skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem I see with most attempts at using the social graph for problems like this is that most social graphs have no notion of expertise. Tom may be a good friend of mine who shares my interest in cooking and scuba diving, but he works in a Windows shop coding in Java for enterprise apps while I am a Mac user who does large-scale consumer service development using Python and Erlang. He also likes the Patriots, which calls into question any opinion he may have about sports :) Capturing the different facets of "relevancy" is hard, and it does not sound like this comes close to being able to distinguish signal from noise when coming from a source that otherwise might appear to be trustworthy.
> he argues for a 4 hour work week, but

You're missing his message.

> In the second category, you have people who don’t love what they do. It comes back to that comfortable mediocrity. And for them, it’s about replacement. It’s not about reduction. For them, the goal is to get to the point where they’re doing what they love. And that is the objective of everything that I teach. _It’s not to be idle_, but it’s to get to the point where you control your time and allocate it to the things that will give you the most joy and also provide the greatest impact. For each person, that will be very individual.

Emphasis mine.
I fully anticipate Gruber will link to Marco's piece, Asymco will add some sort of twisted perversion of data that supports it, and so on.

Does that make any of them wrong? If that didn't happen would that make any of them right? I'm not really getting the significance here. It's the internet. People link to things. You don't have to pay attention to any of them.
No. I have high hopes for Chrome netbooks. A very simple, very fast, cheap laptop? The main thing is a real keyboard for doing heavy typing. Lots of potential for this form factor.

Well, as long as the manufacturers don't crap it up as much as the telecom carriers crap up cell phones. Android is doing well anyway.

Besides, the Year of the Tablet is only beginning, and it may not be so rosy in the long run for anybody but Apple. Remember the Tablet PC was going to take off too. And then it was the Origami device (I have one of these. And then there was something "revolutionary" coming after that ... I think that next platform vanished like a mist over the moors.)
I agree with your notion of Google contributing to the destruction of usenet.
Yes, Gmail does top posting, but the threaded display that Gmail uses shows each message in chronological order from the top down.
commodity (noun) /kəˈmɒd.ə.ti/ Undifferentiated goods characterized by a low profit margin, as distinguished from branded products.
The Physicist proof all odd numbers are prime: 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is experimental error,
11 is prime, 13 is prime...
Re: Marketing Tool, the concept is that you need to make your business card give the recipient reason to pause or comment. My business card (I'm a business coach with Shirlaws) has a picture of a baby on it - it's not what people expect, it prompts a question, and it makes it more memorable. If they meet 20 people at a dinner, they won't remember them all - my card helps. Naturally, my example and the concept don't work in every situation, but it's a good filter to operate.

The best company I know that do this is Think Feel Know (http://www.thinkfeelknow.com/). The starting point for their business (disclaimer - I've worked with them) is understanding communication styles, since each of us is a combination of Thinking, Feeling, and Knowing - usually with a predominance of one style over the others. The different styles are linked to decision making, as well as marketing tools like shapes and colours.

Ask one of their team for a business card, and they will produce a handful, turn them over to show you a group of cards that are blue, red, and green on the back, and ask you to choose one. The contact information on the front is the same; better believe that when you are forced to select one colour, the next question out of your mouth is 'what does that mean?', and the answer will explain their business and how they might be able to help your organisation. Very memorable.
Really, with Perl the distinction "part of the core language" is meaningless. You can install a CPAN bundle for a hardcore Perl in one shell command, or get it all preinstalled. Strawberry Perl for Windows has all the good stuff in a single installer, for instance, and if you're on Unix you've similarly got no excuse.

Really. "Core language" is kind of twentieth. Moose is very well-established in the Perl community. That's as core as it gets.
Assumes equivalence is referential equivalence, and not overwritten. Of note, in some languages where there are immutable strings (e.g. java I believe) there is only "one true string" for each string (of course this isn't directly relevant to the example code given above). This means "var a = "test"; var b ="test"; assert(a==b);" holds true for referential equality.
Ruby's variable scoping relies on the compiler guessing the programmer's intent, as its syntax fails to distinguish between "Introduce a binding of this name within the current scope" and "Assign to the variable bound to this name".
About previews, I find amazon's free sample on kindle to be really useful most of the time.
Argh, HN munched my previous comment. Suggestions:

1. Displayed business card should also show QR code for others to scan in.
2. App could display QR code for others to download app instantly.
3. Not sure if it does already (I am on Android), but it would be cool if the emailed card had a link back to the app /site.
In point of fact I do know about moose, since, like every other Perl user on the planet, I've been around the CPAN block at this point. And that's just the problem - it's in CPAN, not in Perl itself. I can get an object system just as good (or better) in either Ruby or Python without having to go and download an add on. By itself, Perl - without any modules or extensions or any other crutches - has horrid OOP.

As far as scoping goes, I shouldn't have to explicity declare a variable lexically scoped - and I can't think of any other language where I do. Only Perl - and only because it's visibly hacked in after the fact, along with a number of other features.

Threading is not great for Ruby or Python either, because they use green threads - but Perl has problems bigger than that with it's threading.
You should rethink that first sentence. Slippery slope. There are still some neutral and reasonable commentators - Leo Laporte, Ryan Paul- left. If we accept bigotry (and there is plenty of history to asymco, df and arment to attest that all they ever do is turn everything into pro Apple circle jerking. There is no insight, alternative view, logic, reasoning, probability or anything closely resembling. Just one view - Apple is glory, Apple is right. That is ridiculous.) we will soon end up with compartmentalized world where everyone hears and subscribes to what they like - not progress to say the least.
How To Live Forever
Couldn't the same argument be made, even more so, with other areas of the technology market? When is the last time there has been a must have entry level digital camera? Or that one laptop that everyone has to have (although certain models stand out, keep in mind that the average consumer is spending in the under $800 range). Even devices where this is less of a choice, such as with iPods, there is still a range for what different feature choices people want, as well as other moderately successful devices. I'm just not understanding the point... walking into a Best Buy to get a gadget has always been this way.
Worth pointing out? Sure, but let’s not forget that what MPEG-LA actually does is license to you all the patents which H.264 is known to use — so you’re probably not infringing anything, barring of course the insanity the USPTO perpetuates… If you have a patent for part of the H.264 process, chances are, you’re part of the MPEG-LA and getting royalties through that organization already, legitimately, without suing anyone.
Who has a monopoly on Webkit?
Not part of the core language, is an add on.

So is DBI, Perl::Critic, cpanminus, perlbrew, Dist::Zilla, Perltidy, and (depending on your version) autodie. That's why my definition of a great Perl programmer includes pervasive use of the CPAN--you're restricting yourself unnecessarily if you avoid it.
Everything in Perl is deliciously weird.
>"Many investors can only dream of achieving returns of that magnitude by typing less than 140 characters."

For a second, I thought 50 Cent had become the new Jim Cramer. For all of 50 Cent's business tenacity, the article tries very hard to sweep his rap history under the rug as though it's just a coincidence to his success. If you ask any random person on the street "Who is 50 Cent?" a large majority of answers will be "a rapper" as opposed to "investor".

Many artists use their name as a brand to get endorsements:

His shoe line has generated over $70 million in revenue for Reebok -> Endorsement

His apparel line created in collaboration with Mark Ecko generates around $100 million in revenue -> Endorsement

Yes, he made a ton of money off of the Glaceau investment. What more was there about Glaceau that appealed to him? I think any serious investor understands that brand recognition and not hanging out with wankstas are key, but the article doesn't go beyond it. Also, not everyone gets to(or will, for that matter) hang out with Warren Buffet and Peter Thiel.
I only recently got an opportunity to try using a netbook, and I like this form factor more than I would have expected. The size makes it more ergonomic than a full sized laptop, yet the keyboard is still usable.

I've never tried using a tablet computer, but I think these will suffer from ergonomic difficulties. For situations such as reading books/text or maybe browsing the web from a sofa they would probably be ok, but most web content isn't designed in such a way as to make the links/buttons large enough for a finger. On a touch screen the UI design needs to be quite different from those which are intended to be mouse-driven.

Also take a look around the various exhibitions and see how many visitors are carrying tablets with them as opposed to laptops or netbooks. That's probably a fair indication of how useful tablets actually are.
I've never understood how the carriers can differentiate on price, either. Given that any contract with data will cost $1500-2000 over two years, the difference between a free phone and a $399 premium phone is pretty insubstantial.

The only conclusion I can reach is that a whole lot of consumers have never worked out what they're actually paying for the contract. And that's REALLY scary.
Library Ltd was a spectacular store with a national reputation from a single outlet back in the pre-WWW days.

A 1996 article: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1154/is_n4_v84/ai_181...

I stopped buying books when they closed. B&N and Borders were useless substitutes for me.
I used to be a huge Borders customer, but over the past few years, they became useless at having anything in stock or being able to easily check if anything was in stock without calling the seven or so stores in the greater Phoenix area. I like being able have a book in my hands the same night I hear about it, so I prefer brick and mortar stores (and I don't like e-readers much).

If they can solve this problem the way Powell's in Portland has (one giant bookstore with everything in stock and two or so subject-specific bookstores), then I'd still be their customer.
As a nitpick, this is an Opera employee presenting his views, not those of Opera Software ASA.
Screening troops’ DNA to see who’s suitable for combat operations?
Your email client doesn't use obviously distinct visual styles for quoted stuff? When someone writes in interleaved style, I just look at the message-bits, and look at the quoted parts for context. It's easy.
In theory.

I have Perl code from a decade ago that still runs on VMS. Can you show me similar Java code?

The fact that the camel book has a section with tips for porters is telling.

The Camel book is a decade out of date.
I think HN commenters are really missing Marco's point. He's talking about what's beneficial for the company, not what's beneficial for consumers.

Are any Android manufacturer's making as much of a killing as Apple is right now, globally? I'm talking about profits -- not unit sales.
Twitter looking at Brisbane as possible headquarters
I also have a bare bones OS project up on GitHub:

https://github.com/xomboverlord/xomb-bare-bones

It's a bit of a niche inside a niche: it explains how to set things up to write an OS in D. This was extracted from the OS that my friends and I started a while ago, that's now two of theirs' PhD research:

https://github.com/xomboverlord/xomb
I understand there is a need for publishers in physical media such as Xbox DVDs who handle the physical production and marketing.

But why is there a distinction between developers (Rovio Labs (Angry Birds), ZeptoLab (Cut the Rope)) and publishers (Chillingo) on the iPhone?

What purpose do publishers serve on mobile device distribution?
No. Use a mail reader that distinguishes quoted text properly.

Less cheekily, I think an important part of interleave quoting is editing the original email. I think it's poor form to quote an entire 4 paragraph email and put your 1 line answer at the bottom. The better way is to trim it down as much as possible without completely losing the original meaning and then reply. Quite often this you can trim back to a single sentence which is a direct questions. And any sort of background introductory paragraphs can be snipped away completely.
Or we could just use VP8. All the open source people are happy, the codec will quickly improve, and the vast majority of your devices with their battery efficient dedicated H.264-decompression chips will be replaced by devices with battery efficient dedicated VP8 and H.264-decompression chips within three years. We also save 200 mill.
An impossible threat to fix, for all the reasons discussed in the article and comments. The only disincentive you can rely on for somebody showing you a fake badge is the small comfort that it is a huge felony for the guy to do so, so he's either really a cop or willing to face some hard time. Either way, resisting is not a good idea.

Having a lawyer on retainer and speed dial might help you catch some of the BS and/or protect yourself, but most Americans can't afford that. A (supposed) cop can easily claim PC to prevent you from calling anybody else.
Oh, how I wish Netbooks hadn't become 'the next big thing'....

I love having computing available everywhere I go. Really useful. I type up notes live in meetings / presentations and never have to worry about transcribing them. I take my email, my photos, my documents wherever I go. I've been known to develop code on it, in an idle period far away form home or desk.

So I started with a Palm III - cheap toy, screen far too small and the data entry far too slow. Upgraded to a Psion 5 - great, but by then the market had become a bubble and burst, and Psion quickly vanished with the remaining issues with the platform sadly unsolved. Too many people had realised that a GBP400 handheld with slow data entry wasn't all that useful, there was a glut of inventory and the devices died.

Along came netbooks - brilliant! Battery life and portability not as good as before but software compatibility better. Then they became The Next Big Thing and everyone started making them, most people discovered that a 9" laptop with no CD drive isn't very useful for them, and we've got a glut of inventory and a rapidly collapsing market.

Now we have tablets. For twice the cost of my netbook I can get an iPad which trades marginally greater portability and battery life for enormously worse data entry and more limited software. Or a range of imitators that largely serve to show that Smartphones are overpriced by having the same basic features behind a bigger screen for a lower cost. Again, I'm expecting to see a year or two's bubble where we all have to have them and everyone starts making them, followed by a market collapse and new products becoming rarer than hen's teeth.

For those of us who want real, proper mobile computing, not the latest overpriced fad gadget, can we please have less hype? That way hopefully we can end up with a long-term market for machines we can actually use and get real work done on, not just this year's shiny tech bauble.
that page is classic infographic spam
Monetizing Food+Tech Connect
Interleaving only works if the email you're replying to consists of separable units that can be replied to individually. Replying to messages with complexity beyond "A/S/L??", I find that replies tend to depend on each other and if you try to quote, or selectively quote, parts of a message and reply to each section, your reply ends up having forward and backward dependencies, splitting up important points between different block quotes, and repeating itself. This is especially true when you have to introduce new information the other person wasn't aware, or if you need to explain your reasoning, or depart from their expected answer format. In short, any time your reply contains anything additional beyond direct answers to the questions. In the real world, most answers entail such additional information.

I know we value each and every precious keystroke, but I tend to stick with that old adage we learned in middle-school of restating the question in your answer. Since you're re-establishing the email context in your own words rather than using the words & order the other person gave you, you have the freedom to structure your reply that best communicates whatever it is you need to add.

My experience is that interleaved replied are also less concise. Re-stating context allows you to summarize it, and it allows you to unify several points into one response. Interleaved replies encourage repetition--I can't tell you how many debates I've seen with point-by-point rebuttals, where the last N-1 chunks all start with "Again," "As I said before," and "Like I just said."

To use the example from the original article: Best reply would be "Thursday sounds great!" Much shorter, and I don't have to re-read what I already wrote to understand it.
I think the WSJ owes Mrs. Chua an apology.

Come to think of it, if they actually do release an apology, it will probably serve as an additional boost to the book's sales.

It makes me wonder whether the author of the original piece was just an inconsiderate asshole, or an evil genius who's getting a slice of the pie and planned out the "lie" and apology in advance as a marketing stunt. Either way, there's an idea. Don't recommend it though. :-P
Also, all the different MP3 stores really make my head spin. Why cant we all just buy music and video from iTunes? Give me a break. I bet walking down the cereal isle at the grocery store is a nightmare for Marco.

Well, I hate to quibble, and I mostly agree with what you're saying, but if you remember back to the last time that Apple had to negotiate it's contracts with Universal, Warner, Sony BMG, etc, the music studios weren't exactly trying to negotiate the iTunes music store's prices down. In fact, they were asking for a lot of fairly consumer-unfriendly stuff, like the option to jack-up the price of singles in the first few weeks of release, and more album 'bonus tracks' (ie less a-la-carte song pricing).

In fact, it's Universal et. al. that own the rights to all this music. Do they really have to sell any of it in the iTunes music store? Would they have to sell any of it in the iTunes music store if the retail online market for music was split evenly between a multiplicity of mp3 stores? Why don't they tell Apple to take their $1.25 price point and shove it? The answer to that question is the key to understanding the digital music market.
Isn't that a blatant spam account, anyway?

I realize there are a number of cultures in the world, but Gcof-Kayode Horhlarnreignwerjoo Aliyu-Afg? Is there a culture where any of that name makes sense?

"G like Golf, C like Charlie, O, F like Frank, hyphen, ..."
Nice UI, but it's not immediately clear why this is better than Bump. (Which is not to say that Bump can't be improved on.)

Found a bug: if you have two phone numbers, only the first one shows up on the card.
“OK, but there are two rules…”
Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset 2.0
Graph Theory: Who Knows Who?
I used to frequent the borders in provo utah. The computer science section was actually decent for a while (I snagged a copy of ansi common lisp, the little schemer and the structure and interpretation of classical mechanics) from there. The last time I was down there they were seriously playing country music. I'm not trying to be a snob (maybe I am) but this was like garth brooks esque pop not johnny cash - this was lyrics about boot skootin and drinking - the absolute diametric opposition to reading. Good riddance.
What are you getting at with this?
What better way to express your personality than by sending all emails in 20-point pink Comic Sans MS, with no paragraph breaks at all?

I've seen several people do this. No exaggeration.
>It's the internet. People link to things.

Absolutely. And of course people who believe the same thing naturally come together. There is nothing whatsoever wrong with that. It's how it is supposed to work.

However there is a perspective lens when the posts from the same group are widely propagated, reinforced through repeated assertion. It's an opinion bloc more than valuable or interesting insight.

No one cares when a couple of guys at the bar rabble off about their opinions. When they're, say, Glen Beck and his cohorts of a certain sphere, though, the discussion of course changes because their opinion is propagated widely. Stop the presses: Glen Beck and all his cohorts disagree with something the administration does.
Right. There will be some situations where a tablet is the most convenient format (reading books I think will be the main application), but for most situations ergonomics dictates a certain kind of physical arrangement where you can see the screen without constantly needing to hold it at an angle and also type efficiently for emails, tweets, etc.
> there is a tyranny of choice here

How do you buy cars?
IPv6 will provide another market for readable hex words

host www.v6.facebook.com
www.v6.facebook.com has IPv6 address 2620:0:1cfe:face:b00c::3
I was in a similar egg drop contest in which devices were scored by weight.

The winning entry was helium balloons attached to a basket. It had a decidedly negative weight.
Purveyors of dead trees need to take a serious look at printing books on demand in the store at price that competes with online prices. Stock the shelves with a few full-price deluxe copies, and print discount copies on demand in store.
$60k is claimed to be tight for raising a family of 4. You're looking at households, which are not the same thing at all.

According to the table at http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0884238.html (which claims to be using census data; I tried digging through the census website for this information but actually finding it there is a pain) as of a few years ago 27% of households had 1 person. 33% of households had 2 people. You will note that adds up to 60% of the households. So the median household size is 2.

Households with at least 4 people (the ones that $60k is claimed to be tight for) make up, according to the same table, about 23% of households.

It would be interesting to look at the income distribution for such households, since _that_'s what would be relevant to the concern you're raising; I would expect their median household income to be somewhat faster than $52k, though possibly not a huge amount more. If you can figure out how to get this data from the census website, I'd be really interested.