skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, definitely can't drag it.
I signed up for a Linode this month just in case I ever need use of a mail server/web hosting+root access/whatever on a whim, and was absolutely blown away with how quick it was to set up. Hands-down THE most intuitive and well-documented service I've ever used on the internet, for anything. No more NetworkSolutions-related aneurysms!
From my understanding this is always because the developers did something they know they shouldn't have, like access private unsupported features of a specific version of a Sun JVM. I've seen quite a bit of java code written and all of it could run on multiple versions of Java with no problem.
While I have the attention of both of you, are either of you aware of any project that lets you expose a webhook to a client-side JavaScript application? (the JavaScript application as the "receiver")

For example, if I wanted a webpage to display a feed of notifications without running a specialized backend. Maybe something like reverse HTTP? (http://www.reversehttp.net/)
Turn the wheel and it goes where you want it to. But if you want to go to Google Voice, you'll have to take a long detour few people know of. You see, the road to Google Voice hasn't been optimized for your comfort. Or Apple's profit.
I wish this guy luck. He certainly has the right idea.
> "Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind."

Sometimes the frog dies in amusing ways. See http://xkcdexplained.com/
It still has "HTC" logo on it regardless of the models.
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
I haven't figured out how to disable the track pad yet (it isn't in the mouse settings). :/

You can do this in the BIOS.
This may be a little bit convoluted of an idea but when i was much younger I made a concerted effort to be "funnier". I watched stand up commedians on tv and analyzed why some jokes worked and some didn't. I paid attention to my friends jokes and took mental notes. All in all it worked out, i'm no robbin williams, but I make people around me laugh (in a good way) fairly frequently.

So structured learning of "un-learnable" fields can pay off, though your intent, desire, and actions all have to be aligned. Microsofts attempts to introduce humor to the workplace could legitimately be successful if they really really followed through, sponsoring weekly sitcom watching parties, making jokes in email signatures the internal norm, etc.

What makes this document so sad, is the perception that feelings and enjoyment can be delegated to a memo.
"Apple does what is good for Apple. There is no contradiction."

I don't even think Jobs tried to hide this very well. It's pretty clear he is arguing from the perspective of what is best for Apple, and clearly and coherently explaining why.
Ben Horowitz had a post yesterday about founding CEOs vs professional CEOs(http://bhorowitz.com/2010/04/28/why-we-prefer-founding-ceos/). This seems to be almost a perfect example of his point. The founding CEO makes a technical argument about why change is needed and the professional CEO defends his companies current position.
Most people can go a pretty long time without actual food, so long as they have water and a few key vitamins to help the body metabolize its own fat stores and proteins. People only last a few days without any water.

Water + vitamin fasting is sustainable for weeks or months, if I recall correctly. I don't remember the specifics, but I think B12 is the most important.
Yes, as long as there were no compile-time errors because of changes from libjpeg6 to libjpeg7.
So nobody has any actual commentary on my thoughts -- just outrage at one exaggeration made in passing.

Oh HN, why...
Sure. I want to remotely run a small motor off of a battery pack. Ideally, the wireless portion would be small and low power.
> Can see humor in almost everything

I must be an expert because this page is hilarious.

Particularly the fact that they suggest learning to shoot skeet.
One wonders why FDR is held in such a high regard.

But popular historical judgement seems strange anyway. Just look at English kings.
I'd disagree, I think its more about how programmers are using the web. The plethora of easy web languages is the problem - they've encouraged programmers to develop the wrong solutions - webpages based on a towering technology stack, instead of a "proper" program to be run on client machines that makes use of the internet to support its features. Of course this is a lot harder than producing a website solution, there are platform issues etc... but its hard to deny that this allows you to produce a higher quality app - you basically get complete control of everything that a browser or Flash or whatever will do for you.

i.e. The web doesn't have to change to get the result this article seems to want - just the plethora of crappy programmers who abuse it.
Having elections in the first place is a necessary condition.
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Will I really have to submit a 1099 to the IRS for my phone bills, electric bills, rent, etc.? I have a feeling someone misread this.
Why can't the fax machine die?
You know, I had forgotten about this until reading your comment, but a major (if not the only) factor in my initial decision to create a Facebook account was the fact that it was limited to college campuses, and that I could be sure that only other people at my university would have any interaction with my profile. The first couple of weeks on FB were exciting -- all these new people, and they're right here at my school! The next few months were useful -- all these people that I know, I can get to know better!

And now? My account has been deleted with prejudice, and I pray to Huitzilopochtli that their datacenters all catch on fire.
There are a few things I don't like about Arch, but I definitely agree that a rolling release is preferable to six-month-cycles. I've been using Debian testing for a few months now instead of Ubuntu and it's gone pretty smoothly.
Apple do not have a Monopoly, unless you use a diseased meaning of the word Monopoly to mean devices produced by Apple. In that case, almost every company has a monopoly.
Metamarketing is still marketing.
That isn't hypocrisy. Jobs isn't saying he believes that people must never create cross-platform apps — he's just saying that they suck (as this author acknowledges Apple's cross-platform apps do) and thus he doesn't want them on his system.

It's like the owner of McDonalds not wanting to take his wife to a McDonalds for their anniversary — he's not saying nobody should eat there, just acknowledging that it's rather low-class for the given situation.
>Is it really possible to develop a sense of humour by reading a list of bullet points, action plans and self-help advice?

To some extent, of course. When you know enough about how frogs work, you can make a new frog. I don't think humour is any different to writing or music in this case. In particular,

>There are some basic humor tactics. Use exaggeration, use reversal, be brief. Cut out unnecessary words.

This is good advice. Someone who paid attention to it could improve their ability to tell jokes. It's neither necessary nor sufficient, but it's a start.
It's good Jobs attempts to lay out his reasoning with facts but his facts are not all that correct.

Flash has been ported to mobile device. Windows Automotive, a version of WindowsCE, has flash. The Ford Sync system's front UI is completely flash and action script. I know because I work on the system.

I mostly agree with Jobs reasoning though. He makes very good points but it would be nice if he could get his facts right.
Interestingly Germany is enacting (or has recently?) a constitutional amendment that will limit the federal deficit to 0.35% of GDP. (See http://www.bundesregierung.de/Content/DE/Magazine/MagazinWir... (in German))
>To be fair, these FDR policies were extensions of what Hoover had done. Interestingly enough, FDR campaigned against them.

Alot of that going around these days too.
Nope, these are actual guidelines Microsoft uses to make hiring, promotion, and compensation decisions. city41's comment is 100% accurate about how these things are used.

The entire list of 'competencies' is here:
http://www.microsoft.com/education/competencies/allcompetenc...

It probably started as your typical big-company CYA in case someone tries to sue them for HR-related stuff and grew into this monster as some middle manager began empire-building.

There's even a wheel, in case you felt like making a poster: (pdf) http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/4/7/3477e49d-315d-4...
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How would Hotmail (an older consumer product) and Exchange (a 100% Enterprise product) mix together?

I would imagine a competitive product to Google Apps for Domains would have it's product aligned underneath the Office brand?
I would rather work towards a world where the tools were good enough and the common knowledge of the limits and capabilities of software widespread enough that professional competence is not required for most people to do the programming tasks that will make their lives better.

To some extent we are already headed there, although many instances of end-user programming are not considered to be actual programming.

Is someone setting variables in a profile editor programming? How about writing mail-filters? Scripting actions in a larger environment? Using an event recorder to create repeatable macros?

I would say that all of those are in fact programming activities. And I'm fairly certain that there are a large number of people who would disagree.

The thing is that once you look at things in that light, it changes the software you write for the better, it means you provide debugging tools in your application and you look at the softer layers of your application with an eye towards opening them up to end-users.
Was it a slipup? Or will it just force more people to form corporations?
WTF, CNN?
This consistently crashes Epiphany.
If I lost my phone in a bar, would you think to sell it to Gizmodo?
Being contrarian can be profitable. Are you willing to put your money where your mouth is?
You might want to rethink the color choice for the 'next' button as well. In this setting I associate "green" with _like_ and "red" with _dislike_.

Maybe a more neutral color choice can avoid possible misunderstandings.
You need what I got.
Jane Jacobs had some interesting observations on the influence of short blocks on the vitality of neighborhoods (hint: lots of short blocks make for many possible routes, and many more interactions than long blocks). See her http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_Ame...
This may have been slipped in as a precursor to instituting a VAT.
Then nothing we do will make any difference, and clearly the fact that we might make the cartels kidnap more is not an argument against decriminalization.
source: http://github.com/cinder/Cinder
Several MUST have updates for the next version.

First, stop sorting the articles list by alphabetical order of title. this sort makes absolutely no sense and makes in next to impossible to find new articles.

Second, have some way of showing which articles have already been read. in iPhone apps vie written in the past I've typically changed the font style in the sidebar article listing. for example, once an article has been "read" change the font color in the sidebar to a "grayed out" style vs the regular black font color.

With the way the current app sorts by alphabetical order plus no way of visually knowing which articles have already been read, it's nearly impossible to use the app well to keep up on new submissions on Hacker News
I'm not sure I really get what you're saying either. You're asserting everything should be open ("pure morality") and "industry" ("practical morality") are somehow at opposite ends of a spectrum, and that it would be good if we somehow strove to be somewhere in the middle of that spectrum.
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Your phone doesn't belong to HTC, it belongs to you. The prototype iPhone belongs to Apple.
So "Flash on the Web == Bad" because it's not open, but "Flash cross-compiled apps on iPhone == Bad" because it's not... open... ? The logic doesn't match up. As has been stated, it's a misdirection. Steve Jobs is setting fire to a house on the west side of town so that no one will notice that he's robbing the bank on the east side.

He's trying to come off as an 'open crusader for the web against Adobe' because 'Adobe is not open,' but on the other hand shoving Adobe (and others) off of the i{Phone,Pad} platform because it's not part of Apple's own 'not open' environment. I hate Adobe as much as the next person, but let's not dress Steve Jobs up as a knight in shining armour just because he also doesn't like Adobe.
I liked the idea of the rolling release, which is one of the reasons I was trying Arch in the first place. (And I was a Gentoo user before Ubuntu came along).

But it's got to "roll" a little smoother than that. I understand some potholes here and there, but that was a sinkhole.
Can we get a link to the GitHub source. I'd love to contribute to this app and make some useful improvements.
"... The only issue ive had with lucid is that 2 of my 1.5TB SATA drives are not detected. Ive opened a ticket for this sometime back but the ticket hasnt received any love so far. ..."

Can you post your ticket number plz. No way am I going to risk an upgrade without SATA support. What drives are you using?
If you are a business, and those payments total more than $600 in a year, yes.

According to Cato, many "someones" have read it the same way.
Good Lord that is counterintuitive!
Few hundred k - all mortgage. But if I liquidated, I'd be up, because my assets outstrip my liabilities. I guess that's the difference between good debt (supports asset growth) and bad debt (used to by anything that depreciates).
Sounds like a business idea, for doing e-taxes and e-payments, in the making.
I saw this perhaps a month ago and emailed PG. His response was that if the comments are not in the cache (as they will be after a restart) then it doesn't show the number and always says "comments".
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Hasn't Scott ever heard of sycophants or heirophants?
Flash crashes for me at least once a day, on Youtube. I'm using a Mac here though, using chrome. I'm guessing the flash implementation for windows is significantly more stable than on mac/linux.
There's a real-time one at http://news.ycombinator.com/best, but it seems to only include stories from the past week or so.
I like it.

Feature Request: Allow it to run invisibly (no Dock or menubar icon).
I looked for this feature in their support docs and FAQ but couldn't find it - how do you set it up and specify the backup schedule?
Something must be done. This plan isn't perfect. Therefore, we must not do this.
I'm not sure what you mean by "rebuild the itunes db." The songs show up in the Itunes player on the Iphone as soon as they are loaded.
Fully agree. I gave up after four stories that I all disliked. Two were totally out of my area of interest (celebrities and horse racing, huh?), and two were tech stories that didn't cross the "marginal curiosity" threshold.

Could work, but you'd have to get me hooked more quickly.
yup.. i've been playing with it. i'm sure jeff will be in touch.
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That sort of presupposes a tone of sanctimony that I really don't get from the letter. I don't think Apple is trying to argue they're doing some kind of overall good, they've written a letter about how Flash conflicts with their strategic vision for their platform.

What specific parts do you think suggest feigned virtue? The parts where he claims to want a better environment for developers? That's the only place where I think you might have a toehold.

It must sort of suck to be Apple community relations right now. If you act according to your business plan, you get railed at for being imperious and arbitrary. If you then explain that business plan and your rationale, people immediately see it's not all nobility and grace and get pissed. The brand perception and loyalty that Apple has spent so much time building can certainly be a double-edged sword.
Great! Earlier versions would place the mp3s on the iPhone but they would not show up in iTunes which made it useless.
Won't make a difference, I gather. E.g. previously if you were a business and paid rent to a landlord who was a individual (e.g. he reported that income on his individual income tax forms) you'd have to file a 1099. Now, in all cases, you'll have to file the 1099 (well, unless the rent is less than $600 per year).
With Firefox (Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100402 Namoroka/3.6.3), I also got this warning.

Detecting the browser instead of the features is often bad practice: http://www.jibbering.com/faq/faq_notes/not_browser_detect.ht...
Time to get rid of all federal taxes except a national sales tax. Our Rube Goldberg tax system has got to be the single biggest drag on economy. Imagine the money that goes into complying with taxes doing something constructive.
I'm using Chromium 4.0.299.0 (36335) on my Mac and I get that popup too.

According to jeresig, author of jQuery, one should not perform browser detection, instead you should use feature detection. Browser agent is not going to give you an accurate picture of what is supported because every browser likes to say they are mozilla/webkit/netscape/etc.
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-doesnt-have-to-worry-ab...

They are going to wait until the Palm deal closes. My guess is that HP wants more control over their platforms than a commodity Windows mobile provides. WebOS is just the ticket.
Yes. But immutability is not the whole job. You have to make sure to use the right data structures. Linear data structures like lists don't parallelize well. You need to use something that breaks into more equal parts instead of car and cdr.

Compare Guy Steele's talk "Get rid of Cons" at the International Conference on Functional Programming 2009. For the slides go to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=814632, the video should also be available online somewhere.
I believe that R&D budget also counts for the salaries of all the MS developers who are working stuff like Office and Windows.
If online, post the letters L, O and L (in that order) to indicate laughter in real life. Optionally the letters X and D may be used to form a so called "emoticon", for added effect.
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maybe he could pivot the site as a porn site.
I am against abortion, but for killing babies. I also would like to have my ejaculation be like that green goo from Aliens so that she'd fucking dissolve when I came and be a crater in the floor when I left.
CNN Nigger edition.
Google is actually just the 6th largest content network. If you want to truly extend your http://www.adroll.com campaign to the fullest, it helps to display your ads across multiple content networks - as opposed to only one.
Agreed. My recommendation algorithms do well but need lots of data about you. This is an experiment to see if I can bootstrap with no user data by playing 20 questions at the start. How long are people willing to grant me?
I very much suspect these people love the cock.
I just installed it. I don't know how much I will use it, but it's definitely something I would use, if that makes sense. Readability, bugmenot and google cache are all things that I've never bothered to make easy before.
Apple lawsuit in 3. 2. 1...
"I walk into a coffee shop and 'find' an unattended laptop sitting on one of the tables, so I decide to close it up and take it home with me."

Nobody I've talked to seems to think that this scenario is okay or would consider the laptop "lost".
That's just too bad for Gaza. Hamas will have to learn how to stop firing rockets into Israel's airspace. What sort of borders were you hoping for?
You can get by with a much weaker (and/or dynamic) type system, and still get a language that's easier to parallelize. As long as you keep all mutation explicit.

Haskell does keep track of mutations in your program, because you have to wrap those in a monad. Since monads are part of the type system, you are right--but I felt that needed more explanation.
And it's not just for $600 or larger transactions, it's an accumulation of said transactions for a tax year. This is going to be a paperwork nightmare.
This has nothing to do with what's open and what isn't, it's about who controls what. Apple controls iPhoneOS, Adobe controls Flash. It's a prizefight. Don't get caught in a sucker punch just because you were paying attention to the fancy footwork.
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Bartz is a true Yahoo completely out of touch 
Everytime I see anything from Carol Bartz I just feel more and more sorry for Yahoo!

How did they end up with her as the CEO???

Not only is google doing lots of work to diversify, and always has, but they are also gaining moderate success.

As far as Yahoo trebling their profits in the last year, I suspect the majority of that came from two sources

1) the Bing deal with Microsoft

2) improvements in advertising due to the economic recovery

I'm not saying Yahoo! doesn't have a chance of turning around I think they do have some moderately valuable properties, but what is Bartz doing to leverage those, or is she just looking for a sale?
> [...] interpreted languages like Python, Ruby, and Perl [...]

Just to nitpick: Haskell can be interpreted as well, see Hugs. And Python commonly gets compiled to byte-code. (I have no idea how Ruby and Perl implementations work.)
Flash has been around a bit longer than the iPhone has, so no surprise there. Flash has been around since PointCast Network, if anyone actually still remembers that.
A sales tax (or VAT) is highly regressive.

There's nothing inherently complicated about a progressive income tax; it's the fact that we insist on having a deduction for mortgage interest, R&D, asset depreciation, hiring new workers and hundreds of other things that all individually might be things we want to encourage, but together add up to a complex and cumbersome system.
I'd make an exception for The Diamond Age.
Real slick visuals at work there. Kudos.
On the plus side, non-compliance is going to be so high at first, I doubt many will be "enforced" about it.
Its smart. They know that the best executives will be able to use humor, anger, and a spectrum of human emotions, to further their goals.
Are you kidding? $1500 probably barely covers their expenses. It might not be the best way to raise money, but it's hard to begrudge the organizers for charging such a nominal amount.
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