skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Finally, there’s the misguided idea, long espoused by many in the tech community, that “information wants to be free.” But whether it’s in the form of proprietary trade secrets embodied by Apple’s latest iPhone or intellectual property subject to seemingly endless illegal downloading and file sharing every second of every day, information is not free.

> It takes a lot of time and energy and money to write books, compose music, create movies, and design and market electronic devices like iPhones. Such information deserves legal protection, even when it’s been lost in a bar.

weird how he twists this to support an entirely different conclusion at the end. also i don't think the real issue here is whether or not there was theft. it seems pretty clear there was. the question is has the response to it been proportionate and "by the book", or has steve pulled strings?
MIT very much likes applicants who do projects and that's in alignment with what you desire.

Then again, MIT has from the beginning been about a close alignment between industry and itself. Professors are have one day a week that they can work for themselves, undergraduate research, projects and internships (in many departments) are formally supported. Entrepreneurship is strongly encouraged, at least in the School of Engineering.
Hmm Math.floor(3e100) -> 3e100
0|3e100 -> 0
This is really just a truncate that only works on numbers between MIN_INT and MAX_INT.
Do you want to just find dictionary words based on board configuration and a bench? Typically they build a Directed Acyclic Word Graph from the dictionary and then you can just traverse the graph.

So for your example, you start at the H node and follow all paths. Then follow the L path if it exists. Then follow the next L path. Then follow all paths from that node. Then check if the word has ended.
There are other forces that have a part to play in this, although having engineering and other creative industries is important:

1, The change in the nature of money. Once money hand an intrinsic value, it was linked to a commodity: gold or silver. I thought one of the points of fiat money was if you put money in a teapot today, it would be worth less tomorrow. To increase wealth don't people need to maintain the ratio of money they have to the total money in circulation? If the government prints more money the money in circulation is worth a little less.

2, Competition, once the world was a lot less equal. America and some European countries more-or-less had all the technology and drove the pace of change.
MSFT could drag any software company with a piece of software of significant complexity into court over patent infringement however spurious those claims may be. So nobody should ever write software, right?
Great points about poker.

Poker is kind of like rock, paper, scissors. At the beginning levels, you know the other person is probably going to throw rock on the first throw. So your best move is to throw paper (since scissors is thrown 30% of the time on average). This works well as a strategy against beginners.

If you're playing against a pro player, or something that is knowledgeable about the game, this is where being "several levels deep" will come to your advantage and this is the level that professional poker players will play in games. "Is he going to throw rock, or does he think I'm going to throw rock, or does that mean I should throw scissors, etc etc."

I think in beginner games, 3-betting on the turn is an easy fold, but you'll have to start second guessing yourself when playing in a higher-stakes game (as most people try to bluff you on the turn). This is why a lot of people lose a lot of money in high-stakes games. What worked in the lower stakes won't necessarily work in higher stake games, which is why you have to play in a comfortable bankroll. You'll make a lot of mistakes.
I've actually been doing Internet businesses starting at age 11. But my first real business was at age 16 when I started an ISP, web hosting, and shell service company over the summer. We did very well and made a nice tidy profit on that. But I began by starting and selling small websites (forums, game review sites, etc.).

I then started my second real business at 18 where we sold game server hosting, web hosting, and ventrilo services. This company lasted about a year until I took the web hosting clients, built the web hosting services up, and then sold that to a much larger NYC based web hosting company to pursue what would be lead to my third business. Note the progression in size.

My third business was a voice over IP company for computer game players called TypeFrag. I started that in 2002 during my sophomore year of college, and ran it for five years and five full-time employees all while in college until getting a buyout offer of my 50% share that I couldn't refuse during 2007 when I was 22 years old. During that time, I also launched a software company called GameComm under the TypeFrag brand. That company won first place and $75k during a business plan competition and we hired two full-time guys to build out the software for us. That's company number four.

After selling TypeFrag and GameComm, I started in on Carbonmade when I was 22 and have been working on that since. Carbonmade is company number five -- I say company when it's a registered LLC and cash positive and profitable -- and continue to work on that to this day.

So, technically, I actually have 15 years experience working on the Web, but tend to shorten that to 10, because my first "real" company (not just a small money making forum/review site, etc.) came when I was 16... 10 years ago.

You can see my bio here: http://www.crunchbase.com/person/spencer-fry
In fairness over 30% of Americans still don't have broadband access and a physical phone book might very well be faster than going through dial-up

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/23/fcc_broadband_survey...
I'm pretty sure Microsoft have had plenty of practise at creating these sorts of tests :)
No access through automated means? Browsers automate HTTP, and hence TCP, and IP fairly completely... I guess I could go a layer lower and do all my facebook through Telnet and manually typing GET / HTTP/1.1 but somehow I would think they would find a way to say that is more automated, or scripted or something. This company must be some kind of commercial threat more than anything, and the lawyers are reaching.
Not true:
Call removeAllRanges() to clear the selection	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass

They just submitted tests for the features they were working on. Some of which, happen to work on all other browsers as well.
Internet Explorer 9: Testing Center
Sorry about that. Usually when I submit a URL that's already been submitted it just upvotes the existing submission.

I didn't intend to create a new submission, but merely upvote that existing one.
Yeah the ability to easily self-host an identity server or to be able to just pay someone else to be hosted on theirs is hugely important.

Also the ability to easily move your identity and inform people you have moved so they can update. Doing that last part securely is one of the things that hung me up when thinking about it, but I also only really dug into it for an hour or so.
If you're going to look at Sphinx, you'd do yourself a disservice by not also looking at Solr.

Solr has effectively the same feature set, including geospatial and multilingual searching, but it has better relevance, and generally is faster at returning query results (although Sphinx is faster at doing full reindexes).

Also, unlike Sphinx, Solr doesn't glue you to MySQL. Or to any SQL database; use it with Cassandra, Voldemort, text files, quantum storage in the galactic hive-mind, whatever.

(edit: They've added PostgreSQL support, and raw XML support, since I last installed and tested Sphinx about a year ago)

Plus, unlike Sphinx, you don't need to reindex when you add new records, because Solr can seamlessly merge indexes on-the-fly.

I know I sound like a fanboy here, but I spent a lot of time evaluating the two of them for our product, and Sphinx just didn't fit the bill for a large number of reasons. It's a good solution if you just need fulltext indexing in a MySQL database, but if you want to move beyond that, have a look at Solr.

http://beerpla.net/2009/09/03/comparison-between-solr-and-sp...
World Most Beautiful Woman Ever
I agree that there's no technical reason for artificially limiting yourself to a single (but really fast) "computational unit".

But I wonder whether it will be worth the trouble (at least to the majority) if you can basically get away with only worrying about one processor, and that one processor is no longer limited in its clock rate by the current leaking, massively heat dissipating MOSFETs we have today.
This is not a true story is it?
The Bakeoff - Gladwell on cookies, open source and XP
In this special case, where he called a meeting on the basis of a lie about an important thing and was caught out on it?

I agree, it would be awesome, but incompetence plus industriousness at this at this level is seldom found. He wouldn't have been caught out if he hadn't moved to actively trying to get rid of Bobbie.
Presumably their goal is partially to make IE look good compared to other browsers. Comparing the latest beta of their browser to stable versions of their competitors skews the results of their tests in Microsoft's favour.
Practically speaking, blowing up a plane is probably the most difficult option you could choose if you wanted to kill 300 people. Why not pick one of the other myriad unguarded 'soft' targets where people gather?

The point of terrorism is to terrorize and blowing up commercial jets is a force multiplier because many people already have deep seated anxieties about air travel. Most people don't know anything about aerodynamics or how jet engines work, so they don't naturally accept the notion that a tin can carrying them 8 miles above the ground is safe. But people grin and bear it anyway because our culture has created this social fact: airplanes are safe. But every time a plane blows up, all the nagging suppressed anxieties come back to the surface.

Hell, my wife almost became an aeronautical engineer and she still freaks out if I don't call her after landing even though she knows perfectly well that I'm far more likely to die walking to the subway that takes me to the airport than on the flight itself.

There's a reason that so many people drink both on planes and at airport bars. Many of them need to be liquored up to deal with their fear and anxiety about flying. And there's a reason why airlines never ever ever mention safety in competitive terms: they understand that a lot of the flying public are on edge and that even if taking a potshot at a competitor gets them a few extra customers, adding to the general fear will shrink the total number of flyers more than enough to cancel out any gains. A slightly bigger slice of a smaller pie is a bad deal.
I realize your trying to make a statement not a point but even if you don't believe that Iraq is a true war, and certainly even if you don't believe that we should be fighting in Iraq the Military is undoubtedly operating in a "war mode" right now: Troops are fighting overseas and the Military is preparing more troops to be transferred overseas to fight. That's what war operations are about, not declarations by Congress.
Is it just me, or is the whole "open source movement vs XP movement" a completely inapplicable comparison?

It left a bad taste while reading the rest of the piece.
This article explains how Community pages work. My posts with certain key words are posted in a semi-public community page. My guess is that those in my very extended network can see it: http://facebookiswatchingyou.blogspot.com/2010/04/what-you-s....
What a waste to blow this right open. Think of the fun you could have had by friending all the people that trample our privacy with both feet and to publish their stuff a year from now or so.

I'm pretty sure we'd see them wise up quickly when presented with a taste of their own dogfood.

Missed opportunity!
Facebook plans to open Seattle engineering office
Third Party Software Support: Yes or No?
Who can see it though? It appears that a very extended network can view certain wall posts of mine with select words, even though I've limited all my wall posts to select friends.

http://facebookiswatchingyou.blogspot.com/2010/04/what-you-s...
I thought the nook used an LCD screen.
That's a very unprogressive thing for you to say.
"We've always been at war with Eastasia."
the group is called Google Creative Labs. see http://www.notesondesign.net/inspiration/advertising/google-...
http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/uslocations/new-york/mark...
On The Goodness of Unicode
I've lost the link but someone here posted a PDF on propagation networks a while ago. I can see that married to this technology somehow and become the ideal computing fabric.

I'll dig around a bit to see if I can find the link.
There is also a worry about the diminishing utility of money.

If the really big exits are dominating the figures, then that will make the odds of your startup "solving the money problem" seem larger than they really are.

But for a back-of-envelope calculation this could be a pedantic quibble.
I'm not sure it can be built here either. Conjunctured is thriving on the Eastside doing co-working - but I think it's a labor of love.

The other spaces in town that are similar aren't going to make it I'm afraid.

I think the only way to make the economics work is to have founder also own the space, removing the layers of leasing agent and building owner from the equation.
Meet The New Google & Its Colorful, Useful “Search Options” Column
the point pg made, which i was responding to, was: "it's not about being improper, it's that you're giving the reader less information," so i was addressing that.

the original point was "does it slow you down to read this blog because there are no caps?" i don't know whether a majority of people read lowercase slower--nobody has mentioned it since i started doing it a year ago. i personally have no problems with it; i'm not doing stuff like omitting vowels (an extreme example to make a point, imo). i'm just skipping over the shift key.

it's not about aesthetics in my case. more about laziness in typing, and i don't want to do something just because "that's the way it's always been done."
The parts of the ecosystem that are in danger would be things specifically _not_ included in ECMA CLI. For example, Mono implements API's that Microsoft includes in .NET but not in any of the ECMA specs and not covered by the Community Promise. This is because software written to run in the .NET Framework generally uses these unprotected API's and one of the goals of the Mono project is to run .NET apps with as little hassle as possible. So, they implemented these API's for better or worse.

Using the ECMA CLI does not include implementation of unprotected (by RAND terms and Community Promise) Microsoft API's. This constant threat doesn't really apply. No, Microsoft could not pull the plug on this.
Again with the microscopic fonts.
Which doesn't exist yet
Intel Unveils Moorestown and the Atom Z600, The Fastest Smartphone Platform?
If you believe people aren't acting rationally based on the information you have, shouldn't you first question your assumptions?

My own take would be that Al Qaeda is (generally) forced to import plotters, builders and attackers whereas the drug trade uses locals and thus enjoys innumerable advantages.

Simply: 10 lifers in a couple trailers in the back woods of Kentucky, buying, say, a few guns and cleaning supplies in bulk doesn't raise the same flags as 10 foreign guys, new to the area, with funny clothes and accents.

Further, there are plenty of people who know the tweakers are out there cooking meth or the local gang is pushing drugs. But they're such an ingrained regular presence, these people have normalized it into their life.

In any event, if it truly were easier to get 10 guys with guns to open fire in the US, I'd expect we'd have seen it by now.
This is why: http://imgur.com/fwP2Z?tags
Coolest way to Read Comics and Manga: On an iPad
Wow. When I asked this question I wish I had been as through and thinking critically as this guy.

It's so hard to guess what this means but I wonder if I should start writing a memristor VM just to see what could been done.

Even if they are here in 5 years I bet i'll bet longer than that before we really, truly know what to do with them.
That part is mind-blowing.

It sounds like version 0.1 of computronium.
Refresh often disables the cache, or at least does a bunch of if-modified-since requests. Better to type the url again and hit enter.
F5 Interviews Lori Mac Vittie at Cloud Connect
From his own chapter notes from, apparently, 1981:

> ... Having been associated with PARC, I repeated called Apple's attention to the kind of thinking going on there, and it was gratifying that the company took note of and based a lot of the LISA software on the published work done at PARC.

http://www.digibarn.com/collections/business-docs/raskin-mac...

Then he proceeds to describe his plans for the Macintosh word processor, which includes magical spread sheets, a calendar, and the ability to dial stuff. Which, of course, never saw the light of day - MacWrite is entirely opposite of what he describes. He also said that multi-moded tools are too complex, and doesn't mention anything about a desktop metaphor, icons, folders -- and he pans the mouse universally.

So, I honestly don't know whether I believe his account at all. I read his book Humane Interface cover-to-cover, and I simply can't imagine a person with his ideas had as much to do with the Mac design as he claims.

In HI, he seemed to claim the Canon Cat as his proudest accomplishment. A modal word processor machine, with no mouse, and a rather complex and arcane (if you ask me) system of changing operation modes with multi-function keys.

There's more on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Raskin

Here's a description of the LEAP functionality of his Archy interface, which seems to replicate what the Canon Cat did -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leaping_in_the_Archy_inter...

Given the content of his writing, and the nature of his ideas, I have never understood why people in the industry think of him as some patron saint of usability.
The thing is, in this case, Gizmodo didn't really know if it was stolen - there was no way for them to know if it was a legitimate device or a knockoff from China. After they posted it Apple confirmed it really was their device and they returned it immediately.
Universities, Congress push Open Access Research law
why all this hate? maybe they are trying to comply with standards, maybe it will help, maybe we will not have to work twice to align the f CSS on IE? At least this is their formal goal and these are very good news.
That makes sense, but misses one important point: most people who are convinced they are superstars are wrong.
Adobe As The Railroad Tycoon: Apple Needs To Change Its Gauge
This is what anybody should do:

Complain only once with your boss.

If your boss don't fix the issue, document everything and complain with his/her boss.

Continue until you get to the CTO/CEO.

This was actually explained to me by my current boss, he is that awesome.
The summary-compression method used in human group communication/cognition seems very buggy and prone to information loss. And you are absolutely right that this is a textbook case of how very bad it can be.

The first step of compression maps the task description to "navigate". The word "gather" would seem more appropriate, given the past use of these terms and the distinction they are supposed to encode. The second step of compression is really, really terrible. It just drops the qualifier altogether without any marker that it was ever there, which encourages over-generalization of the alleged fact. A simple "can" would have been all that is needed to communicate the existence of some qualification. It is shorter, simpler, and still gives a lower word count than the Intro we got.

Better Headline: Women Can Gather More Efficiently Than Men.

Notice how this one also invites the reader to ask a "how?" question and perhaps want to read the story. Whereas the one we got sounds like a closed fact. It only has provocativeness/argument-starter appeal.
IPad Mania: 5 Free Tickets To Untethered Conference In New York #UNTETH
The Glass Box And The Commonplace Book
You're more likely to get downvoted for predicting that you'll get downvoted than for disclosing in good faith that you work at Microsoft. People at HN have strong opinions about tech companies, but they're usually not uncivil.
Turn Wordpress blog into Social Networking like Facebook
Where's the "Like" button when I actually want it?!
Dailyplaces: Location-Based Microblogging
Clojure's Rich Hickey is clean shaven :-(

I can't find a picture for Qi's Mark Tarver....
Applying to Incubators? A Little Research Goes A Long Way
This sort of thinking strikes me as shortsighted. Ubuntu seems to be getting flack for not having competency in kernel development. And yet, Ubuntu has got to be responsible for driving 10x as much Linux adoption as ext4 or whatever other technical feature you like. There are a lot of people who can write drivers. To date, there is only one company that has even come close to pushing Linux into the mainstream. The benefits of that are very diffuse, but they probably include, yes, more overall kernel developers! Rather than attacking them for not having the wherewithall to crank out kernel patches, we should be thanking them. They bring something to the table that literally noone else has. Even Ted Tso, who is a serious badass, cannot say that.
Considering you are now allowed to permanently store data extracted from FB with their API, I wonder just how easy/doable this would be now...
The speculation is that that authorities allowed him to buy a ticket so they could see if he attempted to contact anyone before leaving.

And being able to sneak past TSA doesn't exactly prove you're a criminal mastermind.
While this is obviously tailored to things that microsoft is doing I wouldn't be surprised if these features end up in the hands of actual users through other browsers first.

Microsoft's upgrade policy for IE is extremely conservative which gives the other browser vendors plenty of time to add in the features and release them to people before Microsoft does.
Who cares? No posts are being exposed to people who couldn't already see them.
Metrics Tree Maps
Raquel Zimmermann Vogue Magazine Japan June 2010
Model Raquel Zimmermann cover the Japan wide issue of Vogue the fashion Magazine for the month of June 2010. Raquel Zimmermann Vogue Magazine scans.
Survey says: most teens don't have a data plan, almost all send texts
Dependency Structure Matrix
Can you honestly say that to the people who were buying triple A investments that turned out to be junk thanks to credit default swaps? Who's fault do you think that is?

Do you blame sick people for not being smarter than a doctor in diagnosing their own sickness?

Do you blame people for dying in a bridge that collapsed because they weren't smart enough to see it was poorly designed?

I could go on and on. The point is that Wall Street has somehow become the only place with no accountability, and everyone is supposed to be an expert.
I don't full grasp the concept but it seems to me that making users set up their computer to act like some kind of peer is a great barrier to entry for everyday folks.