skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. That's awesome - gomockingbird.com is a great site, and if you did that in a week that's a compelling case for Cappuccino, although... I find it surprising you studied CS at Harvard and worked as a Software Development Intern at Apple and never used either Objective-C or Javascript.
Intelligence is so overrated, knowledge and persistence are so underrated.
If there are two people with the same inherent intelligence, wouldn't the person with more knowledge APPEAR to be more intelligent?

Wouldn't the one with more knowledge be better at solving problems, because he has more knowledge that he can use intelligently to solve a problem?

If one were to agree with that, applying the same rule, wouldn't it be possible that a person with lesser inherent intelligence but enough of more knowledge out do a person of greater intelligence but with lesser knowledge, if the positive delta of intelligence is enough to overcome the negative delta of intelligence?

And how much influence does persistence have on the breadth or/and depth of knowledge one gains in one or many domains, as compared to intelligence?
Important by what measure? CEO of a major company? Movie star? Famous mathematician? Famous programmer? Entrepreneur? News anchor? Pulitzer prize winning journalist?

Yes, I've emailed and had responses from people matching all of those categories. (A sample includes Eric Schmidt, Jennifer Tilly, John Conway, Randal Schwartz, Paul Graham, Ann Curry, and Laurie Garrett.) Many of them remember me in turn. Several are in my phone. I've met people like this in many different ways, for many different reasons.

My advice is not to bug famous people simply because they are famous. But if you have a legitimate reason to contact someone, don't shy away because that person is well known in some circle.

Also remember that all fame is local. Some people know about the fame and are impressed. Others don't realize the person is famous and don't care. At the end of the day they are people like any other. But frequently busy, with many people trying to get a slice of their time. Most famous people don't like people fawning over them. (You don't want to know the exceptions. Really.) So if you do find yourself taking a slice of their time, get to the point quickly and stop there.
I see what you mean with women...
Will reword that so it can relate trust to women.
As for the template, i tried to design something that was proven to work. Maybe that wasn't a good idea...
Thanks.
I wonder what will happen to 280atlas - will they continue the Beta Program?
DHH
Robert Morris, around 2004. I had an assignment that asked me to write about the Morris worm. So, I decided to shoot him an email with a few questions.

Needless to say, it made my semester (and not only because I got 20% extra credit on an assignment where that wasn't an option).
Many businesses depend on division of labor, and many are run by non-technical people, and rely on specialized employees to manage mission-critical software and technology. According to PG's logic, this should be impossible.

The real problem is incentives. Developers who are willing to make the necessary commitments and sacrifices, take on the risks and the opportunity costs of building a startup are in a strong enough negotiating position to demand ownership. But this advantage is almost certainly weakening. For example, cloud computing makes it much cheaper to scale, which means performance is less of an issue, so cheaper, less experienced developers with less training become more viable. Even if outsourcing is undesirable for other reasons, it still puts local developers in a weaker position. At some point it will be possible to offshore development of a prototype, get some traction and then rebuild everything once you get funding. I know some startups have been acquired after the acquiring company outsourced a cheap ripoff of almost the same product to see if was a market for it with their customers, and then bought the startup. Why couldn't this also work for coming up with a new idea?
It is, I'm now my own employer - for a very good reason (I'm a programmer, can easily do it, and I realized self-employment > employment on many fronts). When I went to India, though, I quit my job teaching personal self-defense and got a job working at an Italian restaurant when I came back (restaurants are excellent sources of short-term income and have many social/physical benefits that trump jobs in the software/knowledge industry).
OS X disk images (DMGs) can be created with a background image. Most developers take advantage of this fact to make it really, really obvious what you're supposed to do. For example, here is what DoubleTwist's DMG looks like: http://cl.ly/cd6c0478bef684fffaed.

How could any user be confused by that? (Also, Safari is by default configured to open DMGs automatically, so all the average user needs to do is click the download link and follow the arrows).

Edit: Adium's (http://cl.ly/5b23589883bbc4467a04) is probably an even better example.
I thought so as well.
That's pretty bog-standard empiricist epistemology: reality is what it is, irrespective of our understanding. But it's very hard for the human mind to fully comprehend that, because the mind can only operate on ideas, not the reality that those ideas represent.

We are incapable of distinguishing the world itself from our understanding of it, except through a kind of cognitive dissonance: tentatively accept certain ideas as "true" in order to apply them to useful ends, while maintaining a conscious skepticism of any of them actually being "true".

This is itself a very hard balance to maintain. Many people tend to gravitate toward the polar extremes, becoming either ideologues who thoroughly conflate the entirety of reality with their subjective ideas, or "just the facts" cynics who dismiss anything remotely theoretical.
His primary list of accomplishments should relieve some of your fears. That much serial entrepreneurship places him securely in the 'comfortable' category, and his continuing work seems to clear him from a profiteering motive. His transhumanist ambitions indicate a deep and sincere belief in his method, which is possibly more than most other dietitians can avow. I think the largest problem with the disconnect is the nature of his interest - severe long term results that are difficult to support with standard research methods or testimonials.
I've been looking at emacs orgmode lately, and thinking that it'd something great to sync up to SimpleNote (I love the iPhone app). With an API, this all becomes doable...

I do wish there were a decent notes App on Ubuntu that synced. (Is Tomboy even worth trying?)
Not sure why you'd want to learn Ruby/Rails. Ruby has been dropping in use for a few years now, and it looks like that downward trend will accelerate.

Have you considered Python/Django?
This is purely anecdotal and may also be related to the two-page long list of vaccinations I received, but I've rarely ever been sick since being back from India (where I did get sick a few times, pretty badly) and when I am sick, it's usually something very mild I get over within a day or two.
As I was preparing for the new Mad Men season, I noticed that AMC was selling old Mad Men episodes for 99¢. At that price, it's about as cheap as renting the DVDs, and I thought Finally a network is coming to its senses.

That was short lived, however. They jacked up the prices when the new season started.

At 99¢ per episode or, say, $20 for a season I would jump right in and probably cancel my cable.
The only time I have a hard time using it is in mom & pop shops. This isn't really an inconvenience to me.
IPhone Origami Case Diagrams
I wasn't making a point about global warming at all.

I was pointing to a similar example "on the other side" (of modern political divides) and linking to a fantastic blog on the topic.
Firefox 4 beta 4 released with Pandorama (was TabCandy)
Depends on technological development, as well as how many "killer apps" are dreamed up.
Cool quote ...

No matter what the merits of the case may be, or who is
right, or who has a "right" to do what, the crossfire in
the battle will be hugely distractive (and I don't just
mean the patent case). I wish they'd all vent their
testosterone elsewhere.

In the meantime, no recent news on Java 7.
What is your source?

Indeed.com shows no such drop in Rails job offers. Both Rails and Django are showing growth in the percentage of job offers:
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=rails,+django&l=

If you fall back to a language-only search, then Python shows a bigger slice of the pie, but the original question was about web frameworks.
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=python,+ruby&l=
I've paid for the beta program. It's $20 and that goes toward your purchase of the final product anyway.

I wouldn't worry about it too much though, because it's not really Beta quality. I wouldn't even call it Alpha. Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing them one bit. I love it and am incredibly impressed with what they've accomplished!

Hopefully this will give them the resources to finish it!
I would guess that there are a decent number of paid users who aren't "businesses", but just people.

I myself have a paid account because:
1. I want private repositories for school work and cba to set them up on my own server.
2. I run my website off of github, and only paid accounts get CNAME support.
3. I think they're awesome guys, and I want the service to stay around. This is the most important one.
My Mom.
I think this is going to work great.

Its such a powerful principle that is used all over, quality control, HR management - people development, stocks, feedback loops in control systems and what not - monitor, adjust and control.

Finally, real time monitoring and adjusting capability will be put in the hands of consumers.

As small as the device appears, i think its going to be great for energy conservation, not to mention cost cutting for home owners.

This is going to be a huge business, even Herman Miller is getting into this - home and office climate control for efficiency.
The point is that you don't want to try to be like the locals. The locals in developing countries are not healthy and do suffer from poor sanitation (diarrhea alone is responsible for 8% of all deaths in Asia -- WHO stats). You need to be sensible and avoid certain things.

I just got back from a month in China and didn't get sick despite eating many things that'd make a typical westerner puke. I lived in China for several years previously and had learned the hard way about food safety.
A bird in the hand can make a lot of sense
Is that really true? Most of the companies I've talked to are looking for people with Ruby/Rails experience. I've seen some looking for Python Django experience, but far less. I currently do Python dev at work. I've looked a Django, but I wasn't super impressed, but again maybe I'm just not finding the right resources for learning to work with it. Any suggestions there?
Heh - I should clarify. Gomockingbird.com definitely didn't get made in a week, but I did make a working prototype in a week.

At Apple, I did all OpenGL stuff (worked on Keynote), and Harvard was all C/C++.
A = 1 standard dev above the mean. B = mean. C = 1 std dev below the mean, but still performed remotely adequately. D = "If your major is theater and the class is math, I won't stop you from graduating."
Google Checkout and Amazon Payments. Between those two, most of your users likely already have accounts.
This sounds wonderful, but I think it's unrealistic to expect this model to go mainstream. The pricing logic here completely ignores the costs involved. It's like saying that some people are sick of paying $20k for their cars and predicting that Apple is going to design a better car (tangent: wouldn't that be nice?) and sell it for just $1k. Sounds great, but it's just not possible.

Contrary to popular belief, not all of that $150 you give to Comcast each month (ouch) goes to buying yachts for Comcast's CEO. Some of it goes to building and maintaining a network. Some of it even goes to pay for the production of those movies and television shows you're watching. The costs of producing entertainment and running large-scale networks is probably not going to drop by 90% any time soon.

The more likely scenario is this:

Comcast: May I help you?

Me: Yes, I'd like to cancel my $150/month TV+internet package and just get an internet-only package because I can get all the content I want over the internet now much more affordably.

Comcast: OK, no problem. Our internet-only packages run $145/month.

I still think this is a huge improvement, mind you. Having everything on demand is much better than worrying about TV networks' schedules. And those who watch less can now pay less (i.e. those who watch more can pay more...). I just don't see everyone's bill going from $1,500 a year to $100 a year, like the article suggests.
plug I'm doing something very similar, with the exception that I do all the processing on the server side. For example, you can link to the text of this article like this:

http://viewtext.org/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.readshout.com%2Fqu...

I'm making this so other sites can provide links to ViewText on their pages, similar to how I'm using it on http://ihackernews.com. It's great for mobile phones. It also handles RSS feeds -- putting the full text of the article in the RSS feed.

In addition, it rewrites links back through the reader, caches pages in the event that they go down, and a couple of other things...

BTW, nice work jamesjyu.
What the f*ck should I get?
Simply telling someone they are awesome will have no actual affect if they don't believe what you are saying

Yeah, the same goes with child development - there's quite a lot of research that says that it is counterproductive to praise a kid for something that they don't believe is praiseworthy.

But there are surely cultural variations to this. For example, I occasionally have had waitstaff in (US) restaurants where when I order an item on the menu will say something like "Excellent choice" or "Awesome". That really feels wrong to me, but since they do it, I suspect it works well at least on some people. So maybe the same thing happens here.
Unfortunately, there is no tech start-up we could conceive that would solve this societal problem.
I know, I know, I know. I don't begrudge anyone their well-deserved rewards in this exit. I just don't like seeing awesome stuff go away, which is what I fear will happen here.
Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails tutorial is a good start (look closely, there is free access online):

http://railstutorial.org/

It's not perfect, but it does walk you through the process of setting up a proper environment, using git for version control, and pushing to Heroku for rapid deployment. He even explains different basics and features of the Ruby language, so you can start here without learning Ruby if you so desire. Definitely complete the additional tasks at the end of each chapter as they are very helpful.

Also, I found it helpful to browse through the many open-source Rails projects you can find online, particularly on github.
I use, "I make video games."

These guys should say, "I simplify monitoring web servers."
Intel CEO: U.S. faces looming tech decline
Does anyone know what ycombinator got from this $0.4m to $2m (based on 2% to 10%)? or was it diluted in the later round?
It would be interesting to know what the "slow" software looked like on the big instances, then. Still, a "large" instance is not fifty times the size a "small" instance, so it looks like you're easily coming out ahead.
Taking Pepto Bismol prophylactically...

Ick! That'll give you all sorts of unpleasant side-effects - it's much better to eat raw garlic or raw onions every morning. You'll adjust to the local organisms better and you won't get sick at all.

To each his own on taking electronics/phones/etc... When I go backpacking I prefer to take the "no itinerary" approach, leaving technology at home so I'm not in the Western Bubble wherever I go.
The singularity (sorry, Singularity) has always struck me as religion in science-fiction garb: an end time is coming, eternal life is possible if you name a cryonics firm as the beneficiary of your life insurance policy, and we will soon enter either an unimaginable paradise or an unlivable hell where either humans will be totally extinct and replaced with robots or we will be immortal cyborgs, or maybe we'll "download our consciousness into computers", or something like that. There's remarkably little content, nor any real certainty, behind the hype.

It's perfectly reasonable to say that really interesting things are bound to happen when we fully understand the brain enough to build one ourselves. It's conjectural to say it'll be possible to build intelligences better than humans at the task of building intelligences (to significant degrees of recursion), and once you make that conjecture some sort of singularity is possible. (Not inevitable--there may indeed be unsurpassable barriers to any kind of intelligence. I'm talking about logical barriers like Gödel's incompleteness theorem, or the possibility that P != NP.) But there's no gain in "futurists" making empty predictions. I'd much rather hear from the people who actually try to build intelligences what they think is feasible, or the people who actually study neurology.
http://github.com/280north/cappuccino/blob/master/AppKit/Cor...

But if you don't like a particular part of the abstraction layer provided by Objective-J/Cappuccino, you're definitely free to use raw JavaScript. Just like in Objective-C you're free to use structs, function pointers, and C-style arrays.
What's going on in the brain when we experience déjà vu
Inkling Says the iPad is the Textbook of the Future
> > I think it's quite hard to stop fragmentation on mobile without stopping innovation. Mobile phones differ radically in speed, screen, memory, bandwidth, input-method, and so on, to produce a single app that runs everywhere well is a tall order, even if the APIs were identical. J2ME was a nice try, but the profiles themselves created fragmentation. Android devices are fragmented in a smaller way by contrast, first, the bar for performance minimum and OS features are set way higher. Secondly, there's no profiles

> This was very true in the mobile world a decade ago and was a huge driver of fragmentation; but with todays dramatically more powerful handsets, and especially given the concentration on high-end handsets, there's no reason for any fragmentation.

Hrm. He seems to be forgetting how many non-super-fancy-high-end phones there are out there. Ironically, those phones are one reason to keep using Java ME.
Makes sense ;) Was there any reason why you went with Cappuccino instead of, say, SproutCore or Coherence or Dashcode? Or even GWT? Have you looked at Apple's PastryKit/iAD? It's _very_ similar to Cocoa development, just without the ObjC notation.
I just asked one of my friends if she wanted to participate in an experiment, and that it was a surprise :).

Luckily, she is a good sport, and I think she'll love it. The thing I'm interested in is if this just gets annoying or not. (If yes, I'll just cancel the service)
How about watching this with a rescuetime output on it (so, watching what you are doing and a scoreboard of rescue time for that snapshot of time)?

That would really lead to me kicking my own ass more for productivity
Dachswald
How to Succeed as an Entrepreneur: You Don't Need to Build the Next Facebook
We know what it costs to buy internet-only: you can buy internet from AT&T for $30/month if you get DSL. So it's unlikely that many people will opt into $145/month internet-only cable.

Will the pricing go from $150/month to $10/month? Almost certainly not. Will pricing go from $150/month to $70/month? It seems quite possible - because internet access is a commodity, unlike cable tv.
Many pseudoscientific cranks are honest, earnest, and not at all profiteering. But they are still pseudoscientific cranks. What defines a crank is the practice of developing and advocating strong opinions despite a lack of supporting evidence, or in the face of conflicting evidence.
There's also http://www.hackernewsers.com/ where you can fill your profile
Nobody else is having visions of Metrowerks? Lucky you.
Heres linus's take on it - "Paul (no@thanks.com) on 8/24/10 wrote:
>
>'ARM Ltd. announced extensions for virtualization and 40-bit
>addressing to the ARMv7a architecture, two of the key new
>aspects of ARM's upcoming Eagle core.'
Oh gods. Please don't say that it's another PAE mess. It's
a major pain, and having to specially map all the physical
pages that you can't fit directly in the virtual address
space leads to some nasty issues.

I hope they have a plan to move it towards a real 64-bit
architecture. But it sounds like ARM is doing the whole
"do all the mistakes x86 ever did" thing.

And the funny thing is, ARM people think that x86 is the
ugly architecture. But with x86 cleaning its stuff up,
and ARM apparently convinced it needs to do all the mistakes
x86 did, we'll soon see ARM as the real cesspool.

Linus"

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Should the intelligence and knowledge be treated differently? A person to be acknowledged as 'intelligent' in certain field must have a deep knowledge about that topic and vice-versa. Nobody comes into existence already knowing about Dijkstra's algorithm, s/he has to learn it actively.
Real limitations aren't "real" though, in the sense that some sort of boundary or new knowledge extends the demarcating line between it being a "real" limitation and an "unknown" limitation. A matter of degree I suppose. I'm certainly not going to argue that humans will suddenly begin sprouting wings on their backs, but people at some point in history - I'm sure - claimed human flight to be an impossibility, a gift only birds and gods possessed. That is, until the airplane was created, which extended that "limitation".

Many etiological examples can be drawn, but can you not agree that saying "real limitations will always restrain you" is too absolutist?
Except, I already did this. "Hi Speakeasy, I don't want TV." "That's great, because we don't sell TV service."

I have never had cable or satellite TV in my adult life. And I've never had to pay extra for Internet access.

If people actually want Internet-only TV subscriptions, the market will force Comcast to lower their prices. But I think most people want an endless stream of crap so even when they're bored, they can do something that requires minimal energy expenditure. So Comcast should be fine.

But anyway, I'm pretty sure that paying 99 cents an episode for shows that are already broadcast into your house for free (courtesy of "the networks") is a good deal for Apple and not such a good deal for you.
Google Buzz API experimenting with discovery based client libraries
FYI: Docs are fully integrated and appear for example together when moving through the list of autocomplete suggestions. Very similar to XCode's inline docs. Alternatively, you can press Ctrl and every function call, class definition and so on becomes a link to the source code defintion of that function or class, respectively. Such are manifold possibilies for tool support in statically typed languages.