skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> many of the "big" ideas that happened during past history were only big and influential because they were absorbed by vast numbers of ill-informed people

Sure, and I think Gabler would agree. He is, after all, arguing in favor of "rationality, science, evidence, logical argument and debate". He doesn't want people to have a single big idea; he wants lots of them to be discussed.

Your basic argument is that if X sometimes causes problems, we should be glad to see X gone. On its own, it's a weak argument, because it ignores the positive side of the ledger, and it supposes that the problems you associate with X won't occur in the absence of X. Neither looks true to me; big ideas also have plenty of benefits, and a vast number of ill-informed people isn't going to get any less dumb or manipulable if Enlightment culture dies out.

> You are equating "big" with "well-intentioned,"

Not at all. American nationalism isn't the same idea as Chinese nationalism or Indian nationalism. Nationalism is an observation about ideas (or perhaps a meta-idea), not an idea in the sense that the author is talking about.
> There luckily aren’t as many rules as there are behaviors that are considered repugnant by someone. I’m quite happy about that.

And the reason for that is because things considered repugnant by some may not be to others!

> In the case of the door, just imagine you had eye contact with the person who slammed the door and he grinned. At that point I’m perfectly willing to infer the intention and consider the behavior rude.

You'd still be guessing. Confront him. Unless he's mentally retarded you'd probably get a clear response from him if you did so. Don't be passive aggressive.

If you donated money and Sam used them in ways you did not approve of, then you can consider his actions repugnant.

From an outside perspective, I do not find his actions repugnant. I believe his re-appropriation of the money to be better than buying coffee for others and really there was no indication that people would respond so negatively to money helping save the children...

Imagine if I were walking down the street and there is this box filled with cash right next to a ferris wheel, implying (to most people) that I should take this generously donated money and experience the ferris wheel for free. However I instead take that money and give it to some homeless people.

To the people who donated money thinking it would pay for the ferris wheel, I'm an asshole. To others, it's a much grayer area depending on whether or not ferris wheel is better than homeless people.

Not only did Sam not break explicit rules, but he didn't do something universally repugnant. If he had actually bought and kept an iPad, that would probably be universally repugnant. Coffee for strangers >> iPad for self. But Coffee for strangers > saving the children? Gray area. If you don't want the money to be donated to third world children, then just ask. But if you don't make such clear requests then you can't claim such an alternative outcome (which to some is actually a better use of the money) is an asshole move.
"Be skeptical of inspirational quotes ascribed to great men"

- Gandhi
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Enyo. The HP Touchpad has an amazing JavaScript framework that's completely unlike jQuery Mobile or anything else I've seen in the space.
MacOS passes linux as favored software development environment
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These sort of actions always seem to me like, "See, I was able to enter your home at night and punch you in the face. Now you know how bad your police are at defending you. I'm making you aware of this for your own good."

Gee. Thanks.
Police are generally under a lot of pressure to close cases. Getting a confession closes a case quickly and neatly.

Watch The Wire to get an idea of what kind of pressures the police face to "solve" crimes.
Stop and be flattered, you're clearly doing something right.

If they're just copying you, continue to innovate. If one of them actually manages to come up with a good idea, steal it.

Above all, realize that the idea itself is not sufficient. The value lies in you, not the idea. You have to deliver a better product.
It’s the Economy, Dummkopf
I guess you don’t quite understand why people react negatively. It’s all about attitude.
It's snark from the earlier debates about structural unemployment.

If I'm unemployable, it's because I really don't have the patience to work for most employers at this point. They can DIAF for what it's worth.
Selling my Android game: week 1
Don't the fathers of lean generally believe that if you think you've got the next FB, throw away all our advice?

I believe I heard something like that on a video.
social status definitely a zero-sum game, you cannot "create" status out of thin air.

The highly respected member of society is always a small percentage of the populace.
To an extent... I always thought Apple went with non-carrier subsidized pricing on the first iPhone because they wanted sales now. The price even dropped $200, IIRC, only two months after launch. This supports your last comment because they fueled sales. My experience is that people wait until their contract obligation is complete before shopping another handset.
I'm a skeptic, as anyone who has CF should be. As I said, I am happy for you, but you need to be very careful when making claims as you do since lives are at stake. If you are going to post information that CF patients might act upon it is your responsibility to put it into appropriate context, try to disprove it yourself, and be open to alternative theories as to why your approach worked other than that you have cured your CF through consuming sea salt and tonic water.

The history of CF is full of stories like yours where people seem to be onto something only to find out that it was circumstantial or not scalable to the rest of the CF population. This is still a very mysterious disease. My point is that a large part of the reason you might not be taken seriously is due to your tone, your apparent skepticism of western medicine, and your lack of expertise on the fields you are making claims about.

If you do not want to try to use the information you have to help others, so be it. But if you do, posting on health lists and arguing over the internet is not the way to do it. The way to do it is to educate yourself enough that you can hold a real discussion with medical researchers, and find medical researchers (or become one yourself) who would be willing to test your claims empirically. You've positioned yourself as a champion against the establishment, and this is not the way to actually get anything meaningful accomplished. Posting anecdotal evidence, contradictory claims, and lots of random speculations about the effects of various foods and dietary changes without accurate measurement and study does little good towards this end, if the goal is to help the wider CF community, despite your intentions to be helpful.
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You don't get social/track record capital for things nobody else knows about.
> As for the comment about the Internet following a sort of Gresham's Law, with trivial information pushing out the big ideas, I think it's off the mark. Nothing is getting pushed out because there is nothing to get pushed out of.

I disagree. What it gets pushed out of is human thought. Both that of individual humans and of our collective processing of notions.

I notice it in my own life for sure. I read more now, but I read a lot fewer books, and I spend less time thinking about what I read: I tend to leap to the next shiny thing.

I'm using tools like LeechBlock to claw back some of that time. And the time spent on lighter-weight web stuff isn't totally wasted; it allows me to maintain a much larger social network, which is both enjoyable and professionally useful. But I'm starting to feel about the web like I feel about modern grocery stores: I don't mind that they have candy, but I kinda resent having to run a junk-food gauntlet to get to the broccoli.
Looks like this article is behind a timewall?

"This story is exclusive to the Chronicle's Sunday print edition and will not appear on SFGate.com until 3:00 AM on Monday, August 15. To read this and other exclusive print stories today, subscribe to The Chronicle's iPad app..."

Anyone with article text?
Well that's not very helpful but it does sound honest. Unfortunately I think it means their advice wouldn't apply to a much larger class of startups than just the next Facebook.
Surface tension seems to be modeled too.

Try violently lifting the ball out of placid water.

The water 'sticks' to the ball for a while.
The release of user info of people for the sake of release is not cool. Give out one or two, to show the site that they've really been hacked and to show the people that BART doesn't hash passwords.

But really, everyone's info? This isn't even understandable collateral like the sheriff release a few weeks back.
The performance of the demo is awesome. Has anyone tried to do anything more complicated and tested performance. Would be fun to make a js game from this.
Their product had numerous bugs in each new version, that drove the users away too.

Had they not been on a rush, they'd probably tested more.
Rule #1: Don't talk to the police.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik

You're better off taking the beating.
I confess that I didn't read the article, but this reminds me of the HN story of the University professor who asked students who cheated to come in to his office, and then found some large percentage who came to the office though the software exonerated them.

The question is: did they cheat and get it past the software? Or were they, as suggested in this article, admitting to something they did not do?
This brings up some good points, but the title and structure are a bit misleading. For that who haven't read this yet, the middle section raises the reasons for Apple to acquire a carrier (most of which I thought were poor reasons, which almost caused me to stop reading). The author concludes with a rather coherent detailing of why it would in fact be silly for Apple to acquire a carrier (especially only US).
That's very interesting, thanks for the link.

I have children, and I've worked with a few folks who have been diagnosed as ADHD, but I think the focus always lands on the "Hyperactivity". In retrospect, he could very well be ADHD (it was called ADD when I was a kid, and "shut up and sit down" when my dad was a kid), but I my armchair quarterbacking (psychologicalicking [made it up]) can see the signs there. He was a very organized individual, coupled with the observed behaviors (hyper focused, often a part of ADHD that isn't associated with the condition).
Any good posts of best workflow using the webmaster tools dashboard you would recommend?
Detroit could be the next big startup city
see http://joyeur.com/2011/08/11/node-js-meetup-distributed-web-...
Ah, i'm jealous of you. I can't keep more than a few in my head at a time.
Some of the lies are dangerous to even teach. For example:
http://www.bnet.com/tb/1-48891?tag=content;talkback
> coders can essentially write their own ticket.

I'm glad that you think that's true for you, but it's not for 99% of coders. You are probably 20-25 with a degree and live in silicon valley or a big city.
The least of WebGL's problems? Failing to run at all with no fallback isn't a big problem? :P

Why is texture compression so badly necessary? Aren't downloaded PNG or JPEG files that you upload to the GPU uncompressed "good enough"? I don't think anyone's asking for COD5 to be in WebGL.
It is true that programming computers can be simpler than programming people. The high status career paths are the ones where the individuals who make up that career path demand respect. Techies don't demand respect because we don't spend our time mastering social situations pecking order and people manipulation.

If all us coders get together and decide to walk out if we don't get respect like the highest status careers, then we will get it. Usually techies are not concerned with being seen as baseball stars or heros, we care about contributing to society and making as much money as possible. It's supply and demand.
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What do you need FB for? Is it just for authentication? I have a certain level of paranoia when a site wants my FB info to connect; I almost always say "no". As much as I hate the proliferation of accounts, I'd rather create a local account to try out some new web site than associate my FB info.

For my own projects, I try to offer users the best of both worlds: create a local account if you want, or login with FB (example login screen: http://armhold.com/resources/com.armhold.QuickstartPage/comb...). It's certainly more work for you as a programmer, but you'll have fewer drive-bys that way.

Good luck.
The Over Capitalization In The Title Is Really Kind Of Ridiculous.
I was at Harvard when Facebook launched. Within days, it had a huge, highly engaged userbase which it never lost. HouseSYSTEM, in contrast, never took off. Why do you think that was? I'd argue it had a lot more to do with the differing design and motivation of the sites than press coverage. Students signed up to The Facebook because it was cool, viral, and not officially sanctioned, not because they read about it in the Crimson. HouseSYSTEM was none of those things.

You seem to think that Mark should have (then) asked you to help with Facebook or (today) acknowledge that he learned from HouseSYSTEM. I'd suggest that Mark's heavy use of HouseSYSTEM showed him mistakes to avoid and thereby encouraged Facebook's adoption. Maybe he thought you were too invested in the choices you'd made with HouseSYSTEM to start fresh.
I dunno if MBAs can be so high about themselves, but I will start giving even less credit them now.
Would it be possible for a carrier (Apple) to "serve one type of phone", as the article suggests? I guess the regulator would not allow that, requiring the use of standards (GSM, LTE,..)? On the other hand we do have SIM-locking already..

Second thought: Would a phone that doesn't support native apps, but HTML5, really be called a 'dumbphone'? Running Javascript even requires a faster CPU for the same experience.
"Yeah but Einstein wasn't just great according to a number of subjective measures, he was brilliant by just about any objective measure."

- Me
_"everyone provides a brief, anonymous introduction to their life"_

It still can track your identify since it uses facebook connect. Please make this anonymous for people who wish to be anonymous.
I am much more sympathetic when companies sue due to this sort of infringement.

There are a million different ways to colour and style a rectangular cuboid. Some people like to say "it's just another laptop(phone whatever)", but you never see anyone copy Sony's or Lenovo's or BlackBerry's styles do you?
But why do you want to access my data even if I'm not using the app?
> In San Francisco, it’s very different. You can be a techie like Marissa Mayer, and on the red carpet and have people comment on your awesome date or outfit.

Er... I think if you're the vice president of a company, any company, with nearly $60 billion dollars worth of assets then you'll be invited to a red carpet event.

You're even more likely to be invited if that same company is always in the news under such hot topics as "pulls out of china due to foreign hacking", "driverless cars" and "did Do No Evil Inc., do evil?".

Honestly, you could do better than pick a Google VP as an example of a techie being treated as high status, only because they're in San Fran.
If you want an even more portable Forth environment, check out Amforth (http://amforth.sourceforge.net/) or Fignition (http://sites.google.com/site/libby8dev/fignition).
I've always worried that if I ever became a suspect in a crime that I would confess under pressure even if I didn't do it. There is something about me feeling guilty, authority and intimidation that makes me think I might.

Then again, my coping mechanism of becoming flippant/sarcastic could flip on and I'd confess to murdering JFK, Michael Jackson and Biggie using my mind/time machine.
"Every line of code not written is a correct one"
that's just the initial surface disturbance. it starts at the center of where the sphere breaches the water and has an amplitude. the disturbance radiates outward from that center, but there's no "sticking" to other meshes happening
The link is to a paywall.
this is the algorithm that governs the surface waves. it's remarkably simple and well suited to the parallel computing that shaders can offer: http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/graphics/x_water.htm
SFC: Another clueless company from the old media era.
It also seems like they may have replaced some of the questions and answers in their FAQ - either that or the person who originally wrote the questions was amazingly snarky, especially with the ones near the bottom of the list (the last item on the list is a link to Anon's page, which supports this hypothesis).
Oops, it was readable when I saw it. I suppose I may as well delete it.
Are software patents the "scaffolding of the tech industry"?
I would be very concerned if you were not skeptical. I have no issue with skepticism. My experience has been that individuals new to the CF community or individuals who have long pursued alternative approaches are the most able to understand and act on the information. I have come to believe a more information dense delivery mechanism would be helpful. I don't personally see any reason to believe that normal research channels are the way to go with this. I like being helpful. I just don't feel obligated to cram my views down anyone's throat and most members of the CF community have made it abundantly clear that they have no interest in what I am doing. I see no reason to either fight with people or martyr myself. The information is there if someone is interested and has already helped some people. So I see no reason to defer to your opinion that sharing it online is not the way to go.

Take care.
Closing the loop and replying to myself, I got carried away and wound up with a full Sinatra demo app that does this:

https://github.com/imbriaco/heroku-redis-sshtunnel
I got a coffee earlier. Says total amount donated $130. Not bad for one day. Will put some money on it later.
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Office of the Federal Register now has API
when someone introduces themselves to you, you are notified via email, this way you don't need to constantly check the app for new intros. the only way to retain your email is to ask for offline_access
It's interesting, but I have not had too many issues with ATT coverage recently. It's almost like they fixed things. Maybe it's just my area (Bay Area - Peninsula), but I wonder if everyone else is still regularly experiencing the claimed problems with AT&T.
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Saw the font size, closed the window. You have a column that is 330px wide? Make it twice that width, and increase the font size.
I decided one day to spend all my time refactoring code and ended up writing -200 lines. That was probably one of my most productive days ever.
Well, it may sometimes lead to unfortunate results, but the fact is there are a lot of people out there without deep technical knowledge who are still interested in reading about languages and frameworks. There's nothing wrong with trying to cater to this demographic.
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> With that I guess we're just going to have to agree to disagree. IMO just because you can slap a couple of "virtual joysticks" on the screen and pull input data from them does not mean you have a system that replicates dual-analog sticks, and I say that as both a programmer and a gamer.

They do almost replicate the joysticks. I never said it's a good replacement.

> Like I said, for some games, yes, you can have good touchscreen controls. But by limiting the system to only touchscreen controls you're cutting out a giant amount of games that could otherwise run fine on the hardware but whose controls do not naturally map to touchscreen.

You can make similar arguments against the PS3 or Xbox controllers for not having GPS, Touchscreen, or microphone inputs for controllers. Games take advantage of certain controls because they are made available, if they aren't available, you can adapt.

For the Wii and DS if they started abandoning the new ways of inputs and controls, it's only because the old style controls are still there. It's hard to change the way controls are designed and adapt to new inputs so obviously they'd stick to the standard controls if they are still there.
Also, the reason these are not in cars, is that when scaled up, you're talking about a much heavier flywheel which is then spinning much faster. That can be very dangerous in a crash. Heavy steel disks spinning very quickly.
I am no fan of black bloc. I feel they rob anarchism of legitimacy. However, I don't believe they've conducted as many public executions as BART police officers have.
I don't know, but the number has been negative the past few days. :)
The title and intro is really unfortunate, because this article does a good job discussing why Apple won't buy us a carrier.
They also can't tell the difference between flac and V0.
Compressed textures are an intellectual property minefield. Blame the patent system, again...

However, the lack of compressed textures, or any other specific feature isn't WebGL's biggest problem. It really is hardware compatibility. WebGL is the first web technology to expose significant hardware variations (with bonus buggy drivers!) directly to web content, and web developers aren't equipped to handle that. Deploying a WebGL app with any hope of wide compatibility will require testing on at least 3 and more likely 10+ different hardware/driver/os configurations, and the fact that a GPU is required makes automated testing difficult (VMs don't work, remote desktop solutions often don't work, driver crashes hang machines).
Yup, it's hiding functionality that causes writes. Lots of messy template logic and a few bits of app logic as well. It isn't very neatly abstracted at the moment.
Missing from the list "9 pregnant women in a room for 1 month will produce a baby"
Another HN item that can only been seen by those using Google Chrome. When will it stop? Are we really so dumb and foolish to go right back to the "Works only in IE6" days? WHY is it that because it's Chrome and not IE6, that makes it alright?
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One good point in there: The data collection can be quite worthwhile. It's not something I would have put in, and I'm glad this post mentioned it.
Tinkering with new languages is fun and worthwhile to a point, but I honestly feel that my time is now better spent learning new problem domains. Languages matter, but the less tangible skills I've developed working across different domains have been more valuable and fundamental. The things I've learned while studying Machine Learning and DSP over the last year are much more broadly applicable than I would have guessed.
I've used it and donated before. It's legit.
"And I don't really want to start a startup at this stage, because I don't want to have to do all the other work associated with that."

Contracting yourself to others is a startup. It's a business and you do have to do all the other work associated with that. The first step in being successful as a contractor is taking it seriously and recognizing it as a real business.

As for finding the work, I don't know how to help you there. You could take a look through a site like Elance to see how much work there is available there.