skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their change to a webkit based browser is interesting. Will RIM devices will be able to access a broad enough spectrum of mobile-oriented web-apps to overcome the perception of a too-late too-little application marketplace strategy? Will their implementation of webkit be too different from the others? It will be interesting to see what happens.
"There is no real authority on whom should call whom by what name except for the one that has to wear said name"

And as I keep telling you, many of the people we call "American Indians" actually prefer to be called "American Indians".
But this king of companies tend to live on thin margin and exploit local population. This may not be in the best interest of Chile to bring this kind of population.
Thanks for pointing out those other links. One of them is about news, and not search, but the others do shed light on algorithms that might be part of how Google does ranking.

But as we agree, the actual algorithm is secret.

Incidentally, I'm less worried about deliberate evil than I am about systematic biases that we don't know about. Here on HN people show a lot of interest in cognitive biases and the importance of being aware of them. I think the biases of the 'extra-cognitive' systems we use are just as interesting.
I don't finding anything about Milgram demonstrating evil in man; it demonstrated the willingness to take orders from a perceived authority.
Migration Could Triple Populations in Some Wealthy Nations
the apps are horrible, but the core BB operating system is very fast and usable.
While the preference is understandable, it's too confusing to use the word "Indian" for two different types of people, one of which is actually from a country called India.
To run Android apps.
That actually makes a lot of sense. At the end of the day, RIM and MS have always shared the same target demographic for the most part - they are the de facto handset / OS of the enterprise. The iPhone has slowly been working its way into the enterprise sector, but they could easily lock down that entire segment by focusing on security + encryption and heavily integrating with Visual Studio / .NET. It would also allow Microsoft to benefit from having pseudo-vertical integration, as their best products seem to be the ones where they are developing for a single hardware platform (eg, Xbox, later Zune models, etc).
Presumably if RIM switched to Android, they would port all their apps (like the much-beloved mail client) to Android and possibly even have a J2ME VM to run old third-party Blackberry apps.
"non-PC pro-colonialism thrill"

Heh, that's the secret branch-off of the brand lifecycle I guess. Companies that have, heretofore, fallen by the wayside or were unceremoniously erased from the collective conscience gets resurrected as a new, edgier brand.

It happened with Indian Motorcycles. Now, _that_ brand is known as the "rebel" brand (though it's ironically owned by a stodgy English private equity firm), while Harley-Davidson has slowly become the "fat yuppie or old fart (re)sowing their wild suburban oats" brand.

I bet you certain elements want to keep the embargo of Cuba by Americans going to keep the market for illicit cigars (and the requisite mystique of smoking one) going strong. Like the big to-do about absinthe. Now that it's semi-legal (as long as it doesn't contain x amount of thujone) it's become passe in the "cool" clubs.
This reminds me of PG article http://www.paulgraham.com/maybe.html

May be they should give 1M and not 40k ? That would surely move some more interesting startups...
Most of the time, I suppose. But check this out: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/us/03unemployed.html

People complaining after losing benefits after 99 weeks of looking for a job. As a tax payer, I feel way better about someone trying to start a business than someone sitting on the couch "looking" for a job.

But I concede the point - bigco is probably more efficient for most folks.
That didn't take very long now, did it. I hope we'll get to the bottom of this, either Assange is a jerk, but maybe not a criminal or he deserves to be exonerated.

But I've never heard of a case that was filed on Friday evening, hits the news big time on Saturday morning and has the main charges dropped after an arrest warrant has been issued on Saturday afternoon.

Either there was cause to issue a warrant or there wasn't.

Weirdest thing.

But tens of millions of people have seen the name of Julian Assange next to the word 'rape' in sensational headlines all over the world, so in that sense the damage has been done.
Julian Assange is not a leader of a violent Islamist movement

Interestingly enough, it seems that neither is Abu Omar. After rendering him to Egypt where the secret police tortured him for a few years (electric shocks to the genitals, rape, beatings, the usual), an Egyptian court finally freed him declaring that there was no evidence against him. So, to recap: the CIA kidnapped a guy and delivered him to the Egyptian secret police for torture. But even in an insanely corrupt dictatorship like Egypt, where prosecutors have, um, very wide discretion let us say, they couldn't get any charges to stick. Including association with a terrorist organization, which is a serious crime under Egyptian law. So as far as we know, there's no reason to believe this guy has ever done anything wrong.

I mean, if a police state like Egypt can't manage to find (or concoct) something, anything with which to convict him, how dangerous can he be? And if he's not actually dangerous, then sending 20-odd CIA agents to kidnap him and render him for torture seems kind of crazy....My point is: the CIA sometimes acts in ways that make very little sense on the outside.

Would it make sense for them to kill Assange? No, it would be insane. But this isn't an organization that has historically demonstrated an overabundance of sanity. I doubt they're trying to kill him, but arguments premised on CIA sanity seem...rather weak.
This bears and eerie resemblance to all those "Apple needs to switch to Windows NT" articles from a decade back.
OMG, this is such an unbelievable wrong idea. The only one that it would help is Android, and it would hurt Apple. But RIM would risk losing a lot too in the long-run.

Look at what happened with the PC market. Compaq? Gateway? Even Dell and HP, the biggest two are earning very little from their computer division (well, relatively little). The two winners in the PC market have been Windows and Intel.

So now we have RIM. They move to Android, and lose the exclusivity of their OS. Is their hardware division so strong and their product so flawless that they will be able to compete with Samsung, Motorola or HTC?

The way I see it Samsung has still a few aces from its very strong screen division, and others (don't they also produce flash?). HTC also could win: they started from almost 0, a cut-throad market can only do them good.

But the others? They all have access to the same processors, screens, batteries, and OS. Even now (and we have just started) a new phone enjoys a few months in the sunlight before being subclassed by a new model. In the long term they will only be able to compete by adding more recent hardware (but everyone can do that) and price.

Is this really were RIM wants to be in the future?
You mean because you're not really interested in using Foursquare, and you have no apparent business using the service in the first place, since none of your friends in the area use it? Is that the point you were trying to make?
While I appreciate the authentic geekiness that infused that episode, the new season of Futurama (and indeed every Futurama production since the last season of the original run) has lost its feel for dialog, most of the spark between the original characters, and its sense of which gags to work into the storyline and how. It's also become much more "blue", and in a much less subtle way (sex was always a subtext of its humor, but was usually handled far more gracefully --- like in the episode where Fry drinks the emperor).

I've been very disappointed by the new season. The only episode I found to be watchable was the one with the time machine.
Perhaps, we stress the need too often to overcome our "disorders" versus leveraging and unleashing the powers of being outside of the normal distribution of the population. I have known my own symptoms that are reminiscent of ADD (and a host of others!) for a while now but have chosen to not overcome them through adderall,etc. but realize that these abnormalities might make me a more creative individual. Of course, its easier said than done, and it will most likely be an internal conflict existing a lifetime. Meditation seems like a practical way of reducing stress and channeling focus...
It's big in the sense that it exercised power in a way that dwarfs what we currently regard as modern corporate kleptocracy. The Company wasn't just a trading company, it was responsible for exercising political power in India on behalf of the British crown, and even operated its own military forces.

It's precisely this excess concentration of monopoly power that Adam Smith described in The Wealth of Nations as a criticism of capitalism gone awry [1].

Probably as close to a real-life manifestation of Shinra as we've ever had in history.

[1] http://www.newstatesman.com/200412130016.htm
BlackBerry loyalty seems to have changed if Nielsen's data is anything to go by. According to recent figures, only 42% of BlackBerry owners want a new BlackBerry as their next mobile device. In comparison, 72% of Android users want to stick with Android, and iPhone users seem to be most loyal with 89% wanting a new iPhone.

Source: http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/android-so...
I think you mean "nothing says 'you love me' like a Denial of Service attack." ;)
"every native person whom I have met (I think without exception) has used 'Indian' rather than 'Native American'."

I grew up in Nebraska and I went to primary school with a number of Native Americans. It was considered very disrespectful to refer to them as Indians.

The Native Americans I grew up with would not put up with people calling them indians, engens, or anything similar. If you really want to respect a native (a real one, not just one with native ancestors) then don't stereotype them by calling them anything other than their actual name.

If you must refer to them by race you call them by the name which they give you which is going to be their tribe name and not some 500 year old archaic misunderstanding of the people on earth. Or if you want to be safe you can always call them natives, because the definition actual fits.
oh, this might help

"Waves follow our boat as we meander across the lake, and turbulent air currents follow our flight in a modern jet. Mathematicians and physicists believe that an explanation for and the prediction of both the breeze and the turbulence can be found through an understanding of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations. Although these equations were written down in the 19th Century, our understanding of them remains minimal. The challenge is to make substantial progress toward a mathematical theory which will unlock the secrets hidden in the Navier-Stokes equations."

http://www.claymath.org/millennium/Navier-Stokes_Equations/
> Microsoft has a pretty great mobile OS in Windows 7 (this coming from an iPhone lover)

You might want to reconsider that knowing that the web browser is the most used app on both the iPhone and Android:

Internet Explorer Mobile browser will be a mixture of Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8 desktop versions

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_Mobile
>> Do the rest of you have trouble finding good programming books too?
get mine through Amazon.

>> And some suggestions of books would be nice too.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=551339
The Cost of Distraction: What Kurt Vonnegut Knew
That's usually true unless the product is from Microsoft. Unlike Apple, Microsoft is pretty up-front about what their product will be like before it's actually released. Also, it's not like Microsoft will be starting from scratch. They've got a good kernel and solid foundation to build from. They've got great developer tools. Yes, the user experience is a HUGE blank that needs to be filled in. But do I think Windows Phone 7 will suck like Windows Mobile? I'm a betting man and I say it won't suck, it will actually be decent and won't feel like Android's "I'm running KDE" crappy feel/user experience.
Why would they want a task manager app?
"The State of Mobile" event at Kicklabs in SF
It was not insane to kidnap Abu Omar. From what I can tell, it was coldly rational and warranted in a cost/benefit sense, based on the evidence available to the government at the time.

Should the CIA have kidnapped him? No. We can see one strong argument against extrajudicial detention and exfiltration right here: it puts us on a slippery slope, where we have to take pains to argue about why we might kidnap a "terrorist" ("ah, but what's a terrorist! it's whatever you say it is, righ!"... sigh), but wouldn't kidnap a free-speech activist.

You can present no evidence that the "CIA" or any other agency in the US government is plotting the kidnap, murder, or even the propaganda-based discrediting of Julian Assange. All you can do is posit that something like that might happen, and sit back waiting for everyone else on the message board to try to prove the negative. Isn't that fun?
Is there an open-to-the-public observatory anywhere near you? About a half-hour from where I live there is a small observatory with some reasonably heavy-duty telescopes, and areas to set up your own telescope, with monthly "guided tours" of what can be seen at each respective time of the year.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1621583
I am very seriously considering switching from a Droid back to a blackberry.
Maybe...

But it's also possible that we simply could not conceive of the kind of transformation which the alien contact would bring about. Lots of native tribes were actually eager to contact European explorers but had no idea that it would lead to the more or less complete destruction of their culture. There might be an analogy in contact with aliens but an analogy which are simply incapable of even understanding, despite belief that we are the most advanced thing around.
Why use a sky crane when they've already proven they can get a great landing from one of those bouncing-ball type things? It seems like they decided to introduce additional points of failure for neat-o-ness.
http://store.handmark.com/ - Accepts a wide variety of payment forms and has a decent selection of titles for Android.
There is a sqrt button in calc in Windows 7. It's on the right side, just above the % button.
Read further and answered my own questions ...

"Airbags were never an option for MSL, which is the size of a car and weighs 1,950 pounds, almost five times as much as Spirit and Opportunity (also known as the Mars Exploration Rovers).
Airbags cannot be scaled up enough to support MSL and still fit inside the launcher. And previous airbag-equipped landers made unsteered, ballistic entries, resulting in a relatively large landing zone "footprint," or error ellipse, limiting the number of possible landing sites."
Would you care to explain more?

(Incidentally here in the UK Blackberries are doing very well, and not just in the corporate environment. A lot of students and teenager have them too.)
Iris Scanners Create the Most Secure City in the World. Welcome, Big Brother 
Biometrics R&D firm Global Rainmakers Inc. (GRI) announced today that it is rolling out its iris scanning technology to create what it calls "the most secure city in the world." In a partnership with Leon -- one of the largest cities in Mexico, with a population of more than a million -- GRI will fill the city with eye-scanners. That will help law enforcement revolutionize the way we live -- not to mention marketers.

Further snippets:

"In the future, whether it's entering your home, opening your car, entering your workspace, getting a pharmacy prescription refilled, or having your medical records pulled up, everything will come off that unique key that is your iris," says Jeff Carter, CDO of Global Rainmakers. Before coming to GRI, Carter headed a think tank partnership between Bank of America, Harvard, and MIT. "Every person, place, and thing on this planet will be connected [to the iris system] within the next 10 years," he says."

"For such a Big Brother-esque system, why would any law-abiding resident ever volunteer to scan their irises into a public database, and sacrifice their privacy? GRI hopes that the immediate value the system creates will alleviate any concern. "There's a lot of convenience to this--you'll have nothing to carry except your eyes," says Carter, claiming that consumers will no longer be carded at bars and liquor stores. And he has a warning for those thinking of opting out: "When you get masses of people opting-in, opting out does not help. Opting out actually puts more of a flag on you than just being part of the system. We believe everyone will opt-in."

Extra Q&A follow-up article:
http://www.fastcompany.com/1683572/qa-iris-scanning-cdo-on-minority-report-advertising-and-the-future-of-biometric-security
How Bad Is Ebay Fraud?
Can you be more specific about which of my arguments you're trying to help me shore up? When you say things like "the US government is skillful at killing people with drones" and "I'm surprised by the degree to which people in the national security community believe that organizations can be stopped by killing the right leader" and that killing people is an "everything looks like a nail" solution and that while killing Assange wouldn't stop Wikileaks "that understanding isn't commonly held" in the US government... when you say these things, it sure sounds like you agree with the conspiracy theorists.
Iran Starts to Fuel up First Nuclear Power Plant
I dont think one would go wrong by using the word indigenous

Native as a word is a noun, easy concise and neutral. Indigenous is not a noun. Other than that i'm not going to argue the difference between using indigenous over native. Its apples and oranges
Bill Thurston describes math as the theory of formal patterns.

He has a nice article here: http://arxiv.org/abs/math.HO/9404236
That's the same in the states, but adoption has really fallen off after the Bold and Curve2 - there hasn't been anything exciting and new in the works in the past year or so, and the Torch is considered a failure so far stateside (it's only been a few weeks). Most of my friends still have Blackberries but as their handsets die they're being replaced with a lot of Androids and iPhones..
Zuckerberg isn't a geek in my book. In fact there are almost no geeks left. I don't think people born after 1980 will understand why.

But I can't fight it, and I just don't use the word geek anymore. Like hacker and terrorist it is no longer used correctly and there is no fighting it.
Replace Teachers With Tracking Devices
Thank you, again. I like to think I'm pretty good at ignoring sunk costs (the "I've already invested, I'd better keep on trying here" mentality), I think a bigger trap is that I'm an EE, and there is not much opportunity to be involved in research/design unless you have an even more advanced degree or a fair bit of work experience.
Then why is it done if there's no reason? There is a huge risk for certain people to leave wikileaks alone. I'd say that if there is a briber there is virtually no risk for him/her what-so-ever.
Have you tried going camping? There's too much light pollution in cities anyway.

I come from Pune (India) and we were lucky to have a world class astronomy research institute a stone's throw away from my house. They often organised outdoor events for young people. Check it out - http://www.iucaa.ernet.in. They have some community projects like the Virtual Observatory which you might be able to do something with remotely (I think you can get loads of data). I know the director of the institute personally, so if you do find it useful and want to explore further, drop me an email (in profile).
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Thre reports of the death of mean reversion are premature
Incidentally, I think it's too early to call the shots. One year ago Android was another nobody, and now look where they are!

Palm had a money problem, but if they didn't maybe they could have got good returns.

And on the horizon we have Meego and Windows Phone 7.

A year from now the situation may be very very different. Plus when your product is mostly good but some aspects are crap, wouldn't the best policy be to improve the latter instead of throwing everything and become a me-too manufacturer?
How to Use Amazon Web Services to Make a Video on Demand Service
That's easy, emacs is the choice of hermits all over the world ;)
Google web security expert posits the "Millenium Prizes" in web scanning
Wikipedia is user editable.
When you say things like "the US government is skillful at killing people with drones"

My point here is that talking about government killings in Baluchistan is irrelevant. Baluchistan is a very different place than Sweden. The fact that government has great difficulty finding and then killing people in a remote tribal region doesn't tell us anything about their ability to find and kill people in a place like Sweden.

"I'm surprised by the degree to which people in the national security community believe that organizations can be stopped by killing the right leader"

My point here is that your mental model for how people in the national security bureaucracy seems incomplete. I think your belief that WikiLeaks can't be stopped by killing its leaders is correct -- I just don't think we have any basis for assuming this belief is shared inside the intel/defense establishment, especially given its recent history of being unable/unwilling to consider the futility of campaigns based on leadership strikes.

when you say these things, it sure sounds like you agree with the conspiracy theorists.

Not at all. I disagree with ignorant and poorly reasoned arguments. You are bringing some to the table.
"Nice try, iPhone-lover!"

Seriously, though, what's the deal with iPhone fans giving a shout-out to Windows Mobile 7 constantly? It's a little transparent.
And many prefer Native American, but so what?

Thats not at all what I was pointing out. This story actually takes place in Brazil. He should be referred to by the name his people would use for themselves, for God's sake people, have some respect.

And if it is the case that you do not know a person's heritage use a term that is reflective of that (your lack of knowledge) instead of using some archaic misconception just because it has become the status quo.

THIS MAN does not live like any person today. He is not even an "American Indian". Your "American Indians" all speak english, or another modern language, and they are integrated with society (hence they could be interviewed in the first place) and they are not this man and they do not speak for this man or his people.

Hell, it's 2010 and with a story like this we actually had the chance to get the "discovery of a new peoples" thing down right this time with respect. The gov't of Brazil realizes this and the steps they have taken to insure this mans safety back that up. This story completely blows the humanitarian aspect though, rather than preserving it.

Why? Because he is way more native than any of the "American Indians" that you are referring to but you just completely don't get it. He is unique. He is an authentic native to his territory. He should be called by his tribal name, failing that he is a native or indigenous person and that is all that we really know.