skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not familiar with the environment, but I generally agree. I'd much rather a VC express that he thinks I'm wasting my time than give a noncommital non-answer.

There's a more nefarious reason for the so-called "political correctness", although this may not apply to the OP. VCs never want to say no; it's easier to be noncommittal.
The PyPy developers seem to be pivoting from research mode to creating an actual usable Python implementation.

I'm speculating that this has to do with the fact they're now receiving funding from Google. Google has invested in Unladen Swallow, but that project seems to have fallen pretty far short of its goals, which were less ambitious than PyPy's anyways.

I can imagine Google asking the PyPy developers to focus on creating a real-world usable Python implementation for the short/medium term.
I'm sorry to say you are wrong and parent is correct :(
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That's very interesting, but I didn't understand if all the game is NP-Complete or just that level.

The example strikes me as a level specifically designed to look like a boolean equation, while the other levels in the app website are quite different.
That's interesting. I'd like to hear your argument/read your thinking on that.

Maybe something for its own post. The dynamics of sharing, promoting, and finding content are highly relevant to this community.
It's a headline, not a gambit. What would you have him do instead?

Also, to be completely pedantic: the word was placed in quotes, and the adjective form was used rather than the noun. Which, to me, means not that authenticity is dead, but that using the word "authentic" is (or ought to be) dead.
I suspect you would find many women are mentally impaired during pregnancy, based on my anecdotal experience. The hormones screw up your brain.

But, of course, that's irrelevant, since the men who lost teeth in the OP's study weren't tested for cognition deficits the second they lost a teeth. It was an ex post facto observed link --- and they don't know why.

So my comment had lots of good sense in it, while yours had none.
Nine In 2010: Google's Bump Buy Continues Feverish Acquisition Pace
An interesting story, but I think this is n part an "it depends". I contrast this one with e.g. what I remember of the quick VC fundings of Apple and Sun ... but then I note that their markets were a lot more obvious at the time and there was little time to waste.

(I bring this up because I dislike indecisive VCs, which doesn't seem to be a problem here.)
"Comparing the set with two others published for seed financings, I think the Series Seed docs look better, present better and feel better built. And the deal terms reflected in the templates are better thought out."

http://www.bigstartups.com/wac6/blog/1316/My-Take-on-the-Ser...
Whoops -- well, that's a horse of a different color. Thanks.
According to the quoted sources, anything is hard if you want to do it very well.
The Future of Tech Patent Wars According to RPX
Then you have another marketing problem.
That makes sense as a reason for keeping them as separate sites.

But I know a few others like these have popped up (one for education, one for papers, maybe more?) so at least a master list somewhere would be really helpful.
Explanation of my apparent vagueness on logo design pricing
Stumped. Why not just make a sub-reddit and point people to it? It'd have the same features and editorial control, and a much larger potential audience than a niche website.

Nevermind the cost savings in hosting, development, maintenance, etc.
I usually buy them in batches, esp. if friends recommend them. Knowing that I have some unread books stimulates my reading :)
The post I replied to sounded like a programmer's task, so cli is no problem there.

There are not many important things on the manpage. Usually you would set video quality (-v) and maybe audio (-a) and that's it. Theora does not offer a gazillion switches, it is an easy codec.
Yes, that's what webos is built from: alsa, the linux kernel, webcore, etc. It's a linux that contains those packages, customized for their hardware.

You might as well complain "I wanted a forest, but all I got were a bunch of trees!"
Well, last year it was < 1, due to seriously bad soil, deer, and inexperience. All we got out of the effort was some really amazing basil.

This year should be a lot better, but the deer haven't re-discovered me yet, so we'll see.

I don't really optimize for yield though; there are a bunch of neat things that can be done for that, and I'm partly doing this just because I like playing in the dirt when I'm stuck on the phone.
His game being NP-complete means that if you write a program that can efficiently solve every instance of puzzle that is provided by his game, you can efficiently solve NP-complete problems.

It doesn't make sense to consider any particular level as NP-complete or not, much like it doesn't make sense to consider any particular boolean proposition as NP-complete or not. Even a particularly complicated level or a particularly complicated formula has a trivial program solving it, one that simply prints the solution to that particular puzzle/level without doing any real computation at all.
It's hardly a strawman. The history of personal computing is littered with examples of this, many of which have been covered ad nauseum during this 3.3.1 debate.

Your argument, in contrast, is alternately "that doesn't/won't happen" or "that's no big deal". Which is an assertion that stands against the piles of evidence that it does and is, and an assertion you don't back up at all. Why should middle-ware be different this time?

For the record, I don't think middle-ware decay is a reasonable argument for Apple disallowing it. (I do think it's the argument against developers relying on it.)

I'm just getting rather tired of people either misrepresenting or ignoring the other side of an argument. There's plenty there to disagree with. It makes no sense to pretend that middle-ware decay doesn't or --for unspecified reasons-- simply won't happen this time.
Having spent last two year working prediction of properties of drugs from their structure (Machine Learning),
Taleb's book was the real eye opener.

It made total sense. However the hoi polloi is in search of a charismatic Messiah who has answer to all questions.
And when someone mocks their expectation by presenting statistical evidence, the general argument is how arrogant that person is.

The idea of something can be predicted by using mathematical formulas (F=MA) is extremely attractive, however in Chaos filled practice one finds it more of an exception rather than a rule. The worst part being our inability to choose a proper null model.
No, insofar as it would be so hard to get off the ground commercially. There's already a business alternative in LinkedIn, and a lot of communities (eg Metafilter or various specialist discussion forums) already have the rudiments of a network in place.

I'm rather surprised nobody has made a peer authentication thing for PHP-BB or similar, so that members of on one of the many forums running on this platform can 'visit' another website and cross-post, if you see what I mean.

for that matter I'm surprised Google Wave hasn't been polished up yet - you'd think Google would take advantage of their enormous user base and prior experience with Orkut and Buzz etc. to offer robust group communication with the requisite privacy controls by now. It's not like they don't have all the necessary components.
Except for the resolution (which is 1024x600 for that one as well). I don't know how you can claim "Full High Definition
Multimedia" without offering even a 720p screen.
I was recently in Dubai and they had pictures of it superimposed in cities around the world. Check out how massive it would be if it were in San Francisco: http://www.flickr.com/photos/steven_maher/4444617588/
Speculators usually earn a premium over what they would get via blind luck. If they didn't, there would be no speculators.

The reason why trades occur at all is that not everyone is a pure trader. Hedgers (e.g. Southwest) trade futures to reduce business risk rather than to make money. They tend to make a net loss on trading but earn back a greater amount of money via their core business.
Who could not have predicted this, after the Palm acquisition?

I love my Droid phone and was thinking that a tablet droid (no phone service, just Wifi) would be really nice. The HP tablet with WebOS will also be worth considering.

I read that in a few years that half of Internet use will be mobile devices so HP's acquisition of Palm may prove to be a good gamble.
To murder any competitor, Facebook only has to change their privacy (or other natives) "enough" - whatever prevents enough people from leaving. While you have to create a new model from scratch, get funding, find users, build up a platinum-standard brand...Facebook has to...jiggle the privacy settings a bit? I'd suggest that you'd need a seriously different model to succeed. Not "Facebook with a few changes", but "something Facebook can't get to without breaking their model".

The network effects of having every friend and family member you have on a website is very hard to beat. Google is trying. Yes it can possibly be done, but a couple of privacy tweaks won't do it.
Who will be the first one to come out with an iPhone app that allows you to take a picture of someone and then automagically find the persons name using facial recognition?

It really seems like a pretty simple idea, especially with an API, which is already attached to Facebook, that does all of the work for you.

The API seems a bit limiting, though. For example, you must specify a list of possible users "you're looking for" in order it to find a match. The only way around this seems to be creating a private namespace that includes your own index of all Facebook users, etc.
I'm soon starting a new job as a programmer in genetic research, so hopefully I will find some items of direct or tangential relevance to biomedical research computing. Especially since I have little idea what I'm getting myself into :)
What to Look for in a Co-Founder
And unless the game levels get arbitrarilly large, this isn't necessarily "hard".
What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

He meant it of certain kinds of philosophy, but there may be other applications. In particular, making note of this situation serves directly to expand the problem.
I only wish I could find a woman like this. Tell your BF hes a lucky man!
This is why I'm afraid of getting one, though I could see how separating work (MBP) from play (iPad) might increase productivity/fun.
I have already bought 15 book at Kindle Store, and I don't even own a Kindle—I read them on the iPhone and my Macs.
I am really looking forward to get iPad—Kindle for iPad looks much nicer than their Mac version.
That does seem a bit high but I wouldn't say that it's impossible. If someone is going to spend hundreds on a device that's meant soley for reading, they probably read a lot of books.

Anecdotally, I just got an iPad and bought 3 books I've been meaning to read for a while. Before that, I hadn't bought a book in months. In a way it's like the app store but for books - looking for and buying a book was so easy that I'll probably buy more than if I had to go to the store every time.
The cynical answer would be “so you can out-snob the snobs who buy all their produce at Whole Foods”, but I can come up with a less cynical answer.

Assume that in the long run, rising oil prices and what-not are going to make food more expensive and, in general, degrade your standard of living.

Then it makes a certain amount of sense to get in on the backyard-gardening thing now and invest the necessary money and effort into improving your soil, figuring out what kinds of plants work there and what doesn’t work, etc., so that you actually have something useful by the time the Apocalypse hits.

It makes not quite so much sense to hire someone else to do all this work for you, but, well, if your gardener moves to Oregon to escape the Apocalypse maybe he’ll at least leave you all his notes.

Of course, if I were thinking about the Apocalypse, I wouldn’t want to live in a part of the continent whose residents depended on faraway sources for fresh water. So maybe we’re back to the snobbery explanation. Or maybe I, as a New Englander, am just more of a snob than all the Californians.
If they go into a light meditative trance when hearing the prayer, that may explain it.

The changes in the brain's functioning during meditation are pretty amazing. This has been researched pretty well with buddhist monks, etc.
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Happy to be wrong :)

Edit: oh wait you said Fox.
Does anyone have a reference for Amazon's percentage of physical book sales in the US?
I typically start my argument with the 2 week battery life.
To quote from article:
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Probe Microsoft because Windows doesn’t run Linux apps??
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The author of the article has got no CS knowledge. What are the qualifications for being a geek? Apple Logo and Star Wars?

I can write better articles than this guy.
I think they will use as much of it as possible so that app developers will be able to easily move to the AppleTV platform.

I would suspect you'll see a new remote that uses Magic Mouse like touch tech and the new development tools will make it easy separate out the visual representation from the control interface.

I would also assume that you'll be able to use an iPad/iPod/iPhone as a remote, or multiple devices for multi-player gaming.
Religion installs a backdoor in devout believers' minds that allow advanced-stage mind-virus hosts to deliver virus upgrades without resistance.

I challenge anyone to find a major problem with this summary of the study.
I also got better visuals by transcoding from the MP4 again, so something is very messed up with Doceo's Theora encode. One-pass with 450 kbps video, for about the same size file. (I didn't test the audio).
That's poetic - but is it true?
That's definitely an option, but I wanted something extremely simple to play around with, and I have future plans to expand it once it starts growing. I also like the concentrated community we have here and hope to mirror that with HM. I think having a separate site serves as somewhat of a filter.
Came here to post just that. Both of these books are very old and as such did fall under the public domain a while ago. One of the biggest advantage of ebooks is that you can get public domain books for free. I don't understand why would anyone buy them.
Judging from this video, the iPad seems very responsive.

He is using both an iPad and an APC40 to control Ableton Live using a custom Max/MSP app that was built inside Ableton.

http://binaryally.tumblr.com/post/557336763/apple-ipad-akai-...
Nice. Say goodbye to Slony? I am downloading the beta right now for play use. I would like an easier AWS setup with two EC2s running replicated PostgreSQL.
More the article than the headline, actually. To me it's written in a kind of "broadcast" mode -- choppy sentences and paragraphs, overly abundant typographic emphasis, etc. Reminds me of people who try to win arguments by being loud -- not amenable to conversation.

I really don't mean to attribute these characteristics to the author, who I'm sure is a fine fellow; just that the article brought them to mind.
I understand, but here is what they also get:

- headache and commitment of OS maintenance and advancement on OS that nobody but them uses
- virtually no app eco system

Basically what they are getting is bootstrapping an OS onto the market in their own closed loop of hardware+OS which is an epic endeavor IMHO. They don't have (anymore) tablet nor OS nor apps on the market and now they will try to try to do all three at the same time. I was just saying it might have been better to rely on someone whose job is OS rather than allocate resources themselves.
Well you did put serious in quotes ;)
I just bought the John Derbyshire book "Unknown Quantity."
Same here. The Kindle app was what convinced me to upgrade from a Touch to an iPhone. Above all else I use it as a reader.

The GoodReader app is my preferred reader for .PDFs such as the MEAP edition of Joy of Clojure.
So the Zuckster is mining his users for gold. There's gold in them 'thar hills of users ...
Ironically, I can't decide if I should up-mod you because I agree with your statement at face value, or if I should down-mod you because your sarcasm implies the inverse
As far as I can tell, there's no way to deploy an XNA game to the 360 that hasn't been built with Microsoft's toolchain. I think it's a bit early to speculate about the differences between the two platforms (iPhone OS and X360).
Since in your eyes the iPhone is the _first_ smart phone that qualifies for "any levels of success" it is of course the most open.

I think several smart phones were successful (at least in europe) and had a more open development environment. You could install unapproved apps (up to S60 2nd ed. After that some APIs were restricted for unsigned apps. But even then you could buy those certificates). There was no company I know of that disallowed satire or certain programming languages or interpreters on their phones.

Those phones were:

Sony Ericsson P800 (you could even run javac on it in) and its successors P900/P910

Several Nokia S60 phones before 3rd ed.

With limited APIs S60 3rd ed. like the Nokia E90 (my last phone before the arrival of Android phones)
Japan, in particular, was the only place in the world where hunting and fishing could support large settled populations

Louisiana was more productive than Japan for wild fish and fowl. (Largely destroyed now by bad planning, pollution, and man-made environmental disasters)
Sometimes I'd rather pay $0.99 for an e-book that is formatted well than acquire it for free in a messy unfriendly e-book.
Should I mention Goldman Sachs story here?
Definately. We've had commercial electric cars since 1897 and commercial nuclear power plants since 1956.
Understood. The specific aspect of Digg that I am comparing recent trends to is that of submission of duplicate articles, and the inevitable notification thereof by other users.

A small example:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:http://news.yc...
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I am indeed a programmer and command line doesn't faze me. I use both ffmpeg and mencoder pretty often and I think ffmpeg2theora might've been the one that actually produced something that wasn't crashing players like mad. But even for me it took many tries to get something usable. My younger brother who's web savvy but not a programmer would not have been able to do it without coaching. My mom would've been a hopeless case.

Saying that ffmpeg2theora is easy ignores the huge portion of the population who create their movie in Adobe Premiere or iMovie or whatever and click export and choose "TV" or "Youtube" or whatever format with automatic defaults and it looks good and it works. Until you get a GUI on Windows that's even better than Super (which I really like but is really scary to people who don't do much video encoding) it won't get anywhere. Handbrake is the only program I recommend to non-coders. (And my brother uses it fine.)
Revitalizing Browser Caching
Ask HN: Who here is playing Halo:Reach Beta?
Leave your gamertag. I just downloaded and will be playing tonight after I get specs+mockups out of the way. Would be great to play with some of you guys.
Anyone know where to find a "developer code" to sign up?
Yes it can. It's not a cell phone, but it is capable of VOIP, even on 3G.
Access Control List University (ACLU)

I wondered what the heck the American Civil Liberties Union was doing publicizing Linux security (who knows, it might not be a bad idea).
Good idea, congrats on executing.

I don't know why, but it makes my eyes tired to look at it, as if I was looking at red text on green. Other than that it's great.
techcrunch is not a business he can sell. He is too embedded in the site, all his scoops etc are due to his personal contacts. Face it, he is the face of techcrunch.

Pretty much all the scoops get posted by him. The other techcrunch writers tend to just summarize press releases, they don't do any actual investigative journalism.

I think this is just a case of Arrington making a personal choice not to get raped by California high property values.
"...research supports the likelihood of a genetic basis..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergers_syndrome
Regarding d, you CAN (theorically) build an XNA game with any tools you want. It just has to be compiled to .NET bytecode and use the microsoft APIs for accessing system resources.

Nobody is saying that apple has to give developers the ability to run native code, or to use private iPhone APIs. What they are saying is that Apple shouldn't be able to require us to use C/C++/Objective C to create the executable. That would be like Microsoft requiring XNA to be build with C#.
Silverlight 3 does that: http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight3/ "With the new Raw AV pipeline, Silverlight can easily support a wide variety of third-party codecs. Audio and video can be decoded outside the runtime and rendered in Silverlight, extending format support beyond the native codecs. "
There are in fact technical reasons why XNA games need to run on the CLR. The XNA CLR stack implements aspects of the security model.

The fact that the 360 itself can run "native" code (in fact: hardware-managed code running in a VM) is irrelevant; Microsoft has onerous licensing and contractual agreements with the people they allow to write native games. On the other hand, anyone can write an XNA game.

In point of fact, XNA is more burdensome on X360 developers than "3.3.1" is on iPhone developers. For the most part, iPhone devs are on a somewhat level playing field with Apple (there are clearly exceptions, but the showcase apps on the iPhone tend to come from third parties). Apple's restrictions lock developers into 95% of the same platform as Apple itself uses. XNA is a second-class citizen on the XBox 360. Microsoft does not allow random people to write full native Xbox titles.
This guy clearly does not knows anything about cygwin and mingw. Yet still there are some programs which you cannot run but that is due to lack of features in windows (signal and ptys) rather than an evil Microsoft scheme.

What the author does not understands is that this clause (3.3.1) was originally absent from the agreement and was added for sole purpose of pissing off Adobe. That is anti competitive for sure. IMHO its equivalent to what MSFT tried to do when it started distributing IE for free.
Search Engines don’t create Intent, they Harvest It (Dropbox Analysis)
I have a DX. If you leave the radio on, it does not have a 2 week battery life.

If you meticulously remember to turn the kindle off _and_ you don't use it, you might limp to two weeks. But then you actually start reading a lot and maybe playing just a smidge of music to drone out crowd noise and you're at maybe 2 days of medium use.

Better than an iPad, but it's not some magical perpetual motion reader.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiannis_Kouros
And where did you read he hasn't considered moving to Portland?
Hmm... placement test... Do you know if they charge for that?
Theoretically, clj-processing combined with swank does this, but for me it just crashes X. I imagine this bug is not universal, and probably depends on the version of clojure I'm running.
I agree that I'd need a seriously different business model.

My plan so far, for social networking, is a medical/health site, probably using BuddyPress on top of WordPress.
I realize that BuddyPress may not scale, nor compete with FB but work be a good first step for a minimally viable network.