skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nokia will drop QT like a rock if they'll run out of money. Say what you want but Nokia is NOT a software company.
You can also put it in orbit.
There's no need for conspiracy theories, but this is something that should not be overlooked either. Elop's decisions influence two very large companies and their shareholders, and one small to medium sized country and its taxpayers. One thing is to make sure that his actions are legal (which they appear to be, unsurprisingly), and other is to understand the context and biases he is operating with.
This is a nice find, thanks for digging in and sharing the answer.
Former Sun CEO: Government Crushing Job Growth in the Valley
I was thinking that you might be able to win it by taking your phone on the vomit comet. While considering that though, I'm actually not sure that the accelerometer would be able to notice 0-g after equilibrium, would it?
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Does it need disabling? I thought in space no-one could hear you scream...
Don't forget about iTunes U.

Stanford have a lot of good lectures up there (especially CS106 for beginners, and a course for learning iOS development).
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An architecture thesis should revolve around problems or anything related to architecture. If students wish to pursue careers as architects they need to ensure that the architecture thesis they write is of sound quality. This requires them to be competent with writing it.
I really doubt that there is a place in the world for lazy, unambitious scientists.

Science productivity is nonlinear. Simple numerical example: if it takes you 20 hours/week just to keep up with the literature, teaching duties, etc, a scientist who works 35 hours/week is only half as productive as one who works 50 hours/week.

Additionally, science is cumulative. Those extra hours you put in build up your skills. This means that not only does the 50 hour/week scientist produce 2x as much as the 35 hour/week scientist, but his/her skills grow faster. So after a year, the 50 hour/week scientist not only has twice as many productive hours as the 35 hour/week scientist, but he/she also produces more per hour.

You may view the character traits exhibited by successful scientists as low status or unappealing. But that doesn't mean they are unnecessary.
You get a new notification tone for each email? Wow, what phone OS does that?
The entire community point is covered on the Make magazine article; it's really good; http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/02/why-the-arduino-won...
yeah, symbian is already on its death bed, Nokia has made it clear they want to move in the direction of winmo 7.

engadget.com/default/article.do?artUrl=http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/11/rip-symbian/
Mind the Company You Keep on Facebook
Sounds like a great game for people switching to Verizon from ATT.
Yes, The Khan Academy is the Future of Education
If you have it installed at the moment (I don't unfortunately), you can always give it a go for comparison... The binary is apparently available from http://tuts4you.com/request.php?3011 (pass tuts4you)
Motivation, but also things like not being humiliated when you have to go to the bathroom. Most prison cells have toilets. Having to ask permission to go and then run around for 20 minutes looking for a key to the bathroom is degrading.

When things like that happen in prisons, BBC writes articles about it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11630152
I think the brain is wired in such a way that it can handle different verb orders without reprogramming. Personally, the verb order in Japanese has never given me any trouble; combined with the way verb inflection works, I never have trouble picking out the verbs, even in the written language.

German, on the other hand, has this mechanism where verbs split and wind up with fragments stacked up the end of the sentence and that, combined with the need to master grammatical gender to answer questions like "who did what to whom?" causes me to have a much harder time parsing German, despite the use of the roman alphabet.
>There's no . . . conflict of interest since all of his MS shares will be gone before any actual work product from the alliance has occurred.

As a general rule, whenever someone uses a phrase as awkward as "actual work product", they're trying to twist the truth.

Stock price relies on more than just reported earnings. The announcement that Nokia has bet the company on Windows Phone 7 affects MSFT's price now.
Indeed, without going into orbit, a vomit comet would be the best. Even if you dropped the phone from the tallest building (assuming it would be tall enough, which it isn't), the phone would soon register more-than-microgravity acceleration due to air resistance.

The phone will most definitely notice 0-g after "equilibrium." Pretty much at all times (unless being accelerated by your hand or your carelessness), the iPhone registers a 1-g acceleration towards the ground... much like almost every other static accelerometer you can buy.
There was an app called Hangtime that did this, http://iphonehangtime.com/, but it seems like it's gone. I just searched the app store and found another app, also called Hangtime!, that appears to do the same thing under the guise of measuring how long you yourself are airborne (not just the phone).
It's not like he did an n=1 study. He just assumed it wasn't going to work for him. My impression of the article, given that it doesn't really bring up data beyond the total number of acetaminophen-related cases of liver toxicity, is that the author believes he should be able to buy the drugs separately, and is denied this opportunity by the government. After that, he says everything he can to support his beliefs, and pooh-poohs arguments against it.

Oxycodone is a very good opioid and, if you aren't abusing it, it is affordable for most people, even if you don't have insurance (http://www.rxassist.org/Search/Prog_Details.cfm?program_Id=1...). But if you need it every day to support your habit, it's too expensive, so vicodin and its friends are the drugs of choice.
Really glad to see the HN crowd knows what's up regarding the War on Drugs. If you want daily news on the subject, the best site I can suggest is http://drugwarrant.com. I've read this site obsessively for nearly two years, as it is hands down the best at what it does. Excellent writing with that goes beyond the media's lazy parroting of press releases without any thought or analysis.

You may also be surprised to learn that the Drug Czar and anyone who is funded by their office (such as researchers or propaganda campaigns) are legally required by law to oppose legalization of any Schedule 1 drug for any reason, even for medicinal use. Even in the face of obvious acceptance of medical use of cannabis (such as what the DEA is doing right now by rescheduling natural THC to the same position as synthetic THC) they must oppose giving up any ground or even stating that it might be a good idea. They have actively blocked attempts at research or rescheduling in an undemocratic way, which is why the issue is currently working out at the State level.

There are also some articles on this site that are widely regarded as the best pages to link to get people up to speed on the true nature of the war on drugs. May I suggest:

http://www.drugwarrant.com/articles/why-is-marijuana-illegal...

http://www.drugwarrant.com/articles/drug-czar-required/

http://www.drugwarrant.com/articles/drug-war-victim/

Please, if you think this issue does not affect you, it does. Learn why you should oppose the war on drugs if you do not already.
sounds like n900fly, right?
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"The biggest issues with the Valley are local, state and federal governmental overreach and overregulation. It's over-pensioned, over-unionized and over the top."

Really? I wasn't aware that the high tech companies in the Valley were unionized. And how many of them have pension funds?
When are we going to stop referring to the developer of apps like "Ant Smasher" as game developers? If I spend the time and resources to develop a real game, something that gamers will come back to after a few days, I'm not going to rely on ad revenue. Ant Smasher is not a game, it's a casual entertainment app.
You mean Urispu?
Says the ad company! I love Google as much as the next guy, but I think entrepreneurs and creatives would create more wealth & the world would be a better place if there was more focus on real products & services rather than trying to grab more time on peoples' eyeballs.
Clickable: https://github.com/qix/airborne.
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I thought the most significant bit was when she lost confidence. Once you accept notion that you're incapable of coming up with good, original ideas, why be in academia anymore? Of course you're going to be bored, ignored by "the system," and start shifting your time and energy to other things.

While there are no doubt bad things about networking in academia, the good thing is that original thinking and research tends to be rewarded. Once you've given up on that, all you have left is the bad stuff.

There was a significant disconnect between her story and her conclusions (though her conclusions were mixed).
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The way I read it is, they will maintain Qt to maintain the past ... but not to build their future

which I think is bad for anyone who wanted to invest in Qt, we all want to develop for platform of the future not the past
Somehow I don't think Arduino is looking to be acquired.

But if they were, I can think of a couple of companies that, unlike Google, might actually stand to benefit from such a move.
It's interesting to see him acknowledge directly that his personal familiarity with Microsoft played a role in the decision (at about 1:00 in). But aside from that, well... opinions differ. At about 3:15, he said that the danger if they went with Android is:

1) The platform would succeed.

2) They'd be one among a crowd of Android phone manufacturers.

3) It would be hard to differentiate from the others.

Contrast that to Windows Phone 7, where:

1) The platform is playing catch-up, and may fail entirely.

2) They're already one among a crowd of Windows Phone manufacturers, with LG, Samsung and HTC already shipping, and Dell having devices in the pipeline.

3) The party that controls the platform has chosen not to allow differentiation, requiring all the devices to be lookalikes[1].

On all his supposed drawbacks of Android, WP7 looks even worse.

There's some other odd stuff in the video, which begs for explanation. He starts by saying that "Microsoft has placed a large bet on us." But it isn't yet obvious why Microsoft has bet more on Nokia's success than it has on the success of the other WP7 handset manufacturers. And if they have, I can't imagine HTC or Samsung being happy about it.

There's also some stuff at about 2:30 about how each party has licensed technology from the other, with an implication (though not an outright statement) that money might be flowing both ways. If that's true, it raises the possibility that the sale of an HTC WP7 handset results in royalty payments to Nokia, for the mapping technology that Microsoft has licensed. That could cause real friction with the other vendors.

(To clarify: the mapping technology bit was part of the announcement, though it wasn't clear what it was doing there; the payment structures were not announced, but Elop did seem to imply in that video that money would be going both ways, and I'm not sure what other reason there is that Microsoft would have to write checks to Nokia.)

[1] http://mobilementalism.com/2011/02/12/the-photo-the-nokia-fa... has a photo (second in the post) with a bunch of them. They all really do look alike.
I'm not saying this is a good idea, but:

"Similarly, when the device is in free-fall and therefore dangerously accelerating towards to ground at 9.81 m/s^2, its accelerometer reads a magnitude of 0 m/s^2."

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/Sens...
Or launch them from weather balloons.
I for one appreciate all of the high profile blog posts about Google's recent search quality. Google basically did with search what Microsoft did with IE6. Once they had dominated the market, they figured "Well, that's that, let's make some other cool stuff", and have gone on to enter into all kinds of unrelated markets instead of improving search at all. If you look at improvements to Google's search from say 2004-2010 there is almost nothing new.

Finally once they got a little bit of competition from Bing, we are seeing some new things like instant search, and they are addressing search quality, adding new features etc...
> I'd rather work for The Man in my day job in a cold corporate environment where everything is explicit from the get-go, get well paid for it and crank out code for my own startup in my free time.

I agree (for now).

Cautionary, related thread:

"Does my company have IP rights to the stuff I do in my spare time?"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2208056
We like to think of the field of science as a meritocracy, but it is fraught with politics, trendiness, and other human pitfalls. I have known FAR more post-docs who burnt out than succeeded, and not because they were lazy or unintelligent. Interesting that you would categorize them as such. This is something that affects men and women.

> You may view the character traits exhibited by successful scientists as low status or unappealing.

This doesn't make any sense, except as a pot-shot. Status is what it's all about in science. Brilliant, low status people are failures.
...who are normally smart enough to go abroad! :D
I like the idea and have love for Detroit (I went to grad school at U of M) but there are a number of things that make this really hard, including terrible government, deep seeded racism, cold weather, etc. Also - this story is crazy.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11002/1114667-109.stm
And it's not like those auto workers can be employed by your startup.

That being said, there are a lot of smart people in the midwest, and given the challenge of finding talent in the valley, there should be more startups in the midwest. Chicago and Pittsburgh seem to be getting there but you don't hear much from other places... Any place with good universities will have some startups, but Detroit hasn't gotten much out of U of M
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We know, we know... we're just too lazy for a full blown revolution :)
Title insults the intelligence of HN readers, that's obviously nothing more than minimally annotated Hex Rays decompiler output.

There is nothing new to see here. A quick Google search for "stuxnet.zip" reveals other samples, undamaged by some PR whoring idiot running it through IDA.
Thanks for the link! You were correct, the quality is noticeably better:
https://github.com/Laurelai/decompile-dump/blob/master/outpu...
vs
http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/1051/hexraysstx.png
Do you speak the same 'language'?
Here are some stats:

Small business failure rates 45%
Startup Failure rates 95%

The actual path is target starting very small but scalable small business than use that base to implement the startup.

The big problem is that self interest towards being debt free and controlling one's future is the opposite of
what it takes to long-term R&D startup shots..

Europe got the balance wrong in over-guaranteeing workers
rights and worth.

But what would be the right balance?
Can you tell us details of how this has impacted visits to your site and the conversions? Random curiosity, nothing else. It would be cool if that comment made you a lot of money/buzz etc.
She did accept blame for her attitude. I think this is correct, though. If you don't think you're creative enough, you might as well take your PhD and teach at a community college. Or become a science writer.

I do think she has an interesting point about the "lone wolf," approach to science. For the most part, modern science is an inherently collaborative process, unless you're a star who likes to gloss over the contributions made by the underlings in your lab.
> why joining a startup is better starting one?

To answer your question, I think this personal story from YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley is valuable.

> But the executive team made up for nonmastery of details with unwavering vision, which inspired the troops. At his San Bruno, Calif., office, YouTube CEO Hurley remembers his PayPal days as an education in business. When he arrived in California with a degree in art from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, building a successful company seemed like something other people did.

"You never think it could happen to you," says Hurley. "But seeing Peter and Max and the guys come up with ideas and seeing how to make things work gave me a lot of insight. You may not have a business degree, but you see how to put the process into effect. The experience helped me realize the payoff of being involved in a startup."

http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/13/magazines/fortune/paypal_maf...
The Khan Academy is A Future of Education.

Talented educators (non-traditional and traditional) and technology are going to keep coming together in new and interesting ways. There will be lots of failures, but Khan Academy will not be the only success. The article doesn't mention things like MIT's effort in this field that predate Khan's efforts etc.
Glad to see I'm not alone in my "self defeating" thoughts
I had an idea for an Xbox 360 achievement involving peripherals with accelerometers (the Lips microphone, and Kinect).

"One Minute of Free Fall"

The Vomit Comet is about 45 seconds . . .
I don't see it elsewhere in the comments, but to be very clear, Elop's being listed there does not mean he is the 7th biggest individual shareholder at Microsoft. The headline is 100% inaccurate.

Not all shareholders are publicly reported — there are likely hundreds, even thousands, with larger individual stakes, both those still working Microsoft and not. Moreover, that list doesn't even necessarily report all of the holdings of each individual, many listed in public filings can and do own far larger amounts (by orders of magnitudes).

I'm not sure what reporting requirements dictated Elop be listed there to begin with, but regardless, the article is wrong.

HN desperately needs the ability to retroactively retract such silliness when it happens (which it does from time to time), because people tend to quote and repeat headlines so quickly these days that they create their own truth. (Six months from now, if someone says, "Isn't Elop the 7th biggest individual shareholder of Microsoft", you'd say, "Yeah, I remember hearing that, I think he is.")

Case in point:

http://www.google.com/search?q=7th+biggest+individual+shareh...

Sigh.
It's not just contracts on pricing that Apple is dominating, it's the actual production capacity of the chip makers.

"Digitimes reported Wednesday that Apple recently placed an order of 50 million 8Gb flash chips that it plans to use for that iPhone thing you might have heard about, and therefore the rest of Samsung's customers will have to wait for their chips."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-9983117-37.html

So if you're scrounging for NAND on the open market, you're gonna get screwed on price. It's not just Moto that's feeling the pressure.
Or perhaps something safer, like a roller coaster?
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There is a similar application for Android, where you have to throw your phone in the air as high as possible:

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.enea.SkyIsTheLimit
"Once you accept notion that you're incapable of coming up with good, original ideas, why be in academia anymore?"

I guess its the same dilemma faced by lots of people who love to write code - eventually most organizations expect you to stop doing the "grunt work" and move up to take a more management focus. Certainly 90% of people I knew in the UK in academia who were at Professor level were there primarily because of their leadership skills rather than any innately brilliant piece of work they had done as an individual.

Some people just don't want to make that step from doing to managing and in academia, as in many environments, the push is probably "up or out".
The much worse cost is in policing content and dealing with illegal content.
"So I expect Android to take the role of feature-phones now, while MS and Apple control and split the high-end market."

is there really such differentiation these days? As every phone walks to become a smartphone, Android powers devices cheap and expensive and Apple plans on building cheaper iphones (at least according to the rumors), I'm not sure we'll see such a clear distinction in the future, as we saw in the past, when Symbian was pretty much the only higher-end OS in town...
It's easy to get things done if you're a difficult bastard. People may not like it, but if you yell loud enough they'll often do it. At least as long as you're yelling.

Relating it back to Jim Collins's books (like "Good to Great"), the difficult geniuses create phenomenal successes that peter out once they leave, but the easy going geniuses build organizations that are great on their own and can generate success without all the yelling.

Inspiration is more powerful than browbeating, but it's also a whole lot harder.
If you have a bit to invest, aMember is really a fantastic solution and will allow you to expand your business in many ways. The software is the best on the market as far as I'm aware and goes for $180.

I'm finishing up deep integration of aMember, vBulletin and WordPress now and it is going very well. I'm very excited about launching.

aMember is built to manage recurring subscriptions first, but you can set products to "lifetime" and users will only have to make a single payment if needed.
I found all of it interesting, but I'm a bio geek. I'm also planning to have kids with my fiancé so it's also cool because of that.

Some highlights:

Both my fiancé and I are carriers for a mild form of Hemochromatosis, so we have a 1/4 chance of having a kid with it.

I am a little bit Asian! That's probably the Jewish ancestry. My fiancé thought he had a black ancestor but it turns out was 100% European. My best friend, whose father had always told her that her grandmother was Native American, found out he was lying to her (which did not surprise but did disappoint her.) Also the heat map of where your mitochondria are from is fun; it confirmed what I knew already but it was still really cool to see that the first migration of my maternal line out of Greece was with my grandmother.

But that's really just the tip of the iceberg. Part of what makes 23andme so fun is you get to learn a lot about biology from the framework of your own genes. Each SNP they report on has a bunch of information associated with it. It's only boring if you aren't interested in biology.
Do you have any citations for those stats?
> But computers are evolving in a direction that makes coding knowledge less useful

This is the market finding its way somewhere. The whole industry has a problem, in that there are different classes of computer use but the industry keeps trying to produce a single flavor of product.

There needs to be recognition that a highly productive work UX is not the same as leisure time UX. Why should a simple touch interface for consumers hamper my programming/science/processing needs? Why should a powerful, flexible environment be forces on people trying to shop, FB/twitter, etc.? And why, oh why, does anyone think that a single interface can answer everyone's needs in anything but a truly suboptimal way?

Sigh.