skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely False. I started to learn mathematics starting in preschool and when I arrived in the US I was shocked by what passed as mathematics education in the US. The stuff American students where doing in 6th grade I had already done in 3rd grade. It might be that starting later is a good idea but the exact opposite was true for me. If I had been forced to learn mathematics the way American students learn it, well then I would have been bored out of my mind and would have given up learning it.
HackU will be the most missed part of my job. It was a great 25%, it was the other 75% of my job that needed work :)

I'm heading to Facebook as an astute reader gleaned. Although, I don't know what I'll do there yet ;)
Trigonometry + limits, and some simple applications.
I can't wait for these types of articles to die.
My college had plenty of 'proper' computers that students could use 24 hours a day. If I was in college now I could easily see myself using the iPad for reading and note taking in class and then going to one of the workstations when I had to do more demanding work.
I love Chesterton. He had a talent for words. Too many memorable, profound, and humorous quotes. Another one:

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people."

He wrote that before the invention of suburb.
I think it depends on the article... my "How to Nap" article which was republished there got 76k hits so far... this one clearly won't get as many, but we've already had about 20 beta sign-ups since the article went up.
Yes, this was pretty much my thought. I guess sarcasm doesn't come out well in short sentences, but no big deal.

There's no reason for Apple or anyone to oversupply on opening day. In Apple's case, by shutting down preorders they generate press just because they're declaring it full. If you open a site to beta traffic with signup, then get coverage at a place like Techcruch, and shut down signups with only 10 users but don't delcare it, the press will think you're a hot item if you don't provide numbers.

That isn't exactly the case with Apple, of course -- they are a hot item. Without numbers, though... they could have sold 10 or 10 million. I'm sure the other estimates made in the thread circling 250,000 are close though.
I am not saying that everybody is like me - but I think one example in this case is enough to show that the suggested way of getting rid of maths education is not the right thing for everybody. That's actually also maths: one counter-example is enough to disprove an assumption.

It seems especially dangerous to me as anti-maths types might dominate in politics and therefore might find the idea especially appealing.

Maybe it then boils down to the bigger question if talented people should be dragged down to the average levels of achievement.
I don't know, was it a "consistently great experience", as the other comment said?
Two things I found interesting

1) I had never thought before about jobs trademark attire of a black turtleneck, and I thought it was only something he did for the keynotes. But apparently here it is again. The Body Language Expert doesn't make note of it, but this may be a hint as to just how deeply Jobs secretive thread goes. He is always protecting his neck, the vulnerability during communication.

2) The Body Language Expert reads into Schmidts rounded shoulders as meaning he is afraid of Jobs. Could be. However, as a geek at heart, this is the posture of one who spends a ton of time in front of a computer and doesn't get much excercise (not that I know that about schmidt). You can see in other photos of him, he has a very rounded upper back.
http://www.gadgetcom.com/wp-content/plugins/auto-blogster/im...
http://www.ieplexus.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/google-fo...
This flamewar is getting tedious
Sorry but I have to strongly disagree with you there. The user experience in Ubuntu is strong and consistent. Their philosophy makes sense even for power users. Users can find the all the options they normally need and power users can dig into things to customise further.

I've never hit any of these bugs (and have been using Ubuntu full time since defecting from Fedora in '05) and most of them have very good reasons for not being fixed or are a work in progress and none of them are a user experience nightmare.
That's what I got from it too. The framework being this flexible should help a DBA fully use the database to his advantage. The project I work on has had to do some non standard things with Rails and it's flexibility has made it much easier. In our view rails and it's default are a starting point providing the basic infrastructure to get the project going, not an end all be all solution. I see the same thing in NoSQL solutions, they try to give the developers and DBA as much flexibility as possible. They don't really seem to offer any default. RDBMS is basically the sensible defaults without the flexibility. Maybe the in between can be found.
Like most things Apple it comes down to good marketing.

Even though almost all their end products are closed-source and some are even in a closed ecosystem, there tool-chain for building these products is almost all open source and based on standards. In general they greatly contribute to the open source projects they use. This probably allows most people to rationalize championing both openness and Apple at the same time.

So while I don't own any Apple products, I do appreciate the projects they have contributed to.
Handling massive spikes in JIT manufacturing sounds really difficult.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1200291
More of a UX suggestion, but I think you need to explain the purpose and why of the site better. If it wasn't for your statement on here about what the site is meant to be, it would have been even less clear to me. What is the value proposition?

The 'What's This' tip links and the 'About' section aren't working.

Under the choose your algorithm sections, when I select one of the choices it highlights the choice, but nothing else changes. This leaves me unsure if they are not working or if I am doing something wrong.

There are also a lot of people out there who might not be familiar with the term algorithm, even less understand what they actually mean. If you are aiming to reach 'normals' it might be helpful to use more common language like filters instead of algorithms.

Same thing with the copy where you describe the algorithms. To me, it seems like you are describing more how the algorithms function...rather than how it will effect what I see as a user. I'd say figure out in plain, concise language what the benefits of each 'filter' are to the user.

Terms like renewal rates, site voting power, and slow rate change don't convey to the average user how each filter effects them. I think a good place for including and describing these terms is probably in the 'What's This' tool tip for that section.

I'm not sure what the purpose of the 'State of Social Media' section is. What does that mean for the user? Why is it important to the user? What exactly does that information tell me?

The site source labels do look like buttons as tjpick mentioned. But I would also add that the Reddit and Tweetmeme labels look/are the same at least for background color. When I scroll the page almost all of the submissions are from Reddit and Tweetmeme, except for one for digg. Since the green is so much more pronounced than the grays used on the other two, I feel like it is highlighting it as something special I should look at or click. I would use the gray background color for all of them, and just use different colored font(maybe with a more pronounced font so colors(sites) are easily distinguished).

The gray description text is hard for me to read, in that I actually have to try and focus on reading it. The submission time and user are highlighted which usually signals important information in context to the info around them. Is that the important information you want to highlight? Seems to me like those are second or third tier pieces of info, where text like the description, site source, etc., are actually the important/useful parts.

Need a footer. Footer makes it clear that this is the end. Right now it looks like the page just hasn't loaded entirely because I was expecting to be able to go through multiple pages.
Simplicity.
Understanding the Benefits of Google Apps for Business
Taken from the article:

"What's your favorite phone?
The iPhone, because of the apps. By the way, I solved the problem of battery life and [the lack of] multitasking on the iPhone."

Did Woz jailbrake his iPhone? :))
No worries since there was zero discussion there...
We got similar uniques on MinuteBase when that was featured - 4,000 visits on the first day and 2,000 for the next 2 days until it dropped off the front page.
Yeah... there are schools that have all the equipment you need. But you can consider yourself lucky. In the first place I went to, there were probably 10 computers available for students in total. In the second place there were 3 floors of library full of computers, but it was still very hard to find a free one during exam weeks. It would be a mistake to rely on them being available every time you need them.
Using measurements appropriate to the thing you're measuring makes far more sense than trying to standardize everything into some cludgy unuseful system just so it's "standard".

FWIW, if you're basing things on imperial, you would more likely base your measurements on useful measurements that come up frequently in the domain you're measuring - file sizes etc.

For instance, you'd probably have some unit of measurement that pretty much equates to an average mp3 file of a song - say 3MB. Call it an mp3byte... etc

Then you could say "Yeah this file upload is 10mp3bytes", and people would know what you're talking about.
Disappointing but not life changing it was poorly supported and I don't know anyone running the open driver over the propriety one. However it would be nice to know that someone was working on the driver that actually gave a damn about Linux.
There's a lot of useful functionality here that comes in handy. Just as a standard library, I think its useful.

Ruby Hashes and Enumerators have way more functionality than the stock js types.

Is it worth the 40k minimized for the full include? That I dunno.
I like how you post this comment in every Ubuntu thread. Why not sit down and fix those bugs if they bother you so much?
This is interesting, as we are finally moving away from storage that uses base-10 measurement (rotating disks). SSDs and flash drives are mostly base-2 devices.
Relativity by Albert Einstein (Book)
Dammit you're right I should get working on that search engine before Google goes out of business!!!!
The site itself is using jQuery.
I didn't know nVidia even had an open driver. When I read the title, I thought they were completely dropping support for non-Windows Oses, which would have been disappointing.

Maybe Intel will buy nVidia and fix this problem for us. Intel is the only hardware company that gets open source.
Well, that's a valid question to ask (what problem are you solving), but it lends itself to a poll even less than this question. This was, though, the one that I personally wanted to see answers to, and I'm just as interested in specific niche answers than my intentionally mainstream categories. I'm sorry if those made you sad -- I wasn't trying to be exhaustive or represent the totality of HN interests.
Surfer’s ‘everything theory’ wipes out
Suddenly I see a point for the iPad.

"Driving to Grandma's? No problems with Game Table!"
I did this two years ago (except it was a relatively short, painless divorce). It turned out great. :)

Good luck!
Sounds interesting, are you by any chance blogging about it?
I agree that developing with MongoDB is really really nice. We'll see how it holds up under more load, but for prototyping data models I have not used a better stack than mongodb + mongomapper
This is a shame; it pretty much settles it, I'll get an AMD chip next time. The nvidia drivers have been the best graphics drivers on Linux, but still far from perfect, and apparently not getting better. I've had a couple of crashes and corruption issues with them just for window compositing. Meanwhile, the open source AMD drivers have been making massive improvements.
Terrible planning! How could that possibly be in Apple's interest? Oh wait: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence_Science_and_Practice

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People tend to want things as they become less available. This has led advertisers to promote goods as "limited availability", or "short time only".

It has also been shown that when information is restricted (such as through censorship), people want the information more and will hold that information in higher regard.

Items are also given a higher value when they were once in high supply but have now become scarce."""
10pm on Channel 5 is not primetime at all:

http://uk-tv-guide.com/programme-details/Five/18+March+2010/...
As far as I know it hasn't shipped. I pre-ordered it last year when it was scheduled to ship at the end of January. They then delayed that and said Q1 2010. It still says that and they still haven't shipped. They made a post last week on their facebook page saying they would tell us shipping details soon, but haven't said anything since then.
Business. I'm a programmer trying to learn how to build a company that makes money. 18 months ago I really sucked at it, now I just suck moderately. It's amazed me how much it's forced me to learn about myself and other people; selling, managing and networking are hard.
Puppet versus Chef: Why Puppet wins
> He's dealing with a self-described "student of history" who puts up a slew of easily-demolished false claims

So easily demolish them. I'm here for discussion, if I made a mistake, let me know. I said I wanted to hear and address opposing points of view, and I'm clarifying and trying to answer all the questions and feedback I get.

Actually, I'll be honest - the format I'm getting responses in is difficult for me to keep up with. People write eight questions/counterpoints. I answer all eight. Then they nitpick two of them and ask for all sorts of data and proof from me. They don't say, "Hey, those six points you made? Those are good points, and I now agree." They just ignore the responses and pick a single sentence or two that they can quote out of context and nitpick with. But I'm trying to address and answer them all in good faith - if someone takes the time to write an intelligent response to me, I'll try take the time to cite clarifying and supporting information.

So if I'm making false claims, please do point them out and let's discuss. I've stated, I don't know, 30-70 historical facts in almost 10 replies. I've given my personal opinions on governance based on those. If you disagree, jump in, I've had some really good discussions in this thread, and I'm learning, and apparently some other people are learning because they're voting up my comments and the people I'm discussing with, which is good.

> before retreating behind Well, gee, don't you think the British meant well in conquering and occupying your country?

Mate, it's called having a discussion. Someone has a drastically different opinion than me, and instead of just putting my fingers in my ears and saying "la la la I'm right la la la" I ask what their personal feelings are. The snark doesn't add much, but if you feel I'm mistaken, then go ahead and weigh in, point it out. If I'm mistaken on facts, I want to be corrected, and a couple people have pointed out other facts for me to consider and linked to them. If you don't agree with my opinions, do feel welcome to share your own, and perhaps I can evolve my opinions if you make a good case. Don't just say, "slew of easily-demolished false claims" without pointing out what they are - go ahead and demolish them. It doesn't hurt my feelings, and we all can learn from it.
Yeah that's what I expected. It didn't load for me first time (must be a bug, that's fine we all have bugs) so I clicked on the "Try It" button. I like it but would not use it as software as a service, but I would buy it especially if its API supported <insert favourite big web framework here (Django for me)>.
Same test read forwards & then backwards to give the opposite result
You can use whatever base you want. Realistically, end users don't even know when they're low on space anyway. Even if they do, it's a system of "deleting unused files" not finding the closest file size you can.
You are so in love with your project, that you never bother to tell what your product does.

There is no obvious way to tell if this product is useful for me in the landing. Blog is no better... polluted with the progress of your project. Assembling pieces from here and there, I kind of get that this is some sort of security oriented testing framework, did I get it right?

And why in hell did you steal GNU's name?
Loved the style and the sentiment. My eight year old is currently losing his beast (drawing on homework and in-class school work doesn't go over well with his teacher!). His drawings have even reverted to a more simplistic style as he rushes to squeeze them in after homework and before bed. This was a good reminder to ensure he has time of his own to play and create without rules or judgment. And I'm trying to get my own beast back by revisiting my on-again, off-again passion for Lightwave3D and dabbling in 2D game development(XNA).
IMHO, this is the kind of attention to detail that could make Ubuntu the number one OS someday.
> I just have two iPhones, so if the battery runs down on the first one, I can use the other

Oh, that's just a rehash of a double dishwasher idea :)
Pages.app (for Mac, at least) can usually display most .doc(x) files properly. The only issue that I've run into is when a professor uses a font that doesn't come with a Mac. And, in that case, Pages defaults to Lucida Grande, rather then Calibri or whichever other font was used.
To be fair, the open source nv module wasn't used by anyone I know for anything else besides having something rendering the screen while they have downloaded and insalled the proprietary nvidia module. It did provide some basic 2D acceleration but it was largely inferior to the proprietary driver anyway. I think that open source purists never really favoured NVidia cards anyway due to this reason so it's not like they're going to lose an awful amount of customers because of that. I think it's likely that this was a purely economical (cost cutting) decision.

Unrelated but still related reading about the current problems of Linux graphics drivers is this post on Linux Hater (offensive language): http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/06/nitty-gritty-shit-on...
I read this and immediately assumed it was satire.

Then I read the comments... Really people?
Alligator clips are also the best inexpensive way to mount flyers and paper art. Just use two alligator clips on the top, and thread a string, and hang the string from a tack or pin. Other solutions (like little tape squares, and the blue or white putty) can leave marks on the work. This solution assumes that you can make tiny holes in the wall.
Status of every startup incubated by Y Combinator and other seed accelerators
Is it intentional or just the fact that ramping up production on a (almost) completely new product is a difficult ask?

Either way I'm reminded of this comic from the PS3 vs Wii days. http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=212 which I present without comment.
I've never hit any of these bugs

Lucky for you. Unfortunately, I and many others have.

most of them have very good reasons for not being fixed

Some of them have inane reasons for not being fixed. From https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316654

Resolution: WONTFIX
"I don't have any plans to support this. My view is that any screensaver theme that requires configuration is inherently broken."

or are a work in progress

In progress for five years?

and none of them are a user experience nightmare.

I wasn't talking about nightmares, just minor things that are broken. You want nightmares? Try:

2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/346691 (March 2009) This one is particularly bad because they went ahead and released Jaunty with this bug. Then, the fixed kernel introduced a new bug that caused FS corruption on systems with Intel disk controllers.

ehci_hcd module causes I/O errors in USB 2.0 devices https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/88746 (2007)

ath5k driver connection and performance issues https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/461419 (2009)

[karmic regression] all network apps / browsers suffer from multi-second delays by default due to IPv6 DNS lookups https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/417757

I've been hit by all of these except the first one, and I was only saved from that because I stumbled on the bug report before upgrading to Jaunty.
With the ability to zoom/pan, and add your own textures for back- and fore-grounds, this would also make the perfect pen-and-paper-and-miniatures RPG play surface.
Who did the design for your site? I really like it.
You lost me at "Psychology Today".
Did you run the open source or closed drivers in the first place? Their proprietary drivers have always been better than the open source ones.
You're missing the third and fourth classes of the program I went through (AlphaLab) as well as an exit from one of the companies, and some deaths.
Ask HN: Company T-shirt design.
I need to get some custom apparel designed for my company. Anyone you can recommend? Thanks!
Sad to have to point out that Kublax recently had to shut down their service, wish the best to the guys.
also the url for hypernumbers is hypernumbers.com
OT: That was interesting, watching Google Docs report anonymous users logging in to read the document.
Dennis Forbes really seems like the much more rational debater in this exchange.

I do like reading the back and forth. They both make good points, and this is an argument with real applicability to help us decide what tech to be using in the future.

The widespread adoption of cheap SSDs and super fast IO performance is going to be a huge difference maker.
To me, the question isn't whether it'll replace desktops and laptops, but whether it'll replace paper. I'm not interested in an iPad as a laptop replacement, let alone a desktop replacement. I'm interested in whether I can carry one around instead of various notebooks, magazines, textbooks and so on.

Touch-based is an important consideration. I find it impossible to use a laptop when standing up, e.g. on the train. I can, however, write in a notebook, read a book or what-have-you.
it should be noted that even though i submitted this, i'm not its creator or editor. for corrections, you can email Jed Christiansen as detailed on the first sheet.
Actual economic scarcity is pretty much the only business model, but I think you are using the term differently. A profit-maximizing enterprise should be looking for market clearing volume and pricing. Produce more than the market will consume at a given price point and you have excess inventory; produce less and you leak your potential profit into the secondary market.

I'm pretty sure there is value in creating the _perception_ of scarcity (nee exclusivity) for one's product... but that should also be conveyed in the price.
Ok but if we're inventing fallacies then I'm going for "every-device-must-fulfil-all-your-needs" fallacy. I don't think iPad like devices are for average people, I think they're for just about everyone. It won't replace every computer usage, but rather than people rueing having to use these simple limited devices they'll be rueing having to boot up their big ugly expensive machines.
A better title for this would be "The Memory Management Reference: Bibliography". That said, this is quite a good list.