skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can say with complete certainty that access to computers caused my grades to be much lower. All of high-school was just an annoying blur that got in the way of coding and building stuff.
TC Disrupt is not the same as TC 50. It's the Arrington spinoff: one half of a great thing, and not the great half. The other half, Calacanis, is starting the Launch Conference.

Official site is here http://thelaunchconference.com/ but so far news has been coming through TWiST podcast.

Skip DEMO altogether. Go for the Launch conf. If you can't get in TC Disrupt is a consolation prize, but like you said, they may not accept early stage.
Yeah this is even better.

_why is a genius! :D
Smart. The book isn't bad, either; I saved my copy.
http://www.ladyada.net/library/procure/samples.html
I don't think Wikileaks encourages stupid behaviour - as I understand it, the input avenue is primarily an file upload field.

As to evidence (in the legal sense), I don't have any one way or the other that Manning had anything to do with the leak. I just have media reports, which sound really weird, which makes me not give them much weight.
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to communicate here -- the Gawker article you linked to makes it clear that Wikileaks did not cut/edit the video.

Anyway, I think perhaps they do need to separate themselves into two wings and clearly mark that distinction: one that provides raw video with zero commentary, and another that puts clues together, analyzes information, etc. to make it presentable for the common consumer as 'news'.
Just make sure you use a throw-away email address... Sitepoint will spam you like crazy. No such thing as a free lunch :-)
aah, it was supposed to be humorous. Jeez, I guess the jokes on me.

> and you reach that conclusion?

The only conclusion I have reached so far is that you are a dick.
To be more technical, a patent is the right to exclude people from using your idea (which includes making using selling etc. etc.) Thus, you have a right to sue if someone is using it, but that is not the purpose of the patent on its face.
link update: http://twitter.com/dugsong/status/18015100357, http://skyperc4.pastebin.com/g1xFFFcr
No unsubscribe? I clicked before reading the comments here.
Posted to HN three days ago, here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1496726
Another good rule: Read what your customer is saying.

I'm not one to often get cross with companies; but my last host really hacked me off by replying to a serious issue (serious to me anyway) with a one line dismissal.

Bad.
It is pretty broad. I've seen past it several times on my DVR, in everything from motorcycle races through the Daily Show.
I think the word is "rivalry".
Nowmov (YC 2010W) looking for Rails rockstars
Regardless of how (say) Manning conveyed files to Wikileaks, leaking classified-TS cables is manifestly stupid. One doubts most of the people who might help Wikileaks from inside the DoD have any idea what they're actually doing. My guess is that it all seems unreal, happening as it does on the always fake-seeming Internet using computers that make everything seem like chat room drama.
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I think you're conflating giving technology to teachers and giving technology to students.

It seems nutty to me to imagine that just giving students computers is going to provide an educational benefit, although apparently some people would disagree. But providing schools with better technology for guided instruction (e.g. computer labs, ancillary instructional material available online, homework management software) sounds totally sensible.
Woman jailed for sending bogus text threats...to herself
Try to make a calendar app with only one text field. There is no way "one text field only" can be applied as a general rule, but just thinking about how you could apply it will (IMO) make your app better.

What the apps listed above have done is simplified the interface to the bare minimum needed to accomplish the task. Sometimes, that requires 5 text fields, sometimes 1.

The biggest value of a good user experience designer is in figuring out the minimal functionality for each step in the application and stringing those together in ways that make sense.
The HTC Hero, for one. First post-1.5 release was about a week ago (to 2.1), there won't be any others and most phones probably don't have it yet.
Having looked at their bracket I kind of wish France or Germany had won.
I'd say it's the designer of the interface that hasn't taking a touch interface into consideration.
Judge OKs iPhone class action against Apple, AT&T
Tokenizing provdies btetre erorr corretcion in case words are misspelled. I very highly doubt that tihsprhsaesicmorephesnilbe.
Just as a counter, I’ve got a handful of friends who actively use iChat’s video functionality. Most just used it to talk to their girlfriends, but one friend in New Zealand virtually attended her best friend’s gallery opening in Minneapolis.

I’d say Facetime’s for the visual masses.
Semantics" is pretty important when talking what connotes murder. But, stepping back, your response is a bit non-sequitur. What do you mean legal?

Under Chapter VII, the U.N. doesn't "approve" wars or invasions. They "restore international peace and security." Are the US and all the other countries involved not sovereign? In the scope of the U.N., even more sovereign than most?

So, was the invasion legal in the U.S.? The Iraq Resolution passed congress.

Coalition forces (not just the U.S.) have killed civilians. All actors in the conflict have. That doesn't make it right.

Arguing legality is a bit over the top. The rationales for the beginning of the conflict (WMD, etc.) have been invalidated. But, that doesn't change the reality at hand.

Stick to the moral argument.
Erm. Isn't it possible to transmit data that way, specifically by affecting the state of one particle, and observing the other?
"Makes you wonder if, had the schools spent less effort attempting to block the kids from non-educational activities, the kids might have directed that self-directed learning impulse toward the education."

Somehow, I don't think so. Why were kids trying to get around the blocks? To go to Myspace, Facebook, play Farmville, play World of Warcraft, and listen to/download music. If they had no blocks, the kids would do one or all of the above with ease.

Having no rules won't suddenly change a kid's mind about education. It will just introduce chaos.
Just refer to the RFC: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1178.html
Actually not. San Francisco, and East Bay MUD which supply much of the SF Peninsula and the East Bay both own their own Sierra dams and infrastructure. I dont think a hostage situation would ensue.
Unlocking the secret of beautiful design with mathematics
These companies all have one thing in common: You can talk to a human being when you have a question or a problem.

Got a problem with your Newegg purchase? Send them an email, and they respond, quickly. Ditto for Amazon. Zappos goes a step further, and lets you talk to an actual human being... for as long as you want.

Contrast this to dealing with any company focused on 'efficiency' rather than 'service'; Citi is the first company that springs to mind.

Citi wasted nearly an hour of my time the last time I needed to deal with them, all because they were so focused automating customer support to save on labor. Rather than making it easy for me, the customer, to get my problem fixed so that I could give them more money.

Guess who I avoid like the plague now?

This is why I founded my company; to make it easy for companies to connect the people with problems to the people who can solve them, without having to waste mountains of mental stamina on a support system designed by Rube Goldberg's dominatrix.
At least some has to be in a linguistic representation (check the Aydede article I linked above, it's interesting). Why? Because (i) You cannot represent everything using images, e.g. "brother", "justice", "tesseract", but more importantly (ii) it is impossible for image representations to support complex syntactic manipulations necessary for reasoning. As a very simple example, think about the syllogism that starts with "all men are mortal". How would you convert the deduction to a representation based on images.

One final thing: The most common words in all languages are grammatical functions words, e.g. "the", "a", "every", etc. How can these be represented using images? This is why, no ideogram based writing systems have ever been devised (although people thought for a while that Egyptian hieroglyphs and Chinese characters had this characteristic).
Answer: this person doesn't know.
France was gone after the group stages. I don't think they assigned any book to France ?!
Christ, I couldn't. I'm terrible at visualization and many of my abstract thoughts cannot be visualized.
Yes, it's not so bad in Mexico. Nobody would ever attempt to run across a minefield to escape grinding poverty and bloody wars waged by rich and powerful drug cartels fueled by demand from the United States.
you're right, I'm an idiot and was looking at the Netherlands flag.
You may be technically correct, but I think very few people would consider Social Security part of "welfare."

IMHO, you could rerun the study with the phrase "food stamps" instead of "welfare" and get very similar results.
I'm guessing there could be a lot of promotions today across the net where the format/justification is: "Because <whoever-doesn't-really-matter> won, then <something> is <free-or-on-sale>"

not that that is a bad thing
If you're in Ruby and you want a battle-hardned ORM for SQL with a great query-builer, use Sequel: http://sequel.rubyforge.org/

Or, if you're in Rails 3, just use Arel, which is part of ActiveRecord.
I think, perhaps it is true, that beauty can not be always described by formulas, at least "innovative beauty". However, to have good convenient rules of the thumb, to let less artistic people be able to quickly create something not really ugly - it is nice, is not it?
"Perhaps if computers were made game-proof, things would improve."

That could explain Apple's growth in sales?
Multitasking is killing me (and probably you too)
Have we reached the Facebook saturation point?
If you're on Ruby 1.9.1 and want to use Rails 3 Beta 4, you have to upgrade to 1.9.2 or the new Rails beta won't work.
Do you have evidence that classified top secret cables were leaked? That one is easy to prove. A quick Google search, though, seems to only turn up rumours.

The only direct source of much of the rumours seems to be the completely unbelievable Wired story. The Salon story on Wired's reporting is the primary reason I don't trust it, nor anything implied by it on other sites:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/18...
http://10minutemail.com
Thought so myself, so I used mailinator. The book looks cute, though, despite my unfettered hatred for the Ninja term (don't get me wrong, I lurve ninjas, but programmers are neither Japanese assassins nor famous musicians).

Rather generious formatting, though. Printed, this would be one of those books that could've been done with half the pages and still be as readable. (And for online reading, who needs margins and reference sections?)
As a Sitepoint subscriber for about 5 years now, no they don't.
Learning to Spend
And one of the smartest things my parents did was to put a computer in my bedroom. They thought it was a big mistake at the time, because it kept me up at all hours of the night and left me exhausted for school the next day. But I've made far more money and derived more life satisfaction from those computer skills than from anything I learned in school.
Not France! They hand balled us out
I think VMWare fusion is worth the 70 bucks - I find the performance much improved from the others options out there and it just works. I like to set up a couple of spaces and stick whatever VM I am running in full screen mode in one of them so I can quickly switch between the mac and VM. You can also use fusions unity mode and run IE or whatever other application you need along side your mac's apps as if they where native to OSX.
So where do we find out if Amelia said yes?

look in the dedications section, and you'll see what I mean...
Money is Energy
I don't subscribe, but I've given them my email a handful of times to receive free samples of books. (They're extremely generous with this. In a couple of cases, they sent easily half a book as a free sample.)

My experience has been that they're on the low-volume end of the "we have your email" spectrum. Not nothing, but not hideous.
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If you have more than one feature and only one field, you will inevitably end up with conventions for smuggling extra data into it, which users will then have to learn. E.g., Twitter has @user and #tag, and Google has site:, inurl:, and cache:.
summary: if it works, don't fix it.
Wikileaks presented the video as "full & uncut" and Gawker called them out on it. Notice they didn't mention the 30min was removed when promoting that video..they had to be called out on it.

Then, they hyped the 17min version and edited out all that radio traffic I chronicled (w/timestamps) - not for brevity sake - but because it didn't fit the narrative.
Interesting book, I just wish it didn't use the .html() function that much, especially the .html(externalInput) pattern - it's a great way to open XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerabilities on your page unless you're very careful and the author apparently doesn't warn the reader to be careful.
Looking for feed-back on my mini Start-up Nz1...
Thats not as big of a problem, as if; the Adobe pdf they sent has security violations.
http://store.steampowered.com/ Featured Mac Games :)
Darpa BAA: Computation on Encrypted Data
I've heard that the simulator was run repeatedly with the scenario, and no crews hit the airport, let alone the runway, let alone landed the plane.

I wonder about the accuracy of simulators in scenarios like. If the damage to the flight surfaces of the plane was significant, how could they even account for that?
This sounds to me like the 2nd step in testing a concept; I've heard of people spending money on various ads on Adwords that all point to a basic website, and then see which ad generated the most click-throughs (therefore, that is the superior product). All this tests is a name and the description and through that, really basic interest.
"I always sound like I know exactly what I'm talking about, and often I don't, so don't hesitate to tell me I'm wrong;"

Ah, gosh. Now I need to retroactively reconsider all your posts that I took at face value. Well done :/
At least it's not over the antenna...
BBC News website redesign
In just means that the US isn't a manufacturing economy. Manufacturing is a very small part of US economy but that doesn't mean that in absolute numbers it might be higher than other countries', especially if most of the goods manufactured were with high added value (e.g., the aforementioned jet engines).
+1 yep, he's a narcissist .. but I'd say he definitely has anti-social tendencies. Even people who are classed as sociopathic display what looks like empathy, it's their actions which prove otherwise.
Friendfeed and Twitter each have two. One for search and one for posting.
North Korea, "infographic"
The researchers ignored something.

The people may have heard the new fact and simply did not believe them.

And that's the right thing to do because most so called "facts" are actually lies.

You can't just tell people something - unless you are first. You need to prove it, or at least demonstrate with reasonable evidence.

The first mover has an advantage though - people will accept a new fact if you are first.

But the second guy needs to work harder.
Seems like this extends to domain names too. SO why even have an address bar at the top of the browser? What will replace it?
Assange explains his reasoning behind the "spin" they put on material here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBENlJfZ-f8

I'm not sure how I feel about it. On the one hand, I happen to think what Wikileaks is doing is important, and calling something "Collateral Murder" makes people pay attention to them. On the other, I wonder if there isn't anything else we can do to make people unwilling to read source documents do something other than herd themselves to and from each talking head who gets their attention. Is it sane, or even possible, to leak things in manner that contains no bias, and to choose what to actually leak with no bias, without becoming mostly useless noise? I honestly don't know.

But, Wikileaks does always release the full, unedited source of what they're leaking. If nothing else, it's a step above mainstream Western journalism.
The sad thing is that sometimes when you know too much, as this fellow obviously does, you start thinking that you, alone, can see relationships that elude other people. You think other people's ideas are "fuzzy-wuzzy". Then you become the subject of smirk-ful articles such as this one.

Greatness in thinking comes from not only from accumulation but from pruning.
I'm not so sure it'd be that bad. California would get a greater voice in the Senate and thus receive back more of the tax dollars we pay federally (we currently receive far less than we payout with a sizable portion of our funds going to other states). And I have to imagine state politics would be simplified by making the state smaller.
This is great for highly connected devices like routers and switches because each element has an unambiguous abbreviation which makes labeling cables much easier.
Conde Nast's Reddit Asks Users for Donations to Fix Site
They lost me when they published some leak involving a bank and did not blank out customer information.

If my bank does something shady, its fine for whistleblowers to expose them, but they shouldn't screw over innocent bank customers while exposing the bank itself.
If the kind of query you are interested in running is a "K Nearest Neighbor Query" (that is for a give point give me the K nearest objects) you should also consider looking at metric trees. To have a metric tree you must have a metric function which takes two objects and returns a distance between them. The distance must satisfy:

1. d(x, y) ≥ 0 (non-negativity)
2. d(x, y) = 0 if and only if x = y (identity of indiscernibles)
3. d(x, y) = d(y, x) (symmetry)
4. d(x, z) ≤ d(x, y) + d(y, z) (triangle inequality).

Metric trees can be highly useful for data which is either highly dimensional (ie having greater than 3 or 4 dimensions) or non dimensional (like strings for instance DNA sequences).

The M-Tree is probably the most generally useful metric tree: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-tree

If you data is static or only updated very infrequently you should use an MVP tree. It is probably the best static structure, closely followed by Sergey Brin's GNAT structure.

MVP Tree: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.43.7...
GNAT: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/near.html

Finally for some data (like strings) it can be very expensive to calculate the distance function. Therefore, there is another set of structures which relax the triangle inequality and are "near metric" trees. These can be useful for pruning your search space.

For more info on metric data structures see:
http://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Multidimensional-Metric-Da...
It's really annoying how all the pictures are on an angle.
If the advertising industry could be personified, I'm sure the resulting person would lack real empathy - within the industry, empathy is only used as a device to provide people with what they require.

I think the fact Don Draper's character has been written in this way is the crowning glory of Man Men; showing how the modern world has been defined by people who are built a certain way - and showing how the dawn of the advertising industry was pivotal in shaping the world as it is now.
Mozilla likes HTML5 over Flash
yeh that bugged me as well
This reminds me of one of my unexpected favorite reads: Jane Jacob's "Cities & the Wealth of Nations" http://www.amazon.com/Cities-Wealth-Nations-Jane-Jacobs/dp/0...

She argues that cities (more specifically, city-regions) are the most fundamental economic unit, and many of the problems that national economies encounter are a result of an imbalance created by tying together multiple city-region economies; and tying them together (and together with large rural areas) creates political problems (because their interests do not align). She also points to cities like Singapore & Hong Kong to show how separating a city-region politically and economically from other city-regions, and decoupling large, rural areas allows for optimal economic conditions for cities. She's not a trained economist, but as a city resident, her argument resonated pretty strongly with me -- though, as a practical matter, well, not at all practical.
I always like to hear about bbc making changes because I really do think its one of the best designed sites on the internet, there are annoyances, but considering the vast quantities of information they have to publish I am pretty amazed at how well they do.

Given the structure of the organisation I wish they would be a bit more open though.
I have been married for 15 years, if I am ever to be successful I want to share that with my wife who has had our two children and provides me company. I am surprised others wouldn't share the same view. Being married is not like hiring someone.
Technology is an amplifier. It multiplies when people want it to add.
The origin of the content is irrelevant, and personally, I'm very grateful for having some bits of filtered reddit.
Vizualizing what ad networks know about you
A periodic table will make the atomic number and element type easy to look up. You can get it on coffee mugs. It'll be fun.
You spoiled it
Ok to choose it over flash for simple tasks, but Flash has a long way to go for complex interactivity and 3D. I really can't compare them, each on it's own realm.
I agree with you, it is when people want to hurt each other that they end up with nothing, spending it all to keep the other side in court until they are broke or give up.
Indeed, but mainly because appearances are pretty much all you have when you're a politician - you may only need one "FooGate" for your polls to slump and then be hounded out of office.
Agreed. Also: R-trees don't do so well as you add data dimensions. (This is partly received wisdom; my rough understanding is that the empty volume in each node becomes cavernous and nice splitting becomes much less achievable.)

Another reference dump: If you haven't seen them I found spill trees a nice extension of metric trees for certain types of problems (CV anyone?); found via surfing links from some forgotten HN article: http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips17/NIPS2004_0187.pdf
"The unstated premise is that rule by elites may be preferable to rule by the people if science should someday discover that average people will be irredeemably swayed by their prejudices and will not make their political decisions based on their intellects."

I disagreed. In my opinion, the argument of the paper suggests nothing of the kind. While your idea is interesting, I believe it delves too far between the lines and looks for some deeper meaning. The Boston Globe is not challenging our form of government. They're merely commenting on the research that suggests people are hard headed, generally speaking.

While your paragraphs about the US Constitution and system of Checks and Balances are spot on, they have nothing to do with the article in question.

This is simply my humble opinion.
He basically invented Steampunk with this novel:
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_Ar...

Very funny and in a way inspiring for a entrepreneur.
People tend to draw patterns from single data points on what they believe and to call anecdote on pieces of real patterns for what they don't.

Your post is just an anecdote in my world. ;)