skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's awesome to see so many other companies in the area using Django. Too bad they spelled my last name wrong :(
Godoc: documenting Go code
I think Gruber's point is spot-on. A lot of people prefer Android because they want it to be open and open-source, and Android companies market to the public on this specific point.

So I don't think it's off-base to point out discrepancies between the ideology and the reality. Gruber would absolutely like Apple to be more open. However, in this case, it is Google that contradicted itself with words vs deeds.
Regardless of what is true, what we should believe is that key entrepreneurial factors such as determination and creativity/taste can be learned and improved. If not, you quickly come to build the fallacy that we can never be the genius of a Shakespeare or Einstein, so why even try?[1]

Academically, it would be very interesting to find where the line can be drawn between 'in-born character traits' and 'soft skills.' In reality, you have daily rituals and activities designed to reinforce "disciple"; you have millions of dollars of investment in "leadership" training (of what quality is another conversation); and "morality" training that often takes place on (insert religious day of the week). Euripides will tell you that "Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak." I do not claim to have extensive knowledge in learning theory, but at least some portion of our prior actions and experiences form the foundation for future actions.

Personally, I would say you train such skills by making a person take one action with the quality you seek, and then build upon that to have them take another. You change a person's environment, give them the tools to lower the 'barrier to entry' cost, and set up a result/reward feedback loop. E.g, basic training.

Final aside: in this conversation, we seem to have muddled the differentiation between the trait of creativity and the act of initiating and producing.

[1] paraphase of http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html
What if we make circuits that sample from distributions?
Are you also avoiding Toyota automobiles?
True. I don't think anyone begrudges Twitter the ability to put ads into the mobile app.

Why not just put trending items between "pages" when the user scrolls through tweets, each one about the height of a tweet? (one per page so that it's not too overwhelming)
Actually, they only load the vessels once they're on the ocean already.

In the VBS.tv piece mentioned before, a guy that purportedly was involved in making and presenting a kind of towed torpedo to the cartels, said he wouldn't be surprised they'd have such a remote controlled device already, and that he was sure they we're already looking into it. You can watch it.

And I remember seeing something in the news, not long ago, that they we're already doing it for shipping cocaine directly to Europe.
How is he hypocritical? The problem here is Google employees have consistently and constantly pushed that Android is open and thus inherently more pure than iOS (see Vic's behavior last Google IO, Andy Rubin's infamous 'definition of open' tweet). Apple has never claimed to be open or anything, Google has, and they're not.
haha, sorry jnoller, I got it directly off the spreadsheet. I'll make the change now
Of course, but you don't foist yourself on them as in my example. If you do it's creepy and annoying.
Sure, have a link to your Twitter on your page and I'll probably follow you if I find you interesting.

Shoving it in my face though, well, that's just offputting.
Linux and Reliability
How does that work with the App Store approval process? I could see that also being a strategy to try and sneak stuff past Apple.
> As for a limited rollout, they could've rolled a new binary and only turned on the feature for, say, 100 users selected at random.

Be careful with this - developers have previously gotten into trouble for having functionality for users that differs from that for reviewers. You'd have to also add a way for the reviewers to review the "limited rollout" functionality.
One case I have trouble doing in Mathematica, etc. are variable transformations to increase numerical stability. A lot of times if you're clever you can do a variable change on an improper integral with (integrable) singularities to get an integral of a continuous, bounded, function over (0, 1). Working out this change of variables is something I find easier to do by hand.

I also generally have trouble getting Mathematica to do all of the work I need to do to come up with error bounds on numerical schemes.
Chaos Season 1 Episode 1
I agree with you that this is another strategy and one the MC founders probably considered, however I think the purpose of the entry fee and endorsement process is to avoid a "Tragedy of the Commons" scenario and ensure that only the best startups make it into the competition.

Also, even with an entry fee last year, MC still saw 450 startups apply - imagine what that number would have been if it were free to all that apply? With such a small staff and the reliance on volunteerism for much of the operations, it would be very difficult to review thousands of applications and not let a few great ones slip through the cracks.

As a startup founder myself, I see the $199 fee as merely a cover fee to an awesome party with lots of brilliant, like minded, enthusiastic entrepreneurs and mentors.
A painful but necessary decision for twitter, I know they need to monetize their service but alienating users in a way that becomes a meme is the wrong way to go.

I fully expect some version of #dickbar to be back someday once they've worked out the technology for showing relevant updates, they just tried to implement it before its time.

I guarantee you that by next year there will be a way to do this right.
I don't believe that drblast was trying to make this about a battle of the sexes but was just using gender as an easily identifiable example.

The article states that Postgres isn't a meritocracy because the hackers aren't from diverse backgrounds. drblast was attempting to show how this is a logical fallacy - meritocracies aren't ipso facto diverse.
On the other hand NRA members might now choose GoDaddy as their registrar and webhost.
Microsoft's Antitrust Complaint against Google
Then at least include a small note suggesting all the possible jobs people are looking for. (including data science, machine learning)

Technically who's hiring should encompass everything, but I guess it doesn't occur to people that they can post remote workers in that thread. Similarly I suspect those threads are not attracting data scientist/machine learning engineering since the majority of the posts are not of that category. which is why I started this one. But I do agree that fragmentation is a big problem.
Would be great. According to my buddies, CD Baby + iTunes is rather painless if you want to get your album out as an independent artist. The problem that has to be solved isn't so much getting the music to the market, but with associated costs and legwork like promotion, tours, associated expenses before you're profitable, etc. As an example, in India, Only Much Louder (http://oml.in/) is trying to fix this.
Blame Dustin Curtis :)
How  A Strong Imagination Can Strengthen Your Business
This is a CEO who, in 2005, posted a blog article talking about why we have to torture prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, because (mumble mumble) 9/11. He deleted both the original post and a half-retraction shortly thereafter, or I'd provide a link.

As such, I'm not surprised that he turned his personal hunting exhibition into a marketing expense. He seems to have a deaf ear when it comes to brand management. And that doesn't seem to have hurt him in any meaningful way.

I'm not sure what lesson to take away from any of this, except that he runs his business differently than I do.
Anyone who has had the misfortune of registering a domain with GoDaddy and using its horrible user interface to try to adjust DNS settings will not be surprised by this.

GoDaddy should have been out of business a long time ago just due to the horrid usability of its product.
The Quick Death of Twitter's QuickBar
he's been doing this for 10+ years and he's not simply going to make things up. Which makes it especially dumb to get into a blogfight with him. Because it's never going to end.

As the old saying goes, never argue with someone who buys their ink by the barrel. And I agree that Gruber is not wrong. "Biased" does not mean wrong, it means consistently interpreting the facts to favour certain interpretations or disfavour others.

In my opinion, it is very healthy to consider biased opinions when trying to understand an issue:

http://raganwald.posterous.com/bias

But no, Gruber is not wrong. It's just that some people think he's wrong and are compelled to argue with him personally rather than either (a) identify which facts he is wrongly reporting, or (b) give their own alternate interpretation of the same facts.

As you can tell I completely agree that calling Gruber out because someone disagrees with his opinion is adding an unnecessary level of indirection to the debate.
Scheme
http://teach-scheme.org/
This is a side project I've been working on for a few months now, and I'd really appreciate your input on it. If you're an artist or designer or just like art, it'd be amazing if you requested a beta account. Let me know what you think or if you have any questions.
You cannot attract a mass of users, give them a nice UX, build a community - and then one day throw ads all over to place, call it a monetization strategy and keep a straight face.

Really? Google did essentially that to great success, as has Facebook (perhaps with less clear-cut success, but clearly not to the sort of outrage Twitter received over the QuickBar).
Apologies for the extremely flat and boring tone of voice and the somewhat rushed comparison of the actual products. Next time I'll do better, promise :)

Some notes to introduce the slides: http://www.alberton.info/nosql_databases_what_when_why_phpuk...
It's not so clear on Apple's side either. They can be even more closed if they want to, and they proved it recently with the subscription tax, which also wasn't in place since the the beginning when those developers made their apps for iOS.
Why do all jobs have to be posted at one time once a month? There is already a "JOBS" tab at the top of HN. Why not just let other companies post to that page. You can still emphasize YC companies, stick them at the top for 30 days, and then everybody else below it. For that matter if PG ever wants to monetize HN adding paid job ads might be the best/easiest way to do it.
The same way that testing apps with Easter eggs works. You have to tell Apple that the feature exists, and let them test it. If you don't, and they find out after approval, you run the risk of getting your app pulled.
This would be super. I always want to post in these threads (because youDevise is always hiring great hackers) and have trouble finding them reliably. Thanks for suggesting this!
Ask HN: Why does tor.org redirect to yahoo.com?
Anyone knows the reason?
Ha—not yet, it doesn't drop until later today!
the original talk on entrepreneurs as artists can be found at ~18:40 here: http://gigaom.com/2011/03/27/steveblank/
My schoolmates and I wrote a collaborative paper using git back in college. It was great for critical feedback, sometimes we would delete each other's entire paragraphs in a single commit.
Apple exploring multi-camera iPhone systems for 3D picture taking
At this point, my definition of "open" is an open source license combined with public development.
It may be better to consolidate all of these categories into one post and ask commenters to include a leading line of keywords (like FT, PT, REMOTE, INTERN, or H1B) that indicate which sorts of applicants are welcome.
With a propeller engine, the "wind" is a side effect caused by to the primary effect of the props getting "lift" in the forward direction, similar to how the wings themselves work. The prop itself is a wing [1], which twists to create even thrust across the prop despite the speed differences between the root and tips.

Turbofans (and ducted fans) are different, as they really do produce thrust due to the particles they are throwing backwards (direct thrust).[2]

Turboprops can get reverse thrust by inverting the propellers, but adding a thrust reverser behind them would not be enough to negate the forward lift (though they could cause problems with the airflow over the props that would negate the forward lift - but it wouldn't be due to the redirected airflow).

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Propeller_%28...
[2] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Turbofan
This one? http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20050701084333/http://www.b...
I really like how he through in some ACDC while all the hugry people are fighting for the food. Classy.
Android is "open" to end-users, but not completely "open" to vendors

I think you have this backwards. With the exception of Honeycomb, vendors have a lot of flexibility to do what they want with Android, including skinning it and running it on custom hardware. And if they decide to forego the Google apps, they don't have to get approval to ship a device with Android on it. Conversely, users of Android-based products don't have the ability to update or modify the OS (beyond what the vendor allows) without 'rooting' the device, a process that most non-technical people are unable to perform.
Great stats Garrett! Although I'd like to see #q-tips used as well.
Are you suggesting it was never open before?

To me, open development includes:

- real-time commit read access and forkability
- a feedback/patch process for community improvements
- open discussions on future directions and decisions

I haven't followed closely, but I think Google/Android has:

- source delivered when they are ready for you to have it
- Google as The Authority with Blessed Developers who do all the work
- (does their feedback/patch process work or is it lip service?)
- press events to announce new features/directions

It's as if Apple started giving iOS source code to the public once per quarter with no way to contact their developers or management.

Android is pandering to developers (developers, developers, developers), not open source.
Behind The Scenes At Facebook [video]
This is terrible. Anyone have any suggestions for a registrar to switch to from GoDaddy?
It is very difficult to get repeating 2-digit short codes anymore. There aren't many left, especially at 5-digits long (instead of the other option, 6 digits). It'll be a huge asset to Cuphon to have that short code.
ActiveInbox Turns Gmail Into a Task Manager
Even though ordinary investors have been locked out of the game, should this bubble burst, the financial elites will most certainly find a way to shift the consequences of their folly onto the rest of us.

Cynical although certainly possible. But what remains unanswered: how big a hit would be coming if Zynga didn't grow into its valuation (and every other "overvalued" company failed as well)?

It does not compare, even a little, to the 1990s. This is a much smaller scale, and that's why I object to the use of the word "bubble". It's like calling a three-foot-high wave a "Tsunami".
Fair enough. I can definitely see why chat history is important to have -- and Campfire does make that very easy to have.

(And happy to hear you use Colloquy! :D)
What "Brand"? We ARE talking about the same company that puts out ads which double as Cinemax's 11pm lineup, right?
Not his most honest statement. "One's mouth", he says, but obviously he means "your mouth".
Actually, it's "Don't be evil". It often gets confused/merged with the hippocratic oath.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dont_be_evil
It is getting tiresome to hear Apple fans, having long bashed Google's Android because "open" was bad, now bash Google for being somewhat less "open."

From my admittedly Apple-fanboy perspective, I always thought the argument wasn't that open = bad, just that that Google shouldn't use it as a marketing point if they're not 100% open.

And Apple makes just as big a deal about the advantages of iOS being closed as Google does about the openness of Android.

Right, but with Apple closed means closed. No one says that Apple is a "almost closed" and argues they should be totally closed. Google is half-assing their definition of open — which is fine, do what you want — but people are calling BS and rightfully so. The argument should be what is better: 100% closed or less than 100% open? This is where the shades of grey come in.
That's not really spot-on. Most Android users would rather see Google put a stop to deep skins and doing gross things like the carriers are doing with the Android phones by not letting you uninstall their apps, or charging you for features already built-in, and so on.
Good idea. I will do this
"Business Insider reported that the Dickbar was a mistake in the first place, having been developed by a junior product manager with no senior oversight."

and it made its way into a release? huh?
Ah yes, I see. Yeah, I agree with you.
"Meant to buy 1 domain at GoDaddy; receipt also shows 3 yachts, a skank in a tanktop, and 11 yrs of "WebPlus+ Turbo SomethingSomething™."

http://twitter.com/hotdogsladies/status/1553046234
Homescreen Organization Methodology
As another issue, my mother-in-law's SuSE 9.1 machine has stopped playing videos, and she can no longer provide feedback on eBay. The latter is important, so I started the process up upgrading the installation of Flash.

Enter Dependency Hell.

It's still not working, and now several other things are broken. It looks like I'll have to provide a complete re-install, but it's unclear that I can find a version of Linux that still works on the hardware.

I hate system administration, and more and more I'm forced to tinker with machines.

Rhetorical Question: Why can't they "Just Work" ?

I'm seriously considering moving to a Mac and trying to get everything I want working there. Joy. Another month of tinkering instead of producing.
This is stupid. If the elephant is going to be shot by a warden anyway, WHY NOT let some rich american shoot it? Why does it matter WHO shoots the elephant? It doesn't!

If you want to argue about whether the elephant SHOULD have been killed, that's fine. There is plenty to debate there. But who does the shooting is of no importance.

That said he's right that as a CEO you represent your company--especially when you're handing out swag. Probably not a smart PR move.
I think that once again someone inside of Amazon understands the information economy pretty well. This does seem like a lawsuit 'honeypot' (talk about mixed metaphors) since it cannot help but provoke a response (see mp3.com [1])

The thing that confuses most people is the emerging doctrine of information sale. What the music companies would like to be true, is that selling you a CD (or an MP3) is equivalent to selling you a ticket to hear the performance once. And as you could not reasonably expect, having bought a ticket to a musical performance, to be able to change the venue for that performance, the industry would like to equate that absurd request to transliterating a recording into a different medium or access method.

Consumers on the other hand have expressed a strong belief that they "own" that instance of the music and that transliterating it, listening to it from different devices, and/or putting it on a mix tape and having it play as background music for their housewarming party are all 'well within their rights' of things they can do with what they own.

The legal tool is of course copyright and many cases have focused on what exactly does it mean to make a copy (which would have been more obvious had the original case against magnetic tape gone the way of the record labels) and what is fair use, and what is the greater good.

The motivating force is of course money. Given the physical challenges of having copies and even with tape carrying them around, the record labels were still able to extract a lot of money out of the system. With digital copies and network access it is a lot harder and they can see a time (or fear we are already in it) where the economics don't support the existence of a heavy weight 'middle man' in the music business.

Amazon is clearly positioning Cloud Drive with the assumption that the consumer's conceptual model (I bought it I can do what I want with it) is correct. The music companies will counter with "How can you know they bought it? Maybe they just borrowed it from the library?" Amazon has a stronger claim if they have a receipt (and its one that Apple uses with iTunes).

Best case, Amazon provokes a lawsuit that gives us a bit more clarity, worst case Amazon can only stream music from a Cloud Drive that you've purchased from the Amazon store (and perhaps to only a single IP address). It would not be a bad outcome (for Amazon) if lots of people were willing to re-license their music through Amazon's mp3 store.

Perhaps we should start a pool for when the last record label that existed prior to 2000 goes out of business. I strongly believe the outcome is inevitable, only the roughness of the journey is left to ascertain.

[1] http://techliberation.com/2006/04/19/why-the-mp3com-decision...
Automatic faucets germier than the old-fashioned kind, study shows
Here's an idea, buy the domain and steal it!

Filter It (http://fltr.it)

Install the fltr.it browser extension and you will begin to see the site's you visit most frequently in a different, more relevant way through the fltr.it overlay heatmap. The content fltr.it thinks is most relevant to your interests is highlighted. Not only does fltr.it learn your interests as you browse the web, it learns the interests of other visitors to the same sites and if enough users on a particular site use fltr.it our algorithms will begin "clumping" like-minded users' filters to the site and you can hop from one site-specific filter to another on-the-fly. See Hacker News through the "startup" fltr, the "science" fltr or the "random" fltr or even combine fltrs.

fltr.it preserves the underlying social and cultural dynamics of each site's userbase while augmenting the site's ability to present the most relevant content to each user-type.
I am waiting until the button goes up to 11.
Can you crack this code? The FBI can't.
Well, NO. I believe in the bill of rights, but I do not condone the hunting of elephants.
Any android phone will do the maps and GPS, and basic internet, so you're covered there. They all can do music and podcasts too with the provided "listen" app, although there are other players out there. (I use the (not free) Doggcatcher app, which I like very much.)

And of course, they all send and receive phone calls. This is where it gets a little dicey, since it's not totally the phone's "fault" (nor to its credit) for the quality, since although some is the phone, a lot is the carrier and its coverage where you are.

I don't know what country you're in, but in the US at least, the big carriers have varying converage in various areas. In some cities AT&T is king, others Verizon, etc. So a lot depends on where you are, what carrier you're with, and the coverage characteristics of the area.
D. 1. c. ii.: Plaintiff’s Delay In Turning Over His Listserv Post

This case easily could have been resolved on a motion to dismiss had Plaintiff disclosed the content of his listserv post at the outset. By withholding disclosure of this information until August 2010 (see RW Mot., Farrell Decl. 2), Plaintiff substantially prolonged this litigation.