skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Citation needed. I read that they changed premade ELO adjustments to be negligible for bad players and high for good players. This was like a year ago or around that.
Yeah I was reading about those. But if you look at that, there's clearly some point to his previous experiments (studying maternal attachment) whereas it's incredibly hard to see the value in the "pit of despair" stuff he switched to after his wife died.
Objective-C Tuesdays: synthesizing properties
Not true, poorly written device drivers can only damage poorly designed hardware.

Hardware should be designed with software failure in mind, and in fact should survive being attacked by software deliberately written for the purpose of damaging the hardware.

Assuming the software is going to play 'nice' is assuming that there will be no bugs, that there never will be a successful exploit and so on.
How are you selecting and ranking the stories?
FB became big initially, because their privacy settings were strong. What is the guarantee that a new social network starts off strong on privacy settings etc, will not become yet another FB as they grow big? (reminds me of Animal Farm).

End of the day, I guess it is a business and every business just cares about their profits and keeping investors happy.
Today Willow Garage announced that eleven (rather than the original ten anticipated) PR2 Beta robots, with a total value of over $4.4M, will be loaned out to academic and research institutions worldwide to develop a slew of impressive capabilities over the next two years. The recipients include 7 US-based institutions, 3 European, and 1 Asian. The final list is a panoply of robotics specialists: University of Freiburg (Germany), Bosch, Georgia Tech, KU Leuven (Belgium), MIT, Stanford, TU Munich (Germany), UC Berkeley, U Penn, USC, and University of Tokyo (Japan) -- full details can be found in the Willow Garage press release:

http://www.willowgarage.com/blog/2010/05/04/pr2-beta-program...
I do work-for-hire, yes. I did so much stuff that now people pay me to help them learn how to run teams like a startup and not like the IRS.

And yes, I miss the code-monkey and hands-on PM work. That's why in my free time I still code as much as I can. And why I like hanging out on the net with you lug-heads so much (smile)

So now instead of the building being on fire, they have 50 teams that are taking 4 times longer than industry norms to deliver functionality. How do you fix that without shutting down the place, firing a lot of people, or causing more harm than good?

The thing you run into with this type of work is that everybody thinks they are unique, and they are, to some degree. But also there are a lot of similarities. For somebody without a big breadth of experience who is just reading a book and trying to apply it, it's not so clear what is unique about their situation and what isn't. So there's more to it than training. You have to have a lot of hands-on experience watching what works and what doesn't. Call it strategic technology management consulting.

Actually it's a much bigger fire, but the sense that you are delivering something of immediate value is lost. I've found that as you get better and better at delivering solutions, they give you fuzzier and fuzzier problems, many times with no clear deliverable. Moving from delivering stuff on-time and under-budget to fuzzy-world is not easy.

My job used to be the sharpest guy in the room. Now my job is to make a hundred other guys be the sharpest guy in the room. I don't light the light; I turn the brightness up 40%.

And there is no way you can be a full-timer at BigCorp for 20 years and do what I do.
IBM's CityOne Is Like Sim City, Except the Solutions Are Real
It's all according the prevalence of the topic in the current news cycle. "times square" keeps popping up all over the place, so it is currently #1
I think I may have accidentally left some extra URL junk on the end, from my feed reader, but that's the only thing I could think of. I tried resubmitting it without that and it seemed ok, but then I got rid of it, thinking that if indeed it irked the powers that be, best to not insist.
This article has a lot of opinion and no facts. It also does not say anything about "Why He Won't Pay for a Song".

If you want to get facts about psychology of free I suggest reading "predictably irrational" book, the author has actually conducted experiments to measure the psychological shifts around the price of zero to confirm his theories.
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On a big pile of money.
"In the same way any kind of picture, drawing, or print can be transferred from one place to another. It will be possible to operate millions of such instruments from a single station."

Apparently he also predicted botnets...
I disabled minimise to status bar in outlook as soon
as I moved to W7

I've had a google in search of this and not turned up anything. Playing with the view of things in the systems tray doesn't fix the problem of it staying near the top of your MRU list, against windows convention. How do you do it?

Win+num swaps by application, but not by windows.

Win+tab has a horrible transition effect that I don't seem to be able to turn off without destroying the feature altogether.
I understand the philosophy behind adding to a player's ELO when doing a premade. But I feel that part of the problem is that relatively new and inexperienced players (which I consider myself and the people I premade with) are going to be matched with higher ranked players. This makes it really hard and discouraging for you to play and get better when you are constantly losing to better players.

Personally, I enjoy playing the game with friends, it's more fun that way ... just not so much when you are losing badly every time.
It's best obviously to do both though. You really don't want saggy skin falling off your body all over the place...
The catalytic converter is actually a bad example because by chipping your car you could conceivably change the mixture in such a way that the exhaust gas temperatures would go outside their permitted ranges, and most cars don't have a failsafe for that.

To actually prove that the chipped ECU was the cause is still going to be pretty tricky though, but the catalytic converter is for this purpose still very much part of the engine.

The seat upholstery, the window glass, accessories and so on are likely to be unaffected, they are literally along for the ride, but almost every other part in the car, even including the suspension and the chassis would be operating at higher stress levels when you increase the engine power.

If the manufacturer pleads its case well they might be able to make that stick. If they sell the same model with a higher powered engine but all the rest of the drive components identical they're out of luck.
I find this interesting, but not that impressive.

When I was about 5, I predicted the iPhone.

Well not exactly the iPhone, but I made a lot of drawings of a device with phone, computer with touchscreen, music player, etc., in roughly the iPhone form factor. Since I am very old, mobile phones at the time were back-breakingly huge, and I had not ever seen a touchscreen.

My "design" was a bit different, though. I though it would look cool to carry the device like a giant Dick Tracy-ish watch. And it needed a very small cassette-tape memory for the computer (that was the only kind I had seen).

I also made a lot of drawings of cars with jet motors. That particular vision has not worked out very well. Yet.
Ask HN:  Inherited a Website...ideas on what can I do with it?
I did not want to imply that the DA did what they did to get back at Gizmodo, I only meant that the previous comment was not clear and might imply that.
Now that I have OnlyForPetLovers.com - around 200 hits a day - any ideas? Is it worth anything?
That's applications level software I presume ?

What if you flash it with a new boot-up image, will they still honour the warranty then ?
Agreed. My resume looked the same for a time, and I had no trouble landing interviews and getting offers.

That said, I've been with my current employer for three years now, and I have no intention of leaving, thanks to their flexible work schedule.
And if a tree fell in the woods . . . ?
I usually buy the RapidSSL cert from NameCheap, $10.95/y or less for longer periods. It's single root (unchained) and signed by a very well supported CA cert. The only downside is no subjAltName (which lets you do both www.foo.com and foo.com).

All you really need to know is what the root CA is, because some certs (even expensive ones like Thawte's EV) are signed by newer CAs that aren't present in older browsers, mobile devices, etc. Also extra "features" like > 1024 bit keys often cost more.
I'm really excited about CSS3 lowering our need to rely on things like jQuery, but I can just see some lame tool being made that allow people to animate things and we see hundreds of horrible CSS3 animations.
Apple Tweaks Wi-Fi in iPhone to Use Chinese Security Protocol
I think that is the only time I've seen a CSS preloader. That in and of itself is amazing.
I'm with everyone here that this talk had little actual information, but I did take away one neat observation.

Back when he was an astronaut, when his shuttle landed and he stood up in gravity for the first time, he felt like he was on an elevator going up at 1g. I think it's neat because his brain had learned during the space flight that any acceleration means motion. Once he was back on Earth, his brain had to re-learn that the constant 1g we feel does not mean motion.

I think that has more implications for how our brain works and interprets stimuli than it does physics, but it's still neat.
Starting to become techie in NYC, Perspective of a female/20ies/entrepreneur
I'm not quite sure I understand the effect with galaxies. So let's say from two opposite parts of a galaxy we would expect certain difference in red shifts because of the distance (one part is farther than the other), but what we observe is not that?
"anybody that willfully places an animal in such conditions just to see what damage will occur ought to be shot." - agreed.
Woz would like to speak to you about his Prius.
It's important to remember that Calacanis and Suster are writing advice from a selfish standpoint. Of course they want the people they hire to keep working for their companies no matter how shit the conditions are. If I were them I'd be writing about how the best way to get ahead was to come and work for me for free.

It doesn't mean it's actually useful advice for someone who wants to get ahead.
Whether it is worth something or not is what you'll find when you try to auction it, but at 200 hits per day that's not bad at all.

You could start with putting a pet lovers forum on it and see if it takes off, sounds like the perfect domain for it.
Today I am officially predicting a cure for cancer, personal spaceships, a grand unified theory, and a female president. I am a genius.
I wish we had ethics committees for human beings that we locked up without trial for a decade in Cuba or tortured around the world.
No, you were making a point but you phrased it as a question, which is annoying. That added together with the inanity of said point (my opinion, but probably one I share with others) caused one person (not me) to mod you down.
This is very cool, and it brings a question to mind:

I've been using GWT a lot lately, and thought to google around to see if anybody had done a Haskell-to-JavaScript compiler:

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yhc/Javascript/Programmers_gu...

While GWT is independent of what you have on the back-end, a lot of good comes from being able to use java objects as shared currency between the client & server over the RPC mechanism.

So, as an OO practitioner who is curious about better languages, I have a question: If one were to have haskell on the server side, and haskell as a source language on the client side, how would an RPC mechanism look for communicating between the two?

In GWT, the object serialization and Command Pattern works very nicely. What would you do in the purely functional world?
"Animation can be a little jumpy 1st time around..."

No kidding. It played horribly on my 3-year old macbook. This is the sort of thing that played smoothly on flash back in 90's. I want css3 animation to replace flash very badly, but this is the strongest piece of evidence I've seen yet that css animation isn't quite ready yet.
Not really. If they derive a cure for cancer unethically, and I have cancer, I'll be the first in line for it.
Have you clicked "flag" yet?
Misleading Means - outcomes are typically not typical
Is it just me or does this look awful? Using Safari 4 I get loads of judder on the animations and the bitmap scaling is really poor.
I'm not sure why Apple gets so much hate for this. I can think of at least 3 other companies that do exactly the same thing and have done for years:

- Microsoft - Xbox and Xbox360
- Sony - PS1, PS2, PS3, and PSP
- Nintendo - NES, SNES, GC, Wii, DS

Why should Apple be treated any differently than any game console manufacturer? Every one of those game console manufacturers void your warranty if you mod them. Every one of them restricts which development tools you can use to develop on them, and has very stringent application approval processes.

Why is it that Apple all of a sudden deserves special anti-trust attention? Is it because they developed a game console that also happens to be a phone? Or maybe it's because they developed the first phone that doesn't suck.
<timewarp> I'm really excited about Flash lowering our need to rely on things like animated GIFs, but I can just see some lame tool being made that allows people to animate things and we see hundreds of horrible Flash animations </timewarp>
This is like a dispatch from Bizarro World.

My parents' Carter-era mortgage was for 15%+, mine signed last year (well before my mid-30s!) was for 5.5%.

The rest of my counterexperience is just anecdote, so I'll spare everyone the details and just ask:

Do you have even a single shred of evidence backing up your nostalgia for things you didn't actually experience?
For that 5 year old kid: http://www.madv8bike.com/id10.html ;-)

Thrust =2,450 lbs aprox 3,800 horsepower
+ after burner another 1200 horsepower
That's a really interesting use for searches. Seems decently well designed, too.

Given that you can search by day, week, month, etc within Google, and even see charts of hits, it'd make sense that they want to allow searches for future dates too. I'd imagine that, if they developed their own, they might be fighting a patent case really quickly. It's probably to cover their asses and get a jump-start at the same time.
Right click on Outlook status bar icon and uncheck "Hide When Minimized".

It's just that it provides a mix of MRU and static ordering. The goal for me typically is to move to a frequently used app e.g., my IDE/Browser asap. Win+<num> gets hardwired and I don't have to remember if my fav app is third/fifth from my current window/app.
Good point. I thought that just as I clicked submit. I guess it's the same no matter what the technology.
Three out of four ain't bad...
37signals’ Jason Fried talks about Rework, business and more (video)
more insightful then Heinrich Hertz:

When asked what comes after his discovery that Maxwell's radio waves exist, he replied 'Nothing, I guess'.

http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/HERTZ_BIO.html
Thanks, I'd never heard of NameCheap before.

I see that they resell GeoTrust at $47/year (which is a nice discount from the $250/year I'd been expecting to pay), but what's the difference between that and their own $9/year certs?
"One day I was showering there when a friend in the next stall said, “Boy, you must really be enjoying this hot shower."

I require more information here. Actually... on second thoughts, I do not require more information here.
Alas, you're right. I get 2.5-3.5 hours from my eee PC's 4400mAh battery; they have a 850mAh. Even though they have a much smaller screen and slower CPU, which will draw less power, a x5 smaller battery is definitely tiny.

Still, to get it down to 126 grams is amazing (incl. battery) http://sharism.cc/specs/ My eee weighs x8 (1000 grams).
Actually the point was that lack of direct social contact leads to depression. Interacting with people though a digital interface also probably leads to a similar, albeit not drastic, of an effect.

Personally, even though I have access to more people and more information over the net, I am less social and that does have an effect on my mood. I have to make an effort to spend face-to-face time with family and friends to become "normal" again. (By "normal" here I just mean "not depressed"). Digital interface just doesn't cut it, there is some physical aspect to the interaction that cannot be transmitted even through a video conference. Anyway, I don't have anything to support this, just a personal opinion.
Ok, so this guy really has no clue about antitrust law, so why even write about "How Apple is Breaking The Law With The App Store"?

According to Sherman's Act, restrain of trade is only illegal when it can serve to create or further a monopoly. You and I can agree to never deal with particular Joe Shmoe, but as long as Joe has plenty of other choices in his life it's ok.

The crucial point in defining monopoly is defining "the market". Apple is nowhere close to monopoly in cell phones, so it's not possible no nail them from restrain of trade in e.g. accessories using Sherman's act. Magnuson-Moss act is another story, though (the same act makes illegal for car manufacturer to void warranty if you use alien spare parts in repairing your car).

It gets a lot more interesting if you consider digital download music to be it's own market - a clear near-monopoly and any anti-competitive tactics will serve "to create or further a monopoly". Now would the court decide that "digital music download" is a separate market from "plain old music retailing"? This question is impossible to answer without litigation. Similarly, "application software for mobile phones" may or may not be a separate market from "plain old computer software". Apple is a near-monopoly in the first and a blip on the radar in the second. Another interesting area is "mobile internet access" - Apple is a near-monopoly in that "market" as well.
The problem with modding a car is this:

- If I mod a car such that it performs better, but violates emmissions and safety laws, is such a modification legal for street use? The law says no.

Similarly:

- If I mod the baseband firmware in my iPhone such that it lets me use it on other carriers, but isn't approved by the FCC and might cause interference with approved devices, is it legal to use it on the airwaves? The law also says no.

Also, flashing the baseband firmware on a radio could definitely cause permanent, irreversible damage. How can you legitimately expect any hardware vendor to honor a warranty after this?
Nokia wouldn't allow you to flash your 3G baseband firmware. That is what SIM unlocks do for iPhone. Once you've flashed it, you've lost all FCC approval because the FCC approves a specific hardware and baseband firmware combination.
Torturing monkeys to prove points about depression?

Depression sucks, and the worst versions of it could certainly be compared to torture in terms of the misery inflicted on the suffer, but I find it questionable that one could link externally-inflicted torture and depression in such a way that these experiments would have any value.
It's not free, the price is bundled with the hardware. If you pay as much for your windows laptop you can include PDF software in it as part of the cost.
It's just a side project right now. And amazon cloudfront is amazingly inexpensive. It would take a lot of adoption before I would need to start charging anyone.
Simple counter-example:

1) I buy a macbook pro (covered under warranty, etc)

2) I install software that disables the fans

3) I update the firmware to disable the automatic shut-down when overheating (or move it so it only happens at an even higher temperature)

4) I run high-cpu software until the machine crashes

5) I repeatedly do this for months on end

I'm pretty sure that machine will be toast soon enough. Is it fair that I should then take it to Apple and ask for a new machine "because it's under warranty"?
I didn't see any animation, just a bunch of still images. And about 10 seconds after the end, I heard the music.
Interesting; it ran without a hitch the first time in Chrome for me on a T500 ThinkPad running XP.

Avoiding any critique of the animation itself, that was surprisingly well-executed. Considering we're on the equivilent of "1.0" tools right now (both in terms of rendering and development/design), this little demo put a smile on my face.
Dear god. I had no idea.
Tesla probably needs accolade for his achievements (solution of all the AC transmission "problems" in one fell swoop etc.) more than for his predictions (every genius tends to make pretty accurate projections IMO).

He's generally forgotten (by the public) compared to Edison when his contribution was probably greater.
I have always been AOE follower, I have been observing the hype over Starcraft lately and wondering how is Starcraft different from AOE? (its like is it something huge I am missing)
Flash could have done it better. And Flash is the CPU hog, right?
Looked stellar also on Chrome 4.1 on a Vista laptop.
Happiness, like loneliness, is contagious
Oh yes. That must be the future.

Or perhaps this, ever so slightly more practical, one: http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com
>>> The whole point of patents was to increase innovation not stifle it

Don't tell the lobbyists that. They've worked really hard to make sure that the point of patents (and all IP law) is to protect large companies from innovative newcomers on the market.
Rather than going to someone's blog where they add nothing, go directly to Memory Alpha, of which this blog entry is pretty nearly a complete copy, adding nothing of interest.

http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Rules_of_Acquisition

Hint: If you're going to rip off someone else's content, try adding something relevant to it. From the Hacker News guidelines:

Please submit the original source. If a blog post
reports on something they found on another site,
submit the latter.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I do it with Inotify

http://maht0x0r.blogspot.com/2009/06/serialising-multiple-wr...
RIM's Blackberry Tablet will be dead on arrival
Man that looks both scary and a lot of fun at the same time.
I appreciate the use of CSS3, but that's the Strongbad-lookinest rendition of Spiderman I've ever seen
Dilbert: Today we're going to learn what time is. Imagine a donut fired from a cannon and spinning at the speed of light. Time is just like that, but without the donut and the cannon.
BitCrumb - Shine a Spotlight Through Your Searches
Having also graduated high school in the middle of the dot.com bubble, graduated undergrad in the middle of the dot.com bust, and been hustling ever since, I am also a job hopper. I don't have much trouble landing work because I have a particular work ethic.

It's a simple heuristic. If I can leave my employers in a good state, I go ahead and job hop. I stay until the project is done, and then I feel ok leaving or staying and take on the next project. Very often there is no next project lined up, so I am compelled to look around.

I think if you have a habit of abandoning jobs in the middle of projects, leaving your employers holding the bag, you are a flake and a risk to hire.
This ... words fail me. I'm not against reasonable experimentation in animals (for drug research and related) but this seems just like some sick psycho's idea of research. The article says the experiments were controversial but check out Harlow's biography, he got two awards after conducting these experiments. My view of psychiatry (clueless people trying random drugs to cure things they don't fully understand) has sunk to a new low. To me this is no different than Mengele's experiments. Do we take pity on him because he was depressed.

Jeez, this article ruined a perfectly good morning for me.