skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not my point. I'm just talking about how MS seems to have increased their desperation a bit lately. Trying to get revenue and/or market share through brute force means instead of honestly providing the best product in the market.

You may love your Windows Phone (and honestly I've never even used one), but it's hard to deny it's not doing so well against Android and the iPhone. So why did MS let the market slip? Why did they wait until it was too late to be competitive? Why didn't they release a phone that just wipes the floor with Android/iPhone? Instead of becoming more agile and competing better, they seem to be resorting to other tactics that I find less than desirable.
I'll need to fix that. The user's is suppose to update once a session is established. I need to set that beforehand.

By the way, what browser are you using?
Fast-growing (2MM monthly uniques) YC S11 startup looking for 1st employee
We are a hotttt Y Combinator company (voted 4th most likely to succeed out of 63 companies at "prototype day" this summer) looking for a smart developer. Our product is cool and consumer-facing. Check out our graph! http://i.imgur.com/Cg45E.png

You'll be working as a key member of a very small team -- this is not the "startup within a big company" thing, or even the "25 people at an expensive VC'd out loft office" thing. This is the real deal startup situation. We have 3 co-founders who've been working on the project since the beginning. You would be our 1st hire, so we are looking for something close to a cofounder.

We use the following technologies -- maybe you've heard of them!

- Ruby on Rails
- jQuery
- Git
- Heroku
- SASS
- Facebook API
- Twitter API

Our product runs on crowd-sourcing, game dynamics, and reputation systems, so hopefully you're interested in that sort of thing.

We also want to build some kind of mobile product -- experience with iOS or Android development or with building mobile-optimized websites would be "nice to have"

We are angel-funded. You'll get a real stake in the company and a salary. We'll hook you up with whatever computing equipment you need to do your thing.

To apply, send an email to hugememe@gmail.com that includes (at least most of) the following about yourself:

- Name
- Location
- Educational background
- Most recent job
- Anything you've built online that you're proud of
- Any open source contributions you're proud of
- Do you have a blog, twitter, or github account?
If yes, send them. If you don't have a blog, please
send some kind of <1 page writing sample
We know from decades of research into human psychology and the causes of accidents that our attention spans are not infinite and that we will often see what we are expecting to see. In my first glance at the spoofed site I did not see the .it in the domain, because the entire context of the site convinced my brain that I would see the URL I was expecting, blog.jquery.com.

We can either rail against the realities of human nature and persist in blaming the user, or we can accept that asking the user to check everything always is a plan guaranteed to fail, and build better tools to help eliminate the problem.

I vote for pragmatism and better tools.
It's actually a slight feedback loop, though I agree it's probably biased toward the end of people who learn more becoming better. With the existence of FizzBuzz and similar results along with the existence of people who literally have no problem with Haskell, it's safe to say there are some genetic variables involved with programming and math and so on.
Same here, had to refresh for a session.
workout some. helps me clear my thoughts when im feeling shitty. and im not a jock, and i hate working out. I've been doing it everyday for a month now after deciding to make time for it and its make a huge difference.

with a clearer mind and more energy you will probably realize your situation doesn't suck so bad and think of ways to solve it.
You usually with PGP don't encrypt neither the sender nor the subject, just the contents, it shouldn't be hard to decide based on that information.
LinkUp.com only indexes jobs found on company websites - we go way out of our way to make sure our spiders never include jobs from job boards or staffing companies. We do this to make sure that all the jobs on our site are still open, that their aren't any duplicates, and that there aren't any scams on it.

It sounded easy to us when we started too, but being accurately able to directly link to a company's job is a far trickier business than it should be - not to mention being able to tell the job's title from its location from its description. If you'd like a sample, figure out how to parse CDW's career section - https://cdw.taleo.net/careersection/10200/jobsearch.ftl - which is actually one of the easier ones:)
Ask HN: Is Thesis 2.0 real or a deceptive sales tactic?
If you look on the web, there`s been talk about the potential release of Thesis 2.0 ( a pro theme for WordPress) for about 2 years. I find blog posts about it dated 2009. However, Thesis 2.0 still hasn`t been released (we`re all using Thesis 1.8), so I`m wondering if Chris Pearson at DIY themes just keeps talking about Thesis 2.0 as a way to stop people from buying other pro themes?

I mean, consider the situation of someone thinking about buying a pro theme. "Should I buy Theme X, or should I wait for the revolutionary Thesis 2.0?"

Chris gives people an incentive to wait for Thesis 2.0 by promising free upgrades. So the person (2 years ago) buys Thesis 1.4 thinking that Thesis 2.0 is going to come along and revolutionize the blog space, but they`re still waiting and waiting....
StatCounter has mobile browser usage (which includes all iOS devices)[1]:

Symbian: ~33% (it's big in Asia, and still has a large installed base)

iOS: ~20%

Android: ~18%

BB: ~12%

Note that this is only browser usage, which obviously doesn't correspond to total sales well. Symbian is still way ahead of anything else in that measure.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201006-20110...
Greedy algorithms run the same way every time given the same choices. Why? Because, if options are received in a deterministic order, it'll make the locally optimal choice.

With iterate and repair, people are using an internal heuristic to make a choice and refining that over time. These are not necessarily the locally optimal choice.
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chrome, a refresh worked
The problem is that exporting all files and documents isn't common user functionality. It's generally an admin task. And for users where this is common you can map everything to a local folder, in which case you just use Windows Explorer drag drop, just like any other folder. For admins, command line tools are their standard UI.

As you even say yourself, for a task you might do once ever, why would you add a button to clutter the UI? That's like Apple adding a button to the iPhone to indicate that you'd like to terminate service with your carrier. Just wouldn't make any UI sense.
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Very happy to hear that, thanks
call me naive, but other than YC & 500 startups, when i think mountain view, i think the startups turned corporations (google, linkedin, etc).

i think mountain view is much more of a family friendly local, compared with SF's younger scene that's always on the go.

i agree with @diego about meetups/networking being a huge asset for all the entrepreneurs trying to get their shit off the ground in SF.
PhD student funding is guaranteed in my department, but not funding for M.S. students. Initially I did have a RA, supplied by my advisor's start up funding (he was fairly new at the time). But when his grant applications were rejected and his start up funding ran out, I had to do a TA instead. TA-ships aren't guaranteed though, and at my school if you stay too long on a TA they take you off of it to make sure that other students have a chance at funding too. My advisor did ultimately get some grant money in, but by that point there were other students who needed it more than me.

It might have something to do with recent state budget cuts (it's a state-funded university). My department has also grown dramatically over the past few years, both in terms of faculty and students, so the graduate student funding will probably lag behind for a few years more.
Most greedy algorithms I've seen do not have a repair step.  But whether I call it "iterate-and-repair" or "greedy" doesn't change the message, does it?  Or are you saying that I shouldn't be surprised that iterate-and-repair works so well on this puzzle?
Thank you, I'll look into that.
> Those aren't small costs.

No, but they are largely fixed costs, not marginal ones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_cost
When I was a kid I had the top score in Galaga at my local arcade. I held the spot for months. Then one day I came in to find my score doubled by someone. The arcade owner told me that it was a guy who went around to each arcade and ran up the scores. Like a game playing gunslinger.

Now on the web any time I find a fun game and play it for awhile and improve, I come online to find that the high score has been run up by some aspieoverlord to unwinnable levels.

So how do game designers overcome that demotivating unwinnable high score phenomena?
It's a very person to person thing. I carry both a smartphone and a tablet with me everywhere and I find myself never using the phone unless someone actually....phones.
I'd be way more excited if they got me awesome deals and charged a flat fee. Also If they only dealt with restaurants with an "A" health code rating and good Yelp reviews.
Funny you mention how people felt MySpace was a ghetto in light of Facebook because my first impression of Google+ was that it made Facebook look like a chaotic mess.
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Only if you lower the price (within reason) and you don't get more customers...

People were buying cars before Ford, but more people bought them when they got cheaper.
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I like my anon online when I'm chatting because I'm always making an ass of myself... ask rmah! #startups
I don't generally buy business books, but I've had this one pre-ordered for forever.
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exactly, and Google+ isn't so good that it's going to sweep FB users away. It's FB for geeks, and that's why this crowd likes it, but I don't think it's going anywhere close to where Facebook has gone.
Exactly. I'm all for a free market in this space. With margins this high, everyone would get into it.
Will there be an epub format if I get the hard copy? Shiny iPad needs some decent books on it.
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It doesn't sound like the users mentioned are using a completely deterministic algorithm to determine the next solution to try, though - it sounds more like they're making random tweaks. Albeit the tweaks are guided by intuition, which makes it somewhere in between the two - neither completely deterministic nor completely unguided.
Wow, Amazon continues to amaze. I'd really love an iPhone app, though. This is kind of useless for me until they release one (I prefer iTunes to listening to music on my laptop, it's faster and has a nicer interface.)
I think this is an excellent idea. If published software could be tagged via a unique identifier (like the DOI of a paper), then it could be cited by that tag just like a paper. Well written software might even get cited more than the paper it was published in.
That's very close, if they let me search my friends slash tags all at once it would be perfect.
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when i'm working from home, i love breaking up my late morning with exercise right before lunch. it allows me to take a step back from the morning work & clear my head. also doesn't hurt for staying in shape!

as for the daily fish oil intake, i am a big fan of tuna fish in oil...if that counts for anything (who says it should be 'ramen-profitable?' tuna fish profitable is more healthy & tasty anyway!)
Great intuitive design and setup. I've been trying this out on my friend's android and I want this for my ihpone. Well done!
I think this is a beautiful way of capitlising on free technology (QR codes). It's helpful, and can work really well.

I had an idea similarly, but it seems many bars in my town don't really like innovation...

I hope you for the best!
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"Well name a philosophy book that is worth reading."

Asking what philosophy book to read is sort of like asking which math book to read.

The answer really depends on what you already know. You're probably not going to recommend that someone completely unfamiliar with math read a calculus textbook, much less an advanced math monogram.

Likewise, it's probably not a good idea to recommend that someone unfamiliar with philosophy read Heidegger. You're probably going to get some very basic recommendations.

Even then, you probably won't get much out of reading them without taking a class on the subject in which someone with vastly more experience and understanding than you can guide you and your peers to gain a greater appreciation of what you read, and to stimulate critical thought and discussion about the books you are reading. That's really the ideal setting for getting introduced to philosophy: as part of a class led by a talented teacher, and with some intelligent peers open to talking about the issues.

That said, you should not allow yourself to be misled in to thinking the toe that you dip in to the ocean of philosophy is going to be in any way representative, much less the "best" that philosophy has to offer.

Even were you to read a "great" book when you just start out, you're probably not going to understand much of it or get much out of it on your first go. Even professional philosophers go back again and again to classics, as they get more out of them each time, with the benefit of greater understanding, and being able to apply the insight and methods they've gained in the meantime to the books they've already read.

What I'm trying to say is that reading philosophy in a way that does justice to the topic is a lifetime endeavor. A one-time bite at any philosophy book just isn't going to give you even an inkling of an idea of what it's about.

Still, for an introduction to Western philosophy, you probably won't be able to do better than starting with the Socratic Dialogues. They are the source and the foundation of much of Western philosophy that's come afterwards, and you really can't properly understand most of the rest without reading this source.

I would strongly encourage you to read them as part of an Ancient Philosophy class at a university, for the reasons mentioned a few paragraphs earlier. Unfortunately, the philosophy departments of universities in the English speaking world tend to be dominated by the Analytic school of philosophy. So what you'll get from class will probably be biased in that direction. Just keep in mind that there are other ways of approaching and understanding the issues you read about than the ones you are exposed to in class.
What I'm saying is that you shouldn't draw such general conclusions from seeing a simple algorithm work in a particular case. Your problem-game turned out to be algorithmically simple. This probably makes it more appealing as a game. But most things in life will not be as simple, and this includes large coding projects.

What you call the repair step I see as running the greedy algorithm again, from a different node in the search graph.
They won't run the same way if you start from a different node in the search graph, which is probably what the players are doing.
This is very strange advice. I've never gotten a job from an acquaintance and am never likely to. There's a much bigger pool of jobs from people you don't know and a much better chance of a good match being made somewhere in that pool. The numbers are obviously in your favor despite the fact that people you've worked with know you're good. Its unlikely that you and people you know just happen to want to do the exact same thing at the exact same time with everyone else looking to recruit you.

I'd also feel really weird getting a job via acquaintance. Its like a kind of nepotism I don't want or need.
The share target in G+ leaves me wanting for a "not" operator - i.e. share with "A and B but not C". I really wish they give a special "advanced" geek interface for this - full set operator support. I tend to think "A+B-C" and every time I've got to warp my head to the way G+ or FB thinks.
Hej thanks, will check these out!
The article seems to have updated. It now reads "In reality, an MMS or email is anywhere from a thousand to a hundred thousand times more data than an SMS." Given that the previous paragraph says that it's an "email containing photo(s) and/or video(s)", that seems perfectly reasonable (it puts the range between ~140 KB and ~14 MB).
Of course, the best solution is to get the jquery.it domain name transferred to the genuine owner of jQuery, but that will take time.
Thanks for mentioning Hetzner. The EQ4 is exactly what I've been looking for.
been wondering ... how's the job market compare for bizdev types in the valley & SF?
I believe all regulations have to be published as well.
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Don't take this so lightly. I've seen a lot of brilliant engineers, especially new CS grads, get stuck in this hole. They have the intelligence and knowledge to "correctly" solve problems, and are driven to always to get them right the first time.

These grads can have a hard time "just fucking doing it", especially when it comes to getting started on very hard problems. It can take a few years of real world experience for them to get comfortable with doing something that's known to be wrong and moving from there.
That will never happen, because the universities are bigger than the journals and will push back. The universities want to own the code if there's money to be made. Stanford made a small fortune from Google, for example. If journals required code review, other journals would pop up that wouldn't require it.
Ruby: http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/
Python: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

Pick one and jump in. Branch out from there.
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Christian Oestlien, a Google employee (Ads lead for Google+), linked to it in this post: https://plus.google.com/105923173045049725307/posts/E3mVj6ns...
There are a lot of suggestions that the code and data be required to publish.

Sorry guys, but that hasn't worked so far: the economics journal _Journal of Money, Credit and Banking _, which required researchers provide the data & software which could replicate their statistical analyses, discovered that <10% of the submitted materials were adequate for repeating the paper (see "Lessons from the JMCB Archive", Volume 38, Number 4, June 2006).

Oops.
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An interesting citation http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=188228 :

> This paper describes some results of what, to the authors' knowledge, is the largest N-version programming experiment ever performed. The object of this ongoing four-year study is to attempt to determine just how consistent the results of scientific computation really are, and, from this, to estimate accuracy. The experiment is being carried out in a branch of the earth sciences known as seismic data processing, where 15 or so independently developed large commercial packages that implement mathematical algorithms from the same or similar published specifications in the same programming language (Fortran) have been developed over the last 20 years. The results of processing the same input dataset, using the same user-specified parameters, for nine of these packages is reported in this paper. Finally, feedback of obvious flaws was attempted to reduce the overall disagreement. The results are deeply disturbing. Whereas scientists like to think that their code is accurate to the precision of the arithmetic used, in this study, numerical disagreement grows at around the rate of 1% in average absolute difference per 4000 fines of implemented code, and, even worse, the nature of the disagreement is nonrandom. Furthermore, the seismic data processing industry has better than average quality standards for its software development with both identifiable quality assurance functions and substantial test datasets.
Personally I'd love to see replays of "impossible" scores. Similar to the speed run videos for games like super Mario on YouTube
Apple needs applications clients want/need to use. Facetime is a direct competitor to Skype. Twitter integration will help on their social front. This is a 3-way war.
In the past three months I've lived in Palo Alto, SF, and now Menlo Park, and have been to just about every stop on the Caltrain from SF to San Jose.

SF may be easier to get along without a car, but I don't find SV particularly difficult. Some combination of Caltrain + Zipcar + Uber + taxi + bus + bike + short walks is always available.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-docs-p...

At the time I adopted it, IIRC I read through the code enough to determine it was not malicious. I've been perhaps lax in not checking all of the updates.

I see its max version is listed as 3.6 . I'm actually still on 3.6; when I go to 5, I guess I'll see whether it still works with max version overridden.
I can't shake the huckster vibe I get from the "The Lean Startup movement" that Eric Ries so often reminds people he started.

He seems determined to profit (through this book and his conference) by rebranding some principles that have been popular in the valley for a long time.

I can't think of anyone I respect on entrepreneurship that doesn't practice it themselves. Writing books and doing conferences doesn't count in my book.

Sorry, I think I have a bit off an allergic reaction to things that feel even vaguely like Tony Robbins.
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You can easily import .mts files to iMovie for Mac OS by converting .mts video files to QuickTime movie .mov or .mp4, .mpg, .m4v, etc.
There's SaaSy, which works with vendors in most every country and unlike the others is all-inclusive. Order pages are translated into 20 languages and end users can pay in Euros, USD, CAD, Yen, AUD, Pound, etc. VAT is managed for vendors as part of the service.
Eric has done so much for the startup community..... and so much for me in helping me understand how to build a better startup. The least I can do is pre-order his book. Done.
I've been living in Orinda/Moraga for 4 years now and make the daily commute to the city. It's 25 minutes by BART, and another 15 or so combined on both ends to make the connection. Having the city and office so close, yet basically living in the boonies (with the cows and turkeys) rocks.
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I was being nice before, but it's obvious that you don't know what a greedy algorithm is.

Please don't make offensive comments like, "I guess the algorithms course is no longer required at MIT?!"
Yes, this is an old concept called "networking". Unfortunately not everyone's very good at it, and unfortunately not being good at networking doesn't mean you wouldn't be good at the job in question. But that's life... social connections are indeed an important factor in all walks of life, and not something you learn in any classroom. It's a hard lesson for some of us.
yeah, well pirating software, music, and movies isn't free speech either.