skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have never worked with a good PM. I've worked with incredible PMs. I've seen these PMs walk into meeting with senior developers and architects, and pretty much be the only person asking the right question regarding how to get the product shipped.

And that for me has been one of the defining characteristics of a strong PM. Good questioning ability. Ability to skip to the chase. And they have a suprisingly strong grasp of dependencies. When architect A says, "this is coming in a bit late" they almost instantly are getting the PMs and architects from team X, Y, and Z in the room because they know theres an indirect relationship to these teams also.

I've only worked with one bad PM in my life. We fired him after two months. The difference in productivity, confidence, and general life enjoyment between an bad and good PM is pretty enormous.
I was just typing my comment while you posted yours. I absolutely agree with this. Especially the "fluidity of the hacky code" - the environment that makes cool research happen is often the opposite of clean software engineering.
It worked pretty well with http://nytimes.com just now.
Apple is constantly repeating it's position that the iPhone 4 is just the same as other phones, only better. What makes some people consider to be "desperate move" is that Apple is taking to just about every channel, including the rare Steve-Jobs-On-The-Stage PR event and comparing competitor's phones on their YouTube channel, over this one minor, if ridiculous issue.

Plus it doesn't help when "tech journalists" are willing to vilify Apple for the tiniest thing for the almighty page view. Combine with trolls and a general public that considers cell signals and RF a form of voodoo and sacrifice (you know how many people I know hold their phones to the sky to get "a better signal"), it's war to some people.
Postmodernism and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
Links in submissions are not clickable, links in comments are.
Here, have mine http://toadjaw.com/static/sites/hn/y-icon.png
Here is my layman's understanding of it:

Say we have two people performing similar experiments who are far enough apart from each other that the information from one experiment can't affect the result of the other person's experiment. The experiment they are performing is to measure the 'spin' of a particle that has been 'entangled' with the particle measured by the other experimenter. Since the particles are entangled, if the experimenters measure the spin in the same direction, they will both get the same result.

The theorem then states that if the experimenters are 'free' (as in will) to choose which direction to measure the spin of their particle, then the result of measuring the spin cannot be determined by anything previous to the experiments (and can't be determined by the other experimenter, as established above).

Put into everyday terms, its impossible for the universe to be fully determinate and still have actors capable of free will, and vice versa: if people have free will then the world can't be fully determinate.
User Interface Design Framework (GUI elements library for Illustrator)
Most Comfortable Pillows
I'm no advertising expert, but I can't think of too many situations where you advertise your competitors products even in a negative light without saying something very positive about your product.

Scott Adams article was also a bit of a Rorschach test, whether you think Steve Jobs succeeded with his 'High Ground Maneuver' depends very much on your own point of view.
Probably just that it's on the dash, as opposed to in their lap. I assume a dedicated compass is also higher quality than the one in the iPhone, but I don't have a good idea of how that would work.
Cool. Slightly off-topic, re: John Conway -- Some tangential wiki-ing led me to (what I think is) the even more interesting Look-and-say sequence & Conway's cosmological theorem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-and-say_sequence

I'm not sure how far the atomic element analogy can be extended, but on its face it seems a little mind-blowing.
Take a look at CharlesSoft's Pacifist. It gives you a lot more room to stretch.
Not just Americans, anyone from a country whose mother tongue is English. And not just this, English or at least passign the English exams is a requirement for EVERY UIVERSITY DEGREE. I teach Tradtitional Chinese Medicine undergrads and postgrads, and they all need to pass the English tests to get their degree.

Although the vast VAST majority can only speak a few words, something of a failure when you think that they study English in School for hours each day from middle school, all the way through Universty and only 1%(probably less) have any level of fluency.

In my University of 20,000 students there are about 4-5 students whose English is good enough for me to have a conversation. Including the teachers, there is only one person in the Entire college who I would say has excellent English.

So in short, take this with a pinch of salt, China does quantity, not quality.
> The theorem then states that if the experimenters are 'free' (as in will) to choose which direction to measure the spin of their particle, then the result of measuring the spin cannot be determined by anything previous to the experiments (and can't be determined by the other experimenter, as established above).

Yes, and this is because if it could be determined by anything, it would imply something like a hidden variable theory of quantum mechanics, which violates the Kochen-Specker theorem. This is the part of the argument that I don't understand. If anyone could help I'd be grateful.
This "getting a free ride on your work" is also called "standing on the shoulders of giants".
Judge refuses to dismiss lawsuit over Coca-Cola's deceptive Vitaminwater claims
If you're looking for something like 80's Basic then I recommend trying out Processing. It has a reasonable IDE and the graphics commands are very similar.

Processing.js would work too but it needs an IDE.
"All the neighbors have to do is sue you in court..."

Even for small claims court, it's a pretty big burden to file suit. This regulation may not be the best answer, but let's not pretend that short-term rentals don't engender problems for the neighbors, or that all those problems can be ameliorated with more lawsuits.
I see some of the comments here talk about the code being useless it terms of using it the same way the author of the paper has. Personally for a lot of the papers I have read in NLP based stuff I'd feel more comfortable just having some source to look through to give a better idea of how it was done. Some papers are quiet abstract about their method and aren't really helpful past giving you basic ideas without some hard code to let you fully understand what they have done.

In contrasting it to maths it would see stupid for a maths paper to describe a new maths proof without putting it forward in mathematical notation in the paper.
I actually think it gives exactly the right signals. The people you'll have to sell to (customers, investors, future hires) will probably not be very understanding of the creative process. They'll think your idea is dumb, and they'll say "no thanks," or just hit the back button, without a second thought. The presentation is about convincing them otherwise, so it makes sense to put the problem statement front and center.
To do either of these things, the user would need to be enrolled in Apple’s developer program which costs $99/year. These terms are implicitly part of your terms, meaning that it’s basically equivalent to you charging $99/year for the user to make modifications.

Not any more than targeting your app at the iPhone requires the user to buy an iPhone, thus being equivalent to charging $700...
This was my first time with FreeBSD, it wasn't that hard. I downloaded the amd64 boot iso and run it on a VM. I choose minimal and started to extract the source on /. Pretty cool. Still extracting though :)

Give it a try:
1. Download the i386 iso
2. Follow these instructions http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/in...

(on the disk partitioning part, press A so it will be automatic)
China (US largest Creditor):"The US is Insolvent and Faces Bankruptcy..."
The alleged problem is not in access to source code of the app or library, but is in users inability to recombine modified LGPL piece with the app itself to produce new work. A user who wants to modify the LGPL piece of an app would have to pay the dues to Apple to make use of thusly modified app, and this is deemed to violate the "no fees imposed" clause.
I just want to point out (or argue, since even this is contentious) that there's a three-fold alternative: determined, random, and free. The "free will" in this paper is actually the second and not the third alternative.

My issue is that I understand determined, and random, but I don't understand 'free'. If you read the article you just linked to, they point out that in the case of this experiment, 'random' is equivalent to 'free', as the free-will human experimenters can be replaced by a computer program with a truly random number generator, but that the non-determinacy necessary for the random number generator to work is the same exact freedom necessary for a human experiment to have 'free' choice over the experiment. Furthermore, that the entangled nature of the particles precludes the type of 'randomness involved in entanglement' that you suggest. Entanglement is specifically non-random in exactly the quality at issue in this experiment.

Basically the result of the theorem (as relevant to this conversation) is that 'random' and 'free' are equivalent. There is simply determinate or non-determinate.
It's interesting. I read your comment through the "backtype version" below the article, and, because it was out of context, I interpreted your meaning to be exactly the opposite of what I see it is now.
Computation: How deep does the rabbit hole go?
I agree with this, and yes I used the word 'clojure' to mean any frameworks/web servers/middleware that can be used to code in clojure. Just like when people say "php is good for web programming" most of them actually mean php, apache, mysql and their favorite framework.
Oh no, there's no crime in Japan.

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

It seems to me the harsh punishment of crimes like vandalism is not so much lawfulness as it is about Asian values of group solidarity. When it comes to organized crime, or crime by officials, there's scarcely any need to hide it, since the population is so used to ignoring the misdeeds of the well-connected.

I agree with part of what you said: dishonor is the real punishment. But that's exactly why past a certain point, "getting tough" doesn't work. In the USA, it's so out of proportion now, that in many poor or ethnic minority communities in the USA, the police are perceived as oppressors, not guardians of law and order. And there's no big dishonor in going to jail for a time.
Understanding JavaScript Arrays
There are a contingent of Lisp users who really, really, really like this fgen style, for EVERYTHING. I—as someone who's worked in the industry on lots of startup-level projects—think it's only useful for small, regular snippets. There is also this false-metric effect in play; there are only 45ish lines in one file here, so it must be elegant and great amirite?

But a real webapp would have lots of templates and lots of files.

Where Clojure really shines in web development is when you mix it with cgrand's Enlive templating engine (http://github.com/cgrand/enlive), which is an amazing project with lots of active development. This approach is so cool that even a lot of the Rails and Python startup folks are starting to copy it.
ZFS boot support is huge. Now you can build big fileservers on commodity hardware without having to worry about Solaris or OpenSolaris driver availability.
Ask HN: Entrepreneur/Hackers meetup in the DC area?
Hello everyone,

I am recent engineering graduate and moved to DC area for work. I am greatly interested in meeting entrepreneurs and hackers in the area and was wondering if you guys knew about any meetup events or groups in the area that are active. I'd love to meet fellow HN readers in the area.
I haven't decided yet, but I think he's trying to say that we're confusing simplicity with usability.

I don't agree with that. One look at the iPod and I'm convinced.
Chinese philanthropist donates all his fortune
What desirable qualities do aristocrats have that makes them suited to govern?
Stop maximizing your browser.
Peer to peer currency exchange
Reading at least the excerpts from the judge's decision, it's clear he is really, really sharp, citing Betty Boop, Japanese anime(!), and The Simpsons, among others. This is a judge I would trust in any IP case I'd find myself in.
If my cellphone only had one button it certainly would be simple, but, umm, all I could do would be to turn it on or off.

Not really. It could be voice enabled. Press the key, Say New Number, Say Name, Say Digits, Say Save. Press the key, Say Call XYZ.
“I'm no advertising expert, but I can't think of too many situations where you advertise your competitors products even in a negative light without saying something very positive about your product.”

It makes Consumer Report's not-recommended status look increasingly irrational. If they give a recommend on the Droid X with such an obvious deathgrip problem (I actually hold my phone that way, using my thumb to interact with a pinching motion), then they're going to get called out on it hard.

“Scott Adams article was also a bit of a Rorschach test, whether you think Steve Jobs succeeded with his 'High Ground Maneuver' depends very much on your own point of view.”

This is the human condition. I see a pair of rainbows, someone else sees the hand of God.
Google homepage in leetspeak
See the Droid X ads where they slam the iPhone 4 for this problem, claiming they're immune due to a double antenna design.
Well basically the KS paradox says that for certain types of measurements (which not-coincidentally happens to be the exact type of measurement in the free will theorem), the result of the measurement is based on the direction of the measurement, not on anything prior to that measurement. Specifically, if you measure the 'spin' in 3 orthogonal directions, then the resulting values will always be the same (1,0,1 in some order), but that there is no function which can determine those values prior to the actual measurement, hence there is no possible hidden variable that can explain the quantum mechanical result.

The free will theorem extends that result because the fundamental issue of the KS paradox hinges on the direction in which the spin is measured relative to the universe. The direction of the particular measurement is 'decided' upon by the person or thing doing the measuring, in this case the experimenter. But is that direction pre-determined, or does the person have free will in choosing the direction? The situation is tricky because we now have two experimenters who are measuring a pair of entangled particles, which we thus know will give the same result, if measured in the same direction.

Because of the KS paradox, we know that the result of the measurement hinges on the direction chosen by the experimenter, not on anything prior to the experiment. If we take that the experimenters have 'free will' then the entangled nature of the particles means that the result of the spin measurement can't be 'random' but it is also 'non-determinate' because of KS, and thus the result of the measurement must have the same quality of 'freedom' as the 'freedom' experienced by the experimenters in choosing the direction of measurement.
Video lecture series here: http://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/princeton...
That's l33t.
Not a total waste. At least you will get better service at the local Chinese restaurant....

But seriously, from the tech angle, China is becoming a dominant force in the global technology supply chain, whether it be services or products. Trying to depend on English only as the sole form of communication is not efficient in long term. It will indeed become much more useful in commerce. At the very least some immersion in the language will allow you to understand a little bit about the culture and country, which is actually much more important....
>> The market is created by laws

I always thought that the market was created by two people engaging in a voluntary exchange of goods and services.

I'm not 100% sure about the "laws are created by politicians" bit, either, seeing as most politicians scarcely even read most legislation, much less understand it. Although I suppose you did qualify that as the way things should work.
Nope, the governor signed the bill and said he wouldn't veto it.
Not to mention “Rambling” and ”not written very well,” and ”based on a fairly ridiculous analogy given Apple's history over the last 5 years.”

If anything, the analogy should be reversed. Phones have had these problems with attenuation for years. Somehow it's Apple's epic problem now. Meanwhile everyone else has the problem but swears they are immune with “special dual-antenna designs,” a claim that one short skeptical video debunks.
I am quite certain this legislation was not passed because bands of 'neighbors' grouped together to stop the problems engendered by short-term renters.

Also, why is this problem engendered by only short-term renters? Can long-term renters, and even property owners be rude, loud, or obnoxious?

This law will do nothing to protect you from 'those' types.

You support increased government regulation, when there exists an existing legal process to handle such "problems".

A pretty big burden? It is small claims court for a reason. If you are intelligent enought to post and read HN, you should not be burdened by filing a small claims lawsuit.

At least now there is a process in place to deal with the owner of the property. Wait until the owner loses the property and vagrant squatters take residence.

Begin the burden, here:
http://www.nycourts.gov/courts/nyc/smallclaims/startingcase....
I think the point of the article is to cover the absolute basics using Ring, not advocate any particular style of development. I mean the title of the blog post does say it all.

Having written a lengthy Enlive tutorial, http://github.com/swannodette/enlive-tutorial, I of course swear by it and scoff at inline html generation :D So I prefer coupling Ring+Enlive+Moustache (and tasty Aleph) myself but that would be an awful lot to cover in a single blog post now wouldn't it ;)

All in good time.
I second this. You might try hacdc if you like electronics.
although interesting, bulk insert doesn't (didn't?) work across multiple databases managed by one host. and the ability to havve multiple databases is one of the things that makes couchdb a lot of fun.
I'm talking about the C++ re2 engine, not the Python wrapper.
I suspect we could do it easily. Talk to me on twitter (my name here is my name on twitter) and let's see if we can hammer out an elegant way to describe that coupling.

I need the writing practice anyways.
Gmail is on rampage as of late, I got nearly third of my legit emails ending up as spam. It even spams the emails that are a part of a thread! Something is rotten in Gmail land.
forEach,map, and several other ECMA5 methods look like a joy to use
Great article. It reminds me of when I was growing up. My parents would often speak to me in Korean. My (english speaking) friends would sometimes ask me "what did she say?" Strangely, though I understood clearly in my mind what my mother said, I could not translate what she said into English. I had to describe what she said instead. This friction never popped up in my head until I was explicitly asked to translate.

As Charlemagne is quoted in the article to say, "to have a second language is to have a second soul." In a weird way, that's true.
The CSS, much like the markup used in the sample doc, is more "Here's my thesis" than "Here's my Web site/app". And that's clearly related to the age of content.

More Web sites should take the "Here's my thesis" approach.
If anyone is interested in digging further in the subject, I highly recommend this documentary[1].

[1] War on Drugs (The Prison Industrial Complex) -- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=864268000924014458&#...
AndEngine - Free Android 2D OpenGL Game Engine
For Rubyists who are using Mac, these are very handy in IRB:

# stick in .irbrc
def copy(str)
IO.popen('pbcopy', 'w') { |f| f << str.to_s }
end

def paste
`pbpaste`
end

def ep
eval(paste)
end
The strong form of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis has fallen out of favor, but research and results like this seem to make it clear that language has an effect on thought and thinking.
Linguistic relativity is a dirty word (well, dirty term) but there's clearly something going on.

Perhaps it's time to move beyond the original statement(s) by Sapir and Whorf, beyond the limited interpretation of Linguistic relativity, and to start talking about the bi-directional effects of thought and language.

Those of us who routinely program in significantly different languages know that some languages better suit some tasks. Pure imperative as fundamentally different from pure OO or pure functional. "Thinking in" one langauge colors the way one views/creates solutions and algorithms.

Time to view Chomsky as one, rather limited, point of view, at odds with some of the more recent research.

Some reading:

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

http://www.google.co.uk/#q=sapir+whorf+hypothesis

http://www.enformy.com/dma-chm0.htm
>>>If you disrupt the neighbors with loud musics, wild partying, etc, you will pay a fine. All the neighbors have to do is sue you in court and it should be easy to prove it so.

You have never had experience in NYC Housing Court. I have. Keep dreaming, though.
"direct democracy" is really the wrong term. The US has a representative democracy, where the people generally don't vote on laws, but rather vote for politicians who vote for laws. Germany has a similar system, except according to the other poster, people vote more for political parties rather than individual politicians. You could say that the US has more "direct representationalism". In reality, representative democracy is about as undemocratic as a democracy can get.
You already did, unlicensed hotels aren't legal to run out of your home. This law just makes that easier to enforce.
That would be a really stupid thing to do. A judge who accepts such an argument will also have no problem with sending you to jail forever. Because, you see, if your actions are pre-determined then so are his.
They definitely did a bit of grassroots lobbying with petitions (http://savenysublets.tumblr.com/) and I heard the founders spent some time in NYC. But nothing compared to what I bet the Hilton's of the world put into it.
It's just less simpler than the home screen with a nice background, however, there is no reason why anyone would open the dialpad to carry this experiment.
A Lot Of Questions For The Bears Heading Into Training Camp
I agree with you, and obviously there have been many comments made here.

I find ,in this instance, it simply amazing how quickly the government was able to come to the aid of big business when big business was threatened by a startup.

In other instances, we have observed this at the federal level, but it takes many years, lobbyists, and congresscritters to do so (DMCA, ACTA, etc).

Imagine if the newspapers were able to prevent craigslist's success by protecting the newspapers' classified advertising revenue through state legislation, requiring licensing fees and inspections for the distribution of classified advertising within the state.

I can imagine many other startups being destroyed by this type of "necessary regulation".

I must say, that besides money, this must be one of the best validations of a startup's success. Unfortunate, though.
Things that are skill-based still require an enormous amount of practice to do well. That will never change.