skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can Chrome OS run games, or music-making applications (synthesizers, drum machines), or really anything that isn't in a web page?
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/the-joojoo-is-here-seriou...
from research: First-year medical students prefer multiple learning styles[1].

If you give students only 1 learning style choice , more students prefer book based learning "5.4% preferred visual (learning from graphs, charts, and flow diagrams), 4.8% preferred auditory (learning from speech), 7.8% preferred printed words (learning from reading and writing)"

[1] http://advan.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/30/1/13
Yeah, the people voting this article up sure are sticking it to Apple and their dumb tablet! Show those Apple fanboys!

This company is scummy and taking people's money with the full knowledge they probably won't be getting a product. Flag and move on.
You can grab that from searchyc.com, or just ignore it. You can get reasonable recommendations based on the latest articles. This would not be a general purpose recommendation engine, so you would actually need much less data. Attempting to analyze 1 million+ articles seems like overkill in this case. You could just scrape for a week. If you are building this I actually have several months worth of articles indexed, and would be happy to provide the db dump of 80,000+ articles.

I'm actually thinking about hacking this up this weekend as well.
You've never been to architecture school, eh?
So for the same price as an iPad I can get a tablet with no apps and less battery life. Well, at least it has a USB port.
"The difference between Lisp and Java, as Paul Graham has pointed out, is that Lisp is for working with computational ideas and expression, whereas Java is for expressing completed programs. As James says, Java requires you to pin down decisions early on. And once pinned down, the system which is the set of type declarations, the compiler, and the runtime system make it as hard as it can for you to change those assumptions, on the assumption that all such changes are mistakes you're inadvertently making."

Lisp vs Java is one thing but there is an undercurrent of "static typing is terrible" running through this paragraph (and others). I am not sure I agree. Haskell for example is very expressive(at least to me). And I am not sure a static type system gets in the way of "prototyping" much.

"Lisp, of course, and especially Common Lisp are my languages. Not since the 1960s have I programmed professionally in a language other than Lisp."

With all due respect to Richard Gabriel, (and this probably blasphemy) perhaps he should? Haskell or Erlang or Factor are mind expanding in ways Common Lisp never was. (Not to deride Common Lisp, but I am tired of people implying it is some kind of unsurpassed acme of language design excellence)
Windows 7 (and to a certain extent Vista) grabs the latest certified drivers for all of your hardware. And Windows Update will also update DirectX.

So Windows already does what you're asking for...
Safe: Robust programming in Haskell via types, testing, debugging
In my experience I find that there are at least 50 people misusing Office for every one using it in any sane manner. I would be surprised if this was any different for the so-called digital natives, (of which I am at the older end of the age range).

The other appalling thing about the "digital native" meme is that it originally had a very specific meaning (basically that we should rip out and replace the entire educational infrastructure because the existing system is very broken--which I generally agree with--but only because kids today are in some way different from their elders--which I don't) which has been lost and now it's basically meaningless and reduces down to something like "computers are hard, they scare me, kids today scare me too."
Maybe it's not vaporware, but the company (Fusion Garage) is not one that I would trust.
Question for the CPU-savvy people here:

Would there be any advantage in making a desktop computer that ran on the ARM architecture (instead of x86)?

Power consumption seems to be the obvious one; would it be possible to ramp up the performance of ARM to match modern x86 but while keeping a power-efficiency bonus?

Maybe with OpenCL/Grand Central/etc you could have an ARM-based desktop that used minimal power most of the time, spreading the work over many slower low-power cores, and used the GPU when heavy lifting is required..?
Really? This is the first review I've seen that claims the iPad is difficult to use. It's really not very hard to buy the Big Lebowski from the iTunes store for 9.99, rent it for 2.99, or to stream it from Netflix. I'd much rather do these things than load biglebowski.avi from a disk.
Ummm...? They are already shipping orders?

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/the-joojoo-is-here-seriou...
it's also a good example how heteronormativity works
Has he disclosed some of the softwares that he sells yet?
Boy, just when I thought Dave Winer's ramblings can't get any less coherent he does this. This stream of consciousness stuff is certainly not working for him.
I suspect that intelligence requires a composable interface. That is, composable in the functional programming sense, where each new element can transform the entire structure.

But, as far as I know, we only have two really good composable interfaces: speech and text.
"Indeed, even those of you are lining up and standing outside stores may be wondering, Why am I doing this? Why am I lining up like a zombie for an expensive piece of consumer electronics, a product for which there is no shortage and which, let’s face it, nobody really needs?"

.....

"The truth is, this is all about spiritual emptiness. That is why you’re standing in line. Except for Scoble, who is an attention whore and just doing it to get attention."

Heh heh. Classic. That's probably just what the real Steve Jobs thinks.
Good piece. Text is great because the information density is so much higher. The content in a thirty minute video can be absorbed in under five minutes of reading.

(On a side note, whenever I read someone promoting rich e-books with sound and video embedded in the text to increase it's value I can't help but feel that they don't own or enjoy many books.)
I'm sure that Goldman was capable of whipping out a pocket calculator, figuring out how much money was going to pay out and figuring out that that's more than the GDP of some european countries.

"Nobody could have predicted" is the worst kind of excuse.

Also, when entities go bankrupt, usually all of their debtors get a % of the money they're owed, because if they could get paid everything, then there wouldn't be a bankruptcy. The feds should have told Goldman and everyone else "Here you go, 50 cents on the dollar, take it or leave it". They would have taken it and everything would have been fine.
Classify the players' smiles, from none to light-up-the-locker-room. Then see how long the players lived.

I haven't read the research article, and I agree that smiling doesn't hurt, but this post surely doesn't make it sound very scientific. I wouldn't drop the "Correlation is not causation" bomb, but they seem to have missed it.
You could try the morphy richards steamer:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Morphy-Richards-48780-Intellisteam-S...

It has several different compartments that can each have an individual timer. So just put the food in and wait for the alarm to ring. Voila!
This guy's a joke. His novelty is wearing off fast. His startup advice is stale and it seems like he's tryig too hard to build up his Internet persona.
5 courses? Do you have room for a new friend?
Free: A Practical Guide to Geostatistical Mapping
"Real Fast Food" by Nigel Slater. Brilliant cookbook.
You could also just open the damn movie in QuickTime and export from there. Apple supports a limited range of video formats in their mobile devices (and Apple TV) – which is a problem, but a fairly well known one.
So, he's pre-qualifying his remarks by saying nobody can know for certain, but then gives his thoughts anyways. I don't see a problem with that.
You'd rather pay again than watch existing content you already bought? Is this just video or is it not worth your time to rip CDs or import live FLACs either?

His point about .avis is interesting. At first I thought he was playing dumb, but on second thoughts why should people understand that file A is part of Apple's blessed ecosystem and file B isn't.

It's basically the same reason I don't have an Apple TV (though my friends with them have "hacked" them in some manner to allow this). And I've never figured out why I can't even find a good step-by-step guide for getting mpeg-4 part 2 video plus mp3 audio in an .avi container onto my iPod. It can play the video and audio if presented in the right manner and I understand that remuxing might be required but it appears everyone just gives up and re-encodes.
Need cell phone repair?
For all your cell phone repair needs, fastrepair.com would be the best choice.#
If intelligence really is text-based, why have college lectures?

During a lecture you can interrupt the speaker and ask for clarification or more detail on a particular point.
Page one of this same article is probably a better place to start:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1238669
No. Disney owns Pixar. Steve Jobs is the largest single shareholder of Disney but that's by no means a controlling interest.
Another underestimated Mom? Mine is 72, uses a PC with Win XP, first used a computer about 5 yrs. ago. She's pretty proficient with it for what she needs it for: email, IM and photos. My dad (78) is more of a computer-phobe, yet he still knows what to do with the machine. The incentive of keeping in touch with distant children and grand children, and friends, is quite powerful.
I enjoy reading, however sometimes when I'm trying to learn something I pick it up much faster if it is explained to me by another person, rather than reading about it... and that includes watching video.

Surely there are others in this community who function similarly?
Um... about 100%?
Actually, the current status is that Java 7 will have closures.
OP forgot a few variables...

Roy Campanella spent most of his life in a wheelchair after a horrible car accident.

Mickey Mantle drank more alcohol than many small countries.

Do you think these things just might have a little more impact on longevity than smiling?
Yeah. I write code mostly on laptops.

Especially on the screen size thing - I have a dual-screen setup, yet I mostly use only one screen. I run most applications fullscreened, and for a time - when I was using Linux, I'm not right now - I tried running ion, wmii, etc.

I think it all comes down to getting into the mindset of doing one thing at a time. It's nice that we can have more apps open at once, ready for use, but being able to pay attention to both only translates into a helpful environment in the particular situation where workflow requires having two things open simultaneously.
Hello Windows Phone 7, Goodbye "Series"
The solution to the 5% error is to do the tagging automatically, but make the uploading friend confirm each photo to ensure that it was tagged properly.

I don't consider tagging itself to be inherently social. Being in a social setting with someone is what was social. Putting a picture of someone on Facebook is social. You can still comment on an auto-tagged picture just the same as a manually-tagged one. The only difference is that you save some time for those people who contribute the most (the friends who take dozens of pictures at every event and then spend a couple hours uploading/tagging them the next day). By decreasing the necessary effort of photo-sharing, I would expect to see more uploading and tagging.

A side benefit is that it could eventually make discovery easier. How many pictures do you have at a bar or somewhere else with a bunch of people you don't know in the background? How many times have you hung out someone somewhere, have a picture of them, but didn't get or can't remember their name? Automatic recognition gives you a better chance of meeting some of these people again.

For those saying this is a privacy issue, the uploader doesn't have to see the auto-tag of a non-friend. Instead, the person who has been auto-tagged could be notified and have the option of allowing/disallowing the tag to occur.
I'm curious how much RAM it has but it seems no one knows yet even after a teardown.
I think that you're certainly right. The biggest problem is outlined by your initial question "If I am switching to a totally new OS, why does it have to be from Microsoft". I think, that such a question shouldn't, ever, be guiding a companies strategies. But for Microsoft, it is. Their products legitimate their existence through their Windows-Brand heritage.
The actual question that they _should_ ask themselves should rather be "What innovative features could we create, that would make customers crave for our products".
Sadly, their whole corporate culture has stunning difficulties coming to terms with this line of thinking.

A new Non-Windows Microsoft-OS might actually work, if it would be crammed full of breathtaking, innovative, extraordinary great features (whereby features I mean useful, life-enhancing ideas, not gimmicks). And it's very, very difficult to start with a blank slate and come up with something distinctly different but still incredibly awesome and useful.
Isn't dextrose just glucose?

That doesn't seem healthy at all. In moderation to give you a boost, it would probably be fine, but you definitely shouldn't get a significant amount of calories from straight sugar.

As a vegetarian who has to worry about protein, I think about that a lot. Basically, the more crap you eat with no nutritional value, the more nutrient-dense the rest of your food has to be.

So if I got all my calories from rice, I'd be fine protein-wise. But if I eat 500+ calories of various things-that-are-just-fat-and-sugar, I need to eat more protein-dense food, like lentils. (Not that just eating rice would be healthy anyway. That's just an example of how the more nutritionally-useless calories you get, the healthier the rest of your food needs to be.)
Currently, just open one term window to do the 'ssh -L', and a second window to do the 'nc'.

This enhancement just saves me the trouble of opening a term window.
I thought this was going to be about emacs until I realized that C-c C-v didn't do anything (at least on my setup).
Yes, there would be. I personally believe, from experience with both the x86 and the ARM architectures, their ISAs, and their current implementations, that the world and society - pardon the almost religious intonation - can't be delivered into an era of more efficient computing, on the energy consumption front as well as the computational power front, as long as it is held back by x86.

I truly believe that ARM will be the architecture that will bring computing out of this current technological womb, and I suspect that Apple, due all of the spotlights on them, will be the actor responsible for making the biggest push in this rebirth.

The article says "If the sudden disappearance of Intrinsity's web site is truly an indication that Apple has made another purchase, it's a clear sign that Cupertino has really big plans for ARM and doesn't see a future for x86 outside of its desktops and laptops." And I believe that today, some years after the "switch", with ARM's rapid advances, Apple doesn't really see a future for x86 in their desktops and laptops, either. I hope, wholeheartedly, that the world will soon enough be ARM powered, instead of x86 powered.
My first big surprise of the iPad is how good the keyboard is in landscape mode. Without doing a proper typing test I feel like I'm probably at 50+ wpm already.
I think he makes a good point. I was thinking about posting an "Ask HN" about what would be considered the fundamentals of programming/software development, but will ask it here instead. Does anyone know of a decent list of to start with? Basic algorithms and data structures would be on there, off the top of my head.
So deliver to businesses on the five weekdays and homes on Saturday but not Wednesday.
I disagree with his conclusion, because I disagree with the assertion that copy/paste would be easier for his other example codes ("GETORGANIZED", "CLZTWEETZ".) To copy/paste from my email client, I have go to for the mouse to double-click or manually select a word, come back to the keyboard (obviously better than working through menus) to copy, and then head back to the mouse to navigate. That's more work right there than it would be for me to type getorganized into the form field later on.

Assuming I can remember the text, the break-even point when I would rather copy/paste is closer to 30 characters than 10.

I suspect that his users just weren't able to remember ITRYB4IBUY, because they saw it as a random collection of letters rather than a phrase. The author notes this explanation but seems needlessly dissatisfied with it.
Unfortunately I think that most users do not even know about copy/paste (even the menu options), much less know the keyboard shortcuts.

Just recently I witnessed a relative take these steps to open a URL that was received in an email (and this relative claims to be of above average technical savvy):

1) Opens email in mail.app
2) Sees a link and wants to open it
3) Doesn't realize you can click on it
4) Hits F9 (expose key) to reveal literally 100 open windows
5) Finds a Safari window
6) Clicks "File -> New" (doesn't know about tabs)
7) F9's again to find mail.app
8) *Memorizes* URL
9) F9 again to find new Safari window
10) Types URL into the Google Search bar (not the address bar)
11) Finally clicks through to website from google results

I remember several years ago teaching my mom about copy/paste and it changed her life. I think people can learn, but they need to be shown/taught to realize it exists.
This situation makes me so mad my teeth hurt, but I don't think Goldman is at fault. They were no better or worse than other i-banks, interspersing themselves into the money flow, probably sucking out more value than they were creating -- I think so. The fault is with the government for bailing them out. They should be bankrupt, shareholders
wiped out, company carved up and sold off, making room for better companies. Instead the government decided to give them billions (which they paid out as bonuses to themselves). It was ludicrous, the government gave them 100 cents on the dollar for AIG. Why 100, why not 120, why not 200, it would have made just as much sense.
Is Apple Developing Game Controls for the iPad and iPhone?
Re-echoing what someone above said, the analogy in the article is quite stale, without bearing fresh insight in relation to startups. It tries too much to cash in on tabloid like sensationalism ''Kidnappers'' while pretending to educate its readers. It is also wordy. There are a few writers on here who try to share insightful messages in fewer words (Sivers etc.,) and they are modest about the attention they get. Focusing the readers' attention on the amount of shareware money one earns is the equivalent of cyber bling: very suspect.
If I were a betting man, I'd bet that five to seven years from now, Apple won't be selling anything currently recognizable as a desktop or laptop PC.

When they renamed the company from "Apple Computer, Inc." to "Apple, Inc.", they meant it.
wow. I sure hope he was able to put it all back together because the page doesn't seem to have any ads on it to pay for a new iPad.
> ". . . most design problems we face in creating software can be resolved only through experimentation with a partially running system. Engineering is and always has been fundamentally such an enterprise, no matter how much we would like it to be more like science than like art."

This is not a very good way of putting it. The essence of engineering is determinate knowledge, i.e. scientific, logical knowledge. That is not to say it excludes other things, or that that essence alone is sufficient, just that it is the definitive, distinctive, fundamental feature.

Experiment produces determinate knowledge -- the most specific, detailed kind. Scientific research produces the broad, general know-how, and experiment fills the gaps for a particular task. If engineering were not fundamentally about determinate knowledge, then experiment could not work. The knowledge produced by the experimental trial would not even have the generality to transfer to the intended use.

Associating engineering and software with art seems of little value. From what I remember of aesthetic philosophy, art does not have substantial, useful, or perhaps any correspondence with engineering -- let alone the vagueness of what art is anyway. One cannot fault the real content of the article, but the arty leaning is ultimately empty.

The limit of engineering is evolution, not art. When there is no knowledge, engineering design can't work, and instead evolution is the way. Proof of the effectiveness of that alternate approach is all around.
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They're using Amazon EC2 to host it which is pretty notable for a government agency.
Nice, thanks. During the previous summer I tried to study how my very young cousin (1y at the time) perceived the physical world, against the movies ones (yeh, he watched movies :).
I'd say there's no point to it. Probably a night-light's worth of power (5 or 10W) when the CPU itself is idle - Intel and AMD are getting pretty good at shutting down idle circuits, down-clocking, etc.

Assuming you made an ARM with all the artillery (FPUs, etc.) to match guns with x86. People would be comparing it to the 3-gazillion-points-in-benchmark-X CPUs.
Not if you're desperate, there are far more people that need jobs than there are jobs, and accidents aren't ridiculously common. See the Industrial Revolution, coal mining, and sweatshops in developing countries.
Ask HN: How To Become Quantitative Analyst And Achieve Greatness?
I've been reading Hacker News for half a year so far. I have to admit I am impressed. I really like the hackers community. Open source world is main inspiration for me, because I know there are smart and wise people who are hungry for knowledge. These people are the future. They code and do research not only for money, but for the better good. Great life philosophy.

So when my grandfather became paralyzed (3 months ago) I saw it everything more clearly. I want to help people and do my best.

I'm 20 years old. I decided to change my life 3 months ago. I like computers and finance world since my childhood. So 3 months ago I started to learn Python and Math. And I love it! I am so passionate about it now. I applied for CS degree at the most prestigious university in my country and I got the opportunity to study there.

I am very interested in machine learning and finance world. I would like to do quantitative research and beat that mean sharks at Wall Street. I have no bad intentions and I don't see any value in buying expensive things. My dream is to donate research from my earnings.

I have got the passion. I just need the direction. There is so much things to learn. What is the most important thing in this field? Should I focus to mathematics first and then start to learn programming?

What market should I choose? I am familiar with Futures and Forex. Forex seems to be very dangerous but more accesible for students (funding requirements).

Do I need to know more then this for start?

http://measuringmeasures.com/blog/2010/3/12/learning-about-machine-learning-2nd-ed.html

http://pindancing.blogspot.com/2010/01/learning-about-machine-learniing.html

http://quantivity.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/how-to-learn-algorithmic-trading/

You may have noticed that English is not my native language. I apologize for grammar. Thank you for your answers. I really appreciate it!