skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a "public figure" who has thrust himself into a number of controversies, yes, he is. Ultimately, though, it comes down to the ethics and good taste of those doing the gossiping (or not.) Questioning a change in Dropbox's "Our Team" page isn't very high on the insensitivity meter.
Maybe I'm misinterpreting what you said, but you can currently do this in Chrome.

Options -> Manage (searches) -> double click an existing search or add a new one -> set Keyword to a single letter.
If the iPhone does 95% of what they want, and they return it, now they get 0% of what they wanted (and they can go buy some other phone and get 80%). What they really want is Apple to improve it, that's their best outcome.
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He did a good job of promoting himself through controversy. There are a lot of women out there who are smarter and more attractive than Paris Hilton, but she knows how to play the game and stay in the spotlight.
>I'll probably get downvoted for this comment but in this case,

Good post except for this bit. Please don't bring that phrase to HNs. Good posts can stand on their own.

And yeah, I think the main issue is that the RDF algorithm is collapsing. It was originally a great way to alter perception about AT&T's service, but it backfired due to the issues the 4 may or may not be having with the antenna. The problem of sudden dropping calls at low has been there all along, but with the antenna holding issue (or "issue"), the bubble has been popped.

Out of curiosity, is Apple the only company that does this? Does anyone else display <100% as 5 bars, or is that strictly an iPhone thing?
> you treat them like the primary creators of value for you company, and yourself as their support staff

Bingo! The best managers I have had over the years spent far more time getting me what I needed in order to do my job than they did telling me what to do. They also got the most value out of me, and ended up looking the best in front of their bosses.
Especially this item ^_^: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1479272
Apples vs Oranges
They are:

http://scalien.com/whitepapers
Let's hope this feature makes it in Diaspora, then! Given how Google botched the Buzz launch with privacy issues, I'm not expecting too much from GOOG.
Tell HN: Outsourcing a Perspective from an Indian CS Student
Another day another post: It seems to be a fashion to write a controversial blog post about how outsourcing sucks and how we did it faster than them, which makes outsourcing costlier!

Now bing an An indian student who is studying CS at an US university here are my observations about ground reality in India:

Unlike other fields outsourcing software dev requires slightly smarter people. So What do smart students in India do? And why do always all articles talk about shitty indian devs?

Here is the analysis:

Every year top 5% of graduating class from whole India (IIT's, toppers in smaller schools) go to USA for PhD's or join a multi national firm in India (MSFT, GOOG, JPMC, etc).

The next 60% either join MS courses in US universities or work for Top out Sourcing Firms such as Infosys, TCS, Wipro, Patni, Satyam etc. Theses firm which now have revenues in billions of Dollars are the significant outsourcing players.

Then you also have few mid size firms which have few million dollar revenue per year.
Now the bottom 35% join smaller firms, those which market themselves on hire a coder websites and such.

The top companies do not take smaller project, that is unless youre project isnt worth at least few million dollars they dont care.
Thus most of blog posts which talk about management mismatch and shitty projects are working with bottom 30% of the talent pool.

E.g. Company like TCS which serves say Pfizer, will have a large team working in india and around 5% people working in USA with Pfizer to co ordinate the whole activity.

Sadly most of the stuff such as answers about outsourcing on stackoverflow or blogposts are written by devs who work in small companies, and who have access to a considerably less smarter talent pool in India.

Thus as a Final Message: If you aren't working with a company in india that has at least few million $ revenue, you are probably working with wrong people or you are too small to outsource.

In India outsourcing is synonymous with the billion dollar companies which bring most of the revenue and not with smaller dev houses which have around 100 employees.
So dont judge indian devs by wrong sample. student who generally work for Infosys and other come to USA after 3-4 years to pursue MS in CS (which in funny way HN'ers think is useless)
and get jobs that pay really well.

You can just explore LinkedIn with names of the companies i gave in this post and see for yourself.
This attacks something that user researcher Steve Portigal calls "solutioneering" and the phrase has stuck in my head since I saw his ixdasf talk last year. He led the audience through an exercise to show a typical client project, where we went through several rounds of breaking down a consumer product and its uses. It was even harder than I thought it would be to stick to discussing the problem rather than jumping straight to possible fixes or improvements.
I'm sure there are a few really bad sexist jokes in reply to the title. I'll refrain from airing them here.
older, bigger company, and less successful?

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/box.net+dropbox.com/

no thanks.
Ok, let's say someone had written an opinion piece on how Windows is unfairly portrayed compared to Linux. You read it, and it just seems, I don't know, off. Perhaps it's the fact that they illustrated their point with a feature comparison graph dated to 1991 (a fair comparison to the author's use of 1932 data), or maybe it just reads as a long-winded rant as opposed to an intelligent inquiry into the subject of operating systems. You look into it a bit, and it turns out that the author was once quoted as saying that Linus Torvalds is just a loser, jealous of Bill Gates's wealth. You look at their other articles, and see that every one is the same old template: yay Windows, nay Linux, yay numbers that support my opinion, nay numbers that do not. What would you conclude, if not that the author is, indeed, incorrect? I don't have a problem with a "one-issue" writer but I do have a problem with a evidence-be-damned "one-sided" writer.
Just curious about your wording. Why do you say this is the cheater way? It might stop working for large values of num where the anonymous function scheduled by the setTimeout begins executing before the for loop finishes. But it's certainly valid for a particular range of values.

EDIT: On second thought, does anyone even know if the scenario I mentioned above is plausible? I changed the alerts to console.logs and I'm finding it pretty damn impossible to not get the expected results using the "cheater way" even for large values of num.
"I've done functional programming work in the past (ML) but the fact is, it's just much harder FOR ME to just get things done in functional languages."

With my addition above I agree with you 100%. Generalizing from personal experience? Let's try to raise the bar on discourse a little higher.
I wish the US would have a Pirate Party! I would be a supporter of freedom of speech and internet neutrality!
Strong disagree. Chrome is the only major browser that doesn't have native support for RSS. Even Internet Explorer does! Hell, it doesn't even understand RSS -- it simply shows the raw XML source.

Because of this, many blogs have links to their RSS/Atom feed with a fat "Subscribe" logo -- on Chrome, when you click that, you get a massive page of unparsed XML.

Whether a given grandma knows what RSS is or not is beside the point, it's lame of Google not to follow a defacto standard that many sites rely upon when there is no technical reason not to.

It seems weird the Chrome works so hard to integrate PDF / Flash / etc. so the users don't have to think about it and really push the envelope with their browser... yet they refuse to even honor RSS.
I'm digging the fact that scientists are finally catching up with the meta-humanity thinkers & tinkerers (philosophers, artists, writers, etc) i.e. unconscious will can be & has been extrapolated from first principles, i.e. this is old news. Still, exciting!

1) Rigors-of-academic-inquiry(oldnews) = new data = new model = new algorithms

2) Makes moving my research forward that much easier. Similar case: I went from getting an orders of magnitude brush-off from a theoretical physicist on the topic of string configurations and cellular-level biochemical reactions. A few years later, I see he is working with David Albert on Subjective Experience as a Window on
Foundational Physics http://www.ctnsstars.org/enews/news_team5.html

+ the recent the quantum entanglement in DNA paper on arxiv http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25375/...

Embodied cognition, ghosts in biological machines, feels a bit like racing toward god. I can see how it can make some people feel uncomfortable. Still, it's what we're made to do, what the amalgam of our biology+experience gifts us with.
On top of that, mobile developers have become used to a great development environment with Xcode.

Have you tried Nokia's new Qt Creator? I think it's on par with Xcode as a mobile development IDE.

http://www.forum.nokia.com/Develop/Qt/
This article makes no mention that preference might reflect contemporary culture and times.
I received the same invitation email, but the text you highlighted is missing from mine. Apparently, I'm just not that interesting. ;-)

(Also, just FYI: I was prompted to log in, which then errored out, when I tried to leave this as a comment on your blog.)
The Great Legacy.com Swindle
The big problem for a would be aggressor is that we really don't know this phenomena. Everything in the open literature is from that one 1962 test, plus theory and simulations.

What if you try it and don't accomplish more than force a electrical grid "reboot"? Better hope we can't figure out from the isotope mix way way up there where it came from.

That's one of the big dangers from doing it in the atmosphere, you're leaving a "this bomb built here from that design and this source of fissionables". If you're smuggling it in, it's because you're not a big nation state. You won't enjoy the wrath of your target....
This is also true for astrology.
inDinero (YC S10) launches Mint.com for Businesses
RSS feed twitt bots
The open source world has always be a great source of energy to all especially for code monkeys and terminal junkies, not all sharing code, but also happiness to the whole world, indeed with the free as in freedom making life more better.

I coded the below two piece of code, one in python and other in ruby to update twitter stats which would be the title and shorten link of the RSS

In the code below, the RSS feed URL considered is of the h3manth.com and is.gd api is used to shorten the url, the other dependences are listed in the comment section of the code.
What context? They received free server space and bandwidth from an ISP owned by a guy who some connections to so called extreme right-wing parties. What exactly does that prove? A guy who turned out to be a neo-nazi once bought me a couple of beers, does that make me guilty by association?
I have a few observations to add based on my own experience as well.

Due to the fact that most enterprise software is developed by those not qualified to get better jobs, a lot of enterprise software is complex due to bad engineering. The really aren't very many business requirements that are, by themselves, complicated. The complexity comes from a foolish and pointless attempt to deal with all of them at once by developing a framework rather than an application. The sorts of developers that work in enterprises tend to be the sort that don't realize that they're abusing the classic software anti-patterns and making things far worse.

Another problem is due to who makes the decisions about what to buy and what the requirements for in-house software are. It's rarely someone who has any connection to the solution, but rather a manager or executive with an agenda, which occasionally has some relation to the software's purpose, but more often has to do with brown-nosing.

One example is Visual J++. At one point, Microsoft had gotten Visual J++ into something like 70% of Java development shops in the US. They did this by marketing directly to clueless executives who didn't know the first thing about whether or not it was suitable to the task at hand, rather than to the developers who were in reality using a standard Java JDK and a free (or cheap, back then there were several of both available) IDE instead.
I've been doing this for years. The trick is to assume you're below average, but never let on.

edit: and yes, I see the irony there.
Huh. I would describe myself as a "very" hetero male -- though not with any issues around those that aren't -- and I chose the exact opposite, left-right-left-left.

It would be really neat to do a statistically significant test on that.
For now just lock the phone with the top button during every call. The antenna seems to be a much bigger issue and possibly even a hardware problem whereas the proximity sensor issue sounds like a calibration problem.
Seriously? Have you been living in a cave for the past two weeks? Try using Google. Ok you know what - I'll do it:

The sandberms fiasco was the work of the Fish and Wildlife Service:
http://www.wdsu.com/news/23997498/detail.html

The "A-Whale" fiasco appears to be a joint fail between the Coast Guard and the EPA - among many other things they've had to sit around and wait for an EPA permit before they can start the work, and now that they're actually in the gulf there are even more problems:

http://www.dailypress.com/news/oil-spill/dp-nws-oil-skimmer-...

http://www.wwltv.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/A-Whale-Of-A-Skimme...
What do you mean with 4 choices, and a male? I just found two faces on the article and I tried to follow the links but didn't see where these 4 options are.
I only saw one image in the article. What are you guys looking at?
Is it just me or do the two women's morphed faces not seem to be lit exactly the same? The right morph seems to have been photographed in harsher light.
I agree. The one on the left seems to have the hallmarks of objective attractiveness, but I could much more easily see myself spending time with the one on the right.
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I think he wants that functionality in FF.
Why CEOs Should Tell It Like It Is
There's a survey that you can take from the popup on the article page.
I used to sneak into movies period (paying nothing) for sport. I never did it when the theater was packed though. My moral justification was sort of the same one used by pirates. The seat was empty, I wouldn't have paid for it otherwise, therefore I didn't represent lost revenue.
LAUNCH IT NOW, MAN!

It will never be perfect. Ever.

You shouldn't be afraid of failing. This is not a one shot game. Your launch will show you some areas where you did things right and some where you screwed the pooch. It's about never ending improvement, not a shot in the dark that results in binary success or failure.

But one thing is certain - you need users to improve. You can't do that by yourself. So put away the IDE, and start pounding the pavement for users. There will be plenty of time later for improvements.

So yeah, you are right. You should have launched months ago. But who cares? Learn and move on.

You won't have any users right away anyhow, so relax and enjoy the process.
Neat! Yeah, I'd love to take the full test and see their dataset.
Are we going to read this story once a month?
Taking Microsoft to school: A teen explains why the Kin flopped
Facebook Launches Recommendation Engine
The popup when you enter the page isn't actually spam, and isn't actually some customer satisfaction thing. It took me a few minutes to figure that out, though.
Federated Social Web Summit 2010 Announced
Tell HN: How to import your Etherpad zip exports into an Etherpad-alternative
I do all my writing in an Etherpad private space. When Etherpad closed, I used its "Export all pads" function to save my work. Now there are a host of Etherpad clones. Unfortunately, there is no way to import that original zip file. I did not want to create and copy-paste hundreds of pads, so I made a script to automate the process.

This was a relatively easy process because I had already created a blog platform using Etherpad as a back-end. See: <http://annotalia.com>. Just wanted to share the below with HN in case others had my same predicament.

Instructions:

1. Download the script at <http://gist.github.com/461767>.

2. Register a private space at an Etherpad clone. Right now,
I've tested <http://titanpad.com>.

3. Create a log file at <../log/etherpad.log>.

4. Make sure all relevant rubygems are installed.

5. Replace http://YOUR_SUBDOMAIN.titanpad.com/', 'YOUR_EMAIL', 'YOUR_PASSWORD' at the end of the file with your credentials.

6. Extract your original zip file to a folder. Run the script with that folder as an argument.

I've only tested it on my own server, but I will try to help you to get it to work if you post a comment. Apologies for the messiness of the code: I did it in a hurry.
See also: http://www.moserware.com/2008/04/towards-moores-law-software...
Post mortem: KIN's tragic demise (and the fading of Danger)
Aren't you a citizen of the US? If you are, then why not just start it yourself, instead of wishing?

Also, there IS a Pirate Party for the US: http://www.pirate-party.us/news.php
Flying cars scare the bajeezus out of me. Not because I'm scared of flying or heights, I'm not and would absolutely love to have something like this.

It's the other people who would also be flying that scare me to death. It's bad enough that we deal with horrible drivers on the road, but at least they're constrained to go where the road takes them (most of the time). Once you take away the road and give these people open air, it can only end in blood and tears.

Flying cars will never hit mainstream until they are all automated and computer controlled. The only time a human should ever be in direct control would be emergency situations.
Why, again, didn't mint just do this?
Key quote:

> Atkinson's explanation makes sense, says David Perrett, a psychologist at the University of St. Andrews, UK, who studies facial attractiveness. Since faces and bodies are shaped by the same hormones, he says, you should be able to predict the attractiveness of one body part by looking at another.

So it is (perhaps obviously) not so much the small feet but the overall physiology, bone structure etc., they tend to be indicative of.
Best Buy Firing Employee Because He Made Funny Video
Exactly! "I am committed, etc etc." It's funny how familiar these sound (it would be an interesting exercise to collect all such MBA-ese statements from execs and search for patterns).

If Nokia's only big card is their partnership with Intel on MeeGo they are indeed doomed. Intel is hedging its bets (Android set to boxes and the like) and it doesn't care.
But then you're back to square one, except you've made the problem worse by dividing it into 100 units instead of 5. What's "100%" mean? It's pretty clear what "0%" means (no signal), but what's "1%" mean?
right right(barely) left left. I think most of my opinion is based on how I feel about people I've known that looked vaguely like the composites.

I think I'm not answering the right question though. Looking at the first picture, I'd agree that the left face is more attractive, but I'm more attracted to the face on the right. Weird distinction.

I'm also a bit jaded by a quote I heard a long time ago along the lines of "experimental psychology is really the psychology of the 18-year old freshman psych student."
Increase Your Productivity on a Computer  (Or, computers for N00bs)
I think the underlying assumption is that by selecting traits that one has relatively little control over (foot size, thigh length, etc.), then showing participants a physically unrelated trait (i.e. the face), that they're somehow insulating from contemporary culture.

One could still make the critique that contemporary culture values as attractive traits that are correlated with these other markers, whereas other cultures and times do not, but that argument starts getting a little convoluted itself.

Keep in mind that this work hasn't yet been published (just reported at a conference), so the actual paper will probably be a bit more careful about claims that they make.
But they defend large-scale copyright infringement openly. You know, they are the Pirate Party.
It's not about the bar display.

That page you linked to explains why the bar display matters:

If your phone is at -60dB (5 bars) a 24dB drop is -84dB (5 bars)
If your phone is at -84db (5 bars) a 24db drop is -108 (1 bar)

Worst case:

If your phone is at -90db (5 bars) a 24db drop is -114 (0 bars)

That can be fixed with software. Given that the article says
the iPhone 4 performs better than the 3GS at -113dB, the perception
of the problem is twice as bad as the actual problem.

So it might be worthwhile to fix that perception, though the fix
will have other side-effects (a perception of worse reception overall).
I'm using 1.9.1 right now for development, but may make the switch to 1.9.2 - the only issue I've encountered on 1.9.1 with Rails 3 are problems with encodings and multibyte characters.
Wouldn't, you know, owning the world's largest search engine be a bigger factor? Imagine if you googled "Bob Smith", and the first result to come up was the Bob Smith you actually know?
Ask HN: Managing my own server.
Recently got my own VPS from prgmr.com which offers a do-it-yourself sort of support package (great for a beginner who wants to learn more). I've gotten pretty far by using man and apropos. What's the most efficient way for me to learn to manage my own server?
Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/570/

Heterosexual male, picked all four left, although only the first was obvious for me.
Congrats, looks great so far!
That's not the question. The question is for how long we're going to read it once a month.
The most astonishingly skillful programmers use lisp more often than average or crummy programmers, but it's still an unusual choice among them. Look at the results of the ICFP programming challenges.
Good thing you can't find copyright files to download via Google search. Otherwise it would be as bad as The Pirate Bay!

Enabling someone to break the law doesn't make the enabler culpable. We apply this standard to manufacturers of lock picks, crowbars, physical key-loggers, books detailing the security of computers, etc. I'm curious why you feel a different standard should apply to someone who provides hosting for torrent files. The onus is on the criminal, not those who provide tools which may or may not be used in a crime.
No. I can't say it any more clearly than the original article: " If "because of heat conduction" can also explain the radiator-adjacent side feeling cooler, then it can explain pretty much anything."

If they see something that is specifically contradicted by theory of x, they should assume there's some wrinkle or some theory of y. They should not say theory of x explains something that flies in the face of theory of x. It means they don't understand theory of x.
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Are you easily linked to your email addy? I guess in part that actually shows it's a human thing.

Re the blog Yeh that's an ongoing problem I need to fix. Swapped host and loads of problems cropped up. Thanks for the reminder :-)
As I've said before, I cannot wait for their beta to begin.

They took the time to extensively reply to both of my emails asking them questions and even suggesting a few things. Who knows how sustainable this is, but boy are they hooking users for life; that is, if their product lives up to their service.

Please, let them release soon!