skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed with the others.

This means they may find a target, which may lead to a usable drug, but TB is hard. It's a slow growing bug with various defenses. And it's not unattractive to drug companies because while it's not a "lifestyle" drug (like e.g. a statin or diabetes drug you need to keep taking) you do have to take TB drugs for a long time to zap it.

Then again, the places with TB can't afford to pay brand name prices to pay back the R&D. And I wouldn't want to do research on something this deadly....
Wikiquote (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_J._Hanlon) states that it's been widely attributed to Bonaparte as well. I wasn't under the impression that that means it's a mistaken attribution, but I could be wrong about that, and if it isn't supposed to be read as I did, could you clarify?
I'm sure they are committed to H264. But this is a case of providing a good alternative that's cheaper for all. This move supports their acquisition of On2, presumably technology developed for the theora codec would be useful in later On2 codecs.

I say it's appears to be the future as there is less to pay in terms of patents. Making is cheaper to produce a device that uses the network services that google provides. Giving google more traffic for it's video service. As more are able to afford network devices and more software clients can be written.

It perhaps helps Chrome OS too if it's on a tablet?
Crazy cool nginx.conf scripting and modules.
Good lord. I need some kind of super-flag to hammer this kind of idiotic, vitriolic, nonsense into the nearest incinerator. Though by the tone of it someone already missed the incinerator, hit the author, and caused serious brain trauma.

Because of an offhand comment during a Q & A about possibly filtering some ads, the logical conclusion is that Apple is going to censor political and advocacy adverts. Well, perhaps. Then the logical conclusion of that is that the government will, in some kind of bizarre revenge strategy, spring into action with anti-trust lawsuits against Apple (for what is not made clear), whilst the Pope calls for a holy war against all things Steve hath made? The conclusion of the chain is that this might take down all of Apple?

Freedom of expression doesn't guarantee that a network has to carry your expression, and there are plenty of advert vendors who filter their content aggressively (many print magazines, children's outlets etc). This does not cause the implosion of the underlying company, nor a jihad directing users to march on the corporate HQ.

I would seriously suggest that the author, who spent $500 for a device he hates and maintains a weblog all about hating this device, would find a better use of his time and money in therapy.
Given that it's sold out everywhere, I'm sure he won't have trouble finding a buyer. He could probably resell it a slightly higher markup too.
You should try Black Absinthe:

http://www.stinko.de/images/product_images/popup_images/absi...

90% vol (the pic is 80%) and my god does it pack a punch.

I was in Amsterdam where they sell the stuff in bars, and seeing it on the top shelf, I couldn't resist. The barman told me: "if you drink 3 shots of this, and have a glass of water tomorrow morning, its like having another shot and you'll get hammered all over again." (One shot was €8.50, or about $11.60! Great salesmanship on his part).

So of course I go for 3 shots. The barman lit them before drinking, and I inhaled the fumes through a straw poked in a napkin over the glass to get the full-on effect. All I can remember is drinking 3 shots one after another, with no water or pause in between.

Apparently (this is according to somewhat more sober friends who were with me), I next proceeded to order 3 more shots, and also fired them straight down the hatch. I then got sick a few times, and had to be carried back to the hotel by my drinking buddies. I was so high on absinthe, I actually thought I walked myself home (I can vaguely remember the tree-lined streets bouncing along). The friends then unceremoniously dumped me onto my bed, and left to carry on their night of fun. I remember looking at my watch: 8:00pm. Next thing i remember was coming round, sitting on the ensuite toilet, looing at my watch: 12:00am.

Lesson here kids: Don't do absinthe. Vincent van Gogh cut off his own ear because of it.
This guy is just pushing this because he thinks the fairness doctrine is a good thing.

But the problem with the fairness doctrine is that it necessarily violates the fundamental right of the individual to keep or dispose of his property as he chooses. Put another way, you have a right to say whatever you want, as long as you pay for it yourself or with voluntarily-acquired assets.

Censorship is a concept that only makes sense when you're talking about the government. (The government should not be allowed to censor anyone, no matter how many people vote for it democratically.)
> (Think of the "September that never ended" and what it did to Usenet.)

The idea that you can stay isolated from the rest of the world in some ivory tower, and that this would be a good thing is a ridiculous notion. The "September that never ended" was just "the rest of the world discovering Usenet." The people that get all worked up over that just come off to me like a group of kids that make a fort for 'members only' but are upset when their parents force them to place nice with everyone else.

> Right now, someone is claiming that CS5-compiled Flash games HAVE made it to the App Store, and that they are slow pieces of crap:
http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/bpdpo/see_for_yoursel....
If CS5 unleashes a tidal wave of Flash games into the App store, then yes, I imagine that iPhone owners will be disgusted with the state of the market, hurting everyone trying to sell a product there. (Think of the "September that never ended" and what it did to Usenet.) Even developers who've spent a little more time learning Objective-C so they can create a better product.

You're ignoring that this affects more than just Flash CS5. There are other products like MonoTouch that are affected by this. Apparently MonoTouch was used to create 10 of the top 100 AppStore apps. I'm assuming that is a good indicator of whether or not they are 'crap apps.' (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1256761)

> Perhaps that's coming, too. Despite your sarcasm, a legal profession with Bar exams or medical profession with licenses is still substantially better than one without. Even if, at the very least, they only provide a mechanism for taking consistently poor practitioners out of the system.

The difference here is that the legal and medical professions have serious consequences for poor practitioners. If we want to create a 'professional certification' program for programmers, you might as well do that for any profession. You need to look at the logic of your argument. The logic behind professional certification programs for the legal and medical professions don't really apply elsewhere to entire professions.

Don't just say "I look down with disdain on poor programmers, therefore it logically follows that they need to be eradicated." You could apply that same logic to every job in the world, then we would live in a world where you couldn't get any job without some sort of certification.
I don't think it's cutting competition -- these seem to be consumer protection. Say the popular flurry analytics tool decides they're going to perform background services to track users, you probably wouldn't even be able to opt-out to the tracking... developers adding the Flurry tool probably wouldn't even be directly aware of the invasion of privacy.
Both online and mobile ad networks have always had the ability to reject any ad they please for whatever reason they please, without the slightest bit of controversy.

iAds will fail if the ads are too time-consuming and expensive for agencies to make or if granular targeting is passed over in favor of what looks like an interactivity fetish - making the ads visually impressive but not especially effective. Success or failure, Apple's editorial policy will have nothing to do with it.
New Aussie tech-focused 'Wikipedia' launched
Horst Gutmann: Blogging with a DVCS
At least his reasons are not ideological, he doesn't find any practical use of an iPad. Neither do I. He openly admits that he uses other Mac products.

I will probably consider buying an iPad (or other slate device) once the market matures and there are other reasonable slate devices I can compare to. Also there is a good chance that Apple will release the second iteration soon, which might improve on an already impressive device.

Just following the hive minds and buying things because everyone else is doing it too, even if you don't see any use of it, is quite silly IMO.
Gitit (http://github.com/jgm/gitit) uses git by default. (But it now also supports darcs and mercurial: the darcs version is used by the wikis on http://patch-tag.com/ and, unsurprisingly, by the darcs wiki http://wiki.darcs.net/ )
Is he retiring?
There seems to be nothing of value here except an apocalyptic headline attached to a prime parasitic topic with a dash of political paranoia sprinkled on top for flavor. But since we're on the topic anyway:

My guess is Apple is going to target iAd as a premium advertising platform largely pitched to Fortune 500 companies who are already carefully protecting their brands from controversy. The same type of companies who buy TV ads, magazine ads, etc. Just look at the demos Apple presented: Nike & Disney. You'll probably see lots of ads for video games, movies, music, TV shows, clothing, restaurants, etc. Safe stuff. For political advertising I would guess Apple might have a no-negative policy or simply not accept any political advertising at all. Apple certainly has no obligation to be a dumb aggregator of advertising. They can carve out their own niche as they always do.
> it’s not out of dogmatism but because I simply don’t see a good use for the machine and don’t want to spend $500 on something I’m not going to use.

So why did he buy it?
Maybe it was hyperbole on his part?
Hulu is promoting itself on YouTube.. interesting.
He's geting a job at Apple and his books will only be able in the iTeX format ?
A document database doesn't support joins and it's generally not a good idea. If you really need massive joining on data you use a relational database.
Maybe he has a designated successor for TAOCP?
It's reasonable to think you might find a use, once you've used it.
I would like to point out that vim has never had a menu bar when opened from the command line.
LaTeX to be renamed iLaTeX, and Knuth will be creating a group to approve articles written in it, to make sure they don't tarnish its image in any way.
He's getting a job at Google?
TeX's version number will converge to pi ahead of schedule?
They've been doing it for a while now. Many content companies & individuals drive traffic through YouTube by providing small clips. Even Viacom did this (which is one of Google's arguments against them in the copyright case).
I'm hoping he's discovered if P=NP.
I looked at instiki, but it didn't seem like it had a facility where an admin needs to approve the users before they can edit. Is that the case?
How is iAd any different than any other ad agency out there? The truth is that it's not.

Look at online ad agencies. I am or used to be a publisher with the top three Burst Media, Fastclick/ValueClick, and Tribal Fusion. Like any ad agency, they have rules. No porn, for example. But more importantly, they target users and in the end let them choose what goes on their website. So with those controls, I, who ran a site regularly visited by children had the option to say no to political, religious, and sex-related ads.

The network's filters varied. Some had me choose 'no religious ads' whereas others literally gave me a look at each and every ad that could run on my website and I could reject specific ones.

Google's adsense similarly allows a plethora of advertising into their system but give you filters to control your specific site.

The same treatment online ad agencies give to website publishers, Apple will likely give to app developers.
If iAd launches without these filters, then you mitt have a point but who honestly thinks that they will break away from ad agency norms and do a reckless move like that? Certainly nothing that Steve said would seem to indicate that that is their desire...
I wrote this one a while ago and still use it for my own projects. Written in Python, uses Markdown syntax, and is fairly easy to hack on and add features. Still haven't gotten around to adding decent version control though.

http://github.com/synack/nikiwiki
I prefer both markdown and WYSIWYG
Google ignore another spam content site, BigResource.com
That will indue live up to the "earth shattering" promise.

I think it might be one of the few, if not the only thing, that would live up to that.
I'm surprised that no-one has suggested the obvious: that The Art Of Computer Programming Vol. 4 - Combinatorial Algorithms is complete.

But that's no fun, so I hope it's something truly earth shattering, like Knuth getting an e-mail address.
I think when the Advanced Technology Group existed at Apple (closed in 1997 by Steve Jobs), it did tend to attract some big names such as Alan Kay and Gary Starkweather (inventor of the laser printer). Maybe not a huge gravitational force, but still noticeable.
It also suggests that because Bolt is talented, he is obligated to behave like an athletic commentator wants him to. What if he just didn't want to run at all? What if he wanted to be a software developer or a chef?
Fair enough, though I wonder if you really need to buy it to realise that you don't have a use for it. I suppose a trial run is reasonable, in case it has some magic use you don't consider till you have it.

I'm still though, to this day, boggled by the commenters who seem to think that a Flashless browser is crippled. What sites do these people use all day whereby the Internet is entirely useless without Flash? I see it only on an occasional Flash Game and video sites who have not yet rolled out HTML5 (a number dwindling month on month). Once a particular TV catchup service I use deploys <video>, I'll literally see Flash once a week.

Is there some usage pattern for the web that I'm unaware of, wherein people require Flash continuously?
I think the most important use case is one where you don't already have a Macbook or an iPhone. In fact the most important use case for an iPad is when you don't use computer at all ... http://buzz.dennykmiu.com/ipad-is-the-prequel
>That stinks.

It sure does, but it's (unfortunately) probably reality in this situation.
I hate to break it to you, but you weren't high on absinthe, you were just drunk as fuck.
The HTML5 test – How well does your browser support HTML5?
this recession haven't started yet. Wait for sky-high interest rates (no access to credit), rising prices AND growing unemployment.

I don't think Mr. Market has really started yet. And in reality this recession is going on since 2000. In gold terms DJIA is at 10 ounces - in real terms DJIA has been falling since 2000... you can't have valid economy built on debt, services, smoke & mirrors.
I don't understand the problem here. This would only ever cause an issue if Apple were to take a formally public API and make it private.
That medicalmyths blog also rails against coronary bypass surgery.

I tried to find out who this Colin Rose is (as he lists no credentials whatsoever anywhere on the blog), and the only Colin Rose I found was a statistician with no medical training. (He also says MS symptoms are susceptible to the placebo effect; while this may be true, I doubt they could be cured by said placebo effect)

The entire blog seems even fishier than the trials Zamboni performed.
According to a cursory page search, the word "Apple" doesn't even appear anywhere in the article. I find that annoying (misleading headline).
Here's hoping we see more of these when people sober up, if nothing else just to spite the newspaper people.
More earthshaking: TeX's version number will never converge to pi?
This is awesome and is something that didn't come up while googling. Is there a way to only approved users to edit the wiki? I didn't get that info after reading README
I don't really look for it but I noticed earlier today that ESPN/ESPN360 use Flash. Also most porn sites use Flash and nearly all game sites use Flash (jayisgames.com is one of my top 5 sites).

For me, those 3 above limitations make the flash-less web "crippled".
Many companies bet on one single technology stack for everything, whether the choice is appropriate or not.
A magical text with an unbelievable price.
I would laugh if it was just something mundane, done in total Andy Kauffman style.
Quite possible!
Knuth rewrote himself in MMIX. Fully-documented MMIX.
Sounds interesting, but I find these very high alcohol beers to be something of an acquired taste. A Scottish beer I really enjoy and recommend is Grozet Gooseberry & Wheat ale.
because if there is one group who deserves our spite, it's the newspaper people?
First, I don't believe that's technically possible to do without an explicit user opt-in, even if we wanted to implement it.

Second, I've never understood why people automatically assume the worst of analytics tools. No one assumes random web startups are selling their username, email and password combos to identity thieves, but if a startup collects some anonymous data for analytics, everyone's eager to assume it's both grabbing stuff that's personally identifiable and using it for some nefarious purpose. My pet theory ties this to our desire to feel important - everyone wants to believe their personal information's both valuable and interesting enough to be worth filching despite the obscene legal risks of doing so. However, it's not.
I think the most telling part of the video is the 2 screens he has behind him.

I have seen a few people contemplate getting an ipad, it wasnt to support their primary computer, it was their primary computer, I cant see any use for an iPad, but I have those 2 screens as well.
I think EPSN (and porn :) are basically just video. Porn is normally at the cutting edge of tech, so I expect <video> there soon enough and I'd guess EPSN would get it once enough of their users start moaning. So, in the long term, this once again just leaves "games" - something the iOS isn't really suffering a shortage of.

I didn't believe it even 6 months ago, but given how many sites I use are now rolling out <video>, I'm coming around to the idea that Flash could be largely irrelevant within a year or two. The only holdout that might cause problems will be the landing page/"entire site as flash" 'designer' nonsense. How quickly those transition to HTML 5 (or a sane end user experience) will be interesting to watch.
you need to own a computer to sync the damn thing.
I'm not paraphrasing, I'm directly quoting the .net developer who mailed jobs. He is paraphrasing.
Given the venue, presumably the announcement will be TeX related.
I'm surprised he bought it knowing he had no use for it. One week out I'm finding it extremely useful for various things -- largely leisure stuff like reading long articles that test my attention span browsing on the desktop, a resurgence in my interest in casual gaming, and I already read an entire book on it. I'm checking the App Store 3 or 4 times a day. My favorite geeky app at the moment is MyCongress which really shows off what a bigger screen can do for simply aggregating information from other sources. It pulls together Twitter, YouTube and OpenCongress into a nice GUI that you can pop around really quickly and explore. I'm excited to see this model applied to other areas of interest for me.
Well, even if I did set it all up for them, the point is that it will happily break itself without doing anything other than the recommended updates.
Will iAd Kill Paid Apps?
ikiwiki (http://ikiwiki.info/) uses git (also supports svn, darcs, mercurial, bzr, monotone, etc)
Has Knuth even looked at TeXmacs yet?

Perhaps he is ignoring it on purpose?
The top priority is still to avoid confusing programmers, and closing over non-final variables can lead to some very confusing situations. For example:

List list = Lists.newArrayList();
for(Integer i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
list.add(fn [x] { i + x });
}

Think you just created a list of 10 functions that each add a different number to their argument? If you closed over the i variable, that variable changed and by the end of the loop is 9. All of the functions return their argument plus 9.

In any case, I can't wait to get some form of closures in Java. Best case would be to get a job using a decent programming language, but closures and various data type literals could go a long way to dull the pain until then.
He has solved the halting problem?
Oh yeah, forgot about WYSIWYG. Definitely my first choice, but it can be very difficult and buggy to implement.
In case it isn't clear to some folks (like me), this is a slideshow: left and right arrows to navigate.
Might it be sarcasm/parody? This can be conveyed with unnecessary capital lettering.
And I have a computer to sync. But now my parents can have their own computer to browse pictures of their grandkids, read newspapers and magazines in their own language, and an infinite other possibilities as more apps appear, all using their arthritic fingers.
Bravo, Apple
Or use Google Collections in Java 1.5 or higher.

http://code.google.com/p/google-collections/

List<String> list1 = Lists.newArrayList("item");
List<String> list2 = Lists.newArrayList("item1","item2");

Of course, none of these workarounds are close to what Java 7 offers. Just a few more months :-)
that's an opinion. So lawyers are mathematicians?
I actually predict that this will be a major problem for Apple in the
future, but probably won't impact their bottom line for their mobile
platforms. Programmers never forget things. They are notorious for
not updating basic knowledge they believe and for spreading myths
and rumors about technology for decades. I can actually see a situation
building where programmers who maybe wouldn't have worked on an
iPhone application would still avoid targeting Apple products simply
because of the stories about Apple doing "A Section 331" on them.

This.

Despite my personally benefitting from the new policy change, (I write Obj-C comfortably and will benefit from the reduced competition,) I think Apple is making a grave mistake trying to extend their review checking process in a manner that can only be done in reality by visiting each and every developer. I'm not convinced Apple's in-house analysis tools will be able to capture violations in a manner consistent with their current license wording.

It's just going to degenerate into a cat-and-mouse game with the larger and/or more tenacious middleware developers, leading Apple to waste resources and R&D money on license enforcement, driving down profits and adding significantly to the large pile of ill will Apple has accumulated in the last few years. Apple is still living down past quirks and excess of their platforms, like "Cult of Apple evangelism" and "one-button mice," that are no longer true, but hang around their necks like a long decaying albatross. In short, this could help cause Jobs to lose control of his platform's message to the masses if the people able to recommend their hardware and platforms keep sticking "asterisks" to their recommendations.
He took emeritus status several years ago.

He's unlikely to stop working on things that interest him.
Weekend project: What Every Programmer Should Know About FP Arithmetic
Ikiwiki uses markdown in plain text files, and can be configured to lock all pages and only allow specific users to edit specific pages (configuration for that would look like locked_pages => "* and !user(foo) and !user(bar) and !admin()"). It's written, unapologetically, in Perl.

It is used as the wiki for projects including Dragonfly BSD, NetBSD, GNU Hurd, Monotone, Cario, etc.

http://ikiwiki.info/
among others, yes, mostly for pushing an unnecessary $500 toy in a time of high unemployment because they plan to monetize it, it's highly unethical.