skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Forced interaction generally requires one be deprived of not interacting. E.g., when a mugger says "your money or your life" you are being deprived of saying "no thanks" and walking away (getting shot counts as an interaction).
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Why computers go bananas without any reason
... But occasionaly it occurs that something goes wrong for no reason whatsoever, and then it never happens again. Why?
I came up with the only plausible explanation I could find. This is what I wrote to my collegues:...
Link to an academically hosted .PDF of the paper "The Value of Health and Longevity," mentioned in the submitted article.

http://www.econ.yale.edu/seminars/labor/lap05/topel-050325.p...

I'm going to have to check the methodology of this working paper, as I am dubious about its conclusion.

And here's a link to Amazon's description of the newly published book on which the submitted article is based:

http://www.amazon.com/100-Plus-Longevity-Everything-Relation...
Feynman has expressed his opinion on this in one of the Messenger lectures on the Character of Physical Law that he gave at Cornell.

This is an example of the wide range of beautiful ways of
describing nature. When people say that nature must have
causality, you can use Newton's law; or if they say that
nature must be stated in terms of a minimum principle,
you talk about it this last way; or if they insist that nature must have a local field - sure, you can do that. The question is: which one is right? If these various alternatives are not exactly equivalent mathematically, if for certain ones there will be different consequences than for others, then all we
have to do is to experiment to find out which way nature
actually chooses to do it. People may come along and argue
philosophically that they like one better than another; but
we have learned from such experience that all philosophical
intuitions about what nature is going to do fail. One just
has to work out all the possibilities, and try all the alternatives. But in the particular case I am talking about the
theories are exactly equivalent. Mathematically each of the
three different formulations, Newton's law, the local field
method and the minimum principle, gives exactly the same
consequences. What do we do then? You will read in all
the books that we cannot decide scientifically on one or the
other. That is true. They are equivalent scientifically. It is impossible to make a decision, because there is no experimental way to distinguish between them if all the consequences are the same. But psychologically they are very
different in two ways. First, philosophically you like them
or do not like them; and training is the only way to beat
that disease. Second, psychologically they are different
because they are completely unequivalent when you are
trying to guess new laws.
Version Control (aka VCS) semantic confusion
Good point, but the issue still stands - it's less stock per year than Jobs' compensation, not taking into account any other standard compensation that Cook will receive. My understanding of a grant is that the stock can be vested or restricted, although I assume that after a 5-year wait it will be vested when Cook receives it, so he'll owe taxes on it.

That's probably why a 5-year period also favors Cook because Apple will be required to withhold tax on the market value of the stock, and it's tricky how that withholding is paid - for cash grants they withhold a percentage of that sum to satisfy the estimated tax, but unfortunately for stock grants, sometimes the grantee is required to pay that estimated withholding to his/her company if they don't have enough cash compensation to offset it. I'm interested to hear how Cook gets around that $100m+ tax liability, but he has 5 years to prepare.
The always outspoken Lubos Motl doesn't think much of the BBC article either http://motls.blogspot.com/2011/08/supersymmetry-and-irration...
The single best part of this techdirt article is reading the pro-PROTECT IP-shills perform writing gymnastics to "prove" that Vixie doesn't know what he's talking about, that only pirates would circumvent a state-sponsored and censored DNS system, and that the state would bother censoring non-"rouge" web sites. Oh, and that administrative punishment, not transparent to the citizenry, won't allow abuse and use for other purposes.

I love the techdirt Shill Corps. They're the best!
The Amazon Tablet
Why does getting billed not count as an interaction ?
It's not just about taste though, is it? WebOS was beautifully designed, but has basically been unsuccessful.
It's really a combination of taste and the ability to execute on it.
Jobs wasn't as successful with Next, despite his tastes. He may not have had the right team in place to work with, to execute on his vision. And with Apple, he already had a well established brand to work with. Even all of the products released by Apple under Jobs' reign were not successful, such as the G4 Cube, the first Apple TV, the ROKR iTunes phone - and who is to say that products he nixed wouldn't have gone on to be successful - no one really knows.

Tastes are important, but there are a LOT of things that matter in addition to good design taste.
Okay -- maybe this is a stupid question, and I'm a college dropout (and never took a physics class), but here's a stab at plain logic:

Isn't there a law of thermodynamics that says that entropy increases in a system over time? And doesn't general relativity state that time is a function of gravity or acceleration or relative mass?

So wouldn't increasing gravity/acceleration/mass, i.e. relatively increasing the passage of time, also relatively increase entropy?

And if that's true, then wouldn't the equation work both ways -- such that an increase in entropy led to an increase in gravity?

Again, sorry if that's crazy, but I'd like to hear anyone's opinion on it...
What is the answer to life, the universe and everything, Mr. IBM Cognitive Chip?
Extravagant Ideas
For Ubuntu I expect someone will create a PPA for Sun Java. I don't know if there's anything similar for Redhat/Fedora/Cent but wherever it's possible, I expect that will be the workaround of choice.
You'll probably see this on the Sparkfun saga, but the way to remove it at the Atmega lab (with a hotplate and acetone) is quite dangerous. Don't try that at home.

Instead, drop the whole chip in a test tube of fuming nitric acid at room temp, and let it work slowly overnight. Anything with fuming nitric acid is dangerous, but this is much safer than the hot plate method. See this tutorial by Travis Goodspeed:

http://travisgoodspeed.blogspot.com/2009/06/cold-labless-hno...
Free cell phones plus free shipping
Nothing major that another person could do for less than half the cost
Did you miss Python in the title?
I don't understand the defense of piracy when we're transforming into an information-based economy. It seems like we're setting ourselves up for massive failure in the not-so-distant future.
See also: http://aaplbear.com/

"As a company grows, it becomes harder to provide high % returns to investors."
My wife and I bought our very small house 13 years ago because it had huge windows (good lighting, views of Arizona red rock/mountains) and is 150 feet from a national park trail head. I much prefer a small house in a location that I like to a larger house a mile away in an area that I like less.

I also agree with the advice about commuting. I made that mistake when I was 24 and bought my first home. The extra $15/month mortgage payment (this was in the 1970s) for a comparable place near my job seemed like too much money, but after a few years of inflation, transportation costs, and my time, I regretted my decision until I moved and started using it as a good income property, which I still have.

Also good advice in the article was the part of paying attention to relative pricing (i.e., don't spend $35K more because the difference between $735K and $750K psychologically seems small).

I have always favored buying less expensive properties to live in but also have a few income properties.
I agree with you 99% of the time. Here's the one time I don't: http://blog.foundrs.com/2011/08/27/no-ceo-is-worth-their-mul...

I'd gladly reward a CEO if he/she can outperform their competitors.
I haven't seen an app that depended on KDE4, Unity, or Gnome3, or couldn't be run outside of them.
Yes, that is right, we have to make things more transparent. The RTI was one act towards that goal. Though, this particular act in the current form is not the right path in my opinion. People elected into the Jan Lokpal will be no different from people elected into parliament. There is no foolproof way to prevent them from corrupted themselves.
Interesting... According to ohloh, Ubuntu has just 4k lines of code: http://www.ohloh.net/p/ubuntu

Must be some pretty dense code!
This article is so astoundingly empty of any real logic that I am truly shocked that it's currently on the front page.

He claims that Apple's rise was fuelled by early adopters who forked over large sums of cash for the privilege of being able to posses the newest shiny bauble from Apple, but that their gadget lust has now been sated, thus spelling a near certain end to Apple's incredible growth. Does he realize that the very same people who paid to have the original iPhone have also probably put down money to have later iterations of the phone? The truth is that more and more people are now seeing the benefits of smartphones and are willing to invest more money in a mobile phone with more capabilities. This argument is completely bullocks!
Just wanted to highlight this:

"In the last few months we've been hearing from more folks in the startup world who are really concerned about the excessive burdens PROTECT IP is going to put on them. If you're an entrepreneur who's worried about this, we'd like to hear about it. Please contact us."

http://www.techdirt.com/contact.php
Is it wrong to note 100m winners are always black?
I've actually had this experience: My favorite yoga studio, where I was going 3-4 times per week, did a Groupon; suddenly the room was packed and there was less space to move around in. It would have made sense for the studio to do the Groupon when they'd just opened and desperately needed advertising, but I was baffled by their decision to do the Groupon when they were already running at what, to me, seemed like optimal capacity. They attracted new customers, but they also alienated some old ones. (Though the deal wasn't "New Customers Only," so at least I was able to enjoy the discount.)

OTOH, I moved recently, and a studio near my new place did a Groupon. I probably wouldn't have heard of them otherwise (there are other studios that are closer to me). They did a small deal, something like $15 for a 5-class pass, and they did it at a time of year when they're at less than peak capacity (it's summer and the studio is near MIT). So, I'd say that deal made sense.

(As to $130/mo: Actually, I was happily paying that much at my studio. This studio's pricing seems to be in line with most: $15 for a single class, $130 for an unlimited monthly pass.)
There are additional interesting map details at Google's crisis map:

http://crisislanding.appspot.com/
That's really startling. Is this something Groupon employees are expressly paid to do? Is that one reason why their costs are so high?
Very cool. TLDR:

1. RAM is no longer seperate from the CPU, the RAM transistors are intermingled with the CPU transistors in the same silicon, all interconnected in what sounds like a kind of neural mesh.

2. Computational units are the 'neurons', RAM units are the 'synapses'. RAM units send signals to CPU units causing the latter to perform simple computations, the result of which is sent to other RAM units, which in turn send new signals to other CPU units, etc. etc.

3. Primary benefit is decreased power consumption (no electricity wasted shuttling data back and forth across a memory bus), and improved performance on certain types of algorithms like pattern recognition.

4. Probably won't be as good as contemporary CPUs at other tasks though.
I didn't know you could do this in ruby:

Hash.new {|h,k| h[k] = []}

That makes counters easier, as in:

x = Hash.new {|k,v| k[v] = 0}
x['foo'] += 1

Or simply:

x = Hash.new 0
The press release seems to have more information. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35251.wss

"One core contains 262,144 programmable synapses and the other contains 65,536 learning synapses."

I'm more curious how one would actually program such a chip, and considering the amount of memory required to parse through a learning dataset, how they interface between external and internal memory. I can't believe it would be a matter of compilers, or what would be the use of the new architecture, especially as they claim it as a departure from the Von Neumann paradigm.
Could be ready for primetime, but Ubuntu hugely suffers from a lack of QA polish. Maverick was working well for me after lots of updates, but the upgrade to Natty was a disaster ... a broken window manager which had to be replaced. Volume doesn't stick after reboot, etc, etc.

Oh, and they love to remove working functionality and don't bother to replace it. The services control panel, gone, no replacement. Sessions gone in Natty, I now have to set up my terminal the way I like it every single time I log in, etc, etc. Will write a script I guess. Constant churn, see pulseaudio and unity.

I'm eager to hear recommendations for a more stable (fewer regression) distro that keeps packages up to date.
Minecraft v1.8 Includes Adventure Update, Better Graphics, Villages (VIDEO)
Paper first, a Tcl/Tk mockup second.
I use three monitors, all 22" 1920x1200. The centre monitor is in the landscape orientation, while the other two are in portrait orientation.

I am not sure what to think of the wide screen aspect ratio. In some cases it can be good, though sometimes I think it's just a bit extreme.
I think the constitution also has a process mentioned, on how to remove an MP, but that system is not working well. So how are you sure that this system will work. Why are we not urging them to fix the former system, instead of adding more.
The Second Coming of Steve Jobs via magazine covers
Pascal's Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities
> Isn't there a law of thermodynamics that says that entropy increases in a system over time?

Not exactly. The Second Law of Thermodynamics says that all processes cause the entropy of a system to increase. But entropy doesn't naturally increase over time without any processes happening.

> And doesn't general relativity state that time is a function of gravity or acceleration or relative mass?

The apparent passage of time ("proper time" in a particular reference frame) is influenced by gravity and acceleration.

> So wouldn't increasing gravity/acceleration/mass, i.e. relatively increasing the passage of time, also relatively increase entropy?

What actually happens is that gravity and acceleration decrease the passage of time (as compared to a reference frame not influenced by the gravity/acceleration.)

So if there are two otherwise identical experiments, the one with more gravity/acceleration will experience less time passage, and accumulate less entropy. But since increases in entropy aren't a direct result of the passage of time, it doesn't follow that increases in entropy lead to more passage of time, or any effect on gravity.

Hopefully that makes sense and is mostly correct, it's been a while since I studied this.
Read Steven Blank's 4 steps to the epiphany. Then rethink.
I don't think such deterrents are going to influence corruption.

Does one decide not to harm someone, just because we have laws against it ?

By the way, don't we already have laws against corruption, why hasn't this stopped anyone yet ? Are more laws going to stop it ?
Not Usenet. I'd never seen gmane before. Neat.
I also like to inject into any discusion of home buying the point that nobody truly buys a home, it's just a different variant on renting and serfdom to the state. When I own a ball, it's mine, and absent me using it to hurt someone with it, it will not and cannot legally be taken away from me. Additionally, since I own the ball, and am not merely renting the ball, I do not have to make any monthly or yearly payments to any other party in order to keep ownership and possession of the ball. Where when you "buy" and "own" a home (assuming current US, etc), you are required in 99.99% of typical situations to pay taxes at periodic intervals. If you do not, eventually men with guns will come use violence if necessary to force you out of that home and take "ownership" away from you. If you squint your eyes a bit that should look like renting. Rather, the government entities which claim dominance over the area containing your home have a set of rules which allows you to acquire the illusion of ownership over a home in exchange for paying rent/tax to that government periodically. Whether you call that money transfer rent or tax does not matter as much as the physical event that occurs and it's net effects and consequences.

Now I understand there are some ownership qualities to so-called home ownership, not denying that. There are shades of gray between pure renting and pure owning. But what most people talk about is something clearly in the middle of that spectrum, not on one end. Thus, I think the better description is different variants on renting. Different lease permutations.
Lead Impact PPV
Let me try to give a perspective on the reality that is faced by most Indians. This is a general analysis and not a position on the Lokpal bill itself.

Corruption at the lower level of bureaucracy:

Corruption/graft is faced by people every day in common functions of their life. The market incentives are there to support graft (low salaries, a huge imbalance in supply and demand - contributed in part due to a very large Indian population, wide disparity in income distributions).

But consider that there are limited or no checks against corrupt officers. We got the Right to Information Act (RTI) recently due to civil activism. RTI enables you to get data from public offices. A lot of times this data is enough to point out instances of corruption.
So you can point out corruption, but when you want somebody to act on it, its so far neigh impossible to see action. Police won't register your case easily, so a common man is left with very little avenue to pursue this further.
RTI activists and whistleblowers experience a lot of hostility. 10 were murdered in 2010 alone for bringing to light scams and corruption cases.

There is a strong erosion of trust from Government and Public offices. The word correctly describing the situation is malaise. Folks are sick and tired of experiencing day to day exploitation. As with any typical malaise, it crept up, slowly and steadily, steeped into our systems.

The bill is seen as hope by a large section of the public as a first step towards fighting corruption. Hence the hundreds of thousands of people out on the street protesting. Peacefully. Not rioting.

<opinion>
I too have concerns with regards to the policing of the Lokpal body. Or who will guard the guards.
But strong public opinion and action on corruption is needed.
</opinion>
If you know anything about pancreatic cancer and the other glimpses of Jobs' medical history, you don't need tasteless photos to figure out what is going on. People keep saying stuff like "get better Steve", which is a nice sentiment but at some point it's not appropriate anymore to talk about a terminally ill person that way.

This guy has already survived a very long time with an illness that kills most people within months. He has now chosen to take a bow and exit the stage gracefully, a decision that I'm sure was made as late as possible. I'm certain that resignation letter has been sitting in a drawer at his lawyer's office for quite some time. The truth is this man will be dead within the next few weeks, let's give him the privacy to go out with decency. Paparazzi shots and discussions about how "not good" he looks are completely unnecessary.

As far as this thread's topic is concerned, the question boils down to the point of whether Apple can thrive on execution alone. We'll see. Ideally, Ive will reconsider scaling back his role as a creative lead. I think together with Schiller's enthusiasm and Cook's organizational talent, there is no reason why Apple shouldn't continue to put out great innovation. But even if they do enter a creative slump, they have a lot of momentum and cash to carry them over any dry spell that might happen.
In summary:

* A URL can take you to an unexpected place

* That place may contain malware, or be a phishing site.

That's it, unless I've missed something.

Pretty content-free, really.
I'm sure fpm works in a lot of cases but something tells me that it's not straightforward to package a JVM..
I am curious of the information architecture.

"The main benefit is decreasing power consumption. Because the memory and computation are intermingled, less energy is wasted shuffling electrons back and forth. "
Photoshop. I've become so accustomed over the years to the tools/interface, that it's actually faster than pen/paper. Setting it up with common UI elements to drop in quickly makes mockups a breeze.
Thanks! I totally forgot about SO.

Sorry if this caused any problems. :)
Trying the templates in Keynotopia, they are good, but I think I need to work longer on paper before spending time in PowerPoint.
Even if you are entirely correct, you've only addressed 1/4th of Greenspun's argument. Can Apple also:

a) Transition effectively to emerging markets

b) Find more industries willing to give them a 30% cut

c) Provide a compelling return to investors, despite stock option dilution, and an inevitably slowing growth rate

Disclosure: Short, hedging for USD inflation.
More of Pseudo-Gandhian deeds of Anna Hazare.
http://www.punemirror.in/article/2/2010101220101012233239336...
Why Berlin is home to a new generation of beautiful apps
Also http://www.punemirror.in/article/2/2010101220101012233239336...
Or written another way, it's a weighted average of weighted averages.
How to create custom check-ins pages
Fun fact: The Pentium 4 was originally anticipated by Intel to eventually run at 10 GHz after a few years of process shrink. Seriously.
Yeah, but to get those they had to make a much less efficient architecture (the P4 required more clock cycles to do the same things). The Pentium M (CPU part of Centrino), which I believe became the Core, was based off of the P3 architecture, and was faster at something like 33% lower click speed. So those 3+ GHz P4s were kind of evolutionary dead ends. But man, was it exciting when they broke 3...
Good story, but how is this hacker news?
Piracy is inevitable. Even if you crack down on file-sharing networks, people will find ways to get what they want for free from people they know, and in this day and age, it won't take long for the content to spread either way.

The key to beating piracy is to provide services that can't be pirated or are significantly better than the pirated alternative in some tangible way.
It really depends on the size of the company.

On the small scale, you will pay the bills, manage finances, and fill out paperwork.

On a larger scale, you will focus on recruitment and policy.

On the largest scale, you will focus on vision and direction.
Sharpies and copier paper. Seriously: nothing else has been as efficient for me. (Although it depends on your Sharpie skillz.)
I don't use any app that insists on posting on my wall. I will spread the word about your project if I am satisfied with it, but I will not use your project if you insists on spreading your word through me.
Does America Need Manufacturing?
I am curious if there could be any theoretical reasoning why gravity can't be emergent, rather than experimental..

Could someone explain, what is meant exactly by `emergent'? What is the antonyme?

For example. I mean can't we assume all standard quantum model implies all quantum phenomena are emergent?