skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you sure about that? I do not almost nothing about those early years, but I get the impression that what made the Apple ][ a success is that it got accepted as a office machine. It got that status because it had a case and a keyboard.

VisiCalc played a role here, too, but I think it came to the Apple ][ because it was (relatively) popular in business, and then helped increase sales, rather then that it made the Apple ][ popular completely on its own.

Now, why did the Apple ][ get a case to start with? I think that was more Jobs' than Woz's work (<http://allaboutstevejobs.com/blog/tag/woz/>)
Ironically, the new algorithm does not allow people learn on their mistakes. Their upvoted score is silently incremented and that's all.

BTW it is actually quite valuable for new people to look through that article and read later comments about why it is bad. To learn how to read critically articles posted on HN and elsewhere.
"Go blog yourself" works too. And, blogging one's self might be even more self-indulgent than the alternative.
This sounds like we're tackling a symptom not the disease. Instead of figuring out how to stop bankers from being paid so much in bonuses, we should answer ask why a few times.

"Why can banks pay their employees so much?" - because they make so much money, and have so few employees.

"Why can banks make so much money?" - I'm not sure but it seems like banks can take risks, but pass off the real risk to others.

"Why can banks take risks, but not have to worry about the downside of those risks" - ...

I think if you follow that train of thinking you'll get to some structural problem in our current system. It doesn't seem like there is an easy fix here.
It's not? How about:

* passwords required to connect to the IRC server,

* passwords required to use given nickname (enforced via NickServ),

* SSL.
Every comment I've made here acknowledges that the whole idea behind the GPS tracker is to make it cheaper (and more effective and safer, but mostly cheaper) to tail people. I think that's a good thing. Believe it or not, I think that when the FBI wants to tail someone --- not snoop on their email, listen to their phone calls, paw through their garbage, pull their financial records, but actually tail someone --- I generally want them to be able to do that.

As has been said over and over and over by everyone literally everyone here including me, they clearly shouldn't have access to everyone's telemetry data by default. But $200 (and be honest it's the FBI they're probably paying $5000, but, sure, $200) seems fine to me. "If you are willing to put $200 on the line to do it, you should be able to tail someone from a computer screen instead of an unmarked car". Yes, that works for me.
Smell is an interesting one. Memory along with visual is tied to smells. A lot of UI is based off of memory recognition. It would neat to see a UI based off of smell (i.e. smell flowers if hit right button)
I retract my comment about who would invest in this company. Yes I agree innovation is needed in the banking world, and I don't know anything beyond the website. So right now there is too much missing information about their first product to speculate.
Yeah, there needs to be a clear distinction in advance between entities which can be bailed out (and thus must be highly regulated) and entities which can experiment/innovate freely (but which can't socialize their losses).

LTCM would have clearly been "not bailed out", except it was. Admittedly not directly by the USG/FR, but at the direction of the Federal Reserve.
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It's said to be a 32 bit refcounter bug, making it near impossible to predict the triggering packet over WAN.
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I think it's more intrusive to actually be tailed: they can see who's in the car with you, they can watch what you do with that person when the car stops, they can see what you're eating, they know when you get out of the car, they know if you're talking to someone outside the car, and any number of other things. And they can get all that stuff today without a warrant; they will never need a warrant to tail someone.
The author of the article and the people who advocate his opinion are delusional! Giving bonuses is how banks work these days.
it looks like someone forgot to decrement a reference count where they
should have.

in microsofts defense, these kinds of bugs are extremely difficult to
reason about and I'm not aware of any product, service or technique
that you can buy, train in, or subscribe to to enable your developers
to accurately reason about reference counting and concurrency.
microsoft spends more $ per loc on security than any other
organization on Earth so if this slipped through their process,
similar bugs probably slip through your processes too.

there are countermeasures in place especially in windows 7 and forward that would make exploitation of this extremely difficult (aslr, safe unlinking in the kernel heap, etc).
You're absolutely right: it is a spatial resolution problem. There are only so many distinct targets for a finger on a given surface.

Part of the reason we're seeing so many finger-oriented glass interfaces is because it lets us sweep the resolution issue under the rug: capacitative sensing just isn't that good yet. However, I expect that in the next twenty years we'll be able to offer affordable glass with both display and touch resolution equivalent to ink/paper. The stylus could conceivably make a return; it'd be the natural successor to Wacom's devices, and could conceivably play a role in replacing scratch paper. We still have to solve the texture problem, but I doubt that's insurmountable.

I'd also be willing to bet on digital whiteboards (or tabletops). They suck currently, but there's no reason we can't have large-format, medium-resolution collaborative writing surfaces. It's an established workflow for corporate meetings, theoretical physics, software planning etc., and has obvious extensions: copy/paste, save-restore, colorize, resize/move, etc.
Swearing is also cultural/personal, and correlates with familiarity. People will swear more among friends than with strangers. "[S]wearing is and will be taken as a sign of disrespect or superiority" implies people respect their friends less than (and find them inferior to) strangers, which is absurd.

One runs a high risk swearing in the presence of a superior with an unknown stance on swearing. This causes less exploratory swearing. Do not mistake caution with respect.

A superior poses higher risk than a peer or junior. Someone can negatively react to swearing in a couple ways:

1) Deal with it directly, by talking.

2) Deal with it indirectly, by leveraging resources to harm the offending party.

A peer/junior has less destructive potential when taking option #2. As a consequence of this, people swear less around superiors than peers/juniors.
I was conceding the point of the comment I was responding to, of "all cars having some kind of telemetry in them", and I think in 5 years or so that will actually be true anyways.

I just don't agree that sticking a transponder on my car --- that I'm free to remove if I see it --- is really all that intrusive. It seems less intrusive than them staring through the windows of my car.
The HN title is ten times more descriptive than "Fucking Your Way Out." Nobody would have any idea what the article was about if he used that title, whereas his replacement title is succinct and accurate.

You can quibble about whether it should say "fuck" or "F-bomb", but it's up to the submitter's discretion to use a good title, and his chosen one is far better than leaving it as the default, so I'm not inclined to complain too loudly.

I also note that much of your ire should probably be directed at the author, who uses "F-bomb" as a euphemism many times in the article itself, and even heroically sneaks in the phrase "dropping some F-pepper" once (this is actually true.)
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Well, it used to be that banks were prohibited from taking risks. 100 years ago banking was a boring job.
Saving animals around the world has become a new trend..
Depends on the language and what kind of software I'm working on. Building a C# app for WP7? It's trivial to toss in breakpoints and step through the code using Visual Studio.

Doing PHP work for some simple CRUD web app? Echo statements usually do the trick.
I think Adolf Fick would likely object to this.
OnStar: way freakier than FBI GPS transponders. Stipulated.
So... the honeypot plan was accepted? Linkbait title, no content.
In which case they should not be a corporation with limited liability.
http://usealice.org works really well.
Love the new name and domain. Love the design of the card!

Two questions though:

1) Are actual branches in the roadmap at all? Digital banking is great but has its limitations.

2) How about deposits? Can we take pictures of a check? Or make deposites at an ATM?
You have a cheesy nickname, so it doesn't count. An organization that handles money doesn't need to be experimental on the name. I think it needs to be more on the safe side. It's money after all.
Easy: because virtually all operation of a motor vehicle occurs in an environment where you can have no expectation of privacy (for instance, I don't need to obtain a release to publish to Instagram a photo of a friend standing by a road with passing cars on it).

The same is not true of clothing.
Um, thats a pretty low chance of survival. In my experience, its closer to 0.999991 or so?
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Your conclusion seems to be: why do we need peer review if the results are this bad?

But an alternative perspective might be: think of how much worse things would be _without_ peer review.
Thus traders may become insensitive to the amount of money they lose and thus increase risk.

They're already doing that.
I don't live in the US but I do some business there sometimes.
It would be really nice if foreigners could open an account, but I think that because the lack of a Social Security Number this is not possible, right?

Actually, I have a bank account (and debit card) in a small bank in Iowa so maybe this is not an issue at all.

Now I'm confused. Can someone who knows or lives in the US clarify this one?
Are Google punishing the SEO of AdSense users?
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Because it currently is thus, therefore it must be efficient and optimal, and any attempt to change it is delusional... you sound like an economist! But I think a lot of HN is about challenging incumbents and the status quo...
We can learn what we don't understand. To use a current example, in modern user interfaces there are two types of metaphors: the ones you can deduce by looking at them (a push button affords to be pushed) and the ones you learn (clicking underlined words was not obvious not so long ago).
The number of people the FBI can surveil with these devices is, while larger than the number of people they can tail in cars, still tiny. That's why I'm OK with it.

The number of people they could surveil with a court order for access to OnStar data is so great that I don't even think they should be able to get court orders for bulk access to OnStar data.
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Me from another thread:

I'm not sure that the benefit of making things intuitive or easy to learn is worth the cost of limiting the technology.

Calculus is less intuitive, harder to learn than arithmetic, but it's much more powerful.

Can't we reboot our interfaces, start with a large but consistent vocabulary, and remove limits instead of imposing more of them upon the altar of immediate and complete understanding?

http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/9325300749/a-different-kind-o...
Because warrants (read: judicial oversight) at least notionally serve as a hedge against the use of government power against the people. If that is not sufficient enough reason then we do not have enough philosophical common ground to ever come to an agreement.
This sounds clever but doesn't really say anything. Yes, policing is hard. Perhaps we should attach 20lb weights to the arms and legs of police officers to make it harder. After all, police state.
Try using `padsp tee /dev/audio` >& /dev/null

For example: sudo cat /dev/mem | `padsp tee /dev/audio` >& /dev/null
It can be done on OS X with sox:

cat /dev/urandom | sox -traw -r44100 -b16 -u - -tcoreaudio
advice taken.
Well, the market successfully lobbied against regulation on CDO and CDS. It was the market that pushed the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act. It was the market which gave AAA ratings to junk investments.

I see your point, but I think that if the whole deregulation (and thus free market) hadn't happened, a lot of the damage could have been avoided.
That could also depend on when he visited. NYC is still ruled by Chase - there's one almost every other block, whereas I struggle to find BofA ATMs.
And even then it's tricky, because a non-regulated entity can make a bet with a regulated one and end up getting bail-out money by virtue of that bet. That seems undesirable, but you also can't really stiff the non-regulated entity, because then nobody will ever want to bet with the regulated one again, thereby destroying its ability to hedge.
You can hide risks.
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"Whether you like to admit it or not, swearing is and will be taken as a sign of disrespect or superiority."
This completely depends on the culture as well as the situation obviously. I have always found that Americans make way too much of a deal of swearing.
Way ahead of you! We test it server-side to check if it scans, and if it doesn't, we alert the user. If the user doesn't care about the successful scan, then they can go right ahead and use it anyway.
"Nothing on earth could make these guys improve"? No, I wouldn't say that. But I am confident in saying they will always be below average. I've been doing this for a few decades now, and the idea everyone has the potential to be a great programmer just isn't borne out by that experience.
I don't think it is supposed to "be IRC". It's a chatroom backed by IRC, and it seems to work perfectly.
In 5 weeks they are going to be shipping Firefox 13.0.
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Au contraire, the issue is exactly that the use of profanity is "weak" word choice. The article challenges those of us trying to create strong presentations to choose stronger words.
Hm. If we're blue-skying, I'd say the ergonomic issues of a direct manipulation UI are still very bad.

I prefer an indirect manipulation paradigm for two reasons: 1. Ergonomics; 2. Abstraction.

I think the abstraction that digital media give/force on us is powerful and frees us from physical limitations.

Collaborative stuff is less limited in a fully digital medium, because 'people' can occupy the same space and see content from the same perspective.

I guess what I'm saying is I'd prefer to see dedicated output device (monitor/glasses/retina laser?) and a dedicated, robust, tactile input device. Like a keyboard.

http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/9325300749/a-different-kind-o...
The last person I saw swearing in a tech presentation also happens to own a one-off Pagani Zhonda. I'm sure he's doing something right!
That's already very common practice, and unfortunately it's not very effective. Bear Stearns was 30% employee owned [1], and Lehman was 25% employee owned [2]. All that stock became worthless when the firms blew up.

[1] http://www.nceo.org/main/column.php/id/282
[2] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122117966831526067.html
I don't get your point. You don't get to pick the language other people speak. "Fuck" is a word. It has meaning and connotation, just like other words. To most people, it does not mean "very" or "awesome", and if it did you'd see them use it that way.

Surely you choose your other words carefully, right? And you do them based on the definition that all of us English-speakers have agreed upon, right? Why should fuck be any different?

Basically, get your fucking attitude out of my language. I'll interpret the words the way I want to, based on my experience with other English-speakers; it's not my fault if you're an asshole about it.

I suspect you really wanted to post a diatribe about why profantiy shouldn't exist. If so, you need to go a whole lot deeper than "get off your high horse".
And I call it "bowfah" myself.
I'm not massively great at C but would this be a fix?

void*
memmove(void *vdst, void *vsrc, int n)
{
char *dst, *src;

dst = vdst;
src = vsrc;
if(*vdst > *vsrc) {
*vdst += n;
*vsrc += n;
while(n-- > 0)
*dst-- = *src--;
}
else if(*vdst < *vsrc)
while(n-- > 0)
*dst++ == *src++;
return vdst;
}
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"There is no 'technology', there is no 'design', there is only a vision of how mankind should be, and the relentless resolve to make it so. This is the way that I teach."

I have committed this to memory Brad, it is my mantra.
I need to apologize for this post. It's uncalled for and inappropriate.

I wish I could take it down as it sets the wrong tone for this conversation. It was not written from the right place and calls people out in an improper and angry way.

To everyone who might read this, I would like to extend my apology.
Based on those figures, earning a profit worth a bonus of 400,000 and losing far more the following year breaks even with respect to salary, so there's hardly an incentive to ensure consistent trading success to average well above market salary. If you can adopt worse trading strategies than martingaling a roulette wheel and still come out far ahead on salary, the incentive scheme isn't well designed.
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It was a poor choice, I really should have come up with a better second example - I've never seen any of his shows, only read his books. I was trying to think of a respected critic with mass-appeal.

Christopher Hitchens would be a better example.
Not only that, but you might not be able to see the interfaces of the future. A couple that come to mind:

mind reading interfaces (ECG Headsets)

camera based (like the kinect)

fabric sensors

Not to mention the leaps that machine learning will bring. As we have more and more semantic interfaces with technology things that seem magical now will soon be routine.

What this article does inspire for me is the need for better 3D prototyping with home 3D printers and CNC machines. These are the tools you need to come up with better touch interfaces, not yet another SDK. I think we will see more and more of those as well, so here's hoping for a brighter future for interaction design!
That was the what I tweeted when I wrote it - I think the submitter just used that text instead of my title (it wasn't myself who submitted it).

RE F-bomb, I think it's sorta synonymous. Just another way of saying the word.
Thank god am using XP :))
I think it's a question of appropriateness. Cursing gets peoples' attention and stirs up powerful feelings and attitudes. Use a curse word at just the right time, and you turn a mediocre presentation into a good one. Or it can turn a good presentation into a fucking great presentation.

On the other hand, if you use profanity too fucking gratuitously, it will turn your presentation into a fucking piece of shit. Motherfuckers who aren't offended by it will learn to fucking tune that shit out and will be mildly pissed at you. The fucking douchebags that are offended by it will be, well, fucking offended by that shit.

In the case that the article mentions, my biggest reaction is a simple "Meh". I suppose a case could be made that it's a cheap shot aimed at getting peoples' attention, but ultimately, I don't feel like it was overdone. Nor do I feel it really helped a whole lot. I suppose if I were the presenter, I'd cut the "fuck" out for the simple reason that its use doesn't help my presentation out enough to justify having to hear people complain about it.
How much would Oracle pay to acquire this?

It's disconcerting that they need to mention "512GB", as if they found that "pauseless garbage collection was" not a big enough selling point (perhaps because for most server applications - where the big money Java apps are - individual responsiveness doesn't matter all that much).

It's also disconcerting, because (it seems to me) that big apps are increasingly a thing of the past, as we move to massively distributed smaller, slower processes - each individual JVM with its own smaller memory needs. Big apps seem to be an upmarket niche, disappearing fast.
Whereas the great strength of pauseless gc is in realtime client-side apps - like mobile devices.

I think these guys have done something great here, and it would be a shame to see them pushed upmarket into oblivion, when they could create an entirely new disruption based on Java - perhaps (finally) fulfilling its promise... (and for the java-haters, also for other JVM-based languages).

EDIT Azul tech previously on HN (links include explanations IIRC): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=810506 --- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2022723 --- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2058476
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The problem is what we are attempting to regulate culture wise does not view at as a problem..to change that culture requires some heavy duty court convictions and jail time...if Obama get his 2nd term some of those court cases in fact come to trial via the DOJ and SEC, etc.
I can think of two well-known things I've seen in the blogosphere that use cursing heavily. The first is Mike Monteiro's "Fuck You, Pay Me." http://vimeo.com/22053820?utm_source=swissmiss I think in this situation the usage is appropriate and he used repetition of this phrase effectively throughout his presentation. The second isn't a presentation, it's an advice-giving website "Good Fucking Design Advice." http://www.goodfuckingdesignadvice.com/ To me it comes off as tactless and pretentious. I get that it's playing to the "frustrated designer" but this type repetitive usage is the type that washes out the meaning of a curse.

Personally I love cursing when it's appropriate. I go to a school where students and their teachers will often curse in front of eachother. It's never in aggression or anything, but the other day I came into class feeling ill and I was about to tell my teacher she asked, "feel like shit?" She knew a bug had been going around.

In my opinion, curses are indicative of someone's character. That's basically it. Use it in your presentation if you want to come off as a light-hearted extrovert not to be taken too seriously.
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I have created a desktop sharing app called Desktoply - http://desktop.ly

I am currently working on Desktoply v2 which will bring new features such as multiple desktops, Twitter login and a few more.

But the question I ask is, what would you like to be on the site?

Many thanks
Dean
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