skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
""I once asked her to enter a long long list of names into an excel document. Arielle came back and asked me if it was alright if she wrote a program to do it automatically...at which point i told her she should just do what she thought was best at all times," says one of Zuckerberg's former colleagues."

That made me giggle... Any programmer would do that:

echo "Name,Age"; tr -s ' ' ',' < list.txt
Name,Age
John,19
Carl,34
Pedro,56
And apparently the old web is filled with sarcasm and spite.
Thank you... I must've read into that IP address what I wanted to see.
daark. I get the uncertainty and fear of the 'seedy' nature of G+ and rise of the corporate platforms...but seems like more of us trying things out, learning, so we can maybe direct change/influence the evolution of the platforms....
Is the new web better at UX than this? That was painful to look at.
That's what I mean - with a very limited supply, unique (and durable) design, first-machine-on-the-web status and the steve jobs connection, I can see this becoming an investment grade collectible at some point. They cost between $500 and $2000 for the cube (which will undoubtedly be the one to have) now, I can see a future scenario where they are going for 10 times that at auctions, particularly if they have provenance (ie owned by a famous person, Next developer, used at a demo by jobs, etc).
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Seen elsewhere: "If the message was 'money is complicated', then this is an effective infographic".
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Sit in a comfortable position, if possible on a cushion, on the floor, with three solid points of contact (your butt and your knees). Relax. Pay special attention to your shoulders, neck and throat. Straighten your back, let your stomach and butt hang out. Close your eyes 3/4 and let them go out of focus. Take a deep breath in and let it go. Then breath in again, counting 'one' to yourself, breath out and count 'two'. Keep doing this until you get to ten, then start again. When you get distracted by thoughts, start again at one. If you go past ten, start again at one. If you notice a conversation in your head underneath or behind or above the counting, start again at one. If there is anything other than the counting, start again at one. Just one. Just two. Just three.

Start sitting for five minutes twice a day and build up from there. Longer is better, but only if you stick to it. Don't get annoyed at yourself when you get distracted. Don't get proud if you don't. Don't think you are doing anything special. Just count your breath.

If you would like to learn more, search for 'Taking the path of Zen' where the late Robert Aitken goes into detail about Zen meditation and talks about positions and stretches to help you to comfortably sit in them.

If you are serious about this, find a teacher and a group to sit with. Not only will it make you more likely to sit, a good teacher can offer you advice you'll never find on a message board. Specific advice that is specific to you.
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Sounds just like the old web, if you were blind and went to a Flash fullscreen website.

As much as I like the ways that sites like G+ are trying to push the envelope, if you're handling data that was created by or belongs to others it's more important to fit into the greater data ecosystem than to stand out...
I'm a member of a forum for graduates of one of the schools I went to. In 2007 it was a vibrant and active forum, growing steadily, and straining its hosting account, which constantly had to be expanded.

At some point, around 2009, most of the members of this forum got Facebook accounts. That forum is now completely dead.

Facebook took all the oxygen out of the site, and it seems like a lot of other sites.

Now very mainstream people seem to think of Facebook as "the internet" and they just hang out there. Some of the bigger sites are doing ok, still, of course.

But at least for that forum, its audience is gone.

To a person, the members of the audience say they love it, and many of them say they hate facebook because "its so impersonal." On the forum they were able to share more private things with closer friends.

I think they would rather hang out on the forum, but there isn't the critical mass anymore... simply because Facebook is more addictive.

It has gotten into some sort of a gamification, or addiction loop, in these peoples heads, it seems.

I think the web is going to undergo a radical change in the next 5 or so years.
Lars Backstrom works at Facebook, so it's not exactly an "outside" collaboration.
Tunecore is among the few, liberating services that provides true value for unsigned artists and I agree with a lot that's in this article. That being said, it's leaving out of the discussion the biggest things that labels and management still do for artists, and that's marketing, operations and financing.

It is simply a very small group of artists who can not only write phenomenal music and perform on successful tours, but manage their own online presence, market their releases and shows effectively, and do them in such a way that they either need no capital to do it or generate enough revenue to invest in future promotion. Most artists, even the best ones, still need someone to manage their promotions, help them understand the state of being online, setup their tours, and fund the up front costs associated with promoting a band at significant scale. Say what you want about record labels being a gatekeeper, they are also an enabler.

Take my favorite band, Tool, for instance. They record highly complex albums that take years to write, they do it in state of the art studios, and then they promote them with massive tours that have some of the most amazing light shows and animation of any live event today. Even at their size and their success level, fronting the costs of an operation like that would be near impossible for them, and just like so many entrepreneurs who start their 4th company but still raise money from good investors, it's better to risk someone else's money than your own, and leverage their network to get things done.

The shape and responsibilities of labels may change. But most artists do not know how, or even want to know how, to market their own music, or figure out how to finance an extraordinary product/experience. That's assuming they could even get financing for something like a Tool tour. If someone is willing to do that for them, there will always be a place for them and artists willing to give them a percentage of ownership to have it done well and at less risk to them.
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> Particularly if those financial services are extractive in nature?

Could you elaborate on that sentence? What do you mean by "extractive"? In the context of natural resources, I take that word to imply that the resource is depleted (e.g. non-renewable). Do you have a difference sense in mind?
"From leaked training documents we can see that portal operators can view and task metrics by equipment ID, subscriber ID, and more. So instead of seeing dropped calls in California, they now know “Joe Anyone’s” location at any given time, what he is running on his device, keys being pressed, applications being used."

"Verizon has publicly came forward with a statement regarding their usage on Carrier IQ statistics and give users a way to stop them from selling the information outside of Verizon"

Wow. No surprise that they would like to suppress that information, but they should've known better than to be so heavy-handed with the lawyering. They might have been able to spin it a little more positive with some decent PR, but now it just screams that they're being evil.
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Are there really still companies out there that don't know that such a needlessly hostile response will attract a lot of unwanted attention? Or do companies just do whatever their lawyers tell them to, and then their lawyers tell them to do whatever is most likely to lead to a costly legal battle (i.e. in the interest of the lawyer, but not necessarily in the best interest of the company)?

Or, to put it more bluntly, what did they expect to accomplish with this C&D letter? Did they seriously believe that he would just do whatever they said to?
Obviously he didn't. If he did infringe, they wouldn't have sent a legal statement saying that if he complied they would "release all claims" (as they did). Instead, they would tell him to stop and in return he wouldn't be continuing "willful infringement".

Saying "do these things immediately and all claims will be fully released" is usually a sign of weakness to begin with - pretty much any company lawyer is going to open by overplaying his hand.

This is only an overplay of a weak hand.
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The only power the "new web" has is the power we give it.
Many. This is the exact problem with class warfare. Without evidence, it assumes that an overwhelming portion of a certain class is out to maximize their gains at the expense of everyone else. If you don't have a citation, your argument is invalid.

My responses to this will be minimal, as we're considerably off-topic.
> Worth noting is that these firms go after mediocre Ivy graduates.

The banks typically hire around the top 1/3 at Ivies, even higher these days given the economy. My friend, a 3.9 physics major at H/Y/P chose banking over research, and so did a lot of his similarly well-qualified classmates. Hard to turn down a job where your starting pay is about what a mid-career researcher with a PhD makes.
Of the 18 built, how many were fired (and presumably never recovered?) Obviously there is the one in the KSC Saturn building, but are there others lying around?

One thing I have noticed about NASA developments - the payload weights never seem to come down. I would have thought we could build a LEM with the same or greater functionality at a lower weight by now.
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i read the tone of the article as entirely the opposite - namely, that despite some bullshit rules that apple has scattered like caltrops around the ipad development landscape, google has, admirably enough, snuck in most of chrome os. the word here implies a certain cleverness on google's part
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That being said, if you find one of those "give 'em a chance" jobs for an iPhone developer, feel free to throw it my way :-)
For decentralized routing, Kleinberg has a wonderfully lucid paper in Science in 2000 that's one page long (something like "navigation in a small world"). Essentially, even though short paths may exist in a network, it's hard for any decentralized routing algorithm (like the one in Milgram's experiment) to find them.
I'd say we're half evolved. We have this facility and don't know how to properly control it. It's a byproduct of some other facility (the ability to communicate).
Grab some Alan Watts tapes and read Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0834800799)!
The build is very all-or-nothing in its code analysis. Feel free to suggest ways to make this incremental -- the code isn't compiled per-module like C-style languages.

The C API is not something you should target. Write pure Python instead of C extensions. If you're wrapping a C API, use Cython, which mostly stays within the boundaries of sanity (and might someday grow a ctypes target). Most of the C API (for certain values of "most") is only a recompile away.

Which obscure UNIX flavor did you need supported? The biggest obstacle to supporting other platforms is a lack of buildslaves and people well-versed in those platforms.
Maybe it's a condition of being an authorized retailer of Apple products - certainly wouldn't surprise me.
I have not met any Russians who were proficient in English, that learned it locally in school. I have met Russians who were fairly good with English that learned it after living in the US for a while.

Compare that to, for example, someone from the Philippines who will be proficient enough in English that you think they are an American.
Have you tried to learn basic web development? If you have time, invest a few weeks either way. I don't think you're being unfair if you're offering free housing, fair equity and free food. It is more than what most cofounders offer one another. However you have to find people who are passionate enough about your idea to make it their own and have a good working relationship with.
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It would be interesting to figure out how to grab "related articles" from other blogs. Tags are how some sites currently do it, but that is with posts from the same author. Everyone uses tags differently and some don't use tags at all. Maybe keyword density? Or I suppose tags could auto-complete to a standard that you set.
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Smaller indie labels are still gatekeepers. In this age, the benefit you describe is gone because there is no longer any reason to be buying music without first listening to it.
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My wife just bought me a beginner's mediation class at the Peace School in Chicago. We just finished our third class. I'll write up a few notes about it later this week on my blog (http://n8.tumblr.com). But it's been pretty cool and positive. I'm surprised how challenging it is to even meditate for 5 minutes a day. Here's a good book I've been enjoying on the brain that introduces some meditation stuff and benefits http://www.amazon.com/Train-Your-Brain-Get-Happy/dp/14405118...
Alan Watts is great, but he talks too much. It's interesting, and encouraging for those with an already established practice, but people who are new to meditation need to just sit. It's _very_ tempting to read about Zen and think it is nothing but an interesting philosophy.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind is one of my favorite books, but there's very little actual instruction there and, once again, without an established practice, it would be easy to write it off as beautifully poetic but essentially baseless philosophy. (hehe, essentially baseless. Sorry, that's a bad Zen pun)
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That is a feat that makes this app almost as impressive as Notepad.exe. "Almost", because Notepad didn't start out by lying about the ingredients.

(Sorry to be so snarky about it).
Perhaps a wandering mind was good enough for early hunter-gathers and only now do modern humans have specialized roles that require extreme focus? A hunter might benefit from a "wider" sense of awareness, whereas recent studies show that multitasking is counterproductive for mental tasks that require extreme focus.
The difference between PSU and Harvard students is SAT scores, not really GPA. Penn state's 25-75 range is 1750-1990 (77-93 %-ile), while Harvard's is 2070-2350 (96-99+ %-ile). The SAT is about as well correlated with IQ tests as IQ tests are with each other. Statistically speaking, the 25 %-ile of Harvard's class in terms of IQ is probably right around the 80th %-ile at PSU+. Do you think a 90th %-ile PSU student has a full standard deviation higher IQ than a 80th %-ile PSU student?

Note I'm not using the word "smart" because as Malcom Gladwell points out there are diminishing returns beyond top 10% IQ's. However, you're the one who made the claim based on IQ.

+ It's probably more pronounced than that because of the way admissions is handled individual schools do not have bell-curve distributions of SAT scores. There are sharp drop-offs below the 25th and above the 75th because schools don't have to report this numbers to USNWR.
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If you're aiming for enlightenment, you've missed the mark :)
I want to upvote your comment ten times, but there's only one of me. Thanks for the point of view, history, and references.

Why, do you think, are the pharma researchers not shifting cutting edge research to places where regulation is more pliable and inventing new treatments there. Surely Latin America or China (maybe even India, depending on bureaucracy) could provide the kind of market and test bed for new treatments that fast innovation would thrive in.
The HyperTransport (HT) crossbar offered more options, although people didn't tend to use it like that. I can only think of a handful of examples (the Sun X4500/X4540 for example) that took full advantage of the expanded I/O functionality it offered, and there were even a few FPGA solutions that could have been used to create really innovative custom logic designs.

The problem was that, outside of totally custom solutions like the above, it didn't offer enough of a benefit to AMD, especially once Intel jumped on the memory directly attached to CPU bandwagon.
why would the white house mail room have anything to do with delivering mail to congress? Or is the mail room in the house of representatives named after some dude named "White"?
This doesn't exactly come as a surprise. It was already obvious from the desktop parts that something had gone horribly wrong. There just weren't any bright spots there.

Worse single-threaded performance despite much larger cores (even counting each "module" as two "cores" rather than two "threads"). No improvement in clock speeds despite a newer design an deeper pipelines. No improvement in multi-threaded workloads core-for-core. And it seems hard to give credit for the improved multi-threaded performance per-socket, given the huge increase in both transistor count and die size.

It would really be interesting to know what actually went wrong. The new process? The rumored switch to automated design methodology? Unfortunately the answer to the question posed by the article seems obvious... They had to persevere with this and ship it, since they didn't have the resources for a plan B.
Well, of course TuneCore declares labels obsolete - Is anyone really surprised? However it's not that easy - given that there's so much mediocrity available I'd argue that curators absolutely have their place. Don't mix up major labels with smaller indie labels, who are passionate about what they are doing - in my opinion they are still important.

TuneCore on the other hand reads like a nice idea, but builds its business upon flawed hopes of its users. I'd recommend reading this: http://thecynicalmusician.com/2011/05/the-new-gatekeeper/
> Hunch is not for sale.

All companies are for sale.
I think we're always "half evolved". Our minds and bodies are an amalgam of "good enough" traits for overcoming yesteryear's evolutionary challenges, not entirely suited for today's challenges.
In case you missed this:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/11/in-store-pickup-se...

(there was actually a well-commented post about this on HN not too long ago, but after a few min I gave up trying to find it)
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Who here wants to play with 64 cores?

That's 4 sockets of Opteron 6272 which is around 540 dollars each on newegg.
> A web you
cannot easily read without JavaScript because somewhere in the page
header there is a „<style> body { visibility: hidden; } </style>” later
getting unset by a script that the platform owners want you to run.

To be fair to Google, that sounds like a fairly standard clickjacking prevention mechanism. It's necessary to provide protection to browsers that don't support X-Frame-Options.
What kind of change? Further toward a centralized, monopolistic, Facebook-esque service or an implosion of that model?
While a technocracy is a good thing in theory, I'm always concerned about the likelihood of it turning into a serious echo chamber. If the only people involved in, say, banking are people who have domain-specific knowledge, what is the likelihood that you're going to get anything new out of it? It seems to me that it'll almost always devolve into a terrible feedback loop. That said, it isn't necessarily worse than what we have now.
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Yeah, I can't even imagine the things that Facebook could accomplish if they held their site hostage for just one hour.
i remember the old web, a web without RSS or ATOM feeds.
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Not to dis BrainBot, but the only Zazen tracking tool you need is to sit Zazen every day. I can see how competition and seeing your hours tick over might be encouraging to some degree, and if the site encourages people to sit more then it is worthwhile! But I see enough chest puffing on the 'net as it is with regards to people's meditation, and how amazing they are now because of it or how much they are sitting, and it makes me feel ill. Your practice should be personal, for you (and the big you) and should be a part of your Bodhisattva work, not a device used to enlarge your ego.