skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm....Looking further, it looks like you're right...the T-Mobile rep was wrong apparently (and it said so on the receipt).
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"Kant's seperation between Phenomena and Noumena relates to the difference between interface and implementation, as well as to the concept of abstractions in general."

I'm not sure Kant would allow that phenomena are all that abstract. They're not eidetic/formal (although later Husserl would argue that they intend towards eidetic objects), they're merely the subjective experience of a particular thing. The (purely hypothetical) relationship between the noumena and phenomena are (naively and hypothetically) one-to-one, if there is any real relationship at all.

The n/p distinction is made by Kant not to emphasize the abstract nature of our mental experiences, but rather to emphasize a radical epistemic uncertainty regarding the objects that we would naively assume "exists" apart from the experience.
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http://hackerne.ws/item?id=1993993
Agreed. This was absolutely stunning to witness.

Extreme kudos to Mr. Andrew Carol for resurrecting a technological gem.
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very analogous to the polishing that Bill Gates went through in the late 90s/early 2000s ...
the UI gets overhauled in honeycomb. the focus of this release was performance.
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Do you mind me asking your experience in this area?
Google's Marissa Mayer at Stanford, June 2006: "Don't kill projects, morph them"
This little tease has piqued my interest. I'm working on several ideas for making better enterprise software.

Any interest in developers at this point?
It would be great if the browser taught people these things during use. Kind of like some small drop down at the top "I see your closing a lot of tabs, have you tried ctrl-w?".

As it stands unless I'm wrong a user would have to go digging for these shortcuts online or by clicking help and actually knowing what they are looking for. Seems like a stretch for most browser users.
better one here

http://www.quirksmode.org/compatibility.html
Sorry for that, seems my GoogleFu is in need of some work.
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Which means most users will have it by... Q4 2011? Q1 2012?

I mean, we're up to 2.3 now, many devices are still being sold with 2.1, and while a lot of 2.2 updates are out now, they took forever.

I fear that the way the OEMs drag their feet on Android updates is a serious problem for the platform - cursed to constantly be chasing iOS which can get its new features to users months ahead of Google's schedule.
Interesting theory you have there.
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If you look closely, IE7 and IE8 are missing most of the features and even IE9 is missing a lot...
Interesting approach to getting in to Grails. I came at Grails after about 12 years with PHP (and some Perl and other stuff too). There are a number of things I like about Grails (GORM, domain-first approach, etc). But there are still some things which bely the Java-ness of it, and I'm convinced most of the Java community doesn't "get" the web. Hard to put in to words, but an example might be:

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILS-3364

The default in the Java world up to that point (and possibly still is) is to put a session ID in the URL. That's been frowned on and not default behaviour in the PHP world for... well since almost always. It's just asking for trouble (intentional or accidental). But the default for Grails was to have this on, because that's just how Java people think.

And the answers? Configure yet some other aspect of your system ("just change jetty's config"-type answers). Why not give more control to the framework instead of forcing people to have to learn/manage yet more systems and components. That particular issue is 'fixed' now, but there's so many moving parts that I wouldn't be surprised if it is broken again in some configurations (hasn't been for me though).

As much as I love Grails, Java as a base platform was not written with the web in mind, and makes basic stuff harder than it should be.
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Bram Moolenar works for GOogle, why won't Google Develop a text editor cloud of vim with realtime collaborative feature it would be great for Chrome OS also.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1993993
was submitted with all caps
http://www.intomobile.com/2010/12/10/motorola-android-honeyc...

that says CES in january. it doesn't usually take long to go from there to the public. who knows which current/past devices will be supported.
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You can estimate the literacy of a forum by choosing "annotate results with reading levels", then doing a search for site:example.com. It gives a breakdown of the fraction of pages at each reading level. Far from perfect, but interesting nevertheless.

site:news.ycombinator.com: 39/55/4
site:mathworld.wolfram.com: <1/3/96
site:stackoverflow.com: 5/88/5
site:lesswrong.com: 12/67/20
You won't get a non-biased answer here. Both of them are good and similar. If you are looking for something different, give node.js+express.js a try, it's good too though a bit less mature.
Malware ads from Google hit quartertothree.com's forums at least twice over the past year and a half (the first time was in Jun 2009). Based on searching around when this happened, lots of forums that only serve Google ads have had the same experience. I'm surprised anyone is surprised Google is serving up bad ads because this has been going on for so long.

They do eventually remove the offending ads when you complain about them, but you'd expect a company of their stature to have better safeguards in place so this doesn't happen in the first place, but don't hold your breath because they seem unable or unwilling to fix this.
CES in January. Let's just say public in February - which means it's only available to Nexus owners, hackers, and enthusiasts with the know-how and inclination to root their device.

Being shipped with new devices? Being upgradeable from phone manufacturer (i.e., the ability for the "normal" user base to upgrade)? End of 2011, early 2012?

That's the problem, too many hoops, too long to hop through them. iOS can push major updates to their users instantly, Google has to wait for OEMs to get their act together, and if Android up to this point is any indication, it takes forever (if ever).
Reminds me of this:
http://xkcd.com/659/
The video is definitely very impressive, but I'm still far more impressed by the fact someone made this in 100 BC than that someone re-created it in 2010 AD. I had never heard of the Antikythera mechanism before.
You are very defensive about this. It is not advice to you or anyone else here other than the OP, and it's advice specifically based on what he mentioned. He is introverted and an engineer, dissatisfied with his culture. He has done travel but not gotten much enjoyment from it. My recommendation is to move to another culture and resettle there. I also have advise for him to get involved in a relationship, which will really help with his life enjoyment if he picks someone the exact opposite on the personality spectrum, especially given his type which is prone towards holing up and doing research or engineering.

Since he will be moving to another culture this means his most available girlfriends will be someone overseas. Should this lead to marriage it then becomes a good way to remain in the culture.

It has nothing to do with mail order brides or race betrayal or whatever you are freaking out about. It has to do with a complete package of advice for this one person and his circumstance. It is not meant to apply to you or to people in general.
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Check out the guy's actual site with tons more technical detail: http://acarol.woz.org/antikythera_mechanism.html

What an impressive achievement. I think this is what we want all of our pet projects to be...
Because your users are paying for CPU time, not you!
Yowza!

"Leiolepis ngovantrii is no run-of-the-mill reptile—the all-female species reproduces via cloning, without the need for male lizards"

Only a matter of time until human females figure this one out.
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Python vs Ruby - Both are great. I tried ruby first for a week or so and then move to python; I love python simplicity. According to my learning experience you can learn python faster then any other language (I am a ASP.NET/C# developer in my day job.)

Django vs Rails - I don't have any experience with Rails because you must know ruby first. Django is a natural choice for me because of python. Till now it seems good to me (around a month experience). It is seem not so cool in comparison to Rails but its good (I also know little bit of ASP.NET MVC).

Note: I am not an expert in both language/framework, so you can ignore my suggestions.
Kiersey cites them in his book, which I don't have a copy of right now. They tested couples and their satisfaction with marriage, and then formulated type recommendations. This is also how the career counseling angle works. They actually test people in various careers and then find who is happiest and most successful, and this is what forms the basis of recommendations for career counseling based on MBTI results. It's not subjective but based on what tends to work out well in terms of happiness between people in relationships and between person and career in large populations.

For relationships the results are sorted not by the most common pairings, but the most successful.

As far as INTJ meeting ESFP, it does happen. People meet in bars, get references from others, meet in church. Perhaps INTJ is tutoring math to ESFP who is studying to be an elementary school teacher and they start dating.

In a relationship this is a pretty good entrepreneurial husband/wife pairing as well. Husband makes the product, wife does sales and marketing (ESFP specialty) and finds out from customers what they really need. ESFP in this case will help him understand and interface with the bureaucratic mentality, and also provide a front face and extremely enthusiastic explanations of his incredible value to the company he works for, or the investors who are funding him, or whatever he is up to. She'll also naturally bring him into contact with these investors, partners, or mentors and massively leverage his life opportunities, which will lead to a lot of success and happiness.

The world is not made for INTJ or INTP and does not understand either of them. The right partner can and will completely solve this problem.

With opposite pairings, there is no friction or stress from one trying to change the other because they are so different that sort of change is thought impossible, it would be like an elephant trying to change a giraffe into an elephant.
I've been reading Lee Iacocca's autobiography recently and found his business story pretty interesting. This made me look up these old commercials. I'm posting it here mostly to see if anyone else has been reading up on old Lee and what they think.
Truly amazing level of detail! Hopefully the plans are made available for others to learn from.
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ArsTechnica seems to be getting it right, and the other day I heard NPR call up one of their editors as an expert, so the mainstream news is noticing something.

I think the real problem is, most consumers don't know what they're missing.
Are you trying to troll? ROR doesn't have a 'right way' it's far from that rails 3 has switchable ORM's, template engines.. etc. Ruby was inspired/designed with elements from perl which itself was designed as a rapid scripting language, your arguments are badly biased.
Indeed - the lack of a multiline tab bar for Chrome is mystifying. No extensions do the trick, either.
I don't object to the "find the right way" comment, with one clarification: he's talking about the web framework.

Ruby is just fine for "just wanting to get it done"; we've used it to write an assembler that models opcodes as Ruby objects, a binary format description language, 3 different debuggers, a web proxy, a hex editor, a whole slew of crypto, a testing framework for the FIX trading protocol, Cocoa UIs, and god-knows-what-else. If you looked at any two of those packages, they might not appear to be written in the same language, let alone the same team.

Rails does not care what crazy Ruby stuff you have built for your specific problem domain. If you are doing graph-theoretic modeling with a custom Ruby library, Rails does not care and it will work fine.

But. If you have even the slightest difference of opinion with Rails as to how to handle a request or represent the URL parameters you're getting from browsers, you're in for a world of hurt. The things Rails has opinions about, it has strong opinions about. And it's a total passive-aggressive asshole about those opinions. It doesn't say no. It slowly punishes you instead. In particular, even though Rails 3 advertises that it has swappable ORMs, you'd be crazy to consider anything but ActiveRecord.

The nice thing about losing degrees of freedom is that you don't have to make decisions about them, so I tend to reject the idea that Python gets you home to your kids faster.
the public doesn't really care about that, they just want to buy the snazziest frobulet. you want an update? just buy a new phone. the hardware improvement makes it worth it anyway. so yes it's a problem, not not an important one.

activations are growing so fast that most users will be on the latest release quicker than you expect.
Canada's not going to be a whole lot cheaper. It seems my school is 3-6 times more expensive for non-Canadians. http://findoutmore.uwaterloo.ca/financing/expenses.php

I'm guessing the others are going to be fairly similar.
You have a week of Python. Spend 2 days with Ruby. If you fall in love with Ruby, go with Rails. Otherwise, stick to Python. It's that simple. They're basically the same thing.
ROR is NOT for those who are willing to just get it done. What does that even mean?

I work full time as a Rails developer, and I'd love to give a counterpoint to your obvious distate for Rails, but I have no idea what you're even trying to say....
I found this funny:

"Still, 55 percent of the posted comments were positive about the real Zuckerberg, according to Alterian.

A negative turn

However, the vibe turned 51 percent negative this week as Alterian, at The Chronicle's request, analyzed the buzz following Sunday night's broadcast interview with "60 Minutes" correspondent Leslie Stahl."

I think the really important thing about his public image to note, is that people truly care about these statistics.
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He has a very close relationship with the largest investor, he won't be getting the axe anytime soon. They also have a "President" who in reality is the one running the company.
I've not done any embedded stuff, but I've had jobs doing low level c/c++ to interface with poorly documented serial devices passing bit-masked instruction codes and status codes around and I'm now doing web programming and man, all I can say is this: Nothing is easy. If it looks easy for some reason, someone has probably done a lot of difficult work for you previously.
LOL Pretty broad criteria.
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If it's split into windows, not only do I have to hover over every tab to find the one that I want, but also repeat the process for every open window.

The alternative is sorting the tabs somehow, but that's more maintance than a middle click.
Does anyone know of a technical overview of this? I'm curious as to whether they're assigning every word in some lexicon a reading level.
Do you at least know if whether or not you signed up using the "basic" form or advanced form matters for the early shipments? I signed up about half an hour after the form was live and then found the advanced form and signed up using that instead. Judging by reports from other Cr-48 recipients, I should have signed up using the "basic" form. Can you confirm this?
I use rails, I can only comment on pylons and turbogears from around 2006 when I gave up on it. I gave up on both turbogears and pylons due to 1. no community and 2. nearly no updates. Rails has a huge community, lots of plugins, etc as does Ruby. As for Ruby itself the language just meshes with my way of thinking if Python does that for you then go for Django
No, we need something cheaper.

ICBMs are too expensive to use to deliver conventional explosives or kinetic kill projectiles. Forget bioweapons and toxins, they're not any deadlier than cluster bombs.

The power of an explosion follows an inverse square law, so you can destroy something with 1/4 the explosive if you can get twice as close to it.

If you could drop thousands of 25 lb bomb equivalent devices an hour with GPS accuracy at a city, you could wreck it's infrastructure in a few weeks.
This is a great talk on a subject that is many times overlooked. I think may times we fail to see other peoples position, become emotional and cross the line. Having an overarching rule to be respectful in all situations, can help steer your interactions no mater what the situation is or how the other person is acting. People take witness of your respect and once they know that you are a respectful person no mater their difference of opinion will generally know that you will treat them with respect. In some cases this can change the outcome of the situation.

When I was younger, I was your typical arrogant hot shot who could save the day. I knew it all, I had all the answers before people where done talking and I was a poor listener. Worst of all, if you did not agree with me I was a disrespectful twit. I am embarrassed of that person now to say the least. But with the wisdom of age, I look back at that guy and see all the opportunities I missed because I knew it all and in knowing it all no new external insight or intuition was entering my brain. When I finally saw my folly I resolved at that point in time, among other things, to never disrespect someone again. It was amazing how the dynamics of my relationship with people changed, problems became more interesting joys and pains where shared with others and I started to establish friendships that went beyond a working relationship.

Listing to the closing of this video really highlight why those friendships, based on respect are so important. In his line of work he met a person who latter went on to become a large VC. Being friends based on mutual respect, if he sees an opportunity he can go talk to this VC as a friend. His friend respects his view even if he may not see eye to eye on it, and if he is wrong his friend will give him the benefit of the doubt because his relationship is built on more than being the hot shot that picks the good deals. That hot shot is one bad deal away from not getting the audience with the VC. Anyway, I though it was an excellent talk that hit home for me. Some times we loose sight of the fact that the other person is human too.
(opinion warning)

ruby is more nice to the programmer. python has more corporate backing. django is a pain-in-the-ass compared to rails, pylons is better but still not the collection of power tools that is rails. i feel the python community is tail chasing the ruby community now-a-days. catching up will be hard as the python language misses the "principle of least supprise" that is a guiding principle for ruby. python (like c++) managed to supprise me after year of coding with it.
While I am not the person you are asking this question of, I can personally corroborate their story.

During my enlisted years, I saw plenty of this type of behaviour. Some G.S. or officer would be taken to lunch/dinner by the rep from a major defense contractor; guess which company gets the inside scoop on what the military is looking for? Due to multiple deltas between what I believed to be true and what the military was pushing as truth, I got out and went to work for a company doing web-related work.

A few years later, after I had allowed myself to forget how bad the military was, I took a position with a small defense contractor. This contractor had a couple decades of experience working in a particular field of research and were widely regarded as experts in that field. A few years after I joined the company, a major defense contractor got wind of how successful this company was and decided they wanted the pie for themselves.

First, they regularly took the G.S. in charge of the project out to lunch and the golf course. Then they planted the idea that the military needed fail-over redundancy for such a "mission-critical" position held by the company I worked for. The G.S. then ordered the company I worked for to hand over a copy of all production code to this major defense contractor; after all, the military needed fail-over redundancy for this "mission-critical" position.

It doesn't take too many brain cells to figure out what happened next. So, based on my past experience, I would be very happy with never working anywhere near a government institution again. On the bright side, working so close to government allows you to realize the vast majority of taxes are actually legalized theft.
Beautiful! When I first read about Antikythera sometime back, it fascinated me to learn that 2000 years ago, someone has created what seems to be the first computer.

I wonder if the Ancient Astronaut theories could actually hold water.
I believe it's 3 days by law, with no real charges. Many carriers allow 30 with prorated usage and restocking fees.
IE9 supports WebGL, according to that site...?
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HTML5 has every one of those features (DRM not so much, though it's possible with binary XHR Blob buffers, but there's no point to do that as users could easily steal video data from the decoded output canvas).

Webcams and microphones can be accessed via the HTML5 <device> API, cross-domain requests can be done with HTTP Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), which is arguably much nicer than Flash's cross-origin policy XML file solution, and multithreading can be done with web workers.
The same engineer also built a Lego Babbage difference engine:

http://acarol.woz.org/difference_engine.html

Anyone know what Mr. Carol works on at Apple?
> We have corporations with managers who lack basic technical understanding of what their reports are telling them.

That's because the managers' managers also lack that understanding.

> We have politicians who lack the basic capacity to express themselves properly and coherently.

That's because a lot of their bosses -- the voters -- are stupid.

> I suspect that it works because it really is possible to be a good manager even if you don't have the basic understanding of your problem domain

I agree; but you do need to be wise enough to surround yourself with people who do.
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Private betas can be great when you have lots of existing customers, and you'd like to limit the quantity of feedback on a new product or feature.

If this would be the first exposure the app is getting, and you don't have a treasure trove of users that might be lined up to get into the beta, I'd vote for a public beta.

In fact, I'd go further and not focus so much on the nature of the beta, but just launch the product, noting that this is the initial release, and you'd love to get feedback as you continually improve the product.

The three most important things for a startup to do are: Ship it, ship it and ship it. Location matters much less these days ;)
And "Functional Programming" is an anagram for "Malfunctioning Program". Yay for rants.
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