skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The conflicting interests issue is really a problem in the Android space. As has been shown time and time again, vendors really don't want the burden of keeping your handset up to date forever because there is nothing in it for them, aside from perhaps avoiding too much negative press.

Naturally people are going to compare it to iOS, where updates are free and rapidly disseminated. The difference there is that there definitely is something in it for Apple -- they're getting a cut of every app you buy, every song you download, etc. They're a middleman, so it's just a cost of doing business.

I wish we could get to a point where Android updates cost money. I would happily pay $30 or whatever for each major update if it motivated the vendor to have an interest in keeping it up to date.
Mondo radical... looking forward to getting my hands on a copy of this. I've been going through that one Google Tech Talks video series on data mining videos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFC2KUmEebc), and one older book on data mining. This is gnarly stuff.
Every ugly person I know is an idiot. Even if they are "smart."
Cross-breeding in European nobles can produce people that are, by birth, both atrocious and rich.

Otherwise, you'right, for obvious evolutionary reasons.
The Last Psychiatrist: This Time It's ESP
I have a feeling this will lead to even more education inequality based on socio-economic factors.

I think this approach has promise, and will probably be the standard one in the future, but this manifestation just seems as if it's being done for cost reasons.
Attitudes about graduate school are changing.
Excellent article, especially with code
> No, I'm not OK with pollution in China at all. I'm from China!

Whoa! :) Thanks for your responses.
Cool and the local Homeowner association (HOA) generally don't go together, you would need to live outside a subdivision.
I'd say the tools are of the least importance there.
Nevertheless, somehow we tend to think that most problems can be solved just by throwing technology at them.
I agree. Can't stand subdivisions.

But if you have kids, a subdivision, with its easy access to schools and parks, becomes more attractive.
I think pure computer learning is not the most effective way. Since there are often "hurdles" when learning that takes in depth explanation from another person.

However, if augmented by "office hours" for students, this could be a great way to learn. It will be great preparation for college where students don't attend class and read the power points after.
(active patterns in F#,

extractors or .unapply in scala
Here's an unpopular, but scientifically verified thought:

Beauty isn't all that subjective.

Things like waist/hip ratio( 0.7 for females, 0.95 for males ), facial symmetry, skin smoothness, have all been subjects of bias-controlled studies in which the overwhelming evidence is that human beings have biologically predetermined ideas of attractiveness.

That's not to say there are not significant subjective aspects, but the research is rather clear on at least some aspects.
In that vein, "CURSE YOU PERFORMA 600!!!!!!!!!!!"
Apple icon secrets: hidden meanings hiding in plain sight
Because most business journalism isn't all that good.

Science journalism is bad. Political journalism stinks. Is it a case of those who can do, do, but those who can't report?
Perhaps we need a Godwin's law for Ponzi schemes?
Steven Jobs on the Successful Business Model
It's in the readme ;)

http://bitnami.org/files/stacks/rubystack/2.1-0/README.txt
I think your description probably does match the actual baggage of the term in his mind, but he in fact did make something explicit, right in the previous sentence to one of the two I quoted: "Theism is the belief in a deity that also cares about the welfare of individual humans. "

You do not and can not know how what I was calling a Theity cares. It is itself a very primitive idea that the caring must manifest as heavyweight, visibly-obvious intervention into everyday life. I do not deny that this is certainly how many or most conceive of it but it should be pointed out that not all religions that contain Theities have this idea actually deeply embedded into them (as opposed to deeply embedded into the minds of the bulk of practitioners), but actually can still work with a relatively subtle Theity using the power of incomprehensibly vast intelligence to accomplish their goals through the smallest of possible changes, an elegant approach.

(Actually Kurzweil's characterization of religion is rather paper-thin, too: "Presumably, millions of those killed were theists, believing that their “theity” would “look out” for their welfare." I know that's not intended as an explanation of The Totality of Religion in one sentence, but I still shouldn't even have to describe how this does not match up with the contents of many religions, particularly including Christianity which promises persecution, explicitly, several times. I think many religions and many actual expressions of religious are rather more subtle than he is willing to give credit for.)
There was also GNO/ME - UNIX for the Apple IIgs - http://www.gno.org/gno/
you should connect with the tokyo/kyoto cabinet author if you aren't already, http://twitter.com/#!/mikio1978/status/27344938710601728, his kyoto cabinet network 'daemon' is under heavy development and it would be really cool if you two were to collaborate and share code
Studentbase.org Launches
Money is power and with power comes responsibility. Houses like this are wasteful and irresponsible on many, many levels.

It’s true, focusing on this of all the problems facing us today is a little silly. And I don’t think it is the government’s place to discourage this. But it is our place to discourage it. This is something culture has to change. It should not be culturally acceptable to purchase McMansions. The owners of McMansions shouldn’t have the respect, envy or admiration of their neighbors and peers. They should face scorn and derision. Eventually people will stop wanting them and stop buying them. And they will stop being built.

Instead, we should encourage those with the money to build and purchase homes that have been built as sustainably as possible. You shouldn’t be trying to one up the Joneses with a home that is bigger, more wasteful and more ostentatious. You should be trying to one up the Joneses with a home that has a smaller environmental footprint, that makes better use of the land it sits on, that is more off the grid and more carbon neutral.
I seem to recall at one point it was the one-click-install (more or less) Windows program that actually let / made it easy to pull headers without pulling entire messages. A relative was on a slow modem, and I trained them in this feature so that they could delete the majority of their nascent spam deluge from the sever without incurring the hit of downloading the entire messages.

(Spam filtering options started becoming commonplace / an option for them not too long thereafter.)
This can't be the case in this study, since the effect was only pronounced in the youngest group that was tested.
Duostack has also a nodejs setup.

I have been working on a small game and so far I am very happy with how it works.

http://www.duostack.com
What is starting to really irk me about Facebook is how birthdays are handled. It's like the site is basically one big happy birthday wish site. Each day it's somebody else's birthday and all their friends take turns trying to write a somewhat unique birthday wish, like:

Friend #1: Happy Birthday!

Friend #2: HAPPY BIRTHDAY DUDE!!

Friend #3: happy b-day!

Friend #4: Have a wonderful birthday!

And it goes on and on down the list. Some unfortunate people feel the need to individually reply to each and every birthday wish. Each day it's like this for a different person, until once a year when it's your birthday and then everyone's doing it to you.

It's really, really stupid. And I wish there was just a way for me to automatically generate and deliver my friends a birthday wish on the right date. But the Facebook API prevents you from being able to post to your friends wall.

Tear down those garden walls Mr. Zuckerberg!!
Microsoft Brings First Piece of Office to the iPhone: OneNote
> Your best bet for upgrades is a high-end HTC phone on Verizon.

Your best bet is a phone that's designed to be rootable. Why put something like that in the hands of the user-hostile carriers?
Rational Repentance
Taste is a funny thing. Someone who's had a McMansion built probably thinks that it's "cool", too.
Over the last year I've done a few workshops for folks on Windows and I can tell you that you are spot on with your dicision to use 1.8.7 for now. It's so much more stable on Windows. The target audience for this package doesn't understand the various nuances that exist with Ruby, and really just expects things to work. With 1.9.2, I can get a newbie through an introductory class and tutorial, but as soon as they go outside and try to follow a RailsCast with a newer library, stuff starts getting weird.

I hope that this increases visibility on Windows so that gem maintainers will pay more attention to that audience when developing and improving their libraries.
Agreed. I like the Epic's form factor and slide-out keyboard (in fact I'm typing this on a Nokia N810, which is almost exactly the same size) and was excited when I saw it announced. I would probably have bought one by now if it had Froyo. But watching Samsung's behavior around this upgrade has turned me off completely.

Maybe with Swype on an Evo I wouldn't miss the physical keyboard.
Is Balsamiq viral?
"The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World" - Niall Ferguson
Close - it's actually a cartoon: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/18/angry-birds-cartoon...
Who needs a study when you can just hang out in Walmart for 20 minutes and draw the same conclusion.
Black box cloud pricing
Surely your best bet is an unlocked phone running vanilla Android, rather than any carrier-customised variant? Every carrier customisation has to be ported to the new version each time the OS gets upgraded.
What if I offer you 61%? :)
The biggest hurdle with Rails on Windows is that when things go wrong (and often in subtly different ways with different solutions to when things go wrong on OSX and Unix), the quality of help just isn't the same. Overcoming that is a harder barrier than the initial installation, which this certainly seems to significantly improve.

The most useful Windows installer I found for RoR (and I'm far from a Windows detractor) was this one: http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/windows-installer
A World Without Jobs
The choices I see are:

(1) Do not correct the 5 and cause people to misidentify the logo at small sizes since it looks like a 6 then

(2) Correct the 5 at the cost of an almost imperceptible change in small instantiations of the logo

(3) Redesign the whole thing to use a font that is distinctive at all sizes

Between (1) and (2), I feel that (2) is always the winner. (3) appears to beat them both, but it means prioritizing distinction at small sizes at the same level as style, text color, weight, and any number of higher level and arguably more important factors. I feel like this exact tradeoff was done by the designer and their choice of (2) very well founded.

Wolf Olins is a particularly good example of the fact that brand is far larger than logo. I'm not even a particular fan of this new HTML5 brand, I feel like it overemphasizes and romanticizes a tool, but I won't get caught arguing that it's not comprehensive, or strongly suggested by all of the proposed instantiations on the website, or to weak to survive the likely numerous changes it'll suffer should it be widely adopted.
To each his own. Personally, the birthday reminders are the only reason I use Facebook. Also, each year, every attractive woman I've met in the past 4 years wishes me happy birthday, which is a nice ego boost.
Absolutely! I don't get to do much during the week, but weekends - the kitchen is all mine.
Culture matters in developing countries
Ah yes, perhaps I should have mentioned him :-(

Some of his work has even created patentable inventions! (I'm on my phone and cooking so no links.)
Fair enough. I haven't really decided what I want to do after I finish my MS.
Class-size limits are an artificial constraint which were introduced because they occupy that happy space in the middle of the Venn diagram between "sounds good to voters" and "does something teachers unions actually care about." They do little, if anything, for education. You could solve this problem in an afternoon if you wanted to -- repeal class size limits, done.

That will only actually happen if there is a severely negative outcome to this situation... like the computers improving educational quality when compared to teachers.
Refusing 60% equity is nothing like refusing free money. Think of it this way. I start something. I come to you and give you 100% of it. 100%! You take it, code, contacts, everything.

Now, you need a co-founder. Hey, what about me? What are you going to offer me? You can pick any number you like, but the point is that if I really am the best person to be your co-founder, you have motivation to offer me a substantial stake in the going concern.

So don't think of the author as "giving away" equity, think of him as taking 100% equity and then granting the CEO and original founder 75% to motivate him so as to maximize the value of the equity he keeps.

You might pick a different number, 50%, 49%, whatever, but you get the idea.
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Reddit doesn't seem to like it. And HN seems to like it. Why so much difference ?
> 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.

Maybe you already know, but you can get an unofficial Froyo rom from xda-developers. And before people jump on me about how it won't work for their mom or next-door neighbor - this is just a tip for fellow HNers, in case they didn't know already.
Yeah, the silent attack does not work with POST. But POST does not eliminate the vulnerability in the target website.
This article is illogical.

Saying that facebook connects people only in ways limited by the imagination if its creators is true. But still, it CONNECTS PEOPLE. By deleting facebook without finding a replacement that is better than facebook, you are losing this new way of connecting people. Stuff like skype works for connecting with a relatively small social circle. Facebook allows a looser but also much larger circle. Presumably a better means of communication will come along sooner or later. The telephone replaced the telegraph, myspace replaced friendster, but until it comes along facebook(twitter?) is still the best means for this new large scale high volume asynchronous communication that we have.
It's a testament of GitHub's significance for popularity of git to be synonymous with it in minds of many people.
http://www.facebook.com/friends/edit/?sk=phonebook

Very easy way to check which of your friends has published their phone number.
I tried to do "true" literate programming but found the tools inadequate. Specifically, for some snippets of code I wanted to show them in more than one place in the document but that lead to all kinds of trouble. I found other things cumbersome as well. Some of that may be my inexperience, or failures of the specific tool set I chose.

Currently I use a bastardized form of literate programming that would not qualify as "real" literate programming. I put the code in the order the code belongs and I embed the document within comments in the code. This leaves the source executable for scripting languages, or directly compilable for compiled languages. We made a tool to flip the source "inside out" to produce a document (TeX/PDF,HTML).

According to LP people I am doing it wrong and not really getting the benefits. That's pretty harsh, but I've managed to live with myself somehow. What we end up with reads like a document, looks great as a web page or printed, and provides encouragement to write meaningful text descriptions. The biggest part to stress is the very last bit: writing meaningful text. Since you produce a document you expect it to read like one. This discourages stupid comments stating the obvious and encourages you to talk about reasons why and other meaningful things.

Please keep in mind that this is just my opinion, coming at LP without the benefit of working with someone who already knew it well.
Why should it do that? Computers are very cheap and the schools should be able to buy the software at such a low cost that all schools should be able to afford it.

Compare this with the situation today where some children are being though by great teachers and some are being though by horrible teachers.
Koza's "gp.lisp" seems to be a prerequisite for getting any of this stuff working, but I can only find dead links to it.

I tried copying and pasting the stuff in here: [http://www.genetic-programming.org/gplittlelisp.html] into a file and loading it into clisp but it throws a bunch of syntax errors.

anyone know where you can grab a working copy of it? (I have never used lisp before, so I am probably not the best person to debug by hand...)
The last time third-party apps access your Facebook data
Alternatively, you could use a broken hash and modify an unneeded string so as to produce a collision with the key you decided ahead of time.
Why does it look like Klingon?
I thought that rubystack was focused to give the users everything they need to start working with rails avoiding environment setup as well.

Sorry but I am trying to see the difference but I am not sure if I can.

So then the difference is some kind of friendly/more advanced installation interface and an easy way to get started installing less "stuff" than rubystack does?
The ongoing legacy of a case of scientific misconduct
Everything I've read is that the UX on the custom roms isn't exactly breathtaking. Am I mistaken?
Not sure how you'd do this, but there's probably a way to prevent your Google cookies from being sent to YouTube at the browser level. It'd be an ugly hack, but a usable one nonetheless.
Wall Street is a Ponzi scheme. Facebook is just overvalued.
When I quit facebook, I lost all of my college friends, except those who never used the service. All my friends outside of college? Perfectly fine.

Maybe I'm just a terrible person.
CouchDB: A Well-Suited Solution for Developing Facebook Apps
I'd say the new logo is definitely aimed to appease web designers, but I don't think it's fair to say that the W3C has "little to no credibility with [web designers]". Many still have pained memories of designing for older IE and understand the work the W3C has done to usefully eliminate the various fine differences.

More recently there's been a lot more positive feeling toward Safari and Chrome for pushing the implementation of new technologies forward, but it's worth noting that there would probably be a lot less confluence in the new technologies if not for the work the W3C and WaSP did.

Even if outside of that logo they both look really boring.
this seems to make very little sense. most of the custom ROMs out there are based on Samsung's leaked 2.2 ROMs. If Samsung really didn't want to send out official updates for 2.2 they could stop the leaks and would kill XDA updates.

Also judging by the updates trickling in, there is still a lot of work being put in by Samsung to makes these ROMs stable. Almost every leaked ROM has issues. lag fixes and gps fixes on XDA seem to be the norm to work around them
If you spend $25 to advertise on Facebook and get just one conversion (new event attendee in your case) that wouldn't really be effective advertising at all unless you would be making at least a $25 profit from that conversion (not including the advertising expense). I realize that in your case you aren't out to make a profit, but you can see how from a business standpoint advertising on Facebook makes no sense in this scenario for most products.
Appcelerator Acquires Aptana
Don't understand what the product is? Ask a woman
When I started with Facebook advertising, I was getting a CTR of 0.01, after spending about 6 weeks trying out various optimizations my average CTR is around 0.12, my best CTR for a campaign has been 0.4.

On my site the bounce rate from Facebook clicks is 25% lower than the site average, and the the average user visits 4 pages per visit.

And I'm targeting software developers. A group more likely to be ad-resistant than many other groups.

You have to know how to optimize a Facebook campaign in-order to be able to make an effective one. Facebook's problem is that they make it easy to run an ad campaign, but not easy to run a good campaign.
Better Automated Redistricting
The TRASH-80 had a full port of Unix -- Microsoft Xenix, for the 68k-based Model 16, 1982. The only other Unix workstation on the market at that time besides the Sun.
Or you should just build the house you actually want and then worry about more important things. Your car(s) will do much more ecological harm than your house.

Worse, spending effort on reducing the ecological impact of expensive homes to an absolute minimum is a game of diminishing returns. It wastes resources that would be better spent encouraging more modest levels of change at far broader levels that would lead to a much greater reduction of the total human footprint.

This is why these objections are much less about the natural environment and simply NIMBY reactions to a change to the social environment.
John Tierney: Why people can handle the truth regarding their own DNA.
Why is online piracy considered socially acceptable?
My company Nodejitsu (http://nodejitsu.com) also provides a node.js Cloud Platform-as-a-Service.

I'm the author of forever and node-http-proxy and it's good to see our production quality node.js software being used by other people :-)
If you want to get up and running on Ubuntu I've found that this is a great way: http://ryanbigg.com/2010/12/ubuntu-ruby-rvm-rails-and-you
I've been playing with an Insignia Infocast -- basically a trivially rootable, ARM-based Chumby computer that costs 100 bones at Best Buy.
Glad you got so much out of the trip. Great write up.
Ask HN: How can I trick myself into enjoying tedious tasks?
I'm currently interning at an analytics company, and part of my work is low-level tasks like going through customer accounts, logging some figures in a spreadsheet, etc. Low skill, repetitive tasks. Outsourcing this isn't an option because we have sensitive data.

How can I trick/hack my brain into tolerating this until completion? I know that dreading it and mentally complaining about it every second will only make it worse. Maybe rewarding myself with a bite of chocolate after every completion? Any psychological hacks?
I found it funny that the author quoted the bit in the Zadie Smith piece about the absurdity of the Facebook format right before you reach the end of his post, complete with tags and permalinks.

I'm not a Facebook fan, but I don't know that is does worse than most technology at being humane.
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Not only should Koza be mentioned because he's the inventor of genetic programming, but also because his original implementation of GP was done in Lisp!

Given that most later GP implementations have been done in other languages (from C to Java to Python), it's good to finally see it come full circle back to Lisp once more.
For years the majority of the web uses were using an archaic browser (ie6) and the web flourished.