skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AT&T Sucks, and now it is ruining T-Mobile too.
Feds stonewall on cell phone tracking of Americans
That's because Apple collects more money than it spends, while the U.S. government does not.
More than likely. The conversation seems like a movie script. Too cut and dry; everything spelled out for the audience.

> Topiary: (as you know I stole this nickname from a troll last December, didn't work out so well)

Give me a break.
Who needs cash when you have large numbers of nuclear weapons for leverage?
Due to popular demand we are live streaming again
Yeah, actually I have noticed and was well aware of it when making my comment. The topic of this particular comment thread, however, was specifically about the first graph since the mentioned link's validity was being "defended" by saying the graph was not an "inheritance / 'paternity' graph".

In fact, I could have also mentioned myself that the link was taken off the second graph to further my case that it was just plain wrong. The only reason I did not was because I thought it was something so obvious it would not be necessary to state it.
Can anyone confirm whether Microsoft actually made this?
How does that relate to Apple’s situation?
I wish it was just a rate hike. Instead, you are often simply cut off with no recourse for exceeding the cap. You can't pay more and get more.

If you're not granny checking her email and facebook, you're not welcome here.

I think its more about quietly but forcefully sending the message that your internet is not for tv.
Furthermore, what would the usage of adblock be by IQ percentile? Opera's high showing may be due to it's adblock extension still not being as mature as those of Chrome and FF, and so the average Opera user might be less likely to use it. There's no doubt that Opera users would tend to be geeks and nerds anyway, but you could say the same thing of the top FF users. I'm not convinced that the methodology supports the apparent conclusion that the smartest people use Opera, just that of those who took the test, Opera users scored best.
The right thing to do when you make a promise without fully thinking it through is to still follow through with it, no matter how big of a pain in the ass it turns out to be. This is how people (should) learn to keep their mouth shut and stop over promising and under delivering. Jobs is not one to over promise so this instance is interesting.

edit: wow, lots of grammar errors.
Search for 'search' on Bing and Google comes up first as well:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=search&go=&qs=n&sk=...

They return the favour perhaps?
Here's the trend I see: all the browsers after IE pretty much go in order of market share. Safari isn't that special because it's the default on Macs, so even though its market share is only slightly above Opera's, the score there is dampened because there's still greater diversity in the people using it. But way fewer people are using Opera rather than Chrome or Firefox...I bet if you went back to the times Chrome/Firefox had a similarly sized market share, you'd see the same spike.

So it's not sampling bias, per se, but...I guess it's something along those lines?
What I wouldn't give for a TLDR. All I want to know is how his strategy for improving education diffs from Khan Academy, who I think is the frontrunner right now in that endeavor, without wading through the author's rant and a discussion on some kid's gaming habits.
If a company was making excessive profit...

I don't recall ever seeing this concept of "excessive profit" in any of my econ text books.

Must just have been my lousy books. Care to define it?
Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_operating_system
For those who didn't know, MongoHQ provides a really nice web UI and pricing is decent. I've went with MongoMachine in production because it's cheaper to run multiple DBs on there.

Also, funny enough I've used MongoHQ's web interface to admin my MongoMachine instances remotely, so it's somewhat hilarious that MongoHQ is buying MongoMachine. They each really do bring something a bit different to the table, I hope MongoMachine plans stay around at MongoHQ.
I wonder what would happen if a country like U.S. would say "Ok, we failed, fk democracy, from tomorrow we hire Steve Jobs (or any CEO of that caliber like Jeff Bezos) to run the country. Senate and House can go home, we don't need them."
You guys are going to have to come up with some evidence. I don't see how someone who could go through the entire University process all the way to a research PhD if what they really wanted was to start their own business.
Andrew is stating a fact. I didn't catch even a wisp of arrogance in that statement. He's merely telling the truth.
By the way, I realized that I cannot click on "I'm felling lucky" anymore for any keyword since the google instant immediately fires up.. :(
Used to spend quite a bit of time doing that.
It sounds like this is a transition period (of one week)—after which you'll presumably only see the notice when the settings change, which is (security-wise) exactly right.
For the past decade at least, Apple has been saving money while the US Government has been borrowing money to spend on executive bonuses. That Apple has more cash on hand now should not be extraordinarily surprising.
Startup Quote: Ben Huh, Founder, Cheezburger Network
Wow, when I read Terry's name I could immediately hear her voice. But for the life of me I can't imagine what she looks like. But for Serge & Larry, I can't imagine what they sound like at all, though I "see" their faces.
This isn't really about the Hurd, is it?
We tell ourselves we’re here to be flexible and to be nimble, and not necessarily to stick to a master plan.

- Ben Huh (@benhuh)

http://startupquote.com/post/8195288306
The other thing that kills good ideas at big companies is an inability to execute and build support around it (even if the top dogs give it a nod). Can the idea be built and implemented in-house, and if it is, will there be buy-in to support it?

Over time, the negative feedback loop can lead people to aim low during the ideation phase -- submit smaller ideas that don't have to go through a half-dozen committees, are easier to implement, and are easy to build support around.
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Thanks for the reply.

My opinion is that relying on line-height being unable to decrease a height of an element is a really bad idea and the owners of those sites should just be forced to fix it. Of course, I understand how from your perspective making a change that breaks a site like youtube (and probably a decent percentage of sites in general) is probably not an acceptable solution.

Oh well, I personally only needed line-heights on button elements, so the mentioned change will actually solve my UI problems. Thank you.
It'd be nothing new.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar

Edit: That article has a few appropriate quotes, actually.

During his early career, Caesar had seen how chaotic and dysfunctional the Roman Republic had become. The republican machinery had broken down under the weight of imperialism, the central government had become powerless, the provinces had been transformed into independent principalities under the absolute control of their governors, and the army had replaced the constitution as the means of accomplishing political goals. With a weak central government, political corruption had spiraled out of control, and the status quo had been maintained by a corrupt aristocracy, which saw no need to change a system that had made its members rich.
I do think it's a useful metric, and I am often tempted by the low token count of Forth and APL dialects like J and K, but much of the APL reduction in code size comes not from token-count reduction, but from token-length reduction, which is much less praiseworthy in my book.

Here's Life in Dyalog APL, from http://dfns.dyalog.com/c_life.htm and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1041500:

life←{ ⍝ John Conway's "Game of Life".
↑1 ⍵∨.^3 4=+/,¯1 0 1∘.⊖¯1 0 1∘.⌽⊂⍵ ⍝ Expression for next generation.
}

Unfortunately, my APL is pretty rusty, and Dyalog has added some major extensions to the language, so I'm not quite sure what that means, in particular the juxtaposition of 1 and ⍵ toward the beginning. I think it parses as

vertically_rolled = outerproduct(⌽, [-1, 0, 1], ⊂(⍵))
horizontally_rolled = outerproduct(⊖, [-1, 0, 1], vertically_rolled)
neighbor_counts = sum(ravel(horizontally_rolled))
↑(⍵(1, innerproduct(and, or, ⍵,
[3, 4] == neighbor_counts)))

but I'm not even sure of that.

The Life rule (which is pretty optimal for being expressed in APL, given its array orientation) is slightly simpler than the Wireworld rule:

def run_wireworld_rule
old_cells = @cells
@cells = fresh_cells

each_coord do |x,y|
# This could be optimized somewhat by only recalculating
# the neighbors of dirty cells.
case old_cells[x][y]
when :electron_head
set x, y, :electron_tail
when :electron_tail
set x, y, :wire
when :empty
# do nothing; fresh_cells are all :empty
when :wire
case electron_head_count old_cells, x, y
when 1, 2
set x, y, :electron_head
else
# Don’t call `set` in this case so as not to mark
# the cell dirty for redrawing.
@cells[x][y] = :wire
end
end
end
end

# This could perhaps be optimized somewhat with a sum table.
def electron_head_count(cells, base_x, base_y)
count = 0
([0, base_x-1].max..[base_x+1, @nx-1].min).each do |x|
([0, base_y-1].max..[base_y+1, @ny-1].min).each do |y|
count += 1 if cells[x][y] == :electron_head
end
end
return count
end

def each_coord
(0..@nx-1).each do |x|
(0..@ny-1).each do |y|
yield x, y
end
end
end

The APL people claim that their programs are more readable because they're shorter, but I'm not sure how much I believe their claim. It's certainly true that other kinds of mathematical notation benefit enormously from brevity and consistency that permits mechanical manipulation, and I don't see why algorithms should be different, but empirically I have a lot less trouble with Ruby or Python (or even C) than with plain-English descriptions of mathematical equations.
You mean Ubuntu LTS releases become stable after six months or a year, right? When they're new they're as unstable as any other new Ubuntu release, I find.
for me, Yahoo comes up first on Bing.
Due to popular demand, or due to an easy way to make publicity for your website?
Sadly, neither JNode (Java) nor House (Haskell) look very active. I keep thinking I should start something though I'm sure there are hundreds of embryonic kernels out there already.
Where do you draw the line on pharmaceutical marketing?

Is it OK to market antidepressants? What about blood pressure or cholesterol medicine? Heartburn medicine? Asprin? Sunscreen? Toothpaste? Dentil floss? Athlete's foot spray?

Prescription meds are controlled such that a doctor must agree that the prescription is a good idea before the patient gets the drug. There have been instances found of conflict-of-interest-inducing quid pro quos between pharmaceutical companies and doctors, but it seems silly to blame the ad a patient saw for this. Most ads I've seen say "ask your doctor about x".

So what is the harm? What classes of remedies (drugs, procedures, OTC items) result in harmful ads?

Your complaint about education ads is interesting b/c you're bemoaning the phenomenon of people with a freshly minted college degree foolishly pursuing more education. If you are seriously worried about a highly educated segment of society being misled by a simple numerical trick like the one you describe, there must be no hope whatsoever for humanity if the only people we can trust to watch commercials are people with a Ph.D in stats.

If someone has not become well acquainted with the sorts of semi-misleading things mentioned in ads by the time he/she is an adult, something is seriously wrong, and the sort of paternalistic society needed to protect this person from him/herself is unacceptably oppressive to everyone else's freedom.
There are some good prescriptive ideas in this article about how to avoid "iteration-itis." However, any leadership that implores their employees to give them more 'raw' ideas needs to be prepared to actually act on it.

I was once in an organization that identified this problem and did the "science fair" equivalent (we actually called it "Hack Day"), and the whole company launched into it with a fervor. It was incredibly rewarding and exciting to work on our out of the box ideas and present our various visions of the future of the company to the highest level executives. They reacted incredibly pleased, talked constantly about making sure some of these ideas would become reality... and then... nothing. We had a down quarter in revenue/profit so it was back to squeezing juice from the lemon.

It's common for employees to joke about management dysfunction, but whenever that Hack Day was brought up, it's pointlessness wasn't just joked about but attacked with bitterness even months and months later. I realized that when we pitched ideas that had gone through iteration-itis, it the process ended up tempering our own expectations as well, so by the time we pitched to the execs, our emotional investment had been whittled down to mostly nothing. But doing this -- asking us for our unfiltered ideas and thus, our unfiltered enthusiasm, and then not acting on them -- was probably the worst thing they could have done to destroy morale aside from layoffs.
Education isn't about making people average. It's about trying to elevate them a bit above. I wouldn't be averse to adding auto shop in (except for the practical matter that modern cars aren't as friendly to shade-tree mechanics as cars of decades ago) but I still think computer programming is more important.

It's more important because, frankly, being able to use a computer really well means you can do things the companies in charge don't want you doing. Disabling DRM, making backups of the software you own, blocking virus-laden ads, and so on, all the things I won't put up with being unable to do but the average person just kind of suffers with, like a cow in a thunderstorm unable to find shelter.
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Women faced this barrier in every traditionally male field - law, medicine, biology, business, etc. It did not prevent women from achieving parity.

Why does this barrier prevent women from entering CS, math and physics only?
"BT argued that when its subscribers access Newzbin2, BT is acting as a mere conduit for their network activity. Therefore, BT said, these users were not "using [BT's] service to infringe copyright." But the judge rejected this interpretation, holding that "users are using BT’s service to infringe copyright," and that he therefore has the authority to grant the injunction."

Isn't that like getting an injunction for Youtube because users are using it to view infringing videos? Where does it stop?

UK judges don't seem very experienced with copyright cases. It seems they have a pretty simplistic view of things. If "it looks bad" then it must be bad, so they rule against it.
Jailbreak it and then you can have iFile, git, php, ruby, vim, lighttpd ... You do need an SSH client to get into the shell. I use iSSH.

I use this setup to code in CoffeeScript offline on the train.
This also works really well when combined with the assert function. Any function that returns nil and an error on failure can be wrapped in assert (which is just a normal function that takes a value and a message, and raises an error with the message if the value is nil or false).

If the function returned a value (besides nil or false), then assert merely returns the value. If the function returns nil or false, then assert raises an error, and the error message is used as the error in the assert. For example:

> = assert(io.open("hello"))
file (0x8b9f658)
> = assert(io.open("goodbye"))
stdin:1: goodbye: No such file or directory
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'assert'
stdin:1: in main chunk
[C]: ?

This makes it possible to fail early when you don't need or want to do full error handling, or to use advanced logic if you need to recover from the error - without a try/catch statement. Effectively, it makes exceptions optional.
Apple is not afraid of Android any more than Porsche is afraid of Ford. They are targeting effectively two distinct markets.

Android doesn't do a great job of competing at the high end of the market outside of tech nerds. Seriously, the one year old iPhone 4 is still outselling even the newer Android phones on Verizon and AT&T.

What Android is killing is becoming the default smartphone at every price range with every feature set you can imagine. Android covers all the smartphones that iPhone doesn't. iPhone isn't for everyone, Android tries harder to be. Android is much less focused as a platform than iOS.

Android is going to keep working hard to be upmarket, and iOS is going to keep working to go downmarket with prepaid devices, more iPod Touch type devices with 3G or GPS or both.

As a developer I just care about getting paid and in my experience people on iOS are more willing to buy my apps. Android users tend to be cheapskates. This can and will change at some point, but Apple is doing better now than they ever have. I doubt they are truly afraid of much right now. They are executing better than ever before.
I think it's called design by committee
When did "iteration" start meaning "talk the idea over as much as possible before anyone who can make a decision sees it"? That sounds like the exact opposite of iteration.

It's totally a problem, but "iteration-itis" makes it sound like this is the result of too much iteration.
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I am yet to see a rock-solid OS that's been in the market for less than 6 months.

zOS, perhaps. Solaris, HP-UX and AIX too, but don't expect having the latest version of Ruby on them.
Yahoo for me too
Excerpt:

The idea is already gaining support from other experts. Mark Vincent, a medical oncologist at the London Regional Cancer Program and University of Western Ontario, said, "I think Duesberg is correct by criticizing mutation theory, which sustains a billion-dollar drug industry focused on blocking these mutations. Yet very, very few cancers have been cured by targeted drug therapy, and even if a drug helps a patient survive six or nine more months, cancer cells often find a way around it.”

I'm not really liking a lot of what the article says but I liked the above quote. Personally, I tend to think most cancers probably have a viral origin. Virii, like the ones that cause warts or cold sores, are well known to insert themselves into cells and thereby create "growths". Off the top of my head, I don't know of anything else which is known to do something similar. And we know human papilloma virus plays a role in cervical cancer (which is why so many women get annual pap smears).
We had a ton of people watching over the past few days so we though we would share it again to see if people are still interested.
Another non-cited story I've heard is an A/B test, or similar, was once done where they removed the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button from the front page, and an overwhelming number of users said they did not like the solitary search button. Having both gave the users a sense of choice, even though (as the story goes), "I'm feeling lucky" is used by only a small fraction of a percent of users.
http://advertising.microsoft.com/windows-live-hotmail
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Well, the motivation is not the issue here, is it? Nor is whether opening FaceTime is a competitive advantage. The issue for the author is that a promise was broken.
Note that this criticism does not apply to the Austrian school of thought. In Human Action, Ludwig von Mises establishes that humans reveal their preferences through action. There are no hangups about whether these preferences are "rational" or free of mistakes.
That's easy: Credit Default Swaps and investment executive bonuses.
maybe they didn't know they wanted to start their own business until they were doing their Ph.D. (e.g., larry and sergey)

Edit: Or they wanted to start a business in a field where graduate level credentials are required for people to take you seriously (e.g., biotech, clean energy, medical devices, etc.)
I keep an eye on resource consumption (via system monitor applet) and I can't see that happening here. Are you sure Ubuntu One is responsible for that?
This is good for Google. They don't want to appear to be a monopoly. Google needs Bing to be mildly successful.
Vala does something like that. If you have a method that returns type X, it always has to return an X - not null. The type of "an X or null" is indicated as X?. It makes you realize, "hey, this could be null, am I handling those?"
Unfortunately after you get past the basic learn a language stage, it more or less dries up. There are a couple of books that are polarizing like Design Patterns, but that is about it. From here on out it is trial and error.

As far as best practices go here is my list:

Automate everything you can.

Keep it coherent.

Rewrite when you find yourself building a house of cards.

When to create a function: anytime something is complicated enough that you think about it abstractly, anytime you use something more than once.

When to create a class: I haven't really nailed down a logical description for how or why I would make a class. Anytime you have a conceptual entity you have a candidate for a class, a player, a socket, a button, a window, a file.
It's installed by default. I am not sure about how many of those get activated and receive continuous usage.
Yes, Apple shows you're right. I wouldn't be surprised if the cause in their case is that Steve is personally angry at having his stuff copied.
I can't believe it, I type "Idempotence" in and hit Lucky and it just takes me to the Wikipedia entry on Idempotence!

Even worse, "idempotence idempotence idempotence" doesn't produce exactly the same result in Google as "idempotence".
It's possible that we need reform for other types of patents as well. I don't know enough about patent abuses in other fields to say. But in software at least, it seems like the system is clearly broken. Invalidating all software patents would be a drastic step, but it also might be the cleanest and most direct way out of the current morass. Of course, many companies would try to redefine their software patents as some other type of patent, perhaps by linking them to the hardware, as you suggested. There would need to be some legal jousting until precedents had been set to determine the outlines of how the law would be applied. That's what the courts are for. However, it seems quite likely that the resulting system would be less biased against innovation, more transparent, and less wasteful than the current system.
Nobody is arguing that there shouldn't still be public funding of education. If I had a kid in special ed I'd want to send him/her to the best school possible for his/her unique challenges Right now the only option is public school unless you can afford massive private school tuition.

With more private schools, smaller, more specialized schools would develop. Someone passionate about teaching special ed would have the chance to make such a profound difference in this setting compared to the public school status quo.
HAHAHAHAHA - I can't believe anyone is taking this seriously !!!