone with immediate risk to their lives in the event that they're engaged by enemy forces armed with RPG's.
Good point. But the difference is that Google releasing a browser based platform where the only application is the browser forces them to use the same technology as everyone else to create applications, no one can create native applications for ChromeOS (or everyone can, since "native" means "web based") -- this is, in fact, good engineering because it means there are no secret APIs that give Google's apps an advantage so the Google employees writing apps are more likely to end up with a good API because they see exactly what non-google employees have to deal with. In fact, Google gives developers the same technology they use to develop apps, things like HTML5 and GoogleGears, etc. In contrast, Apple originally told people they couldn't develop native apps because only Apple could release native apps.
Those who have the money, that is oil exporters and the Chinese, will need to import from the US. The money they have accumulated is to a large extent stored in US treasuries. They will need to use that money now to buy US exports and US assets or lose everything through inflation.
I am going to play devil's advocate for a moment. I obviously don't condone the killing in this movie, but just for a moment think about the young kids who were in that helicopter, doing the shooting and all the shit they have to face now. Think about all the haters that are going to be calling down evil on them over the internet and news. Think about how bad they must feel knowing that they killed innocent people when they thought they were killing the enemy.

From their point of view they are in a helicopter, scared, and afraid that someone is going to shoot a RPG at them. You can't seriously expect them to notice the kids or the difference between a camera and a weapon.

Sure they jumped the gun, they killed innocent civilians, but it was a product of the environment and training they received. It happened because America made those kids soldiers and put them in that situation, with a deadly weapon to control. Don't blame them personally.

What does need to be blamed, on the other hand, is the fact that this video was kept secret and that the world was lied to.

That is disgusting.
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If you are in a war zone near people with weapons you have no right to complain if you get shot at.

You can Monday morning quarterback the scenario all day long. The fact is the pilots saw firearms and RPG's with a group of people and knew US soldiers would be the target. It's tragic but what armed conflict isn't.
It's hard to use the iPad for creation. Since I got mine, all I've done with it is read, watch videos and a little web surfing. It's just not made for typing. Sure, you can IM someone or reply to an email, but I couldn't write a blog entry (or even this comment) with it. You can use a wireless keyboard but it still doesn't feel right as you have to keep moving your hand to the screen to click on icons. It doesn't recognize Apple's Magic Mouse.
There's no need to apologize for critique. Thanks.
he means it's easy to analyze and criticisze from our safe little chairs.
When you live in a war zone, you don't really have a lot of say in wether or not you will be near people with guns. Also, are you saying that the children in the van have no right to complain?
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It is easy for us, yes, but the topic at hand isn't how easy it is for us to watch footage. How easy it is for us to dissect it has no bearing whatsoever on the events themselves. Put another way, how difficult does it have to be for us to see what happened before it's acceptable for us to disagree with the actions taken?

Edit: This is a fantastically unpopular comment! Is it my lack of respect for the "Thou shalt not Monday-morning quarterback, no matter how badly the quarterback screwed it up" commandment? :)
> I'm not convinced that I'm more secure because of them.

I'm convinced you're _less_ secure because of them.
He switched to a Nexus One recently: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/switch-iphone-to-android/
If it was all about brainpower I would put all my money on the distributed system guys.
What's random about it?

From the chatter, there's a ground force element moving in that direction. The pilots see a group of men gathered in the street, some of them undeniably carrying weapons. They see a man with a long tube crouching around a corner and pointing it down the street. There's a line "Yeah we had a guy shooting", indicating that fire had already come from this group, or at least the pilots thought it had.

There's nothing random about it. They may have been wrong, but it wasn't random targeting of people walking around town.

The van portion of the incident is more questionable. It sounds like they followed the rules they had, but those rules may not have been proper for this situation.
IIRC, at the time Star went to market, they couldn't patent ideas.
In case anyone hasn't heard, Wikileaks is badly in need of donations. http://collateralmurder.com/en/support.html.

This video is a damn good argument for why what they do is important. Go give them a few dollars. I can't think of a cause I see as more important in the world right now (with the one possible exception of free software).
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I'm not too sure about the name of that website:

"He rain-made you. A guy says if you pay him, he can make it rain. You pay him. If and when it rains, he takes the credit. If and when it doesn't, he finds reasons for you to pay him more. Clay Davis rain-made you!"

That aside, this is not rocket-science, just basic marketing. The only proviso is that you can price yourself out of the market. I recently purchased a new AV product for half the originally-quoted price. I liked it for its convenience, simplicity, etc, but it wasn't so simple and so convenient I would pay UKP5000 to replace Kaspersky at UKP1700, nearly 3x the amount. The sales guy took the point and brought the price down to UKP2500. So, I paid extra but felt like I got a bargain, which says plenty for that guy's sales skills.
It was in Bush's clear interest make the economy appear to be strong in spite of the war and the resulting extremely high gas prices. The only way he could do this was by creating a bunch of paper wealth for average Americans via a housing bubble.

That we were in a period of historically exceptional housing price growth was obvious to everyone at the time. I heard many people claiming to be the next Warren Buffet b/c their house had appreciated 20% in the past year.

The question we need to ask is, why were there initial calls to attend to the GSEs in 1999, 2000, 2001 but none after? I'd argue that it's because a) the extent of the problem was realized and those in power figured they'd let another president deal with it, b) those in power wanted to focus on their own agenda which didn't involve cleaning up the GSEs, or c) both.
Is this the new SICP?
War by definition:

1 a (1) : a state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations

Who is this war between?

It quite simply is no longer a war. It is an attempt of forcing the western preference of 'stability' into a country that was intentionally destabilized by the US upon false pretenses of WMDs.

edit: what are you in disagreement with?
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Yeah, read his other posts. Or do a search on his blog.

And come one... am I the only one paranoid enough to question people's "innocent" motives? I NEVER trust an employee to be impartial when it comes to his employer.
RethinkDB has been funded by A16Z as well.
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Watching this in a YouTube video is gut-wrenching after the introduction, knowing what's going on ahead of time - I still feel sick five minutes later. But at the time? There was the man crouching against the corner of the house, looking like he could possibly have an RPG to blow the shooter out of the sky.

The guy doing the shooting was trigger happy, but murder is probably too strong for this. Clearly this is a fucked up example of what happens in the midst of urban warfare, but more than that is going beyond the context of the video.

After the shooting, a black van runs up to collect bodies and help the wounded, in a very organized fashion--- it doesn't seem unreasonable that they thought that they were dealing with a team radio'd by insurgents.

I think the bigger problem here is that you have a godlike helicopter raining death on people below, with no on the ground intelligence.

Why doesn't the helicopter have the ability to shoot non-lethal rounds in this kind of situation? Why can't they communicate with the man crawling after the shooting? If we can fly UAVs from Vegas, why can't we fucking drop a remote ground vehicle to deal with grey area situations without killing eight people?

This seems like a disgusting failure of capabilities more than malicious murder.
Great story. I also love that wall of Classic Macs that he has. Looks like Flying Toasters. Interesting how the market for Screen Savers completely died with OS X. Those extensions were so popular back in the day.
I like how the top link right now [1] is nicely meta.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/.xml
I wonder what mindset one in the military must have to shoot on unarmed carrying away wounded. I always thought that at least those people a bit higher up in the ranks had at least some moral values or ethical responsibility. I mean Joe Redneck doesn't get to fly a 20 Mio. $ Helicopter just getting out of basic training.