skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No you missed my point. Why these particular countries? What about Sweden? What about the countries of West Africa? Why not the UK? Spain? Thailand?

I'm just curious about if you are acknowledging promiscuity in South Africa, and with that claiming that Sweden and West African countries are also promiscuous, and, if so, what gave you this impression?
I could really use one myself. My backups are spread between several 200GB hard drives, with a 1TB I could condense them all into one and pass on my smaller drives.
With all due respect Jamie, if you're in it, you're in it.

My suggestion (for what it's worth) is that you put this behind you and find a way to make it happen. If you choose not to, you probably weren't going to make a go of it anyway.

You got a raw deal, and that's clear to anyone. Now get back to work on your startup. This can be a roadblock or a speedbump; you choose.
Because their infection count go across the entire spectrum - from the highest to the lowest.
I think drinking 2-3 liters of water per day (~100 ounces?) is seen as beneficial for the health. People usually don't drink that much because they don't feel thirsty, but they would like to.

I don't live in the US so I don't know what I'm talking about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_law#Precedent
I actually use it, especially when I'm trying to go back and forth between email, maps, and music.
DOS boot still frustrates laptop Linux
We could try and combine some ideas. So how about...

Lose weight + get a tattoo = a tattoo which you get that is hidden under your love handles, motivating you to lose them

Write a book + fall in love = a dating site where users instead of writing boring messages, write a love story together

Lose weight + drink more water = A cup that lists the calories and health negatives of different drinks, with water in big happy letters with ZERO calories and no negatives
How to print from an iPad
The last line in the slide notes is the best, "you COULD come to MIT and do something other than CS, but it would be like going to the greatest steakhouse on earth and then ordering a salad."
"Harmless demonstration at http://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/bb5eafbc6c6e67e11c4afc88b4e1dd22/t...

Firefox 3.6.3 on OSX says its missing a plug-in although java is installed.
With NoScript on it didn't work, as soon as I allowed that site, My calculator opened.
And by "still writes code" does he mean "was paid to write someone else's social network, took that code and committed it to Facebook instead"?
Here's a start: http://cutycapt.sourceforge.net/
To play devil's advocate for a minute: One possibility is that the most useful method of organizing data is necessarily different for each application.

There are even applications for which hierarchical organization is entirely appropriate at the UI level: An obvious example is an outliner. And it's not a coincidence that our filesystem UIs have little icons of file-cabinet drawers and file folders: The real world features file cabinets and folders, and people have traditionally been able to make sense of those, hierarchy and all... in a context which naturally fits into a hierarchical scheme.

It's worth asking whether the cardinal sin of the hierarchical file system isn't the fact that hierarchical is innately confusing, but that for thirty years and more programmers have labored to fit non-hierarchical problems into a hierarchical paradigm, often in totally unnatural ways. Replacing that One True Paradigm with another One True Paradigm might just prolong the fundamental mistake.
The task switcher also function as apps killer. Holding your finger on one of those app will make popup the delete button to completely shut down the apps, background apis included.
The widely accepted notion that we should drink 8 glasses of water per day is apparently an urban legent

http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp
Yes, but while "High-risk heterosexual contact" may be non-normal, it is also neither homosexual sex nor intravenous drug use.
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Library of Congress Will Save Tweets
Well, I think Gates ended up having the last laugh ;) He's actually worth more than Harvard's endowment.
Man, every time I see an article about this language, I think, "Oh! Oh! Someone has cleverly encoded a programming language into a computer-readable representation of a Go board. I love that game." Then it's this ferschlugginer Google bupkus! Every time!
Is Google's Eric Schmidt Scared of Apple's Steve Jobs?
At least now we know how many geeks own an iPhone
Bringing women into computer science is also an important task. Of course we need also to address keeping women in computer science, but since this presentation is about admittance, we need to be sure women are not isolated.

Slide 6 represents Facebook with an attractive woman. (why?) Slide 13 compares steak to salad. (why?) (and note that it's not as if women do not eat steak, but culturally steak is a more "manly" food than salad)
This is not accurate. It is all initiated by few who tried to smuggle it through the customs at the airport and got caught. Those who paid the fine, or alternatively declared about it and pay the custom fee, managed to bring it in.

Yet, iPad being that hot topic in the news woke up some clerks in the communication ministry saying we did not approved it at all, as if it is nothing like any other iphone/ipod or just standard iphone.

by the time it would be available by Apple distributor in Israel (as we all know, it will not be available outside of US before the end of May) I believe the regulation thing would be sorted out.
It's easy: any code can easily be reverse- or re-engineered.

In a world where people crack encryption schemes or write open-source drivers for hardware without any documentation or specifications to speak of -- for fun, mind you -- it's the height of either arrogance or ignorance to assume that something won't be re-created just because it's hard.
The 17-pointed star is on the left side of the Braunschweiger memorial (an unpopular side to photograph, it seems):

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Braunschweig_Gauss-Denkma...

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Braunschweig_Gauss-Denkma...
So does that mean Neo4J can now be used in closed source projects?
I oppose "public funding" because it means putting people in prison for not paying. This is lazy and unimaginative. I recommend that you account for free riders as a cost of doing business. If you can't find a way to reduce or overcome that cost, do something else.
Symbian has had essentially the same kind of task switcher for many years (hold the Home button to display a popup of open apps). AFAIK, nobody uses that either. It's not discoverable.
"Bringing women into computer science is also an important task"

Why? Because political correctness says so?

I don't understand this obsession with "diversity" in the U.S., I really don't. Personally, I think that we should instead bring intelligent and motivated people into CS. If they're all white males, so be it. They could be black-asian mixed-blood muslim lesbians... who cares? Just as long as they're interested. People who choose a career based on the "coolness" factor dictated by the clueless masses are like people who choose jobs based on the title (I will kill the next person who claims to be hiring code ninjas)... they are sheep. We need wolves, not sheep.
Hackable Biz Development (Issues Reinforced in Light of the Twitter Recapture)
So here's the backstory:

Publictivity originally started out as an organic startup- theWeblogWire, which was meant to connect startups and bloggers together. You wanted to launch something, we would make sure bloggers got it. We had a really successful launch (mashable, front page of digg, lifehacker, downloadsquad,etc. for press and we had bloggers from: all of gawker, weblogs inc, techcrunch,mashable,etc.). There were even paying customers too! We had been invited out to the valley to meet a bunch of important people that wanted to help us/advise us/etc.

Shortly thereafter, one of the cofounders Frank, went to someone he knew from way back in the day. His friend was the cofounder of pr firm. They thought what we were doing was great and gave us a bit of office space. One day the owner pops in and says: we need this software for PR! and we'll give you money to build it. This was the point Publictivity was born. We (stupidly beyond belief) shuttered theweblogwire for Publictivity, because it made sense to concentrate on only one thing + software seemed like a better startup path. We spent about two months in their offices so we were close to feedback and took meetings every few weeks to get feedback on how the "PR process" worked. We ourselves were clueless on Public Relations from a firm standpoint. We knew how it worked according to being a startup, but that's a fairly different process.

In hindsight, knowing what I now know just from startup experience, I would have never started down the path of Publictivity and continued onwards with theweblogwire. Why? theWeblogWire was meant to cure a need I really had.
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I can't really think of where I could use this without feeling like I was introducing some sort of usability flaw.
What infection count? And what spectrum? The social spectrum? The age spectrum? Where do you get the numbers? Where does the fact of "equal promiscuity" get involved in the equation? I found Official numbers of 2006 from the Swedish National Board of Health and Wellfare, showing 7477 established cases of HIV, of which 2095 had developed AIDS. http://www.socialstyrelsen.se/folkhalsa/hivaids/Documents/HI.... - This PDF details the situation in 2008; I have no numbers for any of the West African countries. How are the numbers tied to promiscuity?
It is much saner, and more importantly we're far less litigious as a society - but it still seems like it could bite you in the butt later.

Maybe I've been around the gringos too long.....
> "The first and most obvious difference, the time constraint, essentially turns Sleep is Death into performance art. ". Ok, that's a point in its favor.

No it isn't. Players aren't going to sit around waiting more than a few seconds for a DM to react to what they do.
It'll be interesting to see if the older phones get this. As you say it can function as a recently used list, even if those apps are not running, the user shouldn't have to care about the distinction.
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this is spin control, they couldn't raise money so they chopped. How are theses guys supposed to help you raise moeny if they can't raise it for themselves???
If by "world", you mean the female population of San Francisco, I guess this is pretty accurate... I mean... "Kiss in the rain" in 14th position? Really?
Oddly enough that list seems to correlate with: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/
Networking app, hot networking
This type of snafu is not unique to Bootuplabs and can happen even to best run orgs (I remember someone here ranting about ill-treatment at Seedcamp last year). I think managing nerds gets a little tricky when high expectations are involved. After enduring the flames,the guys at Bootuplabs have done their best to explain and apologize about the whole incident. I for one think the world needs more startup minded groups like this, not less. As a startup commnunity, I sincerely hope we can be forgiving.
No you don't want a product made by wolves. Because no sheep will buy it ever. Why do you need diversity? I've heard this story about a japanese stereo system. Nobody bought it, and they searched why. There were too much buttons on it - it had been only designed by a team of men, all engineer. You want diversity in the product conception because you want your product to appeal to a diverse (global) world. Of course that maybe be not valid for a plane autopilot system, but this is the case for many jobs (think of Web programming).
I agree.

Although I can't say anything about the substance of his claims, I thought Jamie's tone was measured and fair. The complaints about accuracy raised by the VC seem relatively minor. If this is what burning bridges is like, then these VC's have some very fragile bridges.
I installed 4.0 a few days ago on my 3G and only notable difference is the folders. I think to use multi-tasking I need to upgrade my phone to 3gs? Stinks if that's correct!
Count me in. I need a new hard drive to fix my sister's computer.
Awesome. I had to build this myself! Nice to see it as a feature now.
Are you sure of the worth of your idea ?
And seriously, people are not out to get your idea. It's okay to post it here.
I just want to point out this has (virtually? completely?) nothing to do with "hackers" -- and that's a good thing. It's nice to have a little variety on Hacker News from time to time. Thanks for posting this.
Using the home button daily on my E71 to switch between email, web, notes, twitter.
Danny Robinson, that same person who left the jackass "why art thou complaining?" comment on Jamie's blog, has apologized, finally seeing the light after Techcrunch posted this story:

///////

You’re right. We deserve to be lambasted. If you were actually in my shoes, you would have already apologized, in person, many times, and done everything possible to make it right. Which is exactly what we did, and explains why we have not done so in public prior to now. We feel terrible about what happened are are truly sorry. We’re still working to make it right and will always be there for these companies.

///// (http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/15/the-curious-case-of-vancouv...)

I'm not sure he gets it. There is nothing he can say, no matter how much apologizing he's done, that will make this seem better. The only thing he can do is to be humble about this, and to say that he'll work to make sure this never happens again.

Danny Robinson might be a good man for all I know. But he's really dropped the ball on this one. And I'm starting to feel sorry for him.
Take a look at the some of the "How I did it" people (and what they're concerned about 'doing').

This strikes me as a strange (not to mention unappealing (to me) ) population. "Lowest common denominator" comes to mind.

I'd have to see some better-analyzed data and learn something about this population's income, likelihood of following up on their 'goals', etc. before I made any business decisions based on this.
Yeah, but since /opt isn't always created by default on all systems, I don't think it's that big a deal. You can almost always count on /usr/local being there. As long as they don't go and dump stuff in /{bin,lib} or /usr/{bin,lib}.
Only devices with 256 MB of RAM support multitasking with 4.0, so the 3GS does, but the 3G does not.
Microsoft will not patch Windows XP if rootkit is present
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Why has Israel banned the iPad?
A good article posted yesterday that was lost under the Steve Jobs articles:

"When good interfaces go crufty"

"So, the Mac’s designers invented something called a “file selection dialog”, or “filepicker” — a lobotomized file manager, for opening and saving documents when the main file manager wasn’t running."

http://web.archive.org/web/20050101092500/http://mpt.phrasew...
I uploaded it to slideshare with Scott's permission, and the notes are certainly included there: http://www.slideshare.net/llimllib/the-future-of-computer-sc...
No, because people of different genders/ethnicities bring different perspectives to the table. Because if a field is dominated by say, white males, the few women or non-white males are going to feel (frequently with good reason) like they're not taken as seriously by, or seen as being as competent as, the other white males. This is regardless of quantifiers such as actual competence, knowledge, or experience.

While I agree with you that ideally the most motivated, competent, intelligent people should be in X field and those are the only criteria one should care about, the reality is all too often quite different.
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After a couple years in industry, I personally have come to appreciate getting an Electrical Engineering degree instead of CS. For me, a C background was enough to get me thinking, and "on the job" programming problems drove me into higher & higher languages. I don't think I'd pick up basic physics, signals processing or Maxwell's equations on the clock, though. I'm glad I had a chance to study all that in school.

YMMV
That's a great point. I certainly think applications should have the freedom to offer their own custom view of the user's data (as you point out, even hierarchical views, if that makes sense in their context - for example, it makes sense for MP3 players, where there is a natural hierarchy along the lines of Band -> Album -> Song), but I also think Apple should show some leadership here, both on a UI level, as well as on a technical level (for synchronization, versioning and similar features).
>After enduring the flames,the guys at Bootuplabs have done their best to explain and apologize about the whole incident.

That's the thing, josephd. They haven't done their best to 'explain and apologize about the whole incident'.

http://livejamie.com/post/522093261/booted-out-of-bootup-lab...

And the thing is, they're still clinging to this hope that it's possible to spin this story to their advantage. It's only at this Techcrunch post that anybody's actually came out and apologized all the way, and even then, Danny's added the qualifier "if you'd been in my shoes ..."

Which is fine, really, except that just 11 hours ago he left a comment to the effect of "we took you to Canada, and then we dropped you, why're you complaining?"
"Why do you need diversity?"

You want diversity of opinion and diversity of talent. The question he's asking is: why do Americans care so much about diversity of skin color? Why does it matter if the engineers are all black or white or Malay or whatever?

"There were too much buttons on it - it had been only designed by a team of men, all engineer."

Yup. Because all men are incompetent at UI design, just like how girls can't do math. </sarcasm>

"You want diversity in the product conception because you want your product to appeal to a diverse (global) world."

What does that even mean? The vast, vast majority of products are only intended for First World use, because only First Worlders have the money to buy them.

I really don't like how people use the words "cultural diversity" as a feel-good buzzword without actually understanding what it means. Real cultural diversity doesn't consist of dark-skinned people with bright-colored clothes doing some sort of ritual dancing. Real cultural diversity is like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFkeKKszXTw - things that seem horrifying, disgusting, and wrong to us. (Biblical culture is roughly as distant from ours as many African cultures are.)
This will not be a problem for long. Eugenics failed, but genetic engineering will finally enable us to get rid of the retards and create a new slave race of women that go back where they belong; The kitchen.
IIRC Amazon Web Services has a web service for generating thumbnails of websites.
uhh, someone care to tell me the diff between 15. take more photos and 99. take more pictures?

also doesn't anyone find it ironic that people wan to write books more than they want to read more books?
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Wow what a clean way to explain this crazy matter to my son.
You're missing the point. I was talking about CS, not about product design. Turing machines have nothing to do with iPods.

Engineers are supposed to design systems given some specs. The specs are to be compiled by someone else. The designers are the ones who should worry about the buttons in the product. The engineers should worry about making the electronics and software work.

So, I say it again: we need wolves. Not just in electronics and software, but also in design, manufacture, etc. People who go along with the flow make good, loyal employees at some big corporation, but they will never create anything new... and the main reason is that they lack the motivation to create something new. If they had such motivation, they would be wolves.
The point we keep coming back to is:

This sounds a lot like America: NYU is $40k w/o dorming + the cost of living in NYC. When you graduate you'll be lucky to make over $36k.
I went through a period where I worried a bit about that, but I've stopped. Regardless of how bioinformatics is structured politically, there's either going to be heavy CS involvement or, well, trouble.

The thing is, in general, a "person" might be able to hack together a small program that works for a particular problem most of the time, but it takes a computer expert to create a program that works essentially all the time, with good performance and strong reliability. If someone in the biology department is capable of doing that, it's probably because they're a "double-major", for some value of the term. A normal biology education will leave them unprepared, and trying to hack together a strong understanding of OpenMPI or something is certainly _possible_ but also extremely likely to leave gaping holes in their education. (Even if one has the brains to become both a biology expert and a parallel computing expert, one must question if that's necessarily the best use of one's time.)

CS keeps making it easier to write programs, but the cutting edge will remain CS's domain for a long time, and academia for some crazy reason tends to like the cutting edge. As specialization continues its march onward it will continue to become more and more difficult to be an expert in both $FIELD and computer science.
Comedy aside:

People really do hold in their own hands the greatest paper-replacement devices yet devised by man, and honestly ask how to print.
("How do I print from a Kindle" is also a distressingly common question.)

In their hands, the future; in their minds, only the past.
A friend of mine named Robert Hettinga has long championed the concept of "recursive auctions." The first copy of a piece of information is the most valuable. Subsequent copies are less valuable. Eventually the copies lose all novelty and reach a value of zero, or even a negative value because they occupy space which could otherwise store more valuable information.

The original producer of information auctions the first copy to the highest bidder. Anyone who buys a copy owns that copy, and I mean ownership in the strong sense of having an exclusive right of use or disposal. In particular, the owner has the right to sell a copy of his property to other bidders. The price of subsequent copies will tend to decline, though not always.

Owners of information may thus recoup or exceed their original cost basis by selling copies of their property.

Note well that when I say you own a copy of some information, I mean precisely a physical copy -- a specific pattern of subatomic particles in your physical possession. I am not talking about ownership of "abstract information" or "ideas." I am talking pure physics here.

Some producers of information will choose not to sell it, but will instead profit from it in other ways. This is called a "trade secret." (Examples: the formulas for Coca Cola and KFC.)
For what it's worth, my CS education included all of those things, though I suspect you probably went deeper with signal processing than I did. Basic physics and electromagnetism were required by the core, signal processing was a 400-level course so while I will admit I only took one, it did cover quite a lot at a deep level, it wasn't a sophomore introduction.
Yes, especially since Harvard's endowment (already down 30% or more) is wildly overstated due to all the illiquid assets they own.