skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The iPad was rumored as far back as May 2001:
http://fury.com/2001/05/apples-ipad-the-next-big-thing

:P

But more seriously, it's not quite clear to me why preorders are particularly relevant here as the marketing approaches are so different. Most iPads are sold directly by Apple, whereas a console game is available through thousands of retailers. It makes sense that those retailers were taking preorders a long time before release. (I'm sure somewhere preorders were being taken for the now perhaps cancelled Win7-equipped HP Slate, despite the lack of an official release date.)
that's why you don't use stop loss, only stop limit!
Flash
I just started up Pandora, Tom Waits was playing, and I was interested in the song, so I googled it. When the first site I clicked loaded, it popped up a Flash based box asking me to sign in, which is aggravating enough; I don't care about your crappy site and I'm not signing up/in. More to the point, I closed the dialog box, which then crashed Flash, and thus Pandora. Great.

This is why I support Steve Jobs' position on Flash; it can't die quickly enough.
Gabriel, thanks for writing this up.

I've noticed similar results from Twitter. I've only got about 1/3rd as many followers as you on my primary account but follower count has been growing fairly steadily and organically (ie., I haven't been doing mass follows or contests or anything like that). I've had some worthwhile engagements with other users but Twitter has been terrible as a traffic generation tool.

It doesn't seem terribly hard to grow follower counts for their own sake, but I'd love to hear stories about if and how others are successful with Twitter. (Where success is measured by a metric that has value outside of the Twitter-verse.)
An article full of children's words: 'Lost', 'Won', 'Players', 'Game', ..

Nobody will ever convince me that everything is alright with this type of trading, where lottery-style winnings are praised. It's not even about being a shareholder in a company you identify with, it's just about gambling at high stakes. It just shouldn't be this easy to make or lose money. It's the same disregard of reality that caused the investment banks to tumble.

How will we ever get back to sane investments with good intent for the businesses in question?
I only watched the first five minutes or so, and found his treatment of the host distasteful and unfunny, and gave up watching it.
Good point. Although, I have to add that the trend has already reversed. Most IITians now consider IIMs beneath them. "Only mediocre crowd goes to IIMs" says a recent fresh graduate from IIT Kharagpur.

The reason is that IIT grads are now able to get the same jobs and roles as the IIM grads - McKinsey / BCG / Goldman Sachs / and other investment banks have been regulars at IIT campuses for quite a few years now. Their reasoning goes that why not catch this talent early instead of getting the same bunch of people from IIMs a few years later.

It's indeed sad that there is not enough money in the core engineering disciplines yet.
Sure, it's a bit of an ad for their teardown report ($4500). This seems really expensive given that they haven't done a SI-style CPU decapping and imaging. This is only for board layout and a few performance tests they ran. BTW, it looks like SI was acquired by UBM TechInsights.

Here's a direct link to the pdf, which gives more info than the web version. Note that their decapping and imaging seems really poor -- first photo has all metal layers intact, second seems to be badly milled so very little is visible. The article seems to hint that this is an early version and they'll be following up with more details later.

http://www.ubmtechinsights.com/uploadedFiles/Comparing_Apple...
Someone called it a "display of digital nukes". Here is a quick chart I did on spot market EURJPY which is a proxy barometer for equity markets (it is corelated, like copper price is for world economic growth): http://i.imgur.com/E6MK2.png massive inverse cup and handle on a daily chart. So it is by TA, straight from a textbook. Movement was rather dramatic though, and still more to come after a bit of consolidation (from a week to about end of the summer at most).
That makes things a bit better, but a lot of first names are embedded in email addresses...
The obvious reason is here "HN is getting too big" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1329147 many articles are disappearing off the new posts pages before many people get a chance to see them.
Manually implemented something like this in my fbook account, but it was a major pain to do and doesn't provide all of the proposed functionality/openness.

It would ruin much of their "walled-garden" strategy to let this work with other services. What they believe is their strength, will become their weakness.
that's pretty ridiculous conspiracy theory!

here's more knowledgeable answer:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/37019184

As near as I can tell from talking to market participants, there is no rule on this. This appears to be a compromise reached among the electronic markets.

But why 60 percent? Why not, say, 40 percent, or 30 percent? Not clear, but one obvious answer is that there are a lot fewer trades that need to be busted when it's at 60 percent versus say, 40 percent. This saves a lot of grief.
One important point which the author fails to discuss is the fact that someone who has a history of job-hopping might be bad at choosing where to work. I agree with the statement that "if you are job-hopping, you are over-qualified," except that I would add that if you are job-hopping, you need to do more research on the shops where you accept jobs. The job-seeker is responsible for making sure they actually want to work for their potential employer.

Thus, I think it is legitimate to hold job-hopping against a candidate (to some degree) because it may indicate that they will not put forth due diligence before they accept a job offer, and therefore they might be accepting a job that they don't really want.
well. what do you propose?
And, sometimes, which resources to use. (E.g. for computer books, I find the best 10 times or more effect than the median.)
In general, this is an invalid inference. Consider the heap paradox and the continuum fallacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_fallacy
A few years ago I tried to mangle COS into compiling on Microsoft Visual C++. The problem is that COS's syntactic magic relies on C99 features like variadic macros, and MSVC still doesn't implement the ISO C99 standard.

Microsoft does have their own incompatible implementations of the necessary features in C++ mode, so theoretically it should be possible to adapt COS to build on both C99 and MSVC++. I never got it working, though. (I didn't spend many evenings on it either...)
Did Inbreeding Kill Darwin's Children?
Perfectly Write In God's Vineyard: Shekel Ha'Melech Europa, Chai, Chai ..
Did Traders Really "Make a Fortune" During Crash of 05/06/10?
Exposé breaks down when you have a hundred buffers open, though. iswitchb cuts through that like a bullet through butter.

The mouse is better for some things (especially relative/spatial stuff), and the keyboard for others, but interfaces that make you switch back and forth are clearly problematic. Rather than popping up dialog boxes and alerts, Emacs displays results (such as compiler output) in another buffer. If it needs immediate input, it uses the minibuffer, a one-line buffer at the bottom of the screen.

In either case, its full text-editing functionality is available. You can run a directory browser/editor, a web browser, shell, interpreter, e-mail client, irc client, etc., and it's just another text window.

FWIW, Marco Baringer's SLIME screencast ( http://common-lisp.net/project/movies/movies/slime.mov
) is a pretty good example of proficient Emacs usage. That convinced me to try Emacs after using vi for several years.
Engines of Creation:

http://e-drexler.com/p/06/00/EOC_Cover.html
Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology
One nice point about vi(m) especially is the fact that its available almost everywhere as most unixy installations got one.

And a nice point of text-based programs generally is that they are easy to use over ssh allowing you to access your programming environment everywhere.
Poll: how should the search feature be implemented?
Today search was added to HN in the form of a textlink to Google. It's currently placed at the bottom left of the page. Personally I feel that such a prominent feature should reside in the header and not the footer. I'd also say that it should be an input field instead of a link. What do you think?
Bottom left as a link
In the topbar as a link
In the topbar as an input field
I started this tutorial with zero prior knowledge of Javascript, but I have still learned a lot from it. I am now 2/3 of the way through. The challenge of guessing what will work helps to keep me engaged. The extra time that I need to spend on a slide, compared to someone who already knows a little Javascript, is probably paid back in extra retention. I love this tutorial and am excited about adding a little Javascript to my projects.
I found this whole performance so utterly disgusting, I can barely believe that characters like that are allowed to perform publicly on this planet, I feel shame. If there exists life beyond earth, I sincerely hope they don't judge us by these exemplars.
Don't have time to investigate the C99 magics in COS. But MSVC++'s implementation of several c99 features are not compatible with normal interpretations (gcc, icc and clang).
A la restaraunt- more french vocabulary
It's often business degree -> analyst at a bank or consultancy -> MBA -> associate at bank or consultancy -> industry job when it becomes apparent that partnership isn't on the horizon.

The problem with MBAs of this type is that they believe management is a universal function that can be applied directly to any industry. The real world is more subtle than that.
it doesn't need to be better than the space shuttle, it just needs to be better than /me/ and really, I'm not that great.

I think this incremental approach to the self driving car (starting with ABS, then moving up to radar braking, etc...) is a good thing.
Are your shoes making you soft and weak?
No, it's espresso, not js2. But don't worry, that was the only sane Javascript mode; js2 is like its own program, completely independent of Emacs. Cool, but useless for real work.

espresso/js actually works like Emacs, and it doesn't try to treat Javascript as a dialect of C anymore.
He says (transcript is below the video) that he left Reddit in the Fall of 2007 but continued working as a contractor until the Fall of 2009 so he doesn't really address the current events of Reddit.
The problem with this isn't technical - it's getting users. You need users to get users, social networks aren't much fun if your friends haven't joined. Joel Spolsky has written a good article on this: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html

That being said, and if you can solve this problem which will take up most of your time it's a nice idea.
A Comparison of Dedicated Servers By Company (infographic)
That's actually not exactly what's happening. The force on each of the cars is identical, but the major difference I see is that the F150 is actually much taller than the escort. The grill/engine of the truck hit the car above its center of gravity.

All of the impact energy went into the truck's engine block, but into the passenger pillar in the car. That's why the car came off looking so much worse.
Any change on 32-bit machines will require special CPU instructions, massive Lisp slowdowns, or massive integer math slowdowns.

Considering you can't even buy a new 32-bit machine anymore, however, I don't really see this as a major problem.
Why am I getting down-voted? Institutional traders cleaned up because of this, the people that got screwed are the ones without the power to effect any changes to the system. The only way there would be (successful) lawsuits is if the situation were reversed.
TDD is wasting time if...
I thought most modern cars had a sensor that detected if someone was sitting in the seat, and only fired the airbag if there was actually a person there. I know my last rental car (I drive an ancient jalopy) had a little 'passenger airbag disabled' icon that went away when a passenger sat in the passenger seat.
This is just a two paragraph report. I wish they had interviewed her and provided more detail in the article.
We actually do have some data, but a little thing like facts never hinders an uninformed opinion.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1127248
OK, I see. Yeah, the idea of "psychic training wheels" would be good, help get people first doing, then coupling the reward to that action, such that over time one acquires an innate desire to do that action again.

Sometimes that's how things work for me. If I can just get myself over the aversion hump I'm often then able to get on a roll and keep going. By then there's a workable feedback loop of effort and results.
I RT'ed that original tweet from @duckduckgo but it doesn't show up on the twitter search page; is that because my tweets are protected? Also, I saw at least one retweet which was from someone who retweeted because of me ...

All this to say, your stats are likely a bit off ... so take it all with a pinch of salt :)
تعالوا نتعرفوا على بعض - منتدى إمبراطورية العقول
I'm a non-technical founder who's founded one startup, joined another, and am now an Advisor at TechStars - before I go back to B school to get an MBA. And that's after I did a business degree in undergrad.

To me, getting an MBA is all about option value. If I want to go to a big company, it's a prerequisite. If I want to do startups, it's not. If I want to jump back and forth, then it's a prerequisite again. I'm willing to pay $150,000 to have the option value of jumping back and forth for the thirty years after I graduate, not to mention the experience of the two years there, the network I'll have, and the other attendant benefits.

I wrote about this decision last week; maybe it'd be useful to some people here: http://www.sachinagarwal.com/why-this-startup-guy-is-going-b...
Facebook alternatives spreadsheet
so most people hate XSLT. Personally, I find it interesting because it's a language independent templating system, and as far as I can tell, it's more popular than any other one templating system. There's a fair bit of XSLT available out there for your use.

The problem I have with most templating systems is that they are extremely language specific. I want the design guy to be able to style any page, be it generated by perl, php, C, etc...
A quick search for 'travel sized shaving cream' online returns a lot of results, and at least in the NYC area I've never had trouble buying it in drugstores.
Thx--that's weird. However, I took the internal RT counts from twitter itself (they tell you how many times it was retweeted), so if you literally hit 'retweet' I should have gotten it.

Additionally, the end metric that really matters is clicks, which I was able to count correctly, and which were of course not thrilling :(.

In any case, thanks so much for RTing!
If by porous you mean far less than 1% of the population is of indeterminate sex, than yes.

To me it seems pretty solid, compared to pretty much anything else you can tell about a person's biology just by looking at them.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1192791
The Wired post (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/apples-ipad-muted-res...) he linked to isn’t “pundits […] claiming that the iPad would fail.” It’s a summary of their readers’ responses to the iPad announcement.
Dilbert on the lost next-gen iPhone
This was the first thing that sprang to mind as I read the article. How can this be their policy? How can the Nasdaq be so cavalier about this?

"Better luck next time, please come again!"

Even in a casino you get paid when the dealer makes a mistake. The gamblers wouldn't stand for anything else: they put their money at risk. It's only the crooked bookies who don't pay out when a big underdog wins. But even the crooked bookies try this this on the wrong people eventually, with all the expected consequences.
The Technician
It's cool that you're trying for basic API compatibility with Node, and it would be neat if you could make use of some of the libraries that have been written for Node. The only problem with that is that some code written for Node is already using features of Javascript which exist in V8 but not in JScript. Ryan has written about which ES5 features are implemented in V8 and available in Nodejs here:

http://wiki.github.com/ry/node/ecma-5mozilla-features-implem...
What's an IIM and IIT? How much is 900k Rs?
I've heard the libertarian argument that prostitution is a victimless crime a dozen times -- but given that many of the women at massage parlors have been smuggled to America by commercial sex traffickers and are little more than slaves, I really don't understand how the founders and employees of Craigslist sleep at night. Working there seems like evidence of some personal moral failing.
If you zoom in to see Jan 10th 2010 you will see the following prices

http://twitpic.com/1m6vxi
Fantastic.

However, I wish that IPA pronunciations were also provided.
I'm definitely not a fan of HTC's Sense UI. I'd read glowing reviews about it (Engadget, Android Central) so when I went to try out the Incredible myself I was quite shocked at how much I was put off by Sense. Some of their changes are good - I like the phone button at the bottom of the home screen, but they've gone and messed with the UI of practically every program on the device - and I'm not a fan of their "improvements". From the dialer to the car panel to the clock - the Nexus One's UI is, IMHO, much better looking and functioning.

The frustrating thing is that I'm actually seriously considering getting the device, as Google decided to pull the Verizon Nexus One. But I just know that I won't be as happy with it as I would have been with the Nexus One.
That's not what "brave" means.
Another factor that's important to me is that the Nexus One is virtually guaranteed to get Android updates as soon as they're released, while with the Incredible you'll be waiting on Verizon and HTC.
Right. That's what I was hoping to work around by adding an MSVC-specific code generation path to COS, but I didn't figure it out.
There's no need for a detachable scale. If you need the distance between two points right click and select 'distance from here' and then 'distance to here' for the destination point.
Plus it measure the actual distance on road (car or walking or public transport), while the scale can only be used for air distance - which is shorter than the real distance of travel.
I wrote him a mail. It was not by purpose. He will check that later.
IIM : Indian Institute of Management. These are the most premium B-schools of India supported by Indian government.

IIT : Indian Institute of Technology. These These are the most premium tech schools of India supported by Indian government.

900 000 Indian rupees = 19 758.6 U.S. dollars
I've launched a website dedicated to tracking responses on twitter. You will be surprised on the stuff that mostly gets retweeted, so I think your request was simply not interesting to the many.

My website is http://topytalk.com, it has few limitations: displaying only tweets with at least one reply, and missing about 20-40% of all tweets due to technical limits.
Casual users are unlikely to "discover" this
The problem is not money in this case. There was never the equal amount of money in Engineering that they have in business. The problem here is that there is not passion amongst the engineering graduates in general towards there discipline. Most join engineering because there peers are joining or there parent told them to. It is indeed sad that students think in pure monetary terms rather than there passion. I have seen many engineering undergrads who wanted to go into fine arts and joined up just so because there "uncle" told them to.
I'm sure there a millions of little things Google hasn't thought of.

I wish they would tell me how old someone is when their birthday pops up on my calendar. Or how long a couple has been married when their anniversary pops up.
I said that in the post, though I'm very interested in what are the common themes in what does go viral. Can you elaborate?
The funny thing about this service is that users might only need a few immediate friends to join. It's not designed to keep track of your 300 acquaintances like facebook.
Obviously you can only trust a server if you pay for it and have a good contract. It's like an apartment or a safe deposit box.
I don't know much but I have a slight doubt whenever I read something like this. I presume you get an MBA to give you a better understanding about business. And startups are in essence businesses. Then how come having a better understanding not impact your startup?
This is what I would have liked when I was 14. I was more interested in the theory but most introductory material was just about writing software.
Do they have a C# mode yet, or is that still p[r]etty impossible to do?
This idea is awesome. You clearly have a good grasp of social networks. My and all my friends wanna join it as soon as it comes up. You better think about scaling before launch because you'll probably have 100 million users overnight. That's figuring conservatively if only 1/5 Facebook users switch over. Then you'll be a billionaire just like Zuck instead of a talentless career software engineer.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1294899
I don't mind it. Almost everyone plugs their own stuff in guest posts on TC, and I've read plenty of Vivek's brilliant posts to allow a plug like that in the latest one.
I do mind the fact that he maintains his affection towards the MBA and disagreement with Guy although he clearly believes an intense one-year program that focuses on the important bits is a better alternative.
Despite it's age (1986, I haven't seen the newer edition and don't know how it may have been changed) this is still the best general discussion of nanotech I have seen. Broderick's "The Spike" from 2001 is more generally singularitarian but with a lot of discussion of nanotech and is more readable than Drexler. More technical works are Drexler's "Nanosystems" from the 1990s and "Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines" which is online here - http://www.molecularassembler.com/KSRM.htm
New attack bypasses virtually all AV protection
It's a good excuse to play with functional programming, in a
kind of brain-teaser sort of way, but it ends up feeling like a a lot of work to accomplish most of the things you want to do.
Perfect Open Source: Redis, Nginx, Django, jQuery
While I like this solution, I doubt most casual users would ever "discover" this
The easiest way to eliminate HFT in particular would be to quantize the trading day, so that trades don't occur "when they occur," but rather are rounded to some integer-valued timestep. It seems to me, though, that most of the problem with the stock market is in its secondary products—indeces, futures, etc.—and that the simplest thing to do would be to ban the sale or creation of any tradable commodities linked to a stock's value.
Eugh. An awful article with bizarre and shortsighted evolutionary "analysis" mixed with one or two good but un- or wrongly developed points. It does not deserve to be refuted.
Ha ha, if you're a non-American take these pronunciations literally you will end up sounding like an American mathematician!

orthogonal:
US: ohr 'thahg uhn uhl
UK: or 'thog uhn ul