skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. Not going away. Just like Skype didn't kill normal calls and replacing SMS has been attempted years and years ago. Even when MSN was introduced, carriers started charging a subscription for it.
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> Do you think large business are going to sacrifice control of their data to a "cloud" rather than their own datacenters and be held hostage to a recurring fee?

Yes. They already pay the recurring fee to their IT department.

Big companies use tons of outside services already. There is no substantive difference between that and moving more of their software and data to a standardized third-party datacenter (which is what the cloud is).
That's your persuasive counterargument? "That theory sucks"?

Thank you, you've put it more succinctly than I did. As for "plenty of debated evidence" it just means no evidence. Evidence should be evident, I'd say.

when you're talking about a currency that will deflate by orders of magnitude

How about you (or TAOTFA) have a look at a) Bitcoin Monitor b) The "Buying" section on bitcoin forums c) this:

*You may be right, but I have some anecdotal evidence to the contrary. Since the $10+ spike in bitcoin prices we've sold considerably more shirts in our store.

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13087.msg181094#msg...
Definitely agree that Mac's and desktops are not going away anytime soon. For those that need to create and maintain content, the power of the laptop/desktop is still needed. However, the ease of use of tablets and smartphones, combined with a service such as iCloud, are great for consumers that don't need the power or cost of a laptop/desktop.
So is this kind of like Paypal but with a carried balance?
I can't believe the Government is actually trying to defend HBGary after all that has been revealed about them. Are they doing it because they hired them to do all that? I suppose it wouldn't be much different than how they reacted in the Wikileaks case then. They'd do anything to protect themselves regardless of how ethical or unethical it is.

EDIT: I also wonder if the way our democracy currently works has become obsolete. We vote for some people every 4 years and then they can basically do whatever they want, with the only repercussion being that their actions might be revealed to the press, and in some cases some scandals will be created, though rarely. If they're unlucky the people will vote for the other party on the next election. But does that truly matter if basically the parties are pretty much one and the same?

I think we'll eventually need a "Liquid Democracy" (perhaps sooner than expected). A democracy where decisions can be influenced by the people a lot more often than they are now, and the people can have a much more immediate impact on a politician's career or a Government if they screw up.
I'd guess by '10% of total energy' they mean '10% of the total energy output in that period of time is released just in the area of the _flare_'
I feel the exact same way. For a long time now, I've set up facebook friends in groups, and I use twitter but only with best friends, never coworkers, roommates, former friends, etc... Twitter is my outlet.

I was working on a site like twitter but with much more anonymous features and hierarchal posting interactions, and security features, largely motivated by both the iranian election and arab spring, but I got sidetracked and bored of the project pretty quickly, ultimately realizing that there's not really an elegant all-encompassing solution to the situation.
I don't see it as a "USA is bad" post. Quite the opposite. It's a validation of what this country was founded upon.

American exceptionalism isn't that people here are incorruptible. It's that we decided wherever possible to avoid creating positions of power and influence. Precisely because it's assumed that those positions will be abused. Making sure that there are explicit limits when those positions are necessary.

The fact that we've seen this behavior "even here" should make people realize how right the founding fathers were about the nature of power and governance. Even the idea of having a national standing army was considered risky back in the day.
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This time, we have some examples (finding object edges in a bitmap). Sounds like it does for a larger variety of data sets what spreadsheets did for tabular data.
MobileMe accounts are being extended to a year from now for free, before the service is shut off.

If the phone no longer meets her needs at that time, she can sell it to help fund a new one (or perhaps you will have yet another leftover from another upgrade of yours).
Even an old iPhone can still be used as an iPod, to play games on, and for some WiFi net activities. Old Apple phones have better resale value than any others I've seen.

It sounds like you're complaining about problems that are more hypothetical than real. If you really think that many users are being placed in a bad position, think of it as an opportunity to rescue them with some kind of great app / service that you create. Also, Steve said something yesterday about some open iCloud APIs.
You have exactly three passwords, don't you?
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Fitness is a ridiculously profitable niche. They don't need that many users to reach profitability. The margins for stuff like P90X, supplements, and powders is enormous. People who are into fitness spend $1000s per year on it, and they should be able to tap nice piece of this market.
Thanks, that is the idea, to provide more support. The Silicon Valley Experience comes from a similar experience in NY. About 2 months ago 4 latin american entrepreneurs and I did a trip to NY(general assembly) to work from there for 3 weeks and we had a great time. Everyone loved the trip so much, and it was so valuable, that I decided to create an ongoing program, but this time to Silicon Valley.
ohhh, I just looked up the font, that is a challenge...

Don't call it a design issue, call it a technical or usability issue, show "technically" this font would not be good, see how it relates to menus, accents, etc. Illustrate the problems with menus, etc. and how you would have to have custom code for all this, in comparison to a non italic font.

A mock up helps, generate a comparison with standard fonts at real-world resolutions.

Thirdly, you should try to share their enthusiasm, grab some of their other materials and see what their standard designs have to offer that you could implement, then approach them and say "you know if I implemented this alternate font, color scheme, theme, or logo we could create an effect that better ties this into your business."
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Foxconn has had some problems, but didn't rank that poorly. It seems to be more a case of what life is like in China.

"In a survey published in 2010 by Oxfam Hong Kong, Foxconn ranked sixth for corporate social responsibility out of the 42 companies that then made up the Hang Seng index."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13624798
This is getting old. Why is 37signals so bitter?
Yeah, I really wish someone would point out to the content providers that they provided DRM-free analog streams for decades (via HBO, Cinemax, etc.) and they didn't suffer because people were taping those for later.

So long as Netflix is putting limits on its accounts -- one stream at a time, maybe X hours of streaming per day -- what's the problem again?

I'm just hoping that this article is accurate and Netflix is rolling out a true HTML5 platform.
Timeago: a jQuery plugin
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They are competing to death.

Apple wants you to use very expensive gear you own yourself because it is more powerful and beautiful than any other gear. They make hardware.

Google wants you to use very cheap gear, make it a commodity even making it free if possible, so you expend money more on the web on services they own, or they sell your information without your even realizing about it. e.g Instead of having a powerful computer to do video, you connect to the powerful servers they have and you edit it on the web using a browser. Google is a service company.

Google has been winning from some time as people do not care if you sell their info to marketers as long as they do not see it(out of sight, out of mind) and is free like facebook.

So Apple is entering the "free" arena here. I expect them to put a price for premium services once people start liking it. Some people like me actually prefer to pay and not having someone spying at what I do.
What about jQuery?

$('<div>', {
class: 'content',
id: pageId
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I find that exceedingly hard to believe. I literally get better upload over dialup...
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Is Google's software infrastructure obsolete?
Of course radiation isn't magical - however the lack of political will is real. Among nations generating high level nuclear waste, there is an almost complete lack of progress toward long term storage - the politics around Yucca Mountain are typical, not the exception. As for the potential use of high-level nuclear waste for purposes other than the benevolent generation of energy, it is hardly necessary to point to the current level of security which nuclear nations strive to maintain around facilities storing such material.

Your entire argument rests upon the premise that the people of the future (aka "our descendents") will discover and implement some technofix - my fear is that they will also have to discover and implement a different political system to do so. I will admit that, perhaps, Heinlein's vision of a technocratic government upon whose creation your argument depends is logically possible, no matter how unlikely it appears given the current state of the world.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_radioactive_waste_ma...]
So where does Cash become involved?
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Personally, I'd much rather choose google's cloud for this reason.
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While we do have carried balances, which is stored by our other investors (non-interest baring), The Veridian Group, we do differ from PayPal on several fronts (disclaimer: PR messaging, sorry).

1.) Low-cost, flat fee of 25 cents
2.) Social integration (with Facebook and Twitter) for p2p transfers
3.) Location-based payments (see Dwolla Spots)
4.) FiSync, our financial services product(see TechCrunch coverage here: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/25/dwollas-fisync-lets-you-ins...
5.) And now Grid (which theoretically could allow us to be a loading mechanism for PayPal)
licensed for what?
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I expected them to deny all ties with HBGary, and publicly shame them.

Would've made things a lot easier...
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I am surprised that gmail is such a small player.
Confused about the cost. At the end of the article it says -- "Nothing. It’s free. For everyone.". At the bottom of the page it says -- "Dwolla is just 25 cents per transaction.".
kinda - without massive percentage based fees + mobile and social payments
Hmm, sorry. Could you e-mail us with some more specifics? Give me or a new voice another chance to answer?
From the guidelines: "Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

So far, the only device (that I'm aware of) from Apple that had a wait between the product launch and the sdk launch was the original iphone. Everything else, as far as I know, had an sdk launched way before the product was launched.

As for your downvotes: I'm sorry, but as has been stated previously, we value technical accuracy.
using the Grid feature as a developer and end user is free. However there is a 25c flat transaction fee that is to be paid for by either party in the transaction
iMessage automatically uses SMS for all devices not registered in iCloud. What it will do is eliminate all messaging charges between newer iPhones. This is a significant percentage. Competition will take care of the rest.
while i use icab 99% of the time, i've hit a few limits. first off, not being able to set it as a default browser is frustrating. secondly, i've found a few rendering differences between it and safari: onswipe (the tablet theme powering wordpress.com blogs) and google font api being the two biggest ones i've ran into recently.
what is confusing?
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You're agreeing with me and proving my point:"So far, the only device (that I'm aware of) from Apple that had a wait between the product launch and the sdk launch was the original iphone. Everything else, as far as I know, had an sdk launched way before the product was launched."

That's exactly my point, so thanks for agreeing with me.

I don't think there was anything wrong or inaccurate with my comment--anyone guessing why Apple does or doesn't do something is going to have fairly equal odds.

Also for your smugness, not needed, not helpful, not necessary.

And, Michael Brindle-- you're not even logically consistent: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2622617

I guess I shouldn't feel bad though, you're not exactly brilliant yourself:
http://www.okcupid.com:900/profile/younata
http://twitter.com/#!/younata
http://younata.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/younata
https://github.com/younata
http://www.last.fm/user/younata
http://forums.humansvszombies.org/index.php?action=profile;u...
http://blog.michaelbrindle.com/
http://www.gaiaonline.com/profiles/younata/501513/
http://morde.deviantart.com/art/Younata-44411069
Yes, SMS is not going anywhere as a result of this. Google voice has been around, and it already enables SMS less SMSs but doesn't suffer the weakness iMessage does: google voice is inter-operable with other carriers.

The reasons google voice didn't replace SMS completely is:

-it uses data, and sometimes your signal is too weak to use data

-text plans are usually bundled with data plans so they are effectively free anyways (for many people)

-an SMS sent without signal will send when it does get signal, but google voice does not (although this is not a technical hurdle)
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Microsoft informs husband he infected wife's computer with virus
A telephone call I recorded from a scammer pretending to work for Microsoft, who's trying to trick people into install spyware. I pretend to have installed the virus on my wife's computer, and panic.
Or multiple incognito windows...
PU-239 has a half life of 24k years. Or to put it in perspective, if the Neanderthals had been using it, we would be running the risk of stumbling over cooling pools where significant quantities of nasty isotopes were still decaying - assuming anyone could build a cooling pool with a 24,000 year service life.

The half lives of U235 and U233 are significantly longer (approx. an order of magnitude).
Hey, I went ahead and updated that per a conversation below, sorry for the confusion. Yes, we do keep our 25 cents and is still far cheaper than the 2-6% interchange and 30 cent processing fees associated with the other networks. It's also a safer network for developers, as they're not responsible for handling and storing credentials (#sony).

To clarify, I kept the update (the thing I think you're quoting)at the bottom, but changed some of the verbiage in the post to better reflect this.
"I spoke a few years back to a fax manufacturer who said the same thing about email"...

Yeah, the funny thing is, SMS came along after email, and is both worse and more expensive.
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Power is outside of the realm of time. P = E/t, so that's why I assumed power. For example, say the sun produces 384 yottawatts, that would be 384 yottajoules per second. Say the flare goes on for 6000 seconds and uses an average of 38 yottawatts, or 228,000 yottajoules over that time period (fun fact, yotta is where SI stops. Strange.)
The article doesn't say this flare is releasing 10 percent of the Sun's total energy. Instead it says:

"A good flare can release up to 10% of the Sun’s total energy, the equivalent of billions of nuclear bombs exploding. What’s funny to me is that this wasn’t all that big a flare; it was rated as a class M2.5, far lower in energy than the vast explosions from the Sun back in February."
Appreciate the thoughts.

The 16k is total registered users at this point, though it's worth noting that we're invite only.
There are plenty of things to criticize John Gruber for, but this is hardly one of them.
N900 has IMs and SMSes integrated into one UI, one application. Several protocols are supported, from Skype through Nokia's own Ovi to polish local Gadu Gadu (that via installable plugin). Same with contacts: both GSM and IM contacts are part of normal contact card. Pretty neat feature, but once you see it, it seems pretty much in line with other features. The application's called `Conversations'. Coolest thing ever, if friend's IM profile provides an avatar, it's added to contacts automagically.

Why is Apple hailed for introducing that feature now, when N900 had it in November 2009? Or is it that iPhone gets it better, integrates tighter?

To be honest, my reaction mid-article was literally ``What The Eff? I've been using just that for over a year now on N900; why is it described like a novum?''
Lua has this, with metatables that can set methods to handle undefined stuff. It is actually very useful and you can do a lot with it.
The same solution to the Flash on 64 bit browser issues which applies to Linux applies to Windows as well - running a 32 bit browser is hardly a big deal.

The reasons for a lack of 64 bit OSX support are left as an exercise for the reader.
Having observed "white flight" in the US, I agree; it's just that there's other side effects that are desirable for the ruling party.
The FSF's cause is by its very nature already marginalized in the wider world. Members of the software developing communities and computing hobbyist communities, probably find the iGroan stuff particularly cringe inducing, but there may be a useful tradeoff there in that at least they are memorable for politicians, random passersby, etc. They may not be memorable in a positive way (and I would say they probably are not...), but given how incredibly little understanding there is of their issues in general, gaining any awareness of the issues at hand is kind of a win for them even if they're perceived as lunatics.
Let's see if I follow this:

* iMessage is going to kill SMS
* iMessage is very similar to BBM
* BBM has not killed SMS

How, again, is iMessage going to kill SMS?
It takes on the order of three days to reach Earth.
It's amazing what we don't know about things sitting just a few light seconds away at most, too, such as the depths of the oceans or the spiders in my backyard.

I think they're working on the 'bases on other planetary bodies' backup plan, but it will be a few years.
It's important to design, but also important to explain and defend your designs.

The sort of ideas expressed in this article help set the stage for subtle design decisions.
What % of users are engaged on a daily basis? Can I get an invite code? email: vzhou218 at gmail dott com
Chick Geeks rule, so why are Managers afraid to hire them?
Request: could submitters of long videos add a few words in a comment to say what it's about and for whom it will be worth watching?

From listening to the audio while doing other things:

This talk was largely about shotgun assembly of genetic sequence graphs using Bloom filters. There is some detail on Bloom filters, with Python code, and how to piece together overlaps of strings using them. There is high level discussion of how it would be nice to chunk up biological problems to make them map-reducable, but (understandably) not much detail.

The talk's pretty slow for anyone that has seen a few uses of Bloom filters, but it's a clear and nicely motivated talk for anyone that hasn't seen that flavor of data structure.
From the outside looking in, it seems to me like the thug mentality was deeply implanted in Romania by Ceaușescu et al. By comparison, to my mind Dubcek's lasting influence in Czechoslovakia is evident in the treatment of Havel and the dissidents in the following decades: no, they absolutely weren't treated well, but their suppression under a Ceaușescu-like regime would have been far, far worse.

The remnants of this thuggish apparatus in Romania has just turned its energy towards the best target: money.
Peak Windows? Huh? Noy even close.

The sales rate has reduced due to many reasons unrelated to Apple, saturation is high, repalcement rate is low because they are fast enough for many years etc. etc.

Measuring installed base makes more sense than pure sales. So the PC business going at -1% yoy is not really a good metric. MS is still making money hand over fist, look at their financials.
Rips of DVDs and blu-rays are the most common (and high-quality) way for anything that has been put on a disc. Note that this may still be before commercial release, as screeners are made available for critics et. al.

For movies that are newly in the theater, the movie is captured with a video camera. This varies in quality from some guy pointing a cam-corder at the screen with a microphone (worst quality) goes up when they hook the audio directly in using the system for the hard-of hearing (often called a telesync, though it's a bit of a misnomer) and is even better when done from a tripod in the projection room.

Something that is still done, but is more rare, is to take the film and run it through a piece of dedicated equipment for converting from film to video, caled a telecine.
My wife loves your app. She's been using it for a while now. Good luck with your endeavor.
I'll just add another comment by "Andi", after the previous where he saw technical progress as a "religion"... This is also hardly coherent, but obviously anti-research and Luddite.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2601354

And here is the first: "This is the classical view of people who see technical progress as a kind of god given fact or as the natural direction humanity must take."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2599193

So he obviously meant exactly what he wrote. Not about nuclear technical progress.

The other comments shows that "Andi" really has those opinions was "irrelevant", yes? :-)

For the rest: Copying links here made me tired of repeating arguments. Bye.
Darn iPad! That was meant to be </meta-irony>

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