skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might be plausible, but it can't possibly be confirmed which makes it no better than speculation. I'm as frustrated as the next guy that my Captivate is still running Eclair, but stuff like this doesn't really get us any closer to a solution.

When both carrier and manufacturer neglect to offer explanation or consideration for their collective failure to deliver, they must collectively be held responsible. This means switching carriers when possible and buying from different handset manufacturers. This approach has teeth, but only in large numbers. That's why it's so important to set this silliness aside and focus on real and tangible things the average consumer can do. Focusing on fantastical stories of employees clandestinely posting anonomyous accounts of shady contract terms makes for great drama, but still leaves us without resolution. And quite honestly if it took this story to urge you to action then you weren't all that disappointed in AT&T and Samsung's failure in the first place.
If you wanna know how likely a no-home-button iphone is, try doing a 4 or 5 finger swipe using only one hand.
I'm quite tired of these posts, but HN appears to love them.

If you don't like a company, don't invest in it, and don't use it's products. But it's not your duty to scare other people away, especially not by reading tea leaves.

First, any ad buy is a gamble. Perhaps investing $100 in ads on Facebook can result in $1000 in sales. But the payoff here has everything to do with your own business, and nothing to do with the Facebook platform. Literally: mind your own business.

Second, I am interested in the thoughts of long term Facebook/Twitter/etc employees. These are people with actual knowledge of the roadmap, revenue, and vibe inside a company. Everyone I personally know at Facebook is extremely happy and bullish about their career there. Ask a friend that works there if it is a Ponzi scheme and watch his reaction.

I am interested in constructive advice about how you are building a successful startup.

I an not interested in these hit pieces from casual observers. I think the small portion of bloggers, commenters, etc. that try to knock Facebook down are having sour grapes. Are you really more confident in your own business acumen than Zuckerberg's? Is your business model perfect, with bubble free growth unto eternity?

But ultimately, there's nothing constructive here. What am I supposed to take away from this article?

The PG Yahoo article is a totally different beast. He was inside the machine and is offering his intimate business knowledge. This article is useless. Yet HN eats it up for some reason...

Disclaimer - I am not at all affiliated with Facebook but I was at the YC at FB event last week and it was fun.
I remember trying them once 5 years ago and not caring for the software that much ... With free alternatives like Postbox lite, I don't know how long their run will continue.
Logo and company name seems very similar to http://www.nodejitsu.com It's also curious NodeFu seem to be using some of Nodejitsu's open-source offerings to make this work. ( https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy and https://github.com/indexzero/forever ).

Are NodeFu and Nodejitsu the same company?
I think this could add a lot for immersion, but there are a lot of problems with the scent medium. It's your body detecting particles, not waves. Particles linger, so it's not like the smell's going to go away.

Say you're in a burning village in a game, and the ScentScape releases burnt-carbon molecules. Wow, a real burning village! I'm immersed! Then you ride your FantasyHorse to the next kingdom to warn their king of the impending attack. Except the burnt-carbon's still in the air, and you get this weird mix of regal smell and burnt village smell.

I really think they'll have to use a different mechanism for this to work - a small mask, perhaps. Or perhaps timed-Febreze particles.
Cook has done a series of corporate gigs (including ironically employment at IBM in 1984). But there's no history of entrepreneurship - no Apple, Next, or Pixar. He's Prime Minister not an Emperor material.
RubyStack is great - it installs lots of things you need for running Rails in production on Windows, I think. Like Apache and MySQL server, etc. The 20-panel wizard is sort of off-putting, if you really want to be fussy. I don't think RubyStack includes Git when I last looked.

The focus for RailsInstaller is a welcome kit for new developers. Can we give them everything they need for the first 30 days until they fall in love with Rails? After that, they'll learn to create tickets on projects, learn about different Rubies, learn about different ways to do things.

Can we keep them excited and nurture them into the Rails/Ruby communities? Hopefully, yes, if its trivially easy to get started.
You mean we are being screwed over LESS than the US for a cellphone?

Oh damn - here comes the apocalypse, lions lying down with lambs, rivers of blood, oceans of fire - Canadians getting good deals on a cellphone.
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Oh, that's easy: in the US, it is overwhelmingly either $500 or $1,000.
Pretty Women Make Simple Men
Welcome to the 1990s, here's your Discman.

Of all the things to get worked up about in one's community, the fact that some people have large, dull-looking houses is about the lamest, laziest, and least politically cognizant.

Or put another way, if the biggest problem in your community really and truly is that some people have McMansions...count your damn blessings.

And citing zoning variances? Really?
Finding the Elusive Work-Life Balance
Google brings in 23+ billion a year on free.
Maybe buttonless for the iPad, but I doubt it for the iPhone as you would lose the ability to use it one-handed.
So what? If they have the money and the land, go ahead and build what you like. That is what makes America free. This article is quite an example of class-ism.
RubyStack also has virtual machine and Amazon EC2 versions. RubyStack also supports Linux and Mac, though it seems support for that is planned for RailsInstaller as well.
There reaches a point in virtual reality where increased realism becomes undesirable. In my opinion, smell-o-vision is that point.
Microsoft Kinect 'core contributor' goes Google
I just ordered a copy for my Kindle, and will likely finish it before the end of the week. I'm an electrical engineer with experience in signal processing, so this should be a pretty fun read. I'll try to post a review on here sometime over the weekend.
This is rather heinous. A fee is definitely understandable but a per-device fee is really outrageous. I don't know how carriers were willing to agree in the first place. If they collectively bargained against this before even carrying the phone they probably would've had much more luck.

Although I'm sure Samsung has every right to charge however much they want, perhaps Google could step in and remind them that if they Samsung wants to be greedy they can always use Bada
If a small business already has a merchant account at their bank, and can process proximity payments via Paypal or other ways, then they can avoid the 2-3% Bank/Credit Card charge every time someone uses a credit/debit card.
I'm inferring a distinction that Kurzweil doesn't make explicit, but I'd guess he regards "theism" as a claim that the creator possesses specific (highly anthopomorphic) traits, eg. love, or personal interest in our lives. I doubt he would recognize much difference between the unknowable theity that you describe and his own "artilect." (quoted because I think it's a stupid word). For theists, the concept of God necessarily carries the baggage of what God is like.

The Problem of Evil, philosophically, has never been a refutation of the existence of God. It's a refutation of the existence of a particular kind of God.

As an aside, one of the most common answers to the Problem of Evil is that God's justice is beyond human comprehension. I think it's interesting that this dovetails the debate of philosophy into semantics. That is, if God is just, but not in a way recognizable to humans, is it even semantically meaningful to call Him just?
OTOH, I read SICP first, and later checked out HTDP. It didn't seem very interesting to me. Not sure what I would have thought about it first.

Other potential prerequisites to SICP, all of which use Scheme: The Little Schemer (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/; a quick read, but a bit overly cute), EoPL (http://www.cs.indiana.edu/eip/eopl.html; a great book in its own right; I recommend the _first_ edition), PLAI (http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/).
This Ted talk by Sugata Mitra also talks about replacing teachers with machines. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk60sYrU2RU

The fast-food delivery of education must change now that we have better tools to impart education.
I've heard really good things about Star Craft. I haven't played it, but it seemed to do well in the reviews.
"(eMarketer estimates Facebook took in) $740 million coming from major marketers like Coke, P&G or Match.com...
Interestingly, Google itself was the fifth-biggest advertiser for the same period, as it was looking to market its Chrome web browser. "
http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=148236

It's very hard for me to look at a company doing $740 million in revenue from the likes of Coke and Proctor & Gamble and say that it's not sustainable. I'll admit it's possible they are all just blowing their money away, but that seems less and less likely.
Yes, RubyStack includes Git as well
The protagonist gets rich.
Fortune reports that Steve Jobs was treated for Cancer as recently as 2009
Freakonomics: Yes, This Blog Is Leaving NYTimes.com
Anecdotes like this ("$100 in ads bought 1 book! It's the ad platform, not my product!") are slightly annoying, and saying 'ponzi scheme' 4 times in the first two paragraphs doesn't make it so.

Our startup has had a large amount of success with Facebook ads. Their segmentation makes it easy. In fact, Facebook ads are so successful it's becoming a danger. To some extent, we are reliant on them as a lead source and that's a really bad situation to be in.

But yeah, post a sensational title, reinforce that title 4 times in the first two paragraphs and then at the end say something like this:

>> Yet, their value and growth continues because they can use that money to grow their user-base more and assert profitability (in this sense it's not quite entirely a ponzi scheme, but there is no closer idea). It's possible that they do not even realize that they are like a Ponzi scheme.

What? It's not quite entirely a ponzi scheme?

There's a difference between an ad platform that doesn't fit your customer acquisition model and a ponzi scheme.
Norman Mailer & Marshall McLuhan Debate the Electronic Age
Opinions differ. To me, a 'complete redesign' means that all previous design decisions get revisited. The end effect of a redesign could, in extreme cases, even be the identical product (that is what Coca-Cola eventually did in the 80s)

For iPhone, I would expect differences, though. The technology (especially batteries and screens) improves rapidly, and the target audience changes, too. On the one hand, apple has to reach out to less technologically savvy users; on the other hand, even those likely are more familiar with the UI than the original iPhone buyers were.

I would expect that the UI and the hardware should focus more and more on the cloud. The (eventual) end result of that will be the removal of the iPod connector in iPhone 7 or therabouts.
I quit Facebook about half a year ago and I find it very refreshing. It's too bad I miss some events, but it is so relaxing. No longer do I have to think with every picture: this would be good for Facebook. No longer do I spend hours looking at pictures of people I don't know. No longer is my private information shared. Finally: when I meet people, I can tell a story without having to hear: "yeah, I read it on Facebook".
Ask HN: any experience with literate programming?
The concept of literate programming was invented in the 1970's by DEK with WEB [1] during the rise of structured programming. In my understanding, the goal of literate programming is to implement concepts in programs by following one's own approach, and make it understandable to other human beings.

WEB and its relatives rely on a programming language (eg. C) and a document formatting language (eg. TeX). The program and its documentation are written at the same time, in an unique source file. At anytime, one can extract the whole source files (aka 'tangling') or the documentation explaining its implementation (aka 'weaving').

Have you ever used literate programming? What is you experience with
it?

[1] http://www.literateprogramming.com/knuthweb.pdf
Actually, Java has been getting better with annotations, etc. Java EE 6 is also a huge improvement over Java2EE. That said, I still use Ruby, Lisp, Clojure much more often, but Java is good also for some types of applications.
One of the really cool things about Eli's story is the fact that he received a copy of SICP signed by Abelson and Sussman after completing his project (because of the actions of someone who knows the authors). That had to be a fun thing to receive in the mail.

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2008/06/06/signed-copy-of-sicp/
In my opinion this argument is flawed because of one important false assumption. The Facebook of tomorrow will not be or function as the same Facebook of today.

Do not make a mistake in thinking the same model or whatever you define as a social network will function the same in the future.

Facebook will do everything it can to preserve large cash stable and market leverage so it can morph its business into whatever it deems necessary or market demands of it, again and again.
If you offer me 1% of the equity, I’ll do 1% of the work. If you offer me 25% percent, I’ll do 25%. If you offer me 60%, I’ll insist on only taking 25% and I’ll work 24/7 for you.

My favourite line.
If people are Facebook users or addicts, it means they're getting something from it. That something might not be good for them, but people aren't going to volunteer hours a day doing something that isn't providing value in some way.

Facebook may go away, but the reasons why people use sites like Facebook will not. And it's really important to try and discover what those reasons are, so that you can offer that value in your own product.

Drugs are horrible for your body and for your life, but people still use it because it offers something they want. You can sit back and call drugs a fad, or you can look into why people use drugs. With that knowledge, you can invent something radically new that is healthy, and replaces drugs. Or, you can just invent cheaper, stronger drugs. Either way, you'll be rich.
For the first release we wanted a stack of projects that "just worked", rather than the latest release of everything. We have a lot more confidence that a new developer to Rails, if using Ruby 1.8.7 from RubyInstaller will have a good development experience, today.

The intent is to upgrade RailsInstaller to Ruby 1.9.2 definitely. For the first release, we went with 1.8.7 to maximize the likelihood of pleasant experiences.

I'd like an integration test suite around RailsInstaller for common use cases of Rails (and other common ecosystem tools, like git). That might go hand in hand with the promotion of ruby 1.9.2 on Windows.
Regarding 3):

The interesting thing here is that with the PS3, it's very easy to add a mouse and keyboard, as the console supports pretty much any class-compliant USB model. Epic Games actually tried this a few years ago with Unreal Tournament III, though I don't think it supported cross-platform multiplayer.
You know it's not the same. You don't hook up your phone to an external monitor and a full-sized keyboard and you don't run desktop software on it.

OTOH, a current phone could emulate an Amiga in real-time without much effort. I could, conceivably, run an Amiga desktop off any HDMI equipped phone with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.
you actually have "hundreds" of good friends?
wow that's a lot. how many do you know in real life?
Yes, colors!!! I added a feature request here - https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/8786925
NodeFu is not a company but rather an open source project. It does use the http-proxy module - https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy
Summaries of Android upgrades by manufacturer and carrier:

http://blogs.computerworld.com/17649/android_upgrades

http://blogs.computerworld.com/17650/android_upgrades_carrie...

tl;dr, Your best bet for upgrades is a high-end HTC phone on Verizon. If you go with Samsung or AT&T, you're out of luck.
Yeah, unconcern with the user experience is absolutely endemic with people who are obsessed with free formats.

I had a friend who ran a site where people could upload news reports in text, audio, video and such but he refused to accept .mp3 audio files, only let people play .ogg. Now personally I keep much of my music collection in OGG, but if you're trying to get people to participate on a site, there's hardly any difference between forcing people to install CODECs and not bothering to make the site at all... Except you waste your time and money making the site.
Stewart Lyman: Does biotech suffer from information overload or underload?
Gee, I'd kind of liked Samsung because they seemed to focus on delivering good technology at a good price. I'd figured they perceived themselves as something of an underdog in the past (perhaps relative to the Japanese tech industry).

This makes it seem like they're hiring Marketers and MBAs who think the best plan is to try to squeeze as much as they can out of their contract customers (the cell carriers) rather than put as much Samsung awesomeness as possible into the hands of actual happy users. Short-term thinking never gets old.

Maybe it's time to look at HTC.
maybe the people viewing your ads don't care about your book!
When it says "Chrome 10, FF4," it isn't joking. This is way busted in the Firefox 3.6 and Chrome 8 I have installed on my system. It does render consistently awful between the two, though, which is pretty neat from a Web standards perspective. I wonder what new feature they both have that the release versions are lacking.
I think depends on what your selling. If it's an item that's related to a user's profile (location, favorite bands, movies, etc) you can do quite well. I always click on adds for new albums or concerts for bands I have listed. Much easier for me than setting up alerts on a third party site.
Ah ok, thanks. I didn't see it mentioned on http://bitnami.org/stack/rubystack and I didn't remember seeing it when I ran the installer last year.
Eighth grader knocks Angry Birds out of the top free spot on the App Store
Agreed - but a little transparency on the public front for both Samsung and AT&T would go a long way. I have been on the fence about installing a hacked 2.2 rom on my captivate, but never did because I just had a feeling that the update was coming 'next week'. That was 4 months ago.
I agree it isn't hard but I think that if you read the companion texts and read the "prerequisites" you will internalize the lessons better.
Time to shut down Facebook?
Yes, everyone should be aware that not everything they read on the internet is true.

As a consumer, this is very useful even without confirmation. If it's true: it explains why some carrier-shipped phones aren't updated. If it's entirely made-up and speculative ... it still might suggest a business reason why carrier-shipped phones aren't updated.

Reminds me of this quote by Thomas Kean:

I remember going over a whole report the FBI gave me, 300 pages, "Classified" stamps all over it. I read the whole thing, 300 pages, with an FBI guy looking over my shoulder. After I was finished I turned to him, [and] I said: "I've read all this in the press! Why is it classified?" And he looked at me and said, "But you didn't know it was true." That was his answer.
Radars versus Dashboards: A Life/Death Choice
See Google, circa 2003:

"Those little ads? Nobody clicks on those!"
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Regarding "It seems safe to say, then -- no big surprise -- that aside from considering a phone's manufacturer, going with a higher profile, top-of-the-line device will improve your odds of receiving regular OS upgrades..." The Epic 4g has been Sprint's flagship phone, still running Eclair. I'm regretting not going with the Evo at times.
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I see this sentiment it it's non-sensical. You're going to join a start for 25% and put in a quarter effort? I don't think so. You're seriously going to give up most of you're equity just to demonstrate your generosity? Nfw.

There is that nice story of the two cofounders who both tried to give the other 60%. Ok maybe, but this 60/25 statement is just grandstanding. If you would seriously do this you are too foolish to be a founder.
No. There are differences of opinion, but if you show people a group of e.g. 8's on Hotornot, and a group of 2's on Hotornot, I doubt that anyone will have trouble figuring out which is which.
John Koza is a name worth googling if you're interested in learning more about Genetic Programming.
I understand the spirit behind "don't nickel and dime me". But remember that stingy is a trait that comes in handy for negotiating investments, supplier agreements, pricing, and exits.

There's a crucial difference between someone who's stingy because they don't value your contribution and someone who's stingy because they're cheap. Run from the former, but you may find you like the latter once you're on the same side of the table... which you will be for many years to come!
Actually it looks like they wrote the title twice then dropped both copies in the blender to come up with something unique. "Beautiful men, women are more likely to have higher IQs" or "Beautiful men, women are smarter too" either of those I might have misinterpreted but understood, but the resulting title smoothie is just not coherent.

Now on about the actual topic. Could this be an instance of correlation and not causation? Exercise is good for the brain. Exercise makes you look better. Therefore people who exercise both look better and are smarter on average.
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Those two links are absolutely fantastic!
I'm even more confused now. Is NodeFu the open-source offering for Nodejitsu?

If NodeFu isn't a company, how can it be the "heroku for node.js".
> I'm genuinely curious why you suggest the growth curve on this is exponential at this point?

I didn't suggest that.

I did add this bit after writing that first sentence when I thought of checking to see if that was still the case, and it wasn't:

> Also, looking at alexa it seems as though the period of hyper fast growth is already a bit past:
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You don't need to put 'attractive' in quotes, here. Attractiveness is a real thing; assessments of beauty strongly correlate with one another. And you're talking about an example where one group of people literally attracted other people. So there's no sense in which they weren't attractive.

IQ is pretty stable over a lifetime. It would be extraordinary for "help from others" to have a long-term influence; only diet and head injuries seem to affect IQ in a permanent way.
The title should include this: "with turtles!"