skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. 0 or 1? WTF!

But what do you mean by the dates reference? I understood that to mean "what happened on this day," spotting patterns in dates, knowing ahead of time what date things will happen, etc?
What do you think of this website?
You can't deny that this is someone who gets software and knows how things are supposed to be. Now whether Microsoft gets software or not is debatable, but BillG most certainly does. Anyone that's spoken to him in real-life (even some of the most fanboyish Apple users) has confirmed this fact time and time again - it's a real shame for the software industry he "decided" to pull back from his company in 2001.
Anyone knows how is this different from Google Web Toolkit?
What your future really looks like -- reality edition:

After the dollar collapses, the major effects of Peak Oil kick in, the Oceans die, the eternal War intensifies, global food shortages cause . . .

. . . you will enjoy streaming telepresence in every nook and cranny of your techno-dreamhouse, and some of these electronic gizmos just might be SOLAR-powered!

If our future actually looks like the one described in the article, it is only at the expense of the planet and most of the other people on it. We need more compassion, conservation, and mindfulness. Not more of other techie-crap.
jQuery at least claims to be compatible with Opera. It might be worthwhile to do a little bit of research into your issues.
I've tried it time and time again, along with Phalanger (PHP -> ILDASM) and RoadRunner (PHP -> C) and they all fail.
People are very good at fooling themselves. However, there are certain traditions which contain knowledge of how to do better, and how to think more rationally. People utilizing this knowledge have made considerable progress. The best example is the scientific tradition. When you want to understand a top-quality scientist, acting as a professional, the first thing you need to understand is the scientific tradition, and you don't need to worry so much about common irrationalities.

We are not doomed to always be irrational. We can create knowledge and, with effort, remove errors from it. Then, when we have supporting knowledge, we can act reasonably rationally.
Perhaps. However, my goal would be to take a large project already written in a nasty, buggy language and translate it to something fun to maintain and modify and easy/reliable to run.
nope, haven't had any of that.
Somehow this article reminds me of a show on NOVA called "Secrets of the Mind". In one instance, someone had a car accident and been in coma for five weeks.

"V.S. RAMACHANDRAN: He was articulate, he was intelligent, not obviously psychotic or emotionally disturbed. He could read a newspaper. Everything seemed fine except he had one profound delusion. He would look at his mother and he would say, "This woman, Doctor, she looks exactly like my mother but in fact she's not my mother. She's an imposter. She's some other woman pretending to be my mother.

NARRATOR: The injury to David's brain had brought on a very rare condition called the Capgras Delusion"

...

NARRATOR: Whenever we look at an object or a face, the message reaches the temporal lobes, where it's identified, but then it gets relayed to a structure called the "amygdala," which is the gateway to the limbic system that contains the emotional centers of the brain. And it's here that we generate the appropriate emotional response to whatever it is we're looking at.

V.S. RAMACHANDRAN: Now, what I've suggested is that what's going on in this patient is the message gets to the temporal lobe cortex, so the patient recognizes his mother as being his mother and evokes the appropriate memories. But the message doesn't get to the amygdala, because the fibers going from the temporal cortex to the amygdala into the emotional centers are cut, as a result of the accident. Therefore, there is no emotion. There is no warmth. And he says, "If this is really my mother why is it I'm not experiencing any emotions? There's something not quite right here. Maybe she is some other strange woman pretending to be my mother."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2812mind.html
Amie Street to release 1 million mp3s with community-based pricing model
Pretty much all of Twitter's investment money is going straight into the pockets of the cell companies to cover messaging costs. I wonder if money invested in cell company stock will have a better return than money invested in Twitter over the lifetime of Twitter?
> what the benefits are to the end user.

A UI that doesn't suck eggs comes to mind.

I use strong language to get a point across; Java UIs today feel to me like Motif UIs did in 2000.
http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?...

http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?...

I also added tags, which may become increasingly useful if blogging is implemented:

http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?...

http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?...

Tags: [search] [blogging] [tagging] [meta]
Open Coffee's going strong and getting bigger lately (20 people or so at the last meeting). I'll be there in the morning, though I (and from my understanding, most people) arrive a bit later than the 'official' start time of 8:30.

If we're not in a big circle/clump right where you walk in the door, we're downstairs.

Hope to see you, and others, there!
I didn't know students could be forced to take an IQ test.
Very common misconception - science as a process is rational, but scientists are people, and they fall for all the same traps.

There are plenty important scientific discoveries accepted only after the generation change. Bayesian statistics is one example of such process happening right now. Instead of being accepted or rejected based on the merits, the process of acceptance is being dragged along with all sorts of totally human irrationalities.
ain't gonna happen GMB.. ain't gonna happen.

I do agree with your observation though..... I'm just not as optimistic in regard to the outcome.
Your logic is stunning raganwald... stunning..

I'm rolling on the floor...
Linkbait title at its best.
nope, mine has been golden.
thanks for asking though! ;)
You seem to be referring to Kuhn's theory of Scientific Revolutions, which is false, as explained in The Fabric of Reality chapter 13.

BTW Bayesian statistics as a replacement for science is not being accepted because it's no good. It's no good because it does not deal in explanations.
holy crap.

Second impression: I'm hooked.

This application is so sticky. I am now following only a few people, but occasionally seeing their links on the bottom of my browser is becoming very interesting/addicting.

I am also browsing through some of my old bookmarks and sharing them.

IMHO, I'm finding this application to be much more compelling than Twitter.
Well, our vision is pretty idealist. We do intend to have a real, tangible, positive net effect on society.

We want to do it in different ways. Our first way is through http://bug.gd where we do everything in our power to be sure no one ever has to solve error messages that have already been worked-around.

We have long-term plans to grow this into local system resources, embedded in your OS and included in software-- when there's a system fault, you always have access to how others solved the problem.

If we eventually make money on it, great-- but really I was just sick and tired of this endless waste of human resources, repeating the same things over and over again.

Anyone who feels the same should install the Firefox extension in my profile-- if you don't, well everyone else's solutions are indexed by major search engines so you get the benefit anyway.
>doesn't it seem strange to be throwing lots of money behind a revenue-starved communication network based on casual, fleeting text exchanges between a tiny population of heavy Web users?

That population is going to do nothing but grow as broadband and smartphones become ubiquitous.
Well, think about...

Windows Vista. Ultimate, Home Premium, Home Basic, Business, Enterprise, Lite.

Microsoft Office. Microsoft Office Professional, Microsoft Office Standard, Office Small Business, Office Ultimate, Office Enterprise, Office Professional Plus.

Microsoft Mouse, Microsoft Intellimouse, Microsoft intellimouse Explorer, Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer Bluetooth, Microsoft Intellimouse Presenter.

Windows Media Player, Windows Media Player Ultimate Pack...

Compared to:

Mac OS X

iWork

Mighty Mouse

iTunes

I think the lesson here is obvious.
I've been definitely having problems with the system hamging when retrieving messages in the last couple weeks. It could be a browser issue, but seems to span different browsers.
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AJAX developers continue migrating to unobtrusive JavaScript
So... You want your code to be maintainable.
This is more sensible then swimming across the Atlantic. New York to Paris.
Some very good arguments of Science vs. Bayes: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/05/science-or-baye.html

And explanations that people care about are just that what the link is all about - rationalization. Or in other words just because there is no good "explanation" for QM doesn't mean it shouldn't be accepted.
Steve Jobs said Microsoft has no taste, not Bill Gates. I think that if you're a good software developer (and BillG certainly qualifies), you need to at least have some degree of taste.
To disable the popups in firefox go to Tools->Socialbrowse->Receive Message Popups
thanks for the feature request. We're working on smarter ways of embedding the icons. If you have good ideas make sure you let us know.

If its bugging you you can disable them in Tools->Socialbrowse
I have already seen that. It has the error I mentioned.

As for raw QM, it corresponds to reality, but people are right to also want to know what it means. And we do know. MWI is a good explanation of QM. There's no need to be an instrumentalist, and being one is not a way of overcoming bias. Explanations of what bias is, and how to overcome it, are one of our major tools against it. (See, again, The Fabric of Reality on MWI (chapter 2), instrumentalism (chapter 1), and about explanations in chapters 1,3,4,7 and mixed in throughout.)

The book QED by Feynman also contains very good explanations about QM, but without mention of MWI, so you can see that even with no particular interpretation of QM there is a lot of scope for explanation.
Not sure if this'd equate to feature creep or not but it'd be useful to know what category people submitted a link to in addition to who did it first and how many followed.
Ask YC: Where do I find good Video/Screencast service?
We are about to launch our site and we want one professional video/Screencast to be created that clearly explains what the site is about in 3 to 4 minute video.

We really like Xobni video. http://www.xobni.com/learnmore/

We have written the entire script and screenshots needed for video.
We just need someone to create professional video like Xobni video, but have no idea where to find it.

I found couple of guys on forums and also talked to guy who created Xobni video, but seems like they are really busy with other work at the moment.

Please let me know if you know any professional services.

Thanks in advance,
they can suck. The best example of one that doesn't suck (for me) is the facebook image uploader.
When do leaky abstractions become Niagra Falls?
Design is like that of a domain-squatter.
It did, until FF3 came out.
Ask HN: Code etiquette - tabs or spaces?
I like putting coding with tabs only but I've been told that using spaces is more uniform across various IDEs/what have you.

what do you use?
When Microsoft started out it operated under a pretty flat organizational structure, similar to how Google is run. They've gotten fat in the middle (management) over the years and it's stifled any chance they've had of getting anything done.

See this blog post from a former MS employee about the year it took to design the shutdown menu in Vista: http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-c...
no. No problems with my gmail account. specific information with supporting evidence would also be nice for an article this high in the HN news rankings...
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Google's Open Source Android Phone Will Free the Wireless Web
Someone prefers Zimbra to Gmail? Zimbra, of all things? Well, each to their own, I suppose. In my experience, it would be hard to find a webmail client that is worse than Zimbra.
My theory is that your IDE should be able to adjust the amount of spaces that 1 tab is equal to, and therefore the whitespace is adjustable across editors that way - so I always use tabs.

But if you're so anal about whitespace, there's always regex...
Perhaps they meant kayak.com?
Kerning and OpenType features in Firefox 3
What's scary about Microsoft is that a company so big can develop software at all. They're like a mountain that can walk.

-Paul Graham

One of my favorite PG quotes.
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Firefox 3 Memory Benchmarks and Comparison
interesting idea but the best evidence the guy has is based on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Anybody have any real world statistics on this?
Windows 7 'would' ship Jan 2010
Jaxtr, We are not dead yet!
whitespace. Tabs are non-standard across systems and of a non-unit length and so when custom continuation lines are indented, they have to use a mix which wreaks havoc when the tab length goes from 4 to say 8 or vice versa. If you are interested in re-indenting code, then use a program/command that is actually designed for code re-indentation, not some inaccurate stupid shortcut like tab length manipulation. Pretty much any modern IDE would have a code re-indentation infrastructure.
Troy, the city RPI is in, is a really unique place. Most people would call it a dump, but I found it pretty darn awesome. As James Kunstler put it: "The late 20th century bypassed it so completely that it evaded the kind of false urban renewal that left so many other towns wrecked."

If you walk around downtown you can be go from a modern ghetto to a '20s boom town and back again in 5 minutes. The mix is surreal and I've never been anywhere else like it.

I'm glad after graduating I ended up in Boston, another city that has an amazing amount of preserved history. Otherwise, I'd be missing Troy a little too much.

p.s. This talk by James Kunstler is awesome: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/121 "Technosis externality clusterfuck" hah
sorry for the delay in following up on this.

no it doesn't look like your email allows for msg.

i am curious about your magazine.

post a link if you can
Perhaps the deep and abiding problem here is not that all cellphones are not nationalized, its that there are people in this world that kill each other over SMS messages!

But yeah, sure, go ahead and fix the dot. I'm sure that will solve everything.
Start paying attention and you will notice it all around you. Of course it is too simple to explain everything, but still pretty useful method.
Well, nothing has to stop it. It has serious inherent limitations. Tiny screen, being tethered to one carrier, etc. It could become the most wildly successful phone on the market and still be only 10% of phone-based browsing, and phone-based browsing, having those limitations, could only be 10% of all browsing.
What puzzles me is that it tells you to go to Seattle first, instead of just jumping into the water right there in San Diego...
The problem is that microsoft doesn't need critiques as much as someone to fire the idiots in charge of the places the problems arise. The problem with microsoft is that no one fires the idiots who think it's OK to let customers see this kind of crap.

Bill Gates could be as good as critiquing things as Steve Jobs, but unless he fires the idiots who thought the dumb implementations were acceptable, all that valid criticism ain't worth two shits.
Hosted email service or run your own?
Looking at how to deal with email service for a startup.

The obvious benefit of hosted is that you don't waste time on setting up email and you focus on your app. But this option may have costs associated with it, are there any good free offerings?

Running your own has the upside of more control (do you even need that control?), but takes up time.

I am not talking about mail service as an integral part of the app (ie: the app doesn't email users updates) but more just handling email for the domain name of your startup.
Great request. On anyone's profile page you can select "all" under any of the links they share. This brings you to a page that shows the link and all the people who have rated it.

When you're on a site you can also get to that info page about the site by clicking the "shared by (n)" link in the sidebar. (where n is the number of people who've shared it.)

We should at the number of shares and the first share to the info page. Thanks for the feedback!
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The difference between Apple and Microsoft is that this rant would come from Steve Jobs long before the products were actually shipped.
A bit of history and an interesting conjecture
Back to Basics: var != Dim
All the explanations you are talking about are very nice, and give you a lot of warm comfort, but they all are just rationalizations. There's not much you can predict about the rest of the world using them.

The cold rationality lies in the math you have to study for 2-3 years to learn how to add up these little amplitude arrows. Using that you can actually model and make predictions.

Another great example is Maxwell, he got all the rationalizations "wrong" but the math survived and is called after him.
Revisiting the XML Angle Bracket Tax
It would be nice if the colors conformed to the users settings.
It's pretty clear that BillG has business, management, and technical acumen, but I'm not so sure that he has taste in the aesthetic sense. If he does have good aesthetic taste, he hasn't done a very good job of implementing it.
MS's QA is oriented towards making sure that individual pieces function, not that the right thing happens. Their aim is 100% automated unit testing... but nobody ever tests that doing something is intuitive.

The UX folks do, but that doesn't mean they get their way.
yes - but many of those MS products are just configurations of the one thing, not a separate product.
I would say "experiences like that happen" and this guy is more than likely a outlier. Not to say that Microsoft manages their interns better and provide more support and resources than Google does or vice versa. But ones experience is going to rely heavily on the team the work with and their skills and personality. A mismatch of one against the other can make the situation seem like something it isn't.
You are presenting an explanation of why I should discount explanations in general. Isn't that a contradiction?
Which doesn't seem to be there anymore. I think Google generally suggested all travelers from the US to Europe to swim.
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Nature: The Ultimate Physical Limits of Computation
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The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (sometimes it's good)
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Exactly, I'm being irrational here too - I'm addressing your irrational self that would listen to the arguments of a stranger for no good reason :)

Here's the kind of arguments I would find rational - http://www.amazon.com/Probability-Causality-AI/lm/R2GX832Q1M...
Yeah, all those, plus you missed a couple whole divisions:

Entertainment: XBox, Zune

Servers stuff: Windows Server, Visual Studio, etc

Online stuff: Live search (and ads, etc), hotmail, etc

Have a look at the organization and you'll see Microsoft is WAY bigger and more complex than Apple.
To quote BSD style(9): Indentation is an 8 character tab.
If you have to wrap a long statement [because it would go past the 78th column], put the operator at the end of the line. Second level indents are four spaces. Do not add whitespace at the end of a line, and only use tabs followed by spaces to form the indentation. Do not use more spaces than a tab will produce and do not use spaces in front of tabs.

If you find that your code doesn't fit into 78 columns using 8-character tabs... you need to refactor your code.

If your editor mangles whitespace... get a better editor.
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One of the kinds the most unusual Forum. Must see it to believe it.
That's why I ended the post by saying this was a personal experience. I just wanted to make the point that it certainly appeared like Microsoft was better prepared to cope with this situation and it also seemed that it was due to a more mature internship program. I loved working for both companies and there will definitely be pro-Google posts in the future :-)
Visual studio part of "server stuff"? All those versions of visual studio are replaced by Xcode for the basic functionality, then you mix and match whatever else you might need that may or may not come with Xcode/OSX e.g. svn for scm. There's OS X Server as well...

Also, iPod and Zune (to be fair, this is where the tables are turned with iPod nano, iPod touch, iPod classic, etc.), iPhone OS and Windows Mobile..
liking this a lot. great start!
From friends who've interned at both places (and from my own experiences at one of the two), I would agree with this assessment. Google gets all the hype for free food and being quirky, but Microsoft seems to provide a more consistent experience for interns. Both places are full of smart engineers, but the people management seems better at Microsoft (perhaps necessitated by the size of the company!).
Professor Lenski's humorous but scientific put down of Conservapedia nonsense
I'm not sure how having a testing framework leads directly to good design. I know they help show that things aren't broken, but I don't see how they affect the design of the modification.
As a lisp weenie, I feel it is my duty (yes, I have a strong sense of entitlement ;P) to ask:

Does XML ever have anything over s-expressions, anytime?

As one point, I sometimes struggle with the attribute/nested-tag dichotomy of XML. Sometimes any of them would make sense. Other times, it really looks like it should be an attribute but since the value is more complex than a string I have to use a nested tag.

With s-expressions those issues just don't seem to come up.
An important consideration brought up in another thread is the overseas country's rate of increase in cost of living.