skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me too. I suppose "+ 1" is ambiguous enough that the compiler is interpreting it differently based on context, but it just feels wrong.
While Microsoft Office has the majority of the market, growing the network of relatively compatible alternatives is going to help Google Docs.
They got 40-60 miles per gallon because they were going half of today's highway speed limit. See my note above about wind resistance at higher speeds. If you drove 30mph on the highway with today's cars you'd also get 40mpg+ (and a $100 ticket!)
It's never really been a problem for fark.com
Microsoft may be turning a new page in dropping Live Spaces
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I imagine it's tough to display DRM-protected content in a browser without being able to make copies using something like a Chrome extension, which would infuriate the publishers.
So you are saying that their is a largest integer with a finite number of digits? Lets call that integer N, wouldn't 10*N have one more digit than N?
I did watch 'into the wild', and I didn't see him realizing at all that he was selfish or should've done something different. We're talking about that movie where the guy treks into Alaska and ends up in the abandoned bus, right?

I wasn't quite sure what to take away from the film (apart from 'trekking without knowing what you're doing is really stupid') but I'm quite convinced that the makers didn't mean the film to be 'he thought he should've worked to make others happy'.
Why the shrinking of finance will continue
Nice letter, glad to hear the 'end patents' drum beat growing louder.

though I don't have any patents personally (companies I've worked for do) I'm not a fan of patents either. I always find this site questioncopyright.org (http://questioncopyright.org/promise) to be uplifting when I think about out the US patent and copyright system.
"Women generally go out in groups and search for good sources of roots, ripe berries or nuts, which they use their acute powers of observation to spot and collect. Without knowing it, [...] shoe retailers are setting up a sort of ersatz echo of the gathering field."

I'm a big fan of ev-psych, but this argument sucks. You could name dozens of counter-examples of "spot and collect" activities that are not only gender-neutral (e.g., buying music or DVDs) but also heavily male-dominated (trading cards, comic books, coins, stamps, electronics). There are even collection-simulating video games like Pokemon, which is pretty clearly a young male demographic.

There's obviously some non-random structure to what it is that men and women choose to hoard, but to suggest that evaluating and gathering in general is a female-specific adaptation is just silly.
Most big companies (fortunately) accumulate patents mainly for defensive purposes. If software patents go away, there will no longer be a threat to defend against.

So they'll be making the same money, with less legal risk. If the market is silly enough to crash in response to that, I'll hustle out to buy as many shares in the crashed companies as I can.
India's relationship with the Anglosphere will define the twenty-first century
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This is a pretty nice service. It also mitigates the need for a paid DNS service, as they host your DNS records using a redundant AnyCast network.

I think they are going to struggle to explain how to install it to small site owners. In my experience small site owners run a mile at the prospect of editing a DNS or nameserver record.
Security vulnerability in all supported releases of Windows
> target bigger vehicles (long-haul freight

Trains excel at freight.

In some cases, you want to use "gravity hybrids", where a train going down a hill sends power to a train going up the hill at the same time.
I agree that s///r is quite nice. In particular a use case that was not mentioned is that chained substitutions are now allowed.

$foo = $bar =~ s/this/that/r
=~ s/that/the other/r;
Arrays are "dead simple", but addressing their elements can get very complicated, especially if you might want to address the array itself.
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...which of course justifies any amount of perpetuating stereotypes and of course teaching how to trick geeks by waiting until they are married to you before making them change their wardrobe. We all know geeks wear only jeans and shorts and wouldn't marry you unless you trick them by pretending you don't care and then you can modify their behaviour.

Really smooth. Puts a more human face on AMD.
gaaaaaa this made it to HN's frontpage?
There is no reason for the login API to be proprietary:

Universal Login 1.0 File:

(ULAPI-1.0 (username "oconnore")
(seed "a3k5...") (password-hash "pq3i...") (password-hash "ve83...")
(additional-information (eye-color "brown") (email "@.com") ...)))

To create an account on a site, you give the site your UL url, and your password, and it associates the url with your user name in its database. Now when you want to login to a site, you give it your user name, and your password. The back end retrieves the file, hashes your password with the seed, and if it matches a hash in your UL file, voila, you are accepted.

Cool benefits of this are that you can use separate passwords for your bank and your twitter, and you can host your own ID (or pick someone you trust), only allow certain servers to request it, dynamically generate a unique ID for each site, etc.
if they universe is composed of a single axis by which information is sorted, then infinite time should produce all possible combinations. However, if the universe has some 'structure' to it, it might become ordered at some point, exchanging chaos for order. In a universe that becomes ever more ordered and unique. This isn't like saying infinity - infinity, or infinity/infinity, this is more like there are a set of the infinite, and there is a set of the finite, and they are two distinct sets without one influencing the other.

Order and Chaos need not be interchangeable.

There is an interesting book called "Sync" which discusses the presence of spontaneous order from chaos. He also talks about how order can turn back into chaos, but the important part of the book is that there are cases where chaos will not turn into order, and order will not turn into chaos, meaning that the stability of the two create two distinct sets, one that contains the identity of the universe and one that allows it to change.

Some of you may have read Wolframs work as well which shows that simple rules can lead to ordered stable systems. That stability is the definition of uniqueness.

Sync, it's the one book I recommend all my thinking friends read. http://amzn.to/a8s5Dl

It changed my life, and my world view.

So, I am comfortable saying that no act of randomness by any number of chimpanzees ( as they are now ) will randomly produce a work of William Shakespeare. WS, wasn't just a man, he was a man in a time with billions of events that influenced that moment when he composed those works. There was a structure and a path to those influences, and it wasn't such a frail construct that randomness happened upon it, but rather there was a beautify symmetry that occurred and allowed that to come to pass.

Another way to look at it, is that random/ chaotic signals will not sum up to collapse a bridge. however an ordered marching army has in many cased taken down the bridge.
mahmud, as of now, we are concentrating on the online part of it. Making a desktop utility would be a something we may look at sometime in the future.
This looks like it could be related to the ASP.NET padded string from earlier this month. Hold tight.

Webcast at 1pm PST:

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?...
I've never really understood the concept of "sampling" a book. I have always found that books (fiction, non-fiction reference) that I really enjoyed have always been referrals.
I think that particularly with fiction, you have to give time to appreciate the characters, the writing style and the general feel. Anyone else find that "Sampling" for books just seems weird?
I would love to see some more insight into this subject from what you guys at FreshBooks have learned about it.
Integers can have an arbitrarily large but finite number of digits. They cannot have an infinite number of digits. There is a big difference.
You know, maybe somebody would want to know the Debian POV on this issue:

* http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=566

* http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=575

Debian is all about stability and volunteer effort.

Whining is not going to fix things.
I first saw Bloom Boxes on 60 Minutes, I think. Fascinating stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6DLyruTqHI
No, there is no largest integer with a finite number of digits.

There are infinitely many integers, but every integer is finite.
Okay, so how about "Given a number generator that produces numbers for an infinite amount of time, it will produce Pi"

This, of course, is impossible.
Have you actually tried to use kindlefeeder? It's a good service when the RSS feed has the full text, otherwise it just doesn't work (it's no good to read hacker news, for instance, as the feed doesn't have the full text)
Ask HN: Please review my new website: Truthy
We just finished working on a new political meme tracking website based on Twitter: http://truthy.indiana.edu [1]

The goal is to automatically detect and track political memes that are artificially injected in the system by a group or organization to achieve some goal.

Such political machineries have been seen in the past http://journal.webscience.org/317/ [2] and had a significant contribution to the final outcome. By detecting and exposing such "Truthy" tactics, we hope to contribute to the discussion of real issues to everyones benefit.

Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.

- What do you like/dislike?

- What would you have done differently?

- Any bugs we missed?

- Any suggestions on feature that would improve it?

- Something that is not clear?
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I've been eyeing YC for a while and this post has convinced me to apply.

I quit my job three months ago and have been doing consulting work in order to generate enough runway to finally dedicate ourselves fully to our own product.

I think we will be done with all of our current gigs by november, so the Winter YC cycle looks VERY attractive right now. We have a couple of ideas, and it seems like we might have enough time to get started on them before YC, but still be flexible enough when the cycle starts.
Amazon's deployment of "free" Kindle reader software to many platforms differs from your interpretation. In terms of razor economic models, the Kindle hardware may be a deluxe razor handle, but Amazon seems willing to sell blades to users of other hardware.
In this (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1628991) comment you give an example of a cart, and how it shouldn't be bounced between client and server all the time, but be carried with the client which sends it in the end, when its done.

I'm trying to understand: how can you keep a Javascript object (the Cart array, lets say) between pages?
UFOs eyed nukes, ex-Air Force personnel say
arxiv is a preprint database that anyone can submit to. It's the 4chan of scientific papers. Experts in the field often have a hard time making sense of what's going on there. Granted, there is good stuff -- but only if you already know exactly what you're looking at. ArXiv is not a place for the general public. Wait until the papers clear peer-review for that.
It's not e-ink. It's a screen that becomes sunlight readable and mostly black'n'white when you turn off the backlight. This also extends the battery life somewhat. But when you turn the backlight back on it's like a standard LCD.
The problem is that you need to be a domain expert to tell which parts are crazy. It's not a general consumption resource.
When this goes into large scale production I'll be interested in buying one. The concept is really cool. I don't care so much about the "even in sunlight" part, but rather the low power consumption is the good part.
The Design Lesson: 1 of 1
Clickable links:

[1] http://truthy.indiana.edu

[2] http://journal.webscience.org/317/

Edit: Fixed now
> Well, there IS an integer that contains all the digits of Pi

1234567890 does:)
I like the idea of the kindle. I really love the eInk idea, so I don't really get it when people rave about back lit display books. At the end of the day, it's nice to relax reading. Which when your eyes are tired at the end of the day after sitting behind your computer all day, who on earth wants to sit and read something off a pc or someother back lit display, causing further eye stresses.

Really keen to actually see and use an eInk tablet - without internet; else I'll just waste even more time on fb.
I should do some more research into what would suit me.
Facebook IPO likely after late 2012: board member
Thanks for the mention (I made mechanical proust) - I agree that there's a lot of dross, but some responses are poignant, funny or interesting. It would be interesting to play around w/ how questions get posed.
This doesn't really affect anything here at all. It may be neat that they're predicting time to end over 3 billion years from now, but I can guarantee we'll all be long dead by then.
Considering that vendors already include Chinese government CAs voluntarily, I don't think they'll have to be forced into much.
I have had my fair share of orgasmic fits inside boot shops.

Tony Lama was my crack-dealer until I found out they're now a Berkshire Hathaway company. No kidding. Buffet bought a family boot company.

http://www.tonylama.com/en/guys_boots.html
Wonder if it'll be just another myspace or bebo by then? Certain to have a new competitor not even dreamt of yet perhaps?
Unfortunately I've also accidentally ordered books (more than once) when trying to delete the sample.

As a testament to Amazon's great CS though, I've gotten refunded immediately when that has happened.
In this case I think it's fair to expect more. The best investors give quick "No"s, right?
could i run it on my router? how much does it differ from a friendly botnet?
You are confused: yes there are infinite integers, but every single integer has a finite number of digits.

Edit: (Several people have said the same thing so maybe I can add something else)

I think another point of confusion might be the difference between "arbitrarily long" and "infinitely long". The number pi is infinitely long, a single integer can be arbitrarily long.

What's the difference? Pi has infinite digits. It is an irrational number. We can never "see" all the digits of pi, because no matter how far out we go there are always more digits.

With an integer, this isn't the case. There are infinite integers, but this property is defined on the set, not on any single element in the set of integers. Every integer (a single element in the set of integers) is finite. All of them, no matter what. They all have an end.

That said, what "arbitrarily long" means is that for any length you choose, there are integers that long (or longer). Say we choose a length 5, then 10000, 10001, 10002, ... all have length 5 or greater, but every one of them has an exact length. It just happens to be greater than 5. You can do this for any length: 1000, 10^1000, whatever. Anything. Choose any number as big as you can even imagine. Try to imagine numbers bigger than anything you can even imagine. There are integers that long, and infinitely more integers longer than that. But every single one of them has an exact, finite length.
Removing bash using rm would probably be a bad idea.

Although I think using the filesystem for this purpose is a good idea -- you get parallel-installed versions for free, and it's more reliable and transparent than what you get from rpm -- you're right that just deleting stuff willy nilly won't work. You still need to manage dependencies, and dependency graphs are not easy for humans to keep in our heads.
To give a specific example:

In three and more dimensions, if you start a random walk outside some sphere there is a non zero probability that the event "the brownian motion enters this sphere" never happens.

Funnily, in dimension one and two this is not true.
i wonder if this implies that hn readers are looking to kill more time. procrastinating on the next big startup? :)
On the one hand with the momentum Facebook has, and the market's hunger for a great tech IPO I think they're nuts not to be rolling out sooner than later.

On the other hand if they're pointing to 2012 they must have big things in store over the next 18 months for revenue generation - going to be interesting.
I assume you mean the (Sony) PlayStation and the (Apple) iPad.

What sticks out to you there? If you don't see the vast difference between the Sony or Apple brand and the Libre Office brand then you don't understand marketing.

At this point Steve Jobs could make a toilet called the iShit and people would not care about the name, because they know and love the Apple brand. The product names matter extremely little for them, because people hear Apple (some bad product name), not (some unknown company) iPad. People are excited for the former and ridicule the later.

Sony holds an equally good name with many.

Both also have massive TV advertising budgets.

There is no comparison to this situation.

Explain why FOSS is often times better than the commercial counter point and is by definition cheaper, but still isn't gaining traction, what is the problem?

I contend the problem is marketing. FOSS developers love to redicule/ignore marketing, advertising, and business people in general, but it is an important part of gaining mindshare. Sure their degree is easier to get, but that doesn't mean their job is easy to do right. Much like the bike shed, everyone has an opinion on marketing and advertising, that doesn't mean they have a good opinion on it. Saying that Apple and Sony are in anyway relevent to the naming of a relatively unknown product by a new group of people is like a marketing guy saying Cobol on Cogs is just like Ruby on Rails. We'd laugh at the marketing guy, but realize the marketing guys are laughing right back at the devs who suck at selling FOSS. We literally can't give away for free what they are charging money for.

You know where fixing that problem starts? By respecting marketing and advertising. It is far more than "just a name". There is no such thing as "just a name" when your only method of spreading the word is by word of mouth
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Is it just me or is it amazing to think that such important footage could be lost and left to become damaged?
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>FBI’s general counsel Valerie Caproni told the New York Times that companies “can promise strong encryption. They just need to figure out how they can provide us plain text.”

Replace the second sentence with: "They just need to be lying." Doublespeak at its finest.
True. Though the best heuristic that a non-physicist can apply is that if something on the arXiv sounds interesting, it's probably crazy.

Non-crazy papers have titles like Universal quantum control of two-electron spin quantum bits using dynamic nuclear polarization and Towards finite density QCD with Taylor expansions and tend to be of interest to around four people in the world, of whom three may or may not be the authors.
I was at meeting of the White House and the very same officials backing this were talking about the rollout of DNSSEC.

Of course they were. DNSSEC has a centralized key and therefore already has the proposed backdoor.
It depends on how many nodes the listener has ownership of. Just as a point, the Military started TOR. So how many TOR nodes do they have?

At DEFCON I have seen several man in the middle attacks on TOR, the most successful of which required only 50% of the nodes.
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I have a machine that flashes a light on or off once a second, at random. You can view streams of output from the machine as possible events. Now, suppose an infinite amount of time has passed (aleph-null, by definition). Have I seen every possible sequence?

Well, take the set of aleph-null length sequences (all aleph-null of them [1]) and put them in an order. Now construct the following sequence: invert bit 1 from sequence 1, invert bit 2 from sequence 2, ... etc.

Note that this sequence was never produced by the machine, since we enumerated all the sequences it produced, but they are all different to this one. So, by a standard diagonalisation, the set of events is higher cardinality.

[1] How many aleph-null length sequences come out of the machine? Well, they have to be continuous, so the only obvious aleph-null length sequence is the total sequence the machine produces. However, you can drop an entry from the beginning of the sequence to get another aleph-null length sequence. And so on, making a total of aleph-null.
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sure, if you gave him second life he might consider it.
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I guess we are in the realm of cardinality of infinity which I don't quite get. I would think an infinitely big integer would have an infinite number of digits. So you are saying:

log(infinity) < infinity
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Yes, this is true of many things in our society.

One likes to think of the politics as a pendulum, swinging back and forth. Sometimes things are in the hands of one party, sometimes another. But when one side of the discussion is at "0", that biases the swings. It can't go into "negative" legislation, so the site championing the "0" can never win, and in the long term, the changes keep creeping away from the 0.
I still had to copy/paste.
Fedora 14 beta is live
"The price includes maintenance, fuel and the amortized cost over the operative life of the fuel cell (ten years), along with the 30 percent federal tax credit and the California incentives available for companies that use the device."

While still an improvement, without the 30% subsidies the rate would shoot up to ~$.11.

Always important to keep subsidies in mind when dealing with new large-scale tech like this.
Though I really like the concept, I'm concerned by package availability (or a lack thereof). It's frustrating to have to take a big detour when developing to circumvent my linux's preferred way of package installation in order to get some newer version of a library.

On the other hand, I've almost just as many headaches with outdated libraries in the current Ubuntu repo (like anything Ruby, which is all for 1.9.1 and older, iirc).

I went with Arch for a while, but missed a lot of the conveniences of Ubuntu. I stick with Ubuntu since of all the distros I've used in 5 years of using Linux, it's given me the least friction when I just want to get stuff done.
You are right - gambling does not make sense here. In the current situation, if I had either the technical co-founder, or demonstrated traction for my app, I would have been far more confident of my YC application.
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Right, and "Eternal Inflation Predicts That Time Will End" totally fails that test. (I don't mean to sound like I'm attacking you -- I agree with you. This is re: the OP)