skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but it's always easy to do this kind of number crunching assuming you know exactly when you will sell the stock.

Of course, that's never the case in real life. Imagine the time you would spend worrying about your investment and analyzing when it will go out or go down or when to exit, etc. If you convert that into money say $20/hr, is it still worth it to invest as suppose to buy the PowerBook?

Better yet compare it to the efficiency you have gained by having a PowerBook, or if you are a hacker, how much more you'd have learned by having a computer then. How would you even go about quantifying that?
Evolution is certainly aggressive, and rewards aggressive moves. It's all about being able to better use the resources at your disposal as a species to gain an advantage. There's no sense of right or wrong in this selection process - if you proliferate you live on, if you don't you become extinct. There are certainly examples of symbiotic behaviour, but only so long as both parties have an advantage of the relationship. There's no free lunch.

This also goes for infighting among our own species - one tribe continually tries to gain an advantage over others. Just look at global politics to see that this isn't about being fair only about expanding your own territory and power. If you look at what historically happens when a less civilised tribe meets a more civilised (and better armed) tribe it's pretty obvious. The Mayans, aboriginals, eskimos and native American indians have all been exterminated or marginalized in the most vicious ways.
Crashed three times on Mac. Once I had to restart the system.
Why tech specs are going to be meaningless in the age of the iPad
But that's exactly the point. If you assume civilization is going to move forward worldwide and that we will find a way to implement the goals you lay out than we're going to need massive amounts of power. Because third world countries that used little to no power are suddenly going to be approaching our levels of power consumption.

At the same time we will inevitably move forward ourselves with automations (most notably in robotics). So while all those other countries will be reaching our current levels we'll be doubling or tripling our power consumption to keep up with the automation.

Bottom Line: I can't imagine a scenario where we wouldn't exhaust our current ability to produce power
The "new weapon" is described as being part of the Prompt Global Strike System - an effort to put non-nuclear warheads on ICBMs. A big reason why the PGS program might never be approved is that nuclear and non-nuclear ICBM launches appear the same to Russia, China, etc.

It's the ultimate cruise missile, but it's also easily mistaken for a nuclear launch.
The worst case is when someone gets temporary access to your EMAIL credentials. They do a "forgot password" on Facebook, delete your account, then delete the confirmation email. Of course, someone with access to your email can do far worse things than delete your Facebook account.
After reading the law, I'm either missing the part where data has to be encrypted in all databases or (more likely) the article is misleading. As I read it, the data in question has to be encrypted during transmission (SSL, no big deal) or while stored on a portable device. Nowhere did I get the sense that a web application must maintain encrypted database records at all times.
"Ever" is a long time!
You do have to be pretty careful if you're selling some instruments and exploiting market opportunities in the same instruments, though. In particular, you have to be really certain that those two sides are walled off from each other, and not sharing information.
You already can, although it's not per application, it's all-or-nothing. The setting is located at Market->Downloads->Menu->Notifications (at least on T-Mobile's brand of Android 1.6 -- I think it was in a slightly different place on 1.5, but it was there somewhere.)
Fact:

1) Your argument is baseless...

Because (Fact)

a) We (the taxpayers) were compelled to bail GS out to the tune of 12 billion dollars to prevent a catastrophic worldwide economic collapse.

b) GS has access to huge amounts of credit at zero percent interest from the Fed.

Conclusion

1) We the people don't require evidence of a "crime" to take further action to protect our interests going forward.
Wait I would have made 10% on my money just by putting it in Apple shares and not the bank for the last week or two?
Yeah. The catch is you could have also lost 10%. or 20%. or more.
Doesn't seem a bad risk going on these figures though. I had no idea solid companies had decent share return rates.
App Store for Mac OS X to come?
You may want to unlaod those iPads sometime soon. As soon as Apple announces the next generation they are going to go down significantly in value.
Maybe it's got sth to do with that stick up your ass.
Or Jobs health situation could have been worse, the company could have died, the iPod could have ended up blowing up in peoples pockets.

What if's are always interesting in retrospect. I invested in apple last year at around the same time, made a small chunk of cash after a month, got out and never looked back. Had I left it there I'd be driving a bmw, assuming history would have unfolded exactly as it did.
Considering all of those, you might as well also include capital gains tax.
All ManageTwitter need to do is remove SelectAll as Twitter want and replace it with individual selection upon mouseover, which is still pretty quick.

BaitCrunch title regardless
The universe, he points out, has 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of millions of stars. In such a big place, Earth is unlikely to be the only planet where life has evolved. <-- from the article

Contact's Script: (the movie, 1997)

Young Ellie: Dad, do you think there's people on other planets?

Ted Arroway: I don't know, Sparks. But I guess I'd say if it is just us... seems like an awful waste of space.
I don't think so - they claim it is well suited but simultaneously claim it was wrong by 271% when compared to mitochondrial + nuclear DNA samples because mitochondrial DNA "is a relatively small part of the genome". I thought the advantage of mitochondrial DNA was its stability but if it leads to that margin of error it makes me curious about the reliability of other evolutionary work.
The HTC Desire does, but it already works there. Most people are speculating that this is one of the "secrets" Google claims is still hiding away in the Nexus One, given that the Desire and the N1 are basically the same inside, and their Broadcom chipset's specs include FM receiver/transmitter.
I think he means a portfolio of investments in companies involved in the manufacturing and production of iPads, i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipad#Manufacture

It sounds like it would be a good idea, but you'd actually have to take a look at each of the companies, and figure out exactly how much each contract with Apple is going to bring in relative to their current revenue streams.
Core i5 and i7 windows laptops were available for 6 months before similarly equipped mac laptops. It kept me from buying a MacBook Pro when it seemed like I'd be paying a premium for old chips.
>there’s really only one viable option: Space based solar power

Honestly that's crazy talk. Electrical generation supply is already growing way faster than demand for electricity, and nuclear energy is going to be cheap for a long, long, long time. Outer-space based electrical generation is great for things in outerspace, but would be prohibitively expensive and unreliable for ground based infrastructure to rely on. I have no idea how you consider it a viable option, let alone the only viable option.

>Beyond the inevitability factor

If there's one kind of prophecy I hate the most, it's self-fulfilling prophecy. Thinking something is going to happen is not a reason for making it happen. All space-based weapons should be banned, I am deeply ashamed my country is producing them.
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No, it would have been more valuable: the more people buy, the higher the price is.
I'm not sure where I accused anyone of killing anyone else... my point was that if someone screws up royally, and you yell at them and tell them they are a worthless piece of shit at a time when they need support and forgiveness, they are more likely to commit suicide.
You use the same formula to explicitly calculate the determinant in abstract proof.

How can a student understand that, for example, the volume form on a riemannian manifold is invariant under a change of the chart, w/o knowing how to explicitly calculate a determinant?

We all hate cumbersome and (at a first sight) useless calculations, but it's the easiest way to become familiar with the math behind it.
I've been wondering if anyone has actually checked - is the performance loss really just because of all the layers? Is there a straightforward alternative?
Great analysis. I will note that however much money MS lost or made on the deal, the value of maintaining a customer platform (for Office) and keeping a competitor alive (at a time when the antitrust thing loomed) was probably priceless.

Maybe at the time Microsoft saw Apple as a dying company that would never recover from their early to mid-90s blunders, so throwing it a bone would have seemed like a no brainer at the time.
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Space faring civilization should be Stage 3 civilizations which has mastered the tech of harnessing stars for energy (dyson spheres) hence there is a good chance that they will be intelligent enough to know there are more cons to pros in eradicating us. I would think they will observe, study and do the best course of action. At best, they will act diplomaticly, at worst we will be enslaved.
A million years ago we used to do that to our friends ICQ account.... it got to the point where he started keeping seperate list of all the skanks he was chatting up.
Programmers get first dibs at surplus computing resources and they rarely leave much behind for users. It's not really fair.

Games are the exception.
We can argue back and forth as to how aliens could think. You are assuming that logic follows the way humans think.
I'm not saying there is no reason, I'm saying that we have a single data point for intelligent life, here, on Earth.
Why should life be the same as on Earth? Because that is what makes sense to us given our current knowledge of the universe, our biases? I would like to think that aliens, whether or not they inhabit the same rough space and time as we do, would follow the same logic, the same science of right, which we humans have, but I would still be making the assumption based on life on one single planet, where only one tool making species someday maybe capable of interstellar travel. For that matter, practical interstellar travel may not even be possible except for generation ships.
In high school they would ask us to clear the memory, and show the success message on-screen. A program to simulate a wipe would've been quite possible, I imagine.
Crap, I really like Twitter, but as it turns out, depending on a third party for your app, you are depending on a third party. Twitter might turn out to be not much better than Apple in that regard :-(
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"It's all about being able to better use the resources at your disposal as a species to gain an advantage."

Of course. I'd prefer "efficient" to "aggressive", though. True, the literal definition of aggressive does fit, but seems to imply intent (or even malice) in common usage, neither of which are possible attributes of evolution.

"Just look at global politics to see that this isn't about being fair only about expanding your own territory and power"

This returns to my point. I'm not a politician, and using the behavior of politicians or generals to predict my behavior is specious. Yes, we are a competitive species -- I made comments to this effect further down the page. I don't think we fundamentally disagree. I only object to the characterization of the "wars in iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Palestina, etc" as somehow indicative of the fundamental nature of life in the universe. As I and others have commented, we don't have much to go on in that arena.

edit:terminology/drunkenness.
Just as an idea: what if YC companies all offered stock to HN users as a complete, or portion of their next investment round. So if 15 users put in $5000 each, that's $75000 - enough for another 6 months runway at least, and they could probably set the valuation higher than they would with a VC. Also, these could well be value-added investors because of the skills, feedback and experience presented.
Well yes, I was more addressing the orbit-to-earth phase. You could put the power satellites wherever, then use microwave to beam power to the elevator, and transfer it down from there. If I remember right, part of the issue with microwave power is atmosphere interference (or something to do with atmosphere).
Isn't the JVM OSS?
How's this bad? It was blindingly obvious to anyone in 2005-2007 that the UK housing market was crazy and overheated (and it still is). The fact that people still invested is their own stupidity, and if GS made money off that fact, good for them.
not relevant to this discussion but .... it seems there is a bug in HN's url submission form. Here's the duplicate article, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1291969

HN seems to accept the '?' in the url as part of the unique URL.
Apple realizes that if that were to happen, osx would die. It's probably FUD purported by the anti-apple campaign.
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sorry, accidentally hit downvote. On desire here and fm is do much more convenient than web radio.
Yes! Why we haven't done this yet?
Absolutely. And now Microsoft MacBU makes a killing from developing Mac software (some estimates put it at $350 million [http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/06/24/microsoft_expa... ]). (Thanks, by the way!)
See, if you and me and all of us would have buying Apple's shares instead of its products, Apple's shares would have never being making this tremendous performance.

I think it is a paradox every shareholder face from time to time.
There is no "human logic". Logic is logic. It encompasses thoughts both natural and foreign. Who, for example, really finds the Banach-Tarski paradox intuitive? And yet it's logical. In fact, it follows from somewhat intuitive logical rules. But, hell, we can throw those out, too. We can accept a logic that, for example, rejects the entire concept of implication and the principle of explosion. A logic which can have two contradictory things both be true, without causing the system itself to fail. The limits of logic have nothing to do with what is natural to humans.

Axioms are not things that exist just floating in space, but neither are they things that only exist to a human mind. Logical implications can be defined, and inferred, in a useful way that applies to systems that don't understand logic at all! Even if aliens thought in a way entirely, well, "alien" to us, they could still be described by logic, even if they themselves found the idea patently ridiculous, because even their formation followed physical laws, and their development followed biological laws.

Perhaps not laws that we are familiar with. Perhaps the life we hypothetically encounter is just one monolithic life-form that developed in solitude on a planet, and self-developed. Normal rules of evolution do not apply when there is only one creature. But, that's not to say that there were no rules. For to survive, it still must have done something right. And in a universe with some known laws, what is right to survive can be surmised quickly: it obviously didn't jump into its sun right away and perish. Suicide cannot coexist with life. So already we can figure out one thing: this singular life-form that "evolved" in such a strange manner does not commit suicide.
Other aspects might be harder to find. Is it peaceful? There's no way of knowing. Whether it's peaceful or not has nothing to do with whether it survived and developed to get here, because it developed entirely in solitude. But, is it very sociable? Almost certainly not. A thing that has never before seen other life won't even comprehend what it is to be social. It's just like us examining quantum physics. What on earth is going on? We can't understand things totally outside of our experience except by analogy and coincidence, and here there is almost definitely no analogy, only a freak coincidence of mental structure.

So you see, we can reason about things logically, even if they are alien. We've reasoned about quantum mechanics, despite never seeing it, and despite never even understanding it. We've reasoned about single-celled organisms, things that are incapable of even thinking. We have reasoned about automata and machines, about chemical and nuclear reactions on a scale so far beyond the realm of our comprehension that we can never hope to appreciate it on anything more than a dumb, primitive level. We do it even if we don't understand, because the tools of logic are universal. Not by virtue of some belief or god, but simply because things have patterns. Even alien things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach-Tarski_paradox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraconsistent_logic
Any spacefaring nation with propulsion technology sufficiently powerful that interstellar voyages are feasible... basically have technology that can sterilize planets. It's called "pointing the drive in the wrong direction."

Hopefully, any spacefaring nation smart enough to develop sufficiently powerful propulsion is also smart enough not to casually commit xenocide with it. Given our own track record, though, that's a pretty freaking big "hopefully."
I don't understand the problem at all. Why would you follow so many crappy people that then you want to unfollow them in bulk?

Thinking about this makes Twitter sound right
The problem with nuclear power is that no one wants the plants anywhere near them. That severely limits how much power we can get out of that option (especially as the population continues to grow). At the same time they raise the fear of terrorist attacks which make them even less likely to be built (which is ironic since to the best of my knowledge no one's ever actually attacked a nuclear plant).

There's a reason why a new plant hasn't been approved for almost 30 years (though hopefully that will change with Georgia's planned new plants: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/business/energy-environmen...). I mean, let's be realistic here the state of Nevada created such a backlash against burying nuclear waste within a 100 miles of civilization that it actually became an issue in the Presidential debates.

As for being "deeply ashamed" of the U.S. putting weapons in space again I point out that space based weapons present no greater threat than Earth based ones and if we're going to put assets up in Space than we'll need to protect them.

The idea that there will never be weapons in space disappears as soon as Earth based missiles can attack assets in space.
Ha - I replaced my 32MB Diamond Rio with the whopping 64MB Creative Nomad as soon as it came out. I remember trying to solve the knapsack problem manually, just to squeeze as many total seconds of music onto the thing as possible. On reflection, I was probably a slightly strange 13-year-old.
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Because most Hacker News users aren't accredited investors (in the US, $1 million net worth, or $200,000+ annual income for 2 years running.) I imagine it'd somehow be possible, but it's legally messy.

On the other hand, I imagine it'd be possible to put together a well-sanctioned group of accredited angel investors that would be able to do like a "YC round two financing" if need be. It'd be pretty interesting.
I think an App Store for OS X would be an excellent idea. One of the main reasons I used to port my games to OS X was that promotion on Apple's website would bring in $20k+, well worth the cost of a port. An App Store would only increase the incentive develop for OS X.

A mandatory App Store, like this article suggests? Like younata said, that would be insane.
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I believe it is item "l"
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Why would it have to be recent?
A quick little puzzle. What is the maximum weight an 80Kg man can lift using a simple pulley?

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Hasn't Apple somehow killed GTK on Snow Leopard? There was something that made gvim stop working, so I had to switch to mvim. Sorry can't remember the details, but gedit might be hurt, too? Or was that just a MacPorts problem?
So would I but I can also easily imagine a scenario where some VC or other interested party focuses entirely on one metric, such as "connections".
Pulp Fiction? At least one person is known to have died for losing iPhone prototype. Not sure if he was quoted a passage from Bible prior to asphalt-diving.

Point is, don't rely on your rule too much.
Quite so. One would assume that a Prompt Global Strike launch would be announced to the major nuclear powers (UK, France, Russia, China, etc.). Said powers should be able to project the trajectory of the missile and determine it was not headed for their territory (or their allies'), precluding the need for a nuclear retaliatory strike. How this affects the potential utility of the system is left as an exercise for the reader.
I really hope so. Over the years I got to really like the combination of really nice hardware, friendly GUI, staying-out-of the way system combined with a real Unix in the backend. I wouldn't know what to go to if Apple really were this crazy.

Linux comes to mind, but then I would still have to move away from the slick hardware (that just works as opposed to a lot of not-quite-working PC hardware I came accross over time).

Please, Apple, don't go there.
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Here's an article on this: "Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun’s IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME" http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/110/
The thing you learn in stock trading is that you never rue missed/mistaken investments. Otherwise you will spend all the time doing this :)
The funny part are the comments already posted that actually take this satirical article seriously.
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Well, it might work for them if the admission rules were less strict than in the mobile App Store.

And the mobile App Store turned out to be very profitable.
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I recommend Scite. It has syntax highlighting and runs the program and displays output when you press F5, and the UI is very similar to notepad.
--article snip--
I could wax eloquently on about the potential battle of states’ rights versus federal oversight and the potential for a Supreme Court challenge based on the Commerce Clause, but, this is an article for geeks, so I won’t go there. Instead, I’ll simply say once again: yikes.
--snip--

It seems silly to state legalities are out of scope when you're talking about a law, even if (or, especially if!) you're not writing for lawyers.
In case someone didn't yet come across that awesome story by Eliezer Yudkowsky: http://lesswrong.com/lw/y4/three_worlds_collide_08/