skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, I see. You're saying that the shorthand exists only for brevity of input; when a tween types "lol ur rite," they first think of what they mean ("That's funny! You're right!"), and only then do they translate it into the corresponding shorthand so they can type it faster. That's a very good point. I'll have to ruminate on that for a while.

Edit: It's worth noting that something about it still feels horribly wrong to me, but I can't seem to find the right words to express it. So I will concede... for now! :-)
Mobile verification, I would think. I believe gmail already requires this for new accounts.
i don't think anybody would see the choice of an enhanced patdown as giving up rights but then again i am not a lawyer. also what's happening in this kind of situation is that somebody's accusing a law enforcement agent of molesting her in a place where there might be conflicting jurisdictions, so the interpersonal aspects could be tricky.
It's not obvious from the title, but this is about Instagram. And worth the read, especially if you don't "get" Instagram.

This stood out as generalizable, though: I still regularly use [X], but that usage pales in comparison to how [Y] has become part of my day...

The mobile application gold rush/glut of recent years has underscored the fact that your app is not only competing for dollars but for time and attention.
I agree, my kindle allows me to read long form articles that are just too intensive for a tea-break.

I bundle them up using instapaper ( http://www.instapaper.com/ ) which the article does not mention, but which is excellent.
TextEdit not only tackles *.txt files as the author implies.

In fact, TextEdit is far more powerful than some people think. Read this post at MinimalMac for some insights:

http://minimalmac.com/post/150121510/textedit-heres-the-thin...
Darpa Transfomers: Is this the first step toward a flying car?
You would not get a trademark lawsuit. Patents have different rules.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/09.html
Google Adds Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed To Real-Time Updates
He's saying he actually needs to make the API calls, not that he needs to look up the API docs.

If you're building a Facebook app, for example, you need to have Facebook available at all times or it just won't work.
"In exchange for delivering a finished book within a set number of months, the writer would receive $250 (some contracts allowed for another $250 upon completion), along with a percentage of all revenue generated by the project"

And of course, the authors are depending upon Frey to be honest with his accounting.
Some people use doors (the open/closed state) for binary output, as their state can be controlled using redstone wire (the in-game circuitry).
Repeat business is how you reward a business for being awesome. Its over-and-above to give them word-of-mouth recommendations or to post positive reviews.

In general I don't think its wrong to ask for something in return for staking your reputation on a recommendation.
He states very explicitly that his examples weren't any kind of standard, as one doesn't truly exist at that level.

I think the point he was trying to get across, and really what a lot of people who are advocates for REST are trying to accomplish, is that in a fully realized model computers would be able to understand how to talk to each other to get information and update resource states without the need for human intervention.

Clearly we are a long way from that goal, but I think it's still something worth talking about.
Those cited above likely had others that were less moral attitudes that were willing to break from rank to save the higher up. Jesus is not a very good example for many reasons, but the others lived by very different rules and morals.

Morality is very different from reasonable consideration of facts. I do not want to die so if I know someone will respond with that type of revenge I will avoid causing that. If Gandhi were alone in an alley and started being beat up on, the morality may hold him from fighting back but that doesn't make the risk of dying any lower.
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. Perhaps your reservation comes from the fact that now there is no translations, so you associate net-speak with what it is now: stilted communication optimized for brevity of input time and length.
Failed on "The blue rainjacket is what color?". You might want to allow for both 'color' and 'colour'.
I'm sure I have a lot of room to improve my game; I've only got around 125k hands logged and haven't played seriously in 4 or 5 years.

That being said, I'm fairly certain the article was not talking about no-limit. The vast majority of poker bots play limit, where there is a clear advantage from playing the mathematically correct way.

The idea that you can play winning poker with "spontaneity" and "feel" is exactly how these bots make money. I'm not going to waste my time trying to explain it to you. If you really care, spend more than 30 seconds reading up about the mechanics of limit poker.

I would suggest starting here, since it has a reasonably compact rundown of the math behind the game:

http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Poker-Professional-Player-Teach...
And this guy probably isn't a representative user of sites like these anyway.
It's also worth noting that, in Python 2.6 and higher, we DO have a ternary operator:

x = 3 if foo() else 6
I'd be happy if TripAdvisor jkust put a little effort into making theirs site useable. For the reviews, I think they are trying to minimize the content per screen (I suppose to load more pages and display more ads?) I can understand trying to maximize revenue, but the combination of increasingly poor/fake reviews with the (deliberate) bad user interface is, for me, pushing that site to the point of uselessness.
Although intended for a different audience, I enjoyed this one when I read it: http://tomayko.com/writings/rest-to-my-wife
Do you have any concrete arguments as to why the study/statistics in the above article is flawed?
When you say "intentionally" are you referring to the recent UID leaks? If anything Facebook is doing more to protect user privacy now with their "no exporting your friends email" policies.
...without proof he can deliver sales yet only a $500 advance? Wow that's... ballsy. I know he's known for his books on writing but still, this seems an odd play and without prior proof hard to buy into.
Huh... which country? Mine works ok in Italy, but I did buy it from the US with my US address...
Startup marketing lessons learned: adwords is only the beginning
Depending on the language, it could be an idiom.
Thanks for the advice, Paul. I've updated the title and first page with more information about length and structure.

I also cannot show the entire survey on one page out of concern that its structure might influence the earlier responses.
There's a Python UnConference tomorrow in the Denver/Boulder area
This is a variant on Schneier's fundamental theorem: Any fool can design a CAPTCHA for which they cannot program a solver. Just like in crypto, the only true test of CAPTCHAs are which one survive the test of time after having been attacked again and again, which is why it's very dangerous to jump on the bandwagon of a new CAPTCHA scheme (or worse yet -- design your own).

This is one reason why I'm partial to reCAPTCHA: there is a lot of experience in OCR systems, and we know what the current state of the art -- and we know what kind of things foil it.
Precisely. It would be interesting to see a lawyer's take on it.
So is your contention that most asians are uncreative and most westerners are creative folks?
TSA agents are not law enforcement officers, they have no power of arrest. They are the same as airline ticket agents; they can deny or grant you boarding but they certainly will not use force to do that -- they call a police officer whenever force is needed.
Great point. Instagram is beautiful, fun and seems to really make people happy, but I would much rather see continue to focus on its core mission and tackle problems that no one else can.
Something like depends on the context of the whole application and how you want to organize it. The first way puts the emphasis on the /doctors/mjones/...
If you have other actions related to doctors like /doctors/mjones/contact, this way can provide a more coherent organization. Plus you can extend it to something like /labs/questdiagnostic/mri/slots?
So you can decouple the concept of 'slots' from doctor, allowing you to extend it to other types of appointments without having to alter slots. The parameters are the items that are also the most likely to vary. When making an appointment you will check multiple days, but you are much less likely to check multiple doctors. Plus the days are more temporal in nature while the list of doctors is going to stay the same for longer.
Project Review, What Would You Want To Know?
I’ve worked more than a few projects in my career. One thing that I always find sorely missing throughout many Enterprises is a follow up report of what went well and what went wrong on a project. In other words a list of successes and a list of things to improve. With that in mind I’ve put together the following survey questionnaire for the end of a project. What other items might you add that you’d want to know?
It inspire me an app :

- I'll give it the task I'm going to do

- 1H after I start the task, it asks again

Now I can work in 1H period and it fills my hourly log...
He did sell "I Am Number Four" to Spielberg.
It's basically an arms race. They could inject a few misspellings and random noise here and there to throw your system off.
This is an excellent article. I was bullied when I was in highschool and guess what? I fought back and they backed down. It not only made me overcome the bullies, but it gave me greater confidence in my adult years to not take crap from anyone.

Additionally people rarely change so those bullies you faced back in your childhood are sitting around you at your place of work as well. Do not let them have the time of day, and do not give in to them, fight back.
Thanks, mdaniel; I picked up a copy (eletronic and print). As regards the former, I was able to access all three formats.
Exactly right on the international thing. I tried a couple of things with Twilio and liked it a lot. But their SMS get rejected by most german carriers, which does not make it a viable option at the moment...
Y Combinator announces two new partners, Paul Buchheit and Harj Taggar
Battle planning for supercomputer warfare
Scoble routinely equates buzz in the SF PR scene with commercial success.
This. (I intended an upvote and misclicked.) :P
Simple, no side effects solution for handling Rails 3.0 Routing Errors
Thanks Patio. BTW, do you know who the blogger is who wrote the review? I'm curious to know his background, as this is the only post on his blog, and this is his only HN post. Seems a bit odd.

-jeff
twilio.com
It's a very nice site. Be good to have author's name and comments in normal text while keeping italics for the book title. Now to play with it some more!
> The suit also accused Full Tilt pros Chris Ferguson and Andy Bloch of creating bots. ... Ferguson became a big tournament winner, with very little tournament experience, because of the edge he had.

The Chris Ferguson? aka "Jesus"? I don't know which time period they are referring to, but he has been one of the most recognizable, well-known tournament players of the last 10 years.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ferguson

> In 1994, he began playing in tournaments in California and in 1995, he entered his first World Series of Poker. Ferguson beat T. J. Cloutier at the main event of the 2000 WSOP to win the $1.5 million prize.

So he became a winner of the WSOP after first entering 5 years previously. In what way is that "very little tournament experience"? I must be missing something...
>I love InDesign and if you want to make documents look really good this is the tool you need, that said, don’t write in it just copy and paste.

LaTeX + Emacs does a decent job in coordination with Inkscape for images. It's a little bit of a technical solution, but InDesign doesn't exactly have an easy learning curve.

I've also thrown Scribus at some of the users on my network in lieu of shelling out for an InDesign license and they seem to be enjoying it pretty well. In a lot of ways Scribus seems like a good, user-friendly editor, sort of the Inkscape to InDesign's Illustrator.
Does this mean YC will be able to fund more startups in the future as you add more partners?
Good post. I haven't set timers, but I've been trying to be aware of when I start to hit my limit. I did about 11 hours of work today - a whole ton of stuff - and then I started flagging towards the end of the day, but I had some more stuff I need to do. So I had a coffee, went for a 20 minute pretty intense swim, and I came back and was ready to go. Did more good stuff.

This has been good for me - the challenge is just self awareness of when things are slowing down and then I'll do something like pack up and go to a cafe, go exercise, come back from the cafe, etc.

I've gotten big gains out of shifting gears once slowdown hits, but maybe proactively scheduling a shift would work better - I'll give it a try.
Actually - it's not. To interact with other users in a significant way they have CAPTCHAS to fill out - unless you confirm your account via a mobile phone SMS (which can only be used 1-to-1).
I see what you mean. However, what I mean is "what's so great about a brilliant person being in charge of a poor product". So I'm saying "Dalton is a brilliant guy, but I am skeptical of if just a brilliant person makes that great of a difference, when the product is not so extra-ordinary".

The first sentence could better be said: "What's so great about Dalton being there?"

Yes, I am dismissing this company, and I know it's risky to publicly state something like that, but I really feel that the product does not warrant the investment of 5million in any way. It's a good product, and it will surely be successful and have a number of users, but I doubt it will become any kind of force.

Take a look at the download numbers, according to techcrunch they have had 100.000 downloads since MAY. So between may and october, they have 100k downloads (http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/13/picplz-launches-revamped-mo...).

With my crap apps, I have 15k downloads a day. So in a week, I'd have that number of downloads. It's not hard to do that. That guy Kreci had 200k+ downloads on some weird apps on the android store also in a couple of months.

The product is not right. Even smart guys can have bad products, and from what I read, those twitter dudes gave back the investment money on their original product, so the investment is not just in the people, it's also in the product.

So I feel that there is a bit of a bubble there, where people are just being handed money based off reputation without proper diligence being paid to the product.
Congrats all around!
French security blog w/ a copy of the text: http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/264198.shtml

Incomplete?
His hatred of Word seems odd. It can do exactly what other programs he likes does, but can also do a lot more. If you like typing without distractions, it can do that. If you need some minimal formatting features, it has you covered. If you need the full power of Word, well, there you go.

Here's a screenshot of the minimal full screen with minor formatting features, for example: http://sircram.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/word-for-mac-2011-fu...

The best part is, the toolbar at the top hides away, and the background color can be changed to different hi-res textures.
aha, at least one person is downvoting as part of a campaign to bury stories about body scanners as off-topic for HN. well there ya go.
Was that someone else's work? I know he can sell his own stuff, at least to publishing houses.
I agree that morality and mortal danger have no correlation. I haven't been trying to argue that, though--if there's someplace where it seems like I was, please point it out so I can clarify.

In your first paragraph, are you saying that a Buddha/Jesus/Gandhi is only a pacifist because he expects lesser Buddhists/Christians to defend him with violence...?

Also, I doubt that Gandhi or Thich Nhat Hanh would claim that their morality decreased their risk of dying. Their point is that it doesn't change anything (for them).
Friday afternoon and I'm sharing the thought that jumped into my head.

Facebook is losing features! Has anyone else noticed? Facebook is throwing out stuff. I miss some of them but they aren't doing badly so far. What do others think?
Free Mac Anti-Virus
While there may be some unsustainable speculative behavior going on, I doubt any startup with reputable VCs on the board would do anything close to what Madoff did. Even the dot com crash was mostly about bubbly ad revenue and selling to the bigger fool, not massive fraud.
I'm actually a little surprised that they took this long to make the decision to kill off the XServe. Back during the G5 crash-and-burn they stopped publishing separate XServe sales data, merging it into a collective "G5" sales bin, presumably to hide how drastically and quickly G5 sales tailed off after the initial surge of sales, followed by a lot of disappointment when their customers realized that their performance wasn't anywhere near where Apple claimed that it was.
Can't the other 4 people pick up the work that your cofounder was doing? They seem to be enthusiastic about it.
Show HN: How to involve your significant other in your work
I just launched a little weekend project (alright maybe it took two weekends) that I made with my girlfriend. It's a simple iOS game called Punch a Hipster. I wrote all the code, and she drew all the artwork. It was a great opportunity to get her involved in my work and show her what it takes to create and launch an app, as well as to let her experience the excitement of launching a finished product and obsessing over ratings, reviews, etc. Now she has a better understanding of how I feel when I'm completely engrossed in one of my side projects. I highly recommend doing this (or something like it) if you have the opportunity and your significant other has a complementary skill-set, whatever that may be.

Our game is here: http://hipsterapp.com

What other ways have you involved your significant other in your work?
There's lots of do it yourself ways to do SMS. You can also grow all your own food, but grocery stores tend to be the more popular option.

Companies choose to work with an SMS provider because they don't want to have to solve uptime, scale, and service issues themselves.

When you're small, running your company on a web server under your desk connected to your cable modem probably works just fine. Doing the equivalent with SMS might make sense at that stage, too. As you grow, your needs change.

One thing to note is that in the US, "unlimited" plans aren't actually unlimited. Read the fine print on your contracts. Carriers define a limit to the number of messages they consider to be reasonable use. It's a soft limit, so they don't immediately block or ban you for going over once in a while. But if you do it consistently, they'll start to charge for the overage.
> that's a very old notion, like I already said

So? That doesn't imply that your definition of capitalism is correct.

> it's not exclusive to North America,

No one said that capitalism was exclusive to NA, was invented by Europe, or is new.

That said, capitalism isn't binary - it's a range and you left out important details.

For example, what does "allowing" mean? What people? What stuff?

The standard definition, cribbed from Wikipedia is "Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for a private profit; decisions regarding supply, demand, price, distribution, and investments are made by private actors in the market".
The same reason that levying a fine on late daycare parents increases the frequency that they will pick up their kids late.

Monetary incentives tend to displace intangible incentives. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, IF you've designed your monetary incentives correctly...
We should be able to, yes.
I got a 3G Kindle 3 several weeks ago.

I find that I mostly use it to read fiction. I'll probably eventually find it good for nice linear nonfiction like autobiographies. That's good because I've really gotten away from reading fiction, instead spending my reading time reading short-attention-span junk online. I love getting back to really reading.

I've tried it for a number of technical books, but it's just not that useful for that. It does an ok job displaying an unconverted PDF and a pretty good job working with a Calibre-converted PDF or CHM. I haven't tried an actual Kindle-formatted technical book, which could have better navigation. It's not displaying the page that's a problem. It's that when I'm reading a technical book, I need to flip around a lot. Search helps a bit, but flipping back and forth between sections is really cumbersome. Even with highlights and bookmarks, it's still tremendously slower than sticking a few post-it notes or thumbs in an actual print book. And most of the time that I want to look at a technical book, I'm already in front of at least one computer.

I haven't tried RSS feeds to the Kindle, but Instapaper is awesome for it and will only get better.

I rarely use the wireless at all. I struggled with buying the 3G vs. the wifi-only model. In the end I thought the 3G feature would extend the usefulness enough to make it worthwhile. In a pinch it's a decent email client and Wikipedia renders well. If I didn't have an Android and iPod Touch with me most of the time, I might use the Kindle wireless more.

One really important thing about the Kindle wifi: it won't connect to ad-hoc networks. This would have burned me if I'd bought the wifi-only model because I'd figured I could wifi tether it to my Android phone, but that runs in ad-hoc mode, so no connection.
How to Train a Programmer (Hint: don't use Powerpoint)
Building Software Systems at Google and Lessons Learned
(Windows Media) video at http://ee380.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/videologger.php?target=101110-ee380-300.asx
The Story of Electronics by Annie Leonard (Video)
isn't open code one of the reasons the web became the greatest achievement in history?
> It's arguable that Oracle implicitly licences these as part of the GPL patent clause, but it's not watertight.

It's Oracle's obligation to either give a royalty-free permission to use and grant usage of its patented technology (all of it, not only stuff expressed in code it contributed) or refrain from distributing OpenJDK under GPL altogether.

http://en.swpat.org/wiki/GPLv2_and_patents

Unless I misread the text there.
The Xanadu versus HTML choice is more complicated than the number of innovations. The Xanadu vision made you buy into the authors POV whereas HTML didn't.
How's the reboot of RSS going?