skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to disagree - your assessment would suggest that at the end he was more fit than the vast majority of people that try to be fit, and that his teacher was the best in the world. My point was simply that he did not have a frame of reference to evaluate the quality of the fitness program he took on relative to other programs with competent instructors (since his lack of fitness demonstrated that he had never had any competent instruction).

To keep the analogy from the original post, do you trust a first year CS student to tell you the best way to learn coding? That student finally had a competent teacher and went from zero to writing a lisp compiler in C. What he doesnt realize is so did every other first year college CS student, and they may have had an entirely different curriculum and experience. And they are all at the beginning of a journey, not the end.

If the article were written by a pro athlete, for example, that had experimented with lots of different fitness regimes over that course of a life in which he was clearly successful in being fit, I would take it a lot more seriously, just as I would be more interested in hearing about the best methods of learning to write commercial applications from long-time practitioners that had trained many teams over the years in production environments.
I wonder if having to manually launch the puzzles show() method is part of the puzzle itself or just a bug. (Checked with Chrome 9 and Firefox 3).
What Steve Jobs' Body Language Means for Apple Stock
Thanks for the comments all! I'll take a closer look and reply ASAP (got the "real job" thing distracting me at the moment).

For those who noticed: multivoting has been fixed (or at least mitigated).

This is fun! :)
I hope Microsoft has learned lessons from how difficult it has been to get people to stop using IE6. Mainly, they need to make it easier to upgrade IE.

IE needs to be a standalone application that can be upgraded easily without the risk of breaking everything.
I blame customers for poor adoption, not developers. Its obvious that MSFT would prefer all of their customers update to the newest versions of their software.
I assume its because audio captchas are so easy to break with a computer (hence you have to distort the hell out of it):

http://blog.wintercore.com/2008/03/05/breaking-gmails-audio-...
Absolutely fine, English is widely spoken
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Seems interesting but the English is realllly hard to understand :(

"JSP page is first processed very slowly, even the most simple 'hello world' will be more outlay of your time to 300ms rendered view, adding a number of other taglib if so, the processing time to will be more long."

Huh?
All good points, though your last one kind of negates the motivation I feel to implement your suggestions :)

I do mix up the order a bit to make sure people at the end don't get neglected. But people in the middle probably have fate set against them. Poor middle panelists :(

I'm very happy wasting the amount of time it took. ;)
I read 'lived with his parents' and thought that was good enough information on the value of this business model.
adblock and http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/ works for me.

a handful of blogs from the cooking forlder of my google reader:

http://justcookit.blogspot.com/

http://www.toomanychefs.com/

http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/

http://www.101cookbooks.com/

also I'd be a fool not to mention my own site

http://thecookofbob.blogspot.com/

Mine's not crap-laden with ads, but it's not really crap laden with much tbh.
Google respects if I don't want my content indexed.

This guy doesn't.

I can't believe we're even discussing this stuff. This guy is clearly in criminal backwaters fencing illegal stuff. How can you even remotely vindicate his behavior? "Oh but there is a layer of redirection between him and the actual source of the content" really doesn't cut it in my book.
From what the EFF has to say, this seems to be an encouraging direction for the patent system. I wonder if some non profit could be funded to monitor and oppose obvious software patents in that initial 9 month window.
Whilst I broadly agree with you, MSFT locking XP out of IE9 would evidence some of the blame being shiftable back to them.
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That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said about me. I'm tearing up a little :)

I agree the comment's valid. I also should go post this on Reddit... brb...
"Common knowledge is not so common".

Especially true in IT, IMHO.
Interesting... if you get rid of China and S. Korea, IE6 is probably less then 5%. I think IE6 is close to becoming a footnote. With IE9 not supporting XP, I'd love to see MS recommend FF4 or Chrome for XP users, although frankly I don't think it would matter... if you're still on XP a modern web browser is the last thing on your mind.
Alot of that is also large enterprises that wont upgrade. Where my brother works, the mindset is that you dont need to browse the web at work so there is no need for a "modern" browser.
What if the original is digital?
I was unclear: I meant iPhone (20%, +6%) vs Android (11%, +10%). Not saying Android won't pass, but I see it more like Q4-2011, 2012 even. Mostly depends on Apple's strategy notably WRT entry-level devices: phones like Spica are really appealing price-wise, especially when they're sold with small contracts (sometimes less than half the price per month of high-profile smartphones like the Galaxy S, Desire HD or the iPhone). Nokia's decline is staggering and unless they build up steam quickly with WP7 I see them in troubled waters.

Data source comScore: http://www.comscoredatamine.com/2011/02/smartphone-operating...

That said, I actually encountered more WinMo6 devices than Symbian ones (read: not much). Really don't know where they hide. Lots of "dumb" (mostly old) Nokia phones though.
It's also available online for free: http://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/AeqB.html
It's also pretty easy to do in Excel, favored tool of "marketing gurus". Find/replace, import, pivot.
What about pullups? The big three you mention don't seem to hit your upper back, biceps or shoulders much.

(I'm a novice, genuinely curious.)
Here's the link to the slide in question

http://fortunebrainstormtech.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/scr...

It says, "first dual core tablet to ship in volume". That's an exact quote.

It doesn't say, as you are positing,

"when it ships, we predict that at some unspecified point in the future, it will be the dual core tablet that ships more than some arbitrary number for 'in volume' that we've defined, while our competitors will likely not meet or exceed our completely arbitrary and self defined benchmark for 'in volume'."

If you don't think that's a lie, I have some property on the moon to sell you (or at least I predict at some point in the future I will own property on the moon that I will immediately turn over to you if you pay me for it now)
In my experience, climbing rocks and surfing, while possibly suboptimal as workouts, will absolutely get you into great shape. And they have the added benefit of providing their own motivation.

Eh, I don't find rock climbing at all enjoyable. But I love running marathons. I've even been known to put in 22 miles _on a treadmill_. Different strokes for different folks.
Trail of tears and broken dreams follows iPad2
"9 nines works out to 31 milliseconds of downtime per year. That's smaller than the acceptable drift of an atomic clock over the same period. You couldn't measure anything to that accuracy if you tried."

Not to be pedantic, but are you using the right unit of time? Atomic clocks aren't supposed to lose more than 1 second of accuracy over a million years... maybe you meant micro/nano/picoseconds? 31millisecond drift(assuming it goes one way) per day = 1 sec error over approximately 300 days...

Edit: Bah, the parent comment is gone. I'm leaving mine up anyway in case I'm wrong in my assessment.
I'm guessing there's a high correlation between people running non-legit copies of Windows and IE 6 users.
For on campus bookstores, computer sales to students correlate to x computers per student not y dollars of total sales. Thus even after discounts, the higher price of Apple products means a greater revenue for the bookstore than Windows or Linux based machines (and greater net earnings assuming constant margins).

The amount a student is able to borrow depends on the costs calculated by the University. Therefore, the higher cost of Macs can be built in to the student's loan package - with the university receiving a portion of that additional money back with fewer restrictions on how it is spent (unlike tuition and fees). That is particularly attractive to public universities.

In smaller college towns, the University may be the only bookstore which sells Macs due to the difficulty an independent bookstore has in qualifying as a Mac dealer as Apple has shifted its retail strategy over the past few years. This again gives the university a financial incentive to require Macs and other Apple products.
When we did YKombinator it took around 2-3 hours to "code" and around a day to design and polish.
I love the name, for a start :)

Home page before logging in: Nice, the tooltips appear a bit randomly, sometimes I have to shake the mouse around to get it.

payment : amazon.com only. Paypal would be nice....

money : $ only. Others would be nice (euro, pound...) and not too hard.

From some Item screen : my Items is a bit hard to spot.
A bigger,more centered button would be nice.
The presentation lacks clarity. Maybe a clear square div containing the text would be better; and the description text could be a bit bigger, too.

About new Item : Hmmm, I'd really like an additional input for price. Yeah, I know, you're trying to get it as simple and unencumbered as possible :)
R and data
And not to be too hand-wavey, but what if (I know this sounds crazy) there's actually a reciprocal effect here? What if there's a natural conceptual affinity between people who are attractive to each other? What if I only like the topics I like, because those are the ones the people I find attractive like? Or they like them because I do?

That's an interesting idea. You'd need to do a similar experiment, swapping the topics for faces, and do a scatter plot to see if there's any covariance between topic-interest and attractiveness. I'm inclined to think that there isn't, but it'd be interesting to see the data.
Here's one simplistic way of looking at this type of thing:

You're in class, or on the job, and you're trying to get something done. Your classmate, or coworker, comes up and says, "Have you thought about doing it this way?" You poke around for a while, maybe with some help from them, and lo and behold, it works! You are grateful and don't mind sharing the credit.

Next month, you're working on something else. After busting your hump for a week, you figure out a way to make it work. Another classmate, or coworker, comes up -- or better yet, pipes up during the next status meeting: Oh, I thought of that! (Let me share in some of your glory.)

You don't feel very grateful towards that prick. The leach didn't do anything for you; they just want to sponge off of your effort. (And you are probably questioning whether they really did what they claim, regardless of their lack of help.)
The new thinner lighter version.
The problem is enterprises, not consumers.
I'm going to echo the sentiment of a few other people and say that the tooltips are a) distracting and b) not very useful because it makes me work to see what you're trying to convey.

Examples from the free side:

* Both no scanner and e-receipt compatible have the same tooltip, why not just add a bullet point "Email e-receipts or photos to xx@yy.com" You'll replace 2 bullet points with one

* Warranty and return notifications are self explanatory - no tooltip

* Tagging "by purchase category" gets rid of the tooltip

* Searching & Sorting are self explanatory - no tooltip

I would definitely keep concentrating on being concise like you are, but having the tooltips seems like cleaning your room by putting everything in the closet. At least to me. You can have another page to go into more depth if you have that much information, but it doesn't seem necessary for most of the tooltips.
"If you're still on XP a modern web browser is the last thing on your mind."

I call BS. Tons of people are still on XP and see no reason to switch. Both corporate and non-corporate alike. XP was selling new licenses at least through last summer (last time I purchased brand new, name brand computers with XP pre-installed.) Those actually counted as Win7 sales from M$ perspective, though.
who chose those colors? unknown & 1-5 % are practically the same, out of order and make it next to impossible to glance over the map without reading the numbers.
I'm also throwing a hacker only event.

It's called stay home and get shit done.
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/fxcyd/pretty_gir...
Who created this Hot-Spot.me? I want to get in touch with them, but can't find the info.
if you get rid of China and S. Korea, IE6 is probably less then 5%.

If you actually look at the chart they show on that page, you will see that that without China and S. Korea, 5.6% of the world would be using IE6.
Those are all quite different from North America, in all cases, the indigenous people are still around and are going to be indefinitely. The Native American tribes are tiny, vastly outnumbered, and shrinking over time.

The blog post that so outraged you argued that colonial administration was better than the post-colonial regime, so I'm not sure if you're engaging with that and missing, or just raging.
You may not be as sharp at it as you were when you spent hours pounding it into your head on a frequent basis, but it's surely within a person's grasp. At least as far as math goes; something like language fluency may be another story.
At work I have no choice but to use XP.. that doesn't mean I don't use Firefox and Chrome.
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It's amazing that just a handful of non-producing individuals were able to skim $700MM off the software industry in just one year. How much did you pay in hidden costs to Intellectual Ventures this year?

It's difficult to put a price tag on the economic benefit of software patents -- but here we've got an obvious example of their cost.
I find that this site helps when I'm indecisive:

http://whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/
Here's a related paper from 2003 called 'Capriccio: Scalable Threads for Internet Services'. It uses call graph analysis to figure out where to place checkpoints that allocate and deallocate stack frame chunks.

http://ece.ut.ac.ir/Classpages/S86/ECE404/Papers/capriccio.p...
It's sad that the reporting of this type of revenue isn't reported with more than a passing "we know you all have opinions" gesture towards the unethical nature of said revenue. And by all means, debating ethics is encouraged, but acting like ethics are a curious side-note in Myhrvold's business is terrible reporting.

It's like saying "Say what you will about Bernie Madoff -- and we know you will -- but his business was quite a lucrative one, raking in over $18mm in 'missing' money when all was said and done."
Is Emirates Airlines Smart Or Lucky?
This reads like a Ted Dziuba performance art project.

I mean designing your setup as a ~15 server cluster on one box? on a raid-1 of sata drives!?! then xfs on raid-0!!!

This url is getting saved now as my canonical 'overengineering leads to faceplants' example.
In the real world your 1M connections will be coming from ~1M clients, so there's no problem. When doing load testing with one client and one server you run into port number limits; this is most realistically solved by using multiple IP addresses on the client (or multiple clients if your cloud is crippled).
The irony is that it would be easier to solve the captcha using programs like Mathematica.
Aha! ie7countdown.com and ie8countdown.com are still available!
I am a computer savvy user who used Linux as my primary OS for several years (I switched to Windows for reasons I won't specify). If my university didn't provide Windows 7 to me for free, I'd still be using XP. It's a perfectly usable OS.
> if you're still on XP a modern web browser is the last thing on your mind.

Pardon me? Please clarify what do you mean by this.
No idea, the above-linked forum will probably be happy to discuss that though.
Is that marketshare or sales, it's not clear? Marketshare naturally lags sales e.g. in the US Android took the sales lead in August and the marketshare lead December/January.

I see they've got an entry from yesterday about Android overtaking iPhone in January for the US market so it looks like their figures are talking about marketshare, not sales:

http://www.comscoredatamine.com/2011/03/android-takes-lead-i...
Until an approved program uses the built in HTML renderer for a news page or help file or something, and calls out to the web and gets the whole system compromised within minutes.

Very easy to happen.

Windows lets programs do whatever they want. Just because you don't actively use them doesn't mean they aren't used by other programs.

(This is also why Linux server admins like to pull every single command and program out of their machine that they don't absolutely need.)
I'm sorry, but anyone who says this has failed to understand evolution.

Evolution is a slow process. But there is no reason to believe that it is going any slower today than it ever did in the past - we're just being selected for different things than in the past. (For instance carelessness about birth control.)
You know, I was actually thinking of this. What SxSW really needs is just a tiny bit of NLP to do a tag cloud for the panels. I think that could be used to perform the kind of experiment you describe.

And I wouldn't bias such a thing by predicting the outcome, but can we agree that the panelists on topics we're interested in will be appealing to us in some way? Maybe not physically all the time, but they will be attractive to us.

I guess all I'm saying is that the inverse is true. Someone's nature, and interests do come through in their appearance (book cover judging rules!), especially in a set of people already pre-selected for common interests like the sxsw crowd.
They need to learn a lesson about wantonly pushing proprietary technology when perfectly fine standardized solutions already exist. I suspect they haven't learned anything though.

I was going to write something about hoping those developers choke on a bucket of something but decided better of it. ;-) I'm a little pissed after years of fighting with web sites that require Internet Explorer because the developers were retards and used some proprietary MSIE shit.
Brief suggestion: You pages should mention the authors more prominently. I didn't bother to allow scripts, but as near as I can tell, I have to look at the (smallish) cover art or for a reference in the body text, to see who the authors are. (And if it's too small on the cover as represented, it's a click through to Amazon.)

Anyway, glad to see conversation around these books.
When you grant people the right to seek and maintain monopolies, is it any wonder that some do so?

Smart people will always find a way to exploit a weak system. We can point at the exploiters and cry foul or we can thank them for spotting the bugs and change the system. Hopefully we can do that before they purchase all the votes in Congress. Or is it too late?
the real problem is not to generate 1M outgoing connections, but to handle 1M incoming connections on a single node (C1M), while in addition also doing some meaningful processing.

It's a solved problem for me. That is why I don't understand why many high profile realtime web startups (like Convore), still using inferior solutions, like Python eventlib or gevent, which at most let them handle hundreds-to-thousands of clients.

EDIT: metabrew has very good tutorial - which should be a starting point for everybody new to this space!
Florida's governor singlehandedly vetos high speed rail project
Some say one of the best cookbooks ever created.

But also they have done some really cool stuff. Like they have this device that uses laser to shoot down individual mosquitoes, but not just any mosquitoe, but uses technology to see how the blood is flowing in the mosqitoe (as its flying through the air) to decide which mosqitoes are carrying malaria, and only shoot those.

He also has built a portable refrigeration unit that can store vaccines (and other meds) for long periods of time with no power. Besides the cookbook though, I don't think he's created anything you'd buy at a store. Most of his work is focused on environmental and 3rd world issues.
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No, the interpretation of the word reservation was not the historical meaning. Changing words to mean more pleasing things is still not telling the truth.

This is tangent to my arguments against using the new term "differently enabled" as opposed to "disabled". "Disabled" indicates that there is a problem that society needs to spend some resources on to correct and fix. "Differently enabled" is some politically correct term that seems to mask a problem and make people feel ok when they shouldn't.
Finally, we are disappointed that the bill would take the teeth out of the Best Mode defense, which currently allows an alleged infringer to invalidate a patent when that patent fails to teach the "best way" to make the invention. Under the new bill, the patent would only have to show "a way" to make the invention, removing an important part of the bargain under which patents are granted – the disclosure of the best mode.

Wouldn't this kill any innovation when trying to "build a better mousetrap"?
In that sense, at least, the event is being held by people who understand the hack mindset. I noticed that the puzzle was very easy, and that the "elite hackers" are in fact a recruitment agency, and therefore that the main purpose of the event is probably for a recruitment agency to put their recruiters in the middle of a bunch of hackers while eliminating competing recruiters who have the same goal.

... but I still did the puzzle.

[edit] And everyone else is doing it too, and posting their solutions here! "Blazing guitarpocalypse"[1] indeed.

I might attend the event, but that's mostly because I'm in Austin and feeling curious, and not because the website convinces me the event will have a high quality.

[1]http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/fizzbuzz-the-progra...
"Android vs. iOS wars" refers to all the senseless flame wars that often get more attention here at HN. That's not to imply smartphones aren't world-changing devices.
This might just be me, but when I scan over a map, my automatic action is to hover my mouse over the countries I'm looking at (I do the same with my finger when I look at a physical map). If I do that here though, the map disappears.

I can't stop myself from doing it. It's driving me nuts.
Anyone know the story behind IE6's huge presence in Asia (especially China)? Why haven't they upgraded? Is it because Windows XP is still very popular? If so, why? Also, is there a popular "native-land" browser, the way Xunlei is the most popular BitTorrent client in the world?
Aren't all vetos by a governor single handed?
It's called PRT (personal rapid transit) and in my view, it's the one glimmer of hope in turning a century's worth of investment in automobile infrastructure from a liability into an asset. It's a fantastic idea that's gaining some limited traction in places like London Heathrow (http://www.ultraprt.com/prt/), where hopefully it can gain enough of a foothold to expand. Right now, PRT systems tend to use their own rights-of-way, but with the advent of true driverless cars, all that could change.
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