skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the intuitive ideas in the paper very stimulating, but they may be false. The paper use a concept "conditional independence" as a way to measure how information flow when applying an algorithm. Visually, you can think any step of your algorithm is a move in a certain graph. You can not visit all solutions, since there are a exponential number of them and they are not related. So is a lovely intuition, but maybe false. If if turns out to be true, I will devote more time to read the paper. In particular, I would like to believe that there exists such a visual representation of any algorithm, as a trajectory in a graph. The comments in that page are stimulating since they open many ideas to explore. Perhaps someone with a lot of time and energy can introduce the appropriate concepts, as we all know, first step seems easy but then all get very complex, so I imagine there is a lot of work for the author in the future.
You are using two different logics for Google and Verizon.

The main point is that Google is by far the #1 search engine, and online advertiser. Once you have the whole market (or most of it) for yourself, you can't go any further. At that point the second best thing you can do is raise the bar for any future competitors.

So as you say Google touches every part of the Internet. But they also have a _lot_ of money. If we end up in a world without net neutrality and ISPs and content providers start to make their own deals, then Google can spend its money to ensure that its services won't get slowed down. However any Google competitor will then have to pay a lot more to compete with Google.

In other words Google can make a deal with Verizon because Google and Verizon don't really compete. And while paying Verizon to ensure good speeds is a disadvantage for Google, it is a lot worse for Google's competitors.
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Urban Airship is a great product, we use it and it really reduces a lot of headaches. There's really no reason to try and lay all the pipe yourself, particularly if you're just getting started. And furthermore, Urban Airship picks up where Apple leaves off with a lot of nice features you'll find you need later.

Their team is also super friendly and responsive. We've sent multiple support emails with answers coming within hours.
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I use it all the time but the one my university provides doesn't let you download or even chapters making on the go reading a pain. That's why I still buy ebooks.
Its one of those things that has probably happened, but most people viewing it suspect that this particular instance isn't true. It's an urban legend in picture form. It amused us for a couple of minutes, and someone, somewhere probably dreamed of doing this for real. In the end, it is kinda harmless in itself.

The problem is that our 24-hour news cycle will play this instead of doing in-depth reporting of issues that actually affect us. I don't mean putting two pundits up on stage. I mean actually explaining what is going on (go through the health care bill, the AZ law, etc.). The love of fluff takes something like this from harmless to a distraction.
i assume everything on "the chive", a pretty clear ripoff of "the onion", is likely going to be fake.
I might if that didn't suck so bad. It's probably not allowed by them anyways, robot.txt and ToS.
>"In India, even the yak herders and rickshaw drivers have cell phones"

It still amazes me as how much improvement the mobile phone has brought to the low income workers in third world countries!
I agree wholeheartedly. Consulting comprehensively took my focus off new product dev the last three months, but it underwrote a huge QOL improvement (one month of time off with family) and there is major, major stress relief about not being five figures in the hole until October. Market seasonality is a pain, by the way.
No, correlation is not causation.

However, the article noted that when a participant was lead to believe they were higher or lower on the social ladder, that changed the amounts they gave or believed was right to give. --This doesn't prove causation of course, but it does suggest with some strength that a higher perceived social position does affect your decisions when it comes to charity.

One last thought... You may consider yourself poor, but you don't know the scales they used in the experiment. It's possible that you aren't as poor as you think.
Hey Oli,

I don't see the free package in your site. Could you help me with that?

I'm still considering my options. So far this thread has been super positive.

Thanks!
You don't get access to the full on pdf which I find useful in some cases due to examples and figures.
Funny, I say this from time to time. Every time, it is meant as an ad-hominem. Because my schedule is often packed, and it astonishes me what sorts of antics other people get up to with their resources? No, not really. Typically because the limitless creativity of the human mind deeply impresses me, but not always in a good way.

As a college student in DC, I once went out and joined a march on The White House. As usual, it turned into an opportunity to observe people (since I really didn't care much about the actual issue driving the protest). The variety of the intent of the other marchers ranged from people who had traveled some distance at their own expense, putting their lives on hold because the issue at hand was quite important to them to what can be described best as, "Hey! A big group of people making a lot of noise! Wheee! LOOK AT ME!"

The problem with this rant is that it lacks context or scope. Although, we should respect each other a la Golden Rule. You might be prompted to dismiss a person because they disagree with them. You have that right. You even have the right to insult someone. Of course, when you do this, the corollary is that you trade away your own passions being taken seriously. I'm pretty comfortable doing that with people who, from context, appear to be jumping up and down, waving their arms and making noise to draw attention to themselves. But I can't not respect that other person who is obviously invested… even if I disagree with them.

Also, I'm totally happy to watch some jerk fritter away her credibility. If she can't tell the difference between, "I disagree" and "You have too much free time," her opinion isn't worth squat.
I also like http://www36.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Why+did+the+chicken+c... and my wife found this http://www36.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=How+much+wood+would+a...
After 8 months where were you as a pilot? Were you ready to fly cross country solo?

Programming is hard because you may understand the solution, but you don't know your equipment well enough yet to get you there.

If you know what kind of industry you want to work in (Games, Web, Enterprise) focus on the tools that are used in that industry (C++, Django, .Net). Once you zero in on these specifics it will be much easier to find a mentor/community, because a flight instructor is pretty useless if he doesn't know where the landing gear is.
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What's funny is that the kerning example is the only one where I can tell the difference between the 'good' and the 'bad' example. Now, perhaps I have atypically poor taste... actually, knowing myself, that's not at all unlikely. However, it is also possible that I'm the normal one and 'wrong' design isn't as big of a deal as you think?
You do realise that saying "I am now a 100% fuck-you Apple anti-fanboy" renders your entire post worthless? By the definition of fanboy you're saying your judgement is biased, your conclusions skewed, and your opinions suspect to the point that anyone who doesn't just want positive reenforcement of their existing ideas should ignore you.
Interesting to note that designs can be just flat out wrong. Like a visual syntax error.
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Disagree. I rode one for 10 years. I fit your criteria perfectly. It's only a matter of time before some driver does something that you can't anticipate. I had 3-4 very close calls in the time I rode. I stopped because people I knew had had accidents of varying seriousness. My driver's ed teacher in high school walked with a pronounced limp due to a motorcycle accident.
Or need to fix your production servers which have suddenly crashed and every minute of downtime is costing you money and reputation. A category many people on HN probably fall into.
Thanks for all your comments!

I'm now considering:
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2. Performable
3. http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-domain-parking-theme
4. http://netserious.com
Bingo.... you aren't as important as your cellphone makes you feel.

I have my funky cool blackberry - but I leave it on "Phone only", and, because I rarely ever answer it, hardly anyone ever phones me. I also have no problem ignoring it if it rings and it's not a call I actually need to take - I know it'll go to voicemail. The key is not letting the phone dominate your life. It's really there so I can phone people when I need to, or so I can allow someone to reach me when I need them to - and nothing else.
This is a sad day. If you can't trust the internet who can you trust.
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Interesting. Do you think it's clearer than the one I gave here?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1587884
I somewhat disagree, it is a question of entitlement.
On stable platforms, of which there are also Linux distributions besides OSX, stuff isn't cutting edge but somewhat older and working fine mostly.
So you have to wonder why you demand cutting edge from Linux but not from OSX, this is because on a lot of Linux distributions the cutting edge is an option but often not on stable OS like OSX and even windows.
When it comes to drivers the problem is with stubborn manufacturers that only want to provide specs to closed platforms.
Could you tell about the nature of the reasons that made you ask for 18% as opposed to say 19% or 17%?
massive printing of dollars, here we go!
Our core product is a suite of features to make it easier for mobile publishers to add advanced mobile features. If it becomes clear at some point that we need to only use C2DM (Google's version), then we will - it'll still be the same API and the same product from the perspective of our customers.

Right now, it might seem like it's "Oh yay easy push notifications!" but that's not really the main story. The main story is that we're going cross platform with all of our products and we're helping people really take advantage of these great new technologies to help their mobile applications and strategy.
I noticed this very strongly when I lived in SF re beggers.

I always assumed it was empathetic based, poor being relatively close to and could easily be knocked down a rung to homeless/destitute. Were as rich fairly far removed from homeless/destitute experience and could not relate.

Also to the rich money is status, valuable, something you work hard and sacrifice for. To the poor money is something they just don't have.

Also poor receive (and need) more charity than the rich and may feel obliged to "give back" when they can. They at the very least are more likely to know how much a little charity can help.
Wow, this was the first time I had some understanding about what's going on, Prof. Lipton's UTC example is just so intuitive. I don't know if this is the common way they use to introduce NP-completeness in CS classes, but it's very easy to understand. And his comment that "If you can show that a new proof can solve weaker questions, even questions that are known, that can be very confidence building." is an excellent glimpse into a mathematicians way of thinking. This is exactly the reason, they are not too fond of brute force proofs (like the Rubik, God's number = 20 proof announced earlier this wee.): it doesn't teach any new mathematical tricks.

However, what excites me even more than a possible proof to P!=NP is the new wiki and blog based open collaborative approach of researchers. Yes, we had instances of this before, but I think this is the first time such an approach is used to analyze a result of this magnitude, and in such short time. Compare and contrast with Wiles' and Perelman's proofs, where the discussions were all in some remote lecture halls and you just heard the final "yes" or "no" response to the proof.
I will look into the Python. The coding in C++ is not a problem. I do the puzzles on ProjectEueler and the exercises in the textbooks but I don't see how they apply to real world development.

I understand the need to practice code and take to it religiously. My wife hated when I was gone all the time. Now I am home and she hates that I am on the computer. You are right about increasing the level of difficulty. Thanks.
What is swoppel?
Take a look. What do you think?
Ask HN: Doing research on a fitness-tracker app. What features would you want? 
As a side project, I am trying to build a "better" webapp for tracking personal fitness, nutrition, goals, activities, etc.

I've tried several sites (DailyBurn, FitDay, DailyMile, LiveStrong, etc) and I've found that each seems to be missing a few features that I would like to see.<p>My initial goal is to be able to build something that is useful for me and fits my goals (track workouts, graph my progress over time, easily be able to enter nutrition info, but not be forced into pre-defined concepts of how I want to breakdown what I want to track).

As a community of like-minded individuals, I'm really curious what other HN readers - who I figure have likely tried many of the same webapps out there, and have the same interest in being able to track their data - would be interested in seeing from such a webapp.

Would you mind taking a survey I've put together about your experiences with fitness/nutrition webapps, what you liked, what you found lacking, and what features you would want in a perfect tool for this? The survey is at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/R3XVVKB

Thanks!
There are a couple of voicemail transcription services available, or you can use Twilio. I suggest language like "For quickest response, please spell me your email address."
Yeah, I'm not following your argument. It seems you're saying that since the "cloud" stack is becoming focused on entertainment consumption, we should use something more focused for business. Is that what you mean?

Out there in the real world, people use Photoshop to do graphics because the cloud just doesn't work for them. Microsoft Word and Excel because they can't afford the risk of leaking documents out. AutoCAD. ProTools. Maia. Powerpoint. Snagit. Adobe Acrobat. Supermarket cash register software, air traffic control software, etc etc.

Use the right tool for the job and all that.
iOS doesn't use a swapfile.
How is it a cost to Fox News if it gives them something interesting to talk about, already proven to be interesting by a million people passing the link to each other online? That it turns out to be a hoax just gives them even more to talk about.
Text messaging wastes far less time, and leaves time for more interesting pursuits than trying to quickly, extemporaneously, condense the purpose of your call into the space allotted by voicemail.

Without my Droid, my conversations would consist of a lot more bookkeeping.
Do you have experience with collective bargaining?

As far as I can tell lots of hackers abhor it.
Here's what I'd seen before. Looks like it was discontinued as a product even when I first saw it years ago.

http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/03/14/the-floating-arms-keyboa...
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20 percent plus in income for some occupations, such as fishing in some areas. That makes cell service probably the most effective poverty abatement program I can name.
One counterpoint for super rich:

http://givingpledge.org/
The government?
Now I read it again changing the tone of the voice in my head I get it. Sorry... I should not comment when my programs are not doing what they are expected: I tend to see everything in the negative sense.

Sorry for being rude myself, I should have read it aloud. My fault, too!
Seriously, what is it with you yanks?

"I used [something most people use] every minute of every day, but I decided to stop using [that something] alltogether and now I feel [free/empowered/at peace/intellectually stimulated/etc]."

What about moderation?
Here are some random questions to help you explore what you want to do.

Just to get a feel for the kind of code you write, perhaps you could take this little challenge:

Write a C routine with the
following prototype:

void condense_by_removing(
char *z_terminated ,
char char_to_remove
);

Your routine should modify
the given zero-terminated
string in place, removing
all instances of the given
char.

If you're brave you can post your code here ...

Apart from that, the challenge is to decide what kind of job you want, then make sure you develop a resume to get it. If you want a web developer job then you have to write some web apps. If you want a systems programmer job then you need to write some slick algorithmic code.

Do you know what a B-tree is and when you would use it?
Yeah, bcrypt-ruby already does that, doesn't it?
>The only person his habit seems to annoy is his wife. "She wants to do things on the fly. I'm of the mindset that we can avoid that just by planning. I say, 'Katy, I'll be home at 7 or 7:30,' and she says, 'Let's talk about it later.'"

I'm with his wife. Life's too short to script my time. Maybe when I'm his age I'll mellow out a bit, but until then I like texting a friend and grabbing a late-night bite to eat then doing something absurd.
I don't feel the need for us to be equal. If feel that the idea that we're not is often a cop out to make ourselves feel better about people who could have been our equal but aren't.

That is to say, even if you're right and there is a massive difference that no technique could ever overcome, there are a lot of people who could have done better than they actually did. Maybe their environment destroyed their chances. Maybe they had bad teachers. Who knows. I'm just not comfortable writing them off as "stupid". Education is too important to ever assume we have the best system possible. No matter how good it is.
For years I was conditioned to pick up the phone as soon as it rang. Growing older, I realized this to be the wrong approach. Today, most calls end up in my voicemail.

Lessons learned:

- Urgency is typically defined in terms of the calling party. In most cases, it dissolves into something that did not warrant my attention in the first place.

- Interruptions will take away from the task at hand and result in decreased personal productivity.
To the public at large, no. But he distributed it to respected CS theorists for exactly this kind of feedback.
nice find. The followup is correct; slight mispellings are corrected, allowing further guesses.

This coupled with the fbnames release earlier makes me think it's only a matter of time before someone crawls and "open sources" all accessible personal data from facebook.
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Yes but not a great platform to get locked into. What if tomorrow your client asks for a native iPhone app?
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The article defines "charity" in an incomplete way; simply giving your money away is only half of the equation. The other half of donating money is finding the organization that will leverage it to the most good.

You could simply give away your money by dropping dollar bills out of a hot air balloon, but most people wouldn't consider that as charitable as donating the same money to cancer research.

Perhaps the article truly is pointing out that the rich see charity as an investment where poor people see it simply as "giving extra money away."
>> In reality, both dimensions are orthogonal, and vary in a continuum. Hence, you'll find super-coder assholes, nice incompetent people, and everything in between.

That is definitely true, but you don't get a uniform statistical sample responding to job postings.

The super-coders who work well with people don't come on the market as often.

>> the author oversimplified reality to come to her conclusion.

The author's conclusion is that you should ignore one axis (I don't agree).
-1 for trying to influence downvoting and for gratuitous reddit reference.

Let your words stand by themselves.
In almost any web app you'd write this up as "Sev: Low", "Impact: Information Leakage".

But this isn't any web app; it's the most popular complex web app in the world. It seems like there's zero likelihood Facebook doesn't (a) know about this and (b) want Facebook to work this way. Presumably, it helps people like my mom.

It was always a bad idea to associate your secret anonymous email address that you use to send ransom letters with your Facebook account.
Yes I'd like to know the answer too. It seems like everyone says just consult but how does one get clients and more importantly get clients to trust you and figure out the pay rate and what not?
> Java, J2EE and Java 1.6
Care to elaborate? 'Java' colliding with the 2 others?
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Just curious, how closely does your book resemble an episode of Good Eats?
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I used to be highly addicted to cell phones in the '90's.

In 2005 I spent a year working overseas. When I got back I just never got around to buying a new phone. I have to say, it has been extremely liberating.

So much so that we went one further - we don't answer our land-line either unless it's someone we know and we don't check voice mail.

I also don't wear a watch and go to sleep/get up whenever my body tells me to rather than stick to a strict schedule.

You can reach me via email, MSN, GoogleTalk, Skype or hey, knock on my door and say hello!
I think it's a very interesting idea, but I definitely see your problem of how to get initial content. I think a good niche would be programmers of a certain language, maybe ruby, javascript (or even just jQuery). Try to hire a couple of the more popular bloggers in the space to start seeding it with data and promoting it some and I think it would take off. If I was looking at a certain rails plugin it would be really interesting to see a list of links to tutorials for that plugin as well as some competing plugins that I should checkout.
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I just thought it would be hilarious if politicians started doing ASK HN: before they voted on a bill.. it would go like this... "I need to vote on this saving the children bill but I'm not sure it's the right thing and I'm also having trouble syncing my contacts from my ipad to my ipod please help" , joe politician
For what it's worth, the ie stats for Japan look like bullshit from where I'm standing.

Leaving out mobile browsers, a company I work for has almost 80% of it's users using IE6.

I would not discount piracy as a major cause but i wonder if there are other economic reasons at play (less money for corporate upgrades, individuals putting off computer upgrades, etc...)