skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any chance these sessions are just on flow control and are actually not unresponsive (Ctrl-s/Ctrl-q)?
I've never found anything better than a break from thinking about the subject at hand plus a long hard run. Something about the monotony and the exertion clears your head and lets creativity flow better.

Here's something I thought of while on a treadmill http://www.flickr.com/photos/miura-ori/496920874
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I still prefer a Xilinx FPGA embedded in a Cray XD1! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_XD1
Firefox is the only place I've seen it work reliably — but that's because they link directly and exclusively with liboggplay. They don't support any other codecs or containers (save for raw RIFF-encoded audio (WAV)), so there's no other model to be mismatched with.
Is this more than just a wrapper around WebKit that can also display the article headlines to the left? Or is there more to it than the screenshots show?
- The post I was replying wasn't about that part as far as I could tell.

- The exact same reasoning has been applied to why we commit altruistic acts by richard dawkins (sorry no reference). The general idea is that certain behaviours are somewhat hard-coded and applying them to everyone was a good enough approximation for helping your close relatives in the past.

- This is speculation. Generalisation is quite rational when speculating.
I was interested and looked it up - here it is if others haven't seen it:

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_crea...
if you took care of "business", your co-founder would be out of business. :)
Biology (and any science field). The ability to process massive amounts of data is key.
That's odd, mine says 50.
Actually that is what instapaper is for.
I would hazard a guess that they would be more interested in the crystal's physical formation. "Small" salt crystals already exist! Perhaps they can significantly adjust the atomic structure (less crazy that it sounds) to be optimal?
It is entirely the design.

You might say that everyone else who tries out your artifact is a moron if they can't use it correctly. They would just say that you're a terrible designer with no concern for usability. Even the parts that are well-specified don't line up with how everyone else thinks about the problem space.
If you strap it to your back, not strap yourself into it. In other words, you can walk around with it.
Presumably an exit interview is standard practice? I've had them at almost every job I've left. I love e-mails, because they set the tone and expectation for what you're going to talk about.

I had a friend who thought he was getting a pay cut Friday (like everybody else, who got theirs Thursday, but he was working from home) and he was let go without notice.
The cells on the left represent actual entries in a locally stored db using CoreData, meaning that they will always be there until you explicitly delete them. Each cell represents an Article object that has a title, url, author, and comment link. So, after the article are long gone off the homepage (or even off of the hn database), they will remain in your iPad with substantial information. There is also an Instapaper integrator button that will instantly send any article to your Instapaper account for offline viewing on a variety of devices, include the iPad. Hope that cleared any concerns.
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Why can't you use MATLAB or R?
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Yup, look at Python. Private methods are private by convention (leading underscore), not because the interpreter enforces privacy.

Python code bases scale easily, in my experience.
The answer there is Amazon Payments (works just like going to amazon). I have to assume that Apple will come out with "Apple Payments" at some point as well.
The HN user interface leaves a bit to be desired on mobile devices. Ever notice to "sorry I downvoted you" comments? That is people with touch screens.

Another example, to reply to you I had to find your comment in the mysteriously small text, double tap zoom, pinch zoom, reposition, and then I could finally hit the microscopic "reply" link.

It is a persistent itch that the site itself does not address. Some people do things with style sheets or HTML rewriters, some do it with an app. I'd do width sensitive CSS with the media type selectors if it were my site.
As a matter of curiosity, for what definition of "rogue state" are Russia and China rogue states? I figured the poster was thinking more about, e.g. North Korea.
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Also just found this: http://www.panic.com/

Watch the Transmit 4 text, it shines from time to time.
Can you explain more about how the kernel trick specifically works?
I'll echo the comment on the post. Stop giving him attention. Calacanis is the Sarah Palin of the tech industry.
This is great for a power user, and hopefully for mom too.

To me, it's the same power-to-the-people type of idea where a personal server is advocated rather than Facebook; in this case, it's your browser rather than OAuth.

The only plug-in that keeps me on Firefox rather than switching to Chrome is http://www.andyhalford.com/syncplaces/ because I can sync my passwords across Firefox installations on multiple computers.
You just need to escape the tilde, try ~~.
Which government? We have thousands of them in US, in case you hadn't noticed. My point is that 'the state' is not a monolithic entity, and the comparison of two different crimes in different jurisdictions in different decades doesn't mean anything very much.
Containers get inspected at the ports, missiles are likely being launched before containers reach the port. Unless you are imagining a sinister plot to sneak a cruise missile inland I don't see how this would help.
Sounds like rss to me.
Thanks for the info, didn't know you could do that! What about the classic factorial, though?

(defn factorial
([0] 1)
([x] (* x (factorial (- x 1)))))
Indeed Instapaper can do it directly if you manually go to the HN site, find the article, and load the page; however, let's say you want to send this very old article for offline viewing. It may be on the nth page of hacker news, and you may never find it. Hacker News Reader stores all articles (critical information about them actually) to a db on your iPad, so you can decide to do whatever you want with them at any point in time with no hassle. Instapaper Pro for iPad is also $4.99 while Hacker News Reader is $0.99.
And the iPad isn't really a mobile device. It has a very large screen so large that it is the same resolution as one of my laptops.
> 1.5x as much sodium as it does calories

Unit mismatch? Do you assume mols of sodium?
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Sorry, I can't be bothered to cite a study.

But it seems to have some effect, and eating some more salt is also recommended for people with too low blood pressure.
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Interesting tidbit. Gizmodo didn't buy the device, only paid for exclusivity. Don't want to be a couch lawyer like so many others but wondering if that is meaningful to the possible case against them.
I find that it's not so much inability so much as fear. A lot of people (especially the older generation) seem to think that if they futz with a computer they'll irreparably break it - so they stop and call an expert as soon as something deviates from normal workflow.

You think you're creating a UI that encourages learning by exploration, but a lot of your users are too terrified of their machine to dare click that button.

This is something we need to work with and educate users about - they're not stupid, they're overly cautious.
Unless of course you plan to make a free, ad-supported product.
> Why do gay parents need to prove their parenting abilities when no one else does?

Straight parents are the origin of the our species. Everyone of your biological ancestors forms a direct and unbroken line of 'Straight parents'. It is logical to assume children are well adapted to straight parents and vice versa. In fact we have no other real choice.

When a company develops a new substance and wants to use it as a food additive we naturally ask if it has been tested properly before allowing human consumption. But we do not ask whether commonly eaten foods such as rice and bananas need testing. The have been tested throughout history.

To put it another way,
The warrant was illegal.

Correction: EFF asserts that the warrant should not, in this form, have been issued. EFF's certainly entitled to its opinion, but EFF is not the final arbiter, and is pushing an interpretation of shield laws which has a number of large drawbacks.
I thought the article made it pretty clear that they aren't following in Apple's footsteps. They are working on an optimal environment for netbooks (which Apple doesn't even make), and trying to go beyond the Apple UI to something even better. Do you mistrust these statements for some reason?
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yes, unit mismatch. calories x 1.5 mg sodium. for instance, I just had a bag of cheetos from the vending machine. 200 calories, 360 mg sodium. probably not great.
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Scribd is hard to view. Just look at the source and paste into something for highlighting (or use something like the JSONView extension).

http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/show.json?id=12296272736
Yeah -- #3. Where are you getting this from? And what does your parenthetical "(Or Apple would have denied it and requested that they return the equipment.)" even mean?

It's true that the warrant was executed as part of the investigation into a crime involving Apple, but that doesn't imply that Apple has the level of control over the investigation that you're claiming they do.
This is a bad example -- the unit test is just a recapitulation of the implementation! I hope the real tests aren't like this, in which case a real example would be a lot more convincing.
Does anyone know how this compares with the JVM? I know that there is a java front-end for LLVM, but I haven't seen much comparison information (to be honest, haven't looked that hard either)

Can this be a good way to get (for example) Java code to interact with .net code?
Get cross platform compatibility?

I may not be the smartest in this area, but can't seem to get a grasp on exactly why LLVM is so great, and what it enables compared to (for example) the JVM.
I don't get it. I go to HN using the web browser, and it is bookmarked. What's wrong with that? Easy and simple.
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I use xmarks to sync bookmarks, and lastpass to sync passwords. Both of them work with Firefox and Chrome.
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Hopefully Redis is on the list :)
1) How is this better than just autohiding the panel?

2) The main reason why this would be normally bad for me is that focus-follows-mouse seems to be incompatible with a global menu. On a netbook most apps are maximized so I can see that as being not so bad.
They've been doing this with PowerPC CPUs for a while now.
No one wants to make an app for the iPhone, Android, Palm, Blackberry, and WinMobil when then can just make 1 for the web which all of them can access.

Java failed in this quest.
I think his whole approach is flawed... unless he proves that P=NP (with a constructive not an existence proof) his research agenda and the aim of Wolfram Alpha is stillborn. Setting aside his chronic confounding of existence and consciousness, his plan for searching the "computational universe" is impossible if one grasps the scale of that endeavor. Finding a needle in a haystack is easy compared to what he wants to do.
congrats guys, that's huge. i hope you see a large influx of resumes.
Nothing. See response to nanijoe's comment.
Simple: you don't have the information about what to write next.

As a part-time fiction writer, I generally find the problem is about visualization. I may know what I want to write next, but if I can't see it, then I can't write it. But not everyone writes visually in the way I do. I find the best way to break past that is to go somewhere interesting, and then imagine my characters in a similarly interesting place.
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Right. Whoever heard of a journalist making their own phone calls? Everyone knows that rule 1 of journalism is that you just sit around and hope interesting stories will find their way to you. Rule 2 is that you never, ever attempt to confirm any information that does come your way.
What you are paying for at $8000/cpu.
Couldn't agree more. My mom can get stuff done (email attachments, etc.) if she is sitting alone and absolutely has to do it.

If at all I am available, she will ask help for the smallest stuff fearing she would break something.

Sometimes I think its not even about breaking anything, but more about not fancying herself to recover from "even more damage."
They are computer illiterate (or internet illiterate to be more precise), but not stupid.
Basically, the idea of feature spaces is to blow up the data into high dimensions. So, we use

x' = f(x)

as our data, instead of x. It turns out that in lots of machine learning algorithms (notably SVMs), you end up only needing inner products between different data elements. That is, we need to compute x^T y for two data elements x and y. In feature space, we need could compute this by doing f(x)^T f(y). However, it turns out that for certain feature spaces (like polynomials) one can compute the number f(x)^T f(y) quite quickly with out ever explicitly forming the big vectors x' or y'.
That isn't what's happening, though. Apple is easily among the best of the best at making cool things — this is debatable, but it's close enough to true that I hope it won't be too controversial. The coolness of Apple's things is orthogonal to whether they're open or closed. Apple sells people on this coolness, and they don't know what they're missing that they could have in an open system. It's much like the "blub problem" — when you're using something that works for you and that's all you know, it's easy to miss ways it could be better.

If people were free to sell their own iPhones with customized iPhone OSen and app stores, then it would be a fair competition in the free market. But as it is, it's not open versus closed — it's open versus cool.
Very cool. Do you guys do most of your backend logic in PHP as well, or just the website?
Or just plain illiterate.
A site with a list of other websites isn't going to be worth a million dollars. It won't be worth a thousand dollars.

Google lists other sites but they have a little more kick behind it.
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I haven't seen any with PowerPC processors nearly as fancy as the dual-core 800 MHz Cortex-A9 they're putting in these new FPGAs, though. The fact that they're building the whole thing in 28 nm technology also kicks ass. This thing is a beast.
Presumably the employees delivered some work in exchange for the investment.
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Yea, the purpose of the test is more to assert that the correct things are being called on Raphael. Since the actual code is so simplistic, these tests really aren't testing that much. In our actual implementation, the tests are actually testing legit logic.

I think that more important point of the post is that it is possible to test javascript graphics on the command line. That's something that's typically considered fairly difficult.
Wow, you are exactly right! It is mostly the Cmd-L shortcut I notice going missing. I wonder why that one is getting eaten but Cmd-N, T, W, and Q all work?

Still a bug, it works on Safari.
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Bring up Amazon in another window and order Steven Pressfield's "War of Art" and just for kicks add Hugh Macleod's "Ignore Everybody"... The latter will put a spotlight on the counter-productive external forces at play that is causing you to grind to a halt. The former will so deliberately and decisively shame you out of your so-called 'writers block' that you will have no choice but to snap out of it...

(Edit) Both books are about creativity. I used writers block in my post because writing is a common profession in the Arts. One book is written by an Artist, the other a writer- and in my opinion, both books will be helpful to any Artist. Including, of course, the Art of programming language..
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System → Preferences → Appearance to tweak installed themes and create new ones. There's a link there to get more, but there's also http://gnome-look.org. The ones from gnome.org are easier to install, because they send the "Content-Type: application/x-gnome-theme-package"
header, while gnome-look.org just does plain ol' gzipped tarballs. (Actually gzip vs. bzip vs. raw tarballs might be up to the uploader, I don't know.) You can also save the theme packages, and drag and drop them in the appearance preferences window.

Also, terminology. I think "theme" refers to a packaged deal, which can include window borders, gtk controls, icons, colors, desktop background, maybe more. So the frustrating thing you might find is that you see a theme you like, but it changes your colors and gtk controls, and uses an incomplete icon set, when really all you wanted was the window borders. If you install it, you can do something like revert back to the default Ubuntu theme, click "Customize", and change the window border to the one installed by the theme. This is is probably easier than trying to customize the new theme itself, especially since if you're used to the Ubuntu theme, you'll probably find that your desired look has more in common with it than the new one you just downloaded.

My enhancements are pretty low key. I mute the colors, scale down the font size to 9 to make more use of screen space, and use the SlicknesS window border, which has a smaller footprint than the Human window border.

Something else that's mildly frustrating is that the window borders' colors have almost (completely?) nothing to do with the color scheme. If you think, "Oh I like this, but I'm going to get rid of the insane colors.", you're probably out of luck.
I am confused why people are taking this seriously. This is just an idea that happens to have a nice CGI movie behind it. I could think of lots of hypothetical weapons systems too if I didn't have to actually build them, nor was I constrained by any practical limitations.
Also http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/dude-apple/ has more info, but I include it here to avoid multithreading on the same story.
How did you come to that conclusion?

There are a lot of things I don't know and some things I am very new to. If I were to sit down with Brian cox and argue about the nuances of quantum physics I will come off as someone who is Quantum Physics illiterate, not stupid.

To some people the internet is new, mysterious and complicated like quantum physics, simply because they are not very familiar with it or interested in the technical aspects of the internet doesn't make them stupid.
> His core belief was in the concrete word for word truth in the bible. Intelligence didn't really play into it.

Intelligence plays a key role in that, that core belief didn't get there by accident and an intelligent mind would not allow such a stunningly ignorant belief like that to take hold. You can't believe the earth is a few thousand years old and also claim to be intelligent. You might be intelligent about other things but in this you'd have to be willfully ignorant to not know how wrong that is.

A truly intelligent mind re-examines any belief that is called into question with reasonable evidence. Sticking to your beliefs against all evidence to the contrary is stupid, and it makes you stupid.
I for one welcome a dedicated app for the iPad espe ially considering the memory limitations with mobile safari on the iPad restricting the number of open tabs.

The sidebar back button is a nice touch. One suggestion I would make though is to do something else with the page curl when clicking the "view" button. It's a nice effect but having the page curl remain visible makes it seem like you can just click the exposed page curl to go back and bring the native app back into view. Sine this doesn't actually do anything it's a bit awkward to keep hitting it instead of remembering to hit the sidebar back button.
for me, the only thing keeping me off of chrome is that it has no "master password" concept to protect stored passwords. on firefox, i use the master password timeout extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1275) so it has to be re-entered after a few minutes of not using it.
Can't help but laugh at the Homestead ad served by Google. Very relevant indeed.
Actually Android apps are required to be signed too. It's just the restriction on who is allowed to sign it that is looser.
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I'm a big fan of the old school Hacker News http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=3...
Ask HN: Can someone explain how Groupon works?
I'm curious how the model works.

Also, do you think they seek out partnerships with a lot of shops, or only franchise businesses who can help them scale.

How does the Groupon team scale? Are they mostly business dev. and sales guys? or they build something nice and wait for the shop owner to discover them, offer coupons etc.

How do the businesses afford to give 90% off on items and still profit?

Basically I want to get an understanding of Groupon as a customer, but also as a curious startup guy. Hopefully some of you guys can shed light on the business side of things as well.

Thanks
Sure it is - it may not be competing directly with OSX hardware-wise, but at the end of the day they are all desktop/laptop UIs.
How can you confuse a newspaper article with a login form if you have any ability to read and understand what you read? Yeah, the word facebook is used, and the facebook logo is on the page. But if you RTFA...

Anyway, acting stupid is as bad as being stupid. Worse, even.
It can in principle, and this is exactly where the kernel trick is useful.

The standard SVM formulation can only give linear classifiers. But, if you project your data into feature space (a higher, possibly infinite dimensional space), a linear separator in that space can be a circle in your original space. Since you can not do explicit computations in an infinite dimensional space, the kernel trick lets you get away without doing them at all. You can thus get an inner product value of two infinite dimensional vectors using a kernel function. So classifiers that only require inner product values and never the explicit vectors can exploit the kernel trick. i.e., SVM, logistic regression, etc.

That being said, choosing the appropriate kernel function is not always straightforward for your data.
Wow, this looks ugly. It just goes to show it is a lot harder to design for the ipad, with its much larger screen than for the iPhone.

For example, it seems silly to have the headlines (the most important info), crammed into the small bar on the left, with the huge space on the right used for displaying one headline and a menu. This is a waste of space.
stupidity isn't very common... but laziness and indifference are a different story.
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Thank you CraigPJ for the constructive criticism. Will try to implement better usage of the page curl in the next version.