skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Android desperately wants to be the low-cost alternative to iPhone OS..."

What do you mean "wants to be", isn't it that already? Heck, for every phone maker that isn't Apple or doing production for Apple, iPhone OS isn't even an option anyway. So really, it wants to be the low-cost alternative to the future Microsoft option and in-house OS's that phone manufacturers have. If you mean from the phone user's perspective, then Android phones and iPhones seem to be at price parity (and this competition has been fantastic no matter which phone you end up picking, btw), but feel free to run some numbers if you want (last I did it was a wash depending more on how you wrote the rules of the comparison than anything else).

How long have you had the Android phone? Switching OS's can grate on one's trained expectations even when the two are equivalent in usability. It can take a while before you can really compare them honestly (or for cognitive dissonance to do its work, as the case may be).
Why "taint" and not "tint"?
Ugh this guy has developed a very selective reading of the thread in question and refusing to accept things told to him by the people actually involved because they couldn't "prove" what they were saying. At this point for this version of what happened to be true it would require active conspiracy on the part of all involved to keep it going. Knowing when to admit you were wrong and let go is truly a blessing.
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To suggest an opt-out is missing the point entirely. If anything, it should be opt-in.
Pro tip: every single man who ever married the woman he loves, has no fucking idea how he managed to attract her. We're all completely baffled when a woman decides to spend her life with a yog-shothoth like us.
The satellite view seems to have white lettering that has been mostly blurred out. Maybe Google's license to those photographs didn't include the un-annotated versions?
You can implement type inference and lazy computations in standard Common Lisp. You can't implement macros or proper runtime redefinition of functions in standard Haskell.
The seeds of innovation were there earlier, though. The rifle industry comes to mind - I remember reading that innovative rifles with better range played some part in colonial militias' success in the US revolutionary war. One could argue that was more craftsmanship than innovation, but there's a strong connection between making things well and making better things, and China isn't famous for quality goods either.
Yes, despite how much people on this forum might bash CS, The true innovation in CS (Google, VMWare etc and Not IPAD (aka giant ipod touch)) came from people who were pursuing advanced degrees in CS. Plus its fun to go to college Again. You can try applying to Cornell, it is 5th ranked in CS and has amazing faculty. They have a year long program with around 35k$ in tuition.
However you might need to take some pre-req's.
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This "service" has bugged the hell out of me, making me delete the garbage at the end each time I copy some text. The worst is on sites that have user comments, when you're having conversations with people and quoting their text to reply to them. Tynt is now happily added to my Hosts file.
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It's making copy/paste worse, so definitely "taint".
And then watch it again. And again.
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This guy ran (north-south) across Europe last summer. He'd average a marathon or more every day and some days he would run the equivalent of two marathons.

He kept a daily blog which is very inspiring.
Home page: http://www.ryanlukejohns.com/runseurope/
Blog: http://ryanrunseurope.blogspot.com/
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For comparison, I think they should have included Centos in the scorecard. It's a popular good distro.
Anecdotally, the kitchen computer is used:

- as primary email device for the stay-at-home parent
- for recipes and online shopping
- for playing music
- for looking at family photos
- for Skype/iChat
Fair enough, but I thought the prior poster meant a non-intentional version of that.
As an aside; is there a web based email service/client comparable to gmail? More particularly is there one which handles conversation view as well as gmail does? Until there is then gmail has a bit of a monopoly on users like me who love the client and everything that sets it apart from traditional email.
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I may be in the minority (not incredibly small though), but if someone isn't comfortable using a spreadsheet, they're probably not going to be comfortable using a web app either. Spreadsheets are pretty ubiquitous.
Well, he does read a book called "Famous Herring Parties" while waiting for the potato to cook, and then proceed to simulate a sword fight with herrings.
It wasn't an argument that Mick Jagger made though, so there's nothing to review based on merits. It was a simple statement of fact. Any argument is by implication (ie. that because it was not always this way, it should not be that way).

There was no discussion of how much artists should make at all, and any implication of such is suffering from the logical fallacy that because things have always been a certain way, that is the way they should be in the future.
Most of the complaints I've seen about Google's customer-service, ironically, are from people who are paying customers. So it's not that they provide service to people who pay for it, it's that they don't seem to provide service, period.
It seems to only report back when you actually copy the selection (either ctrl/cmd+c or right click+copy). Just looking at the headers, the JS is obfuscated and I'm too lazy to look at it.
Don't you have good institutes near you (not exactly colleges/universities) who teach basic of CS. Where I live there are pretty decent institutes (only if you can find them) who have courses on anything college teaches. These are much more focused on you than on the course as there are probably only 8 to 10 people in the class.You can also adjust timing and learning speed. But the down side there would be most of the students there are not of the brighter pool of students.
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Cool, sounds like you have a lot of features there. I didn't know about the parsing part. What I would love is if you would poll those sites daily and then alert me whenever a car of a certain model is listed for a specific mileage and price. That would be amazing. It sounds like you have the parsing part already done.
Ha, the sad part is if they did this, I would likely use HN even more.
Again though, just because it's (almost) always been that way doesn't mean it should be going forward. FWIW I don't even disagree that it should be that way, I'm simply saying that one should never use the argument "because that's the way it's always been done" to justify anything.
Yes, especially considering her profession. The women I know who are into sci-fi do not look like that.
I ran into this today...it took me about 3 copy/paste attempts to realize what was going on. I could see some users never really figuring it out.

Changing the behavior of copy/paste seems quite silly.
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My bad. I meant it to read that Europe is not a desert but the UK is definitely an oasis. It was a sort of paradoxical play on words that went a but wrong... Oops.
I don't fault Tynt for creating this service; it's actually a bit clever. I reserve all my blame for the websites that actually use this service.
"you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards." http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
Pygments (http://pygments.org/) is a Python program that can highlight almost any language, and outputs a bunch of different formats, including HTML and LaTeX. You can see an example of the results at http://www.railstutorial.org/book (HTML) and http://www.railstutorial.org/downloads/pdf?version=2.3.8 (PDF via LaTeX).
FF 3.6.3 under OS 10.6.3 is as smooth for me as Safari or Chrome. Are you using 10.6? Which incremental version of FF 3.6? Just curious.
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Alexa has a top 500 list with google and porn sites included http://www.alexa.com/topsites
The line between active conspiracy and everyone just going along with something because they're easily lead or prefer to believe something a certain way is probably thinner than you imagine.

Is The Bible a conspiracy? Is everyone in Christianity secretly in on it? Or are they just going along with it because they like the idea? I don't know about you, but I go for the free cookies & coffee after the service.
I feel like Philip had already been pushed out of the company before the university and the foundation shut down. But, it's been almost 10 years, my memory could be faulty.
I know Andrew always asks about numbers and finance data. He's been very open with his last business, but I have yet to see him disclose data about Mixergy. I'd like to see some Mixergy financials.
Why is dropbox 'myth and folklore'???
It's interesting how hard it is to come up with http://windows.com even though I tried explicitly searching for it
I disagree with #1. In fact, you can almost say the exact opposite: we're always right. The difficult discussions happen when two people have different ideas that are both right. I sometimes struggle with this. I might get into an argument with someone when neither one of us really realizes that neither one is incorrect, but they're both alternate ways of achieving the same goal.
Angel statistics are ridiculously hard to source accurately as most angels are either fairly private or lie about what they have invested in) i.e. they don't crow about their disastrous investments and bug up the ones that are successful.

However, interesting anecdotal reports of a fair amount of angel money becoming available in France as French laws encourage angels activity through tax breaks. As France is part of the EU, and by law any such tax breaks have to be extended to French investments in any EU country, where has been a significant flood of French money into the UK in past year. (i.e. UK is seen as being a good place to invest in startups due to combination of tax regime (could change soon), proximity to markets, ease of movement into US, amount of seasoned entrepreneurs, support networks etc.
Maybe I'm too old if I start identifying with corporations like this, but....
This actually seems like something Tumblr or Posterous should allow their customers, "aggregators" of choice quotations, to opt-in for. Then it would be in the hands of people who want the sites they are considering important enough to 're-broadcast' to know how their work is being excerpted, and when.
Just an idea of a positive outcome of this practice being released on the world.
David Brooks on Complexity
Hey, I hear ya. That sucks that you're having a bad time with it.

Honestly, I live in Outlook, so I only use the web client in a pinch. I like it better than Gmail, but perhaps with heavy use and a small quota it starts to show its warts.
Paul Kedrosky picks him apart here:

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2010/05/david_brooks_go.ht...
I've never seen this, not even on the page the article linked to as an example, but that may be due to NoScript.

Yet another example of why NoScript is a good idea.
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Q: What was his most favorite interview and what was his least favorite interview.

Q: Is Mixergy profitable, if not what are his plans to make it profitable? Or what are his future plans for mixergy?

Q: Have you done any "paid" interviews?

Q: Why mostly video interviews? What if someone is willing to do an interview but can only do text interview (my email or IM), will you be interested in such interviews? (I didn't check to see if you did these interviews).

Q: Who would you like to interview, but haven't got around in doing it yet?

Q: Anyone declined your interview offer?

Thats all for me. Its only fair we ask him tough questions. :)
This is what I call an article about true leadership.
"If you actually believe this, then you're not spending enough time coding. I'd say more like 50 to 80%."

If you don't include debugging and thinking in that figure (as the author does), 20% doesn't seem unreasonable. I seriously doubt that it's possible (or even preferable) to spend 50-80% of your time literally typing text into your text editor.
>> Do you really expect GMail to provide personal customer service to its ~176m [1] non-paying users?

Answering phone calls from 176 million users? No.

Maintaining a nice little "Google Cares" (And Explicitly Confesses Known Problems We're Working On) blog? Yes.

A little customer service could go a long way.
Yes, I hate these douchebags. I also hate the people who use them. I have a modified Chromium that specifically prevents this tampering with selection (null out the webkit javascript hooks for selection stuff) and an extension that will give a little blip whenever I land on a page that uses them or something like it.

It pisses me off. I can't believe people think this is a good idea. When the spammers/ad people start using HTML5 audio to blast annoying crap at you, HTML5 locations to figure out how to send junk mail to your house, and other crap that browser makers were too short-sighted to realize were a bad idea to give sites the power to control, then we're going to see a regression in browser features as "does less" becomes the default.

Right now, the sites you visit have way too much control over what they can do to your browser. It's naïve to think that these people will just 'play nice' and not abuse features. The SEO and ad people will take whatever length of thread you give them and completely unravel the shirt off of your back.
I never get tired of these... always surprising to see what people come up with.
It also says it's running on an Intel CPU, which has got to be wrong. Android doesn't run on the x86 architecture as far as I know. Take the info with a grain of salt.

[Edit] Well, it seems like there may be some unsupported (by Google) Android-x86 work going on, so maybe it's possible:

http://www.android-x86.org/

I wonder if the fact that Android software runs in a JIT-compiled runtime mean that binaries for Android-ARM are compatible with Android-x86. [/Edit]
Just get some books and start hacking. That's all they use to teach you with in college anyway, except they charge you a metric crapload to do it.

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a narrow field." -Niels Bohr
Your girlfriend could just get her own dropbox account and then you share a folder between you. That's what we do with work. We all have our own dropbox account, but then we share a folder between us all and only that folder gets shared to others.
This is worth listening to, I've seen bad or at least subpar VCs and angels pull some of these tricks.
While it's always good to critically examine information, Bingo, the author of the linked post, repeatedly adopted a combative, hyperbolic tone that only served to further derail the conversation, rather than restore moderation and critical thought. After finding few sympathizers in the Metafilter threads, he moved his critiques off-site and onto his own blog.

That's all well and good, but it's worth knowing that his perception of the events represents an extreme minority amongst the site's regular readership. Suffice to say, both the NYPD and an employee of the State Department directly involved in human trafficking cases believed that the situation was sufficiently dubious to warrant intervening.

If you're looking for a more moderate summary of events, Newsweek had a fairly decent overview: http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/the-human-condition/2010/05/21...

If you have the time, I'd highly recommend reading the original Ask Metafilter and Metatalk threads. Both were developing concurrently, so it's best to alternate reading a few posts in each. Just watch the timestamps to stay synchronized.
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Actually the first application of that phrase to Linux came well before Eric appeared on the scene. I'd say that I first saw it on a t-shirt for Linux Expo in North Carolina in 97 or 98, and it was being used colloquially well before that.

If I were to credit anyone, I'd maybe credit Jon Hall, who used it in his speeches when he was promoting Linux at DEC.
Take the bag just to keep your options open.

You can always die later if you still want to.
I'd stress that the O.P. point was not coolness or quality of interaction. I live in a 3rd world country and agree with him that for our markets it is all about price, price and price. Remember: Jobs & Apple laughed at the 1st implementation of Windows.
I welcome the Browser Promo Video Wars.
That sounds like a better feature than the inserting of text into the copy. I would say that over a large same of people selecting text you could see engagement patterns.
The situation, as presented, was sufficiently dubious as to warrant the attention of both the NYPD and the State Department. I'm willing to trust their judgment.
The original post is gone. I see no reason to keep the link here on HN.
And likely HP.com as well. Stupid printer drivers.
Unless you really have a passion for learning, I'd say it's not worth it. Are you really going to take a risk and go back to college so that you could take even more risk by doing a startup? Are you sure you can't/don't want to take on other roles besides being the hacker?

I guess it ultimately depends on how comfortable you are. Whatever you do, try doing it the "lean" way. Try taking one or two classes first without jumping into pursuing a degree. A lot of universities allow concurrent enrollment so you'd just take a class alongside regular students if they have room. Good luck.
They drive me nuts. There's an opt out here though: http://www.tynt.com/support/opt-inout/

I just block it at the home router. It feels more brutal. :)
I don't like wires but I do like ports
Tynt was the primary thing that drove me to install NoScript.
Given how inaccurate the categorizations are I think it's possible that Reddit got put in the "adult" category.
Perhaps consider outsourcing some of the fun? Say, self-study a bit, but also bring on a mechanical or electrical engineer to do the heavy lifting.

If you do go for a degree, I'd suggest electrical engineering. I know many great programmers whose degrees are EE, and it sounds like you'll need some expertise in that area as well. (No, I'm not referring to people from schools where CS technically falls under the EE department, like MIT -- though a joint program would probably work too).
The "average viewer" won't know what Opera is in the first place.
Oh god, and I've been trusting them w/ my backups!!!!!
The guy's got Crohn's disease. I think he's already got first hand experience with burning man.
I assumed it was a reference to something the Norwegian people might worldwide be famous for, that is: herring. Just an impression.
Instead of discussing it here, say exactly the same things to a therapist: someone whose job it is to listen to stuff like this. I think you're depressed, but what do I know.

Until then, put the computer down and go outside. Look around, what seems interesting? Find out how to get involved and do it.

There must be support groups around this: find out how other people deal with the bags and the impact it has on their lives. Don't read blogs & books: go out and actually talk to people face to face.
one I made a while back that has a customizable key sequence: http://github.com/kylebragger/konamicode
The problem with this kind of advice although interesting is that is takes something hugely popular and present it as the reason why farmville is working.

I am not so sure it's that simple. The real challenge imho is to show how to get critical mass. Not to talk about how you optimize once you have it.

Does anyone know exactly the reason why farmville became popular, cause somehow I think it's not about those 8 principles?
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As I stated in the comments to your blog post, I think your definition of marketing is extremely wrong -- what you're describing is advertising (or, more importantly, performance-driven or metrics-driven advertising).

Continuing to perpetuate the idea that marketing and advertising are the same thing is pretty uninformed.

It's like calling a systems engineer and a front-end web developer the same thing -- they're both engineering, right?
That was great... but WTF (What Turbo Fan)
The categories of the json dump come directly from the original google source..so i don't know (and dropbox certainly isn't the only mis-categorized entry):

http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/
Could you share how you extracted the data? I thought it was nifty that way you have it in that txt file. Thanks.
Nope, very intentional. Same kind of thing happens whenever I read about Minority Leader John Boehner, too, for some reason.
Indeed, I highlighted your comment at least a few times while reading it.
I think it depends on the size of the team (and related teams) and the sorts of dev cycles you experience. I'd say in my case, including testing and debugging, I code roughly 50% of the time. That doesn't mean, however, that I spend four hours everyday coding and another four going to meetings, etc, etc. The pattern is often more like: code 85% of the time for several weeks, then drift into a period of considerably less coding as we review releases, work with other teams for product hand-off, offer training, and review bugs and issues.
I think this really depends on your situation. I was able to get a job in Boston during my final semester at CMU, mostly because it was clear I planned to move by a deadline no matter what.
"A brief introduction to [Concurrent Collections] using this module can be found at http://software.intel.com/foobar " Cool URL, but... I doubt that ;) (at http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/haskell-cnc/0.1....)
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If you really care about having the “perfect” job (not everybody does) then being in-market increases your probability 100x.

That presumes that you already know where that job is. The rest of us have to do some remote searching and be willing to move when we find it.
Rather than going it alone it sounds like you ought to be partnering with someone. Studying IT even at a higher level courses aim at giving you a grounding in the subject, I'd imagine you want to target the pieces that you are interested in. Better to form a team with the skills that you need and learn from one-another.

I'm no expert on this, but isn't the role of a design agency to advise on these sorts of problems?