skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious what that tells you? Or at least what information you looking to derive.

If I was a carrier, I may care how which handset is more profitable to sell, which once is in more demand, etc, based on what my network and my competitors sell. As an application developer you may care about how well the various Android market systems perform compare to the iPhone market place. Additionally as a developer you may care about the install base, or target demographics of that install base.

I don't understand what factoring the number of sales channels (?) compared to sale volumes will give you statistically. (I'm always willing to be enlightened, I'm a developer by trade, so stats/biz dev is not my primary focus)

[edit:]

Additional thought, the rate of introduction of new smartphones on the Android vs rate of new iPhone releases. Conversely the iPhone introduced June 24th, will primarily show up on the Q3 sales figures (in the US).
Such an action is unacceptable.

Section eight of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms states, "Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure."

The U.S. Constitution - Amendment 4 states, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Personally invasive searches are unreasonable when travelling by foot, by car, by boat, by bicycle, and, I contend, by aeroplane.

If society agrees that it is unreasonable to be virtually strip-searched or intimately groped while travelling by plane, then the TSA is violating a fundamental right of North American society.
i'm confused, are you saying that hacking is a bad thing?

while there is a certain "release engineering" process that goes on every 6 months to slow down development, stabilize the code, freeze it, tag it, test it, and ship it, all of the development work that is done between releases is just hacking. there isn't a roadmap of features and what gets worked on is whatever anyone feels like working on.

openbsd developers gather at hackathons (http://www.openbsd.org/hackathons.html) every so often to work closely with others on specific features or projects, hash out ideas, test on weird hardware, and just get to socialize with other developers that live in different parts of the world. nobody is told what to do at those events and unless it's a specific mini-hackathon for ports or pf or something, everyone is kind of doing their own thing independently or in small teams.
As a graph theorist, my primary interest here is whether those crossing arrows are necessary. We can ignore the directions on the arrows, obviously. We could eliminate some crossings by moving ADC between Apple and LG. But the crossings involving the arrow from Oracle to Samsung are harder to get rid of ...

[think, think, think]

... and, as it turns out, impossible to get rid of. To see this, begin by collapsing Nokia and Apple to a single node. Then Nokia-Apple, Kodak, and Sharp form a triangle, and Samsung is joined to each node in this triangle. Now collapse Rim, Motorola, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle to a single node. This new super-node is joined to all four of Nokia-Apple, Kodak, Sharp, and Samsung. Thus, we have a minor [1] isomorphic to a complete graph on 5 vertices.

Conclusion: Considered as a graph, the diagram is not planar [2]. Crossings are unavoidable.

Yes, I was bored, too. :-)

P.S. Off-the-wall question: Are there any nontrivial graph-theoretic properties that such a graph might have, which also have nontrivial legal ramifications?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_(graph_theory)

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planar_graph
As Buzz Sounds More Like Crickets, Does Google Need To Be More Patient?
That's awesome, good luck!
Intel shifts strategy, sells 22nm fab capacity
> When I go to a doctor's office, I don't really always
> have time to investigate in detail the various
> projects he undertook.

Is mathematician a registered profession in your locality?
Maybe I'm missing something, but in http://stackoverflow.com/robots.txt I see:

Sitemap: /sitemap.xml

But http://stackoverflow.com/sitemap.xml is a 404.

Perhaps he submitted a different sitemap URL to Google directly. Maybe that's the problem though?

All the examples on http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php#submit_robots use a fully qualified URL not an absolute URL relative to the domain. I've always used that.
Los Angeles-based healthcare company seeks All-Star Dev Ops (Network / Sys Admin)

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Try this one: http://ddotdash.com (a haha-only-serious prototype of a Morse Code keyboard)
INTO THE CLOUD: Winning with Enterprise 2.0
It would be pretty easy to make an argument against many sects of Christianity on the same grounds (yes, really: http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/146438); literally thousands of people have been incited to violence by radical right-wing preachers over the decades. Does that mean that Christians are dangerous to the United States and should be stopped at the border?

Freedom of religion is at the heart of the founding principles of the United States of America — I can't think of anything more central to the identity of this country. If you're going to speak against freedom of religion, then it would be a very short stretch to call that position "anti-American" — and any national defense policy considered with that pretext is already severely undermined.
Can you read? Or do you see one piece of a larger argument and go completely blind?

As I said I am a _non-smoker_. I have been for my entire life. Again as I already said I do not care that people smoke around me and I find it a huge inconvenience on myself that I have to go out of my way to be with my friends when the laws are getting restrictive to the point that you cannot smoke anywhere legally in downtown areas except in the middle of a boulevard.

Yet I can't go downtown on a Saturday night without running into drunks and druggies who get into fights and destroy property. I've seen chairs thrown into oncoming traffic by people refused alcohol, I don't see this from any smokers anywhere?

Please cut the fucking naivety here. Alcohol is more destructive to the users health and to our societal health than tobacco, marijuana or LSD, but we're happy with the former being legal while the latter society wants illegal.
This exists, but is a local thing. I subscribe to Organic Life in Chicago. 3 medium-calorie organic meals a day, delivered 3 times a week. Other cities have services like this too, you just have to Google it.

For dry goods / energy drinks / etc., there is Amazon Subscribe & Save. I rarely need to go to the store with this and Amazon Prime. It's great to have 6 months of laundry detergent on hand :)
I don't know anyone who's finished in 3, but you do occasionally hear about it. Never heard a reliable account of under that. Personally I think we don't tend to have course work in our PhD's because we don't have the student numbers to support it in most uni's and disciplines.
When have great resources ever helped rapid evolution in computing?
Really nice!
Always wanted something like this.
Just two things as I am middle of testing it out:

1) How do you assure me that my logs are not being read by you on backend? Yes even saying that you won't can being the process of trust.
Showing me screenshots of your back-end can be a bonus.

2)On Edit your Account Page, there is no way to go back to home page.
You just described the SENS approach advocated by Aubrey de Grey. They're interested in getting help from engineers: http://www.sens.org/take-action/other-ways-to-help

De Grey published a book about their approach a couple years ago, and wikipedia has a basic overview:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_Engineered_Negli...
ShopWell, Ideo’s First Big Spinoff, Says Better Health Starts at the Supermarket
I am not that excited by Manpacks, and I hate shopping. It's the typical web startup. Web 2.0 design. A few famous brands. Lots of logos from "traditional media".

Then you look at the product and it's nearly twice as expensive as Amazon, if you are willing to get 6 pairs of underwear at once. So who does this target? People who are too poor to afford 12 socks at once? Not compelling. Amazon is trusted and less expensive. Where is the value add?
18 of 25 top Facebook games lost significant numbers of monthly active users
Goodbye Automattic & IntenseDebate
Was he under arrest or bring detained?

My understanding is that as a US citizen he committed no crime and could have asked if he was bring detained, under what law, or if he was free to go...

However, through coercion, and lack of knowledge on his rights he consented to this interrogation.

Anyone know for sure what his legal position was?
The trick is that we don't actually want to shame and anger people posting comments that don't fit into the HN ethos; we just want them to improve their comments, or wander off elsewhere without feeling too bad about it.

If someone has good ideas but is used to discussions on wilder forums, we want to educate them in a respectful way. If someone really doesn't belong here, we don't want to get their attention; we want to make HN as boring as possible to them, so they go away instead of posting a self-righteous rebuttal or seek vengeance in some way.

On the subject of respectful education... it might be helpful to have some built-in explanatory text shown next to downvoted posts shown only to the author, with the standard reasons for HN downvoting, and suitable responses for downvotes that seem unjustified.
Why SAIC's Yez Concept Car is a landmark automobile
Zencoder Challenge Winner: MovieNight
I was dick waving? I was underwhelmed with the title of the post, acting like it was surprising that 1 phone was being outsold by 24.
Link to speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JzGOiBXeD4

Stewart summarizes his points passionately and of course, reasonably
He's extremely lucky, but certainly no charlatan. He's stumbled across the human equivalent of a master developmental control gene knockout mouse.

Someday you may get a replacement organ in time due to r&d stemming from this girl's DNA.
Not all bits are created equal. A one bit change in a mailmerge datafile could put a lawsuit from a Mr. Whitman in your hands.
The core concept is: a robust method for automatically merging concurrent changes to a published resource by collaborating users in real-time (OT). It's true that other key components of Wave were seen as essential to its success (in particular the federation protocol and the bots API) but those were still designed in support of the core use-case: real-time collaborative editing.

There was a ridiculous amount of hype about the project and all the things it might replace but that doesn't change the fact that its development was and is focused on solving an actual problem using real technological innovation.
Did you even read the article? A good third of it was discussing the distribution chain, and how Android is taking sales from RIM because they are typically sold in the same places.
What are ways for someone without access to a Hadoop cluster (and doesn't want to continually pay for, say, Amazon's Elastic Map Reduce) to learn Hadoop/Pig/Hive? I'm a stats/data analysis guy, so I've been wanting to get into big data for a while, but I'm not sure how to progress beyond reading a bunch of tutorials (which I have).
Abstract Expressionism was the first art movement I really fell in love with, mostly because it wasn't a household name and sounded cool. For those of you who don't know anything about it, here are some links to a few well known artist:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_de_Kooning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rothko

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kline

It's important to keep in mind that these paintings are not about technical quality. The argument, "my kid could have done that," is not relevant since your kid didn't do it -- you may as well argue you teenager could have written TS Eliot poems since she knows the vocabulary. These paintings are about energy, form and scale, often lack of form or contrasting forms. They also tend to photograph poorly, so try to appreciate them in person.
They are probably blocking everyone except for Google from grabbing the file.
Selling twice as many piles of low quality, poorly designed phones as premium ones is still selling twice as much garbage. At the end of the day, just because you sell more doesn't mean your product is better. This is proof of that.

From a business perspective, Android manufacturers need to sell many, many more devices in order to even come close to Apple's profitability.

Look at how well Apple is able to not just manufacture their devices, but also design chips, main boards, visual and function design, create excellent software with profoundly amazing developer frameworks, and run meaningful marketing campaigns... all while turning an incredible profit margin.

Google and its manufacturing partners are simply not producing high grade and thoughtful products. So until they do, who really cares about it "outselling iOS 2:1".
Before 9/11 I went through customs in the France or Austria (can't recall which now). AFAIK, there was nothing at all suspicious about me, but they took me aside and did similar things. And they even took some cookies I was eating. I had no drugs, cigarettes, weapons, CDs -- I didn't even have a laptop or MP3 player.

To this day I have no idea what it was about. Still kind of PO'ed about the cookies.
It's not their job to be unprofessional or abusive. People are innocent until proven guilty, even when they're crossing the border.
Typically, I do an email screen with a bunch of questions, to get a sense of how the applicant will fit in. (I apologize to applicants to whom I haven't responded yet. The response has been overwhelming so far, but it's important to me to give everyone a shot and not let someone good fall through the cracks.)

Depending upon whether I think they can take a leading role, I will ask them some hard open-ended NLP or ML puzzles over email. I will also do a skype screen going over a breadth of technical questions.

If I do want to work with someone, I send them a standard contractor agreement. It include a variety of clauses, including an NDA, as well as terms governing ownership of the code and IP developed, the payment schedule, etc. The NDA is extended to cover all NDAs that I sign on behalf of MetaOptimize, i.e. if MetaOptimize is working for client Foo, and you're working for MetaOptimize, then you are also bound by the Foo NDA agreement.

But a contract is only as good as the parties signing it, so to a certain extent I have to rely upon references and my gut to see if I trust the worker.

Does that answer your question?
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The rubber store-bought tires all have huge holes in them that the vendors would prefer you ignore.

I am not a C fan, but I've read the OpenBSD code and it's solid. Instead of ignoring the details like integer truncation, string length, and error checking, they actually care about this stuff. The result is a reliable system instead of a mostly-reliable system.
While I agree with you in general I must say that I think your view of the 20th century is a bit too dystopian. Humanity has improved in the last one hundred years, and measurably so.
Response from Reddit:

I appreciate Drew Curtis' looking out for us, but honestly, we had a great time and don't really care about who gets the credit.
At "best", we convinced Comedy Central to pull the trigger on something they were kicking around indecisively and might not have otherwise done.
At "worst", they were totally committed to doing it anyway and we "just" pulled off an incredible donation movement for a really good cause, beefed up attendance numbers, and got to meet hundreds of redditors in person.
I think I speak for all the staff when I say that we love Jon and Stephen, regret nothing, and don't feel anyone owes us an apology.
Edit: That said, Fark is cool and we like Drew. :)

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dzmrl/from_drew_...
This is how science reporting should be done. Not only does he intelligently explain the core findings of the research, and he also examines its quality. More of this please.
See http://www.nutrisystem.com.

They're making north of $120M per year doing just this.
I would love a different way of handling Government RFQs: If your company engages in income shifting to avoid paying taxes, you are ineligible for government contracts.
"...just issue a spec that requires a hood ornament with three lines trisecting a circle, and see whichever car company meets the spec at the best price-- surprise!"

cited from here

http://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/c84bp/how_realwor...
I found the lyrics for 4.8 lacking, especially when compared with the lyrics from 4.3:

http://openbsd.org/lyrics.html#43
Gunpowder is an explosive, and gunpowder is in unused bullets.
I was thinking along the same lines.

However, I assume Microsoft behaves in a similar manner.
This does sound interesting, unfortunately I fall just short of being able to implement chunked encoding, so maybe in the future!

EDIT: I am no longer unable to implement chunked encoding. That wasn't complicated at all. I have no idea why I'm telling you all.
He didn't express desire to renounce citizenship, and calling a book about Mohammed terrorist propaganda is exaggerating at best, and disrespectful at worst.
Paul, what about having anonymous comments to avoid groupthinking, but keeping those comments linked to the poster's karma?
I'm not a terrorist at all, but if someone's yelling in my face, you'll be damned sure they'll get a rise out of me, if not a legal case soon afterward.

What in the world do you think a psychologist can tell from a person's response to getting yelled at unreasonably?
Apple has always delivered an excellent web browsing experience on all of its general purpose computing devices. Probably the top selling point of the original iPhone, before the app store, was "browsing that doesn't suck".

And incidentally Android's browser technology is largely based on WebKit, created by Apple.

It simply does not compute to say that Google had to save mobile browsing from Apple.
Perhaps Google checks this... They are typically not cool with cloaking. If you want to hide your site map, just make it a non-guessable URL and submit it to Google the Webmaster CP.
Get to starting your own company. I'd be curious to see what comes of it.
A famous Israeli (a reporter, I believe) once forgot a bullet in one of his bags during his travels - he had recently been on reserve training duty, and used the same bag for that as for his travels.

I don't remember the details, but he was travelling through another country (not the US or Israel) when the bullet was found - and he was imprisoned for several months for it.
You've got a good point about making an argument against many sects of Christianity. Perhaps they should be in the same boat.

When you say freedom of religion, you don't mean complete freedom. What if my religion states that I shouldn't pay taxes? Obviously this religion would not be tolerated.
Not being a citizen of US and not being a follower of the religion of Islam (which I happen to respect like any other religion) I think this guy/ you did everything possible to freak out a customs officer. The reason I say this is you don't expect every custom official to have traveled the world and be aware of the actual culture. They only know what they have been told along with what they have heard, which is to say that they know nothing (unless each custom official has had a state department course on countries).

For a country that has been deeply scarred by a terrorist act all the officials know of is to look for some tell-tale sign of association. Those tell-tale signs as in your case may be completely bogus but they don't draw the distinction.

I agree the experience is bad and system doesn't see the difference.Let me point out that I don't support this behavior any more than you do but with the current situation I cannot blame them too.
Best comment: "Overall, the paper isn't fantastic. There are some additional experiments and better controls that might have made for a more convincing case." It's so nice not to see science journalism gushing about their misunderstanding of the results.
I think the minute he starts complaining about the company, is the minute it's no longer appropriate to call it his future company!

Academically, he's trying to serve up a point. But he's potentially doing more damage to himself by doing so.
This is called meal prep. There are companies like Dream Dinners and Super Suppers that do this. Usually you go and prepare the meals yourself (pick what you want and how many servings from their menu) in a few hours (to make a months worth of meals). Most places will prepare it for you too if you'd like - then you just pick it up. The meals themselves are usually ready to eat in 15-20 minutes. You usually put it in the oven or cook it on the stove top. I've done Dream Dinners before - it was OK, but the portions were a bit small for me and ultimately with my wife staying home it was easier and cheaper for her to just make meals herself.