skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should check out the papers by Renee Baillargeon on testing infants' knowledge of the physical world, they are pretty cool.
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I like making pots of rice and beans. It's really cheap and you can add just about anything. A pot should last a few days and supply good nutrition. I like to start with a good rice, add some veggies, a fat source, and a salt source. Fish sauce is nice. Cheese works well. Crack an egg or two for variety. If you use canned beans, rinse them well and add at the end. Water should be 2.5 the volume of the rice. You get one pot for several days of food and don't even need dishes. No need for anything but a $0.33 can of beans and part of a $2 box of rice and a pan.

It is a bit extreme, but I lived on $12/week when I started my company and just ate beans and rice.
IPad Teardown
I work with a great number of people who are younger then me. between 10 to 15 years younger.There is a great number of them that treat computers with suspicion, if i bring up the terminal (on osx) they are often in shock.

A good amount of younger people, are not tinkerers, and i feel tinkering is the impetus that drives many people who become developers or other IT oriented workers.

The curious thing for me, is that i have an unverified suspicion it was different before, there was less of this suspicion when i was young, probably because the assumption that "it just works" was viewed as marketing, and not reality (blow on those cartridges, and DJ on the floppy disk to skip bad sectors, you remember that?)
Maybe, but pulling your legs up on the couch at home is much more innocuous :)
My iPad comes today. I'm excited about it.

Yet I'm pretty sure this isn't a quirk of their advertisement, though they do want to convey relaxation as much as possible. Apple is trying very far to avoid demonstrating/emphasizing the natural usability limitations of tablet computers.

On-screen typing for a tablet while at a desk is rather awkward since the natural tendency is to hunch over it to see beyond your hands and look down at the rest of the screen. That's not really comfortable and doesn't look very natural.

Even during casual use, any two-hand operation of the screen would need some sort of support behind it. Since setting it on a desk is awkward (per above), you'll need your lap to brace a tablet for those operations.

I assumed Apple is just trying to keep the attention focused on how awesome their product is rather than on the usability disadvantages that are inherent in such a product.

The fact that people noticed the "knees up" nature in their advertisement means Apple failed somewhat at making this posture and behavior appear natural. I bet the creation of a site like this is making at least one of their marketing guys sadder than he was before.

Edit: I just got my iPad. First comment: it's heavier than I expected after using a Kindle so much-- you'll want to brace it behind something for long-time use.
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Failing as a characteristic of entrepreneurial success is way overrated in my opinion. I've failed, but that has only helped me becoming a better person, not a better entrepreneur.
First sentence of the article:

Anybody who says they know how the tablet drama in general and iPad narrative in particular are going to play out is blowing smoke.

Interesting, as the rest of the article is their theory of how it's going to play out. And the link title here is a rather random sentence from the article that has little bearing on anything else, and isn't qualified in any way.
I would extend Tim's comments to include voice and speech as modes for interacting with computers. My wife and I got new Android phones recently and we both adapted instantly to speaking commands as often as possible instead of using the touch screen. For low bandwidth output, speech generation is good also. But in the large sense Tim Bray is right: text may be low bandwidth in a Shannon-sense, but is high in information bandwidth. As an example, I got more out of a 5 minute read of the New York Times online newspaper this morning than 30 minutes of watching any news show that I can think of (even the Colbert show :-)
I know a lot of the choir that are going to buy an iPad today. Sounds like his soap box is in the correct location.
Being dissatisfied with the status quo is one of humanity's best and worst traits.
I just bought a 55 pound bag of dextrose. I mix it with mineral water so I can drink a solution containing it (the carbonation inhibits fermentation, too). It's not very labor intensive, very healthy, and it tastes like what it is: rocket fuel. It is very, very good for your brain.

I have yet to ask a doctor about this though. And it's bad for teeth, like normal soda.
Tagging friends in a photo is a meaningful social action, just like commenting or liking a status update. Automating this would give users one less way to interact with their friends on the site.
I don't know whether the actions of GS, AIG, Citi, BoA, Lehman, Merrill, Countrywide, New Century, the Fed or anybody else involved in the slicing and dicing of mortgages constitutes treason but they sure betrayed my trust and confidence in financial institutions, breached my faith in financial markets, and made me realize that investing with these organizations is treacherous.

I'm sure the good people of Iceland would agree.
Is it only branch instructions that matter in the disassembly? Might some instructions not take a varying amount of cycles depending on the data/ALU flags?
Every time I read an article about how great failure is I want to scream ONLY IF IT LEADS TO SUCCESS. and the only way to know if it does is retrospectively. I think the bigger take away from these article is really keep trying.
According to research cited in 37 Signals' Rework entrepreneurs that have failed previously are no more likely to succeed again than first-time entrepreneurs.

I think far too much business and start-up advice is nothing more than anecdotes and personal experience, none of it backed by hard numbers. (Rework is no exception.) Are there any books out there where people did actual research to back up their advice?
Windows can already be virtualized. The problem is accessibility and cost.

We've seen that most users can't be bothered to upgrade machines. You have to give them an old-car, new-car model: copy all their precious data, then throw their entire box away and give them something new that happens to be running Windows virtually.

A virtual PC must be as easy to buy as an iPod.

It must be cheap (free of any nonsense about not being able to reuse old upgrade-only copies or otherwise paying again for Windows). A program that would let people trade in old PC hardware for fast new virtual boxes would be ideal: something that copies their entire Windows image onto it right at the store, preserving their files, much like you'd trade in your car and keep whatever stuff you had in the trunk.

And, it must start looking "uncool" or almost unheard-of to use anything else as a Windows PC, similar to the effect the iPod has had on other music players. It has to feel "ridiculous" to the average person to keep using some old clunker PC, it can't just be something that tech people would think.
I've always been surprised that Microsoft hasn't made a Windows for gamer.. with preinstalled drivers for cards, DirectX to latest version, etc..
Interesting opinion.

I guess I make an assumption here that becoming a better person by developing credibility & confidence helps you as an entrepreneur. Would you agree this may be the case for some young entrepreneurs?
I'll bet they knew they'd be among the first to benefit from bailouts if there were any at all though, given the Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson was an ex-CEO of GS.
I realize this site is more of a commentary than a complaint, but I'd like to point out that the original pad, the one made of a hundred sheets of paper, is also somewhat awkward to hold and write on, and works best while you're hunched over one on a table in front of you. Millions of people still use them.

In fact, writing at all while standing or sitting without a stable surface in front of you is pretty awkward, and with a normal notebook/laptop, it's damn near impossible because of the bulk of the thing.
Thanks for the reference, which includes the neutral point of view, "The paper's methodology has been criticized by David Moody[5]. He draws attention to the fact that different tests were used to evaluate the control and test groups. Due to the way in which the tests were administered, he also questions whether they were valid tests of fluid intelligence."

K. Anders Ericsson has achieved astounding results through training in "digit span," long reputed to correlate well with "general intelligence."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memory

"Whereas most adults can repeat about seven digits in correct order, some individuals have shown impressive enlargements of their digit span--up to 80 digits." The further discussion at this reference about whether the tested task correlates with anything else of interest would apply as well to the n-back task.
Your second link needs to drop the trailing period:

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/guest-post-tim-geithner-sni...
Around the world means USA only i guess.
Just synced my iPad and bam: http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/7653/screenshot20100403at11...
While it might be stretched to fit, no, this doesn't match the commonly accepted use of pretentious at all.
Here's a Harvard Business School research paper that suggests that in certain kinds of venture-backed startups, those who have failed before have a slightly higher rate of success.

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6045.html
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This is like asking "What sort of woman should I marry?", without knowing you it's impossible to say.
What about pictures and animations of those vectors? They don't have to perform operations on those vectors to start understanding, they just have to see the vectors. In other words, they have to see pictures of arrows.
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Someone should make an ipad holder that looks like a pair of knees.
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I remember thinking about this after watching the iPad Guided Tour Videos. "Oh, it is also necessary to kick up your legs before using an iPad. I mean who computes with their feet on the ground." - http://twitter.com/nirmalpatel/status/11266710288
What about kelvin hobles?
To add to this: the Fed was created in response to the usual ups and downs of the marketplace - there would be financial crises about every 20-30 years, and they could be quite crushing.

The claim was that if the Fed was created, we would never have such bubbles/panics again.

Since the Fed was created in 1913, and we have had the Great Depression and lots of other monetary issues, including the current one, it is safe to say that the original argument in favor of the Fed is proven false.
Yeah, we had a thread where Zed Shaw told us to stop doing something he thought was impolite.

Putting my feet up on a table RIGHT NOW.
It's like surfing. You have to paddle like hell to get to where the wave is going to be, then be standing on the board at just the right time. Once you've missed a few waves, you have a better idea of the timing.

There's a lot of things that have to line up to make a startup successful: vision, market, funding, and talent. Believe it or not, the market and the funding are likely to be more forgiving of previous failure than the talent.
I use Niçoise salad as a starting point for many salads: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni%C3%A7oise_salad

I don't bother with aesthetics and just mix everything. A usually add a boiled potato, chopped bacon along with the egg to make the salad more consistent. This makes the salad a main dish of its own. I use other ingredients like beans, peas, spinach, boiled beet, salmon, tuna, cheese, avocado, various herbs etc. Quite often I put a shredded carrot in the mix.

The salad is pretty quick to make. I cook an egg and a potato in the same pot. I take the egg out after 5 minutes of boiling and leave the potato a bit more. Meantime I wash and chop the greens, tomatoes any other ingredients that I have. I add the egg and the potato, put some balsamic vinegar and olive oil and it's good to go.

I make a point to buy the best vegetables and greens I can. This means that I always try to get them from the market, directly from people that produce them. It's not always easy when you are living in a big city.
A true entrepreneur never permits himself alibis to fail.

Excuse yourself by falling back on the theorem that failing is good,

and you will never have the determination to push through those moments where success seems impossible.

Forget this notion that failure is good.
Only remember it after you have, in fact, failed.
Not before.
My take on this is that anyone who would be worth taking on as an unpaid intern, is worth paying minimum wage. I can imagine that not all employers feel this way, but for a typical high-tech company (especially a start-up), the opportunity cost to train and integrate a new team member for, say 6 months, would dwarf a minimum salary.
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This will probably get lost in the sea of messages, but this is a topic I spend a lot of time on. First off, http://nutritiondata.com is a valuable resource - I treat the body as a machine with certain fuel requirements. The key ones are fiber, protein and calories. You need to know your input profile or you're just guessing. Next, pick a few dishes that satisfy this profile. I eat a bowl of carrots a whole can of corn (canned corn is a GREAT fiber per $ ratio if you buy it in bulk) and a large protein shake. Next up is a vitamin, which is absolutely crucial for micronutrients. If you let veggies + protein be the centerpiece of your diet (that is my breakfast) then the rest of the day tends to fall around it, because the bulk makes you less hungry and your body has what it needs. I'd also recommend you workout at least 3 days a week if you don't already - body maintenance is not optional for optimum performance.

If you honestly are saying ONE hour is too much time for a full day of quality cooking? You're dreaming to some extent.
You're being very hard on someone who merely asked an honest question. Lighten up, particularly if you don't actually have an answer for the guy.
If you want to be mobile with your laptop, there are options. At $39, a Connect-A-Desk is 12X cheaper than an iPad.

http://amzn.com/B001G713NO

Unfortunately, it's about 100X dorkier.
The problem when indexing isn't getting the new content; it is getting the ~1,240,000 older posts that aren't on newest anymore.
Zed Shaw is about to have a bad week. ;)
Microsoft have had a "WIN" project one the go in one form or another for years. "Cairo" anyone? For years, Longhorn was going to be an almost complete replacement of the platform. They've never got it to work though, perhaps because it's always been an engineer driven revamp rather than a UI driven one.

To get something like this done they'd probably be better off abstracting the OS and making it insignificant in the way as web browsers do. Imagine the Windows Phone 7 OS running on laptops and tablets, all silverlight driven and no sign of a filesystem anywhere. Then they could release a version that runs on classic Windows, OSX and linux.
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... and is part of the American culture.

More presciently, total ignorance of the question of culture and assumed dominance and superiority over even the possibility of other cultures is part of the American culture. Whatever you might think about Zed, try to separate that from your argument and realize that he does have a point. It's distorted by his comical Personal Over Intensification Field, but if you're the type to throw your feet up on the table do take at least one thing away from this article.

It's extremely rude to some people and thus loudly demonstrates that you're considering their point of view worth pretty much precisely zilch. Even without the dog shit.
By true entrepreneur, do you mean someone born to be an entrepreneur? Are all successful self-made business owners true entrepreneurs?
Do you mean the dual n-back task? Jaeggi et al? That one was interesting because it appeared the gains were transferable.
Young people are generally not politically engaged, either.
"Intelligence is a text-based application."

Entertainment is an imagination-based application.

While Tim is right, Marc is right too. You can't look at the iPad as an intelligence tool, it is an imagination tool instead.

For the couch, and that is exactly what Jobs intended when he started the demonstration back in january sitting in a comfortable couch with an iPad on his lap.

Games, video, and everything entertaining is the first and foremost intention of the iPad.

Programmers and geeks? not so.

Intelligence will be relegated to a distant second this time. And there is exactly where Tim is wrong and Marc is right.

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I actually think that the younger you start an as entrepreneur the more influence this has on you on becoming a person.
There's a really good ('selfish') reason to properly put interns on payroll. A tech company that has an unpaid intern working on something 'useful' - like writing code - is in a terrible position. If the intern is ignorant, sure no problem. But what if that code makes it into a shipping product, or some other asset that's sold? And suddenly that person feels like they were screwed over because they were not paid? Or what if they get hurt at work, or are harassed and want to bring suit? Its already a risk with proper employees on payroll but at least you have insurances for that. Or perals - they file for unemployment and put your company down as their last employer with $0 pay. (Have any of you had to -really- deal with your local DoL? You'll -wish- it was the IRS!) This is a very bad position to be in. Isn't $10/hr worth it to avoid these problems?
I suspect that this is the primary reason the iPad doesn't have the long-anticipated front facing camera. Video conferencing on it would turn us all into a bunch of nostril gazers.
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Thx for the feedback. Will do on !g at the end.
Clustering under the new NIH scoring system, just as predicted.
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Unfortunately, as you pointed out, Bing doesn't get that either, so the back-fill doesn't help in this case. However, I did note it for future improvement.
It's a 2-by-2 matrix, so of course it's going to be oversimplified.

The stupid people often believe they're pursuing their own gain, but are too ignorant and misguided to do so.

In practice, I think the bandits are more dangerous. In a corrupt and declining society such as ours, they end up running the show.

Stupid people are like the magnetic charges in a block of iron. Because their stupidity is fairly random, they tend to cancel each other out under normal conditions, and therefore are not very dangerous (except to themselves) on a macroscopic level. When those charges become aligned and they now have macroscopic pull (as we see in the modern "religious right" and the Tea Party movement) they become scary, but that can only happen when they've been manipulated by (crafty, and likely intelligent at least in the IQ sense) bandits.
What system? It does still require JS, but it should work on IE6.
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It was obvious to those who get tech that the iPhone would be huge.

There were a lot of people who claim to "get tech" who were not bullish on the iPhone.

People who underestimated the iPhone are now overcompensating by being bullish on the iPad because they fail to understand that these are not the same thing.

I knew from the first moment the iPhone was a potential game changer, yet I'm also bullish on the iPad. (In fact, I just got back from the store and I'm about to attempt my first sync in about 30 seconds.)

The iPad is the best example to date of a relatively new category: mobile ultra-light touch tablet. As it is now, it cannot replace a laptop. However, if you extrapolate what Apple did with the iPhone in 3 releases to what they will do with iPad, then it becomes obvious that they will be able to replace and better the use case for most netbooks by then.

People who now underestimate the iPad don't get it: It's the Ecosystem! That's the key point that makes the iPhone the best deal, and where Android is playing catchup. (And it appears to be doing a good job at it.) Right now the iPad can leverage the same ecosystem. That's a powerful combination that a lot of techies don't get.
Who would buy an ugly connection kit that sticks out of the device for an overpriced tablet? Okay, I forgot about the normal Apple user.
There have been some previous threads on this topic. Search will probably turn them up.

My recurring suggestion: Microwave a sweet potato. Sweet potatoes are much more nutritious than white potatos; currently, the popular press has taken to labeling them a "superfood" (insert skepticism here).

Wash it

Poke it (deeply) in a few places to vent steam

My vintage microwave takes approximately 8 - 10 minutes, depending on size. If your microwave does not have a carousel, flip and rotate the sweet potato halfway through.

They can cook somewhat unevenly, so let it stand for a couple of minutes after cooking, while the heat continues to disperse and cooking completes.

Season and eat. I cut mine in half, sprinkle each half with a bit of (raw) sugar, and dust liberally with cinnamon (also now being shown to have health benefits).

P.S. I went to check the manufacturing tag: It was made in 1977! How's that for durability? No explicit statement of wattage, but 13 A at 120 V, 1 (of 3) phase (sorry, I'm not sure what to assume for the power factor).
Which is exactly what you want if you're going for the high-margin high-end of the market.
tl;dr To get smarter, you should struggle through the whole article and not skip to the tl;dr.
"Caught up with" being the key point here. You don't always get to 70% market share by playing catch-up.
Lectures were originally spoken text. Then the lecturers got famous and started publishing their text as books. Text books. Now we have lecturers who often lecture from those words written by someone else.

The best teachers I've known spend an inordinate amount of time writing out their original lesson plans. It's still text-based even if there are bells and whistles.
I wish I felt I could justify spending time to learn this game. Just reading the changelog is interesting enough.
And how many of those people have an iPhone and were able to do the extrapolation: "This multitouch is great with the Apps and the App store. What if we could have a bigger screen with that?"

I was posting that idea well before the iPad was anything more than a rumor.
Which is why I'm interested in alternatives to the iPad, because yeah, I agree with you, this is something Apple would not do.

Even if they would, I don't buy apple ever anyway.
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