skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technology people may not like Google's recent work (me included), but two things must be kept in mind:

1. techies are the minority

2. Google is said to split test heavily, maybe even pathologically

So if a new feature stays it's probably because non-technical people liked it and Google is probably doing the right thing from a business perspective.
What evidences to suggest that these kind of projects didn't start because of patents?
The gif at the top pretty much sums up the entire post.
I'd upvote you twice if I could. I actually audibly groaned when I saw who the author was. Didn't even read the article, I knew it was going to be full of crap. I can't believe I graced him with a pageview. Ugh.
I agree, and that is my point actually, the remotes were just an example. But the remotes reflect how they approached the whole problem. Google went with the assumption search was necessary, and had to find a way to fit it in. Apple thought about the entire experience, and realized people don't want to search on their TV and left it out.
My solutions to this problem:

Stick one of your business cards in the opposite side of your name. When it gets spun around (and it will), folks will at least be able to see your card to associate the colors and logo with you. Better than nothing.

Buy a few of those super strong magnets. Like these:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/science/770f/
Put one in your shirt pocket and put a thin one in the name badge pocket behind your name.

In the past, I used a tie clip. I didn't geek it up and put the clip right over the badge. Rather, I poked the tie clip through the back and then clipped it normally to my shirt. It went un-noticed. I just found the magnets to be a little easier.
EuroSchirm's 'birdiepal outdoor' is a great extreme-weather umbrella. It's of traditional design, but constructed very strongly with glassfiber etc. Their website sucks, but they have a video somewhere of someone driving over it, taking it under a waterfall and generally abusing it. You can still flip it upside down, but it doesn't harm it, it seems.

http://www.euroschirm.com/intro/index2.html

EDIT: Here it is on Youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3oyTyWq9_I (don't bother unless you are _really_ passionate about umbrella's. I can't believe I've actually put this much effort into this comment...)
Firefox 4: HTML5 Forms ✩ Mozilla Hacks
Sharp analysis of software and first sale doctrine under copyright law
The statement is clearer here:

http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=472

In essence he has shown that a certain class of problem that have been thought to be difficult, are difficult, in the sense that circuits (or calculations) required to solve them have a minimum size requirement. The comments in that post are just as useful as the announcements, if not more so.

I suspect I can't explain further - my understanding is inexpert anyway, and I stick to explaining the absolute basics to let people at least have a launching point:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1894259
Google TV is more like a computer. Apple TV is more like on-demand TV/video programming.

I'm not saying one is better than the other (ok, well, the computer is better ;) ) but it should be apparent why the inputs are so different.
35 Hours of YouTube Video Uploaded Every Minute
Our National Education Technology Plan: Now What?
So, in effect, I'm shilling an advertiser's link which has no relevance to my tweet or really to anything else I might be saying or doing at that moment. Fraid I'll pass; I guess I still believe that I should be tweeting and posting things I believe in and don't mind promoting. I'd even feel more comfortable tweeting your link "thetreasureblog" or a hashtag than your advertisers. I understand advertisers pay the bills, just saying.
Agree, however the box itself is another story. Aside from the needlessly wacky shape, isn't it obvious that it should fit in the ~2" high gap between the top of the table/stand and the bottom of the display? Apple has it right with the AppleTV, and it seems like they figured it out with the new Mac Mini, which is much thinner than the old one.
Car Dunia: GE to buy 25,000 electric vehicles from GM
Maybe I'm the skeptic here, but what if that phone call never took place? What an awesome way to promote your new and recently approved iPad application... Simply claim that Steve Jobs personally phoned you up... Any press that comes out of the story is guaranteed to mention the name and nature of the application... and probably Steve IS too busy to care...
Clearly he's just bitter because Emacs hasn't considered Java worth the effort of supporting well.
TruLedger - eCurrency software in lisp
Absolutely, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. But Dvorak seems particularly quick to call tech companies stupid, and I wonder if that's a result of not having been in the trenches himself.
I saw "Zombie Keyboard" and thought "what useless app will they think of next?" Then I saw that wasn't what their app was and started daydreaming about how rich I'd be if my "Zombie Keyboard" app took off.

That's the sad part about the app store. The low-price expectations make creating something simple but fad-ish more appealing than making something people want because it is useful. Sigh.
Moving cURL to the Cloud to Lower the Bar for Developers
Ask HN: What is a good "coming soon" page? Studies? Examples?
I'm helping a friend design/develop a new site, and want to put on a "coming soon" page, with an ability for the user to leave an email address or connect to facebook. Has anybody done any tests here? what to put in? what to leave out?
The last segment can be of any size so you could send the last part and it can be 1 byte. All the other parts need to be 5MB or larger.
This & P2P mesh “internet” are Doctorow’s favorite topics, if his stories are any indication
First of all, IANAL.

Secondly, it would appear to me that MakerBot, for example, is pretty blatantly infringing on the FDM patents that Stratasys has. Those are about to run out Real Soon Now, though, so they're probably fine.

Third, the industry has shaped up the way that it has because of patents. There's a reason there's 14 different ways to do 3D printing. Yeah, some are better at some things than others, but realistically, we'd really have like 3 or 4 processes if there were no patents to force new hardware companies to reinvent the wheel all the time.

The fact that there's pretty much a 1-1 mapping between companies and processes suggests that it's difficult to start a business in this area, due to the large amount of capital needed to invent a new way of doing things.
A Shadow Biosphere
You can always make the argument that you could delay the release of the distro to get "the next version of critical library/tool X", however, then you never release.

The most important feature is _SHIPPING_.
Grrr..these things frustrate me.

Don't know if I'm spoiling -- but should there be spelling mistakes in the text?
and you stand there afraid, not knowing whether he is offering your project life or death
Beware splitting hairs when you are ignoring the main point. The new google image search is worse than the old one imo so dvorak's point stands even if he got a few technical details wrong.

I also agree with him that it's a bad sign when a company seems to be doing things just because their competitors did something similar.
The problem with listing every new book is data overload.
In the last 25 years, nothing of substance was invented while wearing a suit
Obviously. But the wind doesn't blow at 100 all the time, it gusts. You use the umbrella to keep the rain off most of the time, but you want it to survive the gusts.
Cambridge is great - especially Harvard Sq. You might want to check out South Boston. I lived there for four years and liked it. Good luck with the move!
I assumed that too, but questioned it anyway.
I think we're finding out the absurdity of copyright and patents by forcing these kind of concepts to face the redutio ad absurdum of the day, which are technologies like 3D printing.

On the other hand, the past is full of interesting example of PATENT FAIL like Whitney's failure to enforce the cotton gin, but he got rich with producing munition for the US army, while at the same time inventing the concept of interchangeable parts.

We saws that American writers hating their competitors from England because of the massive piracy of British literature leading domination in the American literacy market. Some English writers managed to make more money from the American than he could collect via some amount of royalty years. It was only when large publishing house finally change their tune that the American finally recognize British copyright.

We also saw James Watt's partner using the parliament to extend patents for Watt's steam engine invention. This waste to tremedous wasteful effort from Watt suing various people for violating his patents. In reality, Watt was just one of the many steam engine inventors, who hampered other steam engine inventors' ability to make a living and build on top of his work. He also ironically got hampered by some other guy's patent, forcing him to use inferior design for his steam engine.
I don't get it. The summary is that the guy submitted an application, got rejected, appealed, the appeal process seemed to take too long, he emailed Jobs, Jobs phoned him and told him and "reiterated" (from the post) the app store rules until the guy decided he won't achieve anything.

I'm amazed at how Jobs telling the guy the same thing that he already knew (telling him 2 times actually) somehow made him go to a paragraph about Jobs with a well deserved opinion of quality products.

He still couldn't release the software, he got a "no go" for fixing the situation the way he could, he got absolutely no information about whether the issue will be fixed in the future or not. But that's ok, since Jobs called him? Seriously?
it's also curious that some of them (notably Gizmodo) found the software to be a complete mess, whereas other found it to be nearly as slick as Apple.

Is this journalistic bias, or is there a background process or bug that was affecting some reviewers and not others?
Yeah, I understand that there is a bit of a disconnect on that point. If anyone has suggestions for some good alternatives, I'm happy to hear them!

As it stands, the sponsor link is disclosed at the beginning of each contest, so I suppose you might only play in the contests supported by things that you like.

Thanks for the feedback.
How to Become an iPhone Game Developer
To be slightly more cynical, they could also filter for 'Steve hasn't been in the news for a few days, let's pick a good one for him to respond to.'
This is utterly insane. The court explicitly refused to consider context, saying that the remark, on its own, with no context, was inherently threatening and would have been regarded so by anyone with intelligence.

Woe betide you should you ever say anything taken out of context.

Find someone you really don't like, find a comment they make, interpret it as a threat, and file a complaint under anti-terrorism legislation.

Insanity.
China Re-visited
Oh, please. Ferriss again, on HN?
Correlation, causation, blah blah blah.
If you're the one dude who wrote an entire package that runs a billion dollar multinational, you can pretty much charge whatever you want. It's like the ultimate job security. Any changes have to be made through you.

That's true regardless of the language.
Ah -- no! I'm horrified.

The content was put together in something of a rush, but I will try to be more careful.

If you can mention the spelling mistakes without giving away the secret, I'm happy to fix them.
48 Hours and 30,000+ Views Later - My First Blog Post - Lessons Learned
Dick Lipton also has a good post on his blog about this result: http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/a-breakthrough-resu...
Just to note though: Javascript in fact doesn't require representing objects as hash tables. For example, the V8 javascript engine represents objects as instances of classes, more or less exactly how C++ would do it (the build the class definitions automatically in the background.)

You are right on integers though, and other types of memory block in general, they are trickier to fix in a javascript engine. Surely the best IL is LLVM IL though, since it was designed so everything can compile down to it.
ITunes Ping Goes Social With Full Twitter Integration; Careful, It Auto-Tweets
Does this mean Microsoft actually gets the cloud now?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RExcel
The Best Startups Are Founded By Entrepreneurs Who Built The Product Themselves
As people have commented, I'm suggesting writing a javascript function which takes pre-compiled bytecode; like so;

function interpret(bytecode) {
// stack machine implementation goes here
}

And called like so;

var bytecode = load("http://my.domain.com/myscript.bytecode");
interpret(bytecode);

I'm not suggesting that bytecode is inherently slow -- just that I could take a great stab at writing a slow bytecode interpreter in JavaScript. ;)

So under this scheme, you could do a server-side compilation of any language -- let's imagine Pascal as an example -- and deliver it back to the client as bytecode. Now you've broken the browser dependence on Javascript. At the cost of a VM written in JavaScript.
Absolutely. But that's why BASIC is his bread and butter.
You don't get it :)

Jobs calling a developer amounts to him gifting the dev a chance for a free and easy PR. And that's exactly what this person is doing - he tells everyone about the call and gets some eyes to look at his app. So effectively Jobs said "No, we won't let you work around our bug, but in exchange you can get a traffic bump for your app."
So far I've observed a strong correlation between cooking my own food (as opposed to eating at the university cafeteria) and getting way fatter, although part of this should be atributed to my moving around less (since I can stay home all day working when I don't go to the university instead of biking all the way there) and having generally better cooking skills, which makes me want to eat my food a lot more.
Well, I never said that Google was responsible for the design of the remotes or hardware in the post, that's clearly on Sony and Logitech. But Google did design the interface that requires a keyboard and mouse to operate, so they have some of the blame. You can bet that in the unlikely event Apple had a product where other companies designed the hardware for their software, they'd have some pretty detailed specs to make sure stuff like those remotes didn't happen.
I suppose it's better than Steve Jobs not calling him.

I think the part he appreciates is that his complaint was heard, even if the resolution wasn't to his favor. His complaint could have gone into a forever-unacknowledged black hole instead. That would be far more frustrating.

I do, however, agree with you that "having a bug in the SDK and not allowing you to work around it the way they do" is not grounds for talking about how great Apple and Steve are.
Its also a matter of convenience. I would rather not spend 30 minutes making something just for me. The effort and need isn't there. I would rather have something delivered for 2 minutes of my time so I could spend that time doing something more productive.

When I buy something compared to make something, I basically bring it down to how much I get paid per hour. If I get paid 30 dollars an hour, and it takes me 30 minutes to make something, my time is better spent doing something else if I can pay less than 15 bucks for it.
As long as we're throwing out loosely supported theories for the rise in obesity, how about the rise of anti-depressants? Many have a noted weight gain effect.
Well, I can't noodle out the secret so there's no worry there!

Beef Burgandy = Beef Burgundy
aquired = acquired
cliental could be ok but I was expecting clientele

I was asking because I thought maybe these words were the starting points for the number offsets/part of the clue and sending me down the wrong path.
Those languages were all quite old and popular by the time those graphs started. It's not apples-to-apples to compare languages with a decade or more of use to a language whose inception was a year ago.
I was addressing how it was possible to be offended for someone else. Massage was merely an example I am familiar with. My second example dealing with women is also an example with no relation to massage.
I think the change to PNaCl (LLVM) is largely responsible for this - after that decision was made and without much in the way of existing apps, there really isn't much incentive for them to invest more effort in the x86 specific version of NaCl. When PNaCl is ready and bundled with Chrome and Android, it's only going to take one killer app to really establish it.
It does seem to me that new companies can't start, but I doubt somebody really interested in 3D printing research would really care?
Beware splitting hairs when you are ignoring the main point

Splitting hairs?

These are the specific things that he complains about being wrong with the new version, and they're ignorant bullshit.

The new google image search is worse than the old one imo

I think the new image search is vastly improved. I doubt I'm alone. For the purpose of finding images it is much more efficient and usable, and if you want advanced searching, it's still there for your advanced searching needs.

But of course, we're just two people with subjective feelings. If Google changed it back, however, I wouldn't cry like a baby and pound my fists because it no longer specifically targets me and my personal usage needs.

It is human nature that whenever something changes the complainers tend to be the loudest. The fact that you don't personally like it, and Dvorak affirms your opinion, says absolutely nothing to whether it was a good move for Google or the average user.

Though I have no doubt that everyone with a gripe with Google's image search changes will we drawn into this discussion to add their "Rah rah yah yah!" I hope we're all wise enough to know how to judge that and to not overestimate the scope of that group.

It's also suspect to argue that they did it "just because their competitors are doing it". Could it be that the state of the art on the tubes is improving? Did Apple add multitasking to the iPhone just because Android did it, or because it's actually a good feature to have?
So node is like that little boat that could, then got a 400 hp engine and a 4 ton anchor.
The books you see are actually a hand-picked selection. Depending on the category, there could be hundreds of new books released each week. What we do is narrow it down to a small group of what we think are the most interesting books (an algorithm sorts the list of books from most to least likely to be interesting, and then we hand-pick).
I might be missing something here, but this implicates a few things:

You won't be writing code in the browser anymore. Otherwise you'd have fragmentation where the user doesn't have the proper interpreter installed, and a never ending stream of "language downloads" which might be cool to devs but horribly impractical for end users.

Because we're not writing in the browser anymore, we'd be back to offline compilation and static code generation. I suppose it'd be possible to JIT the bytecode (assuming that current Javascript optimizers work on the IR; I don't know enough to qualify this any further). From my casual browsing of LtU, it seems that tracing JITs in particular may offer optimizations dificult to achieve with static bytecode compilation, particularly in identifying hot spots. But the more I think of it, that's a non-issue because you're still compiling to bytecode and JITing from there.

This feels very Java-ish to me. If you really want to script the browser in another language, compiling to Javascript (a'la GWT) would essentially do the same thing.
Oh, that was just to make fun of xkcd. I don't think xkcd links are really that good an addition to a discussion here.
Fixed, with my eternal gratitude (I'm something of a grammar Nazi myself).

And alas, they had nothing to do with the clue.
First of all this has no relevance if you're not a complexity theorist. No "practical" impact, not even remotely. A real downer, I know, but I thought that had to be stated up front.

The question is why are complexity theorists excited about this.

When a problem is too hard to solve, you look for easier versions to solve first. Here the easier version is to prove that the complexity class NEXP (which is intuitively vastly more powerful than even NP) is bigger than a certain class of circuits of constant depth (circuits with polynomial depth are known to be roughly equivalent to P, and constant-depth circuits are intuitively vastly less powerful).

ETA: the circuits considered here are "non-uniform," which makes the previous paragraph slightly inaccurate. Nevertheless, the point stands that the goal here is to separate two complexity classes that are intuitively very different in their power.

Circuit lower bounds -- proving that a restricted class of circuits, as above, is in fact limited in its computational power -- have been notorious for their hardness. The reason one would want to prove this kind of statement is not because these circuits are objects of practical interest, but because of the proof techniques that would come out as a side-effect, in the hope that these techniques would be applicable in solving other, harder problems.

So that's the gist of it: the 3 reasons this theorem is exciting are: proof techniques, proof techniques and proof techniques.

Now some of the statements from the post should hopefully make a lot more sense:

This approach converts weak algorithms for solving circuit satisfiability questions into circuit lower bounds. Ryan's proof doesn't use deep mathematical techniques but rather puts together a series of known tools in amazingly clever ways.

Ryan breaks through the natural proofs barrier in an interesting way. ... he avoids the issue by using diagonalization and so his proof does not fulfill the constructivity requirement of natural proofs.

What's going on here is that there are often meta-proofs in complexity theory showing that a certain approach to proofs won't work. The "natural proofs barrier" being referred to is (apparently) a limit on what you can achieve by a certain type of "natural" construction that is explained in this post by Lipton: http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/whos-afraid-of-natu...

The one thing I haven't touched upon is why there are "mod m" gates in the circuit class under consideration. That is also (surprise, surprise) related to proof techniques. As Luca Trevisan explains, using mod m gates instead of binary gates or mod-prime gates disables two well-known classes of proofs ("fixing variables to random values" and "low-degree polynomial approximation"), ensuring that some heavy artillery will need to be developed in order to prove statements about them. http://lucatrevisan.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/a-circuit-lower...
Which review found it as slick as Apple? The reviews were all over the place depending on, I think, how the reviewer feels about Apple. The Engadget review stuck out to me in particular because the text described scrolling and such as buttery smooth, but the accompanying video showed quite the opposite.
I guess the umbrellas are overengineered anyway, and will stand up to 150 km/h or so anyway.
Yes, to be honest, I didn't think of it from the "free traffic" perspective. But I wonder how important this actually is. Sure reddit / hn / slashdot crowd will happily check that kind of news, but are those services significant in any way in the number of applications bought? I don't see how a random user from the appstore target would find that post at all. But maybe I'm wrong here?
Recurly does support daily billing!
I agree with you. Typical web devs probably don't have enough context about virtual machine implementation to understand the trade-offs, though.