skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He only quit the 'cat picture' project he is still on the GOOG's payroll.

It's an inspiring notion if you're into that sort of thing, a bit unfair to his would be colleagues though.
He could still have a fake Facebook account. Their method of trading contact info is not at fault.

IF they can catch this guy based on the information AirBnB collected when he signed up, then they're fine. If not they need to have a more strict membership sign up process so that if and when this does happen, the guilty can be made accountable.
Here's a graph I found explaining the "link wheel" strategy: http://lemonarian.com/images/majorwheel.jpg
I wonder how this correlates to children growing up in bilingual households. Does access to multiple language alter the thought processes. Do they learn to think in one language vs. the other or do they think in both languages depending on the task.
The argument is just a little circular, isn't it? The Piraha ignore colors and numbers, they lack words for colors and numbers, so the lack of words must be causing their general ignorance of colors and numbers.

It could be the other way round - people tend to come up with words (or terms) for anything of interest to them. For example, linguists might come up with a terms like "linguistic relativity" or "Sapir–Whorf hypothesis" for the suspicion that linguistics drives thought.

It does ignore a very common principle of linguistics - that language is flexible. If you don't have a word, people tend to invent one.
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On my PC it required something else, making the boot files not quite that trivial. Maybe it was the sound card, or maybe it was due to the oddball MicroChannel bus and ESDI hard disk on that IBM PS/2 -- I can't remember.
I suspect that the real sticking points are the DRM certification process the movie studios demand to ensure that Bluray-compatible PCs can't rip the video stream, and the need to develop a new, considerably more complex version of DVD Player capable of playing BD 2.0.
It would be really nice to have dataset available for researchers with username, their posts and their comments. As an example, we could use the "SPEAR Algorithm"[1] to find expertise in specific domains per HN user.

[1] http://www.michael-noll.com/projects/spear-algorithm/
I think most people don't realize that a lot of what IPv6 fixes means you don't need to deal with the IP address directly so often.

Also, any program that converts an IP address to an integer (or goes the other way) would require a new look-up table. Which I guess wouldn't be that bad but it seems unnecessary to me.

It's a neat hack, but I think it's creates almost as much trouble as it solves. Especially since reading off an unabbreviated address would require 16 words (yes, it is easier, but not drastically so). Do people really want to read off "dem bag:bip nog:kep lip:bep nig:bot dad:kip dug:bap him:hod fum"? It's also very difficult to audibly differentiate between some of these words (e.g. "mom", "nom" or "mug" "nug"). The only use I see for this is reading off an IP address, so I think that would need to be fixed. It's also not easy to memorize (I, personally, don't think I could memorize a nonsensical 16-word sequence). It'd take me less time to get DNS working. I think a 128 bit number is rather "unfriendly" no matter how you dress it up.
There is definitely something weird going on.

7. MS-DOS is 30 years old today (extremetech.com)

44 points by ukdm 3 hours ago | flag | 11 comments

8. Bring your half-baked idea to the Half-Bakery (halfbakery.com)

54 points by rfreytag 4 hours ago | flag | 11 comments

And this...

22. Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his speech [OSCON Data 2011] (youtube.com)

162 points by kodisha 3 hours ago | flag | 35 comments

WTH?

EDIT: 323 votes in 5 hours... highest I've seen it as a #21, currently #22.
100+ karma won't exactly be a good parameter. I am a regular at Hacker News for around 3 months now , mostly just to read the content & up-vote the ones I really like. But my karma has been at 1 forever now, maybe because I don't comment much, not sure. Still karma does not say much.
tl; dw -

Over the past 20 years, we've gone from writing software that runs on a single desktop with a very limited set of data to systems like Amazon and Google that accumulate large sets of data and needed to solve scalability problems. Now that we have all this data available, and the scalability problems are FAR more in hand than they were previously, the ? is what do we do with this data.

There are lots of ways we can use big data to solve real-world problems, but to solve real-world problems requires a degree of fluency in the language of the problem you're trying to solve. Most data-mining knowledge is being used to sell ads or to make it easier to share and find pictures of cats on social networking site, when with a little bit of domain knowledge you could literally change the world by solving a big, data-driven problem. Go do that. Learn on your own time and do something worth doing instead of finding new ways to earn a buck by sharing pictures of cats.

I'm Steve Yegge and I quit.
I'd count "real" profiles by requiring that they either post a link, have at least one non-dead comment, or upvote a non-dead comment.
If perfected, this has the potential to make a whole lot of people's lives easier -- including mine.
Was this a total stranger? It would make a lot more sense to me if it was an ex-lover or people put up to it by an ex-lover or otherwise someone with a personal vendetta.

Put me in mind of this story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/nyregion/a-revenge-plot-so...
It's working for me. There's about a 1 second delay before the CSS3 styles kick-in. But that's not a deal-breaker.

This is fantastic.
I suspect that the vacuum left behind by dead local newspapers will be filled by local blogs. I haven't researched this but I wonder if the markets that lost their local paper if blogs have made up the loss. Knoxville, TN has to really nice local blogs even though we have both an alternative weekly (Metropulse) and a paper.

* http://knoxify.com/
* http://www.notawigshop.com/
So, is there a need for formalizing this kind of role?
Didn't Einstein say something like "all mathematical advances are notational"?
Many: "Gordon set seven Pirahã a variety of tasks."
It seems like Google has perfected it (Send Feedback), but isn't sharing. :(
To be clear, The Denver Post didn't remove the links -- we never had the links in the first place.
Airbnb has done a great job so far, but I think there needs to be some more effort put into validating the renters information. There are several ways to do this via online identities, credit cards, etc. The other option I would definitely add is a specialized rental insurance of some kind. An additional $10/night across all rentals should help pay for situations like this along with the basic broken item situations that I know you deal with. Let the homeowners decide if they want to charge/pay that fee. Then it is in their hands if they choose not to.
So it's possible that actually all 100 people are assholes.
tl;dr Work on data mining and bioionformatics to change the world, rather than just seeking money by doing trivial things.

Plus publicity stunt of quitting so you'll listen [at 14:15, sounded like quitting a cat-photo-sharing project, rather than quitting Google].

Plus implication that bio is the only domain that is world-changing.
I could definitely see them getting rid of the 13" MBP, but it has been positioned as the model you're pushed to via anchoring, as it seems like a deal (if that makes any sense). It does seem like the MBAs are filling in this role, but I don't really see how turning every model into a variant of the MBA would match up with Apple's standard product strategy.

Agree that there likely will be some changes to the larger models along the lines you're proposing, but I think they will still be somewhat distinct from the Air.
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Like Strong and Weak AI, there are stronger and weaker versions of the so-called Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (if you dig their writings, you'll see that neither Sapir nor Whorf didn't really say most things attributed to them, and definitely they did not propose the strong version, i.e. "language shapes thought".

Up until recently, c. 90s, Whorf was often derided (and ridiculed) in most linguistic circles as being an amateur or worse, a nut job (he was a chemical engineer by profession), e.g. see Pinker's The Language Instinct. This was because of the prevalence of universal grammar idea of the Chomsky school, that held sway in Linguistics, especially in the US. Only recently researchers have started to revisit the idea thoroughly and gave it its due merit (for an early, ~mid 80s, and influential debate on the subject, read this paper about the debate between Bloom and Au about whether the lack of counterfactuals in Chinese hampers their analysis of complex counterfactual sentences http://groups.psych.northwestern.edu/gentner/papers/YehGentn...).

People resist the Whorf hypothesis from a purely political grounds, too, thinking that accepting it would lead to cultural relativism.

That being said, although the idea seems intuitively correct, there are difficulties when you start to think more. The analogy with programming languages goes only so far, there you are trying to translate a task, described in your native language, e.g. language, into a programming language. If language limits thought, the expressions of thought should be done (partly) in a non-linguistic and more rich way. Not very many linguistics, cognitive scientists, or philosophers would take this view, I think, but there are some who do, e.g. Fodor, who proposes that thought are expressed in a "language of thought" distinct from native language.

This is a fascinating subject, if you have a few hours (or days) to sink, check out the Language of Thought entry of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/language-thought/
I have to say that I did not know about the inurl google search parameter.

However, this is indeed a very rough estimate because the parameter 100...100000 also captures the number that indicates how long ago a user account was created, so it would also count accounts that were created a while ago (over 100 days) but were inactive.
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I keep wondering when the "Welcome back, Mr. Yamamoto" scene from _Minority_Report_ will become reality.

iOS including strong face recognition will be a big step toward that.
Someone once said (can't for the life of me find the quote), that the difference between a good man and an evil one was that the evil one did the things that the good man thought about doing.
Maybe we can get to the "mutually assured destruction" phase of patents where everyone has so many ridiculous patents that any lawsuit is sure to ruin everyone?

Of course, that doesn't stop patent trolls (terrorist rent seekers) with no skin in the game, but at least this drama would end.
I was just going to comment on this quote. Glad someone beat me to it.

I wonder if it's actually one of the biggest problems, though? What are the average number of invalidations for other industries? Do other industries also suffer from "The Lodsys Problem" to the same extent as software? I'd also like to see a reference for that number!

My inclination is that, yes, software patents are terrible and should be abolished. Also, regardless of how 90% compares to other industries - it's a strong indicator that the way patents are granted in the first place is very broken.
Then governments would be less forceful because people do not like to be forced to do stuff.
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SF to Palo Alto takes me 30 minutes on Caltrain...
Fascinating topic and RadioLab did a really nice radio program on this here.

http://www.radiolab.org/2010/aug/09/
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This was my initial thought as well, how can this technology be used to implement Google's Send Feedback functionality.

Kevin Rose was right, if someone can build that as a service, they would do quite well.
Exactly -- if you publish something (which includes posting on the net) then you have to be able to prove it's true. I think the US does this stuff better TBH.
That's an interesting (and uncomfortable) idea, but a deeper problem is how to tell the "good" and "bad" recruiters apart. This is the same problem of telling "good" and "bad" candidates apart, and the irony is not lost on me.

What is your constructive advice about how a "good" developer should get your attention, while simultaneously discouraging contact from bad ones?

I suspect that the answer is something like "be an experienced executive", which is obviously not an option for most people in the early part of their careers.
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I think he's implying that it requires the same basic computer science hacking that is required for all of the "cat pictures" projects he points out. The point isn't that we should choose between data-driven and not data-driven; it's that we should choose between cat pictures and the human genome.
"Big data" wasn't really the point. However, it happens to be Google's comparative advantage if the goal is to change/save the world.
This seems very important for the future of the web. Hopefully it will also be based outside of the United States, so we are rid of their creeping control issues regarding domain seizures etc.
If the features of this library continue to expand I can see this being a very powerful tool. As lot of other commentators have pointed out despite having so many modern browser solutions a lot of large corporate environments are slow to update. Quite often this is because they have large line-of-business apps that are written to target certain browsers (especially if ActiveX is heavily used) as well as having a culture where even a version bump in what web browser is used takes a committee and months of approval.

I ran into this problem years ago when I was interning at one of the major auto manufactures. I needed to provide web-based charting but was unable to get approval to use an open source toolkit. I ended up having to write my own library and did so using SVG. It worked no problem on the Solaris workstations running old-school Mozilla (even still had the old Netscape icon) but for the PCs running IE6 I had to get approval to install the Adobe plugin.
It's quite possible that there's a valid technical reason for this. Codec usage? Something bleeding edge to do with HTML5 Audio?

A slightly crappy but plausible reason is that they didn't want the extra hassle of cross-browser testing and pool of browsers capable of running this was pretty small.
Watch it for the talk, not the sensationalism. It's a good talk.
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I always had the same experience getting TIE Fighter to run. Mostly it was a combination of LH's and DOS=HIGH,UMB which did the trick.

That and a trial and error process of reordering CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT entries along with interactive boot which always reminded me of that scene from Apollo 13 when they are trying to determine the powerup sequence for the command module.
I wish they'd concentrate on making a browser that can start scrolling before all the Javascript on the page has finished running.

That's weird, that's what happens to me in Chrome, not Firefox.
I also mess up the numbers. HN has so many ridiculous ways to log in, that I forgot a couple of times how I logged in (native, google, open auth, etc.) so I've created four or so accounts now. If I add them up I'm > 100, but no single user has 100 karma.
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+1. Look into this, seriously.
the result counts shown on google are not accurate, however.
The point isn't so much a direct comparison but more pointing out that their are different societal pressures on all of us that influence what we do. A male is less likely to be a primary school teacher because there are many factors that make it difficult for them. The same is true of women and CS. There are various forms of societal pressure that are most likely making CS a harder field to enter.
> a kind of practice that includes an "active search for methods to improve performance," immediate informative feedback, structure, supervision from an expert...

Made me think of learning to code... in some ways, coding provides this - we get tireless responses and immediate informative feedback each time we compile or test our code. Of course not all elements of good coding are evaluated by automatic metrics such as compiles, passes tests, or isn't too slow). but still.
I found this especially odd, since the Rome music video gave a similar warning, but let you continue and worked fine in Firefox 5.
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Saw this site few days ago on HN:
http://bugmuncher.com/
Seems to be doing same sort of thing, except that the processing is being done on server side rather on client.
Most of their customers would stop using it then. They use AirBnB instead of some swank hotel in large part for the cost. Even if the deposit was just a temporary hold of their funds or credit, that would be a huge turnoff to a large chunk of their customer base.
Take a look at Page 10 of search results : http://www.google.com/#q=site:news.ycombinator.com+inurl:%22...
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Can you provide a breakdown of the 10 minutes, saying what you were doing for each of the 10 minutes?
Perhaps because it's defensive? If HTC struck first and tried to kill the iPhone, I'd wager the headlines would have been reversed.
Possibly disable hardware acceleration.

Disable:
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Does AirBnB have owner's/hoster's testimonials like CouchSurfing? It really goes a long way to show someone is trustworthy if they've stayed at 100 people's homes and everyone said nice things about them.
I try not to start writing code until I am at the point where it's pretty much just typing. It doesn't always work out this way, and it isn't necessarily always the right move, but it forces me to have a really clear mental model of the problem in question before I start committing things to paper (so to speak), which typically saves a refactoring or two down the road.
The sad thing is that it's not just spammers who need to do this. Even people who are genuinely creating great content in an attempt to help others still need to create backlinks from social sites if they want to show up in Google. I've made all sorts of resources that are far better than anything else that currently exists, but without actively going out and building a few backlinks these pages would get literally zero hits.
You know what's a progressive Internet Explorer? IE 9 or 10.

Let's quit trying to duct tape the web for IE's sake.
Agreed, if they threaten something like a nuclear bombing. Let's think about another situation: At a family party there is one piece of cake left and 2 people want to eat it. Both people recognise the interest of the other one and try to offer it to the other one, but both now don't try to take it in fear of losing face. In some way you can also apply a chicken game situation here. Or another example: 2 gay men sit in a bar, see each other and consider the other one attractive. They look at each other and smile at each other. But who should make the first step? (Had to take 2 equal partners, with woman and man it is too likely that culture expects the man to act) In both situation neither the price nor the cost is that high, that relatively(!), extrem actions (like being actively impolite, or just sit there and wait in the bar until the other one makes the move) can and should be expected. I'm not into politics that much, that I could give meaningful examples there, but I think according to the situation and threats each party makes, it happens more often then you might think with just these high stakes situations in mind.
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It looks like the Pattex stuff was used to build up the gaps, and then according to the original forum post (http://www.inventosunicos.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=14):

"SE LE DA MASILLA DE CARROCERO Y SE LIJA"

Google Translate turns masilla to "caulk," I'm not sure what it is. Would love to find out - I never thought it would be possible to take a bunch of dissimilar plastic junk pieces and turn them into something that looks like it was molded as one piece.
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Any idea what site this article refers to?
I would think that people flagging the story is weighing it down. If the talk is good, why would it be flagged? Maybe because the title of the submission is kind of sensationalistic relative to the talk. The talk is about working more on solving important problems, less on making cat picture sharing easy and fun, and it's not so much about him leaving his job, though it does illustrate his intentions.