skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm new to HN, read the introduction at http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html and found the concept really great but doubted that people really can restrain themselves from posting "funny" or "cool" stuff.

Then I find this. I'm not sure if I'm disappointed that those ambitious goals can't be met or if I'm thankful that someone pointed me at a funny video. Maybe both.
For all intents and purposes, a consumer, for a very very long time couldn't buy a machine without windows bundled with it (I.e. Someone paid), unless you bought a Mac. Microsoft saw to that.
Thought this http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/ie9-standards-... was interesting. It paints Miscrosoft as a company that aims to thoroughly support standards, although what they may be doing is looking for under-specified parts of the specification and defining the standard in those areas.
Because they were famous and their quotes were pithy.

My question is, how come nobody ever gets shot in Japan? Guns are banned, there are criminals, but most murders are stabbings (or arson, etc.) If you listen to Jefferson, Japan would be a haven for dangerous gun-toting criminals shooting up anything and everything just to get some pocket change. But that is apparently not the case.
Just do it - Nike
Basically brandname, which logo you get to put on your site.
I have to thank apple for higher ebook prices?
Isn't that argument counteracted somewhat by the distribution of camcorder copies? And pre-release leaks where someone at a distribution center managed to take a disc home, burn it, and upload it. When a film is officially out I think you see a copy appear online day one regardless of the DRM being used.
Thanks, no - it does help, I hadn't thought to check NoScript's download stats.

I was aware that most web stats packages use javascript to report stats - when we did the exercise of checking for disabled JS, that's where we looked.
But that's not OP's point. You know when people say "I've forgot more about X than you'll ever know!"?

MS has screwed more companies than Apple has on its entire ecosystem. But it has made possible the existence of so many more. While, with Apple, it's either their way or none at all.

And I am not saying this makes Apple's products bad, the iPad sucks or the market hasn't made a decision. Just that doing business on Apple's ecosystem is way harder and more riskier.
Do you think their natural fit with FPGAs might be enough of a thin wedge to get them used at least somewhere? Or is the investment involved to get them performing better in even a field where they have a 10x or more advantage just too large?
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you should better use an OLAP engine for that like Sql Server Analysis Service
Don't know.

Should be easy enough to do the math.

I would assume some sort of bio-friendly heat sink, perhaps a silver lace spread through the abdomen or something.

Fortunately getting rid of heat is already well understood.
hey nice to meet you... although i haven't really : )
He is giving Apple way too much credit. It's not like Apple did shady business deals/practices to get in their current position, it's because people genuinely like their products for whatever reason (interface/ease of use/design). And because a niche group of people (tech geeks) don't like apple products doesn't mean the general public won't find those products appealing.
Scribd CTO: “We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Company On HTML5″
I was hoping someone would mention the NUMMI story! I think it points out how important it is to create the right "culture" for a business.
I went to college because I loved computer science, but while there I was in class alongside many students (at least in the required courses) who were just there for a good job, and I never had a problem with any of them. In fact, college did pretty well for most of them.

I've never been dissuaded from thinking that there is a place for people-who-just-want-good-jobs in colleges. There are plenty of opportunities for people who wanted to go further in computer science, I don't know of any college with a good computer science programs that's lacking in high level math and AI courses.

That said, I absolutely agree with "The entitlement of success that seems to follow from attending college is what's broken. The expectation that you will get a cushy 9-5 job in return for that diploma is what's broken." People need to decide up front if their priority is a 9-5 job and plan accordingly.
Is this dude seriously trying to use reason and logic to defend belief?
This is great. I've had clients years ago want to offer video sharing on their site and I basically have to tell them it's a major project so they might as well have their users upload it to YouTube instead. This is exactly the kind of service that makes video UGC possible, even easy.
Regulating free services would be insane. The cost to start a startup have been dropping, and this is a good thing since it facilitates more innovation with less risk. If free services had to follow cryptic regulations it would significantly stifle the growth potential of future startups.
I've heard of exactly this from US and UK companies, but their names escape me right now. And this is a biased sample because I don't read much news in other languages.
This also raised my eyebrow... Chen bought stolen property as defined under California law. Then published evidence of his doing so in a very public manner. Apple may have called the police, but they hardly "sent them in". I was with the article until that point.
I know. I winced when I read it there too.
Yeah, they'll deal with that fast but we've had a complaint/bug submitted for 3 weeks now and they haven't done a thing. I understand they must get a ton of these but as paying customers who rely on Facebook for key promotion you'd think they'd pay attention.

Sorry, just ranting a bit. It's been frustrating dealing with a company that doesn't have a telephone helpline, even for paying customers. (We've spent thousands of dollars on Facebook ads, etc.)
So you mean he's not giving them enough credit.
Thank god. I like their product, but it's such a resource hog. Here's hoping that HTML5 Scribd will be a little more lightweight.
Calling a cellphone is pretty expensive...

But anyway, the consumer might be busy, I guess? Maybe that's a pretty big reason, but I never worked in call centers / telemarketing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7__SWWSaGM
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We Need a General Theory of Individuality
Did the "Time Square Bomber" comment on a Peter Schiff YouTube video?
As if there's a single `here' on HN.
I never said Apple wasn't bad news, just that MS wasn't exactly a champion of small business either.
Pragmatic BDD for .NET: SpecFlow 1.3 released.
SpecFlow 1.3 using the official Gherkin parser from Cucumber & new features.

SpecFlow aims at bridging the communication gap between domain experts and developers by binding business readable behavior specifications to the underlying implementation.
Our mission is to provide a pragmatic and frictionless approach to Acceptance Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development for .NET projects today.
SpecFlow is open source, distributed under the BSD License
SpecFlow is hosted on GitHub.
Just in case anyone's wondering -- it's not just converting each page to an image. It's all HTML5 text, graphics, and images where appropriate.
Fighting Information Asymmetry
Sources? (I can imagine that wearing shoes without showering makes you grow fungi. Going barefoot most of the time should solve that problem. Or just washing your feet with cold water.)

Also since when was acne caused by not taking a shower?
this is great news. flash was just really overbearing and felt heavy. im sure it was also a bitch to deal on the back end. Can't wait to play around with it.

ps- i win newsyc bingo: YC company, techcrunch article, HTML5.
"Betting the company"? Sounds a little dramatic. It's HTML5 not Silverlight. How much risk is there really?
I hope they succeed and HTML5 replaces Flash, but this seems like a very risky move.
I agree. The current "rocketfuel" setup requires a pretty invasive modification of your machine's configuration - I would only recommend it for VMs or dedicated machines. I really wish companies would offer launchpad hosting (although I believe they'd have to use a different name due to trademark issues). Is anyone aware of any such services?

The private repositories are (last I checked) $250 / year / project. Launchpad.net's tools are nice, but I would favor github (largely because I haven't been impressed with bzr so far), unless you have a policy of only using services based entirely on free software (as a collaborator of mine does).
I guess he means that if it's not a problem in a use case in which their corporate clients are interested, it is a non-issue for them.
I couldn't comment, either.

My comment, though, is this:

Thanks for summating it, good post/review. My favorite part was this line, which summarizes the thing essentially:

"Optimists explain GOOD events with permanence, whereas pesimists attribute good events to temporary conditions."

Thanks for reading/summarizing.
I find it's rather that they take care of every detail. I refuse to buy an iPhone but I'm still not satisfied with the state of Android phones.

There's the phones with the great cameras (but are underpowered).
There's the phones with the great cpus (but wasted because of low ram)
There's the phones with the good extra UI (wasted because they're underpowered)
There's the good middle ground handicapped by a really old version of Android and no multi-touch.

Etc.

Whereas the iPhone just has it all.
Do you do the slicing, multiple bitrates & playlists that are needed to play streaming video to i(Phone|Pad) devices?
I use to shower everyday. However, when I was on a vacation in Mongolia we jumped into a lake, say, once a week. Strangely, we did not smell. (And I did not smell the other guys, even when I just had a bath in the lake.) On the other hand, this was around 2700m above sea level.
Your explanation is good, but your pseudocode doesn't match what you're saying about it. There is a bug. One way to write it would be:

def P (program, input):
if [program on input] halts:
true
else:
false

def Q (input):
if P(Q, input):
Q(input) # P says we halt, so we won't
else:
true # P says we don't halt, so we will

Now, calling P(Q, Q) is what shows the truth of the Halting Problem.

It may be hard to think of conceptually, but when you explicitly state it all, it's pretty easy. P is a program. Q can be a program with P embedded in it. This is not anything unrealistic at all. Furthermore, calling P on (Q, Q) is not all that strange either, until you consider the resulting behavior:

P(Q, Q) -> should return true if Q halts on Q and false otherwise
Q halts on Q:
P -> true
Q loops. P was wrong
Q doesn't halt on Q:
P -> false
Q exits. P was wrong again

As long as programs like Q are allowed in your language, P cannot exist. Now, if you constrain Q such that every loop and recursion includes a proof of completion* , you can write a program P.

* This is generally possible by annotating the loop with a mathematical proof that the looping mechanism is approaching a terminating condition)
My thoughts exactly. HTML5 is going to be (or is already) everywhere, so where's the big risk?
Is there anything specific to HTML 5 there?
Apple is fundamentally a different kind of company than almost all other software or hardware companies. The prospect of J. Average Computer Company competing against J. Other Average Computer Company is straightforward, all that it takes to win against them is to keep doing what you're doing, only better, or more. The prospect of competing against Apple might be a bit more daunting, because potential it requires completely remaking your entire company to be more Apple-like, which is something most companies are utterly incapable of doing.

This is despite the fact that Apple isn't even especially dominant in any area, not to the same degree that Microsoft, Google, or Amazon are dominant.
This interests me for ThinkCode.TV. We tried half a dozen companies and were overall disappointed with their results. (Ogg Theora in particular was challenging for most.)
Jacket would be a great alternative to CUDAMat and Theano if it didn't cost an arm and a leg (matlab is pricey too), was in python, was released under an open source license, and didn't suck.
One metric of how negative sentiment is the short ratio of the stock (percent of shares sold short). For comparison:

AAPL - 1.3% (http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=AAPL+Key+Statistics)

MSFT - 0.7% (http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=msft+Key+Statistics)

GOOG - 1.4% (http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=goog+Key+Statistics)
A team of four NYU CS students...what's the 10k for? Just build it!
Soon! It's in the works. In the meantime, we can of course do non-streaming video for iPad/iPhone/etc. (Email us if you're interested in early access to iPhone streaming.)
Kirkland isn't a small town and I think most people prefer to live 30 minutes away from the city to avoid being stuck in traffic for an hour.
Social Networks in a Nutshell
Google already does a great job of showing PDF files using HTML and JavaScript. Don't think it is huge risk.

Plus the upside is their stuff will then work on mobile devices too.
Have you ever watched a cam (or even a TS) version of a movie? I wonder whether the studios put them there on purpose.
> Because a capitalist would prefer to pay nothing of course.

Not true - all of the best businessmen I know quite like to pay people, and pay them well. A mentor of mine runs one of the most profitable architectural firms in the Middle East, he always talks to me about the difference between the "going rate" and "staying rate" - he prefers to pay 20% to 40% above market, sometimes double the market rate in salary and bonuses and he has an insanely high rentention rate in a competitive field. Whenever I had people contract or work for me, I either paid them considerably above market, or otherwise worked to get them ridiculously good compensation - I worked to get them good compensation by their own standards and goals, whether it was travel, training, getting to work on really really fucking cool projects most of the time so work didn't even feel like work... and so on. Short-sighted people like to screw people. Brilliant people like to compensate well.

> Scientists like Einstein don't get rich while millions or even billions are made off the foundation of their discoveries.

Einstein was probably a bad example to pick of that - his lifetime compensation was sky high. He didn't get as much as, say, J.P. Morgan, but he was loved and adored by a great many people, was a renowned and honored guest anywhere in the civilized world, and basically was able to live the quality of life of a multi-millionaire as he chose. It's like being President of the USA - Presidents don't make all that much money, but make incredibly high compensation overall.
Theano is really cool. It is a lot more ambitious than CUDAMat, but cudamat might be easier to get started with.
I was thinking the same thing, but was hesitant to post my thoughts as I was sure someone would think my intentions would be cruel. Also, why not allow facebook to look horrible due to their own mistakes? Imagine how bad they would have looked if this wasn't brought to their attention so fast.
Cost of living varies widely across the US. HFT jobs most likely take place in Manhattan where 150k is the same quality of life as maybe 80k in a place like Austin.

As others have suggested, the location is as important as the salary. Check out the various cost of living calculators on the web to be able to compare jobs in different cities.
Bzzzt! You're missing: Apple, Facebook. Try again.
“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

- Jack London
Internet Explorer...
You're welcome. I find that summarizing helps me remember (spaced repetition).

To anyone confused by this thread: the theme I had installed originally was incompatible with disabling javascript. Fixed up, looks sharp.
With Apple the shortcomings are sold as features and then later given to you as an innovation.

I almost expected them to release the iPhone shuffle that had no screen and randomly called people.
Google rasterizes the PDF and streams it to you as an image. Scribd will be converting documents to HTML and CSS while maintaining a near perfect facsimile of the original document.
IBM (in Germany) did this at least some years ago.

Called the hotline, a nice computer voice told me that all lines are blocked and that they will call me back in 12 minutes.

After 12 minutes my phone rang and a friendly lady apologised for letting me wait and I told her about my problem.

I am still impressed.
FYI, this will work in IE.
What do you see as the main challenges?

Seems to me that with, eg., XMPP plus GPG, you've already got the core functions up and running in a very scalable way. Publish your public keys with Webfinger.
Performance maybe - but it's hard to imagine any HTML5 implementation to be slower than Flash is. Also, HTML5 isn't arriving on IE for some time yet, and even then it may take years for the general public to update to something that can render HTML5 properly.

I wouldn't use any of the more complex/less-supported features of HTML5 on any live site today, that's for sure.
While I love cloud services like these, I always wonder about it for the high-end accounts. With pricing at $3.60/hour of encoded video, it seems building your own render server seems to pay out fairly soon.

For http://OneFrameOfFame.com I was looking for a video encoding service that would take a bunch of images & sound file as input, and would encode it to a video file.
Since none of the cloud video encoding parties I looked at (Encoding.com, Heywatch, ankoder) offered this, I ended up renting a linode VPS and encoding myself with ffmpeg. Which turned out to be not that hard. If you need the management tools, there are packages like http://pandastream.org/
The new viewer doesn't use the full spectrum of HTML 5 features, to maintain compatibility with older browsers, but it would not be possible before HTML 5.
FCC to re-regulate Internet in order to enforce net neutrality
Quamtum mechanics controlls your thoughts
I can go for a few days without smelling too badly. But I usually shower everyday, because my hair gets greasy fast.
This article reminds me of Virginia Postrel's book The Future and its Enemies. This guy is one of its enemies.
The problem with the non-streaming is that Apple doesn't approve apps anymore that do non-streaming over 3G (for over 5 min/10 MB video's). Will email you if I need it tho!

Oh, and then a harder one: Could you take a bunch of images & soundtrack file, and render it to a movie?
HP has already fabricated chips with memristors that are smaller, faster, and lower power than Flash. The problem I see is write endurance. They match Flash in this area as well, but that's not good enough. If memristors are to be applied to anything but storage (e.g. DRAM, SRAM, logic, neural nets) they will need to be many orders of magnitude more durable.
Bit.ly irony
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There are social media success stories. OK GO on YouTube and Dell on Twitter spring to mind. The author did hit the nail on the with the dynamism and newsworthiness considerations, though. My marketing agency steered a vinyl siding company away from Twitter investment, for instance.

Social media is the new darling now. (I've given three presentations, by request, on it in the last month.) But in a few years it will be no more a marketing panacea than billboards or PPC. Once the hype fizzles Social Media will just be one more medium to be considered when planning a marketing mix.

People don't like to admit it, or maybe they just don't know it, but marketing is a mostly about using research (which social media is great for, by the way) to inform your products and find out where your users are than it is about writing clever copy or coming up with snappy logos.
This type of writing: "That new iPhone? What a total meh. So what if it has new volume controls? Or a metal strip around the side? Apple needs people to line up round the block for its next product. Will this really be enough?" shows that this author isn't so much as writing an opinion piece as he is sensationalizing and capitalizing on a trend of articles hearkening the fall of Apple for reasons I cannot truly fathom.

I can't help but remember the article posted yesterday IIRC which made the point: Why are we worried about Apple? Isn't it Wall Street that truly has the power to make everything get fubar'ed?

These articles just tire me...
"Word, Judge, I didn't purchase no hot item...I just 'got my hands on it', nah mean?"
My boyfriend and I pay 1000 rent, and he has the same insurance plan as me. So insurance is 25% of our rent. And that doesn't cover anything until we've each paid 2700. We're doing a startup, and it's a big part of our monthly expenses.

And actually, we moved out of SF to buckle down on our startup, because rent was too high. Also, people have to pay rent whether they have a startup or a regular job, and they get a lot of special discounts to their healthcare via the regular job that you don't get with individual plans.
It worked on my PS3 and I don't recall having to install any updates. The DVD that cam bundled with the Blu-ray didn't work on my PC DVD drive, though.

Can anyone confirm this behavior?
not really. he's using name calling and appeals to authority.

this is him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bentley_Hart
> "I think most people prefer to live 30 minutes away from the city"

I doubt this. A lot of my peers who work at MS loved living in the city, but had to move out to the suburbs (that they don't really like) to save on commute. Which is the point - if MS was downtown it would be reasonably commutable by just about everyone (including suburbanites in Bellevue). The reverse (putting the office in the 'burbs) makes commuting slightly simpler for suburbanites at the cost of making it nigh impossible for urban dwellers.

Personally, having grown up in a sleepy suburb not at all unlike Kirkland, I'd loathe to go back - and I know a lot of my younger peers feel the same. This is on top of all of the requisite issues with suburban lifestyles (e.g., over-reliance on cars, health concerns due to driving everywhere, sprawl, walkability in general, social homogeneity, etc).

I currently live 20 minutes away from work by bus (plus side: I get to walk home on a good day, try doing that in the suburbs), and luckily my employer is reasonably close to downtown. That's less commute than most suburban office parks demand, and all of it is "free time" (i.e., I can be doing other things than watching the road).
thank you all for commenting
And you do not have to kill bacteria. Your skin is fine with most of them. (Actually you are better of with bacteria on your skin.)
I think you mistakenly believe that memristors must replace transistors completely for us to harness their benefits. memristors will start off like any other technology: in the special application areas where their cost/benefit makes most sense.
Well, I might be wrong, but it's probably not the first time a gadget site gets a gadget before it's released. In many cases, that gadget should have been returned to the original owner, not to a journalist. But, again, as far as I know, no company has actually "sent the police in" (or even asked for any investigation) over such a matter. Apple did, it wasn't wrong of them (I mean, it's still a crime), but they were (one of) the first (only?) to do so.
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