skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There will be plenty of people who retain it, but most people who go 30 years without using information will not retain it.
Wasn't that sort of the original design spec for perl?
Amber looks to be getting awesomely close to a CSS/HTML version of Flex.
The upvote button does that.

Stories you've upvoted appear here --- http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=kinnth --- there is a link from your profile page.
Virginia Tech Shooting
And then you CAN'T leave the slow line because there are people boxing you in from behind, even though you chose this line because the guy ahead of you had only one item... until he decided to make the cashier search the entire store to make sure they were actually out of his favorite cigarettes.
Fairly skeptical initially, but liking the changes so far. Web interface seems a lot more stable and fiddly too.

You'll pry my tweet bot from my cold, dead hands though.
You don't know that "it" decided to land. This is an assumption. Beware assumptions in this matter of international importance!
haha, it's a deal. I definitely need customers right now. So, if you get a survey, email the company and tell them about eval.me
How much is a $100 gift card worth? $72, says GiftRocket (YC W11)
PandaBoard ES announced (powerful ARM-based dev-board, Android support)
Downvote for what? Bad character?

To design is shop is not about math or throughput, it's all about psychology. You don't want lines to move fast, you just want them to appear like moving fast.

My point is merely that self-checkout is not only about speed, it's about personal comfort too.
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htada/articles/20051121.asp...

Zoltan [the Serbian battery commander, whose missiles downed an American F-16, and, most impressively, an F-117] used the human spotters and brief use of radar, with short range shots at American bombers. The SA-3 was guided from the ground, so you had to use surprise to get an accurate shot in before the target used jamming and evasive maneuvers to make the missile miss. The F-117 he shot down was only 13 kilometers away.

Zoltan got some help from his enemies. The NATO commanders often sent their bombers in along the same routes, and didn't make a big effort to find out if hotshots like Zoltan were down there, and do something about it. Never underestimate your enemy.
More time efficient: avoid ever being in a queue. Think Amazon, or, in meatspace go shopping at odd hours.
Don’t Settle For Eventual: Scalable Causal Consistency
Yeah because they setup along known routes of where NATO jets flew.
Admin editing practices here on HN taking very strange turns.

By removing the information that the site also provides details on if they were admitted or not the link becomes somewhat pointless.
Or could it be that it's exactly this sort of reflexive government-bashing that makes it easy for the general public to elect fools and charlatans? After all, if government is the problem, why would people bother electing representatives who take governing seriously? Heck of a job, Brownie.

The current form of government allows people to elect charlatans and fools. That's not because the population is stupid. On the contrary, a democratic system required the population to be unusually educated & informed, while always deciding to vote in our long-term interest. In other words, the democratic system requires the impossible.

Our civilization relies on extreme specialization and deep division of labor, not that everyone knows everything.

Regardless, I think your thesis is false. A lot of the powers we've taken away from government lately (regulation of financial services, regulation of financial markets, regulation of campaign contributions) have made us worse off, and specifically have made it easier for RIAA to buy legislation like this.

Regulatory capture means that regulatory framework aren't necessary free of corruption. It just means we ought to be smarter how we devise regulations or lack thereof, as sometime doing nothing is better than corporations gaining control of the law.

If anything, the government are in bed with the bankers.
Isn't this essentially equivalent to having a single queue though... except now you have a kind of cache at each register holding a small number of customers?
The techdirt article repeatedly makes reference to seizure laws as they apply to confiscated PROPERTY. Is there legal precedence for the blog to immediately assume that such laws apply to digital domains, where nothing physical was confiscated?
HTML was made with documents in mind. Ever since the web's inception HTML has been pushed beyond its original design specs and now people are writing applications in it (actually they have been since CGI). That interfaces continue to evolve and even replicate "native" interfaces shouldn't be a surprise.

As far as the "right" abstraction on the web... this too is evolving and highly dependent on your application. Are you curating a collection of hyperlinked documents? Or are you writing a drawing application?

If your answer is closer to the latter than the former, then the analogy you're looking for is something more like Postscript, where HTML and Javascript serve as a display language for an output device (a browser), driven by an underlying application.
To be fair to Knuth, it's not the sort of little utility program that he usually works on. At least from TeX, Metafont, and the TAOCP books, it's usually really big problems, or very low-level things where cycle counts matter. The two sorts in McIlroy's pipeline guarantee that his solution won't scale well at all, especially when only the top 10 are wanted.
Isn't it more likely that they have an inside man at a defense contractor?
Agreed. Besides Perl, you can also use Ruby and PHP just as easily. At least that works for me. The main selling point is the ability to run shell commands with `command here`. I exclude Python from my list because you have to use the subprocess module, which makes it more complicated.
I want to meet this guy. It's like I've got a clone of myself somewhere out in the world thinking, feeling, and saying exactly as I do.

It wasn't explicitly said but I got hints of the authors frustration with hype, the idea that successful startups only work in trendy SV, they all have the sexy cool factor, and the only investors worth getting funded by are the ones you read about on techcrunch.

To the author I'd say I feel your pain. There's a whole heap of us out here in the Midwest, the South, and just outside the major metro areas that seem to get all the press. We've had the same ideas as others and we see them surpassing us daily knowing that if we just had that extra something we could be them and deserve to be. We quit our day job, work alone in our living rooms, can't find skilled people where we live and even if we could don't have the cash to hire them. But it's okay because TechCrunch isn't real life and these investors and founders aren't real people. They're like characters from a movie. You want to be them and they seem so realistic that you sometimes believe you can. That's a mistake. It's like trying to become Hercules or some other mythical character. It's covered because its a rarity and the myth is sexier than the truth. Some of us will make it but we just have to keep jumping ponds. Become the biggest fish in your current pond before moving on to a pond with even larger fish.

Even though I generalized all the well known founders and investors and called them not real, I know they are. My point was to dissuade people from comparing themselves to people like that because it's often futile and results in more frustration than progress.
How are you going to fake the GPS map? It sounds pretty hard to do. Is there an actual attack?

I guess you could do it if you had actual atomic clocks sending precisely-calibrated signals made to look like the satellites were wherever you wanted them to be. Still, I guess it would be pretty hard to jam the actual satellites, since you'll also be jamming your own signal.
I tried using SC2 (aka Amber), while it has a lot of potential and I love the powerful binding mechanism it has, it simply lacked documentation and support. I hope Amber has tackled this issue.
Thanks man. This is very helpful feedback from someone who has done it.

This is hard to test before having a product because most companies will say they would donate to charity, but then do not when it comes down to it.

I will let you know how it goes.

Thanks again.
JabbR is a chat application built with ASP.NET and SignalR
See also https://github.com/davidfowl/JabbR
> I am sure they did not copy the 21mm because it looks the best. There must be some other reason.

We agree. That reason being, it looks like Apple's, and consumers love that.
> Note that I don't have a problem with us evolving into something else. If we are evolving, then there will be a selection function that we had get pretty damn good at meeting.

That's how evolution works, though, of course. Some individuals will do better than others, and the overall population will gradually become more like them. I don't think there's any sense in worrying about what we'll evolve into - it will be whatever fits our environment best.

I think the more worthwhile concern is, in the relative short term, whether it will make us and those we care about more or less happy. That's probably much more complicated to answer.
Inferring Context-Free Grammars
Motorola Update on Ice Cream Sandwich
Warren Buffett's Evolution and his Three Investment Styles
If China’s Property Bubble Bursts
The description you give of yourself is by most common educational definitions not "gifted" (135 IQ or top 2% on standardized tests), so we are back to the point that "gifted" kids find their success just fine.
Everyone could achieve more with more investment. So, now what? Should gifted, advanced, mainstream, and disabled fight each other for funding, or maybe fight pure waste like Iraq War for funding?
> The reality is that under the Patent Act, things which are not fundamentally "inventions" -- such as software algorithms, genes, and in this case, data correlations -- can legally be granted patents.

I have both hardware and software patents and I don't see this distinction that you feel is obvious.

Why is the use of a specific mechanism consisting of and, or, shift, etc to, say, efficiently route vehicle traffic any less of an invention that then removing sulphur before heating rubber to produce a substance that retains its elasticity? (Hmm - that removal and the relevant monitoring looks like a "material correlation".)

BTW - You can't patent "genes". You can patent specific genes to do specific things.
Virginia Tech Shooting: Shots Fired At Virginia Tech, At Least 2 Confirmed Dead
Was it just me or is the name 'Twitter' omitted from the header in the new design?
This is a bit of an aside, but something I've always wondered is: why does this branch of mathematics get labeled as Queueing "theory"?

From my brief understanding, when someone talks about Queueing theory they are not talking about a singular "theory" but they mean something much broader. It doesn't seem as if there is something here that needs to be proved or disproved.

This is a part of naming in mathematics that has always perplexed me.

edit: not sure why this would get downvoted, seems like a simple neophyte question
Every day on my commute. And once or twice a year I like to either take a green tortoise tour, or play "greyhound roulette" which entails going to a bus station, writing down the next 5 destinations on scraps of paper, shoving them in my pocket, then grabbing one scrap and buying the corresponding ticket.
Do you really think that, without the USB connector being nearly identical, that Apple wouldn't be taking them to court?
Do you have a source for that Coinstar playing jangly coin sounds?? I would love to read more about that.
These are simple changes to make under Knockout.js and I assume Amber.js too. It's easy to see how to do this from the Knockout.js tutorial. A model/view binding system won't slow these kinds of customizations down.
> the author (someone quasi-notable, even) has outright lied about their treatment. You're

Because gHod knows that comedy show writers always tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth....
My bet is that the US wants them to try to use the technology to either a.) get another Stuxnet into their computers while they download data from it, or b.) see them try to use it and ultimately embarrass themselves in the process.
Obligatory folklore.org [1]... design is often how to incorporate what we already know and see in the digital world... regarding your comment about folders, if you do a google image search for "folder" you'll find most of them are rounded. In drawer at home, most of the folders have rounded edges where possible (ie, not at the hinge of the folder due to increased tear potential).

' Steve suddenly got more intense. "Rectangles with rounded corners are everywhere! Just look around this room!". And sure enough, there were lots of them, like the whiteboard and some of the desks and tables. Then he pointed out the window. "And look outside, there's even more, practically everywhere you look!". He even persuaded Bill to take a quick walk around the block with him, pointing out every rectangle with rounded corners that he could find. '

[1] http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_E...
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Yes. The translations, while basically accurate, don't do a good job of conveying the tone of remarks, which is important in analyzing the situation.
Without a lengthy article explaining why, by just looking at the picture frame - I would have never known the difference.
In Defense of the New Gmail
Well, what law do you think the government invoked and why?

Litigating an entire case ex parte and sealing the record so that the accused never even finds out what they were accused of should be quite troubling to anyone who believes in due process.
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It doesn't need to be so bad, but in larger organizations, it often is so bad. It just takes a few bad seeds of pattern-zealotry in an organization to poison the codebase into a God-awful mess. Once the patterns become a common practice, and every constructor has been dependency-injected ad nauseum (despite most interfaces having only ever having 1 implementation), there's just no going back.
This is dead on, however I say it's a client code implementation detail that the object the view is bound to is the same one other parts of the app are bound to. Two way bindings about marshalling data out of the dom into JS land, and unfortunately developers seem to pick the wrong JS land object to store the view data in: the model. The model is best viewed as the client's best understanding of what is on the server: the canonical state of the modeled object in the world. Changing the value of inputs doesn't change the state of the object in the world until you press the save button. You do still want a canonical place for view bindings to bind to, so that different views of the same object are guaranteed to stay in sync (think the slug in an index as well as the detail view in a show action), and I say its not worth sacrificing this guarantee because we can't structure our code around binding to non-canonical representations. This suggests the edit views should be bound to something which knows how to apply itself to the model, so that upon saving, the canonical place can remain as such and updates with the new data.

In Batman we really want to make this other object a reality and have been scheming about "draft" versions of models for quite a while, but still haven't quite nailed down how to do it when things like associated objects enter into the mix.
There is also a very good argument to make that gifted students don't need any special programs, because they are able to learn on their own at a pace that no instructor or regular course could keep up with.
> Or they could design a new cable?

And a new port. Given the scenario where that cable is banned, they'd need to replace the port on every existing tablet they've sold. This is a linchpin.

The point is that this isn't something that exists in isolation. This is evidence that suggests Samsung is comfortable ripping off Apple, and did so. Pretty blatantly. And so if they did it here, you think they didn't do it elsewhere in their industrial design?
Things like this can be very useful on servers where its not possible to install any Json parsing libraries.
Twitter's yet another new design - Its all about discovery with easy navigation
It provides suggested geometry for tags, but not actual names for the tags.
It truly is an amazing journey for Instagram and they deserve the accolades.
The point is that if they rip off the cable and port, which is easy to detect, it's hard to believe that they stopped there when taking inspiration from the most successful product in the space.
Sony’s SimulView Could End Split-Screen Gaming for Good
Anyone else experiencing server issues at Page.ly?
Am I the only person who doesn't care? Apple produced a well designed piece of hardware. It is superior to other designs, so therefore I would like my tablets to have that design, regardless of what the actual OS is or what company built it.

On a side note, HN is usually strongly against patents. The argument is that it is all about execution and patents only retard innovation. Why is everyone up in arms when it is Apple getting copied? They innovated and now the rest of the market is absorbing that design into their products, because it is superior. This is good, for everyone.
Microsoft team submits Redis patch to enable Windows support
as though there are millions of people who feel it is the central business information repository online?

I think because there really are millions who feel that way. Getting featured on TC has become one of the must-accomplish tasks for startups and so many feel, maybe even rightly, that TechCrunch can make or break you. They've kind of become the decider of what's cool and what's crap and you'd be surprised how many people don't question it and take their word as truth.

There's this whole group of us living outside the major startup capitals, looking in from the outside, and wondering how they can rocket to the center of the universe too. That group often feels frustrated when we see all these me-too startups while they're working on a labor of love for all the right reasons. Then when someone with their same idea gets into TC they fear being considered a me-too company as well despite having worked on whatever project for so long. It's not a jealousy thing, I think it's different. All in all they just feel like they're very deserving of some help from the players in Startupland but can't get it because they're an outsider.
How Much Does A Twitter Follower Cost?
Anyone have a good idea of how many people are using Google Contacts?

I've looked at the API before and considered some mashup ideas, but never pursued because I don't know anyone relying on it.
Wow. Lucky for us we'll probably never have an incrediblly genius physicist who can't wipe his own drool or speak English under his own power. Probably. Anymore.
Easily the best tutorial out there. Michael Hartl holds your hand the entire time as you learn the different parts and syntax of the framework.

This was my lifeline as I developed my MVP.
Or, we're seeing through more of the nice, shiny veneer of youth that says "Everything's OK" and mark this new vision as worse than the old one, inferring a decline.
If you're not familiar with hip-hop music blogs like the one cited in the article, please visit http://nahright.com or http://missinfo.tv to get a better idea of what they look like (since dajaz1.com doesn't seem to be back up yet, understandably).

Almost every track posted to sites like these are released by the artists themselves (or by their labels). Many hip-hop blogs (including the two I linked) will not post songs if they weren't legitimately authorized by the artists (e.g. if a track was stolen and leaked on the web).

Something you won't ever see are full albums. These sites aren't designed to replace album sales, they actually encourage them. They will only link to individual songs or freely released mixtapes.

(Also, you'll note that a lot of the music posted is from unsigned artists. A lot of newer rappers actually rose to prominence after having their music posted on these sites.)

There are many, many sites that willingly infringe on copyright and the government has good reason for shutting down. This was not one of them.

PS. For more information on how music gets released to these blogs, read this excellent piece, also by Techdirt:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101222/02112912376/more-b...
It doesn't exist, and yes, it would be very useful.
Two dead in VT shootings
This sounds about right. It probably just turned out that it was trivial to force the thing into landing mode for whatever reason.
The cable is a PDMI cable, an industry standard developed by ANSI/CEA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Associatio... ), my Dell Streak comes with an identical one too, as do certain Android media players (Slacker G2).

Info on PDMI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDMI
Image of Dell Streak PDMI: http://www.images.technologyking.co.uk/25032011/hgggg.jpg
Google Currents is hot off the press
Maaaybe this would work, but it would have to be significantly different to post long text than to post the regular 140 characters. What makes twitter great is the feed is easy to get through because everyone is limited in what they can add to it. I like that every tweet is essentially the same size. Simply lifting the limit on the regular tweet would be a grave mistake. Them becoming essentially a static blog hosting provider that you can link to in a tweet seems like not a terrible idea, though.
Using Fun to Change Behavior
The HP Slate was shown three weeks before the iPad, so it couldn't be a copy (although at that point the iPhone aesthetic was well known).

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/the-hp-slate/
* I'm a fan of stored procs too so I'd have to learn a new SQL dialect*

FWIW, Postgres does stored procs, too. Different SQL though, of course.
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You can just jam the GPS signal. The plane when lacking location info and C&C info would just land in wherever it is.
People with Android phones rely on it quite heavily and likely have many well-curated Google contacts.
The headline says "Gmail and Contacts get better with Google+", but actually most of these features are about making your Google+ experience better, not your gmail experience better. In other words, this smells more of corporate policy than product improvement.
I think his point is that he can do the above directly from the command line.
It's integrated with Android pretty deeply, so I imagine a lot of Android users are, even if they don't know it.
The current form of government allows people to elect charlatans and fools. That's not because the population is stupid. On the contrary, a democratic system required the population to be unusually educated & informed, while always deciding to vote in our long-term interest. In other words, the democratic system requires the impossible.

So you would rather live under an absolute monarchy? An enlightened dictatorship? Oligarchy? Theocracy? Which form of government, extant or extinct, would you prefer over the western democratic republic?