skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have a source for this? I find this weird. Wouldn't more food for Anopheles increase their population and hence the risk for humans to get bitten?
Ballmer is clearly very busy running Microsoft. It would be unsurprising to learn that he is too busy to have the time to play around with rival technology platforms and evaluate them himself. Consequently he gets to base his opinions on what his senior execs and VPs tell him about the competition. Which in turn is coloured by their perceptions of their position within Microsoft.

You do not get to grab additional resources within an organization by talking up the competition, especially when the competition is in a market-dominating position relative to your own division. You get resources by trash-talking them and promising to topple them with just one more push.

So my gut feeling is that Ballmer is not delusional; he's just being fed an unrealistic line by his subordinates, and doesn't have either the time to second guess them himself or the sense of urgency necessary to set up an independent business intelligent unit to give him the necessary no-bullshit sanity check (to learn if his generals are reporting their victories on the battlefield accurately ... or not).

In other words: he's more likely being actively misled by others than personally delusional.
Is Ballmer delusional?

No, this is intentional and something he has always done. He plays up Microsoft's products while downplaying all competitors.
Apple misses quarterly sales; disappoints for the first time in years
All Apple had to do to ... was to have their own factory in China

Like that is easy.

Companies use organizations like FoxConn for a reason: cost is one of them.

Expertise is another. Apple is good at what they do. Being able to make the stuff they design requires a whole 'nother corporate skill set.
There are plenty of examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncovirus and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HHV-8

I guess not all are caused, but perhaps I can rephrase as all can be caused? It's only suggestions that this is the case, but it's not actually known yet. I certainly don't know.

This: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Virus#Viral says that 12% of cancers are caused by viruses. The true number may be a lot higher since more viruses are being discovered all the time. But even 12% is a lot if someone were able to make a vaccine for them.
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Diaspora, which I am using and do like, is definitely not the only game in town for decentralized, federated social networking.
Friendika is, in my opinion, more mature and has more features, better federation with other networks, and is also widely used, mostly in Europe and Brazil, but there are also "pods" based in the US and Canada. It's great stuff, and is even federated with Diaspora (the two networks see each other's sites as pods on their own network).
Diaspora does seem to have gotten more press. I haven't quite figured that out, but it's likely due to their funding?
The ICFP 2004 contest was also about "ants" - https://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~plclub/cgi-bin/contest/task...
Samsung Galaxy S II: More diamond, less rough
"Is facebook gather information on people who have no connection to them any different from hacking someone’s phone and listening to their messages?"

Usually any communication has two parties. So, you can collect information with neither party consenting (phone hacking, wiretapping, etc.), one party consenting, or both parties consenting.

I would think that most of the information they collect would count as one party consenting, so it's a step up from phone hacking. But it's still worrying, of course, because the single consenting party often doesn't know they are consenting (whether they should know or not is a different matter).
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I think this fits some use-cases very nicely, where there's not enough incentive to use a proper framework like Django, also not enough incentive to mix a framework and WordPress in a CMS+app setup (e.g. http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/blog/2010/nov/24/a...), but on the other hand where doing everything as plain WP plugins would be a grueling experience. Yes, I can see myself actually enjoying this.

Of course, it'd be better if WordPress, the kick-ass blogging platform that it is, would just be a framework or be built on one, so the Tribune wouldn't have had to do this, but when stuff like WordPress and Drupal got started, (1) nobody had ever heard of MVC in PHP and (2) the OO was crap. So it's hard to blame Matt.
But what if the keyboard – unpowered and wireless – were designed for this purpose, emitting unique sounds per key, perhaps even outside normal human hearing range?
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I've always used ShieldsUp![1]; I remember using it before I even had my own computer!

[1]: https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
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Because WordPress is great, but it's a pain to do extensive development with.

Replicating WordPress functionality in Rails or Django would be an enormous job. Making WordPress more like Django was much less work.
Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Prime) revealed: Slower than iPhone 4S, Galaxy S II
How to turn a biased coin into a Fair Coin
Gruber said he wouldn't call it a Helvetica rip-off. (Though, for the life of me, I can't imagine why he thinks Arial is a rip-off, and Roboto isn't.)
//Sub/Corpus Blog: Kiefer Sutherland's The Confession ...
IQ Isn't Set In Stone, Suggests Study That Finds Big Jumps, Dips In Teens
Ask HN: What are some good paid technical security/programming magazines?
Approaching 100 million registered .COM domain names
Firefox 8 and searching Twitter in the search pane, HA DDG 4tw
So, notice the firefox search bar has all those different search engines, etc. There was an article today about firefox 8 having twitter in that engine list. Wow what a bummer to use.

Instead you can use duckduckgo.com...

Want google? !g

Want google images? !gi

Want twitter? !twitter (!t = thesaurus...) hashtags takes you to some hashtag definition page...

Want bing? !bing

Want amazon? !amazon

Its all in there, baked in. Ugh when will people stop trying to solve the "fake" problem and accept the real solution, DDG is it.
Signs that you are a bad programmer
obvious mac owner is obvious
Ballmer is the Ricky Bobby of CEOs.
ARM reveals little dog A7 processor
It makes me think of what Hitler's top generals must have told him, which led him to making bad decisions in the war.
Because he didn't carefully compare them. Gruber this morning:

"I was too kind last night. Roboto is a Helvetica rip-off. It’s Google’s Arial."
We definitely agree this is annoying. What you experienced is not the goal or intention. It actually solves a technical problem but has this undesirable side effect. Some websites have JS to force break-out of an iframe, if the site is loaded in one. Since the iframe is core to the selection process, we added this to prevent the automatic break-out. Unfortunately, it applies to everything including trying to close the browser. We'll figure out a better solution eventually, but we don't want anyone to think that this was added to increase conversions or anything in that nature.
Friend from our weekly iOS meetup in SF did this tribute in BASIC for an apple II emulator... thought it was kind of cool.

http://tributetosteve.net

Emulator is run in a java applet.
I realize what the author is saying about the GPU being slightly outdated but even at that isn't doubling the ram and having faster CPU's likely to make up for the difference in the GPU?

EDIT: Much better explanation found here:
http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/100553-why-the-galaxy-nexu...
I'm not talking about the entire system failing and falling over to the other, I'm talking about the probability that from any given point you can see enough satellites to get a fix. More satellites is better.
Looks okay in my Firefox.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1
Pretty rare for me to read magazines these days. Most of the time I read the newsgroups.
If you're not aware of it already, make sure to show this off over at www.warriorforum.com I suspect they will go crazy for this kind of thing.
And at a minimum it should not longer be trivially accessible to the company via their 'normal' procedures.
FWIW, the author, Ray Walters is one of the most Androidy people out there. He used to write for an all-Android site.
I guess my point is that only you and your employer or whoever it is that you're presenting to can decide which to use. You need to have this conversation with them.
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> Have you contributed to or created any open-sourece projects?

Yes, I have contributed patches/bug reports to open-source projects, but I'm not involved as a regular developer in any project. And I created some open-source projects, but they are only small libraries. Plus I'm active on StackOverflow.
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Hold your horses. Tell us more about this rock throwing, window breaking, glass making job creation plan of yours. This has been the most viable job creation plan I've heard of to date.
Ask HN: What are some good paid technical security/programming magazines?
I'm looking for some good technical magazines to suscribe to. Ideally they would be security and/or programming magazines.
Note that this isn't necessarily just a certificate. You're able to earn normal academic graduate credits, and in many cases, you can transfer up to 18 credits from SCPD into a Stanford master's program. It also looks quite good on a grad school application.
The demented tyranny of Wall Street 'expectations'
Good point about spending $4 at a small business instead. That will help keep existing businesses alive but it will not solve the capital problem to start a small business.
Don't use shortened URLs here, please. People like to know where they're going ;) Especially since trolls use them to get people on goatse pages.
Paypal doesn't know if you ship or not.
I provide a service (translation) for which I am frequently paid via paypal, especially from foreign clients, and can receive several thousand dollars a month (not every month, but most, anyway) without shipping anything (just delivering documents via e-mail, which paypal doesn't see).
They've made me a "premium member". I receive probably some 80% of my income via paypal.
Presumably, not all of the writers have English as their primary language. And that is part of the beauty.
The way he showed the virtual buttons last night made them seem highly customizable by each app for different purposes. So once app creators start making these custom virtual buttons for their apps, they will not have multiple versions of their app for phones with and without hardware buttons...
Google Chrome gets Bullet physics libray using Native Client
To complement your point and quoting from the link:
> The information isn't viewed by humans (not in an identifiable way)

That is until someone wants to actively query it, then it can be made human-friendly, and like you said, we don't really know just what details they are storing and how they are profiling us.

It doesn't ever escape my mind that whichever country I live could just well suddenly suffer from a state coup (or in some cases are already under dictatorships) and right then I could become a political target for the sum of all my recent activity.

Right now I'm living in a democratic state and have my civil rights, and so I act accordingly. But that's all stored somewhere and if things change, the state can simply gunpoint a service and have them disclose all my personnal data. Said service doesn't even need to have a secret agenda for my info, but they are its holders so they might be targeted.

That also brings a different point which is the security in which my information is being held. Can a big service like Facebook's or Google's be hacked? It most surely can. And then, just how much data will be compromised before it's in the wrong hands. Cyberwarfare is here.
Slow is faster
The VeriSign of privacy: How TRUSTe turned into a tech startup
So, then, how do we increase the supply of "great people?"

I argue that there is a percentage in the agriculture, call center, and manufacturing industry, if given the six years of math and programming, could be top programmers. These same people would be motivated to do so, but have families to feed and mortgages to pay.

We have potential supply. We have demand. How do we get from A to B?
You mean Prasad.
Ballmer had better hope that he's wrong. As of right now, Micro$oft is making money hand over fist off Android. If that were to go away, M$ might be in some serious trouble :p
I don't see how a non-inflated tip would decrease latex rubbing against other latex. If anything it is increased. Take a non-inflated plastic balloon and rub it against your hand => plastic rubbing plastic. Now take an inflated balloon and rub it against your hand => no plastic touching other plastic.

> to minimize chances of folds/wrinkles

Have you used a condom? The chance of lots folds/wrinkles during usage is pretty much 100%.
Reiki
I would always rather see a text tutorial than a screencast.
Ditto. Saw this happen with a small local company that was given prime placement in WalMart -- and had to up their production by about 10000%. It wiped them out.
Hmm, too bad there's no down arrow. Seriously, folks, it's 2011. Homophobia isn't clever or funny. It's not even all that offensive any more...just sort of tedious...
Good Luck!

White on bright blue hurt (not exaggerating) my eyes.

There's a type on "Head into Matchmaking" - "no thanks if you'rE not"

There's another type in 4, with an extra capital G.

The section "Do your thing" has a funny picture, with "masterful strategy" written over a crude message. Have you ever signed up to dating sites as a woman? Have you got market research from women? Women are an important part of your market, and I suspect that they'd like to know there are rigorous controls to protect them from creeps. So, maybe add that information before the joke? (I just noticed that you do have info about a quality block, but that's hidden behind a roll-over image. It's a great feature! Don't hide it.)
It might lead one to believe he's paid to do this. He downplays competitors where it sounds credible, he doesn't go around saying "Apple has a crap UI" he goes around saying "Apple phones are too expensive"
It's funny because I agreed with the top comment until you posted this. Now that you mention it though believing the positive pronouncements of your top generals at a time when you're clearly losing is delusional. Especially when it leads you to make decisions like moving Windows to Metro (therefore betting the whole company on an interface that has yet to succeed with consumers).
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Fun!

I immediately nerd-sniped myself and started playing with factorials.

Turns out it only goes up to 170!. 170! gives you a number (170 ! = 7.25741562 × 10306). 171! searches for 171 in documents.

Still fun, and pretty darn fast, too. I thought they were probably caching the results for 1 - 170, but they return just as fast for non-integer factorials as well (try 100.2!).

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial#Extension_of_factoria...)

Nice work on this, whoever did it :)
It's his typical asshattery:

Ballmer: iPhone has 'no chance'
http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/04/30/ballmer.on.iph...
Restaurants can be bootstrapped. A mobile vending unit costs ~20k. Add an extra 10k of permits, and basic inventory, and you could sell coffee somewhere near a transport hub. From there, you could add a few food items, build up savings, then lease a small restaurant.

The problem is, regulators can be very unfriendly to mobile vendors.
The value for me far outweighs the current security worry.

None of my data is life and death critical - so I dont fret too much about security.

I expect that Dropbox will get better, and the service is just invaluable to how we work.
Steve didn't make his succession plans public, but that doesn't mean they didn't exist. Publicly announcing your succession plan has no upside and lots of downside. Just ask Jay Leno or Brett Favre.
I'll second the Peepcode screencasts, they worked really well for me.
Shorter ajross: it's ok to ripoff things but it's not ok to call a ripoff a ripoff.

"But the core issue here is that you don't understand the typography industry."

The core issue here is you want to make this about me. It isn't. You don't know the first thing about what I do and don't know.

"So Helvetica Neue and Roboto are new entries in the family."

Yes, put the dominant san-serif font in publishing over the last 30+ years and a clone that debuted yesterday on an equal footing -- that's an incredibly fair and honest summary of the situation.
the writer must be Canadian to blindly trust the public profit hogs that are our data keepers.
he probably also doesn't lock his front door
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Temp account to just say, congratulations, fantastic idea and nicely executed. I would change a lot of things, been in the online dating business many years ago. Great fun...loving it!
Siri isn't sending anything to anyone. I think that's his point. Siri added a task to a calendar, just like she has always "known" how to do.
Ouch. That foil package looks like it could really scratch up the shaft.
Ubuntu 11.10, Unity and gEdit (SnapOpen and other plugins not working)
I agree that his VPs might be blowing sunshine up his arse, but that is no excuse. It’s his JOB to be such a great leader of managers that he knows how to get them to tell him the truth. It’s his job to read tons of positive press and reports and pick out the warning signs and the possible problems. It’s his job to be able to pick up one of those “cheap phones” and remember how Microsoft and cheap PCs beat Apple within an inch of death.

And if nothing else, he ought to remember how well things turned out the last time he laughed at something:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYcxvEfUikg
There are public cases of this happening with both Google and Facebook.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/google-spy/
http://gawker.com/5445592/why-you-shouldnt-trust-facebook-wi...
Looking through the source, there's code to pause the stream onhover, but it's turned off.

Considering Steve's Zen Buddhism, it strikes me as a poetic tribute; a silent reminder to let go.

"The meditator strives to be aware of the stream of thoughts, allowing them to arise and pass away without interference."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen#Sitting_meditation
Aperture measurements are relative to the lens/sensor. Most people don't understand this

f2.8 on a cameraphone =/= f2.8 on an SLR =/= f2.8 on a Medium format camera.
Google Analytics Gains “Napoleon’s March” Flow Visualization Charts
I don't really call myself a fanboy of any one camp, I use whatever I think is best. And minus catching up in applications (which WP7 is working on), I think that the experience from a Windows Phone is better than an Android hands down. Android has more flexibility but everything doesn't feel like it fits together. iOS and WP7 both have a way of making nearly everything act and seem like it fits perfectly together. Is he delusional? No, it's normal Balmer, overconfident and a bit too cocky.

I do think that if Nokia can get our a great WP7 phone soon, I believe it'll be a top 3 phone.
Excellent article. It really made me think about the responsibility we (programmers) have for protecting user information.
I wonder how this problem could be solved, though. Apple is already widely criticized for their tight control over applications (even though this article clearly shows that this control is not _that_ tight).
I do believe however, that right now Apple would be the only company who could change this trend with their App Store model; they already check every single application they offer for sale.

But the line between what's considered usage pattern analysis or creepy spying is hard to draw.
Ask HN: How do you discover and keep track of upcoming events?
So I'm building bookmarklet for events, and I've learned that there are plenty of ad-hoc ways people use to stay on top of upcoming events.

The main ones include leaving invites in their inbox. Different calendar layers and subscriptions, and plain old keeping it inside their heads. I wrote down some initial thoughts and how that let to the bookmarklet functionalities.

Would love to see if there are other methods out there that I've missed.

http://blog.tentative.ly/2011/10/why-were-building-tentative-ly/

Thanks!
Got $0 marketing budget for your app? What about EgoDollars?
You tell Siri to add a task, and then it shows up in this other thing. You can quibble about just which entity is doing the sending, but that seems even more pointless than quibbling over "taught".
This has been a challenge for us. Some types of businesses have no real need for a blog, or run on a comprehensive platforms such as Shopify or a CMS.

An ideal customer would be a SaaS business with a small staff (5-20 employees) that is big enough to be able to afford throwing a few hundred bucks at a blog, but small enough that the developers/designers don't have the bandwidth to work on a blog. Businesses this size probably have a full-time designer that could design the blog, but there is a sweet spot where it's not worth it to spend their time on anything but the revenue-producing product. Our best example is http://www.transferbigfiles.com (http://blog.transferbigfiles.com). They have a full-time developer/designer, but he simply doesn't have the bandwidth to also maintain a blog design. Is this market big enough? We think so, but there are several other potentially larger markets for our theming technology that we could easily expand into.
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The Backbone source code is concise and well documented. If you feel like you've hit a wall, it might be worth your while to read through it.

Check it out at http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/docs/backbone.html
Wow this was incredibly stupid, and link bait, and I feel dumb for clicking the link at all. Flagged.
> by serving me unobtrusive ads that don't really negatively impact my user experience

I'm not a heavy Facebook user, but what you said certainly does not apply to google.

What was once unobtrusive ads now are just ads cleverly disguised as search results in a very faint slightly different background-color box. They wanna pass the ads down as search results and that certainly impacts user experience.

These guys are wise enough not simply through the ads in there altogether, they let you grow accostumed, than just enlarge then a slight bit every now and then. That is not a mutually beneficial relationship, that's an abusive relationship.
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Steve Jobs Continued Working on Apple's 'Next Product' Until Day Before He Died
I don't begrudge Google for developing their own font based on Helvetica either.

The point of this sub-thread is really establishing that Google developed their own font based on Helvetica. A number of posters have contended that they aren't that similar.
We agree, $199 is our planned price-point for the WP theme generation.
You don't see it because you aren't looking for it, and are probably not interested in it. You're just unilaterally opposing a viewpoint.

I'll make it easy - you're not an oracle on the identities of 500 million people, no matter how many camping photos you look at. When you are, we'll be uncomfortable about you as well.
Restaurants can be bootstrapped for some limited values of "restaurant" and "bootstrap." You can also steer a car with your feet, but hands are a lot more effective.
iPhone 5?
Is Nokia's CEO a Microsoft mole?
Why would they rip off an OS with essentially no market share and dropping fast from there. Windows Phone tiles are just widgets under a different name.