skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see no need to rephrase what you've wrote. I think that's a pretty simple and clever way to determine how someone solves problems. I'm going to give that a shot.

My personal philosophy is to hire "aggressive learners." This is type of person who will get visibly agitated when you do something for them without explaining what you're doing. Or will spend hours teaching themselves a skill so that can be more independent. That type of personality seems to learn quickly, adapt easily to new challenges and will welcome change.
The thing that is being stolen is the right of exploitation of your creative work (it's one of the UN Human Rights, that). When I make something, I have the right to control how it is exploited commercially -- even if I simply don't want it to be commercially exploited!

So when software I make is copied without my consent, I lose that right. If the infringement is large enough, I utterly lose it. (See also Trumpet Winsock).

Property doesn't need to be physical objects. You can steal an idea just as much as you can steal lunch money. And you can steal my rights.
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TechMeme's got huge gender biases, and this helps contribute to the echo chamber effect that Fred's talking about. In September 2010 I wrote about a case where even though 65% of the articles on a subject were written by women, TechMeme's version had on 16.5% by women. http://www.talesfromthe.net/jon/?p=1618#comment-88992
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Fair enough. But I don't think you can ignore the fact that the ratio of article types has changed a lot. Also, a 'strong startup focus' and true hacker news are not mutually exclusive. I love me a good blog post from an engineer at startup x talking about how they're solving a certain problem.
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How do you "explain" to someone who was born blind that he is "blind"?
There's less cognitive overhead in processing these renderings because there's less stuff to pay attention to. A photograph tends to record everything, which can be overwhelming if you're looking for select landmarks.

Also, the real world tends to be more drab and polluted than these cheery 100% saturation renderings.
Hi, newbie :)

9 Months ago? That explains why you may have missed the other 6 times this was posted over the last 3 years...

The reports of Hacker News' death have been greatly exaggerated.
I've been using his VM in production for 6 months or so now.
I haven't been happy with Squeak Smalltalk in a fast-paced production environment... however it has been fun for other reasons.

The actual language of Smalltalk is pretty nice and it is fun to read through posts like this because the simplicity of the language allows for easy learning of different algorithms. The underlying algorithms are pretty transparent.

It also makes it relatively easy to read through code to figure out what's going on and you learn a lot about implementation details by doing this.

Edit: forgot to mention, his Cog VM is pretty nice! It definitely helped improve performance of the system as a whole from slow & pokey to feeling quick and more modern.
No offence mkrency, but I am so tired of these "HN is going to the dogs" posts, so finally I created a table of them, here it is:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ao73DTH98IRgdEY2LXN...

Feel free to add any that I have missed.
The ".cc" is meant to evoke the act of CC'ing somebody in an email, or creating a mailing list just by cc'ing somebody.

Also, they wanted like $1M for fiesta.com or something :P
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The relevant GitHub repositories are:

https://github.com/bergie/midgardmvc_ui_create - the reference UI implementation for Midgard Create

https://github.com/bergie/VIE - JavaScript library used for making RDFa-annotated content editable

https://github.com/alohaeditor/Aloha-Editor - usable HTML5 contentEditable implementation

https://github.com/midgardproject/midgardmvc_core - the PHP framework used with the UI reference implementation

If you want to implement this UI, or something similar to your web system, just let me know. I'm usually on Freenode #midgard and #iks channels.
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I certainly agree that lack of regulation has helped in the growth of the web and internet. However, I would argue that open standards were even more critical. Email, DNS, TCP/IP, HTML -- Having a common base on which to build new technologies allowed a huge amount of innovation to occur very rapidly.

Imagine the difference if many companies had competing formats for the base technologies. It would be like when railroad companies used different gauges for train tracks. Interoperability would have been a nightmare. Or worse, if a single company invented the tech and demanded royalties -- would the web be what it is if everyone had to pay royalties to use HTML? I believe that the innovations would have occurred eventually in this scenario, it just would have taken a lot longer.
>And not one story about Apple or Facebook in the top 20 right now.

It isn't always that way. Some days we have three stories on the front page about Facebook (the day before yesterday) and I don't think a single day goes by where some Apple story doesn't creep its way in. There's an Apple-related story on the front page right now and two on the second page. It's gotten better over the last year though. It used to be that 3-4 (or more) articles about Apple and Facebook were on the front page at any given time.
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Don't know if it's 13- crowd - it's Disney, so at least partially, yes. I'm also assuming it's heavily Pokemon influenced, in which case absolutely, regardless of any stated aims.

As to customer support headaches: they're running an entire custom-built web game. Login problems would be the least of their difficulties, support or technical.
The statements:
an issue that is complex but ultimately resolvable by the usual means of analysis.
and
All the rest is rhetoric.
seem contradictory. What is the usual means of analysis if not rhetoric?
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Meaning "pixel-art-style map of part of one city in China with many copy/pasted buildings."
http://dummyimage.com is your friend :)
Funny thing about anime: fan subs/dubs are why most anime publishers line up a translation during production now. They realized they were missing a big market. It's why the original Fullmetal Alchemist ('03-'04) was a fansub for a long time before an official NA release, while the recent remake came out in English[1] on Hulu days after airing in Japan.

A whole new import market sprung up because of what was technically piracy.

[1]With subtitles, but dubbed episodes started popping up on the Hulu page near the end of the show's run.
Bullshit-free is in the eye of the beholder. For example I didn't see him mention anywhere in his plain English that the approach he advocates leads to discrimination and favors large corporate interests against small businesses.
Good for you, brk. Had I been around for the last 3 years as, presumably you have, I may have missed HNs 6 other deaths by having other things to do than read HN. Sadly that is no longer the case.
WordPress 3.0's default theme applied the same CSS to the backend post editor as well as was used on the the front page. Well, that was the idea, anyway. It sounds like it didn't work out so well.
Me too. Been several years learning to implement an idea of my own -- learning an enormous amount.
The body needs to be fit for its tasks, not just please the snobbish beholder.

This reminded me of Nike's "Go ahead, tell me I'm not an athlete!" campaign. To open minded people, this makes perfect sense.
"we are selling overpriced products for rich people". apple hopes you didnt notice that.
>Note: as US citizens we are obligated to pay taxes in the US even if we do not live in the country...ever again...the privilege of being US citizens.

I hope you've not been paying the full amount!!! The point is to tax the gap between what you'd pay in the US and the other jurisdiction. Your taxes should be no higher than they'd be in the states if you're doing them properly!

If you've made an error, you should be able to refile an amended return for the last couple years and reclaim a bit of that
Not sure why he wouldn't use this, this seems vastly superior to the system he uses:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xRgfaUJkdM&feature=playe...
The good: Great job building something. Producing something is always a win.

The bad: I don't want to rain on your parade, but I don't get the value proposition. Now I just type "chicago weather" in my chrome toolbar and google tells me everything I'm looking for.

More pointed advice, regarding execution:

1. There's only one thing to do on the front page. Make the input box already have focus so the user can just start typing.

2. Be smart about queries: I typed in "Chicago" http://howistheweather.in/#chicago which is a major US city, and I didn't get to a page that told me the weather. I got to a list of 10 matches: 8 in Chicago, 1 in Indiana, 1 in California. You should be returning whatever city Google returns to me.

3. I accidentally typed howstheweather.in instead of howistheweather.in, which does the same thing.
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http://loqize.me

http://vimeo.com/16147939
Please please please don't link to pages that open the print dialog :(
I was employing the colloquial sense of 'rhetoric' in that final sentence. Had I instead used 'sophistry', someone would no doubt have rebutted my choice of words by justly remarking that the Sophists and that Protagoras guy were jolly good fellows. :)
You're right in that nature gives us no rights. Maybe it would be better to say God-given rights. Thus the command "Thou shalt not steal" becomes the basis of property rights. These rights can be understood as universal as I know of no culture in which it is considered a virtue to steal.
Ideally, the applications that have specially designed layouts for size/resolution should be noted and easily searched.

(It is a big difference to have a tablet with the same resolution as a 4" mobile phone. They need different designs and layouts for good use.)

And no, I have no idea how to design such a system for Android -- especially I can't see how you could make one which couldn't be trivially gamed.
Hmm, whilst I welcome the move, I think it's a poor decision by RIM to do it. Seeing as most of my email is handled by Google Apps, the only real draw (and because of friends and family members with BlackBerrys, it was a large draw) for me to get a BlackBerry handset was BBM.

If I can seamlessly instant message friends and family across platforms with the ease of use of BBM on a device like the HTC Desire HD, then that would be my preferred approach.
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None of the posts in your table are the same as mine. It would be nice if someone actually answered my question rather than criticizing me for pointing out a phenomena that I think, is evidently true.
Actually, reports suggest it now has 512MB RAM just like the iPhone 4.

Apple doesn't like talking hardware specs, they feel it distracts from the overall package that is both the hardware and software. They give vague numbers like 2x better CPU performance due to dual core CPU but they didn't mention how fast each core runs. They didn't mention the RAM for the iPad1 and they didn't now either. I'm not sure why people are surprised by this.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/03/apples_a5_cpu_...
In French they do call it "double V". I wonder why in English it's U though.
Does anyone care about any of these points?

Wires? Yea, we still need wires for some things. Apple doesn't do stuff that's not going to be a good experience.

Memory? ...don't know, don't care how much memory is in my original iPad - I only care that it performs well - and it does.

Screen resolution? Don't know what rumors they were following, but it's completely impractical today to put a retina display on an iPad-sized screen. Wait for it.

Megapixels? ...pointless fluff marketing numbers.

Storage space? I bought a 32gb and wish I had saved the 100 bucks. All my content is on my Mac which has many hundreds of GB of storage.

These all seem deep in nitpick territory. This is a consumer device - like your TV or your microwave. Post-PC, remember?
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One more thing... what happens if I'm part of two different family@fiesta.cc lists? :-)
No more print articles, please. I'm tired of print dialogs popping up, un-asked-for. Use Readability if you don't like the layout.

http://www.mensjournal.com/the-blind-man-who-taught-himself-...
This allows you to still communicate with a separate backend, just implement Backbone.sync in the way you need. There is even a guy implementing this system for Jekyll (a static HTML blog generation tool)
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What the ? How is this even possible ? Am I the only one doubting the story ?
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From the evidence we have, group C is much larger than B for most media.

Superstars might lose out somewhat; their group B might be larger than group C. But for almost all creators of media, group C is larger, often extremely much larger, than group B, and therefore copyright infringement is a net benefit to them.

Even for superstars, it's not clear that B is larger than C. You want the latest hit song from Lady Gaga? Here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV1FrqwZyKw

Free to air for the world to see and download, no payment required, put up there by the creator. Clearly Gaga believes that the benefits of publicity outweigh any "losses" from people who decided not to buy the album. I'm sure she is correct.
> I haven't been happy with Squeak Smalltalk in a fast-paced production environment... however it has been fun for other reasons.

Could you expand on this? I've been looking at Pharo w/Cog + Seaside for production software and I would love to hear about any pitfalls.
Beautiful question.

You could also ask if blind people are able to perceive vision in dreams. To which the answer, I believe, is that they simply cannot, due to the fact that their brains have no notion of a visual image.
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I guess you were just lazy.

There is practically never a valid excuse for uploading testing code to production, unless the site is down and you already have everything under revision control.
I think in the 80s and 90s the idea of questioning wasn't thought of much because it (copyright) wasn't thought of much. No one thought to much about copying cassette tapes or floppy disks (at least where I grew up).
> If you think about what information they have about somebody using their services (Search, GMail, Voice, Reader, Blogger, Maps, Shopper, Books, Finance, YouTube, News, Picasa, etc.) adding mobile to that set of data is the obvious next-step to ensure they know as much about their users as possible. It's all about the information, and who controls it.

For these services, Google can't be dislodged because another entity can't come in and grab the code that harvests that information. But I don't think that's the case for Android; someone could rewrite the code so that Google doesn't get this information.

In reading some comments, I get the feeling that people think we are debating the technical merits of Android. The question really is: How much does Google make/lose because it is developing Android? The fact that your would-be competitors can prevent you from gathering user information (which was the very reason for the creation of this project) doesn't make sense. This is one business strike against developing Android.

In this article: http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/15/google-android-money/ there's an interesting quote:

> Schmidt called Android “probably the largest single platform play in the market today.” And going forward, he thinks that’s only going to increase as more and more people buy smartphones. At the same time, “in the open source approach, that means we give the software away, which is always paradoxical. People say, well how do you make money from that?,” Schmidt was quick to jump to. “The evidence we have is that people who use Android search twice as much as everything else,” Schmidt continued. “So, clearly, there is more revenue associated with those searches.”

But Eric Schmidt is NOT saying that they are making twice as much money off of people who use Android. And there's also no data to measure how much people would be searching if Android didn't exist. Do people who use WebOS search twice as much as everything else? What about people that use iOS? What about people that use Symbian? Etc. If people would have searched twice as everything else on other platforms, then that takes away a lot of the business justification for Android: Google would have gotten their doubled-search without doing anything. This is another business strike.
I didn't notice a lack of diversity in Techmeme. I consider the site to be very useful, and while they push the big companies stories above the fold, there are still a lot of interesting links to other news or opinions.
How do you plan to make money? Annoying ads in the emails or some other idea?
A couple of issues...

First, your CEO, it's true, did not likely put financial risk on the line to take the position obtained. But the CEO's 40x salary was put in place by the elected representatives of those who did put financial risk on the line--stockholders. If they see that salary as a good investment based on their risk why should they not be allowed to make that investment?

Secondly, your point on coercion. Yes, you can certainly argue that the engineer was "forced" at some level to take a job, and thus some salary. But in a world living with people you will never be free of all influences or coercion. Similarly if a company wants to build a product it is "forced" to hire employees and thus reach an agreement on salary. This too, by your line of reasoning, is a form of coercion.
Well, no. There's no morality to copyright infringement laws, and if we were to apply a moral component, it would clearly come down on the side of freedom of information. Copyright laws are at best amoral, and at worst immoral.

"Why we have copyright laws in the first place" is because corporations lobbied for them - self-interest. There's no moral component.
Friendly reminder: this post does not appear on classic HN.[1][2]

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/classic

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke
when somebody tries to add you to the second one it'll be automatically renamed (just for you, not for everybody else) to family1@fiesta.cc - you can then go into the web UI and rename both however you want!
Are you saying that connecting a device to a computer to sync is a better experience than automatically syncing OTA? And you like tabs reloading if you leave the page?

Nitpicks are important. Good enough is the enemy of excellence.
"Protection of private property exists to the extent it's judged useful to society. Protection of so-called intellectual property exists to the same extent."

Protection of private property is to prevent theft. We both can't have your car. If I copy your software, we both have it.

Protection of intellectual "property" was granted as incentive to create. It was (is?) a time based monopoly on your creation. At some point the protection ended. This was a benefit to society as it allowed ideas to be built upon.
Another good way to do a tutorial is with mouseovers. A little info about each thing in the game would go a long way.
False dichotomy. They're both aggregators per se, but one top-down curates breaking news (and reactions to it, which is why a story may take up so much space), the other uses voting to optimize news of any age to the interest level of a community.

I don't disagree with Fred's conclusion - that Techmeme is hard to take sometimes - but that seems more a reflection of the quasi-autistic and frequently hysterical focus of the tech media these days.
Amazing that his mind adapted so that he in fact sees (the echo as a flash of light). I don't think this is a fake story since what we see happens in the mind, not in our eyes.
In the short term, I don't :P. I have some long term ideas, ideally keeping it ad-free forever.
Here's a teenager who could do the same thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBv79LKfMt4

The video is from when he was 14, he died from cancer at 16.
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Daniel Kish was featured in Derren Brown's 'Misdirection' series. The clip here shows him using echolocation to describe the shape of a car and ride a bike: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjFcvixIRxs

'You might think of it like being in a choir or an orchestra... The world is like a living symphony... This car is kind of like an instrument, except that, instead of making its own sound, it's reflecting sounds I'm making.'

Extraordinary.
And more importantly no Windows NT.

This would have been the proper predecessor for Windows 2000 Professional.

Windows 2000 Professional was not part of consumer upgrade path - ME was.

Of course XP was was the successor to both.
Had to read the headline a couple of times.
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Apple never mention how much RAM is in their iOS devices. If I had to guess why I'd say it forces more consumers to compare based on things other than specification. The tech savvy know what they're reading and where to get the data, most other consumers don't care, but there is a group who know where to get the data and don't know how to interpret it, who may be fooled by numbers which don't actually affect their use of the device.

As for having features missing in the first version, that's also been the Apple way. Release early, release often. See what the consumer actually wants and complains about and include that in the next version.

I do think that the sync cable still isn't very Apple though. I've been hoping that will vanish ever since iOS devices first had wifi capability across the board.
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Ideas are not protected by copyrights. If you tell me about your idea, we both have it. Nothing was taken from you.

If I take your pen, you no longer have it; thats theft.