skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It disturbs me that you feel "direct quotes" are sufficient evidence rather than the emails themselves and the context in which they were sent.
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Maybe because the other Loopt services were not put out there as much as Foursquare were when they launched down at sxsw.

The new Loopt service though does look alright. I don't like how you have to register through Facebook though, as the article explains. Looks like the app is only available in the US as of now.
The Total Perspective Vortex is allegedly the most horrible torture device to which a sentient being can be subjected.
When you are put into the Vortex you are given just one momentary glimpse of the entire unimaginable infinity of creation, and somewhere in it a tiny little mark, a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot, which says, "You are here."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_in_The_Hitchhiker%27...
IdeaTin: Episode 2 - Sociaholic.com
Ok guys...here we go. Episode 2. Feedback needed. I have pivoted significantly from the first episode - as you can easily see if you cycle through both of them on the site.

The first episode was a discussion of news and was 47 mins long.

The second episode was a discussion of a project recently launched by an HN member. I will be doing many more of these in the coming weeks, so if anyone has an interesting project that wants to discuss it with me, please email me: marc {at} ideatin {dot} com.

Without further ado:
http://ideatin.com/2010/05/ideatin-episode-2-sociaholic/
Clickable Link: http://ideatin.com/2010/05/ideatin-episode-2-sociaholic/
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The actual source:
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I must say I had the same thing... but then I had problems with an installer not working and remembered. The experience was absolutely amazing. I recently re-installed a friend's machine... it took me about 15 minutes of work (and over an hour for the machine).
Look up someone else’s (competitor’s) web analytics:
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In my experience, one big block of time is worth more than the equivalent in small blocks of time. Rarely do I find a task taking less than 15 minutes (especially in design, which I'm admittedly weak at), and I usually can't get into the "flow" at set times.
This seems like an interesting proposition to me. Are there true things that society as a whole is better off not knowing? For instance, one epidemiologist estimated that 75% of SIDS cases are actually homicides. http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/328184.html That strikes me as a fact that could fall into this category.
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If you are looking for harbingers and early insights they typically have a weak signal, so you have to sift through quite a lot of content / message traffic to find them.

Your use case is fine, it's just not the author's.
This is going to be a problem for the other workers, not working on Apple products. Will there be more troubles, with workers bribing managers to get into the lucrative Apple workshop? Hopefully this ends well.
The author doesn't seem to understand the difference between an encoding and a character set. We already have a character set that denotes any possible character in the universe: Unicode. We also have several encodings that allow us to reference each of the characters in the set, the most well-known of which is UTF-8. However, UTF-8 is optimized for the Western code points, which is why alternate encodings exist. Moreover, there is all kinds of data in legacy encodings that we want to work with. Encodings are hard, but you can't go shopping without '?' showing up in your apps.
I don't think "libertarian" is used much outside the US. liberal, on the other hand, is definitely a word whose connotations in the US seem bizarre to anyone outside.
His site is worth so much more than his degree, IMO.

I guess this is the I-am-pot-committed-so-i-have-to-go-through-with-it effect. It's hard to make decisions based on future returns as suppose to past efforts.
On Linux, if someone hacks my browser all I could ever lose is the stuff on my home directory.

Of course these tend to be precisely the only things you actually care about in the whole system. Assuming it's a desktop machine of course.
You can get rid of a lot of the cards you carry in your wallet or on your keychain with FaceCash (http://www.facecash.com), too. We support 30 different account programs right now, from FedEx to United Airlines.

http://www.thinklink.com/media/iphonesouthwest.png

And it's a payment system, which is the actual point of the app.
"of the people visibly using a cell phone, 20% to 40% of them had an iPhone"

i imagine the visibly using a cellphone is the key part, as i'm sure most people on bart have cellphones but the only ones people play with on the subway have either an iphone or android phone. same case w/ iphone market share vs iphone mobile browser usage share.
So what's to prevent the factory paid wages from dropping as a result? Someone up in management has got to be looking for a way to get their dues.
Last time I checked the data supporting the "IQ is good" had some horrendous lack of statistical information, the same applies to the "IQ is bad" people.

Their papers lack to understand where statistical significance fits in inference which they use, abusing the scope of validity, but I did not read much of them (5 from "IQ is good" and 6 from "IQ is bad"), by the way I understand nothing about biology, being not my area of interest I cannot criticize these papers on these grounds, I only think that's very strange that both sides do not construct their arguments using neuroscience.
This requires a very unnatural set-up (a game that has an average payoff that depends on your capital modulo some number).
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It wasn't particularly difficult for me, and I don't think I'm particularly exceptional. I was working phone support for nine bucks an hour; as soon as the boss noticed I was a passable C and Perl programmer, I got my programming job. (It was a while longer before I got paid like a programmer... but my point is that if you have the skills, and if you are willing to work for below-market wages, it's not too difficult to get the experience.)
If only they could divert the oil to this hole.
What were the conclusions of these studies? It's not my area so would appreciate any insight you can give.
He has plans to put it back up as soon as he has his degree. I'm sure the petition asking for it to come back doesn't hurt either.
The entire article is also available at:
http://people.redhat.com/drepper/cpumemory.pdf
"after the link has been thoroughly debunked?"

If a relationship between a vaccination and a negative reaction cannot be definitively confirmed, then it does not show up in the statistics...in case you actually are interested in the truth.

There is a website somewhere that tracks all of this, but my question is, why wouldn't the official people already involved track fucking everything? It costs exactly zero over and above what they are doing now, so why exclude it?

This is where the conspiracy theories come from. You have the means and budget to track everything, but you don't. My question is: why? Combine that with some weird stories I hear, and the fact that it is free for you to counter them with data, but you don't, and there you go, a conspiracy theory.
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I'm in on this. I'm going to work on a personal website for this challenge.

I've tracked how I spend my time online using RescueTime, and it's amazing to look at see how much time I could be using to work on my own projects, instead of reading about other projects. 15 minutes per day would be a great step in the right direction.

For me however, it's more like While You Were On Hacker News ;)
The guaranteed PR fallout? That’s a stunt you can pull when you are not the focus of the press.
Then maybe HTML is the way to go?
With this understanding, the paradox resolves itself: The individual games are losing only under a distribution that differs from that which is actually encountered when playing the compound game.

You don't need a modulo-style set up. You just need a dependence of the two games such that a player can predict when to play each game to always be optimal. The ratchet is just one example where the player always avoids the really bad odds in game B that help to make it a losing game.

It's exactly the same thing as Simpson's Paradox.
I've got no sympathy for their position. It's not as if the development of the e-book market was a total surprise, wasn't it? They could have made the appropriate steps years ago.

But they simply didn't bother or they were unable to cooperate due to their egos.

They got what they deserve.
$132 a month? Talk about slave labor...

Makes me feel a little bit dirty about owning an iPhone.
Bad analogy.

Software != hardware literally.
This is a very interesting phenomenon. I think one application of it may be in no-limit poker.

You have two categories of hands: rags and monsters. If you just wait for monsters and don't play rags, you won't likely get paid off against strong opponents. Instead, many successful players use a strategy where they play a lot of hands, hoping to hit with rags one hand (negative EV) and catching a monster shortly after to get paid off huge because their opponents don't give them sufficient credit for a strong hand (due to their recent loose play with rags).
For someone who knows neither particularly well but is intrigued by the parallels, how closely does this map to Haskell's type classes? To the uninitiated it almost looks like a direct reimplementation.
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I’ve created a dessert that I want to mass-produce and sell to restaurants. I’m capable of producing my dessert on a small scale, but I don’t think that I could make it in quantity without the help of a food manufacturer. I have a nearby factory in mind, but I don’t want to approach them in the wrong way. I’m afraid that they will either ignore me or steal my idea. Any advice on how to approach a food manufacturer?

Instead of going straight to a manufacturer, I could show my prototype to local restaurants before I have a supply in place. However, I’m hesitant to try this because the product is relatively easy to reproduce. They may decide that they’d rather not wait on me to get a supply established, and produce the product on their own. Any advice on how to approach a restaurant?
It seems inneficcient if you think of it in an HTTP way, but technologies like BitTorrent are built on exactly this. I see no reason to cache locally and create the additional privacy issues raised in other threads on this page.
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Foxconn can still eat up most of the benefit of the surplus pay by, for example, reserving positions working on high-retail Apple products for employees who work extra hours and keep quiet about abuses.
China property risk is worse than in US
They actually recently tweeted about my site :D
Since these workers don't pay for food, clothing, accommodation, or anything else in US dollars, it's not reasonable to look at their wage in US dollars.

They're paid in local currency, and the result of multiplying that by the conversion rate to US dollars says a lot about the terms of trade between China and the US, and very little about the buying power this money gives a local worker.
Both Kindle's Mobipocket and iBooks' epub formats appear to be very close to HTML.
You make good points. I don't believe that it will never happen but I'm not sure something of that magnitude has happened yet and much of our current tort law would cover the liability, I believe. I am very likely wrong, though, and we will have to wait and see (and then take governmental action if necessary). Internet companies are a relatively new beast with relatively poorly understood liabilities.

My problem with the BP situation is that the risks were fairly well understand as oil is a mature industry. I expect BP to be fully liable for their negligence just as I would expect Apple to be fully liable if they released a radioactive phone. Do you think BP is being held fully liable?
This may or may not be useful advice depending on the direction of the software... but this technology could make for the basis of great enterprise software. Everyone I've ever met who manages a Microsoft SMS / System Config Manager in an enterprise always seems to hate it. There's definitely a need for a simple way to manage and deploy software in an enterprise setting.
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> 1. You either didn't see my previous post or have no useful response.

Javascript is a great language with some mistakes. a lot of the mistakes (including some you mentioned) are fixed in Ecmascript 5. I programmed in Ruby from 2002 since 2009, and I am happy I switched to JavaScript: I prefer the syntax, I totally love prototipical inheritance, I love to object literal notation, and the use of closures everywhere.

> 2. Sorry, let me rephrase my point here. You can reuse code, but not all code. Any code you could reuse could also be re-used in another languages using tools like GWT, py2js, j2js, etc, mitigating server-side javascript's advantage here.

as I said, pure bs.

> 4.5.

JavaScript has some advantages and some disadvantages to Python. AppengineJS is for people who know JavaScript (just about every web developer) and do not want to learn Python. If you know Python, just stick with the Python SDK.
i'm looking forward to the day the cell phone kills the wallet. it's a matter of time. people will ask "you used to carry a plastic card with you that you swiped?" like we thought it was silly to carry around checkbooks and write cashiers a check.
As far as I understood, Stanovich's thesis is that rational thinking skills are more important than raw intelligence, and high-IQ people can have poor rational thinking skills, and a RQ test for rational thinking skills should be used instead.

This is good so far, but the problem is that rational thinking skills are quite teachable, while there still doesn't seem to be much any success in raising IQ with teaching. So it seems that you'd probably still be better off hiring people with high IQ scores, and training them to improve their RQ if necessary rather than just hiring high RQ score people.

Does Stanovich discuss whether IQ scores correlate with how well people learn rationality skills?
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I've been listening to the Podcast of these talks for over a year now. I highly recommended the whole series, it's called entrepreneurial thought leaders on itunes. Almost every speaker is fascinating, from the CEO of KLA Tencor to Zuckerberg in '05 saying he doesn't like using the term social network to describe facebook. Great stuff.
But think about it; if I make coffee at home, I can just get my free cup of coffee at Starbucks tomorrow. Or the next day. Or whenever.

But for the airline loyalty programs, if you take that next flight on another airline, and the end of the year comes, you end up with nothing. If you aren't loyal enough, you get nothing.

This apparently drives a bit of business for the airlines; there are whole forums about it. I know I stick with one airline for all the cool stuff I get. Sometimes I look at prices for the other airlines, but they would have to be a lot cheaper before I would consider them. All because of the loyalty programs.

Like I said, I just don't think it's going to work for coffee. Everyone goes to Starbucks because that's the coffee shop that's in their building, not because of the free wifi or the great coffee.
$132RMB ~= 900RMB. It is, indeed, slave wage.

The workers are charged for their meals from their salaries, though they buy a lunch card once a month.

To put things in perspective: a two course meal in Shenzhen at a cheap Chinese restaurant is $20RMB/person. A McDonald's meal roughly 50RMB. A metro ride is 10RMB. A train ride within Guangzhou ~50RMB, a neighboring province +120RMB. A pirated DVD is 10RMB. One hour of internet at a netcafe is 7RMB. A bottle of Tsingtao is 10RMB. A pack of cigarettes is 10RMB. A 10 minute cab ride is 20RMB.

A Chinese teenager can expect to spend 80RMB on a weekend, doing nothing but taking the train to visit friends, having dinner and two pints of beer and a pack of cigarettes. 26% of their weekly income for 2-3 hours of R&R.

For comparison, an American teenager with a full time job, making minimum wage at $7.25 earns $7.25x8x5 = $290/wk. Dinner + beer + bus + cigs + movie ~= 10 + 6 + 8 + 4 + 10 = $38. Or only 13% of their weekly income on R&R, half of what a Chinese boy or girl spends, and I threw in a free movie experience at the cinema, something that would break any Chinese teen's budget.
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Semi-related: a video of Linus giving a talk on Git at Google http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

Watch for the bit where he goes:

"What are you guys using?

pause

Perforce?

longer pause

I'm ... sorry."
That would be like calling someone a Ph.D. after completing kindergarten.

UNIX 03 certification means MacOS X is a UNIX. It doesn't say anything about its status as a BSD though.
Are you trolling? Because I think you're trolling and I don't want to waste my time responding.
The main reason a Mac user (in practical terms) is more secure then a Windows user is because Mac users typically are using the latest version of the OS, whereas an typical Windows user is at least one SP behind, maybe more?. Especially if said Windows sits in an office environment where there is a very slow adaption rate.

Also, any unauthorized copy of Windows is most likely never updated.
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Probably not a huge deal - he's finished his final exam so will presumably graduate in the next few weeks. And since the summer vacation (=fewer students on campus) is approaching I guess he'd see a drop in traffic anyway.

In fact this could be the start of his marketing campaign for next intake of students...
If Windows computers make up a majority of the market, then the transmission rate for viruses that target only OS X is low. Therefore, you could argue that computers collectively enjoy herd immunity versus OS X viruses, even if machines running OS X individually have weaker security than average.
Anecdotal, but I think it's because they don't really need designated hacker spaces.

Growing up, we were far from wealthy, yet in the basement we had a woodshop stocked fully with tools (mostly that my dad had bought at estate auctions and soforth) and a garage stocked with every type of tool I could imagine. I think the only thing we didn't have was a welder, although several of my neighbors did.

(Grew up in MN)
I think that cities are vastly biased towards the iPhone. There's just lots of pro-iPhone people in the cities; mac users (note there are only a few mac stores in Japan and they are all in big cities), Japanese people who are more "worldly", business people or tech people who appreciate the easy access to the real web and not watered down iMode version etc etc.

But get outside the cities - you know, the other 90% of Japan - and I'd wager a guess that the amount of iPhones you see in the wild drops considerably.

So you're right in a way. There's probably very high market penetration within big cities. But outside the cities where its high school kids, X-corp salarymen, factory workers and housewives, other models dominate.
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Ha!

Suppose they want to buy an... iPad in their local Apple store. You can bet your ass it's not going to be cheaper than in the US.

In other words, how would you feel if you worked in an Apple factory, producing iPads at a low cost, but to purchase it costs 3x your monthly salary.