skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with He is also why it's so useful--it doesn't react with anything. It's a bitch to filter because the only strategy you have is to get rid of everything else.
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Perhaps I'm overly sensitive to this, but [at least the start] seems to just be making new buzz-words.
Well, if it is anything like the iPod or iPhone, it is pretty easy to replace the parts. There are multiple vendors selling parts for them (some parts better than the original). The "closed" battery should be the least of people's issues. The replacement is the same price as another laptop battery and you get a whole new iPad.

For example, at some point, I am going to replace my iPod's (5th gen) HD with an SSD and there are multiple vendors and video showing how.
I believe every Mac came with Hypercard.

It was one of those thing that you didn't really need and wouldn't seek out, but was awesome once you found it. It's like MS Paint + the web. Flash dev is probably the closest to it and Flash is so ubiquitous that it would be hard justify using another toolset for something like that.
Good point! :-)
Tuplestores are one of the most common backend formats for storing graphs — you only need triples, or quads if you want timestamps. Everything's stored as (Entity, Attribute, Value) in the same table, with all of the Es and As being references, and with the Vs as references when the tuple is a graph edge but as atoms when it's a graph node.

Pretty much every existing RDF database is a tuplestore underneath, or abuses a relational database as a crappy tuplestore that won't get you fired for installing it.
I'm thinking of starting a sales blog using content/framework/stories from Todd (this interviewee). It would be like startupcompanylawyer.com, but for sales. Useful idea?
The internet was based on open technologies and we wouldn't be where we are without that.

Companies want to reverse that trend and close it up and we do need to fight that.

We don't want the future to be AOL.
So the creditors should just take the loss? That would make credit more expensive, perhaps prohibitively so, causing less people to get into the problem in the first place. That's bad for the industry though, not to mention people's insatiable desire for things they don't need and can't afford.
When people don't pay their debts, the cost ends up going to people who do. I have no sympathy for people who tried to live beyond their means, and are now paying for it. They made their bed, now they have to lie in it.
The apps are not the problem. That's actually a great use of the platform. Rather, when/if your child becomes curious about creating something of his own, he's met with a $100 barrier to entry.
Been thinking about the cofounder matching problem a lot http://entrepreneurialactivism.com/2010/03/25/the-co-founder... and it was really good to hear the perspective of what to do if you are a sole founder.

Personal relationships are key especially when dealing with the highs and lows of startup life.. sounds like you have a great wife and companion though!
No; he's met with a $100 barrier if he wants to supply his software to others via Apple's App Store. Creating and developing for OS X and for iPhone OS on iPod/iTouch/iPad is entirely free. The XCode suite and the SDKs cost nothing to download.
Or you can use the iPad simulator (if you have the SDK).
I'm not saying it doesn't work, I'm saying it's dishonest.
Back in the day that was a $4000+ barrier to entry to buy compiler, hardware, etc. Let's be real - what parent wouldn't spring for $100?
Well, I don't know if you're ever been through any financial trouble, but in my experience it is very traumatic and has long-lasting physical and psychological repercussions.

Those people walking away from all that are essentially signing up for years of more pain, self-doubt. They will have poor reputation in commerce and finance.

And what's more, clearly you're talking about people with financial resources, that's really not what we're talking about here, you make it sounds like some party, but the vast majority of people who are affected by this aren't going to be getting their credit score back to the level now needed for the FHA mortgage, nor will they have 3% to put down on a house.

Look, dude, I realize you'd like to throw peeps in debtors prison, as you said in another comment, so it's likely I'm talking to either a mean person, and uninformed person, or a troll, but, like, ummm, totally whatever.
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It's sad that it's amusing that a "publication" may encourage differing opinions rather than forcing all it's contributors to a consistent position.
The problem with government issued emails is that while everyone has a physical address (except the homeless and people 'off' the grid) not everyone has access to the internet, and mail is an important communication medium between the government and the people (pretty much any official notice from any level of government).
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What's the algorithm for what makes it to this site? Or is it some random guy's editorial discretion?
What loss? With interest, fees, etc the debtor ends up paying many times the value of the debt.
i think we both know that the particular 13 year old mention in this article is rare and that developers of any age have a hard time making a hit iphone app. it's nice to focus on the few that have made lots of money, but the reality is that there are many thousands of apps that haven't made any money (especially considering the $99/year fee) and some that were never approved in the first place.

while you state that "most kids already have a mac", which i'd disagree with, the costs to acquire that and the iphone/ipod touch that they're actually using to run the app, are much higher than an old computer running linux, where they can make whatever they want for free and distribute it on the internet or at school without having to have anyone else approve it or anonymously judge its quality.
Right, this is why a lot of people's desire to own a house as soon as possible baffled me. It's a lot cheaper to move apartments than it is to move houses.

A friend of mine actually moved about 45 minutes away to be closer to his job... and then his job moved, and he's got an hour and a half commute, each way.

I'd pay the fee to break the lease in that case. I cannot imagine spending that much time commuting.
Does anybody know a good source for the actual rating numbers?
Damn, I'm on my way to Fresno to see the wifes family for Easter. I'll have to catch the next one.
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Cool. Can we get the story on this? Is it done by a human, e.g. will it stop working for a week while said editor is on vacation? Is it auto-generated by vote count? Details please.

[edit] I have to assume it's an editorial thing, since the summaries couldn't be auto-selected like that, I don't think.

[edit 2] dschobel beat me to the question.
But you can't install on any devices (even your own) without the $100 fee.
i don't know what release you're using, but my 10.10 beta has rdesktop installed by default and it still works as well as it ever did for connecting to windows servers.
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I tend to prefer camelCasing even in Python, etc. It seems that underscored_names may be easier to read but camelCasedNames are easier to write. The crux is that, for me, it's harder to write underscored_names than it is to read camelCasedNames.

Can anyone point out advantages of underscored_names that I may be missing?
No, he's met with a $100 barrier if he wants to load that app onto his iPhone/iPod touch/iPad, or submit it to the AppStore.
Seriously. I can't imagine the set of parents who buy an iPhone/iPad for their kid but won't spend the $100 to let their kid build with it is a large set--in fact, it's probably empty.
It also helps that Fox News is usually put on the analog or basic cable packages where MSNBC is put in digital and extended tiers.

Less possible cable viewers for that channel.
Where do you get 12 from - I've used Java from early in '95 so I'd make it at least 15.

Can't stand it these days.
Arguing as a sometimes-utilitarian: people love their iPhones, and their creation has actually brought happiness into people's lives. In all this doom-and-gloom talk about how the iPad will destroy computing as we know it and Apple is the new evil empire, etc. etc., hardly anyone ever seems to weigh the happiness brought to consumers by their devices.

So let's not just focus on the theoretical-hacker-kid-who-will-now-never-learn-to-program, because they're not the only type of person affected by these devices. Are many people's days just a tiny bit happier because they have their iPhone? Yes. (And many people's days are happier because they have a phone that is much better than it would have been had the iPhone never happened). And that should matter too.
Speaking as a non-geek:

1. I love value and simplicity and would buy an iPad in an instant if it offers these qualities at a good price and if I have needs in that direction.

2. I recoil against herd thinking about the latest "in" thing and can't therefore stand all the iPad hype.

3. I buy closed-system products all the time for specialized uses, whether it be a Kindle, an iPod, or whatever.

4. I resent the thought of getting trapped in one vendor's world by becoming dependent on closed, proprietary products and will always look for ways to avoid this.

5. Innovation is too dynamic for a single company ever to dominate the computing world in toto for any sustained period. IBM tried it in the 1960s and 1970s and Microsoft in the 1980s and 1990s. Apple appears poised to do so now but this will never stick.

6. Therefore, I sympathize with what the author of this post says but I also am relaxed about it. Three cheers for Apple and their great products. But may it never limit my choices for other great products in the future.
That's a fairly insulting way to look at the art of system administration, database administration, and the like. Anyone who's ever been any good at those jobs would disagree that you can automate them any more than you can automate software development.

It makes sense to outsource those functions when you can't afford to hire someone who knows what they're doing and when what you're doing exactly fits the cookie-cutter mold of what the vendor is offering, and when you're willing to trust an outside vendor with core business functionality (or when it's not core to your business). But a skilled sysadmin or DBA will absolutely add value that you won't get from outsourcing.
The iPad's War on Flash May Be Over Before It Begins
I just want to say thank you.
Related: the mathematics of 1950s dating. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/academic/class/15251-f0... [pdf]
So I could take my credit card with no balance, run up the debt to its limit (11K-ish), make no payments or anything and my bank wouldn't have a loss? There's plenty of ways they can lose.
Any chance a more urban location could be chosen in the future?
Sorry, but how do you qualify negative events?

First, let's take a look at what I suspect you think are negative events:

1) iTunes Music Store has DRM encumbered music

2) iTunes Video Store has DRM encumbered video

3) iPhone App Store has closed ecosystem with infuriating approval process

Now, let's peel back the bullshit and look at the reality of the situations:

1) Before the iTunes music store, the only way you could get music legally on the internet was a $10 a month subscription to the Real Player music store. You did not own your music and you could only play it on a number of devices. Concurrently, many music publishers were trying to develop technological means to prevent users from taking music from CDs they had purchased and ripping them to MP3's.

Overall, I rate that as a win for consumers. A double win considering the later removal of DRM from iTunes music.

2) Before the iTunes video store, you could buy a few DRM encumbered videos from Amazon (pretty sure they were the only game in town at that time). Some of the current stores for digital video don't even allow you to view video on a device different from the one you purchased it on. There is still not a really great source of High Def video.

Overall, I rate that as a neutral to slight win for consumers.

3) Before the iPhone App store, the only way you could get an application was through a carrier approved store. The apps themselves were 99% garbage and if you changed phones, good luck transferring them. With the iPhone App store, there has been a cambrian explosion of mobile software. Despite the denial of apps in several specific categories and contentious policies regarding duplication of built in software, for the most part there is an app for that. The best part though is that applications do not depend on carrier approval for the most part and handsets are free to transfer across networks provided they are hardware compatible. I would like to remind you again that before June 2007, this shit was fantasy.

Overall, I rate that as a win for consumers.
Could? Javascript is one of the better VMs. It's easily faster than hypercard from back in the day.
Do you really expect a government organization with all its bureaucracy to come up a solution for 'the ability to affordability correspond with others around the country'?

Yes I do. It's called the United States Postal Service. It was founded in 1775. Given its track record, I think the government could implement a digital system that will be good for another couple hundred years.

Private market has already found out the solution. Email, facebook, twitter.

The public sector has its share of successes as well. How about the postal service, the census, and national elections? The US government has been handling large scale projects since the 1700s.

And if you think that USPS (or any government organization for that matter) can do a better job hosting free email than Google, Yahoo or Microsoft (they all provide free email), I have serious questions about your sanity.

Hrm, well lets think about what happened when we privatized part of our elections (Diebold) or our defense (Blackwater). Let's compare that to the USPS which has been running successfully for over 2.5 centuries. Damn right the government can handle some problems better than the private sector. Diebold is an gross embarrassment to this country and you're fooling yourself if you think similar things wouldn't happen with a privatized postal service. The government doesn't need to have a technically superior product to Gmail, just as the USPS doesn't need to have a superior product to UPS (hint: UPS is better). The government simply needs to provide a reliable, stable service with the privacy and civil guarantees that can only be provided by a public entity. The government cares about integrity. Diebold cares about profits, and look where that got us. Untraceable election fraud in the world's most powerful democracy.
Great writeup! I found this quote from your post especially fitting:

“You don't "find" a cofounder, just like you don't "find" a wife. It’s a relationship with someone else that evolves over time and then someday, someone pops the question.”

I hope to find a good cofounder someday to compliment my skills and strengths, but until then I keep moving forward.
This is pretty neat. My beef with the article (not the demonstration):

"Or perhaps horizontal tornadoes could roll through the New York subway system every night from 2-5am, cleaning out the underworld of its dust and potato chip bags"

This might be nice, except some people rely on the subways between 2-5 am (it doesn't help that most bars close at 3-4 am on the weekends). There are some periods where the trains run every 30-45 minutes instead of the every 3-5 minutes they do during rush hour, but they always run - so there would always be an obstruction. Subway tunnels are always blocked at some point, so this solution wouldn't really work to clean the tunnels.

If the tunnels were round and less historic, with smooth surfaces, it would be possible to build a robotic cleaning train. But with the current tunnels, there are just too many hidden surfaces for this to be worthwhile.
Cory Doctorow, You Are a Consumer, Too
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The consumer doesn't have to want an open system. The importance is that they're there, keeping the others honest.
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I question this authors actual understanding of where Microsoft aims to fit in this ecosystem.

If there is demand for Microsoft office on iPad, i'm sure they'll go that route, but Microsoft may be better served by maintaining that attitude that many people will go looking for the products they are familiar with like Word and Excel, and will discover it isn't available on the iPad, but is available on the very similar devices running Windows, which again they are familiar with.
And if you have a Windows 7 Phone, that works for you too.

Microsoft wants to direct users to purchase an ecosystem which strengthens their overall position, rather than piecemeal technologies.

And as the author said, the iPad at the beginning is expected to be a very small market. Seeing as apps are so easy to build, how long would it really take Microsoft to release one, if they decide it is a good market strategy?
The most common navigational mistakes we all make
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I did read it in full. Wikileaks sensationalized it a bit, but I did not base my comment on their summary.
NYC machine learning meetup
I’m quite confused about the meaning of neutral in this context. Being neutral in itself doesn’t seem like a virtue to me. Being neutral is a useful position if you don’t know what you are talking about. Being neutral is a useful skill if people expect you to present facts.

Both of those things don’t apply to either Cory Doctorow or John Gruber. It’s just normal that they hold and present certain views in their writing. Calling them out on not being neutral (or saying they successfully appear to be neutral) seems to not make any sense.

I expect them to not be neutral. I don’t read BoingBoing or Daring Fireball for news.
You can buy a new car, drive it for years, and never once open the hood yourself. That’s the iPad.

If the iPad were a car, it would be illegal to open the hood.

Yes, there's some 13 year old kids writing iPhone apps. There are even more 13 year old kids writing PC and Mac apps, so I'm not sure what that proves. What there won't be by design in the iPad world is disruptive innovators like Linus Torvalds. As I've said before, that's good for Apple and bad for everyone else.
Maybe at some point you should allow users to write their own reviews so that your admins aren't stuck writing them all the time? Maybe some sort of social networking utility?
There's a lot of us well north of downtown, so the current location is a vague approximation of a center of mass.

That being said, feel free to suggest places on the mailing list. We can put it up to a vote on Google Moderator. :-)
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That's continental US production; doesn't include offshore (i.e. the Gulf of Mexico) or, I think, Alaska.

Here's a graph of proven reserves for US offshore oil:
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PE...

And here's one for US total proven reserves:
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PE...

It looks like US reserve growth is declining even when accounting for all the offshore stuff discovered in the last 30 years. So we're not finding as much as we used to.

Edit: Sorry, I misread your question at first. "Peak oil" refers to peak production. We know we passed this in the continental US in 1971. That's only knowable after the fact, of course.

From what I've read about the peak oil phenomenon, it seems like sort of a coincidence that peak production happens around the same time half the oil in an oil well (or oil field, or oil producing region) is exhausted. So that's how people try to predict future peak oil events.

The problem is that proven reserves are a moving target. (Though we know the growth of reserves is trending down for the US.) And it's harder still to know much about the rest of the world's reserves since oil reserves are regarded by many nations as state secrets.
Why not? Especially the emphasis on data structures is quite exemplary in my opinion.
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Examining existing languages is useful to advance the art in computer language design. Being "stuck with them" just means we have the experience of writing software with these features.

In addition, there's no reason we can't write a language without nulls which works on the JVM.
I wrote a little tongue-in-cheek blog about what I think google is trying to do with books a while ago (it's here: http://newslily.com/blogs/75 if you care to read the whole thing).

Basically, I think that google is run by a couple of hugely wealthy nerds who really do just want to do good things. Google isn't trying to steal copyright away from anyone, they're trying to prevent a bunch of human art and knowledge from disappearing in the basement of some demolished library somewhere.

One of the major things that people who are against what google is doing here don't seem to understand is that they don't gain exclusive rights to the book, they gain distribution rights to their own digital copies (which they will still have to license from the copyright holders if they want to sell). This isn't different than if I were to go home right now and start scanning my book collection, then go to their respective publishers and try to work a deal with them to distribute the digital copy.

I will admit that I might be horribly wrong about this, but this is how I understand it works...
FYI, there's a good chance we might be missing some apps. Let me know and I'll personally add them immediately.

I also kept TypeWith as a YC tag since it's basically Etherpad recreated.
Part of the reason we don't just map IPV4 space into IPv6 space, I recall reading, sensibly, was that it would make routing a mess, and potentially even get messier.

The idea was to re-issue address space in a more coherent manner to make things easier to manage at the peering level.... which seems sensible.

It also a mistake to think of the internet you see today as "Designed".... the protocols were designed, but the particular way we use them, the parts we didn't use, and the way the internet grew as it did was organic, not pre-planned. To expect some people to get together and come up for a rock solid plan to migrate all that to IPv6 is to ask for something completely unprecedented.
The tools need to be there to allow for organic adoption and growth.... and nobody should be "selling" ipv6 addresses.... there are more than enough to go around, that was the whole point. IP address space was never intended to be monetized.
The bill comes after discussions at a private dinner between the UK business secretary and billionaire media mogul of Dreamworks.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/th...

Is this corruption?
Genuine question: is it breaking HN guidelines to post a duplicate by adding a question mark to the end of the URL, as in this case? I did think this deserved more attention than the original post's low score.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1233669
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Isn't that the point of upvoting?
Any plans/desire to do a daily audio podcast of these, release by ~5pm EST so people can listen to it on their drive home?

I have some ideas for this, @covercash on twitter if you're interested in chatting.
The text is based on the infamous Lorem Ipsum [1] placeholder text, which is pseudo-Latin gibberish, so I doubt you'd get anything out of the translation if it existed.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum