skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could also be because the antenna was weak so they compensated by making it appear better than it really is.
Having tried to implement a certain form of this, I can say that forcing yourself into a certain mode of thinking, top down, is EXTREMELY mentally taxing. It's very difficult to keep up the mental focus necessary for an appreciable amount of time, and I would not be surprised if this actually impeded mental performance on an individual level because of the effort involved, though it's possible overall group performance could still increase.
I sure hope power provision is part of a negotiation protocol; using existing form factors to provide power has been disastrous in times past (e.g. Amiga 1000).
The $: change seems bizarre.
This is only tenuously connected, but Less Wrong is, for me, much like tvtropes.com is for some people. I usually find I'm opening an exponentially increasing number of tabs, as every post has several interesting links.

Here is the point in this comment where I would usually throw out a "I resolve that" or "what I should do" kind of solution for this issue... but that would seem quite counter to the message of this entry. Hmm.
Actually the thing that sold me on kindle was that you can use dropbox with it as well, trough the dropbox website interface. I can imagine that it will be a sub-par experience and probably it will not take 5 seconds but oh well. And yes, the plan was to try it out and return it in the worst case.
Even with government subsidized corn, its still not cheap enough. I suppose if we round them all up like we did in the 18th century we could manage it. Put their children to work too. Make them slaves in everything but name. Yes, this is what the founding fathers meant by freedom!
Maybe or maybe not - my point is just that this is one way you get tools with good interfaces, and it is less likely that you will take this path when you are a large company.
It really frustrates me that it doesn't.
((l i) (s p))

would have been better. Would have emphasized that functions are first-class citizens. (I know, this syntax works only in Scheme.)
Wow. Nokia actually responded to Symbian Guru's assault! Nice. Nokia Conversation blog always manages to surprise me with its candor and fresh attitude (e.g. their response to N8 leak and more recently iPhone 4 signal issues). Now, only if their phones were as fresh.
That's what I was told, but to be honest, I doubt anything was installed.

All my apps/ settings were intact and my version number is the same as the regular shipped build.

I was told to restore my iPhone fresh (which would delete the installed patch, no?) and not to restore from back-up, which is possibly the fix itself. I'm going to do it now and will report back on the results... did you upgrade from a previous iPhone and restored from a previous back-up?
The reaction you're thinking of is: Deuterium + He3 -> proton + He4 + energy. So the reaction also yields helium. Helium is a very common product from fusion reactions. We can produce it now, just not in very large quantities. But cryogenics have money, and a need for helium, meaning they might be willing to pay for it being produced in such a way in the future.
For all intents and purposes, it is OCaml on .NET. I currently work in a .NET shop and it has made functional programming a real possibility when using the .NET stack. Combine that with the functional capabilities of C# and you have a real possibility of at least some of the features of functional languages becoming mainstream. I am hopeful.
Henry V (Branagh version : to do battle w/ code)

Glory (if feeling overwhelmed but need to do the right thing)

Searching for Bobby Fisher (inspires creativity)
The pulmonary specialist who ordered the sleep study does not get $2k, the sleep study guy does. Why would the pulmonary specialist care about enriching the sleep study guys?

So, you're 100% certain that the pulmonary specialist is not an owner or an investor at the sleep study facility?

In reality, it is quite common for doctors to own or invest in facilities to which they refer their own patients.
Unlike Switzerland, the American Enterprise Institute isn't exactly known for being a bastion of neutrality. The author's other cause celebre is that people should stop whining about women being underrepresented in math and the hard sciences. Her AEI profile (http://www.aei.org/scholar/56) informs us that she is "preparing to write a book on the lost history of conservative feminism." As a non-white, non-male physics PhD, I can't wait to read that one.
When you have developers given specs for small parts of larger systems, no stake in the outcome, small amounts of money, and no say in the design of the system, I'd expect bad results.

Generally speaking you get the best from programmers when they have a stake in the larger picture, some say in how and why things work the way they do, responsibility for their work, and at least some autonomy.

Why should it be different for outsourced work?
Flying cars set to soar into the marketplace in 2011 ‎
I hate the title because it is linkbait for the obvious conclusion, which it does reach: Pre-school and school performance is so dominated by non-sheer-smarts characteristics (such as the ability to concentrate on a long test at an early age) that trying to derive any meaningful conclusion about gender/race/size-of-your-nose outlier intelligence patterns is almost moot.

Not only are most people not geniuses, but most successful people are not geniuses either. What's with the obsession already?
Wow, you didn't read the article at all, did you? If anything, he's being rather critical of apple's PR team here.
why so?..
i don't really get your point
yes i did, as soon as i got back with the replacement i restored from previous (original) iphone 4 backup made earlier that day. however the first iphone 4 i got, i didn't do a restore. proximity sensor issue was there too (which prompted the need for an exchange).
The article mentions using only hydrogen and oxygen isotopes (I'd assume due to the distortion caused by filtering if you did it by any other elements), and looking at hair samples to detect the isotopes in the proteins / molecules which make it up. Even being carnivorous is going to distort things if you get your meat from multiple locations (say, fish. That comes from everywhere, at least for me), as you'll incorporate the amino acids (which have plenty of H and O) into your own proteins.

After looking closer, it appears that the study makes only the (obvious) claim that bottled water purchased near location A has similar isotopes to water in location A, due to bottling habits. Though I haven't read the study itself. The article may be entirely vague speculation, to drum it up into something more exciting / inflammatory.
I don't understand where the negative comments are coming from.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think the OP is not working on a "social network" for the developing world, but rather something to replace mobile phones. By opening up the communication it would allow for observers to make more informed decisions.

A simple google search reveals just what a huge impact wireless communication has had in Africa: http://www.google.com/search?q=mobile+phones+africa

I have to applaud this project, and wish you the greatest of success.
I am tired of being offered $120k for a 3month contract without things like parking, vacation, and health benefits. I am lucky to be employed full time currently. I always ignore recruiter calls of that kind because what it really means is $30k for 3 months, which creates a "mercenary" job environment out of what should really be a more full time/stable developer job environment. I can do that by marketing my own skills. Employers need to end the short-term hiring practices, they're artificially boosting the economic outlook and creating shoddy work that is a piecemeal result of several developers that work on DEV projects temporarily.
No bother.. Most cutting edge game devs wouldn't jump into Android right away either.
Lousy title: the article doesn't seem to contradict free will at all. If people are more likely to keep a clean desk with the smell of cleaning fluid in the air, that still means that some people were not affected. Obviously those guys have free will. Nothing in the studies they referenced said "whenever this stimulus is introduced, people always do X"; that would demonstrate lack of free will. The cited studies demonstrate the opposite of the title.
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Hopefully, from my personal experience when I was interning in a .NET shop I first heard of F#. Didn't ask them at the time but it seemed like even just making a choice between VB and C# on most projects wasn't an option. Wonder now if they would allow F# for project.
My default back behavior is right-click, click Back (since I use many different machines where I can't change a mouse button). This has just become a default gesture for me.
When was that, exactly? Things have changed, from top to bottom. Everything seems to be totally restructured for girls. The much-better-examined question is why females are getting more bachelor's degrees then males in college, by a percentage that if it were any other group would be prima facie proof of widespread discrimination. http://iserp.columbia.edu/news/articles/female-advantage-col... says 2004 saw 58% female graduation, and the disparity's trend is up, not down.

We need to wipe out the idea that education is somehow biased towards males now, and fast. The playing field has gone from balanced to stacked in favor of females and it's still being tipped yet further in that direction.

("Why does it matter?" It is, as the article says, fairly well established that variance in male intelligence is larger than female intelligence. It is also fairly well established that progress is made in society in a very unbalanced manner, where most progress is made by the outliers in skill. Throwing away the males because the education system labels the usual male child learning styles pathological because they can't be properly corralled is not the path to a society able to compete on the global stage.)
Hitler understood the exact same thing. Please realize I am in no way saying there is any similarity or connection with Steve Jobs beyond this narrow point. Just pointing this out. In fact I think a lot of people with strong personalities and charisma who achieve great success have skills in interpersonal communication and manipulation that exceed the average, and are good at 'hacking' this particular weakness of human minds.
Except that if we do, China will simply stop recycling its share of our government debt and the US government defaults. It will take a president with huge balls to call China on its trade war, and risk having to monetize that debt.
#LocalU Conference a Cleveland Success, eh
http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/15/how-to-make-a-cheap-porta...
MIT Campus map
Pretty sweet.
One reason is perhaps it's much simpler to have only horizontal bars. With horizontal and vertical bars, an interface tends to look really messy — just look at Opera.
And then hiding it with the "tricky" interface.
De Bono's Six Thinking Hats is part of the reason I named my security startup "BlueHat Security, LLC" (http://www.bluehatsecurity.com). Unfortunately, now it's on hold. So, maybe I didn't see the big picture after all :-)
The umpteenth MS product launch killed off within 3 years.

Aside from the particular products, this behavior over the past several years has caused MS to lose all credibility with me. I wouldn't trust them with any critical or even moderately important aspect of my life -- business or personal -- outside of their well established, cash cow products.

I have no interest in having my own investments (in time, not just -- or, rather, more so -- than money) subject/captive to this behavior.
US Constitution, Article I, Section 6, Clause 1.

[Members of Congress] shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony, and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their attendance at the Session of their Respective Houses, and in going to and from the same, and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.

Parliamentary immunity is not an concept isolated to Sweden.
Agreed. I wonder if it's cosmetic or if you can't actually require files in the same directory as __FILE__ via the load path.

Then again, this will probably only break snippets outside of projects, where lib/ is in the load path.
I'm sure that's true for many, many firms. But, in my experience running a domestic product development firm, the single best way to acquire repeat business is to exit completely and gracefully. Doing so builds a trusted relationship not only with the business managers who authorize our work but also with the technical resources who have to live with our code. When we give both groups reasons to trust our integrity, I find that I'm able to negotiate better, longer-term maintenance agreements (when those make sense) AND that I'm presented with opportunities to bid on future projects.

Clearly, many HNers have had poor experiences with outsourcing (whether domestic or overseas). But there are good guys out there, I promise.
Interesting, I've never thought about replacing a phone battery with a higher-end model (can you tell I have an iPhone?) I'm curious as to the actual battery life gains one would see and the effect on weight , etc.

I must have benchmarks!
They should just replace the 'bars' indicator with:

'thumbs up': All's OK

'thumbs down': You're holding it wrong. Or AT&T is failing your area. But it's not our fault.
Awesome stuff. If you don't mind me asking: a) how do you make money (I observe your code is open source); b) how do you market or get prospective customers (since it looks like this is an enterprise product). Just curios, because the product looks very interesting and I'm sure your business model will be even more interesting.
The big problem with sterility is taste and nutrition. It turns out that many of those vitamins and flavor compounds that we like are natural fungicides, pesticides, and preservatives. That's part of the reason why a home-grown tomato tastes so good--it's spent its whole life fighting off attackers while the bland industrial tomatoes have been protected by farm chemicals.
A sterile greenhouse or vertical farm would create produce that was bland and less nutritious.
You might be able to trick your plants into fighting by introducing controlled stressors (like a weakened pathogen, maybe?) into the "farm."
Its called speed dial... Opera has had it for years then Chrome and Safari copied it.
As a male, and father of males, I can honestly say that if any male feels like they are being systematically being discriminated against in school, they need to "man up".

Even if there is some gender bias in schools, everything else in society is so male-centric that the scale still way tips toward male.
I'm still hung up on exactly how this gender bias (in either direction) actually manifests itself in the classroom.

The derivative with respect to x of x^2 is 2x regardless of what gender you are. The Americans won the Revolutionary war regardless of what gender you are.
Out of curiosity do you plan to return it? If not why?
Having . in the load path led to some weird outcomes, especially to beginners. One example is if you write a script called twitter.rb that relies on a library also called 'twitter'. The require would attempt to pull in the current file rather than the library. I got stuck for a good 15 minutes with this one myself a few years ago ;-)
Re #1: You're ignoring metabolic byproducts that are excreted in urine or feces or sweat. Are there any byproducts that are released in the breath?
Sure, it's not $7/per hour but it's not $100/per hour either. You'd be surprised.
The dispersants were already all about perception. Oh, and the exact sand thing you describe was already done after the Exxon Valdez.
I guess the horizontal scroll bar being much higher on linux means a lot of the linux users in the survey were using netbooks.
Because almost everywhere else (other languages, the shell, etc), the current working directory is searched first. This makes it arbitrarily simple to package up a set of scripts in a directory, which can be unpacked and run.

That seems bizarre to me as well.
for those of you using rails 3, are you going to be using this rc candidate, or the ruby 1.9.1-p429. I've ran into a lot of issues using ruby 1.9.1 and are either fixed using ruby 1.8.7 or ruby 1.9.2 .. so just wondering ?
The side bar is really only used by a "super" user. Also you can move the tabs and everything to the left, having no bars on the top if you so chose to.
Especially one as painful and buggy as f#.
My solution was to read the whole thing (up to some point in 2009). There is an obvious downside to this solution.
Fishermen from around the world
I'm agreeing with Cory on this one: the bookmarks bar should be made obsolete, or at least be hidden by default. Browsers, especially FF, but including Safari and Chrome, allow you to easily search bookmarks from the location bar by title of the page or URL. Aside from that, Chrome offers you the top pages tab page + if the bookmarks bar is hidden, it displays the Bookmarks bar as part of the new tabs page.

I'd love to see the statistics for this, but if most people, like me, only click items on the bookmarks bar upon opening a new tab, then, indeed, there is no sense in keeping it up in the toolbar by default.
My experience is the same, but you have to think that F# would be a possibility much more so than Lisp/Haskell/Erlang/etc. would be.
I took the back button of a long time ago. All I have is refresh and the url bar. I use my mouse buttons along with the mouse gestures addon to navigate back and forward.
Why men are attracted to women with small feet
First cut at a WebGL FAQ
A rough cut of a FAQ for WebGL. Put together by the same guy who ported the NeHe tutorials to Javascript.
Flip side of the coin: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=SSS.V&t=2y&l=on&...

That said, I wouldn't recommend using the stock market as the best way to turn $1k into $10k.
I want to abstract away the ways my app is like every other web app. I don't want to abstract away what's unique about it. If you abstract away everything, all languages are the same.
Interesting article, but I don't buy the conclusion. I think this is partly because the term MVC has been distorted considerably from its original meaning when used in the context of web sites.

The key thing about real MVC is to separate not just the I/O details from the model, but the input details from the output. The view's only purpose is to render data from the model to some output device so the user can see it (or otherwise detect it). No matter how many monads you use to dress this up, it is fundamentally effectful: it updates the screen, plays sounds through speakers, etc.

This is where the confusion with web-based "MVC" comes in. If all your view does is generate some HTML as pure data, it isn't much of a view at all. No-one can see the results. You need a web server sitting on top, to take that HTML and send it back to the browser client using HTTP, and in the traditional sense of MVC that would be part of the view code as well.

This may be a useful distinction, in that it provides separation between the (necessarily impure) outside-facing code and the (potentially pure) rendering operation. A view module can be built up in layers from submodules just like any other part of a software system, and likewise the top layers can be effectful while depending only on pure code below. But the view module as a whole is always effectful, or it serves no purpose.
Yes, that's me.
As is apparent from my profile, I live in Scandinavia as well. You are mistaken at best and knowingly spreading FUD (lying) at worst when you say that.

What is well known is that Carl Lundström has been involved in some groups with very unpleasant political views (that I in no way share). Carl Lundström owns the ISP that hosted TPB in its first years. He may or may not still have a share in TPB, but it is fairly established that his role in the project never was anything other than a passive financier.

It is a very large leap, and close to libel if you ask me, to go from that to calling everyone involved in TPB and PP "neo-Nazi closet cases".

I assume that you think that half of the Swedish music industry are neo-Nazis as well, since they've worked at one time or another with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Karlsson ?
There really is no point to it. You can search from the url bar itself. The only reason to use it is if you want to search a different search engine. In which case they should copy opera and do key letter searching. Where you can type b search term and search bing. w search term and search wiki etc.
Care to substantiate that statement?
I hope this stuff is executing on top of Dalvik and not via the NDK.
Most every non-technical user has no idea what rss is.
Is that the going rate for lawn service around you? Neighborhood services typically charge ~$30 around me for mowing.
But what is consistently overlooked is that Symbian still accounts for more than two-fifths of the global smartphone market.

This is the kind of quote that comes up again and again from companies trying to defend something they are losing in. Signals to me more than anything else in that post that the mindset isn't great.
Self-Programming
I completely agree with you. I've been on many projects where outsourcing ended up being a terrible idea, but anyone with a brain would be able to see that the process was screwed up from the beginning (on our side). I imagine myself in the shoes of the outsourced developer, and its easy to conclude I would have produced the same crap results given the constraints most managers put on the teams.

Code ownership and the freedom to make your own actual decision is vital for any really good developer. We can't just take that away, and then complain when the project hits the rocks.

Still, I'm going to stay away from using offshore teams in the future as its just too damn hard to get right if you have a limited budget.
Flagged because the content is outdated. There has since been an official press release confirming the intent to purchase.

http://investor.google.com/releases/2010/0701.html
Ask, and ye shall receive:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhn...

It's even a product of Google themselves.
It looks more like a Twitter replacement rather than a Facebook.
For a similar but more mature use-case see this australian company described in a recent Curt Monash post:

http://www.dbms2.com/2010/06/19/objectivity-infinite-graph/

(I don't know more about them, but this is one possible model for us.)
Some results from the Ioke experiment
I actually spoke to these guys directly about this at a party. Only for a few minutes cause I am sure everyone and their mother wants to bike shed with them. But yeah, xmpp might have been the better choice. Google certainly thinks so.

Protocol is all they have to get really right out of the gate.
I tried taking the back button off, but it turns out I really need it: not to click, but as a status indicator. Because I use tabs, the back button shows me at a glance whether or not I'm in the middle of a stack, or if I opened a link from a new tab, etc.
I installed an extension so that it did :)
>syncing content back and forth between machines starts to shine

What do you mean by that? Firefox Sync/Chrome Sync? I only browse at work because I can but not because I'd prefer to, personally.
Russian Math Genius Rejects $1 million Dollar Prize
Too bad the top journals are not open access... Unacceptable publishing conditions (and lack of time and incentive) are one of the reasons I don't bother trying to publish our papers in a journal.