skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Twitter has two key aspects.

The first is this general flow of information en masse. If you're at a party or other social event, it's like the general tone of the room. Have you ever been to a shotgun wedding? Or a corporate event where a huge success is being announced? You can walk in the room and get a sense that something good or unpopular is going on, just from the atmosphere. That's the mass twitter stream.

The second is the specific, targeted communities. My colleague down the hall is huge fan of horse racing. He curates a list of handicappers, jockeys, horse trainers and owners. If an important handicapper posts something, he's literally reading it in seconds. If my friend is following a specific horse race, he pays close attention to what race fans and trainers are saying about the horses.

If you're failing to get traction from Twitter, I would argue that you're getting lost in the stream -- you're one voice among many. You need to identify and figure out how to get in front of people who matter. That means that you need to be doing something real and useful -- not periodically tweeting some pitch.

Other social networks are similar. On Linkedin, for example, some people, especially recruiters, collect thousands of people like baseball cards, then mass-spam useless PR or other nonsense. That defeats the whole purpose of "social media"... social media is powerful because I trust and listen to people with whom I have a connection. If a friend or someone whom I respect says "Hey Duff -- you need to check this out, you'll love it", I'm there.
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Chrome 15 is here
OVIA attends startup poker and closes a round with DCM
Solving the mystery of Chinese numeric domains: 3309.com, 4399.com, 17173.com...
Don’t look now, but AWS might be a billion-dollar biz
I wonder where the operator has to stand. Maybe it takes it one side at a time?

Otherwise you'd see camera guys hiding behind trees and such, which is an amusing thought.
Yeah, that's the "pancake". It works in street-level view because there's 3D spatial data to help bound navigable regions, and because when you're at street-scale you don't mind being a little off. In this comic bookery or in any cramped space I feel like I'd need slightly higher fidelity.
Facebook friends to me look more like badges than friends.
(I don't use Facebook)

They're like Pokemon, gotta catch them all!

You may know a lot of people, but you only have a handful of friends.

(Just my opinion)
I've been finding myself using Siri for texting even while walking or doing less dangerous activities like driving. I find that I can "type" much faster with my voice, and Siri is damn accurate.
One needn't look further than Windows Phone 7, with Metro, as an example of how to do an original smartphone and tablet UI. Google could have ripped the guts out of the underlying interface assumptions that Apple made and did something completely different, but they didn't.

I'd personally prefer a competitive landscape where players do what Harris's team did at Microsoft or what Palm did with WebOS, which is to make it their own. Tiles instead of icons. Cards for switching and closing apps instead of iOS's in and out. Big players who copy are bad for innovation, not good for it.
Plus you can't beat free.
I've had bad online forum responses from people who were depressed before, when I posted this advice on how to fel happier, so I actually appreciate the feedback.

Still, I find it interesting that -- even though this advice would help many people to feel happier at will -- I get so much defensiveness in response. What is wrong with proposing a natural means to treat the symptoms of something, even if it does have a deeper cause? Is anything other than recognizing the need for a dose of drugs to correct a hormonal imbalance wrong? I'm just trying to understand the reaction, and I have no doubt that it's a genuine one. It goes far beyond the "drug industry + FDA vs natural remedies" thing. I mean, I find it fascinating: advice like that would be very useful to me and a lot of people who were not clinically depressed, like a psychological toolset to feel better, and which could, over the long term, actually bring about measurable changes in habits and confidence to feel better, and thus MAY, or at least has potential to, actually improve a long term condition.

I am just writing this to try to understand. Why do you intend to denigrate what I said by calling it a "Church Newsletter List". What does this have to do with religion? Am I not supposed to share my methods of feeling happier with someone who is Depressed (with a capital D, which was Diagnosed in the DSM-IV)? Am I not supposed to share ways I help motivate myself psychologically, with a person who is for example an alcoholic? I should just keep quiet about tools and technology that I have found useful to effect positive changes in myself, because someone is a Depressed, an Alcoholic, a Cripple, or whatever suddenly makes them "different"? Should I be scared of the moral "wrongness" to treat them with camaraderie, like other people I believe to be capable of understanding things? The only right thing to do is to refer them to a medical professional who will prescribe them drugs, and get the hell out of the way -- certainly never share any advice?

I listed 8 thing that you can try in your own life which will make you feel happier. It won't cure depression. I never claimed it cures depression. If you don't have the will to get better, you may not want to do them. But if you DO have the will to feel HAPPY in 10 mins, then doing them may help you, even if temporarily. What is wrong with that?

I just want to understand the reasons behind the reaction.
>Now that premise in itself is silly and you know it. (I could get a code sample for any language that would be impossible to understand by someone who doesn't know anything about tha language and it wouldn't even have to be a complicated one.)

The difference, and reason his statement is relevant, is that perl is one of the easiest languages to find these kinds of examples for. Where there is smoke, etc.

>Few languages are as evolvable as Perl.

[citation needed] Are you aware of what is being done in other languages. Does perl run on the JVM yet?

>Nowadays Perl has a better object system than Ruby

This is a subjective statement, right? If not, I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask for citations again.

>and the only hard part is getting it into the core

Oh, right. So as a new programmer I'm going to have to dig around to figure out how to pull things in to make the language modern after I've already gone through the trouble of getting it setup? I saw a "modern best practices use recommendation" one time. There were like 25 or so (I'm not even joking) use statements at the top of the file. If you give me 25 lines to pull stuff in I could probably make BF usable.
Let's wait for "Weightless journey", Space tourism is coming
You give no basis for your rejection of item 4, and while IANAL, I think you are wrong. I have definitely worked for companies whose corporate counsel advised us software engineers not to read patents related to the work we were doing. There is little to be gained by doing so, I was told, and it would expose the company to the possibility of triple damages if it somehow became known that we had infringed a patent we had read.

Yes, there are people who read patents, but AFAIK, at least in the area of software, they are not usually practitioners.

All that said, I actually agree with you that discarding the patent system entirely, even just for software, would be throwing out the baby with the bathwater -- but I also have to agree with those who argue that in the case of software, the baby/bathwater ratio is just awfully small.
Students will get this device for $35.

It is not just about courses in youtube. Quite a few courses are already available in the educational network in India. At present, only a small section of the students have access to these; that too, only at school. The main objective of the government is to provide means to access these courses.
Social networks in Brazil: Orkut in decline, Facebook growing
Hate the game, not the players.

And Google has adopted the same strategy. Corporations do not have any human sense of morals, fairness, or ethics much as mobs will commit crimes any individual in the mob would never consider. Groups do not think and function like individuals.

And we can't expect these for-profit groups to spend energy fixing the system. Any single company would be penalized compared to its peers if it spent time, people, and money lobbying governments for change.

The solution must be individuals and/or a consortium of some sort.
Ok, but you would need to take into account the interaction with other traders' models that are put into play all the time...
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One is a declaration, one is an expression. And, believe me, I taught C++ for a while and this already causes a lot of confusion.
you don't need to take yourself seriously enough, you just do it. haha, sounds so much like "just toughen up". I use this iphone app where I get 10 minutes exercise sequences, it also has this nice sideeffect of counting points and stuff like that. and 10 minutes makes a world of difference.

sleep I don't really have a good handle on at all.
Which is your preferred online hotel reservation site?
"Bing helps make decisions easier." That's true because I'm deciding to not install this.
I wrote my own Python client for Recurly API v1 that I released a few days ago (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/recurlib) and asked them, last week, if I had their permission to release it publicly, not because I technically needed it but as a courtesy. I also asked them if they had any requests on what I should or should not name it; I thought it would only be polite to give them first dibs on the PyPi name. I also asked them if they had any requests on what license I should use. In the process, I reported a large number of bugs on the v1 API. They never answered any of my questions straight, they just said "we're releasing our own Python client". They never mentioned that releasing their own Python client was going to coincide with an updated API and that I was actively coding against a soon-to-be deprecated interface.

So thanks, Recurly. I spent a week writing a library to add value to your product without so much as a "good job" or a "that's cool", and when I extended every courtesy I could you basically said "fuck you" to me in every way possible.
Short Takes: Are we turning Steve Jobs into a saint?
"Many of those likely to use or own the the Aakash Tablet will never have used a desktop computer, and it’s possible they never will."

Not sure why, but I love concepts like this.
Really great job overall. One minor issue with the accept/reject buttons on the report.

When you hover over the buttons, they appear grayed out. This may be an intentional way of signaling that you can't actually perform those actions. But if not, I'd encourage you to just use a different shade of red/green.
"The most dangerous species of owner is one who gets into the business for love"
I'm actually not thinking about a specific period, I was just referring (maybe naively) to the time before computer assisted analysis became so widespread (before the eighties, I guess).
Looks like a solid product. Not quite the halo product I was looking for from Nokia but the challenge now with WP7 is getting users and apps for their ecosystem.

Users won't come over until WP7 gets a feature that users can love and show off. Apple builds up a wow feature for pretty much every single iPhone launch: 2g: (revolutionary, at the time) iPhone OS, 3g/s: Apps, 4: Facetime, 4S: Siri. A fast and dedicated camera button (one of WP7's main selling points) doesn't cut it.
That's apparently wrong:

http://nokiagadgets.com/2011/10/20/n9-broke-pre-order-record...
India has a big problem with rampant political corruption.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_India
My assumption is that after Arrington was ousted, they went back to their old ways.

Kind of sad, really.
Here's another one: http://maps.google.com/?q=Scream%20Sorbet,%20Oakland,%20CA

This one's my business. They came to shoot the interior as a perk for participating in a "Google Offer". I think this is how they are rolling it out, at least in the Bay Area. To me, the results came out fine, although I worry that it now makes "casing the joint" a little easier.

It took them two visits to get it right. The first time apparently had some silly technical glitch where the automatic processor didn't stitch the photos together correctly. It took maybe 20-30 minutes for the full visit, which would make doing this universally quite a chore.
Coaches and CEOs- Not so Different
Should Nokia just draw the curtains?
"Simply that a lot of people have tried something and failed to achieve it doesn't mean anything."

Yes it does. It doesn't prove anything, but it does mean something.

I'd point out that we've surrounded command lines with a lot of accoutrement over the years, like history, conditionals, and various ways of outputting things such that we can debug our system. The utility of the command line would plunge if we didn't have any of those, and it is completely unclear how to add those to Siri without turning it into simply another programming environment, a voice-activated interface to Yahoo Pipes.

I'd submit that there is a certain irreducible complexity in the command line, and despite how fuzzy and wonderful it may make you feel when using it, wrapping a voice interface around this complexity makes it worse, not better. Or we'd already be doing it. If this is trying to do the mathematically impossible task of reducing a task's complexity below the number of bits it actually has, then yes, it is impossible, too.
Visiting the page on an Ubuntu box yields a more or less blank page with the message "Sorry, this download is not supported by your system."

What download? I guess I'll never know.
Won't be surprised either when this page is the #1 search result for Firefox on bing.com
sweet, that's pretty close to where I grew up. What other places can I "walk" into?

I dragged the little guy around, and all it shows are streets that I can view (even a parking lot, which seems pretty retarded).
I don't think adapting the Android to the N9 would be that hard. Nokia already has a lot of very competent Linux developers (their failure is much more on the application layer than the OS).

It could be that Nokia wouldn't survive long enough to put out an Android phone had it not received the money injection Microsoft provided for the to adopt WP7. Still, they took a very risky road. With that injection they bought time and it seems they kept a plan-B around Linux.

Anyway, I am sure Nokia will sell a lot of WP7 phones. It's not that hard to double WP7's vanishingly small market share. Their sales org is not aimed to you or me - they sell phones to telcos, not end users. That's also why they managed to get so out of touch with what the users wanted.
Click here to see pinch to zoom in action in 2006.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKh1Rv0PlOQ&feature=playe...
Part of having a differentiated product is avoiding market confusion. While there is certainly some back-and-forth between Google and Apple, are there those here that don't think Samsung may have gone too far in mimicking so much about the iPhone/iPad experience? (From using Apple's icons in their sales displays to photoshopping iPhone screenshots for their phone, along with similar packaging and unboxing, ... the list goes on.)

Yes, some sharing is good for consumers, but at some point the knockoffs need to be called on it. The whole discussion boils down to where that line is.
I'll probably be torn apart for this but I dare say it anyway: in short, I didnt like the author's cocky attitude at all.

I couldn't agree more that there are a lot of (cr)apps out there but what bugged me was the implication that the author's opinion on the apps he had in mind was somehow more valid than others'. That probably wasn't the intention but that's how it came off. It's hard to articulate but there was this general I'm-better-than-everyone-else attitude that came through. Didn't like the smugness. I think that if he felt so strongly and really believed in his premise as strongly as it seemed that he _should_ have named names.

That said, the thoughts on code and design make sense and are good points that get lost in the cloud of smug that permeates the post. The (cr)apps are here to stay but consumers will catch on quick and get better at spotting them thus putting (cr)app makers out of business or forcing them to do a better job. In my experience it feels like that's already happening.
David Lloyd (illustrator of V for Vendetta) talks about that now infamous mask
I think the rate of change of the underlying technology plays a role here.

If you make a new cooking device that's somehow easier, it seems like a patent is a reasonable protection of your innovation. Cooking has been around for a long time, so if you come up with something clever that saves a few minutes, then that must be novel.

However, with technology changing so fast, it seems to change the equation. When good touchscreens came out that would fit nicely on a phone, there was really no "standard" way of using them in that context. So, almost by definition, the first few things that people implement are both new and obvious.

It's not that such things aren't somewhat innovative. But it seems like it's going too far to grant long-term patent protection for such things.

Maybe we need a 3-year version of a patent that can cover fast-changing areas like this? I feel pretty confident that someone would have invented a good UI independently of the iPhone (whether similar to the iphone or not) within about 3 years of the availability of the underlying technology.
"key strengthening attacks"

Please do not use Markov chains to construct posts or refrain from commenting on things you do not actually understand.
Re. your eloquent bracket: the "true number of bits", as in "the most compact description of any given state of a system", is in general uncomputable (see Kolmogorov complexity), for any sufficiently powerful language of description.

If you require notions such as "the true minimum number of bits" to be practical, you have to put additional restrictions on the language by which you describe the system -- such as your probability model. The representation does matter.
Just type

$ sudo gainroot

on any Nokia Maemo/MeeGo device
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This set me to imagining: every item in the store is dropped into a box before being put on the shelf. The box contains cameras on every interior face to snap a set of 360° views of the item. The UPC code is scanned and entered into inventory. The item goes on the shelf. If sold, the sale removes that item from inventory.

Each night after store closing, a Store View bot roams the aisles taking pictures and updating for the next day.

You browse to the store on Google Street View, go inside with Store View, and if you see an item you like, you draw a box around it and ask the image search algorithm to look for a match based on appearance. It finds the item, tells you how much it costs, and gives you the option to buy it.

Stores would get some basic frequency (annual?) of scan free, more frequent scans or keeping a bot on premises to scan every night would cost more. Integration of the online store would have a fee attached to every purchase. Prices and discounts could be updated daily and there could be different incentives for online vs. in-store purchases.

As data storage and computational power get cheaper and cheaper, and image recognition algorithms get more sophisticated, this would seem to be a potential outcome. A package of algorithms could even be marketed as a store manager: moving stock that has sat on the shelf too long with discounts, predicting what will require reorders soonest, integration with price comparison engines to analyze competitiveness, etc. Once imagery is dissectable and searchable in the same way that language is, things could get very interesting very fast.
It's a fundamental difference I think. Indeed the only thing that Siri and CLIs have is that they are non-graphical.

This is actually the similarity that matters. In a GUI interface, you have to page through "commands" to find what you are looking for. In CLIs and Siri, you simply go straight to the command by typing or speaking.

Programmers love CLIs because, after the initial cost of learning the commands, you can do things much faster than a GUI. But, speed of executing commands is less important on the desktop than on a phone, which is why I suspect most normal users don't bother to learn a CLIs.

But when you're on a phone with trying to tell your boss you're running late while coming down a flight of stairs, Siri is going to come in real handy.
Or you could, you know, do what other languages do and just move on to perl 6. It was meant to replace perl 5 after all. To be honest, as a outsider this whole movement of keeping perl 5 around forever after perl 6 is getting closer and closer to usable is one of the most bizarre, cultish things I've ever seen in the tech community (and that's saying a lot).
I wonder if the PC they tapped was a single corer? I imagine > 1 core (if > 1 were being used) would muddy the signal somewhat. Also, peripheral device (or even GPU) operations would do the same (muddy the signal) - so I guess like a lot of attacks - they work best when conditions suit their vector.
I don't see the relevancy of the StackExchange question at all.

As for the business that resells PC games, they are doing so at great risk to themselves. I'm aware of every small game store in Toronto and I have never seen one that would even begin to consider reselling PC games. There might be a way to do it with a strictly warehouse model but in a brick and mortar situation it's just not feasible. Simply verifying if CD keys are active would absorb way too much time and money.

One business has made a go at it, it's still hardly standard for the industry and TBH I wouldn't buy anything from them and neither would 99% of people. The CD Key system is designed for one user/one seat. Anything past that is strictly on the honour system. As someone who has been burned by pirated hardware carts, I don't trust a used PC game for a second.

This is not a common thing at all, and I still think the "reselling used games" argument is basically irrelevant when it comes to PC games. We lost that fight decades ago, it's time to move on.
Not to discourage you guys, but, this tablet is horrible. I am a class X Indian student, just got this for 2300 from the government outlet at Delhi. Its too slow. The battery only lasts an hour or so even if it's plugged in for 5 hours.
YouTube, is also way too bad.
Wifi connectivity is messed up. To switch to a new network, you have to restart the device.
It feels a bit cheap on the outside too and neither my USB Keyboard nor my external Hard disk was compatible.
I'll give it a rating of 3 out of 6.

It's basically slow with its 300mhz processor. You can easily get 600mhz tabs at 38$ directly from the Chinese factories.

But, there is one good thing about this, which is the GPRS capability. It also comes with 100 mb free data per month plan.
Looks innovative.

Userinterface needs some improvement, how about using a mouse wheel to navigate forward/backword. Move mouse left/right to turn.
Why Is Yahoo Suddenly Some Sort of Prize?