skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think his point was that it makes literal sense, but it doesn't help the process of communication

I think it does help - it implies that there is doubt (and possibly some lying involved with what's going on).

Simply stating "so and so said she went into town" is factual (although emphasizing "said" can also imply the same things that using "supposedly" does).

However, if the top-level-commenter's GF is using "supposedly" not in this way, I'd agree that'd be annoying. Maybe she's the mistrustful sort?
I'd like the story better if it had been a honeypot, so I didn't mean to cast aspersions on the poster. Sorry if I made it sound otherwise. Since you agree that it's out of place, I hope you flagged it too.
I'd say pressure is part of any startup and the ability to work under it is much more important than at a larger company.

When you work a 9-5 at an established company there are usually several degrees of separation between you and the anxiety that comes from a business. The sales and support teams will be handling the clients. The testers will handle bug reporting. The management will worry about biz dev and making money.

At a typical startup you're going to be taking the brunt of all of those worries. The stakes are higher because you're usually fighting for the company's survival, not just your Christmas bonus check. For these reasons and more I'd say working under pressure is an extremely important skill if you're looking to get into startups.
There are some significant performance improvements with later versions that would be worth having (better GC, for example).
Ask HN: Know any good law firms based in Canada that specialize in startups?
My little startup is expanding and I need to find a good law firm based in Canada that specializes in startups.

Experience-based recommendations from Canadian entrepreneurs would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
An older page on doing this with a lot more detail:

http://www.kremalicious.com/2008/06/ubuntu-as-mac-file-serve...

Not all of it is necessary anymore with Lion (and maybe with more recent Debian/Ubuntu, I'm not sure), but it is a nice overview of the pieces.
Verizon Customers Dealing With Third Data Outage In One Month
I interviewed with them in their Vancouver offices. They are near the top of the Harbour Centre downtown, and have a crazy beautiful view of North Vancouver and the mountains.

I would say there were about 15 people in the office at the time (1.5 years ago)

Markus is a slightly weird Rain Man kinda guy, but is obviously very smart. A bit smug, though likely deservedly.

He has a hot girlfriend, that is the head of marketing or something.

It was a three on one interview, which isn't very welcoming. No whiteboard, no code writing. Kinda glad I didn't get it, actually.
>However, there is a good chance one of us would run into someone employing the same tactics. That's what we should be on the lookout for.

Being on the lookout for that would not be inhibited by knowing the names of three people who did it.
Mnmlist: Kindle & iPad are marketing devices
I don't think that without knowing why a given person will opt for Flash over conventional technologies, be it a photographer, restauranteur or auto manufacturer, it would be impossible to address a solution for them, never mind require them to abandon the use of a certain technology that many other [successful] players in their industry are using.

It's not like photographers demanded Flash as a presentation layer from the begininning. Obviously, they saw something in it that would allow them to control how the user views and interacts with their work while eschewing alternatives.

These are people who have invested not just thousands of dollars on equipment, travel and education, but who have also dedicated their lives and sometimes livelihoods on their art. To ask them to further invest in the ever-changing landscape every time a technology falls out of favor may be too much for them to bear. Just like a simple camera and film, Flash has been there, relatively unchanged, for many years.
What would be an example of a prescriptive dictionary? I guess my point is that all these words came from somewhere else, right? The dictionary editor isn't sitting there coining new words for things that previously did not have a name and hoping the stick... right?
> Curious: What's your domain?

I switch every couple of years. Most recently: Image analysis; previously: Big data analysis; Before that: financial mathematics ("quant") and trading systems. If I go back long enough to '91-95: Game programming (SNES and PC); although I've been somewhat involved in game programming and related projects as late as 2008.

> In video games where there are a lot of "objects" floating around that can really benefit from polymorphism, the type checking that C++ can do that C can't really gives you a huge development bonus.

Only if your logic is written in C++ as well. In the projects I was involved with, most of the logic was actually data driven or scripted, and C++ contributes much less in that scenario.

I don't deny C++ has its uses. But it also has a lot of drawbacks. Whether or not the net is gain or loss compared to $LANGUAGE, is subjective. For me with $LANGUAGE=C, it is negative. YMMV.
He said he's not going to name names. Let it rest.

It's frustrating that we watch this same argument play out every time someone anonymizes the details of any story. We don't need to litigate this point. If someone says they don't want to reveal details, it's rude to try convincing them to change their mind.
It means "now" as in... please write the article NAO, I CAN'T WAIT ANY LONGER!!!
In Canada, the standard contract length is 3 years with a hardware upgrade after 2. I'm in the position now where I'm looking to replace the 3gs I got 2 years ago, and I'll definitely be getting a new phone in the next few weeks.

Also, keep in mind that people lose/break phones all the time, or get rid of their old one because it annoys them. Lack of updates could be a significant factor in making a decision to go with the same manufacturer.
I certainly appreciate Mr. Doctrow's willingness to help get the word out but in my opinion a presentation at the Chaos Computer Congress is preaching to the choir.

True. OTOH these sorts of events create video by-products that can be distributed to other people (though Boing-boing is likely another choir).

Still, I found it interesting because of how he outlines the possible reasoning for such maneuvers (e.g. screwing with DNS is portrayed in the same light as dropping phone service for the head shop down the block), which can help folks like use when we try to explain to non-geeks why things like SOPA or walled-garden electronics are so bad.
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"4. Promote innovation over litigation. Our efforts should be to protect copyrights and trademarks, not outdated business models."

To me, that is the juiciest nugget in the article. From all appearances, the legislators arguing for SOPA and PIPA don't care too much about our complaints about potential legal abuse and curtailing of the rights of American citizens and companies.

I think stating it instead as a market issue might help, sort of like "SOPA is like something the buggy whip industry would have argued for."
"MS-DOS—the original "weak OS." Every version of the software is retailored and rebranded by its manufacturer. Even some software has to be rewritten to conform to different machines and their varied specs."

Interesting definition of 'original'... unless my history is very wrong, *NIX was around first. Retailored and rebranded by vendors? Check. Rewritten for different hardware? Check.

Android is like Unix, which is no surprise really, since technologically that's what it is.

What freed Unix from the fragmentary mess of vendors? It was cheap commodity hardware, combined with GNU. As long as smartphone makers try to differentiate their products, incompatible versions of the OS will proliferate - and as long as Android remains schizophrenic about whether it's really open or not, and as long as Google tries to prevent forking, forks will happen. The best defence against forking is not to try to defend against forking. (Further reading: esr on bazaars)
I didn't see the biggest data point to me, which is that Americans have become more obese in the past several decades, far too short a time for our genetics to have changed.

This data point suggests a major non-genetic component to getting obese.

Processed foods, labor-saving devices, and cars have come into existence and dominated our lives. It's hard not to conclude they play a major role.
In the article they reference low fat diets and calorie counting, in every single study cited.

In fact, the word carbohydrates appears only once in the whole article.

In Taubes book calories from fat != calories from sugar.

It's not hard to see why they reach very different conclusions.
Silly.

Obviously we all have free will and can theoretically do anything. But simply the existence of an extremely specific set of actions that aren't physically impossible that someone must take to achieve something is not enough to say that, if they don't have that thing, they don't deserve it.

I was fairly overweight at one point (BMI of 27, not muscle) and managed to get down to a more healthful range. The thing is, I was in a very real sense hungry all the time. I remember eating the same thing together with a roommate, and at the end he'd be quite full while I felt like I had barely eaten an appetizer. On top of that, I'd spend probably 5 hours a week exercising, not counting commuting to work on a bike every day, eating no junk or fast food (avoiding eating out altogether, actually), while he barely even left the house and seemed to subsist on tortilla chips and salsa. And yet despite that effort, I eventually trended to a higher weight while his didn't change.

So far as I can tell, the issue wasn't any moral failing on my part. And we've had people moralizing about how fat people are lazy and lazy people are fat for decades, with no perceptible counteracting influence on the health of the people in the USA.

So what's the value in that, when what we could be focusing on is how to hack the human body to get around those pain points?
there absolutely is proprietary client-side javascript. it is protected by copyright like anything else. you can't just go and steal google's js, and google can't open up my website and steal my js. that's the point of laws. indie nobodys can violate the laws as long as they are small enough to fly under the radar, but you can't become successful with stolen code.
So, buy from Apple?

From my own experience with this, I bought a Samsung Moment a couple weeks after it launched and was abandoned with about 17 months left on my contract (with some severe bugs that were never resolved while I had it). I did get an official update to 2.1, but it was very late and that was the last update it ever received while I owned it.

Sure, I wasn't an eligible purchaser for their next immediate phone release, but their utterly terrible support of my product ensured that I'll never be a future customer of Samsung, for any of their product divisions and severely tarnished my impression of Android in general. All Android manufacturers do equally bad jobs at supporting their products with only a couple of products as exceptions (even "big release" phones like the original Motorola Droid got abandoned before their earliest contracts ended, late buyers are really screwed), so I'm not too keen on rolling the dice on any future Android products either.
You could have said the same thing about internet browsers on a companies own operating system a decade or so ago.

If a company is building a platform, they face antitrust issues with competitors using their platform.
" bait and switch is fraud too"

That doesn't make much sense....they offered him a job with a salary and he got there and was given a job with a salary. Not like he got there and they had a car with a sandwich waiting for him and a note that says "Sorry :(".

Bottom line, bait and switch is a consumer law not employment law.
Could next Apple iPhone,iPod be powered by a hydrogen fuel cell?
It's size too. If you don't have something they want, they have no incentive to help you. If you are small, the Not Invented Here syndrome pushes them to think they could donut better themselves.
That $2,800 NYC Rails class
Easily expose your dev server to the public Internet (DIY localtunnel)
so its not coming out of my pay and companies don't have the expense of running their own health systems and they dont need to employ extra HR people to administer them. It also means that startups don't have to compete against big companies that can afford health benefits which act to lock employees into big companies
Aeropresses are awesome. They actually make better coffee than most coffee makers, it's always fresh, it's plenty fast and cleanup is a snap. I highly recommend it for anybody who's put off by the annoyance of normal coffee makers.
To be honest, I'd probably just get a refurb 2 GB Time Capsule for $260, considering the bare drive would run you $160.
Agreed with this idea. The problem some users may have is, even if they like the service, and would renew continuously anyway, many don't like the idea of commitment. If people could, they would choose month-to-month renting (I know I do) over a 1 year lease and constant 1 year renewals (as an example). Especially if there is no price advantage.
Man, the odds of getting a question answered are really slim.
Can you find one app on your computer that is not written in c++?
Quite hilarious, thanks ;-)
When I was a seminarian, acedia was a word often spoken of during spiritual formation. The answer given was meditation. Some things never change. We were even quoted passages from the Fathers of the Church mentioned in this article.
Google is a lot of things, but one thing they're not is stupid: drivers control may not even be in the hands of the device builders, and is likely tied to agreements with manufacturers and parts providers.

This requirement would make support for any version of Android containing it dive into the ground.
OVH: hubiC (Your hub in the cloud)
One addition, use my little automator action (Create Backup Volume) [1] to generate the sparsebundle for each machine you are backing up. It sets up the sparsebundle with better arguments, namely a larger sparse-band-size=131072 which greatly improves the speed of the backups since it is fewer files being opened in the sparsebundle.

Don't worry about the size you give the bundle since newer versions of osx will just resize the bundle to the size of the shared volume in netatalk (something which was neglected in the blog authors post).

[1] http://code.google.com/p/backmyfruitup/downloads/list
Take all this with a grain of salt, as I'm about to get vague and handwave-y. According to some article I read [citation needed], the fact that their interface is crap actually drives more pageviews. E.g., that profile pictures are distorted is searches actually encourages people to click through to profiles to see better-looking photos.

So poor usability actually is a feature.

Which comes back to the old argument about advertising-driven revenue models resulting in poor user experiences, since the "user" from a revenue model is the advertiser and YOU'RE the product.
I added 25 lbs of muscle in <month.

You do realize you lost all credibility right there. Saying you did 5lbs of muscle in less than a month would be questionable -- possible, but rare. 10 lbs in a month is virtually unheard of. Maybe among steroid users -- but even there, not common. 20 lbs? Probably never been done before. 25 lbs?

Seriously, if you really did that you would quite possibly be the first person in the history of the world to do so. You need to write a book, and start a training program. You'll make millions, if not billions.

But I have my doubts as to its veracity.
Apple's Thunderbolt Coming Soon To PCs: Courtesy Intel
Does Microsoft Really Need A Windows Superphone?
None of Oracle's six patents are invalidated, but 4 of them are under pressure
> This brings us to a core concept that Taubes fails to incorporate in his thinking: the idea that insulin signaling in fat tissue depends both on the concentration of insulin around, and on the sensitivity of cells to that insulin. In obesity, fat tissue is insulin resistant.

Did the author of the article read another Taubes book?

In the mentioned book, insulin resistance was a very important point. And the reason I cringe when I hear someone is injecting even more insulin into their body to combat diabetes.
Yes, I see the point. You're right, you're 100% right. It's all about ego satisfaction. Your response was even a better example :)
Airplay on Google TV
Plantronics Headset- Famous for high noise cancellation
Plantronics has made a blast in the field of headsets because of unique and exclusive features its products are in great demand in the market. The most recent product of Plantronics is Plantronics CS540.
It is my understanding from various threads on Reddit that the AI class was meant also to be something of a talent search, as those in the top percentile got a message saying "send us your cv" or something like that.
> It's odd considering that people have no difficulty accepting that alcoholics have a permanently altered relationship with booze.

Odd, perhaps - but was that always the case? Was there no 'medicalization' of alcholism (or tobacco addiction, or eating disorders, or...) which turned it from a moral failing to a disease?
I agree totally. The first two sins of education are making simple things complicated and making complicated things simple. Ng was clear, and that is commendable. My concern was not based on how difficult he made the material he presented seem. I was concerned that he did not present more difficult material.

Vocabulary is very important. But in addition to knowing the meanings of words, its important to know why concepts are carved up the way they are. Why divide the world into supervised and unsupervised --- what does carving at that joint win us?

Getting people interested is what the first week is for. The other eight, I feel, should try to satisfy the curiosity the first week sparked.
Ask HN: Get money as an individual until a company is created
Hey,

I have been working on a personal project for a long time. I would like to maybe create a startup with it in the future, but I currently don't have the money.
I wanted to know, is it possible to create a website under my name, register my gmail account with an Individual account on Adsense, put advertising on my website and get paid under my name. And then maybe in 6 months, create a startup under the name of this project and create another business Adsense account ?

Its just that I would like to see if the startup can work at all before paying all the fees for incorporating it. Currently the server price is high enough for me.

EDIT: I'm working in the US

EDIT2: And if it is not possible, can I release the application without any income, and then open my startup after the website was running for a few months.

Thank you
Seconded. This book has made me rethink all of my behaviors and professional practices – from the gym, to food, drinking, and my UX design recommendations and reasoning. It provides a framework for how we make decisions, a truly phenomenal and amazing accomplishment, when you consider it.
Desktop apps are becoming a niche. I used to have an e-mail client, a spreadsheet, word processor, groupware, project management and an IDE installed on my machine. Now all I need is a browser and a text editor (although it's Emacs).

It still makes sense to use C/C++/hand-tuned assembly for high-performance things like game engines, 3D modeling, audio/video processing and so on. While my current OS is written mostly in C, I am old enough to remember (and have used) technically successful OSs written in things like Smalltalk, Lisp, PL/M and Algol.

Like I said, C makes sense for a lot of things. It's just not as important as it was 20 years ago.
Essential IFTTT (IfThisThenThat) - Programming Workflows for Humans using the Web's Social Glue

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/EssentialIFTTTIfThisThenThatPr...

Scott Hanselman explained IFTTT as a simplified Yahoo! Pipes.
Confessions of An Apple Fanboy
You did the internet a favor. Your question would not have been anything remotely intelligent, anyway.
I'm not asking for names (nor addressing the OP in any way whatsoever), I'm just trying to understand aculver's comment. It seems not to make sense.
The article you refer to is this: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/and-the-money-comes-rol...
Agreed. Case in point: I'm (successfully) selling a JavaScript Game Engine[1]. It's trivial to steal the code, yet I haven't had any problems with "pirates".

Of course it depends whether you're talking about a "cool blinking mouse cursor trail" or a framework that takes a bit of understanding from the people who want to use it. The former will be "pirated" far more often, just because the target demographic isn't as aware of licensing and copyright issues (or doesn't care).

[1] http://impactjs.com/
The Cloud and the Great Data Center Race
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there is one on dreamweaver and sublime text 2
> khan academy actually had a blog post about how he implemented ML

I belive that this might be the article in question:

http://david-hu.com/2011/11/02/how-khan-academy-is-using-mac...
Correct - you can definitely terminate the relationship - but you can still do so in a professional manner and not lowering to or beyond the initial customers reaction.
No hardware is upgradable forever; that's an absurd standard that no one is expecting.

The fact remains that Apple consistently provides 2-3 years of updates, for their phones, whereas even new Google-branded Nexus phones are in some cases getting cut out of updates in less than one year.
Dude! U are one of the clever guys!
I just presented a point of view from someone that tried to follow the rules, that's all. Spoiled is the last thing I am, I can assure u. Just honest.
I could be mistaken but I am pretty sure Stack Overflow also runs on IIS.
Aside: Did someone vomit out that design?
Not sure what kind of AMA is this, I don't see any answer from salman_khan_
>Being on the lookout for that would not be inhibited by knowing the names of three people who did it.

Only in the sense that you might think you're avoiding the entire problem by only avoiding these people.
You'd hate for this to come across as controversial, like there was a reasonable other side to the argument. How much of your code you reveal to end-users is simply orthogonal to whether it enjoys copyright protection. Code tends to be copyrighted by default.
Ask HN: How do you cope with sterss?
I know its a worn up topic, but I just need some help over here. How do you guys cope with stress?
I have this guy calling me every day, asking about his project, which is kinda big and I am not even halfway through, and the other guy calling me consistently to upload his website on the server, and the server guys who remind me everyday to pay for it, and another guy on my dayjob who asks me to come up with projects for students to take on some competition. I also have 3 groups of students who have different projects which need to get done, I am just procrastinating that. And there is another guy who offered me a nice job overseas, and I just realized that my passport got expired, so I need to renew it in order to leave the country.

I mean, the solution might be pretty straightforward, just get the freaking job done! But its kinda hard in a way I can't explain. All I know is that I hate my phone, and I hate daylight. Anyone have any suggestions guys? Maybe some books to read, or some life experience things you want to share?
What a stupid, mean comment.
There Is No Next Facebook: How Multiple Social Networks Will Peacefully Coexist
You should see the comments she left on mine.
you need to say what country you are working in - Sole Trader would work in the UK