skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I read the article, but nothing was said about the conditions under which those power reductions happen. Is it 75% at max load? Probably not. Is it 75% to achieve the same data processing throughput? I'd believe that.
heh. fair enough. i suppose i could go through the trouble of pulling out the various facebook threads in question, and redacting the names etc., so that i can back my argument up, but frankly, i'm not interested in doing that, and i doubt you're interested in it either.

if i'm wrong and somebody really really wants to know about the fights i've been getting into about the history of the second amendment, i'll do the leg work, but i figured for a quick comment here it wasn't necessary.
I think my inspiration was a little of both.
With respect, that's an awesome name.
Wait wait wait.

Agile was hyped to high heaven, and now its founders and promoters are worried that criticism might be over-stated?

When you make bold claims, people react energetically. Some people will be the old order (per Machiavelli) and some will be natural contrarians. This doesn't mean they're wrong.

The more you push your position, the bigger the backlash.

When fertilising the fields of marketing, don't be surprised to find weeds thriving.
They forgot one thing. Smart people can sometimes get lost in their own heads and the world passes them by. Look at Einstein. He spent the last half of his career trying in vain to solve the unified field equation theory. During that time the string theory was beginning to take hold but he couldn't see it. I don't know if it's hubris or simple ignorance that causes it but that is the biggest thing that smart people do that regular people would consider stupid.
Thanks. If you do, definitely let us (SeatGeek) know how it goes.
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Meditation-driven development, or, a parable of new software methodologies
My mom used to (and occasionally still) do a lot of nagging. By the time I was five years old, I had learned to shut it out. Nagging just does not work over extended time periods unless the other person is completely submissive.
If this is not a scam, well done for him.
What do you do for people who don't have an account on those?

Or people like me who use a different email address for every site?
Maybe in America.

Things work very differently in the rest of the world.
That isn't a smart-people thing - it's a all-people thing.
If you s/American women/some people often women/ , your statement will be more accurate.
Family therapists know this stuff already. Tell her that you want to make your marriage everything it could be and more, etc, etc, and get her to a therapist, where she'll learn it for herself. Worked for me ;)
I agree. In the case of wikipedia more information IS better, especially if it's accurate and well written. What kind of person in academia believes that less information, even in this context is a good thing?
I think (s)he's talking about little kids. Mine play with my phone all the time, and have been known to buy apps from time to time when I forget to log out.

I often wish that there was a kid setting on my iPhone that would turn off the app store, filter YouTube, and allow me to hide certain apps.
To be fair, he's using anecdotal evidence to refute an overly broad, unsupported generalization. Some evidence is better than none at all, but only barely.
Those who do what you suggest should be taught in a loving relationship how negative their behaviour is. Even if the media encourages it.

If there is dominance by either partner, the relationship will have difficulty staying healthy in the long run.

As you say, family first. Both should view the other as having more importance than themselves. Not just one or neither.
no kidding :(
You are correct, but it's a much more complicated topic (especially in the West).

Reading a book won't reverse decades of cultural conditioning.

I recommend getting a Brazilian or Colombian wife instead.
What Do 24 Hours of Mubarak Tweets Look Like?
I think it's more the things the cause people to succeed in one way force them to fail in another. If Einstein was equipped to with the attributes that would've made him "see" string theory, he likely wouldn't have necessarily been equipped with the attributes that would've lead to the general theory of relativity.

Einstein himself even said (although it's laughably inaccurate) that he wasn't smarter than anyone else, he just stuck with problems longer than other people.
I believe that was the OP's point.
Intel committed to MeeGo, despite Nokia defection
Glad to hear the name works for someone. We thought it meshed nicely with some of the other hyperbole out there in ruby gem names (god, unicorn, thor, shotgun, etc.).
Suppose Watson scales cheaply (it doesn't), would it be serious threat to Google? My guess is that it would be but I'd be curious to hear HN's take.
Octavore allows individuals to create print copies of articles they choose for their personal use. To clarify, the books that are generated are not made available to the public.

For what it's worth, I did hesitate when considering the copyright issues while working on Octavore. In general I believe in respecting copyright laws and IP rights, but in this case I feel the onus is on the user, and decided to err on the side of making something interesting, for now.

In any case, I'll make it clear on the website that I do not condone violating copyright, and provide an email address for publishers to opt out, similar to Instapaper. Thanks for your feedback!
That's a good insite. I guess nagging is often somewhere that the maxim about doing shit (OK, less of a maxim, more of a statement: If shit needs doing... do it) needs to be applied.

If you've not gone to the point of setting up areas of responsibility and some means of ensuring things get done, your choices are either do it yourself or nag about it. I think the tendency is often towards the latter, when it should be the former.
Someone should point back to this article every time there is a discussion about the lack of women/blacks/latinos in tech. I don't generally go into a situation thinking people are looking to exclude me, but I've experienced instances of many of the institutional biases throughout my life.

I've always tried to be open to all sorts of people and situations, but it can be very hard to be surrounded by people who simply assume their way of being is the norm. I've been in situations where everyone except me is talking about the concert they went to. Why? Because no one thought to invite me since it wasn't a rap/r&b concert.

It makes me nostalgic for my high school years where there were so many kids of so many different ethnicities, incomes, and interests that we always had to take special care to understand each other.
Please stop deleting your replies in this thread. It's becoming difficult to follow.
No, because of a clear agency problem. But I'd be prepared to donate the several dozen thousandths of a cent required to keep the deleted articles.
...sounds like a nice daydream, but in real life, that would be pretty boring.
> As for "scoring political points", I'm pointing out what I understood to be a matter of public record and common knowledge.

I'm perfectly willing to believe that you "understood" Hussein to be "entirely funded". I'm even willing to believe that it is "common knowledge". Heck - I'm certain that one can even find "records" supporting that position.

The problem is that it appears to be false.

> Having had to look into it more to satisfy commenters here today has not revealed much evidence to the contrary.

Are you serious? You're going back to "entirely funded"?

Wowsers.
Ask HN: The trouble of promoting an online startup
I am working on TaggedBack.com, which allows for an easy way to catalog your belongings in case you lose them.

I have tried all the ways I can think of to promote it: Google AdWords, Facebook Ads, StumbleUpon, AddThis links, Live Twitter stream on the homepage, Android App, HackerNews, Reddit.

I am still having trouble grasping a constant stream of visitors. Any ideas on how to promote it? Any tips are much appreciated, thanks!
Looks like Dave's never going to actually approve this comment, so:

Dave: 1. Please create a static archive of your users' tweetstream in a publicly accessible place. Have the URL be a function of their Twitter username.

Aphyr: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/davewiner.json

Dave: What point are you trying to make with this URL?

Aphyr: That this is an archive in machine-readable format of a user's tweetstream, in a publicly accessible place, and is a simple function of their twitter username.

Dave: Right -- but I was asking the makers of Twitter clients to do that. And I don't believe it's an archive. Have you checked how far back it goes? And in the future, don't just dump the URL. Can't read your mind.

Aphyr: This is totally orthogonal to the meaning of "client", which I suppose explains my confusion. Did you mean to say that you would like a service which translates your timeline into some other format? Or that client developers should be required for some reason to replicate the functionality of a perfectly good public API?

This path is an archive. It goes back infinitely far, and supports pagination+time ranges. Just pass ?page=n.

http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/user_timeline
Tonight on Jeopardy: Man vs. Robot in a Fight to the Death...of Humanity
Kleiner Perkins Buying $38M Stake in Facebook
'proffesional' spelled wrong on the front page under number 1, fyi
He brings up many great points about the shortcomings of many textbooks and even software for learning a language like Japanese. That's why my favorite introductory kanji textbook is Tokyo University's 250 Essential Kanji for Everyday life (Vol 1 and 2). The chapters are broken up by areas of life that you'd need to know words for (the train station, the post office, the hospital) and they go over the etymology of the ideographs if that helps you remember it.

With regards to software, what I see as the holy grail of computer assisted language learning would be a free open standard for documenting one's progress through a language. If I could keep track of all the words/grammar points I've learned from day 1, and it was in a globally available format (online) then any software application that didn't want to be dumb could integrate that knowledge for some awesome applications (Smarter flashcards, smart kanji level adjuster for reading online articles or ebooks, etc.)
Rim Acquires Gist
I hope someone writes down all the answers (questions?) and feeds them into google so we can have a Google-Watson showdown. (Oh, we need a third contestant, how about bing too).
Argue well past any chance of persuasion is one I see people fall into too often. There is value in moving on when you can not convince. But as the author points out:

They also believe that they can change other people's minds through argument and facts, ignoring how emotional and irrational people actually are when it comes to making decisions or adopting beliefs.
"... Of course times have moved on, and Python (and Ruby, for that matter) are definitely entering the mainstream. They are still fine languages, but they no longer carry as much of an early adopter aura about them... what are the new technologies to look out for? ..."

http://nodejs.org/
You overlook the fact that making effort (and most importantly following through) gets you sex. Happy wife = happy life. It's not beneath you to try to make your partner happy. And if she responds the way you're implying - I'm sorry, something is probably wrong with her.
Just so I'm clear, are you suggesting that once one has consciously elected to enter into a long-term relationship, one's biological drives and genetic predispositions immediately shut down?

Genetic expression and disposition toward gene-propagating behaviors do not cease to operate, no matter how far removed we think we are from the "lowly" Silverback.

Your other points regarding human social behaviors are being quite a bit more complex than that of gorillas is correct, but I don't think recognition of that fact is sufficient basis for assuming that all other factors are suddenly irrelevant.
You know, they could just explicitly ask people to use their real names ("We recommend you use your real name" or something similar). If all the first few users do this it might catch on. Works on MathOverflow, though admittedly that probably has as much to do with the content of the site itself as the recommendation. But prohibiting pseudonymy on the internet is just stupid.
Sorry I don't understand your comment could you rephrase?
Hmm...I may be about to verify the fifth point of the original article, but Einstein died in 1955 and string theory didn't at all start to take hold in the physics community until the 1980s. It's true that he perhaps ignored developments in QFT and QCD, but string theory was a long way off.
CMU and IBM Collaborate on Open Computing System for Question Answering
This seems more like a list of things that obsessive, insecure, narrow-minded people do.
Sounds way more expensive than:

"Hunny, I appreciate that you want to help me remember what needs doing, but it's overwhelming if you tell me as soon as I come home from a long day at work. I know I have a habit of forgetting, so let's make a deal: if I forget to do something come 9 PM, I'll take on one of your chores the next day. Does that sound fair to you?"

Or if your SO can take the hint from humor:
"If I had a nickel for every time you told me to take out the trash when I was about to do it..."
How Bvckup got its name
The One True BDFL
But it's right in line with the worst petty academic pissing matches.

Like the California math professor who was recently arrested for repeatedly peeing on his colleague's office door.
I'm not that knowledgeable about Apple and open source, but: http://www.apple.com/opensource/

>>Apple takes ... HTML rendering engine

From the Apple page: "Apple uses software created by the Open Source community, such as the HTML rendering engine for Safari, and returns its enhancements to the community."

Similar with contributions to the kernel, afaik? Didn't Apple buy CUPS, hire the main developer -- and let it continue be open source? And so on.

Corporations, like countries, are a bit above (or, if you want, below) the concepts of good/evil. But Apple is hardly Microsoft.

Edit: I checked, the HTML rendering is under LGPL/BSD licenses! A bit ridiculous to complain about that, since it now is used by direct competitors of Apple. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit

"WebKit was originally derived by Apple Inc. from the Konqueror browser’s KHTML software library for use as the engine of Mac OS X’s Safari web browser and has now been further developed by individuals from the KDE project, Apple Inc., Nokia, Google, Bitstream, Torch Mobile and others.[4]"
I think this tool will be "Very Misused" by a lot of people just to SQUASH their closest competitors. I can see some companies hiring "paid blockers" to squash competition websites and even in the Search Engine world you watch Microsoft and Google block and report each others sites in an even continuing search engine war what a sad day for free speech George Orwell 1984 :(
I agree that in the end it's personal responsibility that determines whether you're overweight or healthy. But it has to be said that it has become more difficult to be thin (at least in western societies) given the ease with which most of us can obtain high energy/fat foods. Add to that the fact that most food producers have profit margins as their motivators instead of the population's health, and you can see why it's getting harder.
Pay attention Many consumers believe 36 months is longer than 3 years
"A happy wife is a happy life."
sorry. but I just registered myself here. so, I kinda like yourself
The Mystery of the Giant Planet Hidden In Our Solar System
Yeah, people give my friend David Davis crap all the time too. To be fair, he gave his parents at least as much crap.
The Founding Fathers of the Silicon Valley
Open source security - angels fear to tread?
Is there really a limbo though or is that just a perception? I am starting to learn Python. I am learning Python 3. I believe that close to 95% (or maybe more) of the skills I am learning still apply to Python 2. The move to Python 3 will come. It was a 5 year plan of which we are half way there. Chillax. Really.
Keep in mind that 40 years on, it's still not clear that string theory has any value as a scientific theory.
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Wow, I don't know, the same thing the men are getting, an equal life-partner who they have a very strong emotional attachment to? There's the legal benefits for both partners, social recognition of your relationship, legal benefits for any children, possibly the sanction of your chosen religion...

Sure, if what you want from a relationship is things, stuff, and to not have to work, more power to you... But I have no respect for you.
Doing stupid things is a basic part of the human condition. You may do more of them if you're stupid, but you still do plenty of them when you're smart, too.
Monarch butterfly count bounces back from bad year
You're thinking about it the wrong way... bartonfink's issue was that for this issue his input had a conflict of interest. You remove that by getting a separate person to lead the input... which you can reference later on.

This is not so different from the standard sales approach of gaining the confidence of an SME on the client side who advises the decision maker.
Turning waste into PR
Zen and the Art of Investment Banking: Working Right vs Finding the Right Work
I was going to submit this myself, but you beat me to it.

In any case, while mostly in a reading mode, I am on HN. If anyone has any questions or comments, shoot, be happy to talk about my stuff :)
(warning - ZOMG TEH POTENTIAL SEXISM alert!)

This sounds a lot like the advice to women from the Tom Leykis show:
"Stay slim, Long hair, sex anytime, shut up!"
Your site looks good and a great idea! A couple of observations though:

1. I understand what the service is based on your comment above and reading through the website, but it is not completely evident to me at first glance when visiting the site. When I get to the site, the first thing that jumps out at me is to enter the tag # or serial # of an item I found. If you are trying to draw users in, I would suggest focusing more on getting people to signup and enter their things. Maybe put a link for people who find something and want to try and track down the owner.

2. There is no privacy policy or TOS that I could find. If I am going to enter my info I want to know you are going to keep it private.

3. While I could care less, some people may have a concern having a link between items they own and their Facebook account. Facebook doesn't have a good privacy record, and it would concern me that they could now know specific items I own and target advertisers to me based on that info.

4. You are looking for a constant stream of visitors, but the site is more of a signup once, enter your items, and never visit again. There is nothing to engage me once I have signed up and entered my items. Not sure what you could do here, but a couple of ideas may include (a) alerting me when product recalls, updates, upgrades, etc... are available from the manufacturer for a specific item; (b) creating a forum of users with the same products to discuss topics related to the product. Of course all of these would require some opt-in notifications to the user, but could enhance user engagement to some extent. Another idea, would be to allow the user to report an item stolen and automatically search sites like eBay and/or craigslist for matching items that recently were listed for sale in the user's area.

Good luck though, I really do like the idea. I have had things stolen from my car and home and a service like this would have been very helpful in filling out the police reports.
osdir isn't actually too bad -- mailing lists are very poorly indexed by google and osdir exposes some of the data to be indexed.
I know they are saying it's coming soon, but this is really missing 9 bios. You have a definitive plan for what you'll do if elected to the Board of Directors, which is a great start. But writing an open letter, asking for something so serious, without a paragraph-long bio on each one of you is crazies in my book.
More interesting in the article was the detail surrounding how Boeing eliminates "Flutter" with an automatic fly-by-wire modal-suppression with a 'software law' - it commands an outboard aileron to basically counteract the flutter out of phase and dampen it out.

I couldn't help but think "Autonomic Nervous System" :-)
>Using terrible tools, and taking pride in their awfulness - Especially common with programmers, who take pride in using programming languages and text editors that have been designed by programmers, not updated since the 1970s, and never touched by anyone with a modicum of design sense.

I'm learning emacs at the moment. Tell me I'm not wasting my time. Should I just give in and buy TextMate like every other programmer that works on a Mac seems to?
And not even close to the point of the article.
If you've got a good idea, and you're passionate for it, you don't need Silcion Valley.
I don't understand how that icon isn't beautiful.

It's pretty and it gives you a good idea what the product and company do.
Copy nit: "Simplistic" is strictly a bad thing.
This is not comparable, at all.
Comments are meant to enrich a discussion and provide alternative views and corroboration, not support the article under discussion's POV slavishly.
I use emacs and vi every day.

There's no better python environment than a properly-configured emacs.

(I use TextMate, too, but only when I'm doing something disgusting like Rails.)
> If there is dominance by either partner, the relationship will have difficulty staying healthy in the long run.

I think you mean, if there is dominance by both partners (i.e. one partner asserts dominance and the other resents them for it, or both partners vie for dominance), the relationship will have difficulty staying healthy in the long run. Well-defined D/s relationships, on the other hand, can be quite healthy.
One last idea (for now): You should send email notifications when someone leaves a comment on your page.
Motorola Adopting 3 Laws of Robotics For Android?
This is the final score for today, the match will continue tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.
Interesting idea, since most websites at the start rely almost entirely on simple CRUD operations. However, this is extreme lockin of an application's foundation, which is why I would never consider it.
This method of creating the name is widely used by professional logo/identity designers. David Airey has a good illustration - http://www.davidairey.com/berthier-logo-design-process

The main problem with it that it is still unpredictable. It may lead to a good name or it may not.
You're not. A lot of good programmers use Emacs or Vi on Mac.