skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you really have to work for scribd to see the benefit of millions of pages of text?

Edit: it turns out they already present the text at least some of the time, but markup and text portability still adds some value (see my comment above).
I entered my email into the form and never heard back from Amazon. So I spent the time playing with Palm's SDK and PDK for WebOS instead.
I think most children see and hear things that aren't there.
What did the 0 say to the 8?

Nice belt.
Perish the thought of lackabouts that arose from anything less than an entire generation's misdeeds!

If it weren't for the free love movement of the 60s, no one would have ever wasted their life in an opium den! All those poor doomed souls...
An interesting thing the article doesn't mention is
the effect of anonymity on malicious gossip. The ability to publish widely and anonymously with such ease is unprecedented. Is it not that society's getting nastier, but that it's so much easier to be nasty and get away with it?
>Lifetimes centuries ago were 30-40 years on average. Only a handful of people lived 60 or more years. Today, many people live to 100, many more to 80

The average in previous centuries was heavily skewed by infant/childhood mortality. Plenty of people lived into their 80's back then. It's just that half of their brothers and sisters died before age 10, which dragged the average down. Still more succumbed to disease and infection before even middle age.

The average isn't going up because people live longer, it's going up because fewer people die young.
For one thing, orthogonal persistence will become the norm. A computer that needs to boot up will become a quaint thing of the past. Capability systems might become widespread because of this, resulting in finer grained security throughout the entire computing world. Small, cheap, but voluminous and low power memory stores will allow for greatly increased capabilities for computerized tags of physical objects. Vernor Vinge's localizers or Bruce Schneier's Internet of Things could come about because of this technology.
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Certainly not an integral part of the 404 process?
It's probably possible somewhere in the world. If something is published, it's published most everywhere (which has led to some defamation cases being heard in some rather odd places IIRC).

So I agree it'll probably happen sooner or later.
The author of the video posted the following comment on the video's page:

"zedomax @InfiniteStyleBlog Actually I pressed the home button, it didn't crash, Android OS gives u﻿ an error message if it does crash so just to clarify. I think I was trying to hit the Back button and hit the Home button."
Certain time, certain place. Check bus stats in Israel between 1993-2006 - I guarantee you will find significantly more passengers died of bombings than accidents.

In any case, the stats are meaningless, as they have nothing to do with human nature and the way we perceive odds & danger. When the Beltway sniper was operating I don't think anyone was calmed by the knowledge their chances of being hit are really quite small.
Not really. The Streisand effect would be if Apple's reaction caused the joke ad to be viewed more, and those views hurt them. The ad's harmless though; they just look stupid because they overreacted.
I might as well quote your Wikipedia article since you don't get it:

"If it is true that the economic value of things cannot be ascertained without subjecting a particular good to individual value judgements in a market"

Notably, there's a big 'if' and later it intimates some other essential things like the complete lack of studied consensus that might be required to baldly assert it as true in a forum of discussion without a proper background, caveat, or concession.

So yes, if you insist that firetrucks are not firetruck red, you should probably disclaim the special point of reference from which you make your claims, or expect people to not kowtow to your every esotericism.

That said, fuck your mother's cooling corpse for even a few minutes more of, e.g., Einstein.
Maybe a way to start doing this would be telling people that they are dumb.

The past couple weeks I've been thinking that people are ok with small/short/quick news because it makes them think they have figured out the whole thing. Maybe they are satisfied that they've learned something, or maybe they think it is enough.

I think folks are overestimating their ability to put loosely connected ideas into something bigger. You get a little here, a sprinkle there and you're cool with that.

It's like a fast food for the brain. You're constantly satisfied, almost by the second, because you're supposedly "learning" something.

But I don't know. My train of thought stops there. I don't know how to strip people of this urge.
Why? Google already indexes flash, and you can include meta-tags in flash as well. As long as you are doing it right, I can be just as informative as html.
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It's a good idea, however I think it's pretty much covered by the 'email a friend' type feature. Some e-commerce sites display that feature prominently on product pages. How would your service differ from that feature, even if you offered analytics?
Seems a little early to start pigeonholing kids for that
type of stuff. I would rather pick it up from grades and
such. And put yourself in an environment your not used to
and most everyone will see and hear things that aren't there
too.
You could have tried jumping on mushrooms.
That is my point. But it trained many incompetent programmers who fancy they can do the job "just right" in the market.
Before they rejoice perhaps they should consider that the main function of the FCC since its inception has been to censor the airwaves.
For starters, there was never a lot of guns in the hands of civilians in Japan so it shouldn't be that hard to keep them banned.

It's also risky to bring guns illegally into the country; to take that kind of risky one would probably have to be into other illegal, profitable stuff like drug trade. But there isn't a lot of drug trade in Japan (compared to US).

Anyway, I think it's very hard to use Japan on one hand, or Switzerland and Israel on the other, to argue about gun laws in US.
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Actually, STDs, crime, rape, junkies, and lost lives have been civilization's constant companion for millennia. There was definitely a tradition of pretending it wasn't happening prior to the late 60's/early 70's, but if you think people weren't getting high, screwing around, and beating the crap out of each other before then, and in similar numbers, you truly have no grasp of the history of humanity.
P does not encounter a paradox. P is the paradox. We encounter the paradox because we observe that P is incorrect. You can't dance around a paradox at runtime. A paradox means either one of your assumptions is invalid, or your logic is wrong. If it exists, there's no getting around it.

When constructing proofs, we can make assumptions and then run with them. But it's not valid to assume magic - and that's essentially how you want to define P. You want P to be able to detect that it has been used in a paradoxical situation. But it's not reasonable to assume a function knows how it's being used; to do so is basically magic.

We require that P returns because we defined it as a function in the mathematical sense, and mathematical functions have to provide an answer (even if that answer is "undefined"). P is a function that has to return true or false. No other responses, including not giving us an answer, are valid.
You're right in general with the flash/seo stuff, but they appear to be already extracting all text anyway to present to search engines so maybe there isn't really much advantage:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ggG39gK...

One thing that does occur to me is that copy and paste auto attribution link stuff that's getting popular on news sites, something like that could hold more value / less overhead / easier to spread than the awkward embedded widget approach.
http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/cacode/PEN/3/1/13/5/s485

"One who finds lost property under circumstances which give him knowledge of or means of inquiry as to the true owner, and who appropriates such property to his own use, or to the use of another person not entitled thereto, without first making reasonable and just efforts to find the owner and to restore the property to him, is guilty of theft."

edit:

Also relevant: http://jballer.tumblr.com/post/540967372/gizmodos-trade-secr...
Glad to be part of a group which made the decision that having people install a browser that supports canvas is not a too excessive requirement. For years people have force users to use IE6 (and still do). It's time we force them to install a browser with the features we need.

Idealistic but if you can do it, go for it.
This exposure partly might be due to Steve Jobs calling Adobe out last week.

And people do want to see flash running on a device, and now we have it. This is a huge step. I mean, sure, there are still a large number of questions, like battery, speed, but this is great.
Court tells FCC: you don't have this authority under the laws passed by elected officials.

FCC says: we'll grant ourselves the authority by bureaucratic fiat!

No committee of 5 partisan appointees -- guaranteed by formula to be 3 members of the president's party, and 2 from the opposition party -- should have this much power over something as fundamental as "communication".

Would we let the FCC reclassify printing presses as a "transport service", and thus subject to their regulations about ownership, subsidized access, suitable proportion of "public interest" content, and naughty words?

Do we want the internet to be as diverse as unregulated books and magazines, or as pandering to the-powers-that-be as FCC-regulated broadcast TV?
The 1996 Telecommunications Act repealed regulation which was creating an artificial secondary market. That's simple deregulation, which is vary different from what your implying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996
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It has that reputation because it does crash. Also, Steve Jobs mentioned that it's the #1 cause of Mac crashes, and I saw someone link the Firefox crash reports that seemed to agree, too.

Just because it works well fro you doesn't mean it does for everyone else.
That is a nice story, but it isn't true. The FCC has largely been the police of the electromagnetic spectrum. Certifying people and devices, regulating transmission power and frequencies, the FCC has taken care of the limited public property of the spectrum, attempting to promote the public good. While the definition of public good controversially includes notions of decency, that is a small part of the job.
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Remember when HN was called Startup News?
And that would have made you a criminal.
stuff appears to look better and works better

Gotta say, this makes a big difference!
Lets look at an example guys. What if a student while in college had a disability. Now while I was in school, my University used its own private servers. Though upon me leaving, they switched to gmail. Now in my school, the office of disability services used email to schedule test taking and other arrangements. Now that they use gmail, google knows which students have disabilities. Data like that is quite scary if ever made public and if it ever was breached those students like myself, likely would never ever be able to have a career they have worked for.
> Killing people, especially in batches of 50 or so ...is easy. Doing it in a spectacular way ready for media consumption is very hard

Depends on who those 50 people (or less) are. The attack on the Sri Lankan national cricket team bus in Pakistan was a type of terrorist escalation that Schneier didn't account for - celebrity.

Red carpets aren't guarded to the extent of presidents. Nor are most national sports teams (think Munich 1972) or Fortune 100 CEOs. Not a nice thought - but as you say, just being analytical.
How good is `made-in-china toothpaste'? Do you even get it outside of China?
In general I don't think people like the idea of their friends sharing links with them in the hope that they (the sharer) will profit from it.
You are noising the point. The court doesn't want the FCC regulating info seevices like transport services, which makes sense. So, the FCC is saying "you're right" to the court and is treating broadband as a transport service, which it is. Broadband is more like a telephone call than a stream of ticker updates.
Trade unions built the middle class.

No trade unions to speak of... no middle class to speak of.

Without a legitimate threat of strikes costing business interests big money in lost profits, there's no reason for businesses to pay workers a reasonable wage for their labor.
Which is of course ironic given how vocal HN users are about not wanting this site to turn into Reddit.

Then again, Reddit won't let anyone log in right now so your up-votes could be from Reddit users seeking refuge. ;)
Chrome already does transparent updates to the browser, it's doubtful you would even notice that.

But they are talking about a very limited application, only replacing the libraries where they know the exact version ahead of time (only the one's on Google's CDN). I would assume if the browser doesn't recognize a library, it just falls back to downloading it from the website.
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Imagine the security rift this will create between old-style cpus and new. Memristers would tear through current encryption like a knife through butter.
Interesting. You say that after 2000 lines, people are better off with static typing. But then you make it clear that this is only true if, instead of comparing widely used static and dynamic languages, you compare widely used static languages with best of breed statically typed languages that are not actually in wide use.

Where would you say that the trade-off is between dynamic and static if you stick with widely used languages? (From your comments about Java I think you'd choose Python.)

Where would you say that the trade-off is between dynamic and static if both are represented by best of breed representatives? Something like Erlang or your favorite Lisp?

How does it change things if we take into account the widespread availability of useful libraries for some languages but not others? (The infamous "CPAN argument" for Perl being an extreme example.)
to be fair, we recorded with the mic built-in to an iPhone headset. :)
What if there were more single households?
Agreed. I couldn't understand any of what the chick was singing. All I heard was CouchDB! <mumble mumble> CouchDB! over and over
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for anyone unfamiliar with the classification part, it determines how much power the fcc has in regulation. they went into appeals because comcast claims the fcc is overstepping their authority (comcast won, and they're going to go back to throttling like they were before). according to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, a "telecommunications service" is:

offering of telecommunications for a fee directly to the public, or to such classes of users as to be effectively available directly to the public, regardless of the facilities used.

and an "information service" is:

the offering of a capability for generating, acquiring, storing, transforming, processing, retrieving, utilizing, or making available information via telecommunications, and includes electronic publishing, but does not include any use of any such capability for the management, control, or operation of a telecommunications system or the management of a telecommunications service.

a telecommunication service sells the ability to use the coaxial cables. an information service is responsible for everything beyond that. the loophole is when an ISP is considered both, in which case they can't be regulated the way they were meant to be. so comcast, for example, is really a telecomm service, but enjoys the advantages of an information service (a small ISP called Brand X started this whole thing by saying ISPs should be considered both, and that's when the network neutrality debate heated up in 2003).

when ISPs are classified as both "information services" and "telecommunications services," they cannot be regulated the same way and the fcc can't do much when they do stuff like deep packet inspection/injection, port blocking, price discrimination, double dipping, etc.

my personal opinion on the topic has always been this: comcast and other telecomms own the cables in the ground. they are simply moving bits from point A to point B, but they can never manipulate any of those bits. they should never charge you more money to access your bits from youtube, for example. and they should never slow those bits down, for example, if you're using a non-comcast application (whether it's youtube, itunes, google search, bittorrent, or whatever).
I don't see the need for the invasive change. Given the problem that he had I would have written a new function that returned the more complex data structure, converted the old function into a wrapper around the new one, then called the new function in my new code.

Much simpler. Much safer. Much less chance of breaking existing code. (Decent unit tests could help verify this.) And you avoid duplication of logic.

If I wished to convert existing code to use the new function, I could do that at my leisure. Furthermore if someone happens to be developing code in another branch or at another site which expects the old function to be there, I don't break them.
Ignorant, or informed?

I like this game, let's do it with candy:

Swedish berry, or fuzzy peach?
Speech recognition is pattern recognition. Computers are inefficient and relatively limited in their capacity to discern relevant data from complex data sets when the size of these sets begins to soar exponentially. That's why weather prediction in many areas isn't worth much more than a week. Consider how well the human brain can synthesize disparate data in the relatively simple form of sentences with scrambled word spellings. Add to this, the nearly infinite combinations of vocabulary, grammar, voice tone and context of speech and we can begin to see the scale of the task of matching with programs and algorithms, what the human mind does unconsciously in real time with a high degree of accuracy.

http://simplebits.com/notebook/2004/01/16/mipellssed-wdors/

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Interactive any-to-any broadband is more like speech itself, or a free press, than it is like either a telephone call or a TV station.
I'm from Dunedin, and we have a local group of web entrepreneurs called The Distiller (http://thedistiller.org/). I would imagine there would be something comperable in Wellington, given how many web based businesses exist there.
Great. Now I might not cringe every time I see a Scribd link.

A flash PDF reader is worse than useless. I can't use flash on my iPhone, and the Scribd reader used to break back when I used an Ubuntu machine. And it certainly never ran great on my Mac. When you consider that I already had perfectly fine, and free!, PDF readers on all three devices, Scribd was actively harmful.

But an HTML 5 PDF reader could actually be useful! It may be more lightweight than downloading a whole PDF. It will certainly be no worse than what I can currently use to render and read a PDF.

This is good. Scribd may change their image as a widely hated startup.
And one day someone outside of the Apple campus is going to wake up and realize that a big bag of features is no longer enough; you have to combine them all into a seamless environment so that people[1] can actually take advantage of the cute bits of electronics you stuff into ever smaller packages.

[1] By "people" I mean the 99.999% of the world who do not bother to read instruction manuals, would never use a command-line interface, and once had vcrs whose clocks always read 12:00...
But that is part of the problem, Ted is complaining that he's not responsible for fixing Ubuntu's bugs and then people say he's right. Only problem is that Canonical never said he was responsible for anything. So what is he ranting about?
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Toyota had a massive recall, congressional hearings are standard for an issue of that magnitude and even you readily admit "the problem is certainly inexcusable."

I'm amazed you were uprated for real FUD with "politicians trying desperately to raise the desirability of American cars by spreading FUD about Japanese ones" with very little evidence, other than ill-will toward all U.S. politicians.

Pols grandstand during hearings, that's what they do -- the same American pols had zero problems grinding U.S. car makers into the dirt before the Toyota issues, in hearings. (Even Ford, which did not get a bailout was ground down in the Big 3 hearings).

I'd say any of the nationalism was driven far more by the media, who enjoy schadenfreude for ratings.

Toyota was targeted with cause as you agree, _and_ no other Japanese (or other foreign) car cos were affected although you push your FUD to the affect that Japanese carmakers were all targeted and not Toyota specifically.

Plenty of Toyotas are manufactured in the U.S. with U.S. work force http://www.autonews.com/article/20090112/ZZZ_SPECIAL/3011199..., and thus have the protection of the congress critters you deride and governors where those plants are located even wrote letters to congress in support of Toyota -- again going against your assertions of U.S. pols attacking Japanese auto-makers.

Further, the "cash for clunkers" in the U.S. did not discriminate against vehicles by company origin or manufacting location, although politicians could have tried to push real policies to affect sales by designing requirements to make U.S auto-makers more favorable....something that would hold tighter to your thesis.

Interestingly Japan did have a similar "cash for clunkers" program, but no U.S. makers qualified, b/c of the rules for fuel-efficiency http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601209&sid=ar3R... . The U.S. automakers didn't qualify fair and square, However, of course they issued complaints and wanted examinations to ensure they had a shot at Japanese subsidies.
Well, looking at the spot, I wonder myself about Ellen's "thick fingers" compared to the size of the buttons at the bottom of the screen. It looks like it requires a control pen (like the one from the Nintendo DS) to properly operate. And I bet my fingers are actually easily 50% thicker than hers.

It's not Ellen's jokes that makes me wonder, it's just the video itself. Ellen's text just highlights what I was wondering.

And judging by the applause at the end of the spot, it looks like she hit a nerve.
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With an Android phone you don't even need a PC (or Mac), unlike Apple's stuff.