skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The implementations are not feature-complete, but if that's your sole criterion, then neither C nor C++ are out yet.

That's a little disingenuous. I'm a Perl fan and I'd like to use Perl 6 practically, but the fact that someone wrote a Tetris clone in one of multiple incomplete implementations of Perl 6 doesn't mean that Perl 6 is actually useful for much.
Then what's the incentive for Apple to do just that? IOS5 runs on the iPhone 3GS, which is older than the Nexus One.
Maybe it's something else, then, but I don't know what it could be -- I don't have any background apps and I set it to ping for mail every 30 minutes. Maybe my LG does poorly when signal strength gets low? (AT&T coverage is spotty in Chicago, particularly near the lake)

But, I could use my old iPhone 3g for a couple of solid days, even listening to streaming music and doing stuff on it. With my LG Quantum, I'm almost afraid to turn the screen on to see if I have any text messages.
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I read the entire thing and all I could think about it was: Too Much Information. Seriously.
For the record, there's a free version of IntelliJ now. (Community Edition)
> What I found interesting on reading the 'rider' is that he still refers to the GNU operating system as though it is in daily use. I've yet to see a HURD based system do anything useful in production but half the world wide web seems to run on Linux these days. Of course linux is 'merely a kernel'.

Considering that glib, libc, gcc, emacs, the vast majority of the Unix utilities, bash, grub, autoconf, make, readline, gzip, tar, screen, wget, and Gnome are all GNU projects[0], I would say that GNU is most definitely in daily use. The Linux kernel isn't much use without the software on top of it, and it's nothing at all without the compiler that turns it into machine code.

[0] See https://www.gnu.org/software/software.html#allgnupkgs for the full list.
Its confusing as well. Before clicking the link I thought they would be icons (newer ones, naturally) which were designed from scratch using CSS.
Written out in black-and-white it seems rather cold and heartless, but it merely clarifies what would be a normal practice.

If a guest in your house is uncomfortable/unable to eat what you're having, and has given no prior notice, then it can be quite a problem to find out right when mealtime is approaching.

This is a sensible way of avoiding unnecessary conflict.
Influence by Cialdini

4 Steps to the Epiphany is a phenomenal book on selling new b2b IT products.

Secrets of Question-based Selling is the best consultative sales book

SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham is also quite good

Tested Advertising Methods and Scientific Advertising continue to be two of the best books on copywriting, despite being very old.
> open-source ideals,

You didn't read the part of the rider about "open source".
You're right, and overfitting cannot be an explanation for this phenomenon -- when there are many equally valid alternative outcomes to a problem, which is what's being described, the solution is underdetermined by definition.

In the (ML) terms I'm used to, it is as an error surface with many local minima. That is, if you start out with a guess for the parameters and try to progressively optimize the cost function to reach a point where the error is lowest (i.e. the tangent of the error is 0), where you end if is extremely dependent on where you start out. When you find a local minimum, you have found a point where there is no nearby point that is better, but there may be some other point (or many) somewhere else in the model that is better. The very best one is the global minimum.

This is a well known problem in ML for non-convex error functions, and there are various methods for trying to avoid local minima and reach a global minimum.

But this case is actually worse than that -- it is an error surface with many global minima. Each is effectively a perfect fit for the data to date, but give different predictions about future data. Since each function is a perfect fit, it is literally impossible to predict the proper parameters. Which is what underspecification is.
Have you all ever taken a look at Django-DBBackup?

http://pushingkarma.com/projects/django-dbbackup/

What is your opinion on it? Compared to South?
I've only upgraded one of the 3GS's to iOS 5, and my experiences pretty much match this:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4956/apple-ios-5-review/15

Basically, as fast or faster than 4.3. But mine is a development-only device with no music or other content, so maybe that's the difference.
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You are right. To prescribe a course of action is to make a prediction (that this action will lead to results in some way superior to alternative courses). The reverse, as you correctly point out, is not necessarily the case.
Current revenue growth is around 50% annually; if that continues, it will reach the lower edge of your target (5X) in 48 months. Assuming of course it can maintain its margins.
I haven't used AWS in a while. Is there a pattern to the AWS IP addresses? (e.g. are they using a set of specific blocks? ...that seems too simple). The other interesting data point would be how much AWS resource is consumed by Amazon itself. I understand that they have been moving big pieces of infrastructure onto AWS over the past couple years.
Only after I find a trustworthy wi-fi connection that'll allow proxy-less SSH.
Just fill it with parrots.

I mean, that wasn't specifically mentioned as a no-no.
"It would save a ton of time coordinating with speakers beforehand making sure everything is in accordance with their (and our) expectations,"

Saving time is a probably one of the main motivations for this document. From the rider:

"I have no vacations. (Don't feel sorry for me; idleness is not something I wish for.) I have to spend 6 to 8 hours every day doing my usual work, which is responding to email about the GNU Project and the Free Software Movement. Work comes in every day for me, and if I skip it one day, I have to catch up another day"
This is cool but isn't this what SVG (ignoring browser incompatibilities) is for? CSS is for affecting the layout of the content. In most uses a logo is content, that content could still be affected by style, but I don't think it should be entirely defined by CSS.
I imagine that this is not due to the n1 being "underpowered" per se, as the nexus s has roughly the same specs as the n1, but more internal storage. The problem is due to the fact that the n1 can't accommodate the ics image, which google is claiming is about twice as large in size. /speculation
Our logo on https://entrydns.net/ is also made in CSS entirely
Nokia slashes N8 prices by £140 (preparing to phase out Symbian^3?)
Perhaps it is my experience in reading many of these riders in the past but I actually found this rider to be very reasonable and well thought out.

I would imagine it's an evolution of compiling best-case scenarios and trying to limit the worst.

You have to take into account that Dr. Stallman travels a lot and has to be a guest considerably more than most other people. Usually the people reading this rider want to make him feel at home and cater to his whims.

I would like to say that I'm surprised but honestly I'm not. Sure RMS has some odd behaviors but pretty much everyone who has dedicated a tremendous amount of energy to a cause as he has come with a cavalcade of interesting behaviors. Everything I've read about RMS as a person has revealed that he is generally a well thought out and decent person.. with some polarizing fundamental beliefs.
Agreed. I used to think that I didn't like VS because I also didn't like .NET. I still don't like .NET, but after using other IDE's for other languages (primarily Jetbrains' products) I have grown to dislike it even more.

It feels like the Internet Explorer of IDE's to me. I am not sure whether or not my distaste is justified since I am well aware that it is a powerful IDE, I just hate how bloated it all feels. That and its incredibly annoying that once I wish to uninstall it, I end up having to uninstall about 20 other programs too. Very obnoxious.
Point 1 should be "allow people to login via Facebook/Twitter/Openid/etc if possible, and hash the password using bcrypt() otherwise". sha1 isn't going to slow an attacker down.
You have a point, but the term "design" also applies to writing code, in this case CSS.

So I think the title still applies.
I hate to be "that dick" so let me first say that this is damn impressive stuff; kudos to the authors for some serious CSS wizardry!

It's also completely and totally useless. The person / people who did this are obviously talented and have a lot of expertise. I'd really rather see people with this level of ability contributing meaningful, useful tools / techniques to the community rather than seeing this type of post over and over again.

I can hear the arguments now, "but it shows off the power of CSS!"

No, it doesn't. It shows off what a clever person can achieve by tinkering with a system; but there's no practical value to most of the techniques demonstrated. CSS has a lot of power; but its best demonstrated by projects like the CSS Zen Garden that show off real-world CSS use.
Logo are content, so they should be displayed with img, either as raster (png or gif) or as vector (svg).
Nothing is left to ambiguity?

A supply of tea with milk and sugar would be nice. If it is tea I really like, I like it without milk and sugar. With milk and sugar, any kind of tea is fine. I always bring tea bags with me, so if we use my tea bags, I will certainly like that tea without milk or sugar.

Really, I think he's just screwing with us. Douglas Adams would be proud.
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"I didn’t receive the DEC message, but I can’t imagine I would have been bothered if I have. I get tons of uninteresting mail, and system announcements about babies born, etc. At least a demo might have been interesting."

I actually laughed at that.
I don't know what your definition of personal success is, but if I had been Jobs I would have been an utter failure by my own personal standards. I don't think your average scientist defines success in terms of personal wealth accumulation, because they picked the wrong road to get there.
...so we can call it "GNU slash Linux"

I never knew he pronounced the slash in GNU/Linux. Not very brandable IMO.
There is no comparison to South. South is used for migrating table schema, not backing up.
I may remember it wrong, but I believe you need at least double the sampling rate vs the frequency you want to record. And even then it's a very crude representation of the acoustic signal (Basically a one-bit resolution).
It's sad when a phone that's only 1.5 years old is "too old". I really enjoyed my N1 with Cyanogenmod, but switched back to iPhone when news of T-Mobile's acquisition by AT&T started coming out.
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Dunno why you got downmodded... Anyway, yeah the Nexus One is definitely not bug free. But it's been the case with things on the iPad too, but in general it's pretty stable. I don't use it as much throughout the day as the N1 though, so, I don't really have a great stability sense for it. Also, this kind of goes to the apples-to-oranges value of my experience, since I'm using the two things fairly differently.
When I was going through an incubator I decided that leadership is listening to all of the advice and experience and then actually making my own decision.
I just deleted my comment after reading this. You said exactly what I had planned to.

I wish the time spent on this project was put towards something more useful.
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There is probably a negligible bandwidth optimization doing it this way.

It's more just an impressive feat that pushes the boundaries of what's imaginable using CSS.
in general once a person's contact has run for two years they get a new phone

That kind of market calculus made sense before the recession. Now the value proposition has changed, and while people may still buy newer hardware (such as tablets) they expect better value from their tech purchasing because increasing wealth is no longer a given. Also, people are more suspicious of corporations in general, especially ones that are sitting on a large cash pile. Public sentiment is fickle and can quickly bite a company in the ass - look at how far the stars of Groupon and Netflix have fallen in just two quarters.

The idea that everyone should replace their smartphone every two years says either that your firm is not interested in supplying the less well-off, or else that it doesn't much care whether its products end up in landfill or not. Sure, Apple locks down its hardware platform so tightly that maintaining backwards compatibility is far easier than it is for Google, but note how Apple products maintain a high resale value and that allows them to sell new ones at a premium price point without hurting demand. Apple may be hard to deal with for developers, but Apple consumers feel the firm treats them like Kings or Queens. Google overlooks this market positioning strategy at its peril; loyalty is a two-way street, and the firm should know this very well given its historical disruption of the Yahoo/Altavista/Lycos triumvirate that dominated search back in ~1998.
it could be revolutionary if it helps create a slew on android education/entertainment apps meant for low CPU / low network tablets.

note the official poverty line in India is about $1/day and 30% of the population is below it. These people are not worried about YouTube videos.
I'll be impressed when someone can build a logo out of CSS... semantically.
"All models are wrong. Some models are useful."
- George Box
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I wonder: If he's sleepy and you don't provide a couple of Pepsi's, does he just nod off in mid-speech? "Let me remind you, it's not just Linux, it's Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..."
The fact that Android phones are far outselling iPhones right now says nothing about the overall active device presence of Android devices vs iOS devices. iOS is on phones, tablets, and digital music players (all with internet capability) and have been selling for longer than any Android device. I believe the current counts are 250 million iOS vs 190 million Android devices. Earlier this year (which is probably closer to when the studies were held) the numbers were 200 million and 130 million, respectively.

So yes, until recently iOS devices outnumbered Android around 2:1. It makes sense then that 2/3rds of the mobile search market comes from iOS. Trying to read any more into this is silly, even by Gruber's quite low standards of taking anything he can to spin that Google is doing poorly.
Assuming you mean "were cut-throat and sometimes downright rude [against employees]", I'd guess it's mostly because talent is much scarcer today than it was twenty years ago.
I believe they will come November, according to their store page.
Exactly. The G1 was technically EOL'd at Android 1.6, but a coworker been running 2.2 on his for well over a year now using a custom ROM.
As someone also doing production Django for a web-app (as opposed to a news/content site) I'm thrilled to see a team committed to posting lessons-learned... but I'm always suspicious of "We're gonna post lots of great stuff here.. you know, soon." So hopefully you start coughing up the content. Looking forward to it :)
I think you're right. running out of onboard space is an issue if I install too many apps on the N1.
>> I can hear the arguments now, "but it shows off the power of CSS!"

I think it's naive to assume that this is not meaningful or useful.

It will certainly open creative doors in enough developers' brains to lead to innovations on other projects.

Not to mention serve as a portfolio to get the authors more business.

To me that's not useless.
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This isn't a hardware capacity issue. The Snapdragon has a 1 GHz CPU very similar to the Cortex A8, an Adreno 200 GPU broadly comparable to an SGX 535, and the same 512MB of DRAM that all the other phones of its generation have.

Its UMTS radio wouldn't make the cut on today's store shelves, and its camera sucks. But fundamentally this is about planned obsolescence. Google doesn't want to have to pay to maintain the driver stack and QA infrastructure for an old phone.
It is great! Unfortunately, it can't be downloaded from SlideShare, although you can from here: http://toys.jacobian.org/presentations/2009/oscon/real-world...
Confessions of an iPhone user who switched to Android
This is really impressive.

I've never seen something like this in pure CSS. If anyone knows of anything this impressive, please post a link to it.
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The Linux kernel isn't much use without the software on top of it, and it's nothing at all without the compiler that turns it into machine code.

Or without the its own license, the GNU GPL.
The difference is that 3GS is still being sold. N1 wasn't available on shelves well over one year.
The problem is that you're comparing statistical methods with process-based methods. The mathematically inclined tend to have a reflex to approach modeling wiht this sort of black box methods. The thing is that for modeling processes like geomorphology, hydrology but also less quantitative processes like quality of life in urban environments, black box methods cannot be verified nor reasoned about - with issues like overfitting etc. becoming a problem.

On the other hand, you can model by building conceptual models, calibrating them by hand (using computer methods for the number crunching only) and reasoning about divergences between model results and observed data rather than computing them away with raw power. This is what modeling should be about - a tool for understanding.

(this topic is dear to my heart - I have had this discussion so often. Models are not crystal balls, they are tools for understanding processes. Which is why I am so desperate when another economist, mathematician or computer scientist stands up and wants to model processes that require understanding with their barbaric brute force statistical methods to not have to study things that are outside of their comfort zone. When all you have is a hammer etc.)
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I thought the iPod and iPhone would do great. So did many others. As I'm sure is the guy who actually came up with the ideas that were present in the iPod, which may or may not have been Steve Jobs himself. My point is, he may have had the insight to design the iPod in its glorious form, or maybe he just recognized it in someone else's work (Apple engineers/designers/whatever), just as millions did when it went on sale. So who's the genius(es)?
> No details about the planned solar panel array or its potential power output are known at this time

Taking the 171 acre figure we can compute at least the limits of what it could do.

171 acres is about 700,000 square meters. At a solar incidence of about 1 KW / square meter and an efficiency of 23% that's 161 MW peak power and an average of 4.7 sun hours per day will give about 750 MWh of usable electricity every day.

This calculation ignores shading effects and assumes that the panels will be stationary rather than tracking, you could probably easily deduct another 50% to account for those effects, so say 375 MWh give or take and 80 MW peak. Likely these figures are still very high, think of it as the maximum amount of solar power that you could extract at that location from incident sunlight without further accounting for conversion losses (solar panels produce DC, you'll need inverters if you want AC power, some data center equipment can run on 48V DC but you'd still need a conversion step for that) and so on.

I wonder how big a chunk of the total power requirements for a datacenter that size will be covered by this PV system, to be 100% effective it would have to be sized at least 6 times larger than the total power consumption of the DC, using the grid as a storage system.
Kind of... if you buy it without extending your existing contract with AT&T, it'll be unlocked when you activate it. I don't think you can just roll in and buy it for cash and without an existing carrier account.
Some of the things in the rider are definitely odd, but the only one that I would really consider unreasonable is the "GNU/Linux" thing. Yes, I know that the GNU project has done a lot of work for Linux, but on the other hand there are a lot of Linux distros that do not use an all-GNU userland anymore.
MixRank (YC S11) is hiring engineers to solve hard problems at massive scale
MixRank (YC S11) is looking for a generalist hacker who will work with us to make online advertising less annoying, more relevant, and more effective. We want to bring the same kind of predictive analytics investment banks use to online advertising. Think of this as one giant optimization problem, with tremendous rewards if we can get it right.

At MixRank, we're:

-building web crawlers that index the web, tracking hundreds of millions of ad placements per day

-analyzing this massive amount of advertising data and writing algorithms to identify the best performing ads and traffic sources for advertisers

-funded by Y Combinator, 500Startups, and several great angels

-building a real business; we have thousands of advertisers using our analytics and have been growing revenue by 46% per week

About the job:

-We're still an early stage startup, and you're going to be one of our first hires

-You'll be able to work independently and own large portions of functionality

-You can work whenever you want (even the middle of the night), as long as you can get things done

-You can set up your work environment however you like, including any hardware you want

-You'll get generous equity and market salary

-You'll be like a founder and help us build the company, including being involved in critical decisions like system architecture and hiring

-We want to hire motivated, entrepreneurial people whose next job will be founder of their own startup

About Us: http://mixrank.com/about#team

About you:

-You’re a highly productive coder, self-motivated and able to learn new skills quickly

-You're hungry, ambitious, independent, curious and driven
-We're based in San Francisco, so you should be local to the Bay Area or willing to relocate

-You develop on Linux or OSX

-Some of the technologies we use every day include Python, PostgreSQL, Javascript, Git, Bash, and Unix/Linux; experience in any of these is nice, but we like generalists that can pick up new things quickly

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If this looks like a good fit,shoot an email to jobs@mixrank.com and tell us about yourself.
People have mentioned a lot of great apps here for both Android and iOS.

What they forget is that all those apps get their information from somewhere and a lot of it is coming from hobbyists and amateur astronomers putting it up on http://www.heavens-above.com and SeeSat mailing list for free (yes, a lot of space-celebs like Hubble and ISS have a known orbit, but those guys have catalogued virtually every object launched by humans, including many top-secret satellites).

Just thought it is appropriate to give respect where respect is due.