skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I know a 7 year old who laughed at me when I told him about 8-bit Nintendo.

I also know a 3 year old that finally sat still when given an iPad to finger paint on.

Not sure about the article. But I don't have kids. Maybe in a society where TV is so pervasive, replacing the TV is a good option.
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Does anyone else agree WebOS is the number 3 mobile OS after iOS & Android? Seriously?

Objectively RIM is by far the 3rd biggest player (by some measures it is in the top 2), and I can't see how WebOS is magically going to leapfrog them. Playbook might not be perfect, but it's a lot better than the unshipped HP TouchPad.

In my head WinPhone7 is number 4 - and they at least have a strategy to move up in the market (aka Nokia).

WebOS might be lovely (I wouldn't know.. you can't buy it in my market - which says a lot), but I can list pages in Wikipedia for lovely platforms like WebOS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure etc etc)
Angrycoder's razor: most people are assholes and will do anything to make a buck.
I like the airbnb intro - http://www.airbnb.com/info/how_it_works
My problem with you're argument is that you're focused on strategies/ideas/potential. Microsoft's strategy has always been simple, dominate every software market. There's nothing inherently wrong with that strategy, probably never will be. No one denies the future potential either. It's about execution.

Dominating market's is hard. It requires incredible leadership and execution. Execution is no small thing, you can't just assume that once you have the idea you will be able to execute. So while it's fine to believe in Microsoft's future, instead of telling me what is possible, tell me why I should believe they will be able to execute.
>Isn’t that the same?

No. You can't incentivize a country not to spy because that implies some control, some carrot. Making it "hard as hell" is treating the contest with the adversarial framework it deserves, taking for granted that the opponent will or could attack.

>Which benefits of collaboration does the US relinquish?

The honest answer is, none, some, or all of them; and it doesn't matter. Being a political action it is just as much a political statement. China openly gets away with espionage (and openly gets away with putting enough spin on its public statements to make a new neutron star.) Congress is openly saying it doesn't like that.

Not to mention that your string of questions is dependent on the if statements resolving 'correctly.' Honestly I'd be very surprised if scientific collaborations weren't used for espionage.
Including dividends, MSFT has returned about -44% since Steve Ballmer assumed the CEO position in January 2000. By comparison during the same period the NASDAQ-100 index returned -37%, IBM returned +66%, and ORCL returned +20%.
turns out i had typo configured to serve everything through rails, as well as having 10 instances running. not a happy combination.
The problem is that people already have the 12 hour clock burned into their minds. I think the use of the infinity symbol is a good attempt because it breaks away from the normal clock visualisation but still makes simple sense.
You must have missed the memo where now almost anything you do on a computer is hacking.

Got a form to submit in Django? I'm hacking. Got nodejs to run a sample app? I'm hacking. Integrate a shitty jQuery plugin? I'm hacking. RTFM - nope, hacking.
The problem is that Gates likes him for some reason. The two of them own an a very significant portion of the company and essentially control the board of directors. So Balmer's going to be in charge so long as both he and Gates wants him to.
Google Reader didn't die like Wave; that implies some level of success.
I will say something: Just from perception, the U.S does not feel attractive anymore as a place to work in. Americans are whining constantly online about how terrible their country is, on my recent visit I was shocked at how dilapidated the place looks compared to europe, the value of the dollar is falling rapidly, and there is this undercurrent of anti-immigrant sentiment that is broadcasted via the media.

In the past the U.S felt like the open and powerful place where everything can be achieved, but now it no longer feels that way. So many new countries are now nimble and growing with markets opening up - while the U.S is going exactly the other way. It's restricting and shrinking, markets are getting closed.

Worst of all, with the weak dollar, earning money in the U.S doesn't get you a lot of money to send home anymore.
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Don't USB and Firewire both have DMA as well? This sort of attack has been possible for a long time: http://replay.web.archive.org/20090402130220/http://storm.ne...
You can tell this article was written by someone who doesn't follow artificial intelligence and neural networks.

How? Because people in the field of neural networks and AI would never claim that Minsky "pioneered neural networks". To the contrary (and as Minsky's wikipedia article – i'm sure the source of this claim – obliquely notes), Minsky's pessimism about the abilities of neural network computing lead to the abandonment of artificial neural networks as a major research topic.

That alone should make one skeptical about this author's depth of knowledge about artificial intelligence.

Beyond that, this article and the quotes therein, are just flat out incorrect. There are people who are attempting to analyze behavior, model it, and build systems that mimic this behavior. They're called cognitive scientists. This approach is taken by linguists, psychologists and philosophers all.

But this stuff is incredibly difficult to analyze, let alone model correctly. It annoys me to hear the opinions of the panelists reduced to "oh gee, why isn't anyone doing more holistic research".

When i read the actual quotes by Minsky, Partee and Chomsky, i hear the three things i expected to hear, and that each academic has been saying for years.

1) Chomsky, an old school linguist, doesn't like systems that we can't introspect and verify as correctly modeling human behavior.
2) Partee, who is responsible for recognizing the power and importance of Montague Semantics and linguistic pragmatics, states that AI requires world/state modeling that is equivalent in complexity to that required for robust natural language processing (a position i agree with)
3) Minsky thinks nobody is trying hard enough, and that the constraints put on researchers from actual implementation has lead us down a blind alley.

Lastly, Sydney Brenner complains that neuroscientists can't see the forest for the trees. I guess he's not familiar with all the research in cognitive psychology, trying to model cognitive facilities like memory, language use, decision making, attention switching and more.

That we haven't "solved" AI or made thinking machines is a misleading claim that is contrary to all of the awesome stuff that humans have built in the past 10 years. Look at all of the stuff that Google has built and tell me that we don't have thinking machines that can understand (or if you'd like to be more circumspect, predict) what we want. Tell me that Watson wasn't a marvel of not just engineering but modeling intelligence.

The major editorial thrust of this article is an incorrect platitude, which isn't supported by reality or the assertions and claims made by the panelists (whom i each respect for the work they have contributed to the broader field of cognitive science), and it annoys me that this claptrap pastiche is being passed on as journalism.

We have made progress, and we will continue to make progress.
It is common enough in the Mid-Atlantic, including DC; haven't you ever wondered about the telephone ads and instructions, like for automatic redial, calling it the "pound sign"? I haven't seen it as much in the last few decades as I used to, but that is mainly because more signs and labels and so forth are printed, and more memos and stuff typed (emailed), than in the "old days"; there isn't as much need for extreme abbreviations, which is what this amounts to, as there was. For that matter, I haven't seen it being used as an abbreviation for number, as in #5, much recently either.
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I uses boost::atomic to make it usable without c++0x
http://www.chaoticmind.net/~hcb/projects/boost.atomic/

#include <boost/atomic.hpp>

class AtomicPointer {
private:
boost::atomic<void> rep_;
public:
AtomicPointer() { }
explicit AtomicPointer(void v) { }
inline void* Acquire_Load() const {
return rep_.load(boost::memory_order_acquire);
}
inline void Release_Store(void* v) {
rep_.store(v, boost::memory_order_release);
}
inline void* NoBarrier_Load() const {
return rep_.load(boost::memory_order_relaxed);
}
inline void NoBarrier_Store(void* v) {
rep_.store(v, boost::memory_order_relaxed);
}
};
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Interesting.

So, what of soemthing like WebM? Does it have the same problems with respect to transfer of ownership?
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Maybe if they removed the irrational restrictions and complications around it, they would have more talent coming in the country. Most startups can't afford to go through the H-1B process, and many candidates just don't meet the criteria (4 years of school or 12 years combined experience).
The world is addicted to exponential curves, and yet everywhere we look, we see logistic curves in a finite world. Unfortunately, it is quite profitable to con people into thinking that the latter is really the former. Our whole financial system is built on this fraud, from the VCs on down.

Microsoft ran up the logistic curve, stalled out and, sure, made some bad decisions.

Apple made some bad decisions, went way down the logistic curve, and now is climbing back up it.

That isn't to say there aren't lessons to be learned by looking at the two companies. It is to say that one of the premises of the article, that there is some exponential growth curve that all companies need to stay on, is flawed. I would expect no less from one of the chief financial ponzi rah-rah mags, though.
>They cite former H-1B holders such as Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, and Vinod Dham, an engineer behind Intel Corp.'s Pentium chip, as proof of its value.

The H-1B was created in 1990. According to Wikipedia, Dham started at NCR in Ohio in 1977, so I doubt he ever had one. Sun was founded in 1982, so Khosla couldn't have had an H-1B either.
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Many, many people have used "p2p" and anonymous means to attempt tax evasion. Nation states are pretty good at passing laws to illegalize their activities and throwing those people in jail.

Nation states will simply make anything that threatens them illegal. See Open Internet in China for instance. Fringe and criminal types will always get around it (always have). But the mainstream, the masses will remained controlled by nation state.
The reason you always expect growth is because as a company retains earnings its total assets grow. You expect that given more money you should earn more money. If you get to a point where you're earning the same amount but require more assets to do so, you are going to get a lower multiple on your earnings. The other option is to payout all your earnings as dividends but the problem there is double taxation(if you live in a country that taxes dividends) which lowers the value of those earnings to the investor.
How do you get the impression I'm unaware other people have different opinions? If you disagree with me obviously I will think you're probably wrong, that's the nature of having an opinion, but I do try to stay relatively informed and am open to differing opinions and changing my mind. What I am not open to is people claiming I am being deceptive or that I am being ignorant and vicious based on relatively uncontroversial statements.
Why did they reject it?
Looking to build a site with similar functionality and with little coding experience thought it would be helpful to know.
Your discomfiture is well placed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY

The world is mostly logistic curves, but the ponzi needs us to all believe in exponential curves.
Helpful. Thanks!
Not sure where you are in Canada but I know thats pretty damn low for big cities like Toronto, Ottawa or Montreal.
I'm on the East Coast and don't know much about Portland, but I enjoy "think different" posts on HN a lot, so this really grabbed me.
Maybe you use trust-level master passwords. E.g.

Financial institutions you type in: 'myfinancialpassword'
Other sites you type: 'myrelativelysecurepassword'
I agree on the overall subject but I'm still shocked that LastPass hasn't got anything better than "spike in the traffic" IDS, better logging etc? If you are in a business with this kind of data you have to expect to get hacked everyday and you have to be ready for it. Even your business plan should include this stuff.

Unless they have a really awkward reason not having proper idea about possible hack is not a good sign.
Hover on it with your mouse.
I'm not sure how incentives and your fabled "adversarial framework" are incompatible. I'm also not sure why you think that incentives have to be carrots. Good detection rates and harsh punishments successfully create an incentive against murder without any carrots in sight.

No matter, we're gonna make tons of money by working together with the Chinese, have fun with your protectionism, USA.
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I hope I know everything and am rich by the time I have kids, so I can quit my job and home school them.
But when it moves from copper-->optical then it can become "lightning bolt"
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I have to agree with most of the comments:

- The OS is great, but the hardware really falls behind... too small screen, poor battery: I'm wondering: I don't think you can have lots of success without both a great phone and a greato OS

- As for the free developer device offer, it seems they were a bit selective... I applied for it and didn't get any answer.

I started developing even before the device was released here in France, and have had to use the emulator since then. And that's a pain :(

Let's hope the Pre 3 will change these things (the Veer won't certainly have a bigger screen... And if I remember correctly you'll need an adaptator to connect earphones: that's definitely not a phone for me :))
This sort of data would be beter visualized using line graphs (or sparklines) to easily compare the values. Vertical alignments of data make it easier to compare other values and scan visually.
The numbers that USCIS is publishing can be seen here: http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f...

edit: Those numbers show the applications accepted, not the number received.
I own an original Pré from Sprint. The first six months, I ran it overclocked to 1 GHz when the screen was on and it worked reasonably. After the first six months, the hardware started falling apart: power button stopped working, volume buttons were always depressed, phone calls were never routed to the earpiece, etc.

If HP could put WebOS on quality hardware, it would be a killer device. Here's hoping the Pré3 can do it.
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Argh... that makes it even harder to use on iOS. :)
So when are we ever going to see an optical version of some universal interface? Maybe the components are still too expensive?
Thanks for sharing.

We were trying to avoid harsh climate - like Chicago winters or Miami summers. I'd rather deal with 'schizophrenic but cut off before the extremes' spikes than constant, months long punishment.

Are the burbs nice? :)
a.) Yes, there are some privacy and ownership/property problems that legislation could possibly solve, but…
b.) more laws makes it harder and less fun to write, distribute, and profit from making software.

However, I do think that a legal recourse for users to be able to export all of their data from a service in some format makes sense, especially when said data are entrusted to software startups that have a proclivity for being bought, sold, and swiftly unsupported or end-of-life'd at the drop of a hat.

Or, simpler, and less encumbering: how about a developer-initiated consortium of companies who "won't screw you over" when it comes time to back-up or find a new home for your data? Something like a Better (Software) Business Bureau who promises not to leave you high and dry… but now I'm just having excessively utopian thoughts.
That's some awesome memory you've got!
Earlier in the year I spent some time applying for jobs in the US and the response was almost always that they couldn't afford the time or money to get a visa.
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just abuse the word. I hate that everything is "hacking" now - so I started overusing the word. whenever I'm doing something I am hacking. (Sometimes it's not limited to computer activities.)

I hope other people will will catch on and overuse the word to the point where it's not cool anymore and everything gets back to normal. (and hackernews can be renamed back to webmasternews)
That's the marketing offer. I use lastpass for all my websites, but not for my master email, paypal and banks. I have over 120 accounts here and there for websites I test. Before I had three password one for paypal, one for email and one for everything else, then came the gawker debacle. I completly trust lastpass for my twitter account, facebook, affiliation programs, etc...
news in 140 chars ... reminds me of that movie where they water their plants with soda.
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Almost; it is http://hackage.haskell.org/package/dia-functions
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who cares about the ads bro.This site is quite informative though !!! Next time dont click on the ads :P
It could be a good starting point for someone else to come along, polish it up, and release it
http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/h1b.html

Professor Norm Matloff's H-1B Web Page

Overview:

The H-1B work visa is fundamentally about cheap labor.

Though the tech industry lobbyists portray H-1B as a remedy for labor shortages and as a means of hiring "the best and the brightest" from around the world (which I strongly support), the vast majority are ordinary people doing ordinary work. Instead of being about talent, H-1B is about cheap labor.

Employers accrue Type I wage savings by paying H-1Bs less than comparable Americans (U.S. citizens and permanent residents).
Employers accrue Type II wage savings by hiring younger, thus cheaper, H-1Bs in lieu of older, thus more expensive (age 35+) Americans.
Both types of wage savings are fully LEGAL, due to loopholes in the law and regulations. The problem is NOT one of lack of enforcement.
Use of H-1B for cheap labor extends across the industry including the large mainstream firms., facilitated by the nation's top immigration law firms. It does NOT occur primarily in the Indian " body shops," and it DOES occur in the hiring of international students from U.S. university campuses.
The underpayment of H-1Bs is well-established fact, not rumor, anecdote or ideology. It has been confirmed by two congressionally-commissioned reports, and a number of academic studies, in both statistical and qualitative analyses.

Even former software industry entrepreneur CEO Vivek Wadhwa, now a defender of foreign worker programs, has confessed,

I know from my experience as a tech CEO that H-1Bs are cheaper than domestic hires. Technically, these workers are supposed to be paid a "prevailing wage," but this mechanism is riddled with loopholes.
Wadhwa has also stated

I was one of the first [CEOs] to use H-1B visas to bring workers to the U.S.A. Why did I do that? Because it was cheaper.
It appears you are missing an apostrophe, I think I found it :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
It's really interesting: to me the service seems like a total bullshit, but I'm really curious to find out why am I wrong. I know many people here are sceptical about this website too. But could it be that what HN crowd prefers is supposed to be very different from what non-geeks prefer and all those investors actually realize that? Could it be that you don't have to impress geeks first to get some traction?
Companies say they need H1-B visas because they can't find capable workers locally. At the same time, the same companies usually force all applicants to submit resumes online to a central HR service, where the HR department is usually completely unqualified to determine on any but the grossest levels who is qualified and who is not.

I say any company that wants an H1-B visa worker at location X must have a way for applicants to turn in a resume at location X and be seen by a hiring manager at location X.

If they are not willing to do that, than they are not serious when they complain they can't find competent local workers.
We agree to disagree when it comes to mid-term, tens of years of development. I'm just expecting current trends to continue for a couple of decades more, until we solve ongoing energy crisis. I'm sure that occurs in less than 50 years; however at that point we'll probably still be rebuilding.

Long term looks good, when we're talking about over 100 years.
Some of them are which makes the rest quite conservative about their toolchains/spending. The financial crisis + some disruptive change in their production model did a lot of damage.

We adapted but the new shape of the market might be too small for us. As I said, I am trying to be a step ahead.
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As someone planning to build some iOS games as a side project, I really appreciate this info.

Some questions for you:

Have you considered offering your game for free for a limited time to get your game out there, so it can hopefully find some more coverage? If so, what made you decide to keep it a paid app?

Did you consider any other game dev tools, such as Unity?

Did you reach out at all to any mobile gaming sites or blogs to try to get coverage for your game? If so, did you have any luck?
Corrected again. a (network) bug I suppose.
Anyway, I'll contact you by mail.
I'm not convinced that this has any benefit over just using a circle with 24 hour clock
Adam Lisagor[1] has made a few great startup videos. Check out the video he did for Flipboard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2vpvEDS00o or the video he did for Square http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSzsFAJAKHI .

[1] http://adamlisagor.com/
I just want to point out that you're making a gross over-generalization by saying that you were "shocked at how dilapidated the place looks" as though it were a 250 sq. foot (~23 m^2) apartment. The continental US is 3,794,101 sq. miles (9,826,676 km^2) and some of it is bound to look "dilapidated," but not nearly the entirety.