skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry - we crossed over - I deleted my original while you were writing this.

Honestly though the points you make here don't seem to have a lot to do with the question.

If Google is going to make claims that things are open, they should be held up to scrutiny. If they are not, then we simply collude with them in weakening the term.

Google claims that a highly complicated piece of code that does pretty much the same thing as another highly complicated piece of code covered by 1700 patents does is patent free and safe to use.

They want other people to stake their money on testing this claim.

"Google offers free services and tools of all kinds, so to single out WebM is highly agenda-driven, IMO."

By that argument, any discussion of individual Google products would be "agenda driven". That's absurd.
Contact anyone at her manager, Rocnation: http://rocnation.com/about/

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/megan-miller/20/8aa/941
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/fab-leys/23/669/1a6
Curious, does the iPad packaging or advertising point this out? If the iPad is supposed to be a post-PC device designed for mom, pa, grandpa and geek alike, then it, IMO, shouldn't need to be connected to a computer for any reason. The fact that it can is surely a plus. I personally have no issue, but to herald it as past current PC devices is slightly disingenuous if I have to connect it to a supposed relic.
Whereas your comment putting you as Judge and Jury, and in position to speak on what the world will remember isn't at all ego filled or self important.
Facebook lets you use the fruit of their labor for free. Then they do something to encourage revenue growth. But you're free to opt out (you don't have to make a Facebook app, or page, or place ads there, etc.) One may not like it but it's well within their rights to do it. Beggars can't be choosers. And vote with your feet. (And believe me I've hated some of Apple's walled garden decisions too, and yes I'm already voting with my feet there: more webapp-centric and, to lesser extent, Android.)
Hipmunk is great, but I could not actually book a flight there. For that I was sent to Orbitz, which showed a long list of flights along with the one I already selected.
Show HN: Instant domain checker for the Chrome omnibox (beta)
I sure wish Post-PC devices can be used to copy over content, be updated etc. without taking the trouble to physically take them to stores, especially in this day of the Internet and the cloud.

Can you imagine if Windows PCs needed to be taken to the Microsoft Store for Windows Update? Patch Tuesday would need to be made a national holiday and just imagine the queues, rush, the traffic and the parking.
"A man who is always asking ‘Is what I do worthwhile?’ and ‘Am I the right person to do it?’ will always be ineffective himself and a discouragement to others."

I disagree.

Such a person might have the makings of an outstanding leader. For example, the company founder who understands her weaknesses and recruits outstanding people to do those things for her company probably has a better chance of success. If she can also frequently ask "is what we are doing worthwhile?" the company can quickly adapt to the market and other changing circumstances.
I was never arguing against that general philosophy, just pointing out that I thought it was strange to include it in a definition of programming.
Great question. When we started to researching the models, we expected to build a lot of different ones for different demographics and target groups. However, it turned out that - for the first few seconds of viewing behaviour - we couldn't identify statistically significant differences between a lot of groups - students vs. elder people, male vs. female etc.
Note that is only valid for the majority of "normal" websites - we haven't started tracking adult stuff (maybe we should...:)
How do we infer whether viewing behaviour between different groups is different / not so different? We take one eye-tracking study with only males and another one with only females, e.g., and try to predict the results of the first with the other (and vice-versa) - if the predictive accuracy remains stable, as compared to the results we get within one group itself, the difference isn't large enough to build another model.
We did find differences between two groups, however: people who spent a lot of time online vs. people who barely go online. We're woking on a new model for the "newbies".

Also, we're about to roll out a model for males with color vision deficiency - that's 10% of all males who simply won't see the big RED button! :)
If you get one unlocked in the store, why can't your mother switch?
"First, git's Windows support is the weakest out of the three DVCSs being considered which is unacceptable as Python needs to support development on any platform it runs on."

This is FUD! The support for git on windows is pretty good and there is nothing obstrusive in it. You can use git on Windows fairly well. Sad to see this kind of comment written by smart people.
A lot of the speed difference comes from having spent one's time learning the basics. After you've spent 5 hours debugging a mis-placed semi-colon, you tend to remember that kind of mistake and avoid it in the future.

But if the idea is to prevent wasted time while learning, there's a simple solution: have the students do pair-programming, preferably with someone who's already learned the basics. Or at least let them all do it in a lab, and have the prof walk around to help out students who are stuck. Not for their entire college career, but perhaps for CS 101.

Generally speaking I'm not a fan of pair-programming, but this seems like a good application for it.
Math? Instead of teaching kids to memorize formulas and just apply to them to contrived examples, teach kids how match actually works in the real world and its applications. Great TED talk on this very matter:

http://blog.ted.com/2010/05/13/math_class_need/
It's also useful once you get out of trivial shell-scripts and need things like sane error handling or data structures, shell chains or escaping, etc. I wrote something like pdsh in the early 2000s in Perl and almost always used it to launch scripts written in a real programming language for any non-trivial task - e.g. even that yum command gets tricky if there's any possible interactive prompting going on or you want to parse output.

Here's Fabric's parallelism ticket: http://code.fabfile.org/issues/show/19
Thanks for your input! I'm loving what you're doing with The Startup Foundry and have had your profile page open in Firefox for a week so I would remember to reach out. I was planning to send you an e-mail on Monday; I'll fill out the form so we can chat! Thanks again.
>The market is saying the iPad is "post-pc"

It is? How?
This guy has some interesting information:

http://m.gawker.com//5777460/fox-news-publishes-fake-exclusi...

Something seems odd here - the guy has made this same announcement in the past.
you're thinking of après-PC
Review my HTML5 game Freeciv.net again one year later
Hi again HN,
It's now been over a year since the first time I asked HN to review my webapp (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1005299),
so now I would really like to ask the HN community to review my HTML5 online strategy game again.
I have fixed all of the issues that were reported the first time, so now I would really appreciate some
advice and ideas about what to do with this project from now on. I would be happy to answer any questions
you might have also. Thanks a lot in advance! - Andreas
The existence of really old people who've been smoking their entire lives is something you should expect to see if smoking is a strong statistical danger but not a guaranteed killer. It does not count as evidence against that theory.

By the way, I looked up lung cancer rates in the US and the UK, and they've both been going down quite significantly among men, who were at a higher risk to begin with, and rising slowly among women -- a trend which has tapered off more recently.

http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/lung/statistics/trends.htm

http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/types/lung/inci...

Looking at correlations between smoking rates and lung cancer rates in various countries, there's strong evidence that most of the mortality gap between men and women can be explained by the greater prevalence of smoking among men:

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/555221_2
The quest for 1000 beta subscribers
Hi Ajays,

we're offering EyeQuant as SaaS - you can book different flat rate subscriptions, starting at $199, or pre-paid packages for single projects...
What can you do with an Android pad that you can't do with an iPad bought unlocked from the store?
I thought this was a great quote:

“You have got to be willing to be poor [as an entrepreneur],” he says. “There was a time when I was living out of a single suitcase. I had a rule that I wouldn’t stay on one person’s couch for more than two weeks because I didn’t want to become a bother.”

You've got to be willing to make sacrifices if you want to chase your dreams. A lot of people don't fully grasp that when they are coming in.
What annoys me is I cannot copy files from my PC to the iPod.
oh, so bash is suddenly multi-threaded now? :)

python does multiprocessing just fine:
http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html
I agree -- I'm appreciative that he's trying to explain math to a wider audience, but realistically, reading through textbook definitions at 100wpm just confuses people.

(Shameless plug starting now).

I think we need to focus on the intuition behind _why_ things happen, not repeating the textbook definitions that confused us the first time.

Why are radians more natural than degrees? Because they are from the point of view of the mover, not the observer. Would you tell a runner to run 3 laps or run X degrees around the track? (http://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-guide-to-angle...)

What does e mean? It's the result of 100% continuous growth (http://betterexplained.com/articles/developing-your-intuitio...). The infinite Taylor series can be seen, intuitively, as your principal (1), the interest that principal earns (100% of 1 = 1), the interest your interest earns (1/2), the interest that 2nd level interest earns (1/6) and so on. e has simpler definitions and the Taylor series was only used to "explain" sine and cosine.

i can be seen as a rotation (http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-intuitive-guide...). But more importantly, it's an "operation which rotates". When you write 3 * i you're saying "take 3 and transform it in some way -- rotate it".

When you start combining these ideas (http://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-understanding-...) something neat arises. You can guess, intuitively, that if e^x means "100% interest for x years" then e^ix means ("100% rotated interest for x years"). What's rotated interest? It's change that pulls you sideways (90 degrees) and not forward (which compounds and makes you go further along the number line).

The neat thing about constant, 90-degree growth is that it moves you in a circle (imagine a stick on the ground with a firecracker mounted perpendicular). That's how gravity, etc. work too -- your velocity is always tangent to your position when orbiting.

The intuitive reading of "e^ipi = -1" (which is more clear... why the +1 = 0? Oh yes, we wanted to rearrange it so another constant appeared to make it more mystical) is "Start at 1 and intend to grow at 100% interest. Whoops, you are getting rotated interest (because of i). Go for pi seconds... this takes you 100% * pi units around the circle, because rotated interest does not compound (you don't spin faster and faster). Halfway around the circle is -1."

In general, sine/cosine give you vertical and horizontal position of an angle, so we can generalize even more, but this is confusing at first.

If you focus on the real meaning of the operations, not the DNA-splicing of the Taylor series, it's a lot easier to see what's happening. I didn't make sense of it until years after college because I kept looking at it from a formal mathematical viewpoint, instead of focusing on what clicked for me.

Bonus question: if someone claims e^i*pi + 1 = 0 is their favorite formula, ask them what i^i is. If they struggle, the probably only understand the mechanics and not the meaning of it. Even better, have them explain in words why i^i would be a real number.
I can't tell who the registrar is, do they participate in domain swiping/tasting?
Sixties Hairstyles,Short hair styles
A lot of the 60’s hairstyles were a modification of the 50’s hairstyles and were in a move towards being frizzy and really crazily out of control, basically the look for the hippie age.
Business As Usual: The Next Wall Street Collapse
Basically, his brain is a giant L2/L3 cache.
The article is wrong about that if you buy one from a store.
TFS now (Team Foundation Server)
"Last-Modified:	2010-01-07 23:33:01 +0100 (Thu, 07 Jan 2010)"
It's GoDaddy, ah I should mention that in the desc. Which one should I use?
The PEP was written in 2008.
Serious question - if you buy an unlocked iPad from the store, what can't you do with it that you can do with an Android tablet?
I never used the word "proof". I said "intuitive explanation". Yes, it looks a bit like a proof because I wanted to break it down for people, but it contains hand-waving at more points than the one you identified.
CentOS users are basically free-loading, though, so if this bothers them they'd probably be better switching to a pure-community effort like Debian. If they're using CentOS because their company uses it, their boss can also pony up for some Red Hat licenses if they encounter problems.
The paper talks about that in length, and why he thinks that's not what happened. Obvious question is obvious.
I have the suspicion that FaceBook already has the names and contact information for the vast majority of Google employees and/or contractors.
I agree with you on the points that we should be able to select the best teachers for our schools, however, I think most of that is rhetoric designed to distract from the fact that it's a budgetary issue. Selecting the best teachers and best schools requires school choice, not bureaucrats deciding for us who is best and who is not. School choice, vouchers and real reforms are no where near this debate. The debate is framed in this language to obtain popular support.

It's a budgetary issue, remove the ethos and pathos and you'll find at the core of the issue a budgetary one. The council needs to eliminate $40 million dollars, one way to do this is to ensure all your teachers have no seniority and thus are all at the bottom of the pay scale. Layoffs will just remove the lowest paid employees so they all must be fired and then rehired to ensure that their previous seniority isn't factored into the calculations. A $40 million dollar deficit spread across 1926 teachers is $20,000 per teacher per year, you're not going to negotiate that kind of drop. Anyone want to bet that the avg. teacher salary minus the base teacher salary in Providence is about $20,000?

However, a cold numbers based story like that wouldn't play well to the public so you need something else like selecting the 'best' teachers, and you can be sure that if the board was given the option that the 'best' would become the 'cheapest', especially in an uncompetitive market such as public schooling (aka. state sponsored daycare).

I'm a big fan of real school choice, but this just seems like a way for the school district to lawyer their way out of an agreement, and obtain popular support by couching the argument in terms that are not on the table. If it's about letting the best teachers rise to the top, the school board should fire all the teachers, and provide vouchers for parents to use in obtaining their children's education. This is about firing a bunch of people and rehiring the same people at a lower price.
Sorry about that, I've updated it to be a microSDHC card now. I clearly wasn't paying enough attention with my original link.
You're projecting. The objection to Flash has never really been that it's patent-encumbered. They care that it's a closed specification without any good open-source implementations, which means Adobe totally controls the experience, and Adobe has traditionally crafted a pretty terrible experience. That's the objection. It's not about patents — it's about the difficulty of creating a good user experience around it.
I'm not sure who doesn't do it. I just try to go to the domain and see if there is any server side activity (error page, holding page, etc).

From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting

"By February 2007, the CEO of Go Daddy reported that of 55.1 million domain names registered, 51.5 million were canceled and refunded just before the 5 day grace period expired and only 3.6 million domain names were actually kept."

"In January 2008, Network Solutions was publicly accused of this practice when the company began reserving all domain names searched on their website for five days,[7] a practice known as domain name front running."
Once the average Android device has a monitor output, they'll really be post-PC. And the big question is will the iOS devices have monitor outs?

Most of the Android device manufacturers don't have a horse in the laptop/desktop race - Samsung, HTC, Motorola all only stand to gain by replacing traditional desktop OSs. Apple probably still wants to sell you a MacBook. That's why I think Android will beat Apple to the true post-PC era.
Here we have a headline that for once is exquisitely accurate: the article is more about lunch than it is about Sean Parker.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But all in all, it's a tiresome, dull, petty point to raise.
Had those in 2001. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Compaq_TC1100
I wonder how it compares to false positive rates in other, more conventional methods of detecting cheating. There might be a status quo bias at work here.
Let's take this point by point.

Athletics: There are genetic components for physical abilities, this is well established in the literature.

Art: Of course our cognitive abilities that set us apart from other species is genetic. The article you link to makes no claim as to whether the best artists are better than the rest of us because of their genes.

Music: There's a gene which makes 1 in 20 tone deaf and it looks like perfect pitch has a basis in genetics (either way, it's something you can't train). Far, far more important to being a successful musician are three components (which the article cites): support from parents and mentors, instruction by experts, and dedicated practice. Variation between ability in people comes overwhelmingly from those three things and genetics plays a tiny role, if any at all.

I think the overarching point is that if the OP prefers politics to programming, then he shouldn't feel sorry for wasting his programming "talent", as there's no such thing. He can be just as good at politics if he's willing to put in the time to learn.
Do you not do all your coding, photo editing, FPS fragging, word processing, and spreadsheets on an iPad yet? Don't you have one sitting in your basement acting as a home media and web server? I'm not even going to get into how much more upgradable they are than PCs. How could you ever possibly need more than the few hundred megs of ram that an iPad has?

Dell might as well announce liquidation right now.

($75 on craigslist gets you a computer 3x as powerful with 3x as much ram and 10x+ as much disk space as an iPad, which only costs $500)
This really really annoys me about the ipad. Furthermore, for some extra annoyance, Itunes does not run on linux, so I cannot run it. And even after I secured a windows computer to run itunes, I discovered that itunes is a really slow, extremely badly designed, confusing and annoying piece of software. It took me forever to upgrade my ipad to the new os.
Do iPads actually let you manage your music without using iTunes on a desktop? I know my iPod doesn't. You can add music to it directly by purchasing in the iTunes store, but not delete music. I can't see any clear reason why, but this restriction must do something for Apple.
Am I missing something? I thought we're were going to get parallel execution, @task decorator and nicer control over 'env' in 1.0? There was a post about it just a few days ago. Right now I don't see anything from that in 1.0
Announcement in Python-Dev:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-March/10873...
>The author seems to assume that Apple is either unaware of the contradiction or aware of it with no plan to change. In other words, that the management of Apple is either stupid or blind. Recent history does not suggest that either is the case.

If it had no intention of telling us about it, why call it a Post-PC device?

They wanted to create media hype among the crowd and the media and bloggers. Just like Motorola likes to bill the Xoom as an iPad killer because of the spec difference, Jobs want to posture the iPad as a PC killer because of the high sales. Truth doesn't enter into the conversation in either case and is kind of afterthought to the objectives behind such posturing. Only geeks like us would be arguing over such things.
And Go uses mercurial.
And political -- an attempt to kill organizations that tend to be Democratic (this would be equivalent to trying to dismantle fundamentalist churches, as their Republican leaning).

I'm sure that would be an issue if fundamentalist churches were funded with public taxes and compulsory to attend.
DevStructure co-founder here, sorry to hear about your experience. Not sure when you installed blueprint, but we've recently open-sourced it and it's been ported to python. Should require minimal "stuff" to use it. Let us know if you have any questions or problems and again my apologies.

https://github.com/devstructure/blueprint
Quite possibe to make work and works equally well are not the same thing. Mercurial is a breeze to install on Windows and any other platform, and with TortoiseHg's recent move to Qt, full cross-platform GUI support is also there (right now there are no Mac installers, but there should be some soon).
It might be the field. In our interviewing process we were blown away by four female engineers, 100% of which decided instead to start their own startup -- in cleantech.
Actually, we do clean that data up with our corrections system. We have a large fingerprint database which allows us to work out when a track is the same and we update the charts across the site to reflect this. We even expose this as a service in the API:

http://www.last.fm/api/show?service=446
http://www.last.fm/api/show?service=447

What you're probably seeing there is tracks which are so new that we've not determined similar fingerprints for them yet, or those changes have not propagated to the charts (we use a lot of caching as you might imagine). In fact, checking the chart now it seems that that particular problem has cleared up.

Also, artist disambiguation is a _hard_ problem, but it's something that we'd very much like to address.
>It's incredibly unprofessional, amateurish and ignorant

I think the term you're looking for is "Bayesian," actually.
Well, I am sure someone is composing a message right now about how all those are either possible on the iPad (possible != best job for it) or are used only by geeks/developers who will go the way of the dinosaur(cue analogy of trucks vs. cars).

;) Maybe the message is taking so much time to be written because it's being composed on a iPad(yes I know h/w keyboards can be used).
The only devices that have acted as post-PC out of the box have been running webOS. That's not to say they've been a sterling example, but at least they thought that way from the beginning.
I myself am quite partial to bzr espeically since tortoise-bzr uses my favorite diff tool by default

http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/explorer/en/guide/qbzr/qdiff...

I would be interested to know about other's impressions of bazaar and why most people seem to share the same sentiment towards it as those at pycon that year

While no one said they did not want bzr chosen, no one said they did either.