skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I need a rockstar game graphic designer.

You want a designer who has an ego the size of Texas, binges on alcohol and drugs and destroys hotel rooms, urinates in fountains, bites the heads off of bats, has an insatiable appetite for sex and engages in indiscriminate sexual liaisons with everybody of the opposite sex who moves, and who is as likely as not to be found dead in a cheap motel room with a needle jammed in his/her arm?!??
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." --Abraham Lincoln
Excellent point. Great execution on a limited or "me-too" idea can still result in a good outcome. But great execution on a disruptive idea can lead to a much larger success.
I don't understand how Google can maintain any control over those devices, though. My understanding was that anyone could download the Android source, sans Google applications like Gmail and Market, and install it on whatever they want.

If I were Facebook, I'd just avoid Google entirely and use alternative apps for everything. Amazon Appstore, Facebook Messaging for email, etc.
>"Sure, it was mildly unprofessional to hold a mock funeral of a compteitors product."

What does that make the billion dollar multi-year "I'm a Mac" campaign?
Do you have a cite on this? Would love to read more.
> Mark wrote a paper about this

I'm interested. Is it:

Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf's law, M. E. J. Newman, Contemporary Physics 46, 323–351 (2005). [link: http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0412004]
fyi the discount code is BYEBYEGD and it's a discount on domain transfers. I just transfered my domain from enom to namecheap. So you don't have to be leaving go daddy to take advantage of this.
the techniques physicists were using to evaluate power law distributions were bogus.

This sounds interesting, care to be more precise?
I'm very familiar with the "New Math" debacle/fiasco, and keep it in mind whenever I think of new ways to teach "proper" math. But equally, I give over 100 talks a year on math to kids, and I can see some of them light-up with enthusiasm at the idea that math isn't sums, equations, arithmetic, formula, and mindless manipulation.

But the delivery mechanism is part of the challenge - most high school teachers aren't equipped to deliver the sort of thing we "serious math graduates" would love to see delivered, and certainly most primary school teachers aren't. Getting the delivery right has to be part of the deal.

"Hurray for New Math" - "The idea's the important thing" ...

Yes, Tom Lehrer has something to teach us as well about the dangers of radical ideas.
A sleek-looking job-board for folks on the other side of planet
What about an opportunist though? Someone you know could snatch your keys from the table at a bar, but snapping a picture of your house keys leaves you unaware that anything has happened, until they rob your house.

Of course you'd have to be hanging around with some pretty shady people for this to happen, but you don't always know everyone at the table well...

EDIT: That said, I really like the idea. I wish something like this was available in Europe.
A Successful But Unsatisfying Startup is a Failure
Perhaps the intersection of people who think "it's just a big phone and I really want a laptop" and people who develop for android is quite high.

I don't know if that's true, but it's still a really intriguing question, thank you! The follow-up also seems relevant: What is the intersection between people who think "it's just a big phone and I really want a laptop" and people who buy android?

If the market for android tablets is also the market for netbooks, that could be a problem. Apple is going out of their way to distance the iPad from netbooks and sell to people who don't want a laptop--or already have one and are buying this as a third device after their phone and laptop.
A witty publication of common frustrations associated with Windows.
Has anyone else noticed that there seem to be no Q's or Z's in the text? That leads me to believe that the code is somehow related to the telephone dial (or keypad).
There are a couple of characters that look slightly like Q's, but which I think are R's and there is one character on the NOTES page that looks like a Z, but which I think is a 2, since it comes after the string of numbers.
I don't expect customer support to know what a keylogger is, much less know if their own systems have them installed.
I've been thinking about how to make better news feeds lately - here are some other interesting talks/papers:

http://blog.basho.com/2011/03/28/Riak-and-Scala-at-Yammer/

http://research.yahoo.com/node/3203

http://technoweenie-ruby-onales.heroku.com/#1

https://github.com/technoweenie/allofthestars/tree/master/ve...
To nitpick, the discpline of physics covers everything - or it damn well ought to :) While it seems obvious after reading the article that solving the rendering equation is indeed a promising way to solve the Pioneer anomaly, I'm sure that I wouldn't have come up with the idea.
Microsoft files antitrust complaint against Google in Europe
That's awesome, thank you!

Would love to be able to sign in via Instagram and add my images.
Love this. Marketing is going to be critical to your success - it's a one-off, low-cost transaction that people rarely need, and you're competing against the keycutting booths in supermarkets that people see at least once a week.

But you've got great novelty. Perhaps create a theme around the idea that you're harnessing CIA technology (well, they've definiely done something similar at some point in the last 50 years). That's likely to get you a decent amount of mileage in the media, and make you stick in people's minds.
The GoPano: A Panoramic Lens System For The iPhone
This was my impression, too.
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I remember seeing this when it showed up on Reddit a couple months ago.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8137688?dopt=Abstract
I get a:

504 Gateway Time-out
nginx

Is this one of the example 64-bit errors?

Edit: Now it's working
Here you go: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2010...

One of the comments on the original paper (the pubmed link that teraflop cites) did point out that it was "just" the trapezoidal rule, FWIW, so the only people one may want to find fault with were the who stopped at his paper and decided to cite it, rather than dig further.
Ambient occlusion (as the term is typically used) is a way to approximate local reflection of uniform inbound (aka ambient) light. It does this by measuring how much of the exterior environment is visible at each point, as a way to modulate an ambient lighting term.

It doesn't really simulate how light bounces locally around an object, nor light emitted by an object. Rather than a light transport simulation it's more of a clever CG approximation hack that looks great and is pretty cheap.

But to the real point I think you were trying to make: yes, there have been a lot of strides in simulating light since the 70's, and more advanced techniques exist that should give more accurate results.
Money quote:

"There of course will be some who will point out the irony in today’s filing. Having spent more than a decade wearing the shoe on the other foot with the European Commission, the filing of a formal antitrust complaint is not something we take lightly. This is the first time Microsoft Corporation has ever taken this step. More so than most, we recognize the importance of ensuring that competition laws remain balanced and that technology innovation moves forward."
> It is not very common to get good results from applying a coarse tool to a fine problem.

From the blog post, that isn't really what happened here -- the problem was accounting for reflections, and a technique was needed to estimate such effects. It doesn't matter that the anomalous acceleration was small compared to the total acceleration. It was of the same order as these reflection effects, and so only a "coarse" accounting of them was needed.
Thought about this, but if we open it up to users some of them may upload photos that are not about food, right?
Or maybe we can do some moderation before including them, or even allow users to weed out non-food photos.
Have We Gone Mobile-Mad? ArticleCounty.com
Unfortunately I agree. I hope we are both wrong though, and it really is an iPhone5.
ptrdiff_t is not guaranteed to be the same size as size_t, but ssize_t is. Also, IIRC ptrdiff_t is unsigned, whereas ssize_t is signed, which could make 32/64 bit arithmetic a PITA.

you are correct inasfar as ssize_t is a posix extension.
Google have not released the source to Honeycomb so no, anyone can't just go and download it.
>Consumers will not benefit from clicking to alternative sites unless all search engines have a fair opportunity to compete in each of these areas

Consumers will not benefit at all, since these companies can't index as large a portion of the web as Google could alone.
It's worse than that. The whole article was a fluff piece rambling about his awesome credentials and comparing the discovery to the discovery of Sony's rootkit and was written to create hype rather than show concrete evidence. And why needlessly break the article into two parts except to garner page hits?

The money quote:

>The findings are false-positive proof since I have used the tool that discovered it for six years now and I am yet to see it misidentify an item throughout the years.

It boggles the mind how a founder of security consulting company can be so clueless. But most of HN and the tech news site like Slashdot fell for this with completely knee-jerk reactions, so I guess I am not surprised and the people behind his fiasco got the publicity they wanted. And remember HB Gary?

I am sure this hoopla would've cost Samsung some real damage in sales and they might be considering legal action. As Churchill said:

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

Well, atleast I can say I called it, even after the so called Samsung confirmation. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2389141
I hate to sound extremely petty, but I just can't stand a modern language that insists on using semicolons. Just Don't Do It, please.
Perhaps I read it wrong, but the article never says Samsung didn't ship a keylogger, it just indicates that the AV software can make false positives based on a folder.

Can we get a link to an article that actually checks a Samsung laptop (and lists their methodology, not this "Duh, there were not any keyloggers") instead of anecdotal evidence and attacking the previous reseaerchers methods?

Even if the previous guy was wrong, at least he listed all his methods for review.
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He's founder of NetSec Consulting Corp. I am sure this is great advertisement for it. Or maybe it was orchestrated to generate publicity.
At the time, Microsoft monopoly appeared to force intractable bugs on everyone; one had to wait months for patches, that often made things worst; the culprit was clear.
Now, the main impact of Google dominant position is 10 blue results that could be more suited to your query, and that are changed depending on what people click: grey SEOs, animal instincts or customer preference for anything Google can explain bad results, unchallengeable position and Google product dominance—allowing Matt Cutts to claim the engine is neutral i.e. good.
Plus, Windows was expensive, unnaturally so (copies are free, versions priced differently were the same) while Google makes sure you can check that you earned more money than they cost you before billing. Google didn't uproot a higher-end competitor with better design that boosted your self-image.

The multi-sided market dynamics are as complex, and the impact on innovation could be similarly worrying (I explore those intensively in my PhD) but the attribution of guilt is much harder.
Isn't namecheap an enom reseller?
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Customer service Reps would NEVER have the authority to tell you that there is secret Key Logger on your computer. So if a customer Rep is telling you something like that, he is either trying to get fired or there is a miscommunication.
The fool paid $750 to register (an invalid) copyright in a listserv one-liner! Amazing, even if you don't consider the hundreds of thousands of dollars expended on this lawsuit ($70,000 claimed by the defendants, and I assume he'd claim something similar in costs if he was entitled to them).

First time I've seen judgements with a heading that is subtitled - in chinese - with a Sun Tzu quotation! It's at p5, and says (according to the translating footnote): “He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War 32-33 (Lionel Giles trans., Ulysses Press 2007)

Even more wonderful is the complaint - from a lawyer! - that the alleged copyright infringement caused medical harm: "[i]n having to deal with the violation of my copyright, I have experienced aggravation of the then arthritis in my right hip, which resulted in excess pain in the hip and leg and a decrease in the range of motion in my leg and hip."
Right now the computer vision isn't really well optimised it takes about a minute to go through the process. Give me a wad of blu-tack and I can get an impression of your key in a couple of seconds.

Valid point though, I've thought most of the security concerns through from a logical angle and I'm pretty happy with the situation, but potential customers will just make a snap judgement based on 'feel' .
It's a logical error to look at the outcome of a process and draw conclusions about it with no other supporting data. This error would be innocuous if it wasn't the underlying cause of every inhuman prejudice we've spent the last few centuries trying to rid ourselves of.

If I were to say, "Since there are so few women contributing to open-source projects, it's obvious that women aren't capable of producing much valuable code," the hacker news server would melt from the angry response.

But apparently it's ok to say, "Since there are so few women contributing to Postgres, it's obvious that it's not a meritocracy." Logically, however, these statements are equally erroneous.

You can use this sort of pseudo-statistical handwaving to justify ANYTHING that sounds remotely plausible. That's ignorant, and that sort of ignorance should be opposed no matter the form.
The apps are built for a specific resolution. As long as the screen resolution is 320x480 or 640x960, the actual physical dimensions of the screen are irrelevant.
Zimbabwe is home to over 100,000 elephants, when they state the eco-system can only handle half that many. The video even starts off with a "hunting problem elephants". I also wouldn't call it hunting for sport when the village eats every remaining bit.
Interesting! I like the light feel of the syntax and the fact that it uses LLVM. Thanks for sharing!
Related:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391257

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391236

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390281

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390224
I'm still in the "learning the syntax" stage of finance so this is great information. thank you. do you think that one reason why people say bad things about HFT is because they see them being unfairly compensated for taking on what they perceive is a small amount of risk? as in - "come on, how hard can it be to grab a block of stock on an upward trend and quickly sell it." Of course, the more I dig into this, the more I realize how hard it is to find those trends and how easy it is to lose your ass. But, people don't dig in themselves.
How not to post a security article
Tool of the Day: Quotegine: Generate Proposals Effortlessly
>To be fair, Mohamed Hassan did contact Samsung support and they didn't clear up the issue. In fact, I believe they may have even confirmed that there was a key logger installed! At that point his due dilligence has been done and he has confirmation. He doesn't need to do anything further than that. Shame on Samsung support for such a pathetic showing.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Especially when the person making claims is the founder of a security company. His due diligence consisted of things like "The software I used is false-positive proof since I am using it from 6 years". "I have done this on two different laptops with same results, so it must be Samsung's fault". Huh?
Quoting the FAQ:

"Why did you choose the name "Y Combinator?"

The Y combinator is one of the coolest ideas in computer science. It's also a metaphor for what we do. It's a program that runs programs; we're a company that helps start companies."
ya for real. How did they lol?
That layer animation is new in this iPad demo version of photoshop.

The UI looks rather incomplete, more like a technology demo, but kudos to Adobe for taking the core problem of photo manipulation and making it quite usable on iPad.
"to build early stage ventures, entrepreneurship would become a “science,” and anyone could do it."

Just because something becomes a 'science' it does not mean that everybody can do it. Something is a science if you use the scientific method in it: come up with falsifiable hypotheses. (Certainly this is the case in enterpreneurship.) But coming up with hypotheses is not automated in any of the sciences. In fact you have disruptive ideas, 'paradigm-shifts' (see Kuhn) and all those 'creative' things in science too.

Creativity is needed to create great things in different fields. Enterpreneurs, hackers, engineers, inventors, scientists, mathematicians, artists: all can be creative and be in the 'flow' when building something. Picking artists and enterpreneurs seems to be totally arbitrary for me. (Although feeling like an artist is probably cool. (See 'hackers and painters'.))
I think it's becoming the norm for these comparison sites to use the 1 and 2 keys to select between the two choices. You don't have it, I was disappoint.
I agree completely with this sentiment. It's important to remember that the vast majority of "journalism" on the web isn't conducted very professionally.
Good stuff. Now if we could only get some similar opinions in Righthaven copyright troll cases, we'd be making some progress!
Zite cease & desist from AP, WaPo, other big media
ahhhh guess i should've read the FAQ's ^.^ ty.
> ''' Another great aspect of node.js is the ease at which you can develop soft real time systems. By that I mean stuff like twitter, chat software, sport bets or interfaces to instant messaging networks. '''

Is there any evidence that this is actually true?

> ''' Combining this with node's radical model of non-blocking I/O, you have to try very hard to create a sluggish application. '''

NodeJS's model is hardly radical, it's several decades old. And it's very easy to create sluggish Node, just use a while loop.

EDIT: The relative instability of Node (as a codebase) is also left out it seems.
Yet another example of why I think kickstarter (and the movement around it) is one of the most exciting developments in the past few years.
Honeycomb is the outlier and will probably be released in a few months (actually, I think Google is stalling til they release Ice Cream Sandwich). And I doubt Facebook would release a tablet before they release a phone.
or http://www.reddit.com/r/compilers
Amen to that. I've long since concluded that there must be some sort of spambot just flooding the site with posts from various blogs and news sources, even if they arent even tangentially related to HN
If this means they can force device makers to actually ship updates, I'm all for it.
"But it’s more likely that until we truly understand how to teach creativity, their numbers are limited."

I don't believe creativity can be taught. Not now, not ever. Although everyone can be creative to an extent, you must have the drive to spend time and effort thinking about what's in front of you, and how to creatively change that. Most people are interested in being participants, and not willing to put the extra mental effort to go beyond this. Some however enjoy the creative process more so than participating.
The security industry is full of quacks like this. In fact, I'd say the number of frauds and snake oil salesmen FAR outweigh the number of legitimate and intelligent security folks.
It honestly wasn't meant as sarcasm and I apologize for the hyperbole. But do you know how often I hear people say "I'm really good, but I can't show you anything. But you can talk to my references and they'll tell you I'm good." That may work with HR people and managers who don't code, but not from programmers.

There's a distrust of programmers because many programmers are not at your skill level. You don't seem to have problems with finding employment. Perhaps open-source contributions don't matter to people of your caliber. But you need to realize that it's not HR or management asking to see your code -- it's your peers.

We need as many metrics as we can to find out who's good and who says they're good. Looking at code and examples of work is exactly how you do that. You can argue all you want, and it may not be fair. Neither is "You have to have a 3.5 GPA to get a job here."
What’s The Most Difficult CEO Skill? (Ben Horowitz).
Thanks Alex. Yeah my thinking is that the name is critical you will have to remember it for the 6-12 months between hearing about the app and actually needing a key.

The other angle is key 'backup' so you scan all your keys as a backup and if you loose it I send you a PDF you can take to the locksmith and get a key cut whilst you wait. My friend suggested 'KeyBrother' for this service, from the Seinfeld episode :-)
IMO I think it's because people don't believe there's a good Honeycomb device available, and that the platform might not be quite ready for primetime.

Apple tend to come out swinging, they deliver tools to developers months before, have a solid platform on day one, and excellent hardware. I think dealing with a heterogeneous hardware platform makes it that much harder to deliver such quality out of the gates, especially when you don't control the hardware.

Having said that, there appears to be a minimum spec for hardware, and so far vendors have not deviated substantially. Still, the Xoom's subpar reviews have not helped the cause.
>I'm also wondering what the definition of "native" is the headline.

Because Honeycomb tablets will happily run older Android 2.x apps in a scaled up compatibility mode. The "Native" refers to apps specifically written just for Honeycomb or those existing apps which also specifically support Honeycomb.

The comparison in iOS was the way that iPad pixel-doubled existing iPhone apps, the iPad specific apps developed just for iPad, and Universal apps which were developed for both iPhone and iPad.
And here is the HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2368658

See esp.: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2370303
Bear in mind that investment in space was also pretty important for the development of GPS.