skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about not having hardware locked down would keep Apple from providing an integrated, user-friendly, clean experience out of the box? I didn't associate "ruthless control" and an "integrated, user-friendly, clean experience", the comment I responded to did.

I'll use Apple itself as an example. I can install Linux without issue on my MacBook Pro, and despite that Apple still provides an integrated, user-friendly, clean experience in the use of MacBook Pro. Apple doesn't advertise anything other than their own branding and experience with their laptops and desktops, so their message of integrated, user-friendly, clean experience when using their software on their hardware stands, even though it's not locked down.

This is a red herring anyway. I don't believe I'd be able to list anything other than Apple as an example of something integrated, user-friendly, clean experience without someone pointing out that whatever it is isn't as good as a random Apple product and thus doesn't qualify as a counterexample. It's really easy for someone to say "I don't think X provides an experience on par with Apple products, even though it isn't ruthlessly controlled" for any X.
Wait, so the US stopped mining rare earth material for environmental concerns, but wants China to mine more of them and export the material to the US - what about the environment in China?
And remember when "an incovinient truth" was at its height US officials blamed China for causing so much environmental issues - c'mon, what do you really want them to do?

A link in the above article points to another article where there's a similar scenario of trade vs clean energy - isn't government subsidy of clean tech an universally good action for our environment? - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/business/global/18trade.ht...
Sport coaches are more operational managers, tacticians and physical trainers who have authority over a team than the pure teacher types that life coaches are. You also don't directly pay him money, or are getting paid.
Don't Follow the Money
Yeap, that's it! Thanks bud.
Found this quote interesting.

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Black-Scholes and the many financial risk models
that have evolved from it (including Felix’s friend
the Gaussian copula) are all about volatility being measurable and predictable. “When Black-Scholes came
out, I said, ‘Well, it won’t last,’” he told me in 2005. “‘I’ll come back when it’s gone.’”
Google's strategy with Android is to surrender complete control to the carriers. This is a consequence of them using an open source license that doesn't have GPLv3 style protections to ensure continued openness. Apple is the only company that we have seen in recent years do anything to weaken the carrier oligopoly. They probably aren't the only ones who have tried, but they are the only ones who have succeeded publicly. Thus it is entirely fair to say that Apple is the only company capable of creating competition in this market, so far.
Statically Typed Languages Encourage Bad Code
Use Buildout and get a python shell for any version you want in your project directory. Then add a few things to your .gitignore and distribute/deploy.
> Just want to point out that there's a difference between "pain" and "discomfort".

You are redefining words to make an argument. Endurance athletes, in particular, will most certainly experience various pain sensations in the course of normal training or an event.

Body awareness is another matter: an elite athlete (presently or potential) is usually better able to interpret what their body is signaling - including noticing when something is going wrong.

Edit: And, actually, sometimes a real injury manifests itself as a discomfort during exercise, not pain.

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For what it is worth, you can become dehydrated enough to compromise performance in an hour, less if it is very warm. Dehydration to the point of needing medical attention can occur in 2-3 hours at a moderate intensity. Typical symptom of mild dehydration (the kind you can suffer sleeping on a hot night) is discomfort in the form of a headache.
I'd disagree with that. In terms of who is browsing the site now, versus 4 hours from now, it is very much fragmented. If you make the frontpage, it's likely you'll be viewed by a large enough portion of the community to be punished for reposting. If you don't reach the frontpage, I think it's OK to delete and try again.
Isn't it interesting that in order to be the most greedy - as in, make the most money - Apple's approach is to out-design their products so that customers will actually bring about emotion and customers will love them, and buy more of them.

ah, capitalism.
At YC at least it's not mainly new angels who are driving up valuations. The investors in the last YC batch were pretty much the usual suspects. And this was especially true of the earliest investors in each startup. New angels usually aren't confident enough to move fast; they tend to straggle in at the end of the round.
Spamming would be spamming. Reposting once is not spamming.

I think people have different incentives. If you spent time hacking together something and want to share it, I think you'd be more likely to think your story FP-worthy. If you're just submitting something that you read, much less so.
you guys might also dig the author's next opensource JS project, polymaps: http://polymaps.org
Ask HN: What are you working on right now?
What are you working on right now?

I'll start... I am working for as a contractor for a company that sends messages (phone calls, text messages, and emails) for schools and businesses. Currently I'm working on an android app that is a front end for they system.

in my spare time i work on a side project... search engine with integrated social bookmarking
http://www.searchstream.co
Vb.ly is dead, long live vbly.us
There are two parts to the Thursday logic:
The first is that Apple updates the "featured apps" list every Thursday, so in theory if your game is coming out that week, you could get featured on your launch day.

The second part is the fact that Saturdays are the biggest App Store sales day of the week, so by launching on a Thursday, you have a couple days to build up steam and be high in the charts by the time Saturday rolls around.
Well, to my mind, it's about the distinction between prohibited, permissible, and mandatory. To my mind 'pro-abortion' implies mandatory, forced abortion; 'pro-life' and 'anti-abortion' both seem reasonable terms for making carrying to term mandatory; and 'pro-choice' is about it being a choice.

I'd be perfectly happy calling both 'pro-life' and 'pro-abortion' (if they exist?) both 'anti-choice'.
They talked to some of the Bhopal victims in the Yes Men movie and they seemed to be happy about it, even knowing it was a spoof, because there was at least a little hope that it would draw some attention to their plight.

Obviously there might be a selection bias in the people they interviewed or the interviews they put into the final film.
Never heard of that sort of system, and I'd never before heard of a valedictorian having a GPA too far north of the 4.6 region. Well...I suppose it's difficult to say if my experience applies generally (I'm sure it doesn't). However, at least in my high school, the absolute maximum possible was something like 4.6. You could, and we regularly did, calculate it based on your own classes. External classes would usually be counted either as honors or AP (unless it was a remedial course).
Hey this is Matt, without actually saying the total value, I'll just tell you that the horizon lines are $1.2k ;)
There's war going on somewhere that your media doesn't cover.
I mention that because it disproves that Prop 13 caused a decline in revenue. Instead, there was a 700% increase.

Prop 13 actually made it more attractive to buy property, which caused its value to go up and more housing to be created and taxed.

The same thing happened in Boston in the 1980's. Property taxes were slashed and then values doubled in within a decade.

The same thing always happens when you stop taxing something to death. It recovers, grows, flourishes.
Why doesn't he just implement ideas? Man, what I would've done to have the technical expertise just a few years ago that I now have to outsource.
I didn't increase the upper limit for news and newest. I changed the code so there was no limit. I can't do that with classic because I have to do a sort before I display anything. The front and new pages are simply displaying already sorted lists, so they can be written as if the lists were endless. But with classic I have to pick some number of items in advance to sort and then display.
It's not the first time they got hacked. IIRC a couple of years ago they suffered an SQL injection attack which leaked their customers' names or something.
The Toyota Prius, when compared to a Toyota Corolla LE, takes 16.2 years to break even. Data from 2008.

http://www.edmunds.com/advice/fueleconomy/articles/116513/ar...

Note that this is only comparing from the start of ownership. If you want to compare the offset in energy in making the hybrid vs the gasoline engine, we're getting into multiple decades.
High-Level Talks Aim for an End to the Afghan War
Truthfully, I think the idea has potential, but not as anything too serious. As I see it, you would really just be reinventing the wheel by creating another social platform and then just adding one little function to the much larger machine. Here is where I think you should go with it:

Create a system that will track these types of questions, but do not create a new social platform beneath it. Essentially, the success that I see in this idea would be in bringing together all of these existing questions to one site, so if someone wants to use your functionality of seeing "the best" responses to questions, they can visit your site. From that point, they can upvote the responses and comment further on them.

If I were to label the site as I described it, I would call it an aggregator, which I think is where it's success really lies.
This article received (10/19 9PM) 9/11 positive feedback comments (agreement/extrapolation etc).

Thats 81% - ahead of the curve!
40 Years Of Data Show The MBA Effectively Does Nothing -- It Has No Impact
He's doing a little reality distortion of his own here. Not a single RIM device on the market supports Flash 10 including the new BB Torch. It's a bit strange to call out a competitor for lacking something you also do not have. He's dangerously close to suggesting you go buy an Android phone instead.
The Racket IDE should pick a sensible default for the language and add a first-time only launch dialog.
I definitely agree with oscillioscope that you would need to use APIs from twitter and other websites to gather answers to these questions and probably the questions themselves, at least in the beginning.
Big Omaha Video Series: Dennis Crowley of foursquare
While cogent, complete emails are desirable, in my experience people never respond to anything in an email past the 1st paragraph. So the rest of the comments/inquiriers have to be repeated, resulting in long pointless email threads.

Please Respond To The Entire Email is my entreaty.
AddThis Social Bookmarking
As I re-read my submission, I thought about ActiveX controls circa 1999. They certainly could have been used to solve such problems (at least on Windows), but the ability for any old site to install native code made them a security disaster.

What's different here? The entity you trust to provide you with a secure browser is the same entity providing a set of profiles, and you would opt into which sites could access these profiles. And, there's no "run arbitrary code" profile.
Big Omaha Video Series: Scott Harrison of charity: water
I work for a telecom company as a web developer during the day. (PHP/MySQL/Joomla/XHTML/CSS/JS/jQuery).

Finishing up some work for a side job now. If any of you guys need some reasonably inexpensive web dev work, let me know, side work is my way of drumming up $ to launch a side project and provides my traveling/leisure budget as well :).
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In this case, Joe is wrong.

"Open-source" simply means that anyone is allowed to read the code. We may associate certain release schedules and commit policies with typical open-source projects, but those schedules and policies are not mandatory. Or even common. Browse GitHub or SourceForge to see the typical choices - "when I can be bothered" and "only me" respectively.

I understand that Joe is in a position where he will need to deal with changes in the OS when it is released, but he still comes across as a self-entitled whiner.
Yeah, but much less than usual. Even in the Congo, Sudan, Somalia and the like it's pretty quiet.
This is already happening. Some bloggers like ryanwaggoner are openly asking for upvotes by submissions at the end of the blog posts.
So, unfortunately, this is something that will always remain broken.
The determining factor in economics varies as a function of the problems and matters connected to what is inside people themselves. "Because the consciousness that moves us is making a world."

A simple example to demonstrate that it is possible to predict things about this society to a nontrivial degree, is the products and activities of Apple Inc. They have great marketing foresight. But besides that, it sounds like they were building mobile devices for a long time before the touch-based smartphone market really took off in the last few years, enough to get it right. I'm not an Apple employee but I've been using an apple for ages. It seems to me like the people at the group had to very carefully understand what kind of questions there are in building something like that and making it work best. Granted, Apple has lots of problems, but what I'm trying to point out here is that by funding and working on the problems in order to get it right, is usually going to result in the best products which if able to be made available widely enough will become very popular for a period of time. As a result, objective-C has come into use much more, and jobs were opened.

The question of how to see and predict the course of the world lies in understanding what exists in front of us.

Products that were developed by copying others or with ignorance of the problems in the matter, will eventually exhaust themselves. On the other hand, products from a company that had see what exists in their life and generates work matching what they see in problems, assuming they are adept at protecting themselves in business, will be able to be more successful. Even people who don't have any university education can be successful through their knowledge of what is. So we have to be able to comprehend human consciousness in order to understand how an economy will move. Luckily, to understand consciousness is simple, if you are really willing to know. Consciousness is changed for better or worse by what happened to it.

In this society where people have undertaken large-scale industrial production on Earth, people in presently affluent circumstances can afford to use cell phones more profitably than without them. But in a different society, the problem that makes the economy exist may be different but the principle through which it exists remains the same. Things are either getting better or worse through what is in the principle.

This principle isn't precisely comprehended in those economists' education and that results in lots of thinking that turn out to be misguided. But things in reality are very simple. It's just that we need to search what kind of problems we have inside of us in order to know what they are like.
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I'd like to find out what companies have contacted him.

The text from the site might look appealing, but as others have noticed, he doesn't mention his field[1] (is it programming, graphic design, etc.?), his resume is a bit hard to find[2] and it's also full of HR speak[3] (although this might turn out to be an advantage).

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1807937

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1807094

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1808661
Sweet, they included http://scrabb.ly as one of the icons in the demo :-)
I don't take taking advice lightly. It really takes a lot to convince me that what you are preaching is something I should thoroughly consider. Despite this fact, I find most of PG's essays to really hit the spot.

I've realized that one of the reasons why I trust PG essays, besides the fact that they are written with the general tone of discovering the truth, rather than inventing the truth, is because a lot of them are old. Well, relatively old. And quite plain. A few years ago when I first started reading them, my instinct was to think less of them for this. But that the essays I like most are over 5 years old, yet still highly relevant, only adds to their credibility. I don't think a lot of stuff I read on blogs today will stand the test of time as well, though I admittedly don't read enough.

Anyway, I realize this is slightly off topic. So, um, nice charts, and keep 'em coming Paul.
> Any tips on learning to enjoy running?

Run cross-country, or better yet, try another sport like cycling or long-distance/cross-country rollerskating.
They didn't ignore him. Fat tails and jumps are just really hard to estimate in finance. More interesting is that the unstated premise for these link-bait titles (aka great headlines) is "If only they had listened to Mandelbrot, we could have avoided all these problems."

It is nearly absurd on the face of it, but worth a comment. Like Louis Bachelier's description of stochastic processes in 1900, mathematicians like Mandelbrot have been inspired by financial time series to develop formal descriptions of the phenomena. Sometimes, this leads to a marginally deeper understanding of the object of study.

Regardless, mathematicians and other scientists have little interest in developing prescriptions that would help control or reduce volatility. Most observers seem to think that the amount of financial volatility is way too high in comparison to the underlying economic realities. A few, like Fisher Black, have had the opposite opinion and suggested that the prospects of the underlying economy (including human capital) are actually hugely volatile. Virtually all take the structure of markets as a given and assume they are low-friction and generally structured well.

My own opinion is that volatility is mainly a function of information starvation in the market. Just look at the poor quality of financial accounting, auditing, and the cherished secrecy of large risky positions and you can see possible areas to unlock information flow that would allow markets to do a better job of tracking "true" value and ignoring chaff generated by the act of trading.
For Scheme, I find that fcgi[1] does the trick: not only is it supported by Apache, lighttpd, etc., but you get state-preservation between requests; which is touted, for instance, as one of the benefits of continuation-based servers[2].

I've shied away from Scheme-based servers[3] hosted behind e.g. forward-proxies, because it seems to violate Occam's razor; but that's a personal bias.

[1]: http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/fastcgi

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation#Continuations_in_W...

[3]: http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/spiffy
It seems Singapore

I would second Singapore, they have a favorable government and stable government, fairly low taxes and they are actively trying to attract non-manufacturing sector companies. It would be one I would look at if I where looking to open an Asian operations. A second would be Australia though often overlooked when looking at Asia it has a fairly start-up friendly business environment.
I really think the comparison with politicians is (probably unintentionally) disingenuous. The thing that would make reframing an argument in different terms dishonest is (a) when it is done without telling you- politicians don't say, look we don't like such and such term, we're going to call it this instead and (b) when the terms that it is reframed in have undue intrinsic positive or negative value.

When Steve did it, he clearly stated what he was doing and justified reframing the argument in that way. In that case, reframing a debate using more appropriate terms to really approach the core of what is different is an honest tactic that is often necessary to really compare two things objectively.

Secondly, the terms fragmented vs. integrated appear to have less intrinsic value than open (good) and closed (bad).

As such, you can argue with which is the most relevant framework to compare the two systems (and actually, this is going to be different for different user groups- manufacturers care about different things than developers, or end users), but I don't like the implicit characterization of his reframing the argument as somehow dishonest. That seems close-minded.
For Common Lisp, Hunchentoot is pretty sweet.

You can use RESTAS framework http://restas.lisper.ru/en/

Example:

http://restas.lisper.ru/en/tutorial/hello-world.html

It's extremely well documented too.
These are the types of things that made me fall in love with Google in the 00's. It makes me happy that Google is continuing its quest to make all historical documents available to everyone.

Now, I know cynics can argue that "This is just Google driving more search traffic!" or "This is Google putting a ton of money into a PR campaign!" In fact, I would be one of those cynics if I didn't believe this is just residue from a kinder, more lofty-goaled Google that was led by Larry and Sergey.

I want the old Google back.
I know what i.e. means. The benefit to valid markup is specifically for ensuring that the javascript you write to manipulate the DOM works properly.
2nd on this one. Great model.
Maybe - the only way to confirm that the timing is an effective proxy is to use eye tracking :)
Windows CE is the base for Windows Mobile, but isn't Windows Mobile. CE version 2 didn't work on smartphones.

But I'm definitely wrong. List of versions:

* Pocket PC 2000
* Pocket PC 2002 (the first to work on a smartphone, based on CE3)
* Windows Mobile 2003
* Windows Mobile 2003 SE
* Windows Mobile 5
* Windows Mobile 6
* Windows Mobile 6.1
* Windows Mobile 6.5

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile
You are right that predicting trends is not that hard. When it comes to financial prices the issue is that you are effectively predicting small changes in trends, plus a lot of noise added on by trading activity itself. Much harder.
Early interview with Mark Zuckerberg (2005)
It probably makes them feel better that they responded, but is anyone actually listening?
This is one of my favorite videos from Big Omaha 2010. Hearing everything that lead up to Foursquare is amazing. Who quits Google btw??
I don't know if you've already seen this, as it was featured here a couple of weeks ago, but if you have any interest in mathematics / programming (I'm going to assume you do) and want to learn about all sorts of interesting maths that will probably show up while programming,

http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/fall10/mcs-ftl.pdf

is an excellent pdf written by two MIT professors and a Googler. I know instapaper doesn't support pdf's right now but you could always run it through google docs and save the text from there.