skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Removing the cost of the driver will have an tremendous effect. It will bring down the cost of a taxi ride near to the cost of driving with your own car (plus the way the car had to drive to get to you).
I have big hopes, that this technology will close the 'last mile' problem of public transportation.
Really? Try harder :)

Remember that the "inputs" in non-pure languages are not only the function arguments, but can be global variables, objects (singleton or otherwise), external files, and so on. These are all inputs.

Plus, Java's type system is a toy compared to Haskell.
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I didn't vote you down, but I'd say you were missing the point. You think OWS is exclusively left? Did every ordinary right-leaning American suddenly decide massive government spending is OK so long as it's to bail big corporations out of their own f'ups?
In the UK there was a nice slot about it in Channel 4's Brave New World last night
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I'm really looking for counterpoints to my argument. So please, I welcome them.
Absolutely ... imagine ZipCar, but you don't have to go to where the car is -- it can come to you!
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Google is being paid per click. They're probably also targeting the ads using their own data, so they can achieve maximum click and revenue revenue per ad shown.
You would probably need to explain a little bit about what you're doing. Is it a marketplace? A news site? Deal site?
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The key reason I am looking at this kind of technology is because I have a large block of code in a situation where it is very difficult to do functional or unit tests due to system design. Being able to write in a language that statically analyzes my code for all the errors it can before my poor customers encounter it sounds like a huge win. The maintenance goal is being able to catch my fat-fingers and design flaws prior to rollout.

* I suppose if I had to quantify the maintenance timespan, I'd make a WAG of 5-7 years, possibly 10.

* It's also probable that after its solid now, in 5-7 years I will be doing other things and unable to be reassigned to work on this full-time. So it has to be other-people-hackable.
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> "billionaires, bottles and babes.”

When the reporter in the video interview brought that up he seemed pretty embarrassed.

Sounds like something university students might say.

If they made that statement as adults I think it would be more off-putting.
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It works both ways. According to that link they also require offers to be open offers until January or February (depending on the position).

Interesting link. But I'm still not convinced the circumstances of an MIT MBA offer are similar to an entry level software developer offer.

Let me ask you a question. If it is his ethical duty keep up his end of the acceptance, how long must he stay at the job before it's ok to leave? When does the at will employment argument enter the picture?

Bottom line, the market for software developers is too hot right now to settle. Who knows when these conditions will happen again, if ever.
I went to a boarding school in England for 5 years. When I reflect back on the time, this is exactly what I've been doing. The university I'm currently studying at is a step backwards.
They also use numbers. Android 4.0 .
I have exproenced the same problem. I have realized the problem when i recieve a sms stating my data plan is already over.my avarage usage for month before upgrading it was 500mb per month. Ihave an iphone 4 and upgraded to ios5 recently. I also exprience severe battery drain as well. The phone did not last till the afternoon. What is the cause of these problems and how can i solve them?
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I'd be interested to know the meaning of the sentence.

How do you hack a file system to display a logo?
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They're all in alphabetical order. Donut, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich. I assume there were internal releases named Apple and Brownie or something similar.
"V for Vendetta" is becoming real!?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta_(film)
It was almost certainly a joke. Avoid sarcasm when talking to journalists; some quotes, out of context, are too good to pass up.
That will generally do the opposite of what I want.
But the problem with a user-settable window is that a supposed hacker could set it to zero, then delete--which is exactly one of the use cases the "undelete project" desires to handle.
It has the power to post on your wall as well.

Removed the app before they pull that one....
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Good point. I'm pretty old school so the hosts file was my first line of defense. I didn't know about ghostery until this thread so that's installed now as well.
http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=12498

"more pertinent is the fact that none of the integrations we do with the Finder are actually supported by Apple. this means that it takes significant reverse engineering of the Finder to make icon overlays/contextual menu items to work. Apple completely removed support for contextual menu items in SL (it's possible to have right click options, but it's not possible to have a submenu, or a submenu with options that change dynamically based on context).

in order to make these integrations work we have to inject code into the finder to make in memory replacements of finder code with our own (many complexities/details of hackery omitted). if it were easy, you'd see more products than just Dropbox able to do it ;-)"

also: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=938
Of course if they're profitable, with that kind of user base they could keep growing organically. Perhaps they see some potential strategic investments that would give them lasting competitive edge, and that need big money.
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This one. Making Dropbox more friendly to small-medium businesses: a black-box "dropbox appliance" you put on your LAN (or just the software, in a nice neat Ubuntu package to replace Samba), selective sync and access-management, user groups, encryption, etc.
About 10 years ago my SO at the time was logging into an 'industry specific credit union' banking website for the first time. She called out to me to ask me about the error she was seeing on screen so I wandered over and couldn't believe my eyes...

Part of the login credentials was the requirement for her surname which just happened to be of the Irish persuasion and the apostrophe caused the SQL query to break.

I was dumbfounded but even then, at the back of my head all I thought was "I know I should report this, but no doubt they'll swing it against me". Needless to say, I said nothing, other than telling my girlfriend to a) try it without the apostrophe; and b) not to ever put any money in the account.
Jobs never changed his interpretation of things. He did in fact feel cloud storage was a feature and not a product, and that's exactly what iCloud is. For Apple it's a feature that will hopefully tie people in to their iOS devices. And with the likelihood that over time they will offer greater amounts of storage for free or a minimum payment, that's not good for Dropbox.
I like Dropbox, I use it almost daily. But so far I've never actually paid for it. Same, so far, with iCloud. To Apple, this would be largely irrelevant, but for Dropbox, that's not so great.
Android version numbers are not search-engine friendly because minor releases are pretty major, and searching for "Android 4" will actually yield results for "Android 2.3.4".

I like full code names for releases as it eliminates confusion.
It's been fascinating to follow Drew's story from the link to the early video on HN, to the YC application as a solo-founder to a "nine-digit" offer. This speaks to the importance of a good product. When Dropbox was pitched early on, everyone would point out how many competitors there were. Drew would silence the crowd by asking "how many of you actually use one of those services?"

It's all about the product.
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made connectivity with non-HP phones possible

I wonder what that means. Synchronization? Tethering? Notifications about calls and SMS on the device?
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I didn't really call it fake, did I? It's a sensationalist publication that once actually offered and sent prostitutes rigged with hidden cameras to politicians. It's not a traditional publication by any means. In fact, the name itself means 'Sensation'.

There probably is some truth in this story, but take it with a healthy dose of skepticism, because you're not going see objectivity here.
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I still don't understand why google didn't launch the gdrive... we really begged for it.
Validating features before product development
As Tloewald said, this is begging the question.

If I can sell you a license to a patent so that you can build a more desirable phone, how is that different from selling you a display for the same reason? If there's a market, then it's marketable.

Software patents are often attacked with silly arguments that don't hold up to scrutiny. Software patents should be fought with reasoned arguments, not invalid logic.
The next one is Jelly Bean
Alternatively, removing the BIOS battery and then reflashing the BIOS chip was an option. A scary, unreliable option because reflashing wasn't always possible and you didn't really know for sure until you tried.
I just read your scifi short in that folder. Nice writing, and interesting ideas in there.
Slight expansion on this - you might want to grab some copywriting books or sales courses and look into things like defining your appeal.

Or just practise on us! So, who are you selling to, what problem are you solving for them, and why would they care?
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In my sleepy little town at any red light when traffic stops for the light (I hope!) it's as if someone said "Let us pray." and all the drivers bow their heads.
I'm glad they're not cramming a ton of megapixels into that camera. Let's just hope they took a hint from Nokia and stuck a decent lens on it.
Labels alpha, beta indicate some pattern of design thought and course correction toward finished product. As long as there is a thought-through follow-up, I think beta is fair to use.

But, if the product is more like being freeformed, 'beta' is a misnomer. Does such thing really have a name?
Unfortunately I don't think we do

In this case, however, it's a cover story -- the best print format we can offer
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Grande recife consorcios
Se a questão é consorcio de estradas, a Grande Recife é a pedida certa, com estradas muito bem construidas e uma gama gigante de clientes, a empresa é uma das maiores em seu seguimento em nosso país.
There's no reason you can't do both. I worked for a web dev company while going to school at the same time and it was certainly difficult, but I learned a lot about priorities and juggling things of equal importance. Got 8 hours of work to do plus a paper due the next day? You'll learn some valuable lessons. Getting a degree is a lot more than just learning some skills.

As far as your development skills go, Read looks like a great app. If you're young and already cranking out stuff like that, keep at it and you'll go far. You'll be taken seriously as a developer more so by the things you make than by the papers you hold.

One suggestion on your site, make a beta signup form to make it as easy as possible for people to show their interest. It may not seem like a big step, but having to copy that e-mail address out of the alert box and then composing an e-mail is enough to prevent someone from following through.
It's a bit cynical to call that "the HN party line". There's surely a bunch of hardcore libertarians out here who would hold that opinion (by which I won't implicate that any libertarian would) but I doubt it's a majority.
Sounds like a genuine sausagefest.
I'm assuming they're talking about the Dropbox logo that is displayed on the Dropbox folder and/or the sync icons displayed on the files and folders inside the Dropbox folder, functions which are likely reserved to the default System folders.
Don't go there unless you have a very, very solid reason to get that much space. I very much doubt you each need nearly 1000 sqft to work in!
It's funny how he posted it on Livejournal. Talk about a dead site.
Even with Windows Mobile there were blackberry-like keyboarded phones (like the WinMo Treo) and all-screen touch screen phones. The assumption here is that Android only had plans for the former but I can't see that being entirely true given the market at the time. But, after the iPhone, almost everyone dropped their blackberry-like designs (except RIM).
Apple had lots of cash on hand when they agreed to a $4 billion component deal.[0] We don't know what the component is (Gruber speculates Apple bought screens), but cash on hand makes these bulk component purchases much easier. Operations-related moves like these have pushed Apple over the top recently, so I don't think investors really mind large cash reserves.

[0] http://www.macstories.net/news/apple-enters-3-9-billion-doll...
> They have a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to maximize profits.

That "responsiblity" doesn't work the way your argument requires - see the NYT for an example.

Moreover, it isn't relevant. My free speech rights don't depend on whether I'm trying to maximize profits, so why is my corporation any different?

Either you think that corps are not aggregations of people or you think that aggregated people have less rights than the members of the aggregation. Which is it and why?

> >I reject that approach because it can't work.

> Huh? Read about the Sherman Anti-trust Act.

Yes, do. You'll find that it didn't provide the promised benefits. In fact, it's pretty much been a disaster.

Yes, it broke up standard oil. However, look at the consequences.

> If it's not clear to you why it's necessary after that, then I give up.

You're confusing the existence of a problem with whether a solution works.

> >the real solution is to keep govt passing ot favors

> Who decides what is a favor and what isn't?

The existence of some gray areas does not imply that every area is gray.

In reality, there's pretty widespread agreement on what constitutes handouts and it's silly to suggest otherwise.

> Is the recruitment of more troops for the Iraq war a handout to the high school kids with no college aspirations? Why can't they just put a bid for a private militia? While seemingly extreme,

It's not "extreme" - it has nothing to do with your supposed point. The private militia will hire the kid, so both are the same on the "handout" basis.
There was an interesting point in "In The Plex" where, IIRC, some executive at Google decides to shoot down GDrive because they (Google) wants to push for a reality where you don't even need to keep files on a device in the first place - the files would just always be in the cloud, and then who needs a copy on whatever device you happen to be using?

If true, this seems like a real wasted opportunity - even if that is the future we are getting to in several years, why not release a ready product that people would find useful in the meantime (and would help people arrive at that vision)?

edit: here is the excerpt: http://allthingsd.com/20110425/how-google-killed-gdrive-and-...

He went to Bradley Horowitz, the executive in charge of the project, and said, “I don’t think we need GDrive anymore.” Horowitz asked why not. “Files are so 1990,” said Pichai. “I don’t think we need files anymore.”
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For some reason this reminds me of the guy who recently ported Prince of Persia from the Apple 2 to the Commodore 64.
This kind of chicanery isn't as much news to me as the 24 people who were arrested at CitiBank for trying to close their bank accounts. When asked to leave and refusing, they were locked inside the CitiBank until police could arrest them for not leaving.

What's really fucked up (to me) is the hacktivism in this case actually worked because I got to find out about something important like the combination of abuse of power and the potentially illegal actions of a bank in the treatment of its customers.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/10/15/occupy-wall-street-p...
http://gothamist.com/2011/10/15/reports_at_least_20_occupy_w...

Chase bank, by the way, allowed its customers to close their accounts without arresting them.
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And my point is that it is not the best solution to the problem.
Congrats to Dropbox on their success. It seems to be Steve Jobs has been used as the hook here to get more interest on this article.

While i am happy for dropbox , the real point that i learned in the summary article was that Apple is planning products two to three years into the curve which means if anyone wants to even dream or think of competing they need to come up with products that are two to three years ahead of the curve.
The CSS filter property comes from SVG [0], and has been around for quite a long time already.

IE 10 will support filters in SVG [1], so IE should be able to cope with it ok.

[0] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG10/filters.html#FilterProperty
[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/hh440437
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The point I'm trying to make is that most of the products we create for the web aren't necessarily ever "finished." You're always attempting to add new features or create new value, right? So I feel like projects are never truly finished.
I think given how Apple treats its windows software properties (iTunes, Safari, QuickTime, and the Apple Updater come to mind), even if they did make a cross-platform iCloud client, it would probably have the same "ported from mac" rather than a "designed for windows" feel, so not likely to be a big threat.
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The accident statistics do not back up your assertion. Most cyclists are injured when turning from the wrong lane or when using bike paths or sidewalks. When you're on the road with the rest of the vehicles, people pay attention to you because they have to check to be sure that a car is not where you are. (There are bad drivers, but you have better maneuverability and brakes than them.)

Americans are taught at an early age to be afraid of riding their bikes on the street, but there is really nothing scary about it. And drivers aren't as bad as you think they are: when there is something in their path, they tend to steer around it.
Ice Cream Sandwich will have a larger install base than iOS5

Maybe but when? Honeycomb only has about 2% of the total Android market share 85% are still on Froyo or Gingerbread. What makes you think Ice Cream Sandwich is going to get better penetration?

Ice Cream Sandwich isn't going to have a larger install base then iOS5 anytime soon.
That's the big deal breaker really. You have to be pure Apple at home, at work and on your devices for iCloud to be a replacement.
Put this in a vacuum... perpetual motion?
In particular, while you don't really care what order the compiler makes the underlying calls to the C function, you do care that it actually makes all the calls rather than CSEing them away. As a pure function, the compiler has every right to optimize away multiple calls to your FFI-bound random function, in favor of a single call and multiple references to the value.
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Funny that you mention ad-hoc data analysis in the bottom part of your comment, because while i was reading the top part, i was thinking "ha, no _way_ am i going to be writing extensive unit tests while doing exploratory data analysis..."

For what it's worth, of course i do rudimentary testing before running things for an hour, but there's often small things that are missed that don't show up on smaller datasets for one reason or another. Of course it couldn't catch every possible runtime error, but in my real-world experience I have definitely come across things that would have shown up during compilation with strong type, _especially_ if the array sizes were encoded into the type system.

There's something practical about how Haskell makes you think about program structure and data representations ahead of time instead of it being an afterthought; but I agree, this can also be restrictive when you are being exploratory.
There isn't yet any API for introspecting ASTs ("parsing of passed-in code" as you call it), nor for programmatically constructing new AST nodes. Such things will hopefully emerge once macro implementation and specification become more concrete.

So I can only guess what it would look like; take the following with a rock of salt:

macro do-in-reverse($code) {
$code.clone(statements => $code.statements.reverse);
}

do-in-reverse {
say 'First';
say 'Second';
say 'Third';
};

But it might turn out not be that simple.

The diffulcty comes from the fact that unlike Lisp, in Perl 6 not everything is a list, so you can't treat the AST as a list (... of lists, possibly) either. The .clone would take care to preserve things like outer lexicals and the signature of the block (you don't see it; it's implicit) and other non-listy things.
I had no idea installing Dropbox meant they were modifying the Finder. Why isn't there an option to disable this?
Honeycomb is a tablet-only OS, so that market share isn't really relevant when talking about Ice Cream Sandwich. The Gingerbread market share would be a better indicator.
I don't know how you drive your bike, but if this is what you think, you're doing it wrong. If you drive your bike like it's a car, motorists will notice you and pass you with a wide margin. If you ride on the wrong side of the road and turn left from the right lane, then yeah, it's scary because you're driving like a maniac. Don't do that.

Get this book and read it: http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Cycling-6th-John-Forester/dp...
Thanks, rcfox! 3Degrees will go public soon, keep an eye out!
I still remember that as well. They wanted to get rid of the whole "file" concept, as in a single isolated opaque blob of data. They thought it is an outdated concept in today's interconnected age.

Although there is some truth in that, personally I don't think locking data in cloud-based silos is any better than locking it locally in proprietary data formats. If anything, it is a further step backward.

For example: Does anyone know the native format of Google Documents? Can you import/export it losslessly? I don't think so.
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Stock prices for companies like Apple have little to do with fundamental value. Prices are based largely on the trajectory of the company's success in the recent past. Apple has done some outstanding things in the last five years. There is not a tangible failure they have had that would make the market think this history of success would not continue, except for the resignation and passing of Steve Jobs. I think you will see a major reduction in price when Apple makes its first significant mistake in the post-Jobs era.
A lot of inventions were initially for military purposes. I for example can see this used by firefighters and in disaster area after earthquake.