skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“At first, like almost everybody, I thought, ‘Yes, but I really am above average!’ Then I realized I was doing it again.”

What if I quantify that I am above average? Should I assume that, despite my 2400 SATs and 4.0 GPA, that I'm somehow below average?
When they started Vista they wanted to go .NET all the way and had to go back using more native code.
I think you are right. But that does not mean that this isn't in Uber's interest. Normally, it's not in any business's interest to lower prices to the point where you don't have enough capacity. That would be leaving money by the curbside that you can readily grab, and it would not even be particularly useful for your customers, because your product still needs to be allocated and customers end up spending time and effort to get their slice if they cannot simply buy it. But that reasoning assumes that everybody who might like your product already knows about it. And that simply isn't true for Uber, which is why they need all the marketing they can get; and what better marketing than this. The fact that they are rubbing up against a popular-in-SF (if batty) trade unionist ideology only makes it better, because that will mean more newspaper coverage.
It is a ridiculous analogy tho'. What do humans know about the air we breathe? Well quite a lot actually. What do humans know about the ground we walk on? Ditto.
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You can probably add up all of the big, non-RIM, high-tech jobs in the area and still not beat RIM in sheer employment numbers.

Granted, last time I was in Waterloo was 2 years ago - but all of the (admittedly very cool) things going on there are little cakes compared to the hulking behemoth that is RIM - or soon, was RIM.

It's a little like Redmond - there are startups in the Bellevue/Kirkland/Redmond area, but if you remove MSFT none of that means terribly much.
But the Meego phone is coming out before any WP7 phone.
I would say you're mixing two different things: (1) irrational beliefs, and (2) worship. Belief in homeopathy, psychic powers, alien abductions are examples for (1), but lack (2).

There is good evidence that we're predisposed for (1): Our brains seem to have "interpreters", located mostly in the left brain hemisphere, that are trying to make "sense" from the input (Gazzaniga, M.S.: The Ethical Brain, 2005).

There are two situations when this gets more obvious:

1. When the brain input (or the brain connections) is partially broken. For instance, if one shows split-brain patients the word "Walk" so that only right brain hemisphere notes it, they stand up and walk. When asked why they did what they just did, they often come up with an ad hoc explanation: "I just wanted go get a coke." This is the interpreter working, trying to make sense from the fact that the person just stood up although the interpreter had no signal from other parts of the brain about possible reasons.

2. When the brain input is "unexpected". In psychology, so-called "non-deterministic" (or non-contingent) experiments make the participant believe she can influence the results or reactions of a setting, although, in fact, she can not. In such situations, humans also come up with explanations even if there's nothing to explain. In other words, they are trying to make sense out of non-sense input. These experiments go back to B.F. Skinner who was able to induce superstitious behavior in pigeons. [1]

What's interesting is how resistant some of these beliefs are. Generally speaking, the more effort is put into an explanation, the more resistant to change.

Worship, on the other hand, seems to be a more complex and special kind of belief. It's not just trust without doubt or unreasonable admiration, but also magical thinking: the idea to be able to influence reality by appealing to a powerful being.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._F._Skinner#Superstition_in_t...
rms, still winning.
There's also this http://i.imgur.com/PMD5U.png which I hadn't noticed before. I just clicked through DDG's links and it tied guns and Obama for me, pretty cool.
"Ayn Rand's ideas come from a propaganda campaign launched eight years after she published the Fountainhead?"

Yes, I have to wonder how much of "Rational Choice Theory/Philosophy" originated at RAND. And I wonder even more, how much (that is little) of modern individualism originated with Rational Choice Theory - contrary to the main point of the article.
Gitorious is both a free site and an open sourced project web app. Strange this hasn't been mentioned before in this thread.
Great job - I didn't like the ajax spinner in the central overlay - a facebook like ajax indicator on the element that was clicked would be cool.
Oh dear, that's a n00b error.

Thanks for pointing it out to me.
Regulating the exchange has nothing to do with regulating the currency. I don't see how exchange regulation contradicts the bitcoin philosophy.

Having said that, regulatory rules should not have retroactive effect.
Glad to be in the current YC class with Sam.

<plug>if you're interested in the intersection of econ and e-commerce we're hiring. http://freshplum.com/jobs </plug>
This seems a bad idea to me. I wonder why they don't have tighter controls on which usernames can be chosen. I notice that you can not use 'www' or 'blog' for obvious reasons, but usernames like ftp and mail don't seem to have been screened. I suspect that in time they will have to have some form on control on this.
Weren't they looking to give QT to someone else to continue the support for it?
To each their own, but I am far more interested in what happened, what they are doing about it, whether it can happen again, and why I heard aboutnit on HN instead of directly from Dropbox.

I personally am not interested in an apology or a gaveling tone. These people are not my personal friends, I don't have an emotional investment in whether they pretend to care about my feelings. I have an objective intrest in how they choose to act and the information they give me so that I can make my own informed choices.
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I, too, know exactly where you're coming from with these feelings. I've recently been making incredible progress with changing my thinking to be more productive and to simply becoming more happy and satisfied while moving forward.

1. Read Hardcore Zen: http://www.amazon.com/Hardcore-Zen-Monster-Movies-Reality/dp...

2. Read my last blog post: http://siberianfruit.com/post/6042838362/the-myth-about-what...

3. Work on separating facts from your interpretation. All of us do this all the time. Something happens (an event of one sort or another). We make up a story about that event. We then proceed to live our lives as if our story WERE the event or the fact. The path to liberation lies through understanding that the stories was not what actually happened. We make them up! The reality is always neutral, not good or bad. Just is. And because of that we have the freedom to choose what our reality is. Of course, I'm just scratching the surface, but if you message me privately, I can point you to more resources on how you can work on this.

:)
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Novell challenges Lodsys patents as Lodsys victim Quickoffice gets sued again
I'm not sure if I buy this whole "swiping" is the most important feature. Did you guys watch the video with the SVP of design talking? He talks about how swiping eliminates the need for a home key (jab at Apple), and how later you can swip to show all your active apps "making for the best multitasking experience" (another jab at Apple)... I wasn't convinced.
Asked the same. Quick response to be fair:

"I am unable to provide log data at this time.

We're working around the clock to gather additional data. We will
notify affected users if we detect any unusual logins or activity in
their account. We are reviewing our logs that record password
authentication events in accounts.

We have not been able to detect any relevant account activity for your
account during the time period in question, so we believe that your
account was unaffected by the bug."
and enjoy being randomly clawed in the chest when sleeping
Biggest difference is that Sencha basically creates the DOM for you whereas jQuery still needs existing <ul>/<li>s to enhance.

Also Sencha Touch is quite fatter than jQuery mobile.
background check
Instantaneous control of the fund may be possible if the database on the residents of a small area as a county or state. In this scenario, can provide effective control of pre-employment checks, including Social Security numbers and credit reports for employment.
Freshplum (YC S11) hiring first employee: Engineer with an economics background
Yeah, I don't see that. I see more and more accessible APIs[1] and pages having more and more an incentive to being semantic due to search engines now reading that data (hRecipe, for example).

Service architecture have also been moving from stuff like SOAP to REST, which is definitively more open and accessible.

And even Ajax-ladden webpages are still just a Firebug Network tab away since they all run over HTTP, and then you have a nicely structured data format instead of having to deal with messy HTML pages.

[1] http://www.programmableweb.com/apis
Interesting. From a technical point of view, how does this work? Do you run texts through an automated system and then have real people proof read it afterwards?
Not sure if that is correct. At least the BitCoin client does not show sender addresses, only "you have received x BTC with this address". That is why you ideally give each sender their own address to send to, so that you can track who paid you.

Not sure how the internal cryptography works, but I think if the information was available, the client would show it.
c'mon dude

edit: i missed that you are the same company. plug away
The Ideological Turing Test
How does this

Today, governments and businesses across the globe simply assume that social reality is merely a set of individuals freely making rational choices.

connect to this

Wars have been and are still being fought to bring such freedom to Koreans, Vietnamese, Iraqis, Grenadans, and now Libyans, with more nations surely to come.

?
The video featuring Nokia's SVP of design really fascinates me. He introduces the idea of using touch swipes as something really revolutionary, that "changes our perception of how we use technology". I'm sure it really would have been revolutionary, four years ago. Before Windows Phone 7, before Android, before WebOS and before iPhone.

Of course, it's just a marketing video. But the idea of using touch swipes to navigate around your smartphone is not even a little bit revolutionary in 2011. It's not new, fresh, remarkable or special in any way. It kind of makes Nokia look like they were born yesterday; enamored and fascinated with what they think is "new" technology.

I'm left wondering if what we're seeing in this marketing video is not what Nokia wants us to think about their new product, but how much of a dinosaur Nokia really is.
I don't get it, and sorry for the BTC story haters, but it is interesting to me. Not only because of BitCoin, but because of general considerations about payment startups.

When is something an alternative currency? Would it be illegal for me to donate apples to the EFF, which they could then sell on the farmers market to pay for their servers? Or would that make apples an alternative currency and hence illegal?

Just saying - BitCoin calls itself a currency, but personally I consider them to simply be a virtual good. I sold some bitcoin I mined, and I expect that is how I should explain my income to the tax inspector. So I will probably even have to pay VAT.

So when is a currency a currency? What is the difference between an apple and a pound note? (Assume the apple never decays).
Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning? You seem to be awfully hostile for little reason, hence downvotes.

Repeating "I won't be using your service" is hardly constructive for anyone. Also I don't see why you wouldn't use them if they proved to be better than the alternatives at what they are actually doing.
"The exception to this rule is a "bona fide purchaser for value without notice". If someone has no reason to believe that property is stolen and buys it, then it's their property now. So sorry."

This rule only applies in some law systems. Where I live you need both to perform all the reasonable checks and 3 years time to become the owner of the stolen property.

If the original owner shows up before 3 years have passed then you have to get back whatever you have bought. This happens even if you have performed all of the reasonable legitimacy checks.

One exception is land registration - entries in the public land register (even those obtained illegally) protect the purchasers from claims by the original owners (this does not apply to bad faith buyers.)
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre is one such book (aimed mainly at the damage caused by quack medical beliefs).
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OSX. Specifically Snow Leopard on a Macbook. I tried it a month or two ago.

I also tried it a couple of years back under Linux and had stability problems when copying lots of small files into it automatically. The mount would just break.
http://blockexplorer.com/ will show you. The bitcoin client probably doesn't show it because it would be very long winded and complicated.
This is worth a try. Make sure you reach break even rapidly so you don't get stuck in burning money. If you already have a server available, then this is pure profit.

This is also a good opportunity to practice startup launching. Identify your target clients, where they are, what they are looking for, etc. Create a landing page with MVP offer description and subscription for availability notification. Check patio11's advices on optimizing the landing page. Then spread the word. The subscription feedback should give you a traction feedback. This should be enough to deduce the fee to reach break even as you launch. Assume only a percentage of subscribers will make the jump. If you can break even with only 10% subscribers adopting it, then things are sound.
EDIT: Though I value transparency over most anything else, I'm removing the majority of this at Nick's (freshplum founder) request. To make a long story short: there was a configuration error on the server which allowed for discovery of features freshplum hadn't meant to launch yet. Nothing to be ashamed of, especially for a startup.

But I heard there was a company working to fix this sort of thing. ;)
True, but I guess they don't have a spare 500000 BTC (or eight million $), so for them criticism and "damage to faith" is preferable to going out of business.
Rupert Murdoch strikes again: No more free Post for iPad users
This annoys me more than anything - not just google, but for a large and growing number of sites. They completely ignore your browser settings and select language based on IP address. I installed the google international search plugin from mycroft which has solved my problem with google - but still suffer the myriad of other sites that ignore my browser's config.
The only problem I could see is if what the freelancer was doing could be described as "reselling" which the original designer probably forbids. But pricing is just something that the buyer and seller work out.

Next time, put your question in the headline.
Nice obfuscation of your email address.
Or SCrypt: http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html

The question here is, considering what they are doing(i.e. handling monetary transactions), shouldn't they have implemented a better hashing strategy from the beginning? After this, i'd say they are not the best source for security advices...
"This changes everything. Again."

Come on, Steve Jobs spouts this kind of hyperbole at every single product launch.
If you're in the current YC class, you should know there are more effective options for you to do your hiring plugs than polluting other threads.
> On dolphin browser (most common android one)
More common than the default android browser? Would be curious to see any figures on this.
Put her on the sofa.

There is nothing romantic about sleeping.
You can eat it. And make delicious apple pie.
How does iOS handle scheme collisions?

I couldn't find any information on this after a quick search.
He has some good points and I like the description of safe-ish implementation of webgl in chrome. But I think the main point he misses with the Silverlight/Flash comparison is manageability from a security point of view. Running a plugin is different from using a feature in the browser - people often disable the plugins and are conscious about plugins being an attack surface so the admins often deploy policies disabling use of plugins.
The author puts forward the (unsubstantiated) assertion that Microsoft paid context to search for WebGL security issues. Not that this is a bad thing (more eyes = better security long term) but it would have been good of Context to provide this information in their recent writeups.
The email address script was cute :)
That's actually really nice.

I may even part with my faithful Nokia 6303 for one of these.
I agree with you in principle. It seems the majority of attempts at making an ipad theme take from the experience I have on my ipad rather than add to it. However, there are certain things that a site needs to do (differently) to function on an iOS device or indeed any touch-screen device. Primary among these is to remove any notion of or dependency on a hover-state from the UI since this is meaningless on a touch device. Many sites are unusable because of this. There are other minor niggles also such as styling 'pressed' button elements (which never return to their unpressed state)

If iOS 'themes' for sites focused on simple usability issues like that instead of trying to do the whole custom iOS 'experience' they would be far more usable.
Intel presents "The Escape"
I think that using swipe as the main (almost exclusive) way to navigate around the phone's functions is indeed, well, not revolutionary, but (at least to some extent) innovative and yes, also "new, fresh, remarkable". Sure, UI borrows some ideas from WinMo7, maybe from webOS too, but it's still much fresher than, say, Android.
Hey Michael - Thanks for your feedback. I'm not sure it's out of line to plug that we're hiring...especially in a post about my departure to join Freshplum.

You are right - there are more effective options. However we're at the stage where we'll take whatever chance we'll get to spread the word. As a small startup with limited resources you have to stay hungry.
Congratulations Robert. I know you guys are working hard and producing great product and great buzz. I'm sure this will be put to good use!
Kind of underwhelming in my book. Where is SQL support (promised over a year ago in Google I/O 2010) and what about Java-Python feature parity?
This is what happens when the marketing team get hold of the concepts before the engineers have worked out if it's possible or not.
Ask HN: Python/PHP templating for designers
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You don't know Nokia's SOP very much, do you ? :)

Their production processes are all about cranking out slightly-different versions of the same hardware/software combinations, as fast as possible, and market them as "new". Post-release upgrades are basically non-existent, even when bugs and problems are huge -- this was made very clear by the N97, but careful observers knew it from well before then. This phone won't have variations, the platform is commercially dead, so they'll just push it out of the door and forget about it.

Add to this that the Maemo/Meego line has historically been seen as "experimental" (i.e. by the time a device shipped, development had long moved on and backward-compatibility had been broken), even more so now that WP7 is the name of the game for Nokia, and you can see how little they'll care for this phone once they have your cash.
Are you saying it's very hard to implement a checkbox to disable WebGL? A lot of browsers protect you from opening or resizing windows via Javascript. How could disabling WebGL be more complicated? My browser is even warning me when a Javascript is running slow.
Security screw-up at Dropbox - Check your files now
So you'd basically want Nokia to make UI harder to use just because of those rare cases when someone borrows his phone to the person he/she doesn't trust?
And please, to all of the digital music news sources out there, don’t you have anything better to write about than the upcoming, then delayed, then upcoming, then delayed arrival of a service that, by the time it gets here will have so many restrictions on it that most Americans are going to laugh at it’s failure to differentiate itself from products that have been here for years?

There's irony, and then there's this...
This is why people who are experts in field A should not get too carried away pontificating in field B. Specifically, the opinion of a professor of Germanic languages is no more nor less valid than any layperson, in the field of economics.
Bipolar kids: Victims of the 'madness industry'?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2670772

Dead, but not forgotten. (At least for logged on users who set their showdead option to "yes".)
Definitely not. It's part of their main strategy. I think they moved some legacy business Qt licensees or related stuff to some other company.
Nokia has had problems with NORTH-AMERICAN carriers. Everywhere else, they get along with carriers much better than, say, Apple, and this was one of the reasons for their demise.
One of Jobs' great moves was to explicitly stick two fingers up at carriers and sell something CUSTOMERS wanted; Nokia was so busy making telcos happy, they started thinking customers are just a stupid herd who can be made to buy any sort of crap.
Swipes are not revolutionary, but using them as the main way to navigate through the UI is innovative, making the N9 not need any buttons for navigation.
Since a few people have commented on finding out via HN rather than Dropbox directly (as did I), I thought I'd post that I received an email from them just then.

In my case though it included "we noticed some potentially suspicious activity during the period", which for me was linking the desktop app. I don't know if everyone will be receiving a note, or just those who fit the potentially-suspicious profile. A quicker notification would have been nice, but I appreciate that they're also obviously looking for any aberrant behaviour.
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Yeah but the product teams have long moved on by now.