skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
May I start a meta-discussion about asyncronous helpers? Personally I find Seq less readable than normal cascading functions and even less readable than the good, old async library. Here's what the example would look like for async in coffeescript:

seq = [ ]

seq.push ( cb ) -> read prompt: 'Username: ', cb
seq.push ( cb ) -> read prompt: 'Password: ', silent : true, cb

async.series seq, ( err, [ username, password ] ) ->
console.log "#{username}, '#{password}'."
process.stdin.destroy()

Very readable and very simple.
how to get family&friends to start using Path though, other than the initial 'shiny new' app thing. Seems making the move from fb is a task everyone struggles with
I didn't just read the article, I unread it.
Is Gowalla a Sign of the Times for Investors?
Black, white, and 50% grey do seem to be the attractors.
I think you've misjudged the tone of the discussion. I don't think that most people commenting here are greatly troubled by what's happening.
I would like to know if Siemens has any stake on the "outputs" of such competitions. Do they effectively own the patent, if there is one? Please don't tell me she had to sign a waiver.
The firm has trademarked the name since 2000 and Apple is suing to get the name?
Pay to Pitch YC Auction Nearing $2000
Hi Shereef,

I sent you an e-mail a few days ago about my interest in your offer. Did you receive it? I'm sure you've got a lot of messages to respond to, but I just want to make sure you got my response.

Drew
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Why would IBM possibly want to have it's own AI fight IBM? Or will they put special locks in that block IBM from being read?
"Users are getting worried about spams and malware spreading at a constant rate in Tumblr."

Really? I've used Tumblr every day for a couple years now. I have never seen any "spams" or porn. This user isn't "worried."
I went to school in the US and the test represents what I personally had been taught and was competent in by the end of 7th grade (age 13), not 10th grade (age 16). That was some years ago. It wasn't in Florida but I have no reason to believe their schools are substantially different.

It might be that the test doesn't match actual 10th grade curriculum and is a minimum competency test. Then again, based on math skills of typical high school and college graduates, I am not completely surprised that school board members with a masters in education can't do basic math. It's not just math that is a problem, there are also many high school graduates now who are functionally illiterate (meaning they may have basic reading skills but can't understand anything they read that is more than very simple). This is not to say the schools are incompetent since obviously many very skilled and talented people make it through the same system.

Also, it has been established that Masters of Education students have the lowest GRE and SAT scores of any major.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505145_162-37245744/heres-the-na...

"Research over the years has indicated that education majors, who enter college with the lowest average SAT scores, leave with the highest grades. Some of academic evidence documenting easy A's for future teachers goes back more than 50 years.

The referenced study on education major grade inflation: http://www.aei.org/article/education/k-12/grade-inflation-fo...

Furthermore, the most intelligent and competent education students are the most likely to rapidly leave the field (see Progress Through the Teacher Pipeline; Henke, Chen, & Geis, 2000; http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2000/2000152.pdf)

There's tons of papers and research about this issue, sometimes discussed as the "teacher quality" problem, though that may be a misnomer. More than I can reasonable cite but once you know about the issue, and some of the above citations as starting points can lead you down a pretty deep rabbit hole once you start researching.
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It is not so simple. Tablet computers before the iPad did not look anything like the iPad:

http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/18/tablet-design-before-after-th...

in hindsight, it seems like the only completely obvious way to design a tablet, but that fact in itself is the mark of great design.
This would be a lot more believable if all of the Tablets that came before the iPad also looked identical to the iPad and Samsung devices.

They didn't: http://twitpic.com/67ykpa
Why you shall not quit your day job to make a game app
Compared to the kids you're trying to take money from, the gifted kids will do just fine, thank you.
Ask any VC you know how many un-referred startups they've ever funded in their entire lifetime.

(or just read the quora question on it http://www.quora.com/Venture-Capital-Firms/Have-any-top-tier... )

VCs get pitched all the time they can't afford to give unsolicited pitches more than a tiny fraction of their time for evaluation as 90% of them will be terrible. But if a pitch comes with a recommendation from someone they trust, it's much less likely to be a bad pitch so they can spend a bit more time looking at it.

Getting an introduction to a VC isn't hard, it's trivial to meet startup founders at events, etc. and most would be willing to introduce you to their VC if they thought you had a good idea.

If you're not capable of getting a warm introduction fairly easily, then that's a huge negative signal for the VC about your capabilities.
> There are plenty of bugs all the time (dropped calls, misdialed numbers, etc).

Precisely. Erlang was created to run digital phone switches, and so was designed exactly for the scenario of "it's fine if certain calls crash, they can always be redialed, but the system itself always has to be available".
Yeah, that point was dubious, at best.I have a white iPhone and you can, in fact, get a frickin' iPad that's not black.
Chris Martenson: Unfixable – welcome to the abnormal (economy)
Cancer is a series of mutations that enable a single cell to out compete other cells in the body for resources and reproduce exponentially. The final stage of cancer is generally some cancer cells that learn how to travel though the body and end up in a new location. However, rather than a simple disease it's an evolutionary process than can result in a brand new parasite as long as the cells learn to adapt outside the original host.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease

Warning, clinking on that link may give you nightmares.
Don't forget Kierkegaard, who made very similar observations well before Nietzsche.

No doubt there is a very human pattern at work that hasn't changed over the centuries. Also no doubt that there is a technological amplifier at work as well.

I look at it like money: having lots of money tends to make you more of what you already are. So if you're a jerk, being rich is just going to exacerbate that. In a way, then, being able to handle great wealth is an indication of a very stable (and perhaps dull) personality.

Technology is doing a very similar thing with distractions. Some folks are easily distracted. Some are not. As technology improves, people who are less-easily distracted are finding they are spending more and more of their time plugged in. The best argument here is self-reports: many people freely acknowledge that they spend more time plugged in than they are comfortable with.

As far as solutions, I tried a couple myself, along with some volunteers from HN. Didn't get a lot of traction, sadly. "Purposeful interruptions" was the line we were pursuing. At the time of the essay, my money was on a new form of morality taking hold -- that it simply won't be "cool" to spend too much time physically inert. That hasn't happened, sadly.

PG also wrote an essay a few months after mine along these lines. I keep hoping that with so many smart people looking at this we will start seeing some breakthroughs.
Then link the sticks mechanically.

Still, if the panicky guy is unconsciously trying to out-muscle you, well, then you reach over and punch him in the face.

If even that fails... uh... I guess you're in deep deep doo-doo at that point.
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Now only if we could combine this with improving the reliability of a web app.

From the comments it sounds like a great article, but I've been trying to read this for about 8 hours now with no luck.
You don't have to pay the driver. Currently it's more expensive for me to take a taxi (in Australia) because the wage of the driver outweighs the extra costs (and inefficiency) associated with running my own car.

You see a lot more taxis in cities with lower human labour costs (such as Lima), or where the cost of parking outweighs the cost of the driver (such as Manhattan).
Google launches new carousel view for image search results on tablets
I'll just leave this here for everyone saying that iPad-like designs never existed before the iPad:

http://gdeluxe.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/20111004-03455...
To your first statement: that's just the point, isn't it? How much of their own time is dedicated to high quality learning while in the school system?

We're very concerned with socialization. I dont have time to talk about it right now, but I'm not convinced that what goes on in a typical school is in any way "normal". It is a very contrived environment.
There is probably a reason why most TVs come in black - it makes the colors and the picture to stand out more.

Go and take a look at the flat-screen TV section of any electronics store. All of them look pretty much alike, and actually also very much like iPad. The main difference is size, and iPad's rounded corners which are nicer to have in a device that you hold in your hands.

You can even compare Nokia's circa 2005 Internet Tablet, the 770 with an iPad. Same black color, bottom corners are rounded. Sure, it still has some more buttons and a resistive screen, but it even came with a "smart cover" (turn the hard cover around, and the magnets in it will put the device to sleep)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/4554791832/
Here's the problem I see.

The potential for car-sharing and an attendant rise in utilization rate has existed for a long time. (There's little reason something like Zipcar couldn't have been organized by telephone years ago.) Yet it has only caught on in a small way, and only in places where there are other overwhelming advantages to that scheme, in cities where car ownership (parking) is terribly expensive.

I think he's overlooking something regrettable but true: the low utilization rate, great expense, wastefulness and general economic insanity of private cars are critical parts of their appeal to consumers. Many people who could commute by train or bus choose to take a car instead, even though it's hugely more expensive, more stressful, and often not much faster. They'd rather feel like they had some control than no control. They'd rather sit in a seat no strangers have been sitting in. They like knowing the glove compartment is crammed with their own crap and not someone else's. They like the fact that their car will be waiting for them and for them alone in the parking space where they left it, with no need for waiting or a call-ahead reservation.

And of course there's the fact that parking an enormous, expensive, gas-guzzling monstrosity in the office lot or the driveway has a genuine (shallow, materialistic, emotional, and pitiably simian - yet still genuine) effect on your friends, neighbors, minions, and yes, on yourself.

He's supposing that driverless cars will somehow finally yield to economic pressures that have been present (and irrationally resisted) all these decades.
Well not only was I a paying customer, but when Apple releases a developer beta and documentation ahead of the public release for companies that have paying customers to please, and Evernote doesn't do it, that's a disappointment. You're right, we expect too much from people in general, but I don't think this was the case. I think this was just a bad decision by their management.
You should manage perceptions. You should give them "preemptive updates" - Tell them everything and anything, before it happens. Here's a sample template :)

Things I plan on doing today (Send it the same every day, as early as possible):
(i) Homework - Required by school
(ii) Reading 'X' chapters of a book, or Reading blog, code etc - Knowledge Acquisition To Help With The Project Or Personal Improvement
(iii) Chores - Things that need to get done to live your life
(iv) Thinking About The Project - This is how most "Features" get done.
(v) Coding - Like 'Planning on adding approximately 100 lines of code'. To be clear, this is a fake measurement that is of no use to any developer, but for non-technical people, this is worth a lot.

And just before ending your day..

"FYI - I added 120 lines of code. This makes it 400 lines of code for this feature :)"

P.S: "e1ven" idea is much better :)
Yes, thank you. I was also thinking of a second well known example that happened in South America I believe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%27s_law

The author writes about a Little's Law
A single statement to pass on the most vital lesson
And ActivePython via ActiveScripting. Python could even run in ASP
> There's virtually no innovation

Innovation doesn't please shareholders nearly as much as re-hashing the same banal gameplay mechanics with slight tweaks every year or so (Call of Duty). The industry did it to themselves when they sold their soul to the casuals. I have little sympathy for them, but perhaps it's better for me personally.

I make time for a few games a year, and call it good. I'll get hooked from time to time, but never like I used to.
By those standards Apple ripped off 50% of the UMPCs ever made along with quite a few tablet PCs and PDAs.

(Cue poorly-drawn comic of Bill Gates hurling a TC1100 through Apple's front window.)
As some one who spent the majority of my primary education in various learning disabled programs I have to entirely disagree with you. These programs allow people like me to become productive members of society, without them many people who can achieve great things would never learn the basic skills they need to succeed.

What we call "gifted" has nothing to do with "gifts" during the elementary education phase. It has to do with a child's learning style properly fitting the surrounding environment. These children succeed because they fit the system. Others, like me, who have an "impedance" mismatch with the educational environment struggle to gain basic skills such as reading, writing and arithmetic.

However, if those basic skills can be mastered and the environment can be altered to fit these "disabled" students they can become highly successful. I consider myself to have succeeded in academia despite not learning to read till the third grade. If I had not been placed in the proper program I would have likely failed to learn to read, write and do arithmetic for a much longer period of time.

While "gifted" students need assistance and programs designed for their needs as much as "disabled" students it makes no sense to reduce already limited resources available to programs for disabled children. These children can become productive, highly successful individuals if given the proper support.
There's plenty of use of the color black, rectangular shapes, rounded corners, and centered screens in the "before iPad" group.
The author is not giving Apple credit for the design it deserves. Why did no other tablets look like the iPad before the iPad then? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias

I don't remember any of the Windows based tablets looking this way. Or even the Newton, not even the Dynabook looked like the iPad.

Edit: And the author overlooks the fact that multi orientation is a unique design feature onto itself.
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tchock23: I am working on something tangential to the MR industry, and would love to hear some thoughts from you on what I am building. How do I contact you?
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haha. Here's another version of it:

http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/tablets-befor...
The problem is that he has more "friends" than he understands. Having 100 people in "friends" is bullshit. Nobody can have 100 friends. They can have 10 friends and 90 acquaintances. Those 90 probably go in "I'm interested in following their messages but in reality its all public anyways".

Circles are like C. You can shoot yourself in the foot (by horribly missusing em), or you can make it sing. Google has been following the trends and making circles better. Following is an excellent feature.
There is a fine line and in my experience with a venture revolving around "portion to charity" model, it all comes down to one thing, your demographic users. I co-founded a startup (handled the tech) for an auction site where we promised HALF of every dollar we made would make to to charity. It was a risk to start and we knew that, but seeing as it hadn't been done, I can now say that at least I tried. It cost us so [insert frustrating word] much more to run the company, handle support, produce the product, market, mitigate fraud and deal with people trying to game the system than was worth it to even the charities involvement. We even took the steps to become a Commercial Fundraiser and be bonded in the states we operated to instill confidence in our users which ended up being a stark realization of why more companies dont do charitable acts, because theres so much in the way of doing good in this world when it comes to proper legal way of doing things.

All that said, about 8 months into the venture (and at the end of what we had left in the bank) I sent out this survey with the responses highlighted: http://9mtr.co/2v0S2X1C3G093t06273Y

As you can see, people responded with the best intention, but in the end, could care less. My point here is know your audience before you bank it all. We did our homework and found similar research that showed it might just work as well, but finding those people may be harder than you think, so don't underestimate the work involved. Regardless I wish you all the good luck and karma in the world to make this planet a better place.
You have a typo in the submission: letsrcap.com -> letsrEcap.com
Ha, I sent Phil an email last week congratulating him on making one of my favorite products of all time. Turns out that might not be such a special email to him, but as I said, I'm thinking of going premium, not because I need to, but because it's just such an obscenely good product.

The fact that they've got the database open for nevernote[1] is also freakin' incredible, as it means I'm synced across android/windows/Linux seamlessly.

http://nevernote.sourceforge.net/ (now called nixnotes maybe?)
There are fair points here but in terms of the bezel having to be black - neither my Kindle (grey) nor the screen surround of my Macbook (brushed silver) are black and they're both completely usable.
Yeah, I thought some of the points contradicted too. At one point he says a curved edge is better for holding, but it is "impossible" to engineer it that way due to batteries. Then he says the Sony S tablet's curve makes it unusable. hmmm....

I've never used the S tablet, but it does seem like it might be more comfortable to hold in portrait mode. I almost never use my iPad lying flat on the table and when I do it is usually an uncomfortable reading angle unless I prop it.
I lost a lot of muscle mass, and I just wasn't running 'enough' to be burning all the fat off. I think the main problem was the muscle mass, which eats food even when I am sitting on the couch.
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These ideas are also close to the "Scrap Your Boilerplate" approach (Data.Typeable & Data.Data typeclasses). ie, a generic pretty-printer can be derived from any type, not only those having a user-defined Show instance.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...
Notably, all of the "before" tablets run Windows and none of the "after" ones do.
My understanding is that there's a large part of Instapaper is server-side. Since there's no recurring subscription, only an initial fee, the maintenance of the service for existing users is supported by the initial fee paid by new users. This model would not make it possible to allow the developers of clients for other platforms to keep all the revenues for themselves as the costs of maintaining the service infrastructure are non-trivial.
I, for one, think that your idea is great. Good luck!

Suddenly, an idea - what if you let charities request to be included in your service? Once a charity is on-board, they have a great incentive to tell people about you, link to you and so on.
FTA:

"Evernote didn't need it because the company became profitable early in 2011"
Tech Reporters can really piss on your baby :(
After 7 months of developing complex ways to scale friends of friends queries mixed with geo location and interest tags reports can simply choose to dismiss all the technology you built. Maybe 5% of our press release made it into the article. I wish more understood what we are building! http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/08/start-up-tripl-helps-you-find-locals-to-harassbefriend/
In all cockpits, there is usually a strongly defined system of who is currently in control. At one point you can see this happening - one of the pilots declares "I have control". In normal flying conditions, any time flight control passes over between pilots there should be a declaration along those lines. However, the reactions of the pilots in this situation don't seem to be entirely in line with what they should have been doing, which is a major contributing cause to the crash.
In general, the tablet design language seems to have evolved over time. Here are the four pre-iPad generations of Nokia's internet tablets:

770 (2005): http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/231781513/

N800 (2007): http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/399708279/

N810 (2007): http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/2290709295/

N900 (2009): http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/4706326072/

In those pictures you can also see some common tablet features like on-screen keyboards, video chat, maps, and even augmented reality.

All of the Nokia tablets came with a stylus but were mostly used with fingers. The stylus was handy for web browsing - for example, on the iPad I have to zoom HN quite a bit before I can reliably hit the up/down voting buttons.

At some point Nokia even introduced a feature where the UI elements would sense whether you're using stylus or finger, and would size themselves accordingly.
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Possibly controversial view point here.

A year ago it looked like Microsoft had missed the boat with phones and tablets but now I am not so sure. I accept that a lot of companies have invested in iOS apps (in particular) but my reading is that Microsoft's corporate customers are quite happy to wait for Windows 8 (and probably the next iteration of Windows Phone OS) before jumping in. They are not in a rush and they feel more comfortable with the idea of an OS platform that runs across a range of devices.

The device manufacturers will build for the corporate market and take the consumer volume that will accompany that as the icing on the cake.

The game is a long way from over.
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