skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about just not caring whether you hurt someone's trivial feelings? That is becoming an important feeling in this ever-connected world.
Some problems are quite fun, but they spoil them with clues -- it does not feel like solving, more like explaining the solution.
Seems legit... but I don't see anything on the blog so I think I'll wait until I see something there. It does seem very phishy to me.

dig custom.posterous.com

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;custom.posterous.com.	IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:

custom.posterous.com.	3600	IN	A	184.106.20.102
Fruit has always been selectively bred. It's a bribe to animals.

My experience is that supermarket varieties of fruits are bigger and look better than local, traditional produce, or are more practical in other ways (thinner skin, less or no seeds) but are often insipid in comparison.

On the other hand (and this is just speculation), in the northern hemisphere most fruit is naturally available in the fall season. Fattening prior to winter was probably a desirable effect.
Can't wait for this social fad to be over.
A similar take on it was discussed here: "You Can’t Threaten People Into Being Social" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2425512
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I hear you, but don't hold your breath. Best case scenario is it becomes boring and people stop obsessing about it, I think.
What was the bandwidth of that telegraph link? And what were the clerical procedures for passing message text from a sending client to the telegraph operator at the sending end, and from the the telegraph operator to the recipient at the receiving end? Just how simultaneous was communication after the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable was laid? Much faster than any ship, surely, but fast enough (and inexpensive enough for most people?) for cheating on a Harvard entrance examination?
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It would have to become relevant first though. I conjecture that no programming language alive now is going to be relevant in 100 years. If you look at the history of programming languages, this is not at all a bold conjecture.
Algebra reached its current durable form after centuries of development out of the verbally posed form it was in in the writings of Al-Khwarizmi. So hurrah for letters for unknown quantities (and the convention that "variables" are represented by one set of letters, usually, while "constants" are represented by a distinct set of letters, usually) and hurrah for explicit symbols for arithmetic operations. (I would also say hurrah for Descartes and analytic geometry, which does a lot to make algebra more comprehensible for many visual learners.)
IMO, Google COULD tackle "social", but not with the same approach that worked with facebook. They ought to forget about facebook's approach and attack from another angle. I have some ideas how it could be done, but it's a bit of a conundrum to say the least.
Graduate students from China (in such humanities subjects as philosophy) derided the GRE main test mathematics section (used as one element of admission decisions for graduate schools in the United States) as a test of "junior high math," which it literally is in terms of the standard curriculum of urban schools in China. The GRE subject test in mathematics, used largely but not exclusively for admission into graduate programs in mathematics, actually has some undergraduate mathematics content, but the mathematics section of the general GRE includes only mathematics that any well educated person who completed secondary schooling ought to know.
Your home is filled with microprocessors that talk to each other over two-wire serial protocols. Your oven probably has a control panel that talks over I2C or some other serial protocol to a control module.

That credit card terminal on the shop counter has a modem that talks to another computer the old-fashioned way: frequency-keyed tones over a phone line.

Your car has more chips than you think, all talking over a shared serial bus like CAN or DBUS (not the desktop protocol, the Bosch one).

That touchscreen on your smart phone communicates with the host processor over a serial protocol.

In the embedded systems world it's cheaper and easier to use these ancient protocols than to try and install ethernet lines and TCP/IP stacks...just so that your oven can start a bake cycle.
I wish people would keep some of their opinions to themselves, classifying something as a 'blunder' because you don't agree with it is just bad reporting.

You wanted a startup and there you have it, with startups there is a certain amount of risk involved which galvanises people to succeed.
In Emacs docs, <Ctrl> is C and (by default, usually) <Alt> is M (for meta).

C-x C-c : quit emacs
C-g C-g C-g : cancel any crazy mess you got yourself into
C-x C-f : open a file (read a file into the current buffer)
C-x C-s : save current file (buffer)
However it is much more efficient to take a course in etymology (word roots) focused on the subset of Greek and Latin used in word formation in the major European languages (Romance or not) than it is to learn a lot of Latin and Greek just for that side benefit. I by no means disparage learning languages--I majored in Chinese and studied two forms of Greek in university, among several other languages--but if the goal is learning etymology, today there are royal roads for that purpose that can be traveled by people who never practice reading Latin or Greek texts.

The general observation is that learning ANY language eases learning the third and the fourth language, because the earliest experience in learning a non-native language reminds the speaker that each language has arbitrary features that must be distinguished from those of the learner's native language(s). Within the ambit of that general principle, learning cognate languages (for example, German for an English speaker) is easier that learning non-cognate languages (for example, Malay for a Chinese speaker).
fantastic, game-changing and inspirational. whatever next?!?
Because he writes well.
Me either, but I don't think it's a fad. I think it's the way a lot of people relate to the internet and computers in general. Queue stories about grandma who's on facebook but doesn't know how to use the address bar in her browser, etc, etc. I wouldn't expect that to go away. Social will get a lot more attention than other computing topics for a long time to come, because the user base is so much larger.
I wish Google continued to being an awesome Information Retrieval company that they always were. I loved Google's original mission, the automation and the algorithms.
"Seven sister states - Instant death if you are non-Assamese.
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From your phrasing I am assuming you are not Assamese. It's really amazing that you are able to comment from the grave! :D.

Regarding TN, do you mean the LTTE which was decimated by Sri Lanka?
"South Africa, on the other hand, is not really all that much different to a middle of the road Western country."

How many western countries have 30% unemployment, roving gangs of looters, and an average literacy level of 2nd/3rd grade?
Thats why the Portuguese/French/British arrived in 1505 and stayed till 1947.
Actually his suggestion at the end of grouping all the different features together on one cohesive page would be an improvement over being spread out over all the separate products.

But whether the decision is a blunder remains to be seen... We'll see in a couple of months if its for better or worse.
Please show a list of ideas.
Interesting article. I agree - Google is now singing FaceBook's mantra and potentially losing sight of their own.

Today, Google knows who I email most often, who my contacts are, what's happening in my life (via my Calendar), what I like to read and bookmart (via Reader), what I like to talk about (via Google AdSense/Analytics on my blog and via Search), even places I tend to go often or plan to go (via GMaps). The list goes on.

That is a huge piece of the puzzle. They need to figure out a way to put all of that together rather than push (and potentially fail) new "social" incentives.

There are two parts to this that escape me -

1. Whatever happened of "Google Me"? How is it that no one ever mentions that anymore?

2. Google has (IMO) always been a company that places emphasis on being algorithmic than having humans do the work for them (if that even makes sense). It's part of their DNA. That's hard to change.

Finally, this is Google chasing the current fad, and forgetting to focus on what's the next thing.

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You're mistaken. The context makes it clear that he is speaking about students who get a letter grade of "B".
hey question, how did you overcome the network effect problem, since for voting games like these to be 'fun', would require a pool of 'items' to be in the universe.
They might just do that, he doesn't know and that's my point, he's quick to judge.
I have some ideas how it could be done, but it's a bit of a conundrum to say the least.

Would you mind sharing some of that?
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If that's the case (and I don't think that's really what he said), it would be a foolish claim. Resources are fundamental to the human experience. On the web most things are just data, but if that data has value to anyone, it's a resource.

Events are fundamental too, and I'm quite happy that the web seems to be evolving to handle them as well.. But resources will always exist, and any 'event' that has enough data for an engine to be interested in indexing it is carrying a resource.
First contact was made in 1858, but the cable failed in mere days. The first reliable link happened in 1866. It ran about half "telegraph speed", which was pretty darn slow. I'd hate to connect to that bbs.

It's a fascinating read.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable
Its amazing how much a change has come about the advertisement of an operating system, what has changed, the ubiquitous nature of the operating system or the fact that advertising has changed tone?

I love the fact that a clock was such a feature, a full screen clock, I wasn't around to experience excitement at the inclusion of a clock.
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I wouldn't call it a fad, I think it's the natural progression of communication which will essentially be with us forever in some way. I think we are still in the period of experimentation, it's still new so there is a crazy amount of heat and investment in the area trying to work out what works and what doesn't where we end up with crazy and quirky ideas all tied to the idea of social.

I think eventually it will all setting down and there will be new pushes based on yet new tech.
Don't hold your breath. People are not going to turn into loners any time soon.

What's wrong with technology helping people become more social? I love it and apparently, millions of others do too.
It's pretty true, though.
I'll go you one further: I think this will become more and more of everybody's life- like the automobile did. I think solving the problems with the social web (privacy, etc.) will also solve a lot of the problems faced, for instance, telecommuters.

One of the problems telecommuters face is dealing with a sense of isolation from the team. If (when) we solve that problem (and similar ones), and social media experimentation is going to be required to do so, probably, then we have an opportunity for a real virtual office, virtual college, etc.

I definitely see this happening.
Easy Math Problem in www.elpais.com 
This is the problem:

Colour with red or blue the numbers in a wall clock in such a way that there are six red and six blue numbers. You must demonstrate that there is a line that divides the clock in two such that each zone has 3 red and 3 blue numbers.

Using python is a five or six lines of code, but prove it mathematically.
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"What's wrong with technology helping people become more social?"

Banality?
The "social fad" is the internet finally maturing to the point where the unwashed masses can finally post things on a web page, share photos, and communicate to a subset of users without having to learn HTTP, IRC, Jabber, FTP, etc.

It's just evolution.
Agreed. I am 5'6", and small shirts fit me well. Wearing a medium or a large, I look like a moron in a smock.

So unless you want me to cut up your shirt and turn them into schmattas, give me a small and I will wear it on my body.

Otherwise, donate it to Goodwill.
My friend forwarded me the video demo link for this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GhNXHCQGsM&feature=playe...

Very nifty. I'm looking forward to reading the machine learning code involved in this.
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The Latin part (1st one) is very simple. The Latin high-school final exam here in Italy is way more difficult (you translate, analyze and discuss Latin authors from their original texts, eg. Cicero is tricky).

As schrototo said the greek part should be as easy.
I agree that the DIYbio folks et al are incredibly exciting. But saying that those projects have to do with "building a Github of science" is putting the cart before the horse. To extend my metaphor for a moment, it's as if the engineers of 1963 had decided to popularize open source software by inventing and promoting Github, instead of inventing the personal computer and Ethernet first.

(As an aside, there are fascinating historical examples of people who did invent the web before inventing the personal computer, like this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otlet

Of course, he ended up as many of these slightly-too-early visionaries did: His work lost all its funding and he was kind of sad.)

Build the gel box and then worry about the social network. Or better yet, don't worry about the social network at all: These gel box users will network themselves, no problem. It would be a challenge to stop them from finding each other online.
To get me to change social networks, Google will have to convince my friends to switch; especially my close ones, as using Facebook to communicate with many of them has replaced email.
My comment there seems to have been immediately flagged as spam, so I'll say it here.

I think it must be much, much easier to write articles like this about managing Google than it is to actually manage Google.

We're talking about tying a portion of bonuses to performance in an area that is crucial to the success of this company! What a blunder, indeed.
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Your view of formal clothing is still rather casual. I work in a professional setting where I always need to ware a tie and often need full suit. Both of them reduce my level of physical comfort and I would much rather avoid them. However, as a company we are among the more casual in our field and there is plenty of levels of formal above us.

PS: There is an old IBM story of a programmer sent home from training for being under dressed. He was wearing reasonably formal attire, but the instructor instructed him to lift his pants leg to demonstrate what your socks looked like if you did not use garters and then sent him home. http://www.pbs.org/nerds/part2.html

http://boingboing.net/2010/12/16/ubss-43-page-dress-c.html
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I don't know whether this is an entrance exam and that would definitely change things.

But either way, according to Wikipedia, dueling was a part of British culture though the early 1800s, the last fatal duel was in 1856. Meaning a typical candidate from an elite family in 1899 will have a living relative who has probably at least read public discourse about dueling, and there's a good chance the subject has come up at least once during primary education.
I completely disagree with the article. The 25% bonus is not a blunder at all. It's a big shake-up that's certain, but based on what I've been reading about Google recently, I think it's actually quite a visionary move.

If you've been reading Hacker News for the last few months you'l' probably have read two major complaints about the company.

1) their search results are getting spammier
2) if you're an employee on the inside, there's more politicking than engineering going on.

The +1 bonus addresses both.

In terms of spammy results, if millions of people are applying upvotes to good results every day, true human-eyeball search QA will be working at massive scale.

And YES the spammers botnets have probably already started +1'ing their spammy links, but hey, answering that is part of the bonus. (I can think of a few algorithms already that might actually further identify spam by finding 'unnaturally correlated voting blocks)

+1 directly improves Google's core business, which is finding good results in web search. Having 25% of your bonus tied to the success of Google's core business is appropriate.

The second major issue I've read about (nearing the point of deluge) is the problem with 'internal politicking'. It happens at all mega-corporations I'm sure, but how in the hell do you address it? Individual departments work against certain other departments, they willfully work a little slower or protest a little too much and some projects that didn't deserve to die do.

The complaints about Google's ability to innovate are evidence of this stuff. The internal middle managers' squabbles.

Well what better way to ensure that you cut through the corporate squabbles than by looking at all the projects you've got going on, picking the one that you think has the best chance of helping the bottom line and saying to everyone in the company "you can either help or get the fuck out of the way. 25% of your bonus is tied to this project"

If morale is going to be take a hit if this project fails, then the answer is don't fail.
Imagine one central place where all Google products would be conneced. It would look like an improved Facebook main page: stream of information from gmail, reader, picasa, groups, docs, news, link recomends (+1) from friends, ORDER BY important; with search bar at top and gmail chat at the bottom. Fail or win?
Posting an ad hominem attack doesn't make for a valid argument...
the examples for weird languages he puts forward are slightly disappointing - with the exception of haskell maybe. but then, even haskell is the mainstream version of ideas that where first put into practice someplace else.
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thanks Tim! We're going to be in the same building as Putchfork. Should be fun. You're going to have to check out the new digs.
As long as you look good pulling cable and crawling between server racks.
Also, the "-" in "C-x" means "Hold down Ctrl and press x". It doesn't mean to press Ctrl and then press x, or to press the "-" key.

You are probably used to that being expressed with a "+", as in "Ctrl+x".
For the average user, that seems like an overly complicated thing.
B2B marketers favor email for acquisition and retention
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Related and also somewhat dated: Apparently youngsters are starting to prefer the artifacts of MP3 sound in general:

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/the-sizzling-sound-of-music...
My impression is that the fundamental factor in play is catching eye balls. Social networking like facebook is a success on this perspective. But facebook can't be the end of the story, I hope not.

Stop aping existing social networking services. Make something people want, something that provides a new dimension to human interaction.

Smart phones is a disruptive technology change which should provide opportunities for new usage and applications which would be disruptive too. This "market" opportunity emerged post facebook and because of Android, google has a significant advantage over competitors it could and should leverage.

The wise points at the moon and the fool looks at the finger. Social networking is the finger. Look where it points to and target this. Restore the initiative of creativity and invention. Reconsider google wave for instance.
There is a hug mismatch between the title of the post and the actual content.

This is the only piece of content that talks about the why "you should therefore consider spending some time experimenting with “weird” programming languages.":

1. "your goal is to broaden your mind about programming languages"

2. "the mainstream offers fewer opportunities than the fringes"

3. "you can future-proof your understanding of the mainstream by being aware of what’s happening at the fringes"

4. "“weird” programming languages gradually infiltrate mainstream languages"

5. "broaden my understanding of programming as a discipline"

6. " goal is to open your mind in ways it hadn’t been previously."

7. " More learning is better, but some learning is infinitely better than non"

Then the post goes on to superficially discuss one or two features about the some languages. The author provides no interesting projects that he has built. He doesn't tell us what languages were good for what kinds of applications. It would help a lot if he told us what he built, linked the source, talked about THAT experience. And the most frustrating bit being that he hardly explains his adjectives like "weird" "fringe" "useful".
It should be noted than 25kW is 33HP.

But the design obviously isn't limited to this? A bigger engine could give more power yet still consume less than a regular piston engine. Or 1-2 of these running in parallel, depending on the load.
I've heard from folks in retail finance that large segments of American society do not understand the concept of an interest rate. Everything is just "what is my monthly payment?"
Why do we make B students sit through the same classes as their brainy peers?

Not to be too literal here, but the B students are not necessarily less brainy. In college I was everywhere from a D student to an A+ student; it took the competition with my peers to bring me up to that level. Without being with the "brainy" students I had no chance of becoming one.
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Good catch. I guess I've been using Emacs for too long. :)

One other thing that I missed when I first started using emacs was how to cut/copy/paste:

C-space : start selecting text to cut/copy (move cursor to select)
M-w : copy
C-w : cut (kill)
C-y : paste (yank)
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I cannot believe you accuse me of being "completely wrong" about what open source means. I would suggest you go to http://www.opensource.org/osd.html and read the open source definition. Your claim that "open source" drops the requirement of user access to source code and freedom to redistribute is false. Now look at the official android website at http://www.android.com/about/ and notice the quote "Android is open source". Honeycomb does not currently meet the definition.
The clearest explanation so far of the Tevatron result
One of the most corruption nations in the world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_India

836 million people live on 20 rupees a day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_India

Pakistan is a better nation to do business than India & China
http://www.doingbusiness.org/economyrankings/

Indians among most corrupt while doing business abroad
http://business.rediff.com/report/2009/sep/24/indians-among-...

Economic mobility != Social mobility
This is not the entrance exam for math majors, it's the entrance exam for everyone. The math is much more difficult than the entrance exams I took, though mine did offer sections on a broader set of topics, if you were familiar, to let you place out of courses.