skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The notion of two existing languages as differing in age is problematic. They are ever changing. How do you compare the age of contemporary french to that of contemporary chinese? If you look at the list you see that it is always (except for the chinese) different language families meeting.
This is difficult to understand.
I don't know if it's a given that they'll never catch up, but at the moment they're not really relevant in the market, so it makes sense to leave them out.

What would the articles say about them? Microsoft may regain relevance in the market when the first version of their new smartphone OS is released months from now? That's about all there is to say.
Actually, I've rethought my comment a bit and I agree with you. I see the way Apple is behaving now very akin to the early PC wars, when a bunch of platforms were trying to become the dominant one.

These days, the platform war is the tablet form factor, and the iPad is definitely cheaper than anyone really expected. I have yet to see an actual competitor, in terms of price, software, and retail locations.

So sure, it's a land grab right now. But I wouldn't confuse that with true product innovation. They're just taking it step-by-step. And I'm sure the iPad still maintains their margins, although it seems cheaper. (my hypothesis as to why it has no camera, cleaning cloth, included slipcase, etc.)
Because the world is already overpopulated and we don't currently have any means to spread our virus to a different planet.
I pretty much use Monit for everything.
(Though I wasn't aware of supervisord.)

I'm always looking forward to infrastructure/scaling/systems-engineering posts like these.
Looking through the data (I wrote the post), there are some classics in there:

"Valentine's Day is the work of Satan"
"When bad things happen to good dogs..."
"Three victims! Three Wheels! ALL TERROR!" (from 'Death Trike')
"Some things are better left frozen"

It's worth downloading the list and taking a look - it's truly awful, mostly.
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they are right! Star wars was just a remake of Flash Gordon!
There are a few people here who have 'reputations', Paul Graham of course the #1 contender for that, and I think I can see a bit of what you mean in the voting patterns around what he writes, but on the whole it is not enough to be a source of worry.
As far as expert marketers, I've learned a lot from SEOBook.com's community which has a lot of SEOs and online marketers. The membership isn't free but it has a great Signal to Noise ratio.
Lisa: They can't seriously expect us to swallow that tripe.
I think it's important to make a distinction between "doing consulting work" and "selling consulting work". I'm bootstrapping, and I'll do consulting work for clients I've worked with in the past, or with people who seek me out specifically.

There's no doubt that doing consulting work takes time from my business. However, I think it's an hour-per-hour trade-off -- overall, I haven't found that consulting work decreases my motivation.

On the other hand, selling consulting work can be stressful and exhausting; especially if you really need the money and you're not accustomed to selling. (And if you don't really need the money, then why do it at all?)

Some other thoughts:

1. If you get bad vibes from a potential client, politely walk away.

2. The more they pay you, the more they respect you.

3. Your client doesn't care about your startup, nor should they need to.
I disagree. The only reason iPhones aren't high priced is because they got a unprecedentedly large subsidy with AT&T. The phones may sell for $100-300, but Apple makes closer to $500-800 on them after what AT&T pays out. That's why they're the most profitable company at selling cell phones despite their small market share.

Obviously Apple wants market share too, but I've seen no indication that they're willing to prioritize it over high margins.
execute what?
> I would be very interested in what constitutes “selling” a phone. Given how many free Android phones have been thrown at developers recently, I suspect most of this “selling” does not involve customers voting with their wallet so much as choosing the “free” option.

Um, what? Google gives away a few hundred (few thousand? not sure how big I/O is, but it doesn't matter) phones at conferences, and suddenly the 60k phones/day that they're selling are all given away for free?

I was looking at new phones recently, and I don't think I saw a single Android phone that was even "free" as in "paid for by 2 years of service fees." The Incredible is $200 and they can't keep it in stock. The Droid sold very well at $200. Sure, older phones like the Eris are cheaper, but that's how the electronics market works. Apple's doing the same thing by selling the 3G for $99.
Like many others, I'm also in the early stages of love with redis. It works for so many cases, and is so simple to setup that I see myself just dropping it in everywhere. But my favorite feature of Redis when I was starting out was probably antirez himself. He is extremely helpful and a great open source project leader. The documentation (especially the tutorial-like wiki articles) is great, antirez helps out tons of people on the mailing list and in IRC, and his rate of output is incredible (I believe RC1's original release date actually got moved up, and he hit the new date right on the nose). Gives me a lot of confidence that this awesome project is here to stay.
If you spend time making something, feel free to post it. Just use good judgement.
"But I wouldn't confuse that with true product innovation. They're just taking it step-by-step."

Iterative improvement and innovation are not mutually exclusive. Just like with the iPhone (which had no app store at launch, and would be boring by today's standards,) most of the iPad's innovations are ahead of it. You don't have to revolutionize a market right off the bat to be innovative.
That's why I said "Spoken and written are very different beasts in Chinese languages". Yes, I can write some variants that only local people can read. It'd just like an Australian writes some English that other world cannot easily understand. But generally, the written form of English by and large is basically the same.

If one is illiterate and cannot recognise any written word, it is nothing to do with writing system. It is about education.

The news article (xinhaunet) you given is about spoken languages, nothing do with written language.

Yes, they read characters in their native languages, not in any modern Chinese languages. Characters are just symbol with meaning. It pronunciation varies from language to language. It does not matter you say "一" in /jat1/, /yi1/, /qit/, /ichi/, /itsu/, /hitotsu/, /hitotbai/, /hajime/, or /il/ and it basically means one.
Out of curiosity anyone able to download their books yet? The loading data screen no longer hangs for 20+ seconds, but it still doesn't find the books.
You should really get a copy of Mathematica. The app combined with MathWorld is just fantastic.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/

http://www.wolfram.com/products/student/mathforstudents/lice...
If you don't like it, the best way to do your part is to submit lots of great stories of the kind of stuff you'd like to see, and to upvote good stories in the "new" queue. If more people did this, the overall quality of the site would benefit.
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I hate to say it, but I've interviewed a 'senior devs' who made six figures before who couldn't do fizz buzzish problems in any language of their choice (and many more who took >15min to do so ...)

What's the harm in asking if it's a quick and simple discriminator?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'll be able to flash froyo to my nexus one, correct?

And the nexus one is available on at&t.

Ergo, I will be able to tether my phone on at&t.

Right?
s/palm/HP

Just sayin'. ;-)
I'm in the somewhat of same situation as you. My contract is up for renewal this June and getting an Android phone is on the top of my list. The best option I have found so far is the Samsung Galaxy S. It is reported to come to all the major U.S. carriers and is already for sale in Europe. The screen on it is amazing and it has the new 1GHz Hummingbird CPU.

Specs: http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/03/24/samsung-introduces-a...

Reported release: http://blogs.forbes.com/velocity/2010/04/14/a-royal-flush-fo...

I really hope this phone comes out soon.
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Assuming that's true (what does a white person say in their e-mails), Nielsen can do it legally. There's no way Google can sniff and data mine your e-mail within the law or their TOS.
It would work in the direct response/infomercial market. I can't imagine that products like the Snuggie or ShamWow took a lot to develop, and they've brought in millions. I guess the YC in this field would be Telebrands, run by AJ Khubani.

Biotech's problem is the length and cost associated with FDA regulation. Anytime there are political barriers in place to prevent you from selling directly to the consumer (whether it is justified or not), it's not something you can do without heavy financial support.
> As an entertaining thought, try to picture what would happen if Greece, or even the US, would go bankrupt (i.e., default on state bonds).

Argentina has done so at least once.

I prefer default to inflation.

With default, either folks stop lending to govt or their lending becomes a donation. Since govts can't be trusted to borrow, either one is an improvement over inflation.
Or "How to make websites nobody will stand looking at for more then a couple of seconds."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Leonov

>On March 18, 1965, became the first human to conduct a space walk.

>At the end of the spacewalk, Leonov's spacesuit had inflated in the vacuum of space to the point where he could not re-enter the airlock. He opened a valve to allow some of the suit's pressure to bleed off, and was barely able to get back inside the capsule.
Dismissing experimentally validated research out of hand because you personally don't want it to be true is not critical thinking, it's wishful thinking.
I'm not saying we shouldn't extend our lifespans- I would love to live to see a lot of things come to pass, like leaving our own galaxy- but to blindly proclaim anyone who opposes the goal is ageist is to ignore that the benefits have costs, especially considering we already have population issues looming on the horizon.

Call me utilitarian and get pissed that I might stand in your way of living forever, but we have to consider the bigger picture.
It is certainly valid to claim that one can learn things this way, but it hardly seems to be the purpose of schooling. If I could read a 45 minute lecture in 7 minutes, I would then have an additional 38 minutes of question time. It's even more inefficient to sit in a classroom full of people, listening to "customized" questions asked on subjects that you fully understand. The scenario that bugs me the most is when a fellow student asks a confused question that indicates to me he has understood very little of the lecture, the instructor then proceeds to answer it poorly, which then confuses other students.
Tell HN: About to tape 1st HN-related podcast. Need co-host.
The only pre-requisite is HN nick + Skype with Webcam + time. You only need to be available this once, because I plan on rotating co-hosts with a diff. HN member every week. If you want to do it more than once, you can also let me know for the future.

We will be discussing a variety of HN stories.

Taping to be this weekend. Preferably Saturday night b/w 9:30pm - 12:30am EST. Taping will only be for about an hour (the most hopefully, technology willing).

For those interested, please email me: marcamillion {at} gmail
Pedantic note: I've seen you use the word titrate before in the same context. It doesn't mean what you seem to think it means: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/titrate

Perhaps you're using it in a metaphorical sense. But I've never seen anyone else use it that way.
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Jacquesm, what exactly would constitute a poseur around here? Are members expected to be a level n programmer or startup founder? What behavior have you witnessed that would be thwarted by calling someone a poseur after the fact? Doesn't that lead to more personal attacks?

Personally I don't know who you are and I really don't care. I care if what you write is insightful and helpful to me (and hopefully I do the same for some other people).

I'm sure I've been attacked a few times by people that might be run out of town under the no cowards policy, but I'd rather deal with ankle biters than have this place turn into a cult of personality for a handful of celebrity posters.

Btw if anyone downvotes this without a bio I'm calling you out. That's ironic humor if you're wondering. Am I qualified? Yes, I'm a startup founder with a degree in literature.
Read "the Non-Designers Design Book" (http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Robin-Willia...)

It covers the basics of design, color theory and typography. It's a great start.
> Critics, however, worry that students could get the idea the school approves of widely available direct-to-consumer gene-testing kits that claim to predict the risk of future health problems

Presuming it's accurate, I really don't see the problem with it. It's (in theory) just a more sophisticated, accurate method of predication than we've had in the past.

I can't imagine any health risks to ring the alarm bells about either- I haven't heard of any breaking research that shows taking saliva samples or cheek swabs to be carcinogenic for example.

I especially like that Berkeley's claimed goal is simply to get students talking about it.

I'm familiar with the fears people have- designer babies, genetic discrimination, health insurance- but it seems really silly to advocate the medical equivalent of sticking our fingers in our ears and going 'lalalala I can't hear you'
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I don't know about Viacom's channels, but I swear nearly every major label musician/artist's channel that I've been to lately has had at least one of their videos missing due to a takedown request from their own record company. That said, most of the channels that I looked at were run by the artists themselves, I guess it wouldn't happen so much on marketing-dept run channels, but it wouldn't surprise me if it did.
Not exactly correct. If the URL you click on is HTTPS, then the referrer is sent. HTTPS->HTTP no referrer. HTTPS->HTTPS referrer (even if the domain changes). The encryption is preventing the network from seeing the data, not the remote hosts. If the browser sends the referrer encrypted, even to a different remote host, the network still can't see it.
Unsurprisingly the article seems to focus a lot on the non-phonetic script.

I've been thinking about this — considering the difficulties even with the simplified characters and even for native users of the language if this article is to be believed, what are HN's thoughts on potential official shift by China from simplified to pinyin or a derivative of pinyin?
It's midnight CST, and I finally saw one of my five books purchased ("Head First Design Patterns") show up. Hopefully the rest will follow...
I have a Nexus One on AT&T - the hardware still feels top-notch at this point. Doesn't feel slow or behind at all. The camera's pretty great.
My favourite so far has to be "bertse" which sounds kind of whimsical.
He's talking about phone + service over two years.
Perfect use of the COCP lands your odd of getting pregnant at 0.3% in a year. However typical use lands you at about 8% (condom is 10-18% of typical use) risk, meaning you're doing good if you get a decade without getting pregnant (on average).

An indefinite lifespan will change the world ridiculously, however you're completely ignoring human nature. Those who take risks tend to be the ones who reproduce the most, and assuming fertility remains sustainable throughout life, those risk-averse will be quickly out bred. However, even considering the considered longevity of frozen sperm and embryos (women can still carry a child post-menopausal through egg donation - incidentally same odds as a younger woman).

You're considering risk aversion as the winner, when in reality it will be those who procreate frequently. If a couple produces 2 kids roughly every 20 years, that's 100 children they will produce meaning the risk averse will have to last 100,000 years just to match the genes of those who reproduce if their offspring never reproduce. Assuming a predisposition to reproducing at 20 (I've known all too many people with 4-generations of teenage mothers in their family, so it's certainly not an absurd prospect) and each two children produce two children in 20 years, you'd hit 1 peta-offspring by the 1000 year mark.

Your risk-averse would be marginally existent, similar to a dust mite next to an elephant. Their effect on society would be negligible to none existent. Compound interest has got nothing on exponential birthrates vs death rates.
7--who the hell uses anything other than pinyin? I see Wade-Giles occasionally but that's typically for family names.

My sister uses bo-po-mo-fo a great deal - but then she's in Taiwan, not mainland China.
The problem is not that the kits cannot accurately read off your DNA; they do an admirable job of that. The problem is that our knowledge of the impact of any particular allele is exceedingly incomplete.

Without a clinical trial validating these tools, most of us in the field find it to be inappropriate to advise someone as to their risk profile on the basis of direct-to-public kits. (I'm not talking about the BRCA tests or other validated, gene-specific tests - I'm talking about 23andMe-style genome-wide kits.)

Particularly for complex (polygenic) traits, these throw you into a minefield. Consider two modes of error: (1) The test indicates impending illness. (2) The test indicates no impending illness / good longevity. For (1), imagine that you have a disease-predisposing allele that the kit catches, which is why it thinks you'll be sick. But it doesn't catch (since these kits only target 1/10,000th of the genome) some other allele that protects you from the same disease. So you inappropriately worry about the disease. If disease risk is modifiable by behavior (such as exercise), perhaps it encourages you to work out more often. But, perhaps it will make you feel like you cannot overcome your genetic destiny, so you don't work out at all. The prophecy would then be self-fulfilling.

For (2), imagine that the testing kit sees that you have a few protective alleles for disease X - but you also have a novel mutation that is private to your family and not found in the general population. The testing company has no idea that this exists, and it obviously won't be on these testing kits (which overwhelmingly track common, not rare, variants). So now you end up getting disease X a few years down the road, despite all evidence from the kit suggesting that you'd never get it.

These are my two favorite failure modes, though there are plenty of others. At the end of the day, although I'm in the field of human genetics, I'm not going to be advising people to get these kits until there are clinical trials validating specific risk predictions. (I'm not saying not to use the kits - but I am saying that it's going to be more for fun than for accurate medical prediction. For now.)
You could try using a blackberry simulator: http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/resources/simulators...
It's also used in medicine, meaning to vary the dosage of a medication until you get the desired effects.
How many jobs actually exist for more than 100 years?

Also, just like we've seen in the last 200 years, people's education requirements would continue to grow. If you live to 1000, maybe the first 50 years of your life are spent as a student.
I remember Alex Nagel from Honors Calc I at UW. Tough class. Its sad to hear about his colleague, but Rudin lived an amazing life.
> For example you can tell if a word has something to do with the sea, even if you don't know it means "anchor".

oh no, anchor is 锚, you can tell it's metal, but you can't tell it's something about sea.
Here it is: The Snap web framework for Haskell.
Why is a web "usability" site full of pdfs and .doc files?
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I've had some success playing with wordoid.com to come up with "name-ey" or "word-ey" names.
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When I said 'accurate' I meant the conclusions they draw based on your DNA sequence. From what you are saying, it sounds like (in this sense of the word 'accurate') they are not, so my point is invalid :)
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This article is right on. I've been tempted by many smartphones over the years, but I currently pay about $10/month average for my prepaid cellphone, and it works great. Smartphones are cool and all, but I really don't feel like I'm missing enough to outweigh the thousands of dollars I've saved over the last few years.
"Making things even more amusing? In the lawsuit, MPV mis-identifies its own patent, incorrectly using the title of a patent.. held by Warner Bros! MPV's patent 7,187,633 is titled "Marking of a data medium material for information intended for reproduction." Warner Bros., though, has a different patent, 7,206,409, titled "Motion picture anti-piracy coding." But in the filing... MPV refers to the title of its own patent as "Motion picture anti-piracy coding" and never mentions Warner's actual patent by that name. "

I think it's time they switched lawyers, or at least the copy editors..
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