skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was hoping you'd clarify, but I suppose that's asking for a lot in this day and age of HackerNews. Dialog is dead.

It's pretty lame to say "misrepresentation" is what you call the process of "extracting meaning from unclear and muddled prose linked indirectly."
All the code is there. It's part of my dissertation, which I'm trying to finish up: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~scschnei/cellgen/

I have a more in-depth paper that was rejected last year which I'm trying to extend right now. If you'd like to read it, you can. I have another paper under review that uses my work to make a Cell, GPU and Quad Core performance comparison.
Ultimate Guitar Tabs iPhone App Has a Tab For That
Apple was sued by Elan a year ago. The news is that Elan has filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission asking to bar imports of the allegedly infringing products. It's a sharper set of teeth, and more pressure on Apple to resolve the suit.

Neither MacRumors nor the original Bloomberg article list patent numbers, but this does not appear to involve any of the specific patents involved in the Apple-HTC thing. It appears to relate more generally to the touch sensing hardware Apple uses across their product line. That is not part of the HTC thing because HTC (like everyone else) uses Synaptics.

As mentioned in the Bloomberg article, Elan won a suit against Synaptics over the same patent in 2008. It makes sense that they would pursue Apple next, as Apple's Fingerworks-derived touch technology is (to my knowledge) the only thing out there other than Synaptics with any market presence.
Not that much different. My parents didn't believe in DSPS or on a pragmatic level thought it could be cured through training; how could you possibly live a responsible life in the normal world without fixing it?
Korea's newest humanoid robot Hubo II (video)
You're right, there's no reason for my comment. It was knee-jerk.
It is not clear where to focus my attention. There is no "do this, now" on the homepage.

I'd make the focus right now on registering with the site, since your userbase is going to be really small at the start. A really simple registration form that stands out could do wonders for you.

I'm short of time, it helps when your site tells me what to do.

OKCupid is a great example of how to convert visitors into members.
Yeah, pretty much. Good luck to us, huh? Got any ideas?
Agreed, a little too plain perhaps. Don't get me wrong, you've done a great job by not "going all web 2.0" or a number of other horrendous mistakes, but there's room for improvement. Try starting by giving the #main and #border sections the #FFF background color and the #content container a #EEE background just to set them apart a little (see it at http://imgur.com/pn0fR.jpg).

Little things like that will take you a long way.
Very nice idea. Can I have dating based on my (safe) browser history?
> The United States is much richer than it was 50 years ago, but this has produced no measurable increase in overall happiness.

Tell that to the < 1% who hold the majority of wealth in the US.
Ask HN: Does this exist? "Click to support my cause"
I'm looking for a simple web app that allows anybody to create a cause. Once you've created the cause, you can send out a link that allows people to automatically contact their congressman via email and/or through an auto-VOIP-call -- all to support the cause. So it's a platform to allows leaders to more easily lead and followers to easily follow.

Does this exist? I've searched through LifeHacker, Hacker News archives, Sunlight Labs, and google -- no luck. Anybody know of something like this? I want to use it to stir up action against the anti-angel Dodd bill.
I thought there was something with trademark laws that meant owners had to actively protect their marks or risk losing the ability to pursue legal action against infringement. So even though SO and MO are buddy-buddy, couldn't allowing MO to use their name as is theoretically jeopardize SO's trademark?
Ask HN: Does this exist? "Click to support my cause"
I'm looking for a simple web app that allows anybody to create a cause. Once you've created the cause, you can send out a link that allows people to automatically contact their congressman via email and/or through an auto-VOIP-call -- all to support the cause. So it's a platform to allows leaders to more easily lead and followers to easily follow.

Does this exist? I've searched through LifeHacker, Hacker News archives, Sunlight Labs, and google -- no luck. Anybody know of something like this? I want to use it for the anti-angel Dodd bill awareness.
Yeah, I doubt it will be an issue legal-wise, but that is a pretty terrible domain name. First the overflow bit and then the .net, just doesn't make sense.
I would also recommend the Vim Tutorial Videos here: http://www.derekwyatt.org/vim/vim-tutorial-videos/
Health Care Reform by the Numbers (infographic)
A misleading title. Peter-Paul himself says that AdMob is being very clear about what it measures. The real issue is misinterpretation of the data by analysts.

In response to Peter-Paul's question, yes, AdMob could separate out impressions to applications and impressions to web browsers. The user agents are different.

However, I believe some (not all) application usage should be legitimately considered the equivalent of browser usage when determining browsing share by platform - separating out in-application and in-browser impressions would be equally misleading. Use of the New York Times' application or Instapaper's application, for instance, is a direct substitute for web browsing, and should be taken into account.
The current lawsuits are about innovation that has already happened. Most of the players are mobile phone makers that are trying to compete with the iPhone by cloning its most distinctive features. If Apple can successfully use patents to thwart those efforts, it forces Nokia et al to one-up the iPhone instead of just making clones that they can sell to different carriers. (Where's the plethora of multitouch screens with haptic feedback that we ought to be seeing?)

The fact that good multitouch was developed by Apple (really, FingerWorks, which Apple bought in 2005) instead of Synaptics or Cirque (who make pretty much everybody else's touchpads) suggests that there was significant innovation, rather than multitouch just being the logical next step.
hah. wow. my first thought is "you know, you need Engineers at a startup, too; not just sales people" -

It certainly doesn't sound like the sort of place I would want to work, but it might not be as bad of an idea as I initially thought; if you have an office full of people who play sports, I imagine that organization could translate to other kinds of teamwork.

On the other hand, you are shutting out a whole lot of really good Engineers. (not to say there aren't good engineers who play sports, there certainly are, but there are a lot more good Engineers who don't.)
Large?
IO is awesome.

Antirez, it would be interesting to read the thought processes you run through as you come to a conslusion.
I'm with you. I know Comcast had their very basic TV service for something less than $15 at some point. I don't know if they still do. Basic cable for live things (sports mostly) and Boxee for everything else is perfect for me.

I talked to someone at Comcast and somehow basic cable and 8mbps internet ended up at nearly $110 before taxes. I have to believe they have something cheaper but that would require an hour conversation to begin to understand their pricing schemes.
As he said, he's using dreamhost mostly for domain registration, not for hosting.
The Democrats Are Doomed, or How A ‘Big Tent’ Can Be Too Big
70% Chance' Apple Builds Its Own Search Engine In The Next Five Years
Hm. Obviously not as elegant, but I'm sure someone more versed with Ruby could do better.

class Object
def _ &block
instance_eval &block
end
end

s = "Hello"
s._ do
upcase!
chop._ do
downcase
end
end #=> "hell"

s #=> "HELLO"

Using { } for block syntax may be more appealing to some, as well.
This whole article seems like terrible advice to me; and then there's this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Act...
Fuzzy logic is not crap, and the fact that you are comparing it to statistics in this manner shows that you have little understanding of either.

Fuzzy logic is just like binary logic only it allows for partial truth.

Probability relates to how likely something is to happen.

To take an example (I didn't make this up, but I don't remember the source):

If you take a series of data points to determine whether or not I am in my living room at 7:00 on any given evening and determine that the probability is 50%, that means that I am in my living room 50% of all nights.

However, if you give me a 50% fuzzy logical value of being in my living room, this means that I am lying in the doorway between my living room and my bathroom, such that exactly half of my body is in one place and half of my body is in another.

These are two different things and the mechanisms do not apply at all to the same problem sets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic#A_new_way_of_expres...
Periodic Table of periodic tables
The uncomfortable trade-offs involved in working with what's available vs. replacing the whole stack with something done right are the heart of the "worse is better" paper.

For better or worse, if you want to replace C, you have to dig deep.
The Finder is dead.
http://www.pickv.com has the same concept but with movie,tvshow,music and food as well
There is also a good excerpt about the evolution of dogs from Richard Dawkins:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertai...
Why's that sound so negative? I mean, if part of your business is slating yourself as "the guys that do X" then you'd probably have your talking points about X down pat.
The email collection tools in Campaign Monitor are totally free. You just pay when you send mail.

When I was organizing Startup Bootcamp, I emailed both CM and MailChimp to ask for a donation. MailChip offered us a discount, but CM gave us an extremely generous number of credits that easily covered our needs.

Using CM is a breeze. Originally we were using a Google Doc as a signup, and felt the need to switch once we hit a few hundred people. Importing the data was effortless, and CM has built-in checks for both duplicate and malformed emails. Their analytics and reporting is also great. Highly recommended.
yes, and would love to know how the article does not talk about the same that your wikipedia link.
And this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand
Flash debugs great and MonsterDebugger is swift and elegant.

This one-sided story is getting old.
I am admittedly not primarily technical, but I don't see that as relevant here. If someone actually has a legitimate way to add value to the person they're asking for help from, then that's great. Often that's not going to be the case though, and trying to fake that is (for me) a recipe for disaster.

To go back to the example of offering an idea to help with whatever, that's really just going to be a waste of time for most people. I'd much prefer the person simply say they want x/y/z and would like to meet or talk. Call it obvious flattery, it's also honest and efficient.
Apple once persuaded the Department of Commerce to go after a Brazilian company that had a clean-room (software and hardware) Mac compatible (in 85 or so). After threats of commercial sanctions, the Brazilian government caved in and revoked the company's license to manufacture the machine (computer manufacturing was heavily regulated in Brazil at that time) after a very protracted and atypical approval process. There is little doubt it was revoked because of external pressure.

In the end, only a few prototypes were made. A friend of mine has one: http://chester.blog.br/mac512.html

It's easy to imagine Apple pulling the same strings again.
I haven't noticed, but I usually stick Firefox (for firebug). Using the Flash version of the animation test posted a few days ago: http://themaninblue.com/experiment/AnimationBenchmark/flash/ I get 27-29fps in Safari 4.04 and 48-50fps in Chrome 5.0 beta (maybe because it's the beta?). Firefox gets around 44fps. [older mac pro - dual dualcore 3GHz, 6GB, 10.6.2]
there's two angles here. 1. "how do you deal with support" which is to say, how do you respond to potentially hundreds of questions a day and not drop them, and 2. "how do you decide how much time to spend on support, vs. other things"

As for 1.

I use RT, but frankly it doesn't work that well for us. We're all primarily email people. Nobody wants to use the web frontend

I've worked other places that just used a shared IMAP box; if you were dealing with a customer, you pulled them out of the shared IMAP 'support' box and put it in a shared box by your name (that way, if you were sick the next day, someone else could cover for you) and dealt with it. I'm seriously considering abandoning rt for that solution.

As for 2, personally, I think I often spend too much time talking about stuff rather than doing stuff. But, talking to people requires a different kind of energy from coding, so I'm not so sure that it's eating into productive time. I mean, for me, it's almost a social break. (I mean, if I did it more, it wouldn't be so much of a break; I'm at least moderately introverted.)
While 90% of the time I agree with the ease of sandboxed and cloud-synced file management, there's still that 10% of the time that I'm annoyed by it.

If I want to copy, rename, share, or email a specific file I find it easiest to do it in the file. I find it almost as easy to do it in an app that facilitate it easily like iPhoto (with it's built in share and email buttons). I find it much more difficult to do it in an app that doesn't make it quite as easily facilitated through the UI, like iTunes.

I would love for the finder to go away, but I'd hate for it to go away at the expense of every app developer having to rebuild mechanisms into each app to expose general file manipulations that the finder handles quite well right now.
Firstly, the author's Dreamhost account was used primarily for domain registrations.

Secondly, Dreamhost does provide VPSes with root access as well as web hosting and domain reg.

Thirdly, VPS isn't always the right solution. You have to account for time and willingness to do the sysadmin work -- instead of spending the effort on, say, programming or marketting.

Not everybody wants to spend several extra hours up front setting up and securing a server for a simple website or webapp.

And then patching it regularly and worrying about all sorts of things that may not be related to your goal in the slightest.
You make it sound bad, but you're describing what any expert does. Anyone who spends years studying something can give you all sorts of information off the top of their head.
Have you actually worked with code points and surrogate pairs for the java.lang.String class? It's a huge hassle and doing it correctly requires at least triple the amount of code as doing it wrong. The problem is that earlier versions of Java used UCS-2 and so a single real-world character was always represented by a single Java char value. But then the Java maintainers later changed the string representation to UTF-16 so now a single real-world character could take up either one or multiple Java char values. A lot of new code is still being written which implicitly, and incorrectly, assumes that 1 character == 1 char. I even intentionally do it wrong sometimes myself because dealing with code points leads to such code bloat.
I agree, the name isn't meaningful in a mathematics sense the same way SO's name is to computer science. Is there an equivalent to be found? I can't think of any particularly disastrous mathematics errors or situations. Division by zero.... Division by infinity?
I've been toying with the idea of creating a basic API for my book site http://bookhu.com (book readership gender analysis). I'd be willing to prioritise it if you (or anyone else) were interested in integrating it.
I don't think much will change until a huge company loses to an obvious patent troll.
Thanks for the links, I will check them out.

It would be cool if you could integrate their APIs into what you are doing.
(Create Alikewise account based off of already existing Goodreads or Librarything account).

I guess what I'm concerned about is that it becomes a very niche site without a community that is hanging out and talking about the books that they are reading.

Presumably if you go on, you find someone, and you leave, you don't have the 'all my friends are on it' factor. (It is also kind of limited group, a lot of people will not be looking for partners that read the same books as they do). It kind of appeals to people you might think of (or who might think of themselves) as intelligentsia.

But is a cool idea, and is definitely intriguing at very least in terms of social experiments, kind of figuring out if people are compatible because of similar intellectual interests. I hope it goes well for you!
Quite interesting.

I disagree with the conclusion (more on that in a moment), but (a) this is a great thing to investigate with the data; (b) as soon as I saw the time-series data, I immediately wanted to plot it on the 2-axis / 4-quadrant Nolan chart ... and that's exactly what the author did next!

Now, why I'm not convinced that the data actually shows what the author thinks it shows: there are two possible explanations of the data:

1) that people change their views over time
2) that views are a function of when you were born

The author accepts point 1 without even thinking about point 2.

Two examples:

1) data shows that the older you are, the more your joints hurt.

2) data shows that the older you are, the more you disapprove of homosexuality.

I assert that fact #1 is explained by "old age leads to creaky joints", and fact #2 is explained by "social norms changed between 1930 and 2000, and people, to a good degree, retain the social norms of their youth".

Instead of concluding that "youth makes you a libertarian and old age makes you an authoritarian", I suggest that the truth might be that "being born after the Berlin Wall fell and globalization occurred makes you a libertarian; coming of age in the hippy era makes you a leftist, and living through the Great Depression and WWII makes you an authoritarian".

I don't endorse everything in it, but the book _Generations_

( http://www.amazon.com/Generations-History-Americas-Future-15... )

argues something pretty much in this direction.

Given that OKC's data is all from a very short period of time, there's no way to prove one hypothesis over another. Given a longer time series, though, we can disambiguate.
Cool idea, but bootstrapping this could be an issue. E.g. as of right now, if you do a simple search for "Man seeking women" or "Woman seeking women" you'll only get ~20 results (not to mention that search is broken).
Great, now if Duluth gets picked for the Google Fiber trial (which so many people here are rooting for!) we'll be all set!
agreed that it doesn't work for all employees and i don't mention it as a way of finding employees, rather a way to screen potential employees if they do happen to play sports.

i'd also mention that i play ultimate with a bunch of engineers on a weekly basis so they are out there...
"Most people vastly overestimate the extent to which more money would improve our lives."

I think you missed this part of the article.
Stealth mode is back (If it ever went away)
I don't DO "move it 2px to the left, no, right, no, up, no down" -- the designer hands me a .psd file, I reproduce it to the pixel and hand it back. If for some reason they need to make changes to their design I lay it over my files or the original design, diff the diffs, and make the changes. If they're happy with the design they created, they'll be happy with my code.

I'm not saying the designer needs to know nothing - they need to know a bit about screen sizes and other topics related to design. Obviously we disagree, but I don't want my designers thinking about the code.
"There's a lot of literature that discusses many of the benefits to innovation from patents throughout their history"

Care to enumerate? I have read "Against Intellectual Monopoly" and I'd really like to get a decent view on the opposite side of the argument.
What's RT?

We took WuFoo's advice and just used one big shared Gmail inbox (similar to your approach), with one person monitoring the inbox every day. Most day-to-day issues can be handled by anyone on our team.
More On The Gene Patent Ruling: What Happens Next
Regardless of market share, is there any real evidence that nobody tried to hack Chrome? Do they maintain any statistics for such things, or were you just assuming so from its market share?
Use &amp; to escape ampersands on a story list.
That happens quite regularly I think. I know Microsoft has paid out many times. The most horrible example is probably related to IE plugins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eolas#Litigation
This is an interesting critique, but equating science with "a crapshoot" is journalistically irresponsible. IANAS, but I read a few science blogs, and the impression I get is that most scientific papers hedge and qualify extensively, laboriously mentioning statistical significance, noting possible alternative explanations for the observed data and imagining future experiments that ought to be run to provide extra confidence in the findings.

He gives the example of all the studies linking genetic variants to acute coronary syndrome, only one of which was confirmed in a later (presumably larger?) study. Well, what does it mean for a study to link a gene to a condition? Maybe they concluded, "gene FOO19 causes heart attacks, bitches!" Or maybe it was more like, "4 out of 5 coronary sufferers we studied had this FOO19 gene. Someone should look into it." Those are two very different statements; one is way out-of-line, and the other is responsible reportage.
What you're describing is a lot like www.change.org

There, individuals take it upon themselves to contact their local representatives. A user can volunteer personal information as well, and it will go towards building a collective petition or pledges.

I'm not sure if the venture is non-profit or for-profit..
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> You'd better never read David Foster Wallace, then

Sure I have.

I don't think much of his writing either.
This will be a great step toward fixing a bunch of the big problems with Flash (for instance, how flaky the mouse wheel is in Flex applications). We're building our product in Flex and this will hopefully help us a great deal.
I admittedly wasn't following it at the time, but isn't that basically exactly what happened to RIM regarding push email?
I think the author has missed the larger problem. The PHP development community is completely dysfunctional. I don't think that a project of the magnitude of PHP 6 is possible without fixing that fundamental problem.

Why is it dysfunctional?

- every discussion leads to bikeshedding (and almost none of the bikeshedders actually commit code to the Zend engine)

- there are 'rules', but they don't apply to most people (ie the 5.4 thing in the article)

- no firm hand to guide them (Rasmus has deliberately not provided this)

- the mailing list has a complete lack of civility

- highest concentration of poisonous people to non-poisonous that I have ever seen

- votes for everything

- patches are not discussed, either pre or post commit, so the code is bad, and people won't work on it.

I was so glad to be the hell out of there.
Flash Builder (as opposed to the Flash CS4/CS5) is a much more robust development environment based on Eclipse. It also just hit 4.0.

It supports memory profiling, debugging, Eclipse plugins etc. We've built our application in it using an MVC style of programming similar to Rails.
> Most of the players are mobile phone makers that are trying to compete with the iPhone by cloning its most distinctive features

Such as the iPhone cloning distinctive features that have been developed / patented by Nokia and others.
Double standards?