skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't do it yet. The bandwidth isn't there.

When the iPad 1 arrived, one of the biggest selling points was the "no contract $30/mo unlimited 3G". Only took about 30 days for AT&T to realize that wasn't going to work out. As one of the few who got and still has that plan, I can assure you the very same reason it's awesome is the reason the "cloud tablet" won't happen (at least to the degree pundits expect) without a major breakthrough in wireless bandwidth: data traffic will be enormous.

I'm sure someone could better run the numbers than I, and I expect it would quantify the intuition. Upshot is: to get thru the cloud computing barrier requires bandwidth not just available, but in use, to an astounding degree. Oh, I'd like a real cloud experience, as my 64GB iPad is getting a bit cramped for want of instant access to my entire music, movie, book, photo, and video collection, along with remote desktops to four computers, high res videophone the norm, and at some point real 3D teleconferencing. All this demands a user experience buttery smooth, which requires significant buffering orders of magnitude more data than anyone will in fact use (it's just there if they want it). Times millions of users, you don't run this over 3G, what passes for 4G, and maybe not even what most assume 5G will be.

Now, Apple is smart folks with lots of connections and clout and cash. Maybe they can do it. They almost had it with the iPad 1 launch, but then the unlimited plan was capped at 2GB - and that makes all the difference. I'm thankful I can throw around gigabytes of data without worry ... and then remind myself most tablet users can't. I wish this freedom was available to all, but it's not and I don't see it showing up by 2012.
No Space Like The Rentul Travel Marketspace
duh - I'm from Bulgaria, I worked on Call of Duty - Black Ops - and there are 3 more bulgarians that worked on it :) - all of us programmers - two leads.

We have scandinavian folks, not sure whether specifically finnish, and we do have folks from Singapoer
Repackaging debt is not an "accounting trick," it's creating liquidity. Which in turn allows more more "real" transactions to take place, more trade, more production, more manufacturing, more jobs, etc.
> Anyone here in California not asked for a raise in, say, six months?

Sure, the suckers on H1B work visas who are waiting for their green cards, which can take several years... Given that your H1B visa is tied to a particular job at a particular company at a particular salary, and your green card application resets if you change jobs, it obviously discourages H1B workers from fully participating in the free labour market.

Not that I'm bitter or anything, ;), but I was exactly in that situation last year, getting hounded by recruiters for jobs much more appealing that the one I was in. But my H1B visa and green card application, not to mention the financial responsibility of providing for my family, prevented me from considering those positions.

So I said adios to the US, played my trump card of being married to an Australian, and I now have permanent residency in Australia without any restrictions on who I can or cannot work for (unless it's a government position that requires I be a citizen, which doesn't interest me anyway).

FWIW, Amazon's Singapore AWS data center is working out just fine from Down Under as I work on my startup...
I use A without href only when I'm making an actual anchor A name. When I use href=#, I always have javascript onclick return false. This won't stop crawlers but it keeps the user's history and address bar clean.
This is pretty awesome. I was unaware of Chrome's directory opening abilities. That's a game changer for this kind of app.
Oddly enough, MacOS had better back-compatibility with the old applications than the newer ones. It seemed like pretty much every app broke at least once between Systems 7 and 9, even while the 1985 apps ran fine. (Perhaps the developers were being trickier in how they abused the OS.)

Incidentally, I think this figured into Apple's thinking regarding limited back-compat. They had already unintentionally forced a number of application upgrades, why not do something positive like move everyone to a new OS/CPU/API in the process?
It will look like a zipf distribution. ("Long tail")
At the risk of sending this discussion on a tangent:

Talent is normally distributed, across both genders

I honestly would not have thought that.
Women are better than men at many things and vice versa.

It's possible that 'teaching kids' is something that women are statistically better at than man.
Enlightenment 0.16 had a ton of themes (some quite gorgeous) up on Freshmeat and that alone I considered a reason to stick with Enlightenment 0.16.

Then Freshmeat decided that they no longer wanted to be a repository for themes, and deleted everything. Gaah!
sounds like you misunderstood what Ulrich wrote
Has anyone gotten a rescue team together to save the people still on that sinking ship? Those people have families. On a serious note, I have a hard time thinking of a way for MySpace to be relevant again. Having over 60 millions unique visitors a month is still nothing to gawk at, but I can't see them holding on to them without doing something radical.
The "Cloud" concept is much more profit-friendly than that of the general "Internet". Whereas the latter emphasizes decentralized control and is, in the most fundamental sense, a product of the cooperation of all participating network operators, the former largely subverts that concept in the name of walled-gardens, rented software, massive centralized server farms, and pervasive, coordinated surveillance. More specifically, the "Cloud" represents a great achievement in deploying open-source software (which was otherwise built for anyone to use) in closed server-based environments such that its users: 1) lose the freedom to run that software in any way they choose, 2) lose the freedom to modify that software, and 3) even lose control of their own information that they produced with the software.
Equally relevant: if the government thought that Facebook had weapons of mass destruction, they'd topple Zuckerberg.
Journamatic - Automatically record daily activities (checkins, Netflix, etc)
Interestingly I have found that the apps I build for myself then decide this would be great for others, lets build it for everyone to use, have been the most successful of my apps.
I've used an iMac that shipped with Snow Leopard and it shipped with a single-button mouse.
Testing: Why Bother?
Funny - according to the very report I just quoted that positive GDP growth in 2009 is due only to growth in the financial industry which makes up for the declines other sectors are still seeing.
I wonder if this opens a path for Windows support for Go (if only through Cygwin). I'd love to try Go out but the projects I have in mind need to be able to run (somehow) on Windows.
There is no clear dividing line between HFT and algorithmic trading.

Some amateurs do latency arbitrage proper, though that is more the province of big shops. Some are very short term (500ms-1000 second time horizon) speculators. Some do a combination of both - use HFT techniques to shave off pennies on longer duration positions.
We should stop running away from radiation
As I understand, a mathematical proof is a declaration that certain transformations are possible. Really, it just points out truths that already exist.
30 Things We Need — and 30 We Don't
(Not to be sarcastic, but cute) I didn't downvote you, but I am going to thoughtfully disagree.

Our emotional intuitions are largely shaped more by evolution than by our own values and preferences.

Well, if that were the case, people would have the same emotions about the same things, but actually, different people have different reactions to different things. (That's because they value different things.)

If emotions were great cognitive tools, we wouldn't need to discover rationality

Emotions are responses to values (as patio11 said, rightly, in his talk). You need to use reason to figure out what you value. Once you do, your emotions follow therefrom. But "what you value" is actually very complex and context-dependent sometimes, which is why emotions are so useful to give you a snap summary of what could otherwise be a very complex situation to analyze thoroughly.

It's certainly the case that your emotions can be "wrong," but they just follow the thinking you've done previously, whether that thinking was deliberate or accidental.
The Arch package manager is also much more awesome than that of Ubuntu (IMHO, of course). :-P
explain how you fix any bug or change any implementation by still respecting your side of a contractual interface without breaking said "binary compatibility" when using this broken definition of "binary compatibility"

exposure of a random proprietary software bug written by morons does not imply breakage of "binary compatibility". some free software developers have no time to test their standard compliant library against all crappy proprietary software ever written under the sun. if that makes you sad, at least you are free to modify the fucking library for your own little use case, or even to fork the library and maintain your fork with an explicit policy of never ever changing externally observable behaviour (probably meaning you won't make any change to said library (other than in comments) if you REALLY apply this rule...), which happily glibc never had and hopefully never will have.
Check System Preferences. It’s off by default.

Mice that support right clicking have been shipping with every Mac since 2005, trackpads that support right clicking with every Mac since 2006 or so.
I don't think that's a good enough reason for interacting with the world as though you have aspergers. The technical excellence of linux may offset the problems caused by such an abrasive method of interpersonal relationships but that doesn't make it ok.
Maybe it would be better to add this automatically, even if it’s hidden from the user? I imagine this would match the intent of most uses.
Talking about commercials with actors using products which don't exist, anybody's checked out the credentials of these people?
http://www.windows7news.com/2011/03/21/windows-7-asus-slate-...
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Wealth Disparity in Tech Companies
Forgive me for being a cynic, but with tuition bills at about $40k per year, ground getting broken on $X0 ~ $Y00 million construction projects yearly, and endowments which rival hedge funds (Cornell's is relatively modest at a mere $4.3 billion dollars), I have to wonder why $4,000 a year for a journal sparks moral outrage and why the solution isn't "Alright, screw it, this is so easy we'll just do it ourselves."

It's like California getting worked up about the number of free donuts they give state employees. I mean, OK, I get it: high symbolism, makes for a good headline. But come on, one look at salaries, pensions, or health care shows where the actual problems are.

Similarly, if one wanted to look at the influence of money on the scientific community, it is highly nonobvious to me that academic journals are where the money is uniquely concentrating.
I found this question to be very relevant to me. I am joining Facebook (presumably about a year before its IPO), and I feel a little of what the top answerer mentioned. I know it's flawed reasoning, but I could have graduated a year early from my university... so I sort of beat myself for it. I'm wondering if others have similar experiences and may want to share?
This was the first thing I thought of when I saw the website: http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-ho...

They need some help with design.
Hey all!

So the outsourcing wasn't going so great as a non-hacker so I found a co-founder to start managing them (the India guys). I'll be uploading a blog post about new things I've learned soon.
"I hope you only use it as motivation to do something more than pollute the Linux distribution space."

If there weren't all these extraneous niche Linux distributions, maybe promising ones like http://nixos.org/ would actually get the attention they deserve.
I like my "desktop manager" to.. not have a desktop (I have a desktop background image, no icons, no menus (that are always visible)) and my window management to be as simple and automatic as possible. I also want the mouse to be 100% optional. Its nice to use it when I'm pointing and clicking anyway, but when I'm not, eg, when I'm coding or in a terminal, I want to be able to control everything without leaving the main keyboard. As such, my window manager of choice is, of course, a tiling window manager (musca), and it is truely lightweight - a few K lines of C code, a few KB compiled binary, very fast, very low memory usage. Hell, it delegates its menu to dmenu (which I find to be an awesome little program - useful, very fast, tiny, easy to use and no dependencies besides xlib).

I run Musca on an Arch install (on an eee PC) for true lightweight minimalism :)
The Full Spelunky on Spelunky
I'm the opposite.

I can tolerate using a laptop if the screens big, but otherwise I don't want to program on it.

I have a 23" (1920x1080) monitor and a "20.5" (1600x900) monitor that I use both at one time to code on. I have a high-dpi mouse which once you get used to the sensitivty, is awesome with large monitors. Coding this way is great because I can use one large monitor for coding or UI design and the other monitor for looking up the documentation, reading a tutorial, or watching/listening to a lecture/talk (I tend to need background noise as I code).

I don't really know if my productivity has increased since purchasing a larger monitor, but I know it's much more convenient now.

Although I have programmed on a large laptop before and it was very helpful to code in a quiet place without distractions
I'm not thinking of ditching the language by any means. Even from the small amount I've learnt so far I think Python is amazing. It's just a bit frustrating at times when you're confused and unable to find much information about the problem you're having.

And really, I don't understand the point in learning an old version of a programming language. It just means I'm gonna have to wait it out like I have with so many other things.
It's not a swastika emblem which is quite common it's the red, black and white Nazi Swastika which symbolizes extreme hatred and violence.

You don't have to live in Germany to be affected by it, I'm sure quite a few of us have grandfathers who are no longer here because they fought against the hatred and violence which the Nazi Swastika now symbolizes.
Huh, first time I've seen the word "reified".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(computer_science)
Zach,

Totally! This is a really cool application and I'm always pumped to offer constructive feedback.

If you ever want to chat, feel free to ping me on skype (kaisdavis) or Google Talk (kai@kaisdavis.com).

Happy building.
When my daughter was about 8 or 9 her curiosity was peaked by me looking at the stock market value. (she was 8 in 1998 :-))

She asked, "Why would you put any money at all in the stock market, where one day it was worth more than you started with and the next day it was worth less? When you could put it into a savings account and every month it was worth a little bit more and never less?"

That question set the stage for an interesting discussion about risk and return, but the really important part was a discussion about money, money that you needed to pay the bills, vs money that you needed "just in case", vs money that you were saving to have available in 30 or 40 years for your retirement. The complexity of money management is something that develops with a deeper understanding of the role of money in the context of your current and future life goals. A mutual fund is of little value to an 8 year old, but a great tool for someone planning their retirement.

The linked article shows someone who has a photo manipulation program, and that program has image adjustment tools that he has never used. He erroneously generalizes that to an unsupported hypothesis that nobody ever uses those tools, and then goes on to talk about photo applications which are much less flexible (Instagram and its competitors) and how he does use their tools. It is a great learning moment.

This is a huge trap for young entrepreneurs and it helps to think about it and not fall into it. The platitude is "know your customers." This guy clearly gets along just fine with a tool which makes amusing transformations 'easy' sort of the MacOS photobooth equivalent. And yet the tools he belittles in his mini-rant are ones that are used daily by artists all around the world, and there are even companies built around still more manipulation 'effects' because an artist doesn't see a picture, they see input into what they are trying to express.

So when your customers come to you and ask you for these features in your tools, it helps you get to know them better and helps you understand their needs. And while we often start by building tools for ourselves, if we can add a feature that other people find useful (even if we don't) and it gives wider appeal to that tool, its a Good Thing to do. Even if, as posited, we are not gonna use it.
If all of your emotions are perfectly consistent with your rationally chosen values, I seriously envy you.
We flood the front page with stories about Erlang to bore them into leaving.
Leonard Nimoy Turns 80
I played CoD4 for $$$, (playing on international teams), traveled to more than 6 different countries to play tournaments, and after a while nationality really did become irrelevant.
They can "solve" the bandwidth problem by having the cloud services only enabled if the user is on WiFi. Kinda defeats the purpose of the "cloud", but it is a start.

Since, the US, they are now on two carriers, they just need either Verizon or AT&T to start touting they are the carrier of choice to provide the cloud for iPhone that the other carrier will have to increase their data usage tier. Now, this is a long shot scenario, but Apple has shown a history of doing things without consulting the carriers before.
I listen to my RSS feeds via FeedSpeak for Android : http://feedspeak.tk
Reasons to Kill Your Telephone
Usually that is considered a let-binding and not assignment. But I guess either is ok
I agree with the overall message, but in the case of image editing programs and their filters, I actually really like (and use) the large number of random filters that photoshop ships with. On the other hand, I've never used Instagram or Hipstamatic and likely never will..
Let me play Devil's Advocate here. Perhaps you're taking something with many shades of gray, and unjustly trying to flatten it into black and white.

...

>>>>"But the comments comparing women with mentally handicapped and children…"

He's not comparing women with children or the mentally handicapped. Or at least he isn't intending to. He's comparing strategies for relating to various groups of people. Many readers are misconstruing this.

Two pieces of context to keep in mind:
1. He writes in the same piece, "I’m not saying women are similar to either group. I’m saying that a man’s best strategy for dealing with each group is disturbingly similar."
2. He retracted this post and isn't standing by it. Probably because a large portion of his audience is pulling out a message he didn't intend to communicate, and doesn't really agree with.

>>>>"Well... That (ahem) stands for itself."

Maybe not to everyone. More than anything, I wonder what events in his life shaped this perspective.

Also, saying something "stands for itself" is a lame rhetorical device. You pass off the burden of making your argument to some other function. Instead of saying something's obvious, why not spell out your thoughts explicitly for those who don't jump to the same conclusions?

>>>>"That shit is just indefensible."

To say that any kind of speech is indefensible is a comment about yourself and your own morality, not about the speech itself. (I'm paraphrasing a quote by Steve Pavlina about whether a 45 lb dumbbell is 'heavy' or 'light'.)

Another idea, often raised by freedom of speech activists: Controversial speech is the only speech that needs to be defended. Nobody tries to suppress speech that everyone agrees with.

...

Again, that was Devil's Advocate. Just a few things to think about.
I think I didn't get this :( Care to explain?
OK, maybe I was wrong and this article did do something.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2371530
SPY is the largest ETF, and follows the S&P 500, which is why I mentioned it. I trade lots of ETFs. Short term, they allow individuals to use hedge fund-style strategies. Long-term, they are essentially the same as mutual funds. Very-short-term, they allow quants to make money on arbitrage. There is no good reason for their existence, honestly.
From the feedback I've got so far it looks like you're not the only one. I'll definitely be addin some better info on the front page to let people know what it's about and how to sign up etc.

And perhaps a Snapfinch sign up for people without other social accounts?
It seems quite clear that you could package up all files and send them to the server. I've read through the code in this example though and I don't see anything that could be doing that here. Since all of the code is being served off of github I think it'd be pretty hard to switch in some malicious code at times, but I would be pretty wary of granting access to a webkitdirectory chooser type from a less transparent site.
So? Apple hasn't been shy about making bandwidth-intensive features Wifi-only. Not having to sync with a computer would be a huge improvement to both iPhones and iPads.
Let's assume facebook stays the basic social networking layer but most of the time people spend, and most of the data they give will be inside facebook apps. not so good for facebook.

Zynga/farmville is a great example of such process.

I'm not sure that one application will replace facebook, probably few/many games and virtual worlds.
I think its a good move but it isn't new. I think UC Berkeley moved the first CS class for CS/EECS majors to functional concepts and Scheme in 1989 and MIT even earlier, though the latter abandoned it later.

I remember my Berkeley compiler class implementing Scheme and APL subsets atop the gcc backend as well which was again a doubly good learning experience in learning other approaches to programming and their implications.

I have yet to see OO design taught well outside it's varying programming constructs well. What is the right level of abstraction for "finding objects" in the words of Bertand Meyer?
You are thinking in terms of the corporation, or the investors. However, it's a fair guess that some "smart" people personally did very well from this model.

(If you think about it, a practical definition of "scam" is something that is profitable but doesn't generate repeat customers.)
3.x, cause PyQt's come on it at last. Interpreter-wise, am used to the "print()" call already.

2.x is also available for emergency contributory/usage reasons though. (Although I end up printing tuples instead...)
EMBARCADERO C++ BUILDER ARCHITECT NEW USER
Embarcadero C++ builder architect new user is a programming software. This software programmer has been designed for C++ developers and crew building data intensive server graphical user interface and web applications with large or complex enterprise data base systems.
Even engineers got a bailout : GM apparently presented a systemic risk to the US car industry.
The typical Price-Earnings ratio for a tech company is about 20, which means twitter would only need to generate 1/20th of that amount per user to justify it's valuation.

EDIT: After re-reading your comment it seems you've already incorporated this concept with your discount rate, I would argue that your conversion and discount rate are both too high. Premium conversion would probably be something on the scale of 1-5 percent, and the discount should be 5 percent (1/20).