skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just about to say the same thing - usually it's the officers who are clueless, thinking that a year at RMA Sandhurst means they know more than a battle-hardened Sergeant or Sergeant-Major.

In any army in the world, call an NCO 'sir', and they'll respond: "Don't call me sir; I work for a living."

('Sir' is usually reserved for officers, and in UK & Commonwealth countries, Warrant Officers Class 1 & 2)
I think it's also proven that you loose things that you understand and/or care about much slower than others.

About rewriting memories... You do not only fill the blanks in your memories. Your brain also fills the blanks in what you are looking at, the exact moment you are looking at it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBPG_OBgTWg
Hey reinvent,

Send me an email (see the link in my profile) . I can help you get up to speed with Django, real-time systems, and the web industry if you can teach me something valuable about the defense industry.
The real fragmentation was in the UI level for a long while. Remember UIQ and S60? This led to half assed ownership of documentation and developer relations. Funny how business models have impacts on products.
I would like to see a delay in the implementation of laws that are introduced in reaction to specific events (terrorism, dangerous dogs, Dunblane etc.).

Rather than having a knee jerk reaction to create new laws to "do something" - the government should be able to propose new laws but these would sit in limbo for a reasonably long time period (say 2 years) and then have to be voted on again before they actually become law.
IBM names Firefox its default browser
Blinksale Launches New Design
Single founder, no investors (as far as I'm aware)
Fine, video games aren't art, but then neither are movies. After all, what's a video game other than an interactive movie?

I think the problem is that Ebert just sees the Skinner box nature of video games only, without noticing that movies are also a Skinner box of sorts.
When Rome was falling, no place in the Western World was particularly good. The best you could do was bail for a small, out of the way place, such as Iberia, or travel East and live in China, too far away to be affected.

But a few idiots do not make a failing civilization. If it did, no one would be safe.
You do realize that being anti-hype and anti-fashion is fashionable nowadays? ;)
What can we say- we have fingers, and more importantly thumbs, and that makes it a hellofalot easier. Thus we are head (and shoulders) ahead of most of the animal kingdom.
Why take it back to the store for a refund when you can get a lawyer a million dollars instead?

This culture of benevolence baffles me.
They used to have capital and corporal punishment for thievery in England 200 years ago. Now it's less tough.
The Abominable Kindle Wins?
Perhaps it's not wildly unnatural factors but rather plain old boredom?
Meet the new CISCO MITM 5505, trust CISCO for all your net appliance needs.
They could make changes to future production runs however (assuming it really is a widespread issue which I'm still not really convinced of)
"While such a project could have enormous social benefit, I don't see any way to institute it and find support enough to carry it out."

I'd support that project. And I suspect that many other people would too.
The modern money supply is not primarily inflated by minting/printing money.

The money supply is inflated when people make loans. Easy credit causes money supply inflation. Most of the inflation is caused by private lending, not public printing. Loans cause a 10-1 money supply increase on the base, and often more like 30-1 when you start to look at more risky lenders.

The recent CARD act has likely done more to deflate the money supply than anything in recent memory, as it made one of the most pervasive forms of credit much less attractive to people.

Every debt write down is money disappearing.

That alone makes me laugh at people complaining about inflation and strategic default at the same time, as the later directly combats the former.
You're lucky. I exchanged my first one 2 days after getting it. I had the antenna issue when holding it, had it on the new phone, and I still have wifi issues with my Apple router at home. The employee at the genius bar actually gave me scotch tape to bridge the antenna. It didn't work. When I got home and used some electrical tape and finally fixed the problem.
Thanks. All were hard lessons to learn, but I feel like my next venture will come out of the gate much stronger than this one did. I see life as a learning experience, so no matter how this could have turned out I still came away as a better/more complete person.
Judging from this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1477725 -
DuckDuckGo integration with StackOverflow is now live - I suspect the gentleman above ( http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/ ) has something nice in mind ;-)
I think the problem is that there's a suspicion Apple knew about the antenna problem before launch, but launched it anyway.

Still, if it hasn't been a problem for you, keep it and enjoy it. If it has, return it. No need for frivolous lawsuits.
To clarify about your Gitmo point: the vast majority were not waterboarded. Going to Gitmo did/does not automatically mean being waterboarded. But point taken.

I thought of another good argument against waterboarding: the Geneva Convention. My understanding is that it is banned by it under all (or, well, proscribed) circumstances, and the US is signatory to it. I think part of the reason why the US wanted to do certain things NOT on mainland US soil was to be able to weasel around certain laws and international rules that address what they are and are not allowed to do.
I find it helps when I put my iPad into white-on-black mode when using the Kindle app.

A daylight readable iPad would be awesome for traveling. How about something like an iPad with front and back cameras? One could run a Google Maps-like program with add-on features that makes it an interactive travel guide. Hold it up to take a photo of a landmark, and it could automatically create an inset picture and upload it to a photostream. Come to think of it, this would make a great feature for an iPhone 4 app.
I wouldn't write of BB. Exchange clients are commoditized: BES clients aren't. BB would never release a phone requiring holding in a particular way - they take things very seriously. They also know they've fucked up on web browsing and have the brains to scrap their old shit.
At A Startup, Is It Better To Go With Your Gut Or Analyze All The Data?
> (otherwise why would Android market share be growing?)

Because it's the least-awful alternative if you don't want to go to AT&T. People will live with bad things or bad situations quite well, if they believe they have no choice.

ETA: Of course, for them to have 'no choice' but to go Android, they have to perceive AT&T and/or an iPhone as unacceptable, as well as the other alternatives.
Yeah, no problems installing apps on E: Doesn't seem to help much though.
The brunt of your question is the fact that you feel guilty for spending your time enjoying Games rather than programming.

Perhaps your real concern might be how you manage time. Gaming and programming don't have to conflict with one another as long as you manage the time you spend on each activity.

Yes you might not be able to have a marathon 6 hour session playing CS as you did in your younger days as unfortunately the toils of adult life tend to take precedence, but if you schedule in a bit of gaming time in the evening or at weekends then I don't see there's any reason why you have to 'give it up to become a better programmer'.
Firstly, I'm really impressed by the idea, and think it would be an excellent way to have public feedback - if this had existed during washup, would the digital economy bill (now act) have passed?

But I have a few reservations - no. 10 has had a petition part of their website for years now - the problem was that any ideas that didn't fit with the government's ideas already were ignored. Petitions with only hundreds of signatures got noticed, those withtens of thousands got ignored. It's perfectly possible that this will just be repeated in a different form.

If it does work, then we might get ill informed opinion taking precedence - such as people voting against say road user charging without understanding the true costs and benefits of the system... But that's always a problem with democracy, so who knows how to solve that?

Also, there appears to be some technical issues with the site. There's no way to class entries as duplicates, and as such there are already man redundant posts - say on cannabis legalisation. When you rank by rating, they make the mistake that Amazon make - one 5 star rating is worth more than 20 five star ratings and 1 one star rating.
You live in a country where medical people of any sort (doctors, medical suppliers, etc) can be sued without scientific evidence that they harmed anyone. They will face trial with a jury having no ability to evaluate scientific evidence and who will make a decision based on who is more sympathetic. The plaintiff's lawyer may pretend to be a psychic and still be awarded millions of dollars rather than being laughed out of court (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/31/politics/campaign/31EDWA.h...).

Is it any surprise that everyone involved goes out of their way to avoid any hint of possible legal liability?
Steve Jobs in heated email exchange: "Relax, it's just a phone"
The 24 Types of Libertarian
Uh oh, I hope they lower that memory requirement a little bit. Isn't the Motorola Droid the number one selling Android phone? Looks like it's not going to make the cut.
> These man-made radiation belts eventually crippled one-third of all satellites in low earth orbit.

> Wilmot Hess reported in 1968 that some Starfish electrons remained for five years

I guess that came unexpected.
Friends and family?
Forums and meetups. Find places where your target market congregates and show up there. Participate in the conversation without being spammy (ideally, you started doing this already). Ask for feedback on your product and maybe toss in a special coupon code for members of that forum/group.
The odd numbered ones. That would be a good start.
You might need to buy advertising to get your ad network going.

Two nits if I may:

1. Instead of saying "adsreloaded.com is changing the way online advertising works", you might try "adsreloaded.com is about to change". The former sounds like you are trying to sound much bigger than you are at the moment. At least it did to me.

2. The blurb in the bottom bar is unusually designed. At first glance I thought it was a testimonial, but I'm not sure now.

Edit: why not try advertising in the new Hacker Monthly magazine? Print subscriptions are at 4K or so now, PDF are probably way higher and it's reaching a lot of developers and bloggers.
Patent reform would be best, but just changing the incentive system would do a world of good. IIRC the patent office is funded partly by fees, giving it motivation to quickly grant patents. Declining patents throws a monkey wrench into the revenue stream. Examiners get lower evaluations if they do too much of this. Fix it by changing the funding, fining for denied claims. Give bonus points to examiners who deny patents/claims.

Citations needed: jump in if you have fresher knowledge.
Here's a link to information about base pay for nurses in the US (2006). It actually mentions the nursing "shortage" at the top: http://www.allied-physicians.com/salary-surveys/nursing/
Firstly, I'm really impressed by the idea, and think it would be an excellent way to have public feedback - if this had existed during washup, would the digital economy bill (now act) have passed?

But I have a few reservations - no. 10 has had a petition part of their website for years now - the problem was that any ideas that didn't fit with the government's ideas already were ignored.

I think your second statement does a nice job of counter-acting your first.

Maybe I'm cynical, but this looks like a pretty shallow publicity ploy. I'd love to see some real change come from this (or sites like this), but I'd be shocked if it actually happened.
> Android 3.0 will also have a completely refreshed user interface.

It better. I recently rooted my HTC Desire to get a horrible reminder of what Stock android looks like: white, orange, blue and green is the worst color combo I've seen since the blue, green and orange of Windows XP.
Refactoring March
Explain to me how you can have a monopoly in app sales when you own only 20% of the app-running platforms (and you have competitors with a significantly larger share). How can you distort the market from that vantage point? If you abuse customers, they simply go to BlackBerry or Android.
The real question is will two $150k programmers produce more than three $100k programmers. In Silicon Valley, my experience is yes.

The same ratio probably applies anywhere, but the relative scale changes.
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I was a software developer at Serena when they made the change to Google, which was generally well-received when proposed, and at cutover.

It didn't take long to discover that distribution lists were poorly supported. When we could get them set up, delivery was sketchy. This was probably the #1 early complaint from within my team.

As things progressed, and we started using Google Apps, I personally found that the very flat organization got out of hand when one had lots of documents shared with them.

I don't know whether these or similar complaints factored much into the decision. The decision to go to Google was made under a CEO who was very gung-ho about various cloud computing strategies. The new CEO is focused on returning Serena to core product strategies and increasing sales.
How much time did it take him to write those two essays? He wasted thousands of hours of humanity just for his big ego, and can't even be bothered to play a video game for 10 hours? I guess he is famous (?) but I sure hope I'll never read any of his thoughts again, ever.
Custom Mapping with SVG and RaphaelJS
It's sort of like UPS truck pooling in my case. I live in a high rise that gets daily deliveries regardless of what I order, which is why I don't feel too bad about my incessant stream of Amazon orders.
Whether or not you agree with it, the argument is believable enough to have been presented in a graduate level course that I was in a number of years ago. (The course was on wavelets, but background review on information theory was presented at the beginning.)

You are correct that a perfectly encrypted message is indistinguishable from noise. Decryption is the art of distinguishing imperfectly encrypted messages from noise. Anything that makes the message harder to distinguish, makes decryption harder. Which means that the more the message looks like noise, the harder it is to decrypt.

Your attempted counter argument fails on the fact that a redundant message has very little noise, and therefore has a high S/N despite having not that much signal per bit. However that said, it is true that if you take a redundant message, remove some redundancy by adding some random noise to it, then encrypt it, the result will be harder to decrypt than if you just encrypted the original redundant message. Of course the fundamental reason behind that is that detecting redundant information is at the heart of decryption.

In that light it is interesting to compare the two known perfect encryption mechanisms. The first is the one-time pad. In that case the transmitted message has absolutely no redundancy because the definition of the encryption method contains as much information as the transmitted message. The second is for the two end points to have a list of pre-agreed messages of equal likelyhood, which they will refer to in binary code. This offers perfect compression with absolutely no redundancy, and therefore the attacker again has absolutely no way to guess what the pre-encoded messages are. (This is much harder to do properly in practice than one time pads, which themselves are pretty tricky.)
So, You're Thinking Of Becoming A... Computer Programmer
Grip Different: Apple, AT&T Sued Over iPhone 4 Antenna Issue
It's widespread idiocy that worries me.

The answer to my question:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassanid_Empire

Perhaps there would be a haven someplace deep within the sphere of influence of the next dominant power to arise. The trick is to find someplace that will roll-over and submit without armed resistance.
Yeah (sorry for down-voting you) - there are so many anti-propreitary rantings around here that it's hard to separate out the sarcastic people who acknowledge the objective reality from the standard propreitary always == bad!!!! kool-aid drinkers.
Not an interactive movie, not by a long shot. A movie is much closer to a painting, in that its essentially static - exactly what the artist put into it an no more. Carefully crafted for a particular experience.
That has been the part that has annoyed me most about the whole debate. He is quite willing to argue at length that computer games aren't art, but he then goes on to matter of factually state that a Kurosawa film is art is if that was an axiomatic Truth universally accepted by everybody. Before you try to convince me that games aren't art, at least try to convince me that movies are.
I'm 22 now. The girl was very cute at the time.
I wonder why Menuet32 is open source (GPL), but Menuet64 isn't.
This got killed once before because it's completely off topic. Take it to reddit or somewhere else, please.
An oldie, nothing tech movie: Breaking Away
He doesn't have to apologize for his opinions. He doesn't have to refuse to be wrong. That's not arrogant; thats a human right.

I get it; many disagree. He comes off arrogant because he's famous.
These are completely unsubstantiated rumors. The notion that Google is going to drop support for the Droid less than a year after it's release is just silly.
When did being a fan of Ayn Rand's philosophies make you a bigot?
What I think people really could use is a site where special consideration to the implementation is given so that the code can be located more by a drill down. You still need to give special consideration suited to your own specific needs and the characteristics of the data you're dealing with. Being able to sift through the problems and then how to solve them in specific languages (assuming it is even a problem for the language).
All that site promised was that anything with x (50,000 IIRC) votes would get a personal reply from the PM.

The real test will be when the Countryside Alliance (disclosure: I am a member) use the site to vote en masse for the repeal of the Hunting Act.
Bonuses to deny claims? Doesn't that swing the incentives the opposite way? I bet there are plenty of reasons somebody could come up with to deny any given patent. But some of them are genuinely valuable inventions and deserve protection. So I'm not sure this is the right path.
"Admittedly, using Hacker News on an iPhone is not the best mobile browser experience"

That's precisely why people are willing to buy an app like this: to improve the experience. Yes, "fixing" HN is easy, if you're pg. If you're just a reader, something like this offers a fix today, for three dollars.

(I agree with you, by the way: I won't pay money for a glorified web browsing app. Just pointing out that I think there's a place for apps like these, if only as a means of pointing out to site owners what they could improve.)
SciPy 2010: NumPy/SciPy coming to .NET
That's the point: I agree a Particular game can be art. The artist has to be present in art.

Undeniably many video games Contain lots of really cool art. But so does my bedroom.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your site, but when I looked at it yesterday, you're looking for people to download and execute iPhone apps, and get paid a small sum for doing so, correct?

If that's the case, who is your target audience? It sure wasn't me, because my time is more valuable than that-- you'd have to raise your rates by several orders of magnitude before I'd be interested. Which is also why I don't spend my time on the Mechanical Turk.

But, it seems to me that the people who do so are the kind of people you might be interested in. So, if that's the case, why not spend some money there on testing/market research?

In other words, pay people (via MTurk) to test out your service (which will involve them also getting paid). In exchange for the "extra" MTurk money, you can ask them a few questions about how well the service worked, and where they think it should be advertised.

And, if it works well, I wouldn't be surprised if some of them become repeat users, even outside of MTurk.
Well it will probably not be symbian that is getting the chance as nokia is dropping it from the phones that would compete against android phones, in favour of meego.
The issue isn't about being unhappy with it. The issue is that the plaintiffs think Apple knew about the problem before hand and did nothing. The discovery period for this case will hopefully clear this up, one way or the other, instead of just having speculation.
Oracle Rises After Sun Acquisition Fuels Profit Gain
There will always be rote work, and it's worthwhile learning how to cope with it.
Persian windcatchers.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher

And they are huge, try to find pictures with humans to get an idea of the scale. One day I hope to make it to Yazd to see the real thing.
Crowd sourcing policy decisions. This could be the shiny new face of democracy (hyperbole noted)
I had a talk about a year ago with a developer working for Nokia, regarding the future of Symbian. There seems to be some understanding within the company about the issues facing Symbian, which is why we've seen Maemo and Meego. Nokia does, however, seem to lack the nimbleness and daring to really abandon Symbian quickly.
If Apple has to they will give everyone who complains a free "bumper" case. Those things will probably cost Apple less than a dollar.

I'm thinking of just buying bumpers preemptively, since they will also solve the vital "which of these otherwise identical iPhones is my wife's phone and which is mine?" problem.
No, diagrams made out of post-its on a white board. So you can move the various parts around.
There is plenty of art where the audience participation and reaction is integral to the piece.
I think your second statement does a nice job of counter-acting your first.

I was going for naïve hope followed by the crushing realism of politics.

Even if any of these ideas did persuade the deputy primemi ister, what's he going to do?
Is it so much to ask to just hold it different? There is no way they will win this case.
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I also hope this, but the droid also doesn´t cut in the cpu requisistes. If they lower to 384Mb I would be happy :P
Another article claimed that AT&T charges a 10% restocking fee, so you couldn't get a full refund.