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Lots of Apple/iOS fans. Lots of Android/'open' fans. Lots of europhiles unhappy to see their continental champion cede platform leadership to Redmond, WA, USA. Lots of plain old MSFT-hate. A perfect storm of armchair antipathy!
The previous Python sort was a type of samplesort, but the current one is a “adaptive, stable, natural mergesort” by Tim Peters (“timsort”). On random data I think it performs about the same or slightly worse, but when data has some structure, it performs much better. See http://bugs.python.org/file4451/timsort.txt
It's my understanding that the payments to Google are for access to their built-in apps and services (without which an Android phone seems like something less).
That's funny. We'd tell people we worked for a fruit company in Cupertino.
I feel the same way. While creating a cool piece of engineering is satisfying, it is nowhere near as satisfying as seeing real people enjoy the end product. For me, coding is a means to an end, rather than an end itself.
This sentiment annoys the hell out of me. There are many great programmers (mainly in the web world) that rarely work with algorithms or other traditional CS topics. Just because he says he's product-focused doesn't mean that his code isn't well written.
Intel and Microsoft had a pretty good run. Also Microsoft and Dell.

Microsoft's 1997 investment of $150 million and firm recommitment to develop for MacOS turned out pretty well for Apple, too!

Those who ignore history, indeed.
(You rewrote your comment while I was drafting mine, so it looks like I'm replying to something I'm not.)

I don't have to believe anything's inexplicable; in point of fact, I don't. That's not to say I think our puny little monkey brains are (presently) capable of understanding everything, but that's a completely different claim than that those things are inexplicable.

As for assertions, I'm not the party making one. You asserted that religious/spiritual folk "have to believe some phenomena are inexplicable". That's a universal claim, which can be refuted by any existential quantifier to the contrary. In simple predicate logic:

∀: All believers hold that some phenomena are inexplicable.
∃: I don't.
∴: Not all believers believe so.

As for specific examples, name any old thing you'd think a believer would hold as inexplicable. That. I believe it's explicable. Granted, I believe that because I believe the divine wants us to understand our world — to the extent we can anthropomorphize and attribute intent to it, of course. Indeed, it's one of my highest moral duties, according to my beliefs, to learn and understand as much as I possibly can. To do anything less with the incredible, indescribably precious gift of having a mind is to piss it away.

So, net, in a lot of ways, we probably actually agree. I decry ignorance and superstition and the like pretty strongly, too. What I don't do is condescend, or paint with a brush broad enough to cover everyone in a class of humanity I seem not to have taken the time or effort to understand.
When ifanboy and droidroolers mock Nokia - its for a good reason, since majority of people agree that Nokia's smartphones suck.

While when Nokia's employees or fans mock ifanboys's and doridroolers's toys - its just, well sad.
In physics, "temperature" is the same thing as "speed". The faster the movement of particles in a given amount of space, the "hotter" it is. The terms are interchangeable.

There is also a common misconception that you would freeze almost instantly if you jumped out of an airlock in space. Quite the contrary. A vacuum is actually an incredibly efficient insulator. Hence vacuum thermoses. Your body would not lose heat very fast. Not having a helmet on, though, would be very bad for your health.
Given a (not even very large) cluster, we (with the fairly brute force-ish but cleverly tuned NFA) can populate hash tables for the read-based NFA of your 2 billion needles just about as fast as you can transmit the data and give you optimal alignment (by flexible criteria) just about as fast as you can then stream through the 3 billion base pairs. We are down to, at most, single or double digit dollar differences either way, but mine is vastly simpler and easier to tweak. Probably, we can do my way cheaper as the commodity computing market improves.

If you want to tell me that BWT is more useful for something like searching an FBI or CIA DNA database, and that intel types want to encourage commercial development of BWT (even if irrational for the customers) to subsidize its covert use in intel -- that I can believe. I can see where it would be helpful not for resequencing (a way to read off interesting details of an individuals genotype based on a lot of reads) but rather for fingerprinting of suspects and surveillance targets against a large database of reference genomes.
I find it sad that you have 10 points when I have 1 point, as if your statement about Pandora proves that Mog can't match up and you have never wanted to have a bit more control over your music (and that what I've said has no value). I'm not a mog salesperson. I'm a music fanatic that used to listen to pandora like crazy until I realized I could have more control and still have a great radio feature with Mog.

I want to see the future of radio be one of full choice with great suggestions, not pandora's restrictions. I think Pandora has built amazing suggestions, but it's not perfect and I want to push for the next generation of music experience.
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Far less of them. All other things being equal, I would likely go with a windows phone, and likely a lot of other people would....all other things being equal, which we may never see.
even though some of his axioms derive purely from his faith in [tenets] with no evidence.

That reads to me like another a priori assumption.

Larry's one of the most humble people I've ever met--and one of the most startling. Just when you're sure you've finished thinking about something, he can come up with a different approach that works better (and is often a simpler synthesis of ideas I'd considered too far separate).

I wish I'd had the pleasure of being able to say the same thing about a George MacDonald or a G. K. Chesterton.
Egyptians say that the more languages you speak, the better job you can get. Tho' you'll find as many speak Italian as their "European" language as speak English (and quite a few speak English with a strong Italian accent).
Seconding this. We are using it, alongside Jira and Fisheye and they are really great, well-done tools. Atlassian will gain a customer when we grow large enough.
Yeah, I guess it does sound like I'm crediting Open Source and the geeks with singlehandedly saving Apple.

I don't think it was open source itself that saved Apple, but the decision -- as revolutionary as it was at the time -- proved to be an excellent business decision. They added value to their product (hardware sales) by integrating Open Source. And as a bonus, they appealed to a specific audience without having to invest significant resources in selling to that audience.

It was a brilliant business decision because it not only opened a new channel of potential customers, it opened up a whole new set of possibilities for integrating Open Source software; they could leverage the movement. And that's really the significance of the decision in this context.

Apple, Nokia and SGI all focused on their core business -- making hardware -- but only Apple saw the value of leveraging a movement to add value to their hardware/brand. All three were in desperate positions, but only Apple saw the merit of leveraging the Open Source movement for the good of the business.

Where Nokia could have built on the goodwill of their brand by adopting an open and vibrant platform -- one where they could have as much control as they desired -- they have chosen to chain their fortune to a third party that has relatively little vested in their success.

The biggest irony here (other than Apple's role in Nokia's demise) is that choosing Android comes with very little risk compared to the risk that Apple took: there's ongoing development underwritten by a single organization; there's no licensing or quality stigma about the platform; there's a worldwide consortium of companies already using the platform; and there's already a significant and growing market share.

They have missed the opportunity to leverage the movement.
Wouldn't it have to start out lightly to be considered "lightly"wake.me? I was hoping the site would start with a low volume and slowly become louder over time.
And if he encrypts the data behind true crypt and refuses to give the key, what then? Will he be thrown in jail?
There are a disproportionate number of women and minorities in leading or supporting roles within venture investment sized start-ups. Historically, companies owned by women and minorities have received less than 5% of total venture capital investments over the past 40 years and minorities have only accounted for 3.7% of entrepreneurs in venture scale start-ups.
Microsoft's 1997 investment/software-commitment with Apple, then in dire need, worked out pretty well for Apple.
Is this satire? The suggestion for meta-tags in particular is totally off and most of the items are about your business model and do not pertain to launching a startup as the title ostensibly claims.
And now Reddit has become a cesspool of DERP.

After four years I have gradually stopped using Reddit because wading through all the moronic meme chanting and pun threads simply isn't worth it anymore. And so have most of my friends.

Let's hope this place doesn't fill up with cat pictures and 'BREAKING' anytime soon.
Please don't take this in an offensive way, but there are other communities where such a question would be more appropriate.

As a starting point, I can recommend you check out lesswrong.com, you can find their "introductory reading" here: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences the first item on the list deals exactly with the question you have posed:

http://yudkowsky.net/rational/the-simple-truth

Happy reading!
Nokia can differentiate themselves by making better hardware (build, screen, camera, keys, battery, etc) than all the other Androids. They did that quite successfully when they were competing in the mobile phone market (which has now been killed by the smartphone actually getting smart). A mobile is a fashion statement, and Nokia is only second to Apple.

That said, Windows is still an option. In China, Nokia's best market, even Apple computers run Windows, so a Windows phone might have an advantage over an iPhone. Hacker-news readers (myself included) won't love it as much as a Linux / OSX phone, but it's still reasonable business sense.

I don't like WinCE, but it might have come a long way. Maybe it's as good as Android now.
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True, but I see it as a defining characteristic of "scripting" languages that they are great at quickly and easily automating everyday computing tasks... Something you would be hard pressed to say about Java. But is there a term that expresses this attribute without seeming to rule out others?
Assuredly a satire.
Since when is it the job of the state to protect consumers from misleading advertisements in boutique clothing stores? This sort of thinking is what leads to the nanny state.
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What has solving simplistic little 1-line problems like "Given f(x) = a, what is x?" got to do with mathematics?

Sure, there's other things. I could think of a few bad analogies for recursion, pointers, algorithms, and architecture; but architecture is often badly taught, and the rest are probably easier to grasp if you can do the first step - solving simple problems.
"Scripting languages" fly under the radar, where a corporate regime mandates use of (say) Java. So it's actually a good thing to call something a scripting language. The main downside is it doesn't sound elite, in the programmer hierarchy.
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i know its satire, but I would suggest any launch to try take most of these steps maybe except hiring a pr firm.
... or, at-least to reduce the acquisition price and/or put money in the escrow.
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I cannot picture Gates as the alpha male leader.
He is a intelligent leader, but alpha male leader?
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OK, you are simply proposing the most obvious solution to the problem, which is entirely correct - I must have misunderstood your reasoning.

I assumed Reddit would want something a bit more special that the hundreds of Binary Search implementations they are going to receive. There are always faster algorithms that can be designed for specific problems, even if realistically they only save (in this case) 100ms.

It's a competition - you're supposed to stand out.
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They provided capital and ongoing development of existing products, not the heart and soul of the Apple user experience.

Thank god.
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The same way as you administer any cluster.
Here's my theory: I think the key is that he, just like Jobs, is a leader who feels strongly about the product. There are lots of stories about how people would dread presenting ideas to Gates because he'd be brutally honest with how he felt about them. Same thing goes for Jobs - they care deeply that the product is good, so middle management is forced to focus on actually making good product. Whereas most CEOs and management care primarily about the process - we need the perfect process to make perfect product! Thus middle management that focuses solely on process. You never really hear much about the processes used at Apple, and I think it's because they don't really matter that much. What matters is the product and the consumer experience, and that is what Jobs cares about.
The group is setup to allow users to respond to all... and there are about 30000 users on the mailing list. It's fun for a bit, but I'm guessing it was meant to be an announcement only list. Any googlers up?
Yeah, can't get it here in Europe too. Thus I've thrown something together to get it running over TOR. Luckily only the control interface checks if your IP is from the US. The traffic heavy so streaming doesn't have to go over TOR.

https://github.com/jsz/PanTORa
Really, go read that sequence

From glancing through the materials, I gather there is much in that sequence I already know. The problem is that I disagree with the conclusions that are drawn, which is entirely possible, because there are many opportunities for disagreement in these sketches of reality.

For instance, the whole sequence about MWI doesn't succeed in making a point with me. I understand it perfectly well: it's an interpretation that speaks to the imagination and I fully agree it's the interpretation that makes the most sense, but there actually is no experimental evidence whatsoever that distinguishes MWI as a better interpretation than many others out there. MWI is just another narrative that attempts to make a mathematical framework yield to our understanding. What makes sense is the actual criterion being used here and, as you said earlier, we should leave our intuitions behind.
English is taught in school (around the start of junior high school), so theoretically all educated people should be able to at least understand it and carry out simple conversations.

Some countries teach French instead of English (I believe that's the case in Algeria and Tunisia; not sure about Lebanon).
Well clearly they're more likely to hire someone who does go to the effort!

> To be clear, interpolation search can cut down the runtime by another log factor (`O(log log n)` instead of `O(log n)`) but it's just not worth the effort, especially in this case, precisely because the lines aren't uniformly distributed.

It doesn't matter what the distribution is as long as you can learn it. Uniform helps when you are cutting down the search space in regular chunks, sure. The Reddit data wont be uniform - so don't cut the search space uniformly.

As I said, something faster could be conceived if one studies the average number of visitors over a 24 hour period (I don't know where this data could be gathered from).

If you can make your first seek very accurate, then it may be the case that simple linear search from there will get you there faster than Binary Search.

You can still report average and worst-case complexities under the assumption you have taken about how the log data is distributed.

Sorry to keep going on about this, but I just wanted to make my point clear! Good discussion.
> But in "touch phone" devices, just getting the hardware right can't even get you halfway into making a better product.

That was true long before touch phones. I had an E70 phone as my second (? I think) smartphone. The software was complete shit and it was a pain to use, and the hardware was solid but way underspecced for the needs, especially RAM-wise (the thing had like 16MB ram, it would slow to a crawl at the slightest whiff of me having an idea of opening a web page)
If you're not from the US and want to use pandora, I've got some scripts bundled together to get it running over TOR (it's not as slow as it sounds because only the control interface is using TOR and the stream goes through your 'normal' internet connection):

https://github.com/jsz/PanTORa
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How about using a "D"? E.g., "(The guy who wrote this story. :-D)"
Perhaps Digg fixing itself may return some of that Derp back where it came from. I haven't stopped using reddit though, as there are still some great mini communities that are the subreddits.

Going to be honest though, I am an ex-digg user, current reddit user, and just recently started checking out HN on a regular basis for the content and insight I feel has left reddit. Please don't hate me! :)
is the smart phones dumb or is the really dumb phones sorta smart for a dumb phone?
Here is Joel's account of a review meeting with Bill:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html

"a person who came along from my team whose whole job during the meeting was to keep an accurate count of how many times Bill said the F word. The lower the f*-count, the better."

I don't think you get to be the richest guy in the world just by being exceptionally smart.
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Not sure why I was down voted.

Here's clip [3] with subs (can't edit parent post).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V690GO7YzgA
I don't know enough about Symbian to have an opinion about it in particular. I've never been the least bit interested in playing with it, which suggests to me that it's not a very attractive development platform.

But I have a lot of sympathy for developers who have good reason to think their employer is steering their job into the trashcan, especially if they're in a city where there aren't a lot of other places to work.

Apparently the market isn't too keen on this either http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:NOK
Thing is, just jamming on the brakes will stop your car, every time. Your brakes are much more powerful than your accelerator. The problem is when a driver thinks their foot is on the brake, when it is actually on the accelerator. So mashing their foot to the ground just exacerbates (i.e. causes in the first place) the problem.

The panic response is very difficult to overcome.
More expensive? hardly, you can put a bike lighter than tour de france spec for less than two grand. Mind, for all but the most dedicated amateurs that level of equipment won't make a difference.

Personally, I'd like to see a new road class in le mans, perhaps < 700kg and 2L naturally aspirated, IE: Road cars. (Stuff that we could actually buy)
Ask HN: I Predict the End of Email in 5 Years, What Do You Think?
Email's a standard dating back to the 1970's, but amazingly continues to be widely used by enterprises as well as consumers.

My contention is that the email standard hasn't evolved much over the last few decades and that it's quite crude, take for example the process of responding to questions in an email; most users reply with the original text quoted and then proceed to answer inline with a colored tag to distinguish text author--1970's??

So upon thinking about how to simplify this, I came to the conclusion that Social Apps like Facebook already have the answer! Facebook provides a means to post and receive comments without having to quote text, the flow of conversation is much more contextual (and efficient in terms of text stored). ever read an email with 20 or so replies that logarithmically expands because everyone's quoting the previous mail? The concept of a social group and belonging to groups is synonymous with an email alias. you can control access by deciding who's your friend. Attachments can be added. So what can't you do with Facebook or your favorite Social App that you can do with email?? For the record, Facebook has its own email service i'm certain for legacy purposes.

The only thing i could think of is that email is more anonymous in that you could send anyone an email so long as you had their email address. With a Social App, you'd have to be befriended first before having an actual conversation.

So the ultimate question remains, is email still needed! let's say your office got rid of email and adopted some Social App in favor, let's also say that there was some Social App standard so that they were all interoperable, i.e. you wouldn't have to join a Social App every time, you could just use your own. There are a lot companies that use a CRM which is a natural integration point for a Social App Portal.

I'm predicting the end of email in 5-10 years, what say you hackers?!

And if email didn't exist anymore, what's a blackberry to do? can you imagine the interface?
Please developers, screw social media.
That's fair. I think a large part of why you're not getting more upvotes is that Pandora seems to be far more popular than MOG. I hadn't heard of MOG until you mentioned it. I went to their site, and (assuming their suggestion engine and library is about as good as Pandora's or better) it seems to be all of the things I wish Pandora would be.

FWIW, you've caused one rabid Pandora fan to give it a look.
I've done it once...went for the brake, my foot was at an awkward angle, slipped, and got my foot pressed down on the accelerator and the toe jammed under the brake pedal.

Logically, all I needed to do was take a deep breath and move my foot sideways, but all I could think about was pulling up, which of course only exacerbated the problem.

It's not easy to think rationally when you are driving a car with several people accelerating when it should be breaking...and in the case of the linked story, it's not easy to accept blame either.
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Care to explain what exactly you can not stand anymore?
The good thing about reddit is that it allows you to have exactly as much seriousness as you want from it. Look into subscribing to some of the smaller and more focused subreddits instead: I'm subscribed to /r/compsci, /r/math, /r/PhilosophyOfScience and /r/electronicmusic. You're going to not find pun or meme threads in any of them.
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