skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does. The problem is that it doesn't really explain why what you're filling in on the table is correct. Learning algorithms by rote was possible, but devising them for problems I hadn't seen before was not. Now, I don't need to memorize -- reconstruction is easier.
Remember that they choose to create this application at that exact moment. Maybe, 1 year later, they would have worked on a totally different idea and you would have said: Luck is involved, right timing, etc.
That video shows it still broken on the N1. The droid (and droid incredible) never had the issue.
I'm not so sure that banning calculators would have the desired effect. Teaching calculator skills in tandem with other methods of problem solving seems to accomplish both teaching the subject matter and teaching the important skill of computer (calculator) use. Most students, even engineers, won't ever be required to solve problems without a calculator or computers, so ensuring they are fluent in the processes and syntax of computer based computation seems like an important life skill for future generations. As long as the curriculum is designed in a way to emphasize correct process and not just correct answers and "showing your work" is required to get the "right" answer, I think we can avoid the sort of narrowly focused, rote repetition of keystrokes that most people are afraid a calculator culture engenders.
Actual source is a discovery channel special airing tomorrow.

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/stephen-hawking/
Most importantly, the movie is great! Time to watch it again. And if you're the kind of person who likes to order a veggie burger with bacon, I highly recommend you watch it using YouTube's fine streaming DRM:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzTg7YXuy34
You succinctly describe the problem they are trying to address.
If you exclude HN redirects from your search, the result count goes down from 136 to 37 (only 10 or so sites): http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Hacker+News%22+%2Bgroaner+...

Tangentially related question: what is ridddlr?
The central thesis to Steve's keynote at sllconf was that you've failed if you stay a startup instead of making the transition to a large, profitable company.
How to 'trade secrets' translate to 'computer crime?' If I steal the blueprints for the 'better mousetrap,' then does it become a 'computer crime' because I'm liable to stealing trade secrets?
Whether parimutuel bets or your more traditional sports bookie, betting is basically like any other market. If you can predict it's outcome better than the rest of the market - you can beat it.

As someone else once told me, betting on sports is just like playing the stock market, except the market is smaller, with far fewer variables, and therefore easier to predict.

It's just like people who have stock trading systems in some market that are unbeatable - they very well may be true - but only for a limited time, as their trades themselves affect the market.

Arbitrage is another thing - on one hand, it may seem dishonest - it's looking for no-loose opportunities and taking advantage of them - on the other hand, an efficient arbitrage system keeps markets fair and moving. (In a perfect market, there would be no room for arbitrage.)
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The best way to put it is that large quantities of data by themselves are not evil and can do no harm. It's how people use them that matters. Once these large data stores are created it is impossible to anticipate all of the bad ways that people will use the data. It's disingenuous to claim that just because the data has never been used in a certain way that it never will be used in that way in the future.

It's the same as claiming that your privacy is safe because the company has a 'privacy policy' in place. In reality, the privacy policy say that it can change at any time and that the company has no legal obligation to notify you of these changes. These policies may change due to a change in direction at the company, or because the company is losing money and decides to sell that information to the highest bidder to stay afloat... Maybe the company is even swallowed by a larger company that then revokes all of the old privacy policies...
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I switched from a Dell Studio XPS running Windows 7 to a new mbp running OS X 10.6 a month ago, and the mbp is noticeably less stable -- I have to reboot every few days to avoid Spinny Wheel Of Hell for no apparent reason.

(I prefer linux to both Windows and OS X, so I don't think I'm particularly biased here. :)
It seems to me we don't have anything too rare here on Earth. They fan find their water, oxygen, nitrogen, etc much closer to home. Basically the same reason you don't travel across the world for a cup of coffee. We could potentially have a lot to gain from an advanced civilization -- specifically information. It seems unlikely to me that faster than light travel is common or economical even for aliens but maybe there's some chance of inter-galatic quantum communication. Maybe a handy blueprint on how to teraform local planets, cure diseases, efficiently produce endless amounts of energy, control & repair our environment, harvest resources from local asteroids & moons, track & divert foreign objects headed towards Earth, and so on.
2.8 inch screen though.. ick. That kind of screen size might have worked on the BlackBerry's, but I can't imagine how sucky it's gonna be to use a touch screen focused OS on a screen that small.
If you're using mounted network file systems (smbfs,cifs,nfs,etc), that could be the cause.
The Nexus One is the same way. It looks kind of plastic and cheap in pictures, but is damn good looking in person. A couple of the iPhone users at work have commented that it's the first non-iPhone phone that they've been tempted by.
Ah. THanks.
http://www.foaf-project.org/ is one of the main standards. http://code.google.com/p/xoperator/ is a bit weird, but I think has some of the right ideas of the distributed SN.
Are there any existing android phones that have FM hardware? I assume the FM radio support is for future phones...right?
I touched an iPad for the first time today, in the Burlingame Apple Store. I wanted one more than I had expected. And: I really do see what Apple is going after with it. This is what the computer will evolve into -- an appliance that facilitates media participation. The point isn't the computer, it's what it enables.
Works just fine on Chrome 5.0.375.9 dev on Windows. What versions are people seeing the crashes on?
Yes, I can understand why it would be in Facebook's best interest, but what about their users' self interest? They are the ones who made them who they are today.
This seems to be a persistent issue with third party developers. If I was bringing out a service to compete for third party developers on my app, I'd add some sort of streamlined approval process. Some way to guarantee that the rug wouldn't been pulled out from under developers 6 months down the track.
If they've developed to the point of constructing interplanetary space ships I doubt that they'd need Earth for its energy/resources. To consider this is to float in a flawed paradigm. They've probably developed some neat ways to rechannel energy that our human organs just haven't enabled us to perceive.
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Zed, I've written a beginner's book called 'A Byte of Python', and I'd like to know your opinion about it - http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Python

FWIW, the background is that it has been under a Creative Commons license since 2004, it has had about half a million downloads/readers (guesstimate, of course), is used as a text book for introductory programming courses in at least 8 universities worldwide, and has been translated to at least 5-6 languages by volunteers.
You're thinking of Slashdot.
The Internet was a great prototype for geeks and knowledge-worker bees. But the cool kids and average folks have arrived, and the Internet has been kind of a mess for them — what with spammers and phishers and predators and nutballs all over. ... The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routs [sic] around it, which was kind of nice. Unfortunately the Internet also interprets every unguarded email, form, website, and program as an opening into which to spray its unsolicited marketing, harassment, and malware.

It's the cool kids and average folks who are the spammers and phishers and predators and nutballs. The geeks didn't invent the harassment and malware, those things saw significant increases online when everyone else invaded our utopia. The geeks may have introduced the marketing, but the average person abuses it.

However, I don't think I'd wish for the old internet back. I like things like Wikipedia, feeds, APIs, Google, sharing, and all the convenience and entertainment that the modern internet affords us. And I like watching those who don't get it and are tied to pre-information age ideals or are threatened by it try to fruitlessly control it. I like that it's different every year, everyone is chasing innovation.
Finding Earth in the universe would be like finding a specific single grain of sand on Miami beach.
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Yep, I just bought one of each and quite happy with both.
I started, but found it frustrating and eventually quit. The rules were the size of a phone book, and there were a lot of meta/social rules in addition to the written ones. At least once I followed the letter of the law, only to be told that "no, that's not how you're supposed to do it."
That's what I found too - Fluxx is pretty lightweight. Well, compared to some of the rules that I've played with in Bartok eg. prime-numbered black cards are clubs, non-prime red cards add one to their value (mod-13, naturally), sevens "don't exist" (they have no effect on play, don't count towards your hand total, etc.)
The hypocrisy is self evident in both cases

It isn't. That's why you were asked to clarify, which you haven't done. I'm even more uncertain of what you mean by all of this. It sounds like you think any company that uses both closed and open technology is hypocritical, but that's painting with such an incredibly broad brush that I find it hard to believe that that is what you really mean.
The clever part is getting anyone to believe that a VM with the exact same semantics as Java doesn't infringe Java patents.
As a general rule the spinny wheel should by tied to a particular application. Are you noticing this somewhere specific, or does it appear to be system wide?

I ask because if it appears to be system wide it could be indicative of a hardware problem or a misbehaving 3rd party driver.

Healthy stock Macs running stock software don't go tend to go spinny system wide (excepting the disappearing network filesystem mentioned elsewhere in this thread, although even that is less of an issue in 10.6), at least in my considerable experience. Your mileage may vary with 3rd party software and drivers (although in my experience, most of those play quite well).

I've had similar experiences with Windows: if you stick to software supplied by Microsoft, the system tends to be fairly stable. Perhaps I'm just lucky.
The actual statement was: "Someone has it backwards--it is HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and H.264 (all supported by the iPhone and iPad) that are open and standard, while Adobe's Flash is closed and proprietary," -- http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20003006-264.html
Thanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read 542,011 times.

I would like to see how Facebook's recent developments are affecting their member count.
you forgot donut and eclair?
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"It should be noted that quite how deep your deletion goes is highly questionable: does facebook still store your information even though you've destroyed your way of accessing it?"
I feel the same way as you do... until I realized that for the vast majority of consumers

FM <<<<<<< Pandora = Last.fm
True. We are tied to our few perceptive faculties, understanding, and what we can measure from physical instruments. Science seems to be more open to the idea of parallel realities and universes these days, which is good, even if it isn't very pragmatic now. It is very likely inorganic life is the more ubiquitous manifestation of intelligence simply because of all the energy present, physical mass is the least common form. It is conceivable that inorganic life coexists with organic life without either entity being cognizant of the fact. Humans could even have the capacity to perceive such an entity if there were a survival incentive to do so or if our conscious minds were not so self-involved.

Personally, I think any civilization advanced enough to conduct interstellar travel would be a cooperative life form (organic life that is). Is it a coincidence that the most intelligent forms of life on earth are social and cooperative? Really once you think about it, pretty much all war on earth was rooted in not sharing resources, artificial boundaries, nationalism, religion, and poor resource allocation (i.e. the price system). These are all solvable problems that all to often get blamed on the "human nature," which I think is a convenient excuse fabricated by our minds in a petty attempt to rationalize our ages of suffering. Greed is environmental, not biological. Believe it or not nomads are pretty resourceful and respectful to one another and the environment; "modern" civilization seems to have an incentive to trade accountability for convenience--never really living within our means (crappy economies cut spending on space programs). We live on a small planet, and in even smaller paradigms restricted by all the arbitrary lines we draw on stuff we don't really understand for the sake of calling it our own. Exploring the empty, silent void of space, if not good for anything else, should be a humbling experience to truly discover how petty, yet fascinating our inner space really is.
it is actually quite surprising that an update all button is not available in Android.

I did'nt know until you mentioned it here.

Fail!
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That's true, but life is only the ability to replicate and does not necessarily have anything to do with any particular element or substrate. Intelligent life could be totally unlike anything we think of as life, and could even exist inside the sun.
So refreshing to read about McKenna's take. I recall in college astronomy learning about the Drake equation and finding many of coefficients needlessly restrictive. I wrote off astronomy because of that.
I'm not worried about aliens. I think the chances of spacefaring life evolving on a given planet are so small that all aliens are outside our light cone. If aliens did exist in our light cone, we would see some evidence of them shaping the universe into structures they value. From what we can tell so far, all those stars are shining on lifeless planets. If we saw infrared leakage from Dyson spheres everywhere, or radio/microwave/whatever signals broadcast for primitive beings, or anything else like that, I would assign much higher probability to aliens existing.

Actually, if aliens were around, we would probably never have existed. Our solar system is made up of resources that can be used to make whatever it is aliens want to make. The fact that the earth has sat around for 4.5 billion years without being consumed by Von Neumann machines is pretty good evidence against aliens.

On the flip side, if I discovered aliens I would destroy them immediately. Their values would most likely be completely different from ours. The risk to humanity would too great to allow them to exist freely.

Edit: Tangentially-related short story: http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBalticWarCD/TheBalt...
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While I agree that being able to press forward into abstraction is more valuable than trying different permutations of the same problem, I do think the calculator (or at least a function it serves) has some use.

In particular, it lets you, when first introduced to a topic, play around with it, and get past the hump of "Really? Is that true?" I liked my calculator in high school for letting me experiment. I think that today, though, something like Wolfram Alpha works just as well for that. I do think there's a place for it in education, though.
It has been working great for me. Course, I am using Cyanogen's ROM, so that might be part of it.
Yea its quite creepy especially because they can get all your friends through whatever they are doing.. even with your FB account settings disallowing all websites access
This seems like overkill, why don't they just lock down their profile so nothing besides name and location are viewable to the public?
More colleges, professors shutting down laptops and other digital distractions
I was wondering why most of the page was empty and realized I'm blocking Facebook frames. Am I missing much?
If you're not storing the information, presumably you don't need to encrypt the data that you're not storing. You do need to encrypt it while transferring it (i.e. use https instead of http), but if you don't do this already, shame on you!

Similarly, if you're storing credit card numbers in plaintext in a database, shame on you! That's worse than storing plain-text passwords.

I think the worst parts of this law are the "you have to file with the Massachusetts government" aspects. The technical stuff is basically common-sense data security that everyone should already be doing.
Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking
Why is this bad? Are investors supposed to be cheer leaders?

Any time a stock transaction takes place, one party believed it was a good idea to sell and the other party believed it was a good idee to buy.

How is the housing market any different? Should we all be made to believe it's always a strong buy?
_We_ might ourselves be a resources. A novel life form.
I can't help but wonder... did the light come on?
If it helps with exploring concepts without distracting from what the course is trying to teach, sure. But I think high school math is generally too basic to warrant using Mathematica as anything but a plotting tool. Doing math problems by hand slows you down and gives you more space to think about the problem in your head, versus having a computer simulate a bunch of outcomes for you.

Every college STEM major, however, should know how to use it. It is an incredibly powerful tool.
As someone who ditched Windows XP for OS X, Linux, or any other Unix, I tried Vista SP1 and it was very solid. Windows is slowly getting better. I wouldn't be surprised if Windows 7 was actually pretty good.

It doesn't solve the lack of a good command line, unix development tools, or a package manager, but most users don't care about such things. They just want to surf the web without crashing or getting viruses.

If I only used my computer for an hour or two a day, say to listen to music and go on Facebook, then Windows 7 would surely be good enough. I doubt I would look for an alternative OS.
Gahd, to hear Stephen Hawking regurgitating the most vapid of pop culture[1] is extremely disappointing. I don't disagree with his point, and it's nice to hear him say it, but come on, he's arguably the greatest physicist of our time. Feed us some sort of argument on par with the Fermi paradox.

My theory: Stephen Hawking lost the last of his movement about eighteen months ago. Rather than put themselves out of a job (a completely paralyzed Hawking would only need one nurse) his entourage have been running his chair via remote control ever since. This is why he's given up talking about relativistic quantum mechanics and started talking about little green men.
There is something wrong either with your Mac or some software you're running. I would send or take it in for service with problems like that.
Or maybe Twitter just doesn’t like the fact that ManageTwitter has managed to help 35,000 users unfollow nearly 6 million people on the service. I can’t imagine any social network would like a third-party service changing the social graph in such a way.

I would imagine Twitter would like to increase the quality of the social graph rather than purely the size.
The only thing I can think of that they might want Earth for is the planet itself. It's a pretty nice, temperate, life-sustaining planet, and any species which evolved on a planet like it might find living here a lot more pleasant than living on an interstellar starship.
It's on the HTC Incredible running 2.1 and it works today. I believe it's on others too.
Changing your name on facebook is easy. I hear it is common when high school students apply for college. The site works best with your real social graph, imho, but it is easy to enhance your calm re: privacy
I can only imagine the phrase "Don't talk to aliens" in the same tone as a mother telling her child "Don't talk to strangers"
Out of curiosity, what stuff that facebook has done recently makes you want to delete your account?
"an appliance that facilitates media participation. "

I just can't see that as evolving. It's a step backwards.

"The point isn't the computer, it's what it enables."

Agreed, and it's what a completely reprogrammable computer excels at.

It's not that the iPad is without merit, but it's more the evolution of the TV than of the computer.
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"Life is not 'easy to use'" such a great statement, in reference to software that panders to the impatience of most consumers, and their desire for constant stimulation. It reminded me of the programs I use which were _not_ initially easy: Emacs, gnuplot and LaTeX, but after investing some time to learn them, I realized that they're some of the most productive and well designed programs I've ever used. Great article, or dialogue rather.
Its my understanding that GS is being accused of playing both sides: telling clients to continue to invest while GS was internally hedging for a fall. This article possibly points out some evidence of this.
It probably flickers very briefly, so your eye might not even see it (just a guess).

Edit: give it a try, report back: http://www.intergalactic.de/pages/iSight.html

This might be relevant too: http://macosx.com/forums/1427678-post3.html
This is a sensitive subject for me. I was in a Linear Algebra class where I was asked on an exam to do, among lots of other things, a (nonzero) determinant of a 6x6 matrix by hand. I got no credit for making an arithmetic mistake.

I'm a CS major. I will never in my life (outside of school) be asked to solve a difficult math problem without having a ridiculously overpowered tool like Mathematica in front of me.

I'm all for teaching hard math to students. But we need to be teaching them how to do things their calculator can't (or better yet) teaching them how to build the calculator. Not teaching them how to add 600 numbers by hand.
I can assure you that Lang Lang is a seriously good pianist, something that nobody would claim about Liberace.
These articles have sensational headlines that don't point to the real issue. The possible fraud committed relates to GS recommending securities that they were betting against.