skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's my math. It seems to me there are two possibilities:

WebOS fails on the laptop and desktop (e.g. is perceived as crap/bloat-ware or simply ignored). In this case the math doesn't look good.

WebOS succeeds on the laptop and desktop. This means that a whole bunch of users are willing to give up on Windows for their computing needs. Long overdue, since most people's computing needs are met by a web browser and a few other programs you can get for free. If this looks like happening, it's open season on the PC industry business model. Apple has already taken away the high margin market... this will be like a horde of hyenas ripping into a wounded wildebeest. I'm not sure this is actually a better outcome for HP.
I've got to recommend exactly the opposite of this, but it may depend on what time of problem you're having with productivity.

Do you have many projects and have a hard time motivating to complete them? Force yourself to limit them and finish them before starting something new. Record any new ideas in the meantime in a simple document.

Do you have nothing going on and always wish you had a project to work on? It may be a good idea for you to try a variety of different side projects and see what sticks as ignifero suggested.
I felt this way when my Kindle broke at a start of a holiday, and I ended up with 20,000 lines of code near the end.
I like both, it depends what your purpose is. Think about it think way: TRUMP & Apple & Microsoft & George Bush.

I call Microsoft for help. I call Apple for help. I call Bush for help. I call Trump for help. None of these seem out of the ordinary.

The good thing about using a fictional name is you don't have to be the only one behind the name. You can create a brand or a group around it.
>there may be a slight bias

Slight? I agree with most of what you were saying, I just felt most of those editorials were not only unnecessary, but distracting.
I'm all for expanding our toolsets, but this seems like the wrong tool for the job. Relational databases are excellent at this sort of thing.
right on. isnt that what the participation rate is about? those numbers tell a much more interesting story than the unemployment numbers and correlate strongly with education level
Actually testosterone and other hormone therapies are very effective at making older people feel like they did in their prime.
If I could use it on OS X / Linux / OpenBSD to do outlook.com maintenance, I could get rid of the Windows 7 VM.
Selection bias much? I know some earlier dot coms that went public and allowed the VCs and early employees to capture 10x the terminal value of the company.
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I can't help but feel like this had a misleading description by Cutts. It's not really a video a couple of Googlers put together about working at Google - it's a professionally produced advertisement with a couple guys saying why they like working there, cue jobs link.
Apple employee allegedly gives beatings to queue jumping customers in China
The main purpose of MetaPost is creating figures for books, but this is just an educational tool (in this form).
You can't beat confirmation bias. It's wired into human braaaaaains.
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Data Deconstructed- Is US helping the world build a better place?
As someone who occasionally has to write PowerShell, I can say with confidence that is an abomination of a language with a horrible syntax. I hope this never gets implemented on any other platform when there are so many superior alternatives.
Also worth noting: bitcask is written in erlang and leveldb in c++.
As the copyright holder you can release under modified version of licenses, so you could use GPL with an additional restriction of disallowing commercial use. I guess the open soruce licenses from companies like Microsoft work something like that (except without being directly based on the GPL).

Well, the commercial license will always be something proprietary (since I'm not sure there are existing licenses you can take verbatim) and for the open source portion you basically want to give people free reign for non-commercial use, but restrict commercial use.
Have you looked at implementing CAS? It is the one thing missing for me to adopt it as a underlying store for my AvroBase API: http://www.javarants.com/2010/06/30/havrobase-a-searchable-e...
In the UK, Andrews and Arnold (aaisp) offer IPv6 by default for their DSL customers. There aren't m/any consumer routers that support it, but a Vigor 120 ADSL PPPoA to PPPoE bridge can be used in front of a single PC or Linux router.
Interesting. I was always under impression that Jawaharlal Nehru's reforms (pretty much socialism) were the key. His policies and reforms were key in establishing India education system.
Without him and his reforms there will be no path for better quality of life for many Indians.

How much of credit should be given to Jawaharlal Nehru's reforms?

I'm not Indian, so please excuse my ignorance.
What is it about the syntax that you dislike? I am neither for or against, I just have friends that use it quite frequently and seem fine with it.
This could be great news for iOS. AFAIK, this is the first K/V DB that could be built for iOS (c++) and has a free license that is compatible with the AppStore (Tokyo Cabinet uses LGPL and the author has shown no interest to me in adding a static linking clause, Berkeley DB requires an expensive commercial license, etc).
Well, what do you want to accomplish? If this will make money and that is your goal (and it's not illegal or some such), what's the problem?

I'm not trying to be a smartass. I've spent years helping people without compensation and can't seem to figure out the money-making thing. But one thing I have found is that people are not receptive to an overly idealistic solution. They seem unable to believe anything can be that good or they have bigger objections to the downside of it than they do to other downsides that I think are more serious problems. I'm stuck and feeling like I would like to just make money at this point and to hell with all this idealism. So I ask these questions in all seriousness. Wondering what your answer is.

Peace.
Why OtherOS is not worth bringing back (Sony gained nothing from it anyway)
I am intrigued. I've been thinking about this problem today, but I can't think of an efficient relational implementation in current DBs. How would you do this? I came up with the following:

1) On get_rank() do a count(*) where score < users_score;

2) Store row_number() over() [...] order by score in a lookup table and refresh every so often. Use this for get_rank() lookups.

The problem I have is that you either have to calculate the rank on read using a linear-time count() or on write which means updating n/2 rows on average with their new position.

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Well for one thing, you shouldn't look at it as an issue of "32 million surplus men." The hurt is going to be distributed more broadly throughout the entire male population. It's not like things like serial monogamy don't exist in China. What will happen is that relationships will simply be fewer and more far between for the average man than the average woman.

Interestingly, this is actually already the case in Western countries; in the US, there are roughly 55 single men for every 45 single women[0]. This is, of course, due to the younger average marital age of women than men.

Naturally, there's a lot more slack in the system as regards non-marital relationships than marital relationships; in the latter case the gender imbalance will indeed be a fundamental difference between China and other countries. But by the time the dating market shifts conclusively towards marriage, a lot of men will have aged out of the key crime demographic (ie, males aged 15-30, who commit such a hugely disproportionate number of crimes that overall crime rates are mostly a reflection of trends within this group).

I do expect that there will be a little more crime, as well as all kinds of other unpleasant effects that we can't even predict, but it won't be in anything resembling a linear fashion, and a lot will depend on other factors.

>Porn and video games work for a very small percentage of the population that is anti-social anyway.

What do you mean "work?" I'm not saying they can substitute for a real relationship. The relevant comparison isn't porn and video games vs. a living, breathing woman, it's porn and video games vs. jail time. And even if their existence doesn't make crime any less attractive, I think they'll still have an enervating effect that will make at-risk men less of a danger to others.

0: http://www.halfsigma.com/2008/04/unmarried-mal-1.html (look at the bottom row in the table)
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Writes being lost means what, a trashed file? Or merely an incomplete one?
http://www.wolftronix.com/tail/

Video: http://www.wolftronix.com/videos/PA010005.MOV

They have a full furry suit, if you are into that.
This is a pretty big question. Do you mean productive throughout a single day, or over a period of time? At work or on hobbies? When working by yourself or with a team? Etc. The answer will be different for every scenario.
Hmm, 0xF6. Officially declared a hacker.
I'm happy to see this article discussed on Hacker News, I joined a startup in Jan, but before I was working as an Interaction Designer at the http://www.trilcentre.org . Working at TRIL made me realise the fragility of old age, I reviewed many ethnographic studies into the aging process. It made me realize that even a small event could result in drastic ageing. For example many fallers struggle to regain independence after even the smallest fall. This can lead to social isolation, which has a knock on affect to cognitive ability. All ageing research pillars are interlinked, if your interested you can read about TRIL's here http://www.trilcentre.org/tril-research/research-themes.html

I personally developed http://jive.benarent.co.uk | http://www.bett.ie , 2 years prior to the iPad launch.. and while I think the iPad is very accessible, there is a lot of opportunity in apps and other services.

There is a huge opportunity for startups, Anyone here working in this area?

*Alzheimer and Dementia are the elephants in the room. At a recent conference the Alzermers presenter noted that the cost of Alzermers is more expensive than 'cancer'.
This may sound controversial, but isn't it true that it is somehow easier to devote your life to something meaningful when you are facing death? Purely anecdotal evidence, but it's easy for me to spend entire day on reddit when I think that I have 50 years of life left to do some cool things, but when something reminding me of inevitable death (which may come in fact any moment) happens I instantly get to do something I consider 'useful'.

(I don't want to dimnish this story - I just think that while my opinion is quite unpopular, it is worth expressing here.)
I notice Hofstader wasn't there. Maybe we could have a whip round and send them Fluid Analogies?
Rest: When I'm tired I make mistakes that I later have to undo/redo.

Stop thinking about the problem: I take an hour lunch and read hacker news. When I resume coding, I am more likely to see the problem with fresh eyes. I think of that "unproductive" pause as pushing in the clutch to change gears.

Work/think at home: In this new world of cube farms it can be hard to get uninterrupted periods to think. That hour and half I work at home before I drive into work at 9:00 is some of my most productive.
What language is airbnb coded in?
Thanks!

Will
I think a better variation of this method is to break down your big projects into 1 week iterations for new features. It will feel like new projects each week, you'll be adding value to a product rather than starting fresh each week.

When you're not just hacking and instead trying to profit and run a business, you need to be constantly improving and iterating.
To be fair, many things that exist today would have been considered AI back then. Part of the problem with AI, as John Neumann observed it already is that if you can formulate precisely enough what you want, you are already on the way to solving it so it is a shifting definition to some extent.

Otherwise totally agree with your point, it's amazing how most science fiction of the past missed things like the internet.
If Apple is serious about stopping queue jumping in China, they should just nuke Shanghai.
"India produces large numbers of bad engineers" - that's a sweeping statement. Among all countries, India sends the largest number of engineering students to the US (according to NSF - http://www.indianexpress.com/news/india-sends-maximum-number...), which is not bad for a country producing "bad" engineers. I am a professor in a US university, I work with a lot of technically trained undergraduates, and I can say that students here (as anywhere) when they complete their undergraduate education, are merely ready to become an apprentice at a company. Their education continues in the company (or research lab) they join. So when you compare recent Engineering undergraduates from different countries, I am willing to bet that their quality is on average not that different.
Appears to be Ruby on Rails (looking at their job postings: http://www.airbnb.com/jobs)
A counter-example is Safari To Go - Safari Book Online's iPad app, which they withdrew due to bad review: http://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2010/11/24/ipad-app-safari...

Most people agreed that PhoneGap was the wrong framework. It's not that PhoneGap is intrinsically bad - it is not - but that it is not for every task, and more likely, it is not good for most tasks that are more than a short load-lookup-leave cycle.
Time is a non-renewable resource that most people take for granted.

"... almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

--Steve Jobs
He would only be hypocritical if he was data-mongering himself, or leaking other people's information. Instead it is a selfish attitude, since the consequences to the affected people don't matter as long as he isn't one of them.
Founders Conference: Mashup [video]
I was bed-ridden for about 3.5 months the first part of 2001. In May 2001, I was diagnosed with "atypical cystic fibrosis". After a lifetime of being treating like a hypochondriac and months of being denied treatment while doctors referred me for more testing and said things like "we can't find anything physically wrong with you, would you like to speak with a psychiatrist?", the first thing I was told after being diagnosed was "People like you don't get well. Symptom management is the name of the game." In other words, doctors were all too happy to consign me to a slow and torturous death.

Since doctors were not helping me and I had largely been on my own in dealing with my health already, I continued working on the problem myself. I gradually got healthier by throwing out all my worldly possessions in order to break the cycle of contamination (this piece is heavily objected to by other folks who are dying of cystic fibrosis) and I did enormous research into what nutritional deficiencies I had, how to effectively treat them, and so on. I made drastic dietary and lifestyle changes.

I have a diagnosis of a genetic disorder with a life expectancy of around 36 or 37. I will be 46 in one month. (I sometimes joke that 'in human terms, I'm the equivalent of an octogenarian'.) People routinely think I am in my thirties and I am healthier than I have ever been. I live without a car and me and my oldest son (who has the same diagnosis) walked 8 miles both yesterday and the day before to further the healing process. It isn't news that exercise, eating right and so on can delay the aging process and is generally good for one's health. Most people don't bother to explore the degree to which that can now be leveraged with the vast amounts of information readily available online.

Peace.

PS: There is a website, though that might die when my web-hosting expires later this month (I'm broke and don't know how to pay for it). For now, it's here: http://healthgazelle.com/
How many people at Google actually work in search? While I was at CMU, interviewing at google, etc. I probably interacted with tens of Googler's, but never a search person. My intuition is that its a very small, elite group of engineers and getting in is very hard.
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I don't really think about the "end of life" when I think about achieving something.

Either I am living a meaningful life at that moment or I don't.
Discussion of Powershell versus Unix-like approaches from StackOverflow

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/573623/powershell-vs-unix...
Peugeot EX1 Now Holds The Electric Car Lap Record At Nurburgring
Effective but totally irrelevant headline. This is what I hate about marketers.
Easily distracted people may have too much brain
As an aside, is there progress in a formal definition for the English language? Have other natural languages been formalized yet?
I scored 85, I'm ashamed :/

The test is brilliant though!
...internal memo blames lost-in-translation of "iPad 2 launch will result in having to beat customers away with a stick"
There are some very powerful commandlets (basically scripts) for control over various pieces of MicroSoft infrastructure components (Exchange, Active Directory and more). Having access to these commandlets on my favored environment would be useful. I wouldn't even need to be running a PowerShell session to run them, but that would occasionally be nice too (there is something to be said for object pipes).
I'm not sure if that's fair. If you produce a labor-intensive product of such variable utility (engineers), then you would expect the utility to drop to reach a price equilibrium. If there wasn't a demand for crappy engineers, the quality would rise - along with price.

Therefore, their education is lousy precisely because these engineers are employed.

India may just have conditions of production, whether by providence or design, that are more efficient at producing minimally satisfiable engineers than anywhere else. Of course I'm talking about a hypothetical India that produces engineer shaped widgets - so no offense intended:)
So, a bunch of symbolic logic vets are bitter that statistical techniques are producing better results than they were ever able to?
Messaging for Enterprise Applications – by Dru Sellers
In this lecture, Dru addressed the topic of bringing a message oriented architecture into your enterprise.
Technically bitcask is a combination of Erlang and C.
I'm not sure about "essential reading", but I like most anything besides Science Fiction or Fantasy (probably the opposite of most folks here)

Some of my top choices would be:

Anything by Bulgakov (Heart of a Dog and Master and Margerita are both pretty widely available in English)

Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood

Burmese Days by George Orwell

Cakes and Ale by Somerset Maugham

Color of Summer by Reinaldo Arenas

Williwaw by Gore Vidal

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
If they're in your class, India is not producing those engineers.

At any rate, we're talking about outsourcing. If they're not in India anymore, then by definition the US cannot outsource to them.
At least use a grease marker when writing on plexiglass. Dry erase markers markers just lower the production value, are hard to see, and even harder to clean off.
I mostly go by Michele online, which is my legal middle name and the name I use socially ("Michele" was taken when I tried to sign up for HN or that would be my handle here). I used to go by my first name and last name online, both of which are uncommon so I am in the same situation you are in. I stopped doing that in part because no one could ever spell or pronounce my name and I thought my more common middle name would make things easier in that regard. It really hasn't. For now, I persist in part because I currently have a job with BigCo and if you google my first name and last name, you find zilch about me in spite of how much personal info is plastered all over the web about me. So it does provide some separation between my IRL life and my online life. At some point, I imagine that separation will disappear, whether I want it to or not. I'm okay with that.
Merely an incomplete one. Leveldb never writes in place: it always appends to a log file, or merges existing files together to produce new ones. So an OS crash will cause a partially written log record (or a few partially written log records). Leveldb recovery code uses checksums to detect this and will skip the incomplete records.
Patrick Winston, director of the AI Lab, rounded up the usual suspects in this article: early attempts to make money off AI, not getting scads of defense megabucks, and 'balkanization' into well-defined subspecialties such as neural networks or genetic algorithms.

He didn't hit on the fundamental problem (to quote (allegedly) Brian Reid from his AI qualifier): "AI is bogus".

If only we could resume pouring defense dollars into the money pit of Strong AI; each strong AI researcher could be given a metric butt-ton of money for vaguely defined projects like those pushed by Winston. From the article:

"Winston said he believes researchers should instead focus on those things that make humans distinct from other primates, or even what made them distinct from Neanderthals. Once researchers think they have identified the things that make humans unique, he said, they should develop computational models of these properties, implementing them in real systems so they can discover the gaps in their models, and refine them as needed. Winston speculated that the magic ingredient that makes humans unique is our ability to create and understand stories using the faculties that support language: "Once you have stories, you have the kind of creativity that makes the species different to any other."

With clear-cut and sensible goals like this, success cannot be far away now, can it?