skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
just because a link is nofollow does not mean it will not help your rankings guys. It does not mean "ignore this link please Google" it means "I don't vouch for this link Google". A nofollow link will still count towards your total link profile.
Although I can't speak directly to whether mathematicians are in jeopardy, the future certainly looks good for patients needing access to highly accurate medical diagnostics.

Watson may represent the ultimate "second opinion."
Are you the same guy who left this comment: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/02/14/angry-nerds-ibms-watson...
now my reply is like a one sentence explanation of a nonexistent website.
I would never say either of those sentences.

"I passed by the man in the red hat."

"I threw out all of my old, useless papers."

Both of those not only keep the preposition away from the end of the sentence and keep it near the verb to which it belongs, but most importantly they sound more natural.

Your example of "Who am I speaking with?" follows this same pattern -- "with" is kept next to the verb "speaking".
Why, because Watson gave a bunch of laughably wrong answers? That's not how the mathematician machine would work. It would combine brainstorming (probably via massive parallel statistical search), at which people are currently much better than machines, with rigorous proof checking, at which computers are much better than people.

Still, in 15 years? I'll wager against this prediction.
I'm missing where you answered his question. He's talking about sharing his latest edit to his other machines, which aren't permanently network connected, without creating an explicit git version.
Can Groupon take to the skies?
I see what happened here.

My original post was meant as something like "That quote is from someone who is not part of the film industry, thus attributing it to the film industry is wrong."

You seem to have mistaken that for something more like "The quote is correct because it is from the president of the Author's Guild, who is in no way, shape, or form connected with film."

I knew who Turow was the president. I knew Turow who was. I knew there were films of a few of his books. I did not consider any of that relevant given that he was speaking on behalf of the Author's Guild and not the MPAA or some other film industry organization. This is obvious from the article. Only if the quote is taken out of context to do people assume that the source is someone speaking on behalf of the film industry, as Jack Valenti was. I did not foresee that some would considered adaptations of Turow's books relevant, but I should have.

I should have been explicit in my original post that the problem I had with the parent was not really this trivial point but with digging up the Valenti quote as a lazy argument done evidently in lieu of reading even the first sentence of the article. It doesn't matter how wrong Turow is, he's not so wrong that mis-attributing his position for the sake of recycle something that a different person representing a different organization at a different time in a different context can be considered a mature reaction.

So yes, I was disputing from the start exactly something you thought I wasn't:that having a novel adapted makes you part of the film industry. Likewise, I mistook you for addressing an argument I thought obvious but hadn't been explicit about.

I apologize for wasting your time.
Interesting that a whole sfgate article came out of a single comment on this site.
The problem here is that the language in the agreement is much broader than just GPLv3 or even GPL.
The question is not whether we're re-living the exact same bubble as in the 90s; the question is: is this A bubble?

The smooth-talkers of today can code: that's great! But maybe it just helps them sell the kool-aid...?

Twitter is apparently doubling in value every few months, although it has yet to figure out a business model: does this sound reasonable?
I'm not sure if this is some sort of hack, but your avg score right now is pi.

And your total score is 3333
Apple looking to increase battery life with dense lithium cells
Five Marketing Blunders you must avoid
Oak Investment Partners Leads $20 Million Investment
I have a project about it... I am sure more than one of these guys are posting anonymously on the Internet... the challenge is discovering their aliases.
There are several reasons:

1. It takes time to develop the supply chain, product design and so forth;

2. Apple completely caught the industry with its pants down, creating a market where previously there was none where the consensus seemed to be that tablets were niche products;

3. Apple's competitors are constantly chasing last year's Apple product. It's why it's a huge mistake (IMHO) for competitors to draw attention to the iPad: at some point very shortly there will be a newer better iPad and suddenly they won't want to make those comparisons anymore (at least not for awhile);

4. These companies generally have absolutely no understanding of the markets they're entering. It's what I call the Cargo Cult School of Product Management; and

5. Whereas Apple went all-in with the iPad into unknown waters, every other suppliers seems to not believe in their product. It's a typical business strategy: test the waters, don't overcommit.

The problem is that Apple's "overcommitment" helped bring the price down.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if Google manually stops PR from passing from this page.
Game Closure Makes it a Breeze to Build Multiplayer, Cross-Platform Games
Elaborate on this? Certainly. Visit a website that allows comments, and posts articles on controlversial topics. Say, techdirt.com or groklaw.net. Read all the comments for 10 articles. You'll quickly come to the realization that a number of the differently-named identities repeat a large number of the same ideas, concepts and talking points.

But all these differently-named identities have different habits of usage. Maybe one of them can't be bothered to use the shift-key, like e e cummings. One of them is named "Darryl" and posts rather rambling comments. A few of them are anonymous cowards. But over the course of a few weeks diligent followers of the comments in a blog see that all the trolls start using the same talking points at the same time. Maybe a phrase like "rich user experience" shows up in all troll comments one day. A few weeks later, any number of people chime in with "I love linux as much as the next guy, but Microsoft has a great product this time."

What I mean by "blows the sockpuppets/trolls wide open" is that this revelation finally explains how a site like Groklaw.net or techdirt.com can attract such a large number of persistent detractors. Sockpuppet/Persona Management explains how a single person can create a large number of different trolls with different writing characteristics, different vocabularies, but all with the same point of view.
View the Terms of the 100k Conv. Note to be Awarded at Funded By Night
After resetting Windows Mobile development they had their hands full just getting WP7 out on phones, and it's still missing features like a decent web browser which are already pretty bad on a phone but would be crippling on a tablet. It would probably take them another year to do a reasonable port, at which point it's not that far from the release of Windows 8 anyway.
Ha, saved as well... it's a gem.

I've got to believe that the social networks and Google have been thinking about way to combat this problem too. I wonder what kind of impact Google's open-source two-step authentication [1] (and other types of mobile device verification systems [2]) will have on efforts to develop meaningful persona management software. If implemented properly, mobile device verification would surely inhibit such efforts.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/
[2] http://openid.net/2009/09/09/yahoo-paypal-google-equifax-aol...

EDIT: Didn't notice before, so not sure if they just added it, but the same RFP is duplicated & linked to at the bottom of the article.
There's a reason why my argument never mentioned Turing computability :-) If a human brain uses quantum effects to get cognitive bonuses, you can build a quantum computer that does same. If the brain uses super-duper unified field theory, you can build a machine to take advantage of that, and so on. The only assumption I make about the human brain is that it doesn't run on magic juju that's available exclusively to humans by the orders of Cthulhu, and I think that assumption is quite warranted.

(As far as I know, neurons can be approximated well enough by classical computers and you don't even need to go quantum, but that's another story.)
If the paid links don't pass PageRank, I don't think Google has a problem with them. I've seen Matt Cutts say that quite a bit lately, because Forbes was caught doing this (again).
It seemed that MySpace belonged in the former group not too long ago, dominating competition like Friendster. With only ~10% of the world's population on Facebook, it may still be too early to speak definitively about the future.
http://i.imgur.com/OzTIb.png

This screenshot is why I really love using SocialGrapple for my account – in the quick overview of what happened yesterday to my account, you can see that I followed one person who followed me that day ("mutual" tag on it), and who the most important accounts are by follower count (x2 means twice as many followers as following, and a better ratio usually means a more important person).

I love Twitter and using it to meet new people, but when 100+ people follow me in one day, it was really awesome to have SG to help me parse the data.

</unsolicited review>
Ugh. He should have skipped writing about this. No matter the validity of his words, whatever he says will be percieved as sour grapes.
One of our exciting new companies at SSE Labs! Congrats on the article - Game Closure is a strong group of hackers if I've ever seen one.
Blackberry surveys playbook pricing... shouldn't they know?
Poll Results: HTML5 Features in Use on Production Sites
When mathematicians are obsolete, computer scientists will be obsolete.

This is wrong. There are lots of branches of computer science that are not math, nor dependent on new math.
If the practice is widespread, it's more likely it just increases the time taken to fill open positions as companies spend some time looking to fill the spot of whoever left. It doesn't necessarily have to end with hiring someone who is unemployed, it may just have the effect of decreasing the mean number of employed as the "hole" propagates from place to place.
I see a lot of stories today about how IBM is planning to adapt Watson technology for use in health care.

I absolutely believe that Watson could revolutionize health care, but not in the way most people are suggesting. Despite what you see on House MD, diagnosing mystery illnesses is not something that doctors struggle with.

However, the amount of money that Watson could recover in insurance and medicare fraud would absolutely dwarf what he won on Jeopardy. There's the real payoff...
I think you should apply to sell to AOL...god knows it'd be the only asset they'd have that's in the black....say 316MM?
Process isolation:

Run Chrome

Open a lot of tabs

Open one with a HTTP auth that brings up the native browser login dialog

Switch to another tab

Close the one with the dialog

Result: whole browser crashes.

Moral: process isolation does not mean better user experience.

Like I said a lot of times:

IE 6 is still officially supported

IE 9 is not available on XP

This is why Microsoft is still crippling the web.
I'm not quite on Pitcairn Island, but I live and work in rural Vermont, and by far the biggest problem with it is precisely the lack of a reliable internet connection. Right now for me, the only viable option is satellite, which is horrible (225 MiB/day download cap, 800 ms ping times). I'm currently investigating a T1 line, which will be expensive, but (slightly) cheaper than renting an office in an area with DSL access. (Moral of the story here is clearly to not fall in love with a girl who owns a house on the end of a dirt road...) I'm sure many (though certainly not all) other remote locations are as bad; so don't make assumptions on that before you pull the trigger on a specific area.

Another factor of living in the middle of nowhere, especially after living in DC and NYC, is the technical/social isolation is pretty intense. I'm about 10 miles from Dartmouth, and there is small tech culture there, but it's not like there are monthly Lisp or Scala or security meetups. Or even a student ACM chapter, for that matter. No matter how you slice it, it's hard to replace quality in-person interactions with online. IRC and mailing lists are great and useful things, but being able to hang out drinking coffee with someone while you sketch out ideas in a notebook is pretty damn important too. (There are plenty of interesting people out here, but most programmers, especially the good ones, will of course gravitate to urban areas, so the population of tech people out here is near zero).
I don't think that's exclusive to the Valley, and I've never really understood it.

One of the things I miss about living in a smaller place is when a band would come to town, they would generally play at a smaller venue than they would for a place like SF. After the show, you could go up and talk to them, shoot the shit, etc... The funny thing was, most people still wouldn't take advantage of that opportunity. I usually did, and I got to talk to a lot of cool people because of it.

But while an iconic indie rock legend is still a bit different that someone like Mark Zuckerberg, people are still just people.
I had a discussion with my friend who's in a tech hiring position, and he said exactly this: It's actually harder to hire now because all advertisements are flooded by less-qualified people. The recession may have increased the pool of qualified people, but it has decreased the S/N in the stack of applications far more.
A year ago I had a gig for a big name prototyping an Android tablet. The message that was passed from other vendors was that Goggle were that they aren't looking into tablets. The project was cancelled. How wrong they were...

When Android 1.0 was released a lot of vendors approached it with caution, 2 years down the road same story again...
UF Leads World in Reconfigurable Supercomputing
Social media in emergencies
Book and movie distribution channels have approximately 2 years left to evolve or die. Music faced the same thing and decided to fight a losing war.

They can be smart and embrace the change before it overwhelms them or be stuck culturally in traditional distribution and get swept away before recovering as music has done through iTunes and indy.
This is really great news: I spent some time digging around in the Rubinius JIT in December, and realized that it wasn't going to generate significantly better code until the byte codes were replaced with an intermediate representation that made type checks visible to the optimizer.

In the long run, Ruby implementations will be at least 1 order of magnitude faster than either MRI 1.9 or JRuby. And I'm glad to see that the Rubinius folks are taking the necessary steps to get there.
More Donald Duck awesomeness: http://www.cracked.com/article_19021_5-amazing-things-invent...
Cease and decist lameness against respected mobile web dev's open source project
How the Kardashians made $65M last year
The 5-minute Ignite talk Gavin did about Bitcoin is up
Moral: process isolation does not mean better user experience.

No, the moral is that process isolation isn't a magic bullet that somehow prevents all types of browser crashes. But that doesn't mean it's not a useful technique for reducing the impact of things like a buggy plugin.
There are organizations that specifically encourage men to join nursing.

http://dukechronicle.com/article/duke-receives-recognition-e...
There was one of the well-known columnists for Infoworld / EWeek / Computer World / One-of-those-magazines, that was calling it a bubble quite a while before it popped. My memory is telling me it was Bob Metcalfe, but I couldn't find a citation to back that up during a brief search. But, at any rate, there were definitely some people recognizing the bubble a bit early.
Agnotology (learned ignorance)
Amplify: a jQuery component library for solving common web problems.
App Store rules are not a legal system. They reserve right to reject you for any reason they like, including attempts to bypass spirit of their rules. They have humans judging every case.
I actually think Watson would be far more useful to lawyers than to mathematicians. With a little tweaking, he could probably even identify all the non sequiturs in your comment.

Imagine a future where, in addition to checking your spelling and grammar, your computer could check your logic too!
Mark Cuban Says Foursquare Is Doomed, But Who's Really Using Facebook Places?
An incandescent light might take a nontrivial amount of time (tenth of a second?) to heat up and light after power is applied.
Why Prototyping is so important in game development
http://www.quora.com/Which-should-I-learn-Django-or-Rails?q=...

Probably more applicable is Ruby or Python:
http://www.quora.com/If-I-only-have-time-to-learn-Python-or-...
Well, I've had a secretpoke. It was almost certainly spam from you. (You chose a hint that made no sense.)

Call me suspicious, but wouldn't this be a great way to gather email addresses for mail marketing! (Almost as good as Facebook...)

On the plus side, I thought it was cute and made me smile for a second. So, thanks ... but, no thanks.
No No No No No. This is wrong. If you get rid of the 'Valley of Death' all you are going to do is fund more hobbies, and WASTE $2B of Taxpayer dollars.

sigh

The incentives are not aligned right. I am sure the VCs are happy about this, because their 2 & 20 has not changed.

But this is BAD news for the health of the startup community.

Why on earth would TechStars even encourage/be involved with this ?

sigh

I am not even a US taxpayer and I feel the pain of wasted taxpayer dollars.

I am all for boosting innovation, but I don't think throwing money at it is the right way at all. They need to fix IP/patent laws, lower the tax rates and get out of the way.

The valley is going through a 'debateable' bubble all by itself, without Washington's help.

Oh..and don't get me wrong. I am an Obama fan. I just think that this policy is misguided on MANY levels. Especially when things are heating up in the valley. I see NO upside coming from this.
The fabled mathematician Shalosh B. Ekhad may have something to say about that.

http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/pj.html
All I have to say is, "Incompleteness Theorem."

Hilbert tried to come up with a method of generating theorems by just cranking a wheel that churns out different logical forms. Ends up that we still need verification to make sure that these things actually make _sense_. (Even if we have incompleteness in any logical system that contains arithmetic, we still have to figure out whether a certain logical form "makes sense" to use.)
You mean "Matt Deutsch of TopEchelon.com".
"You are describing micro-readability, IMO. I've read lots of code where it was clear what each line of code did, but not at all clear what the end result was, or why it was being done."

No. Unless you consider chunks of 90-100 lines of code to be micro, in which case I think your point is irrelevant, you have effectively defined the terms of the debate such that you've argued yourself right out of it. Also, your terms are silly, if looking at 100 lines of code is micro, what is macro? Looking at 10,000 lines of code simultaneously? you must have a very generous boss to have bought you such a large monitor!!!

The test of readability which I administered was at the unit level, not the individual line of code level.

I think you make a good minor point about why. The why is incredibly important. This is something that people who say they don't bother with comments because comments get out of date blah blah blah get wrong. A comment is not there to say what you are doing, a comment is there to say why you are doing it, or what you want to achieve. Also, comments should be kept up to date. It costs practically nothing to slip in a:

// bugfix for bug #127; forgot to snorgle the barr

just above your change
It all depends on how you define "jobless"...

I am currently unemployed, yet I still work. I am volunteering at the United Way and other similar organisations for positions they need filled. Now, I am a computer literacy teacher, 5th grade mathematics program helper, and also providing computer work for a non-profit.

I also am constantly filling out applications for positions which I am way overqualified (fast food and retail). I am receiving unemployment, and who knows when I'll actually obtain a job. But I know this: my current volunteer work is being listed as current jobs. Is this dishonest? Perhaps... But it is work regardless.
Its also an "away-from" strategy. Imagine you were a hard-hitting tech founder like Paul Graham and there was even a possibility there was a bubble? Everyone knows bubbles can be painful and should be avoided intelligently at all costs.

The right man in the right situation turns "calling a bubble" into a move to focus and motivate. Instead of trying to hide an impending bubble, you are creating the resources necessary to do something that will eventually win mind-share.

Knowing how to generate multiple revenue streams with a fixed engineering cost is a good start.
Unit Testing Statistical Software
Even if there is a tech bubble, so what. You just need to do due diligence when dealing with a company. Does the company offer true value or is it a fad? For example, FaceBook. yes, there are millions of people on there, but their revenue source is from ads that have little ROI. Zynga is another one, how long can you convince people to keep buying dresses for your virtual pig?
Thanks for the feedback, that's very useful. I think I will try and tweak it so that you're sent to Twitter first before I ask for an email and password. The reason I do that is that you can have multiple accounts, and each Twitter account can have multiple collaborators, so I need to keep Twitter accounts distinct from user accounts. I can, however, reverse the setup and as you say I think that would be less confusing. You're not the first to mention problems with the authorisation process - I will look into that. Thanks again.
Who knew JWZ owned the DNA Lounge?!
Also when you are working with hardware you have to consider supply chain capacity, component quality, etc.

You have to wonder how component supplies will be affected by Apple's orders. I hear they're responsible for 60% of all display orders right now [0], and they also have the famously secretive "component agreement" they announced during their last earnings call. It's possible that non-Apple product shipments will be delayed out to 2012 as a result.

[0] http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/02/17/with_60_of_wor...
I have to agree with the parent about parts of the site design (although not in the insulting way it was presented). The font size and color contrast (particularly black on navy green) are really difficult to read, and I find myself unable to skim over it quickly to evaluate what is being offered.
Show HN: I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.
Windows XP Tablet Edition shipped in 2001.
(From the superficial complaint dept.):

I assume that your using http://html5boilerplate.com/ to some extent, along with the default favicon and icon.png that it ships with. I'd recommend replacing that with an original icon or at least one that's less identifiable. Great project nonetheless.
right. I'm just correcting this idea that hardware is that expensive.