skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Restaurant website that doesn't suck (in Chrome)
This is a joke on the IE10 platform preview already being out, right?
I don't know much about the Amiga, but it sounds to me like the way in which it was a "nice computer" was that it was pushing a quirky design well past where it should actually have been, and that it was rapidly hitting the end of the road technically regardless of what the management was doing. That is to say, listening to descriptions of the Amiga reminds of listening to OS 9; yes, it's full of nice things and there's all sorts of ways to argue about how it's "better than PCs" but in the end you can't handwave around the fact that the foundation is at or beyond its capacity and there's no way to incrementally advance.

Apple managed to make the leap to OS X, as Microsoft managed to move to the NT base before it. I don't see how Commodore was going to do it without being something fundamentally different. Their machines were nice but it seems to me they were always building machines for today, never thinking much about tomorrow. But tomorrow comes... it always does.

I'm posting this because I'm curious about reactions; if this is flamingly wrong I'd love to hear. I don't have direct experience, except with the Commodore 64, which looking back was already experiencing the "make a computer for today" problem in many ways.
Linus Torvalds does not represent the FSF and was not involved in the drafting of GPLv2 (he was a complete nobody when GPLv2 was released). Torvalds is also not the only copyright holder to the Linux source. His opinion about what the FSF is trying to achieve through its licensing is immaterial. Combating the wave of machines you "own" but that you can't control, improve or specialize for your own purposes is exactly how the FSF came into existence. In the past manufacturers discouraged tinkerers simply by not releasing their code. The GPL countered this by requiring source code release. Then TiVo innovated use of trusted computing to prevent end user modifications even if you have access to the source. As a response GPLv3 now requires that you are able to actually use modifications. I don't know why you think the FSF's position is ambiguous. If they were happy with TiVo's abuse of their license, they would not have developed GPLv3. To claim that the FSF endorses the bullshit Motorola or TiVo imposes on its customers is ridiculous. TiVo earned the badge.
How did they close it? This is how all my iOS apps generate revenue. They're all free with In-App Purchases. It works great.

Also, why would anyone consider this a "loophole"?
Interesting. I'm building somewhat of a similar product with Kwolla. It's built on an API so you can build your own social network if you like, or take advantage of ours.

http://kwolla.com
It is really miserable on the iphone, but in Chrome - it is very nice.
Ask HN: What would you change about Craigslist's design?
Curious how others feel about this.
Craigslist has a sort of 1999 feel to it. What would you change about its design, if anything?
AFAIK, in hunter-gatherer sopcities people are divided into two groups: those that can hunt and those who cannot, the latter group including elderly, children, women, and very few other people, e.g. the shaman (this also disproves his point about gender equality, in such socities women are, by necessity, second class). So, it is very hard, esp. for men, to specialize in anything other than hunting, e.g. arts or crafts, unless it brings an immediate utility to the tribe.

Another point is: more people = more brain diversity -> easier for people with interesting ideas to be in the society, the intellectual gene pool, if you will. And an agri lifestyle definitely supports larger tribes.
This is very interesting. In personal selling (face-to-face), emphasis tends to be on features and benefits.

The personas work better. Proof is in the numbers.
Dr. Michio Kaku: Leave Tokyo
"The young people of today love luxury. They have bad manners, they scoff at authority and lack respect for their elders. Children nowadays are really tyrants, they no longer stand up when their elders come into the room where they are sitting, they contradict their parents, chat together in the presence of adults, eat gluttonously and tyrannise their teachers." -- Socrates, 470-399BC
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Amazon requires that you offer all versions of your app for sale on Amazon. So they will be selling your Google Edition as well as your Amazon Edition.
Actually, the article is a "contrast and compare" statement. Norway is relatively open in its treatment of money and government, witness their handling of taxes. Alternatively, the US is relatively opaque, witness the article. I am not sure that I support either over the other. I had hoped to spur a conversation on the issue. I failed. It isn't the first time. Probably won't be the last. Perhaps because I am new to this process of posting and commenting, I failed to understand that it is necessary to draw the line. My apologies.
Why not continue building your company and seek additional sources of capital?
progress is maximizing the carrying capacity in that equation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory#Overview

>"How do you show that the lives of people 10,000 years ago got better when they abandoned hunting and gathering for farming?"

there is no "better" in progress. Using the same analysis, the Industrial Revolution made working peoples life worse than lives of farmers. So what? It isn't about better. It is about species survival and dominance.

Humans are predators with extremely high killing instinct. Wait until the interstellar space annihilation drive invented. Any intelligent species which doesn't have photonic torpedoes may start learning history of Incas and Native Americans. It is easy to imagine how human emission of green house interstellar dust will increase the ratio of Galaxy kernel's X-rays kept inside the Galaxy and causing global galaxy warming and slow down of its rotation.
If "the comments with the highest points" was isomorphic to "the best comments", we wouldn't be having this discussion at all.
Yes, but if you are using binary search on a list with 2^52 elements…
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It should be retitled the "The Real Next Big Social Network". There is no next Facebook because Facebook itself wasn't the big next anything when it started, neither was Google.
perhaps i could've worded it better -- the mistake (imo) wasn't choosing agriculture, agriculture was a necessary byproduct required to facilitate living in cities.

chicken/egg problem
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That sounds roughly like the "dual inheritance theory", that human societies are a product of both biological evolution and sociocultural evolution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_inheritance_theory

(I don't have any strong knowledge of or opinion on the subject; seems plausible enough.)
Personal data is the future, but does anybody care?
Mysterious 'ix.Mac.MarketingName' listed as supported Apple device for iOS apps
Investors are falling out of love with Google's stock - Apr. 14, 2011
Seems to be down for me - gotta love CoralCDN: http://www.digibarn.com.nyud.net/collections/screenshots/xer...
> What animal would you pursue jogging?

Any animal that sprints for short distances :)

Nearly all animals built for sprinting don't have the endurance for sustained evasion. If you've ever chased wildlife, you'll notice they quickly zip away, but stop some couple hundred meters away to turn around and look back at you. This is really to recharge their batteries and keep an eye on the threat (you).

I mentioned it in another comment, but persistence hunting was a well-known tactic across the world. It's particular effective on flat desolate land, but was also practiced in hilly woodlands, in combination with tracking skills.

Eventually the animal would keel over from exhaustion.

Don't fall too easily into this Paleo trend and the hunches people posit as "the way things were". They often have a narrow view of how things were.

Remember to keep your skepticism healthy. When someone tells you to use a standing desk, because cavemen used standing desks, remain skeptical. When someone says you should just do short sprints, because that's what cavemen did, be skeptical. I'm not saying standing desks and sprinting are bad, I do both, but question & verify what you're told, especially before spreading that (mis?)information.
Given how well the Humble indie Bundles have done in the past (and how the current one is doing), I think their concerns over pricing are a bit overblown.
Microsoft previews IE10 and Windows on ARM CPU
Probably won't work.

The only way to make this work is remove the incentive. If I could sell "used" mp3's back to iTunes, for example, I'd be less inclined to share them with the world for free.

So a filesharing system that tracks what users upload and download, and lets users auction off "used" media an equivalent number of times gets the users on the same side as the music companies.

Now you have the idea, go make millions :-) If you do, however, I'd appreciate if you buy me a house in St. Thomas.
Is your city ready for electrical vehicles?
I tried to use Emacs lisp, several, times, which in my head is almost the same thing as using emacs, but was never able to warp my head around the weird functions naming. Writing the simplest macro seems to require tens of lines of code.

I'm an happy vimmer, but the excitement about emacs makes me jealous. All my tries to use it makes me feel like it's either an endless unintuitive shortcut list OR an editor with very little text control (which I know it isn't ) AND I fail at customizing it

Any suggestion ?
It would be wise to remember that many of the acute radiation deaths at Chernobyl did not occur until many weeks after the accident. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_dis...

It's also too bad that the Japanese fish supply will be poisoned for a long time.
Citizen-developed faceted browser for Data.gov datasets
No one knows for sure, and it's a running joke in anthropology that anything poorly understood among ancient peoples is declared "religious", but it's probable that religion emerged at the same time as law (the real motivator behind inventing writing) and that they were deeply intertwined.

Belief in the supernatural exists for genetically hard-wired reasons, but the first truly organized religions were probably not the live-and-let-live shamanic practices that began among hunter-gatherers, but ancestral cults with some coercive intent. The most important question of law has generally been: who should own what? This is where the ancestors (cum deities) come in. A king will just have you killed if you steal his possessions. What happens when he dies and his less charismatic son wants the same power and privilege? His son says, "If you don't show the same loyalty to me as you showed my father, he will possess a lion and that lion will eat you." This raises the possibility of an afterlife. A generation later, the grandson says, "If you disobey me, my grandfather will torment you forever in the afterlife." Eventually, these ancestors became gods and their accomplishments are magnified to supernatural levels of achievement. Three thousand years of oral tradition later, with a human ancestor morphed into a fictional character and no one able to determine who the "real" descendants were, priests (people of high social class) become the intermediaries. Divination, religion, and law were intertwined at this time. Law began from the question, "How do we organize our society to keep the gods happy?" And it needed written tradition to keep track of what worked and what didn't. Most of what was being divined at first was who "rightfully" owns land, possessions, and people-- and gambling, for the record, probably has the same roots: Let's ask the gods who should have these resources.

This is not to say that pragmatic, civil law could have emerged in the absence of religion, and I'm sure that half the architects of ancient law were thinking, "I don't really believe in this supernatural shit, but these ideas work", but it seems not to have happened that way. Modern philosophy didn't even exist until 700 BC at the earliest, by which point the ancestors and divine-kings and gods were well-established.

By the way, I don't mean to disparage religious belief outright with this summary. I'm a skeptic who generally finds organized religion silly, but I'm actually a deistic Buddhist, not an atheist or agnostic. That, however, is a discussion for another time.
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Having lots of music does not preclude you from discovering more music that you like. Extend it to a lifetime, and in the last year I would still be downloading new music.
Bloomberg puts names to their quotes http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-14/goldman-traders-tri...

Not really sure why it matters, though.
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There is a pretty good case based on how many times money changes hands that the "Stealth Bomber" is a pretty good economic stimulant.

Two things: First, The US pretty much hovers between 15 - 20% of GDP being brought in as revenue for the federal government. This is despite a lot of tax policy changes.

Second, when Clinton did his defense cuts, one of the things cut was various supply buying from small contractors (mostly minority). We had two factories. One lost all its contracts (although it did stay open just a little longer to ship tents to Florida after a hurricane). The other lost half its workers. All the people who these people bought stuff from had hard times. Of course, welfare spending went up in the area. The plans to move into civilian supply never got off the ground. Welfare doesn't make as many hops through the economy as defense spending.

Target spending cuts based on what happens to the money afterwards.
Why would you pay for the 2nd month?

Because my tastes change, I discover new genres and artists, artists release new music, and new artists come out.
Future of BI: Mobile, iPads
Circles need not be just concentric circles like in your example. People have different groups of friends, each of which is a (probably overlapping) circle. Further, the edge weights between users in the two directions need not be reciprocal. And to complicate things further, these circles are transient, not permanent.

And that is exactly why it is such a hard problem to solve. Any naive UI that attempts to solve this problem will putt too much cognitive load on the user.
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sure beats what i was doing before!
I am planning to let go my business partner as I have realised that he hasn’t got the right skills to develop this business with me. I am not going to kill this application yet. It’s just that I had to re prioritise everything due to some changes in my personal circumstances. When I find the right team to grow this business I will look into this again.
How is this not copyright infringement?

I visit http://rdd.me/etjavojs and I get the content of a scraped NY Times article served off of readability's server. All the ads are removed and they added an upsell for other Readability products.

How is this any different from me copy/pasting articles onto my own blog and slapping AdSense on it?
They are moving to a Google Chrome like development schedule. So yes, basically, 4.0 is stable, 5.0 would be beta, and 6.0 would be alpha. Soon, 5.0 will be stable, 6.0 would be beta, and 7.0 would be alpha.
I have to disagree. The Amiga's design was not the decisive problem. The IBM PC prospers to this day with many traces of its legacy surviving as junk DNA from its haphazard evolutionary path. Had the Amiga survived in some form, no doubt the fully evolved platform would bear similar marks of its gaming-centric past, mostly in the hardware interface, not the operating system.

You yourself bring up the Mac's leap to OS X. On a technical level that wasn't so much a transition as a hard reboot, only made possible by some truly heroic programming of compatibility systems software. OS X got off to a bumpy start but not enough to kill it. The Mac since went from PowerPC to x86 by another feat of compatibility wizardry in the form of Rosetta. But what would have been easier than looking at the state of the Macintosh in the late 90s and pronouncing it a dead-end, a lost cause?

Commodore's problem was first and foremost cultural. I've always found myself in the unusual position of loving the C64 and the Amiga but hating Commodore.
I don't think the first generation Amigas were that agnostic. You had chip RAM that was tied to video timings and fast RAM that wasn't. That indicates the motherboard timings were very coupled to the timings of the video generation circuitry and the dedicated chips.
Call me jaded but nothing is going to come off this. Not one single person from any of the wall street firms has gone behind bars for the massive amount of fraud and deception that caused the financial crisis. Worst case there will be a fine paid by a few firms (which is probably going to be less than some of the bonuses they dole out). The best part about these fines is that firms get to declare "No admission of any wrong doing". Really ?
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I remember when I had a C64, and my friend wanted a computer for xmas, and we were pestering his had to get the 128, which was the best computer we knew of at the time. Then on xmas day, he got an Amiga 500! We didn't even know about those. He was pretty happy. I was pretty bummed I only had a C64.
And, like all middlemen, they very much deserve their cut.

What are you going to do with that pile of books in your cellar if there's no bookshop to sell them for you? Open your own single-book store?

If you build a store, you should certainly get a healthy cut of what you sell through your store.
The problem with this that I foresee is that it seems rather impossible to predict actual views of a comment. I heavily doubt that most viewers of the comment page will read most of the comments. So this will create a positive feedback loop that just creates a large divide between comments that (somehow, probably mostly arbitrarily) start off more popular than others; comments with high "rates" will be pushed to the top, and will be seen most of the time someone views the page, but comments with low "rates" will be pushed to the bottom, meaning they won't be seen most time a page is viewed, and so the estimate of their rate will be biased downwards.
While the Sun's radiation extends up to 100au or so, its gravitational influence goes to over 100K au (2 light years). In this deep freezing wasteland we may find many more orbiting bodies than in the solar system proper.
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Viewing the Brain as an Ecosystem Rather than as a Computer
Second highest donor for Obama in 2008 is Goldman Sachs at $994,795.

Timothy Geithner appointed of a former Goldman Sachs lobbyist to be his chief of staff.

Goldman Sachs partner Gary Gensler is Obama’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission head

Former Chief of Staff Emanuel received nearly $80,000 in cash from Goldman Sachs during his four terms in Congress

Tom Donilon is Obama’s deputy national-security adviser. He earned just shy of $4 million representing high-profile meltdown clients including Goldman Sachs.

Nothing will happen to Goldman Sachs while this government/bank incest continue.

EDIT: 'Second highest donor'
Near as I can tell Mirah is still just a syntax skin around Java, and compiling directly to .class involves a Java step.

mirahc still does have a --java option, anyway...
I didn't get the impression that the upvoting of lesser comments, to the level of 'the best comments' is a primary concern? The mere existence of the comments is the major problem, even when they aren't upvoted?

In any case, I do think the set of 'the best comments' is usually a subset of 'the comments with the highest points' and especially in submissions with many comments/threads, the amounts can be helpful.
Microsoft outlines more developer features coming with Windows Phone 'Next'
If anyone is interested in this, I highly recommend reading "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine"[1] by Michael Lewis. It talks about Greg Lippmann (mentioned in the article) and how he and others cashed out before the impending crash in 2008.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Big-Short-Inside-Doomsday-Machine/dp/0...
FYI, this doesn't appear to be working on my generation 1 iPhone.
And you'd really pay £40 a month for the ability to follow your changing tastes? I think you are in a very small subset of users if that's the case.
Discussion on slashdot: http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/04/14/0036219/Temporary...
Silverlight 5 Beta - Lets deal with its features
Do your tastes change significantly every month?
To the extent those old cases are in conflict with Bilski, they are not binding precedent.
I'm trying to understand...is it the scale you plan to be at makes Twilio/Tropo not affordable? Because if SMS/Voice is really core to what you're doing, you can roll your own infrastructure. Or go with Twilio's ever-decreasing pricing structure.
I'm old enough to have used these machines and what's interesting is that I remember well how much of a 'wow' it was to get to use a lovely user interface like that. Since then I haven't seen a real step change in user interface until we moved recently to sensitive touch screen devices.
Your example of a logarithmic upvote/point scale is wrong (it's currently a simple scale of multiplying by 10), and you might want to update it for clarity. I believe you meant it would take 1 upvote/point to get from 0 to 1, 10 upvotes/points to get from 1 to 2, etc.
I think 9.0 might be addressing it, but lack of replication has been a feature I've missed a fair bit.

Shipping WAL files over rsync seems a little.. hackey to me. Worse still, Postgres has to load the entire WAL on the slave when it wakes (whereas with Oracle you can query the slave before it has finished loading the WAL files since it can pause and continue).

Disclosure: I'm not a DBA or specialist in this area. I know enough to pick sensible architectures, optimize queries, and maintain good indexes.
Very impressive. One inconsistency stands out given the careful attention to detail. In this image, they make a point of emphasizing that background pixels should be split to form a cleaner edge:

http://www.digibarn.com/collections/screenshots/xerox-star-8...

...but this image shows that most of the top of a folder icon (not including the tab) did not split the background pixel:

http://www.digibarn.com/collections/screenshots/xerox-star-8...
Thank you so much. I'll be in touch!
Java and Python Runtimes 'Closer to Parity' in Google App Engine Release
I think Diamond is pointing out that it may be a misconception to think of hunting/gathering as a "terrible" quality of life to indicate that population pressure might have forced us into ag. This suggests an order to the chicken/egg problem.

Basically the population grew to a large enough size where the game they were hunting and the berries they were gathering weren't enough (or went extinct) so they had to switch to a agrarian lifestyle, which needed more work and yielded less.
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Maybe then a setting you can toggle to display the parent?
I think the highs and lows were a lot steeper in hunter-gatherer societies. The thrill for a 15-year-old hunter after his (or her) first big kill is probably unmatched by the smaller victory of a good SAT score or college admission... or anything we experience in our lives, for that matter. Merely surviving can give people a much stronger sense of purpose than most office jobs. On the other hand, the violent death rate was somewhere around 0.5% per year from conflict with other humans alone. Life expectancy for someone who survived childhood was probably in the mid-50s and some people definitely achieved what would be considered "old age" even today, but if you made it to 65, almost all of your childhood friends would be dead.

It's impossible to compare subjective experiences. I know that I wouldn't trade, but that's all I can really say.