skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What an arrogant ass, gloating about having a rich enough family to have his back that he got to play at being poor while between colleges.
And just outright not doing your homework. I used to have Maxima do my homework for me, then I had Wolfram Alpha do it, then I started rolling my own homework solvers. Now I think of the time non-programmers spend on math homework, and it's just jarring. Statistics is especially scary without programming ability.

If you have online homework (e.g. coursecompass.com) and it's due in 25 minutes because you, like me, are a legendary procrastinator, you learn to cut a few corners.

Site-specific (coursecompass.com): you get an unlimited number of attempts to solve a problem, and there seem to be a finite number of variations on each problem, so combining a list of known answers (obtained by purposely failing a few attempts with some educated guessing (or just brute-force guessing in many cases), you can get a 100% average on your homework without ever actually having done any real work.

Ok, I'm done ranting about homework.
The apps underground, man! http://cydia.saurik.com/
The big thing for me right now is tethering my iPhone to my iPad. Just saved $130 + $30/month.
I just wish facebook had some competition to keep them honest.
You make a good point about temperature, but I stand by my critique because temperature is a quantity and these graphs are all plotting percentages, which should always been graphed from 0% to 100%. If your percentages are all within the range of 99% to 100% then you shouldn't be plotting them as percentages, and if you did then your graph would effectively convey the point that there really isn't a lot of variation among the data.

I'll reiterate my opinion that the purpose of a bar chart is not to give relative orderings (if you want that just list them in order) but to illustrate the magnitude of the differences between data points with respect to the natural range of the data. Percentages have a natural range of values: 0-100. Temperature does not have a natural fixed range, unless we're talking about the weather which is incidentally why I like Fahrenheit.
we tend to judge people by their actions, not their intent, but ourselves by our intent, not our actions.

that is to say that you sit in harsh judgement of mark zuckerberg only seeing his actions without truly understanding his intentions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
Nah, they just score higher on a vocabulary test because they're articulating extra crisply.

Working in a public library is a good way to dispel illusions about drinking being classy, by the way. We could always tell when some of the veterans got their monthly checks...

Also: Bike thieves do suck, and these graphs would send Tufte on a crying jag.
The set of Linux users who are willing to install a codec which is either closed source or illegal is likely very small. Some people are happy to so. Some people are happy to run on a pirated copy of Windows, but I'm not one of them either.

Also, VLC is easily the single worst media player I've used (on any platform). If I wanted to look at a screen full of blocky green artifacts, I'll write a screensaver -- at least that won't take up a core to do so.
Well there are other job roles like program manager, QA manager, scrum master, product owner etc.
Kind of an old pic, need to clean the monitors (and still do today)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3370/3638277193_27cc47d9b8_b....
A third of all US bee colonies did not survive the winter
Is this possible right now?
Most of the things I really want to see happen in the next 18 months are things I'm already working toward, and either involve my personal life, or, are startup ideas that I don't feel like sharing in a public venue quite yet.

What I'd like to see happen in the next 3-5 years or so:

* switch to a more merit-weighted voting system in the US. (Examples: Dr. Smith's vote in a Presidential election should weigh more than Billy Bob. An astronaut more than an ex-con. Higher tested IQ's more than those with lower.)

* switch to a single-payer health system in the US

* complete withdrawal of US military forces from Iraq and Afghanistan; then massively reduce overseas deployment and positioning of US forces, then cut US military budget in 1/2 (to start)

* some serious steps taken by the US government to truly start reducing the deficit and pay off the debt (with serious consequences to those in power if they do not stick with it, such as leaders/politicians going to jail if they do not)
To be fair, that program in some other language only produces the "same results" - there's no guarantee it won't be significantly slower or use significantly more memory. Which is exactly Steve's point.
Please stop doing that...!

If somebody wants to delete his fb account is his own business. It's really upsetting if this stupid trend evangelizing against fb keeps going on HN.
I don't know about any one else, but jailbreaking was a requirement for a fully-functional iPhone, at least for me. I used jailbreaking for: multitasking ala Palm Pre using multifl0w, scripting in Ruby and Python incl GUI, ability for me to setup an SSH tunnel so that I can get to my phone even when the phone is only EDGE/3G, being able to transfer files to/from my phone via SSH, ability to transfer music to my phone without using iTunes, manipulation of my SMS database, theming, and increased usability with tools like SBSettings, GRiP and many others.
Apparently I can't view the delete button without being asked to create an account. :-)

But even without my having created an account they know who has asked me to friend them and use that as a hook to try to get me to sign up. That's just creepy.
I would install Wordpress MU and make every site a blog (structurally speaking) so that the overhead of adding content didn't crush me. I'd also think about hiring freelancers to thicken the sites out with articles about the problem domain and customers.

At 100 visitors a day, yeah, content and onpage factors will largely suffice. You're going to eventually need links to build the sites up, though.
I think it's my age that causes me to say on accident by instinct as everyone I ever grew up with has said on accident.
Agreed. It took me no more than a minute after installing to realize there was no use for this.

I'm not buying into 3D interfaces represented on a 2D screen. I don't believe 3D interfaces will succeed until they can be holographically projected around me a la District 9.
Install Wordpress 3.0 Beta 1 in 8 minutes on OS X Snow Leopard
Exactly. When the evidence clashes with your theory, your theory is wrong.

If people who have actually produced vital code aren't passing your interview test, your interview test is poorly conceived.
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You should check out the alternative appstore :

http://cydia.saurik.com/
It has been possible for a long time- for folks with a jailbroken iPhone. I used PDANet. Completely forgot that in my list of reasons to jailbreak!
Not only is it possible, there's an app that allows you to turn it into a mobile WiFi hotspot similar to the Pre.
> with respect to the natural range of the data.

There's hardly ever such a thing as a "natural" range. Even if there is, as in the case of percentages, what's the point on wasting half of the graph on variation that has a mundane explanation? Like if you're plotting popularity of religions in the USA, do you really want to spend about 90% of the vertical space of your graph on Christianity? The point a graph is to shed light on the part of the variation that doesn't have a mundane explanation -- i.e., the interesting part.

What you should be complaining about are graphs that don't have labels, as used by some drug companies in advertisements[1]. Maybe that "graphs without labels are bad" meme has maybe been misinterpreted here.

1. In the USA drug companies are permitted to advertise prescription medications.
Not really. The human brain is more or less a computer, and it does speech recognition in hardware.

We have empirical proof that a discrete amount of hardware (1 brain), is enough to solve the problem.
They're supposed to be used as studio monitors. I don't have them set up appropriately for that, but they're higher quality than most computer speakers. With them at about half volume, the volume level on my iMac controls them pretty well.
I still find this lot better than sitting. The pressure on the back is horizontal. I read about workstations online and most of these here are reclined workstations.

http://weburbanist.com/2010/04/28/geeky-temptation-16-slick-...

so I hacked together a cheaper one.

It is still too early, I can post how I feel after couple of months.
What kind of boat? Pictures would be nice.
If you only look at the central part of the city instead of the entire sprawling metro area, Houston isn't so bad.
Obama's requirement for EMR's is mostly an attempt to save money. Paper records are very expensive, but he can't change the law until the question of reliability is addressed sufficiently, so in the meantime vast warehouses of paper records continue to drain resources. IANAL but I'm sure you can find the law, if you wish to.
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We are looking for a Developer that will work closely with the product development and sales team to understand business requirements and design a quality video application interface that will be installed on end user pc’s. It is required that candidates have experience with creating GUI applications to integrate with Video conferencing signaling components.

We are currently looking into two Video conferencing SDK solutions to be used to build a customized Video Conferencing application. Solution one is made by www.avspeed.com and is called “iCOnf.NET Video Conferencing SDK”. It is a .NET based SDK toolkit. The second is by www.eyeball.com and their product is “Messenger SDK”. This supports various languages for the purposes of application integration.

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RTP (a plus)
C++
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Audio G711, G722, AAC based
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Ajax
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Yes I know, but it's easier said than done. It's kind of like how running a marathon for the 1st time sounds really good in your head, but when you're actually doing it your legs and lungs ache? You're still going to finish the run, it's still good for you, but it just doesn't feel good the 1st time.
This comment is voice posted to my nexus 1, without ed its.

I find that the speech recognition on my next 1 is adequate 4 basic search queries. I tried old freezes listed in the article as search query. Rest in peace high st correctly. Sb inspiration came out of sudan inspiration. Serve as the installation, remarkably, king out exactly correct. Saving 1 into the phone give me a number instead of a word. Saying recognize speech came out okay.

The problem with speech recognition of long passages things to beat that there is a large amount of information beyond the worst insults. This looks like that speak for example. Humans are also very sensitive to misplaced woods. That would be in the last sentence completely changes the meaning of this. I also found the speaking twin machine feels very natural. I have to stop and pause between each sentence because i can't remember what i'm thinking about.

As you can see from descon and, speech recognition has a long way to go to it. But you can at least sort of get the gist of the conversation.
I went to HBS so I can tell you a bit about it. The people there are extremely talented and driven, but the student body is somewhat overrepresented by bankers and consultants. Quite a few HBS students want to get into technology but don't really have the background for it. The most likely career path for HBS graduates is banking or consulting, or maybe private equity/VC for a smaller percentage. But Reid Hoffman articulated very well the sentiment that those who are likely to get into a school like HBS have managed their career and education very closely their entire lives, and many may not have the appetite for risk that is required by entrepreneurs.

If you can get into the GSB, I would highly recommend it. It is much more plugged into the startup scene and I think you'll definitely get a richer tech-oriented experience.
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Ask HN: Best headphones?
Headphones are a hacker staple. What do you use? (I'm in the market for a new pair)
x264 is not illegal to use. It infringes a patent, in one country (or a few countries), when redistributed in binary form. So to be safe, few commercial distributions redistribute it in binary form from their default repositories. Add the "non-us" repository, though, and then it is a first-class citizen again.

I don't know any Linux user that can't play h.264 videos.
There is no comparison between search (long tail) and Facebook display ads. Apples to oranges.

But how would it be "terrible in comparison" anyway? Say your long tail keyword gets you 50% CTR of 10 impressions a month. And say your Facebook ad gets you .05% of 20,000,000 a month. 5 clicks vs 10,000 clicks. Doesn't look so bad when you think of it that way does it? The CTR has no relation to quality in comparison of Search vs Facebook ads.

Granted the long tail search keyword would probably yield better conversion rates but that's not the argument you made.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Who+framed+Roger+Rabbit...
What about if they use Scheme instead?

Or switch not from C/C++ to Java, but from Scheme to Python?
"Including iPad" could mean 3.2, since 3.2 isn't available for the iPhone or iPod touch.
H.264 playback on Linux is a nightmare. Libavcodec can only do single-threaded decoding, which makes playing 1080p content practically impossible. Even my 3.2Ghz Core 2 Duo can't keep up in scenes full of motion or film grain. The same files play fine in Quicktime on my 2Ghz Macbook.

In addition, many postprocessing options are inefficient and actually decrease video quality. For example: the default settings in both VLC and XBMC cause video to slowly get blockier and oversaturated until a new keyframe comes in. Again, the same videos look fine when played in Quicktime, and I've seen this issue across platforms.

Another problem I've had is that I'll often see a single row of green pixels at the bottom of the screen. It's probably caused by some sort of off-by-one error.

All of these sorts of annoyances accumulate to become infuriating. No commercial product would be released in such a state.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=How+are+you%3F
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Can+you+pass+the+Turing...
Ask HN: What do you use for tracking time and invoicing clients?
I have a small software development consulting company. We have approximately 5 employees, and anywhere between 5-10 active clients at any one time. We need an easy to use system for tracking our hours and invoicing our clients. What do you suggest?
This has been going on for months. How come no one noticed?
> There's hardly ever such a thing as a "natural" range.

Another good point, but if bar A is twice as tall as bar B then variable A's value had better be twice that of B's. Anything else is precisely the kind of shady drug-company data manipulation that you're so concerned about. If vertical space is at an absolute premium (not the case here IMO) and you have to cut the bars then draw little cut marks on them to let the reader know that the bottoms aren't at zero.

(Of course I'm talking about cases when there is a familar concept of zero, like percentages or money or population, not temperature. And if the value goes negative then the bar grows down, cf. any recent chart of US economic indicators.)

If you don't base your bars at zero then your bar chart exaggerates differences between data because the reader looks at two bars and compares their relative sizes the same way he looks at the levels in two glasses of beer to compare their volumes.
it's algorithms
Is the problem in guessing phonemes or guessing which word is being said based on the phonemes? I'd assume that phonemes are easy to guess at since it's such a small set compared to the number of possible words.
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I'm actually on nginx - I'm fairly certain it is configured correctly.
Looking for feedback on new visual analytics site
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You're contradicting yourself again. If there's no "natural" scale, how do we decide when something is "twice" as big as another? How do you decide which scale is "natural" anyway? And it's still pointless to spend most of the vertical space on redundant mundane information when it could be used to actually show the relationships between the groups being graphed.

Overall you're introducing ad hoc and nebulous special cases that are poorly justified, like the notion of a 'familiar zero'. The real solution is to learn to properly read graphs, and to ignore graphs that omit labels.

> like percentages or money or population

If you're plotting the net worth of the top 10 richest people on Earth, do you really want to use a miles-long graph or drown out all the actual information by just showing that the top 10 richest are within one pixel-worth-of-dollars of each other?
Left handed?
Won't you be my valentine? - http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=won%27t+you+be+my+valen...
I ask because I am confused; the mouse is on the left side of the keyboard, but the pen is on the right.
Does this install junk on your iPhone? For example, I do not want or need a general SSH server running on my phone. If I did this, it would be solely for tethering, and not for running Python media servers or SFTP or scripted Ruby GUIs or tweaking out the system or whatever. So I'm leery of running something that has the power to just shove a bunch of junk onto my phone, which is what happened the last time I tried this (and consequently reduced the battery life down to about a single day or less, until I restored it to normal. I don't even know what was draining it, but I'm assuming it was some kind of server daemon.)
Does anyone know how many information gets shared with third parties if your fb account is just disabled and not deleted?
Multitasking, waiting for 4.0 for the iPad
Why not just use OpenVPN? It seems to solve these problems too.
or this http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=theory+of+physics
I can confirm the thing about the CS students who want to work for banks from my time at uni.
To be fair, there are also a lot of fanatics who believe that Israel was given to them by God, My wish for the next 18 months is a movement for removing religion from politics.
For everyone playing along at home and who's curious like I was: seems legit, and it jailbroke my phone (via OS X) in record time. I've tried a couple jailbreaks over the last year or two, and this one was pretty quick and painless.

Now off to explore a jailbroken iPhone for the first time in three years.
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Where does it conflate those? I thought it discussed exactly the point you've just made.
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This link is a perfect example of how a tangential article is being used to boost page rank of his website.
I don't have a license to use x264, and it's patented in the country I live in.

I understand that there are ways to watch H.264 in Linux if you're willing to skirt / violate patent law (such as pirate repositories), but I'm not interesting in doing so. Advocating for open formats is, in the long run, better.
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"... Understanding what the other person says is hard. Put a Texan and South Indian in the same room and see what I mean. ..."

RP [0] [1] is an attempt to solve this "regional dialect" problem and from that may lie a clue.

[0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A657560
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation
By "in the relevant respect", I meant "in time".
Did they pull back some of the needless complexity later? I only remember shuddering in 2003 or so when I first saw the drafts, and this was after working on v2!
yeah why dont you try coding in Assembly for that matter or even better submit the circuit designs,
Packages ware old, especially with regards to H.264 support, granted you have to tweak the settings to get a good result, but at present I think H.264 suffers on Linux, because of the legal baggage that comes with it.

Many services will surely rely on trans-coding on the fly, questionable support for this format on the server level might adversely effect development on open source platforms.
won't work in my context, I've already disabled it a month ago ;)
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Don't delete posts. This thread now makes no sense, though I assume you were commenting on the conflict of interest.
The license is to redistribute, not to use.

I'm no H.264 supporter, but it's a non-issue to play it on Linux, so you really need a better argument, like "I refuse to use it out of principle".
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+the+meaning+of+...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=What+is+the+air-speed+v...
Clear your cookies for both sites?
It works quite well if you don't have to care about the accent though.

Trivia: "Automatic computer speech recognition now works well when trained to recognize a single voice, and so since 2003, the BBC does live subtitling by having someone re-speak what is being broadcast." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_captioning)

But I'm pretty sure they started using it globally sometimes, because you can see the recognition quality fall when there's an interview with someone from outside UK.
I've only done it combined with an unlock so I could use t-mobile on my iPhone. Never could get tethering to work. Only app I found handy was a video recorder (I have the 3G).
> which was revised 4 days before

Kind of hard to keep track. I wouldn't have expected this document to be such a fast-moving target.
I did it. I dont see the "tethering" option re-appearing under network settings though. Something I dont know?