skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm happy with my Comcast. Its always fast and has never once gone out the whole 5 years I've been using it in San Francisco. I've never had to speak with customer service (which is maybe one reason I'm ok with it).

I guess the cap is a bit annoying. But I've never come close to it. I suppose if there were an alternative as fast and as reliable I might consider switching simply do to Comcast's policies. But I've never felt their evil directly.
Facebook's ongoing record is one of introducing opt-out products that harm user privacy. This is just a matter of preference. Nobody is hurt by SPYW, and it's far easier to disable than many of facebook's updates.

The issue with Facebook's changes to privacy was not that they are opt-out, but that they were opt-out and significantly impacted user privacy. Opt-out services on their own may be annoying, but they aren't a cause for alarm unless it hurts the user.
Who donated at least $30,000 in 2012 US presidential election?
http://mydataorganizer.com/fund.html
can be checked for people who donated at least $30,000
by searching Donors. More than 900 people donated at least $30,000 in 2012 US presidential election.
Doesn't facebook usually do it in regard to rather important privacy settings? Google's is more of a default search filter you can just turn off, no? I clicked the SPYW off the first day I saw it and haven't given it much thought since.
sure, discoverability. I guess what I want as a user is for Excel to tell me, "you're formatting a lot of cells the same, have you heard about format painter?" ... though as Clippy that was a little obnoxious.
wrapping a business model around a the availability of a third party is a doomed to fail idea. Craigslist specifically is probably the worst offender on the internet right now regarding sharing functionality on their site. They spend millions of dollars per year on anti-spam and code to prevent users from using their web site. This being said, it will only be a matter of days or weeks before your code needs to be retooled to using proxy networks because your netblocks are all firewalled (this happens automatically).... So, anyway, good luck, you're going to need it.
http://eqi.org/defensive_people_are_insecure.htm#Dealing%20w...
When I worked at Joyent I had access to root level params you can't configure on individual SmartMachines by hand. Joyent ops might be able to do it for you, but some of those changes are global per server (affecting all the SmartMachines it hosts).
The problems the OP wants to solve are formally undecidable and reducible to the halting problem.

1. Given a formal specification, find a program that meets the specification.

2. The apparently simpler problem of checking whether a given program meets a specification.

Both are undecidable. That said, there is an extensive literature on practical approaches to this problem. They generally suffer from intractability.

http://cfpm.org/pub/papers/tiofdm.pdf

I suggest looking at Robert Harper's book on type theory instead.
Y Combinator Website Technology Usage
Well it seems that the search engine dismiss my quotes more and more and it's getting really annoying.
Dividends are taxed like...dividends. Through 2012, qualified dividends are taxed at 0% or 15% depending on the recipient's income, same as long term capital gains. It is very likely there will continue to be favorable tax treatment of dividends (maybe LTCG and Dividends both at 20%) after 2012.

Apple isn't an investment conglomerate; it doesn't have as many ways to invest money as a company like Berkshire.

Part of the issue is that a good bit ($55b of about $80b as of September 2011) of Apple's cash is overseas, but it's unlikely Apple would pay out a large enough dividend to seriously deplete even the US cash hoard. There is an argument that Google, Apple, Cisco, etc. are all waiting for a special "5% tax on repatriated income" tax holiday in 2012+ (like in 2004) to bring back a lot of it. It's all income on which US tax has not yet been paid, so paying 5% vs. 35% would be a big win.

It is definitely up to Apple whether they do share buyback vs. dividend, but once your cash is clearly beyond

There is near zero chance Apple would make a $50-70b acquisition. They have never done that. If they suddenly deviated from their (successful) strategy, it would probably tank Apple's stock twice -- both less cash and an ineffective and risky use of the cash, distracting to Apple's core product, and would call into question both the executive leadership and the board of directors. I'd be surprised to see Apple make purchases beyond $1-5b, and even that would really be pushing it.
Lytro's light field camera technology could supercharge future iPhones
The entries in the HUD are definitely hierarchical, so I don't see a good reason why there can't be a way to browse through them "the old fashioned way". I wonder if the autocomplete suggests submenus, or just terminal entries?

I also hope this provides a nice, general way to introduce sciptability into applications, and that actions will be able to take arguments in the future. Or is that going too far?
Google: Do Yourself a Favor and Just Come Clean Already
Not to forget that they don't just sell their products in the US. And not to forget that their sales in APAC region is bound to grow significantly in the future. Not justifying the bad work conditions you're pointing to, but it seems fair to generate employment in places where they're getting their profits from.
Also, Apple makes 409,000$ profit per employee. (last quarter)

From the ever useful Wolfram Alpha: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=apple+profit%2Femployee...
You're creating a dichotomy that doesn't exist. What actually happens is that there is an intent element to crimes associated with destroying evidence. So you might get in trouble for purposefully destroying evidence, or in some cases negligently destroying evidence (e.g. a company that didn't have a proper data-retention policy). You usually can't get in trouble for accidentally destroying evidence. Then, you testify as to your intent, and the jury gets to decide whether you're telling the truth, making inferences from your circumstances. People might believe you forgot the password to some drive you never use, but probably won't believe you forgot the password to the drive holding the bank codes for all the money you embezzled.
I expect its due to the iPhone&iPad hype. Here in my country, I didn't know that company such as Apple or something as MacPc and MacOS existed untill age 17. And I was one of the most technology eager students at school and generally considered as "geek". Now the trend you can see (At least in my country), people buying iPhone, then iPad, and then a Macbook as a "accessory". I am not exaggerating, there were several people who approached me saying, "Hey, you know the other blog about iPhone I started to follow after I bought one, I read from there something, apparently there is a different version of 'Windows' of Apple, and the computer itself looks kinda cool, do you think I should buy it?". And then the same person learns about iMac and every iProduct in market. I know lots of such people here owning every piece of iProducts just because they liked the iPhone.
Cook reinstated the charity price-matching policy, soon after he took over Apple. (Not that I'm saying that it redeems Apple, but they are moving in a more charitable direction.)
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/sf/ is a good way to learn coq if you are interested and don't already know it.

also, i didn't completely follow the final example, but you might find that category theory is relevant. related, it's not completely clear to me why you're not happy with functional programming. in a sense what academic functional programmers are doing is what you want your software to do. they're just not smart enough to put it in a compiler yet. i think. for example http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/cursos/proggen/Articulos/sorting... (isn't that kinda what you want?)
I recently started using Checkvist, and like it better than anything else I've tried so far, because

- it supports hierarchies;

- tasks can be assigned due dates, and can then be viewed in chronological order;

- tasks can be tagged;

- it's on the web
I'm looking forward to it. It is one of the major angles on recreating organs for transplantation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue_engineering

http://www.createitreal.com/index.php/en/organ-printing/prin...
Nice hat tip to Microsoft when he says "I wouldn't say it's a two-horse race. There's a horse in Redmond that always suits up and always runs and will keep running".

I wouldn't expect these words coming from an Apple executive. It means that Cook thinks WP is a good product that can be a rival for iOS; or that he's trying to be politically correct without following Jobs' style. Whichever it is, I really like the new path they're following.

Oh, and it also means that BlackBerry is completely out of the race, but we all knew that already, didn't we?
I forget where I heard this routine (Lifestyle Business Podcast maybe?), but I've found it very helpful. It goes something like this:

-Write to-do items on a post-it note

-Scratch them off as you accomplish them

-When the majority of the post-it is scratched, start a new note, beginning with the few items that did not get finished from the last post-it

-Evaluate the items that you didn't accomplish from the last post-it. How many times have you copied them from one post-it to another? If more than twice, it is either not important or you are seriously procrastinating. Do it, outsource it or just delete it and move on.
I don't think that's what is being asked, although I totally agree with what you said.

I think also the question and your answer somewhat reduces down what Apple are doing to just producing hardware and software - as if that's all that Apple were about.

No matter how big a player the competitor might be, Apple have got users locked-in without them even feeling it, and other companies have got a very long way to go before they even get close to having that kind of buy-in. Apple would have to have a major major screw up to lose that advantage.

I actually experienced the power of that lock-in recently. I'm writing a technical book on a macbook air. Although it's on OSX 10.6.8 I hadn't upgraded to Lion because I didn't want to lose the support of Rosetta for a couple of programs I still use.

I'd been using Pages to write the book because of it's compatibility with ePub and Amazon, and when Apple released iBooks Author I saw the potential for my book. The problem is that it's Lion only.

Now I have a dilemma, upgrade to Lion and lose Rosetta (and several key coding programs) or just stay where I am and lose iBooks Author.... or buy another Mac. Wow. That is power. Name me another company that has that.
Most dividends are taxed at the appropriate long-term capital gains rate, for now:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_dividend
It could also create a scenario in which a bug in a decryption or hash function could potentially land an end user jail time.
Not an application, just a benchmark. There was some keep-alive, and a small amount of state being passed from memory, but nothing heavy. At that level of contention you'll easily saturate a core making the application useless.

My point is more that Node can support a very large amount of connections. Once you scale down to the tens or possibly low hundreds of thousands you can still do real work.

This is mostly useful when you have a server that is looking after a lot of things that don't communicate very often. Sensors is one application for example. While totally passive sensors can poll a server with their data, being able to hold open many very cheap connections allows you ask sensors for their data when the server wants it rather than on an interval. This can cut down the amount of unnecessary data sent a lot.
Very useful. When I bought my Honda '92 on Craigslist, I was optimizing for cost and therefore spent a few weeks just feeling out the price range for model, mileage, and title (I was only looking at clean titles). It seems that the search settings here do a good job covering what my primary focus was.

In order to jump on the hottest deals, I would set up an IFTTT condition to email me when new queries were posted on Craigslist. Would be cool to have some monitoring with this site.

Regardless, very nice work!
You can also require at least 2 or 3 (or so) of your friends to all press the key to wipe your data. That way you don't have to trust everybody completely.
Ah, that got me looking more closely. There is an option to use yui-compress and it seems with the 1.2.1 version. I use the shortened -x argument.

https://github.com/cloudhead/less.js/pull/504/files
Facebook Timeline Privacy Settings
although I respect Philip Greenspun greatly, most spreadsheets I have seen are pretty procedural. People tend to think in steps on those types of calculations.
How did you disable this "bullshit personalization of search"?
Foxconn is dominant in its industry. Moving to a another location may eat up way too much from the pie.

I'm not saying they shouldn't do the very least. A bit of CSR might be even good for business.
I skimmed the article (missing a couple of mentions) trying to work out what it was. Ended up having to Google it and then checked to see if anyone here had explained it.

Is this a big thing for Google+ users? Hadn't stumbled across it at all.
This is just detection on the homepages of the sites found at yclist.com with the removal of the "dead" links as well as dead results that I found in the results from the person who put together this awesome spreadsheet - https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=t_toYuVyy6fci0MAiIaZ...

Interesting to note in all of the incubators very few are using Microsoft ASP.NET/IIS over nginx/Apache setups.
Or choose 'Verbatim' under 'More search tools' down in the bottom left.
I just checked on Bing and it's in the description of the second result, from a Jan 13th article.

http://www.bing.com/search?q=SPYW

> Jan 13, 2012 · Summary: Google’s Search Plus Your World (SPYW) announcement has ruffled some feathers. Both Facebook and Twitter have reacted ...

I've been banging the "Bing needs to do so much better to make even a tiny dent" drum for a while now, but they've made strides in the past 6 months.
Google's pretty obviously in the best position to be able to tell, and famously and religiously acts from that position to a fault.

You said it. I'm reminded of a line from Stephenson's Snow Crash:

Hiro runs down the center of the Towne Hall... He turns off all the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern.

Google's big mistakes will be the best documented mistakes in human history, especially in retrospect when historians have sufficient time to sort the data from the chaff. But that doesn't mean the mistakes won't happen.
that doesn't give you the same contrast as a piece of paper, in bright environments, so this also results in eye strain
I tried to search for "bmw m series". After the search box leaves focus, it's value changes to "BMW 3 Series", which is the first choice in the suggestions.

Don't you guys like the M cars? :)
Or if you write in gibberish, who does the burden of proof fall on to demonstrate the information is truly 'random' and not a cypher?
I'm dubious just how much relevance social signals add.
And for me this is the crux of the matter.

It looks like google is just chasing after facebook,
with the sole intention of monetizing those lovely social graphs.

That might not be evil, but it loses you a lot of goodwill. Telling the cows they are monetisabke beef units will hurt Daisy's feelings.

If the google search page came with some means of showing the raw search and the adjusted ones, we might be willing to give them the benefit of the doubt (I.e. Your results, plus the raw duckduckgo equivalent, plus the ones based on your past search history but ignoring your google+ account etc)

google is search, and the other posts are right - they forget that at their peril. But they can be forgiven the other dalliances if they can show us how those products made search better
"were"

there "were" plenty of casual ubuntu users. soon there will be plenty of casual mint users.
Doing Attracts Doers
I want to see a study of what the changes over the last ten years correlate to: http://imgur.com/BDOSZ (couldn't find a permalink for individual sections)
You sirs, are both awesome. I think I need to do more research into all of this and find a good how-to guide because if I didn't know how to do the above, I probably shouldn't be doing it until I know more. I've been down that path before and it leads only to frustration when I realize I know no idea what I'm doing :)
Overjustification effect
Craigslist is a ton of NLP to figure out common ways to phrase mileage etc... also catch all the mispellings.

We're also experimenting with some structured parsing for the universal dealership parser we alluded to - this means trying to figure out which part of the page has a listing so we dont accidentally report the mileage from a warranty or similar listings lower down the page... turns out to be a fairly tricky problem but its also a ton of fun to work on! Will keep you posted if we start having a ton of success automagically crawling the interweb. Thanks!
Foursquare is not the most inspiring story, no. Google acquired them, killed Dodgeball, and Foursquare was created in protest. At least the way I recall it.

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/dodgeball
Because OSX runs mainly on laptops, where people tend to put their computer in sleep mode rather than turning it off (often several times a day). Same tends to go for most iMac users.

Only users of big old desktop boxes still tend to boot their computer on a daily basis.
This will get rid of synonyms.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/11/google-verbatim.htm...
2012 Is The Year When Software Eats (The Rest) Of The World
Ask HN: Does Async API service make sense?
I am the co-founder of a cyber fraud detection startup (beta soon). We plan to provide our API in an asynchronous mode, meaning that you can use the service anytime, but you don't get the results immediately. You would be able to poll for updates (API or web interface) or get the results by email.

Does it make any sense to provide an asynchronous API? Any services that work in this manner?

Thoughts/comments/questions
"We Don't Need None of That Smart-Growth Communism" (March 2011)
Your country is Turkmenistan? How long ago were you 17? That's an interesting perspective. I had thought that this effect you are talking about was going to occur in the U.S. 5 years ago. I think now we are fully seeing this realization across markets.

I bought my first Mac 6 months ago. I got tired of keeping up with how many gigs of ram I needed. What video card to get etc. I took the plunge and decided to trust that Apple would make good choices for me. I've not been let down. I my last Windows PC was top of the line and it would overheat from playing Netflix. My Macbook Air doesn't and I've never had a problem with it.

By the way, I've long wanted to visit your region of the world. Been to the Ukraine and Turkey but just haven't made it that far into Central Asia.
If damage is done...you can be held criminally responsible

I was very careful to condition my statement. If something happens, then there is a probability of penalty. The current system conditions operators to gamble. The perceived risk of something bad happening is low. So, it doesn't matter what, if any, penalty may be associated with shirking responsibility. Without the risk of damage dramatically increasing or criminalizing the cause rather than the result, the behavior will not change.
I appreciate his writeup. I have been spending small bits of time trying to get beyond the novice stage with Haskell for a few years, with limited success. Encouragement is useful. (As are the 3 Haskell books I have bought and mostly read.)

I have spent so much time coding in Clojure in the last few years and the (almost) purely function style is addictive.

I signed up for visi.pro a few days ago out of curiosity.
Goal #1 should be to get to that point, goal #2 being to be able to pay someone else to do it. Goal #1 only involves paying someone if you can't do it yourself, and if that is so, you have to achieve goal #2 to an extent that it ensures goal #1.
Apple: 37.04 million iPhones sold in Q1
Western Digital says drive manufacturing to pre-flood capability by September.
The title of this article should have been "Don't use class names to store data." Finding elements by class name is fine. This is about misusing the class attribute.
Have neither of you heard of verbatim search?

http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/search-using-your-t...

Or turning off Search Plus Your World?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hf5K14O6Fwc/Twufv9LK1PI/AAAAAAAAAL...

No, seriously... Knowing that these two things exist, are you still unable to search what you want to?
I think the most important part of this HN thread is that people have gone from giving Google the benefit of the doubt to assuming that everything they do is a part of trying to fuck over the users in any way imaginable in a depiction that is beginning to exceed a vilification greater than Mark Zuckerberg. Google are having the biggest crisis of trust in their entire history. A Gmail alternative seems more welcome than ever before, because who knows what they will do next.

I don't really see anything newsworthy nor controversial in the article, but people are just fed up with everything Google are doing now.

It actually reminds me of the binary ways people tend to hate politicians: either, they find them evil, or they find them incompetent. Microsoft went from being evil to bumbling idiots (to wit, try to remember the Seinfeld ads) - to being sort of neutral in the game.

Now, Google have gone from being regarded as bumbling idiots to evil profit-maximizing clueless assholes who've eroded their brand and goodwill and danced on the line of antitrust suits.

Facebook seems to be viewed as consistently evil, although some developers just seem to hate them for their API and "move fast and break things" philosophy, so YMMV.

It's probably not doing them any favours that they of all the giants have the most invisible CEOs and owners of all, which makes the Google seem like an amorphous corporate blob of evil whose tendrils reach into our data and private lives. Even Ballmer adds some humanity to Microsoft, especially in the recent interview with him: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/steve-ballmer-reboots-0....
My entire working day revolves around a list in front of me that I treat just like this.

Post it notes just aren't big enough for the amount of items I have to do most days.
I agree! Thank you for making this comment. Google is only doing what it must to compete in the social search market. Google has all the incentive to bring Facebook and Twitter directly into their search results, but Facebook and Twitter have the incentives to create silos. The only option was for Google to do it's own thing! Now Facebook and Twitter are just bitching and moaning about having some stiff competition.
With the exception of a handful of brands (e.g. ThinkPads), most people I know can't stand their computers and plan to buy a Mac once their machines die or become unusable. I'm surprised that other PC manufacturers manage to sell anything at all. Crapware, poor build quality, bloated and impossible-to-comprehend product lines, it's like HP, Dell and co are actively trying to go out of business.
Yes, it reminds me of Sim City 2000's arcologies, which, as I'm sure anyone who loved that game as much as I did would agree, is the sort of thing dreams are made of (I'll pass on the rocket boosters though). It's really unfortunate for me that this iteration is in Vegas.
As someone looking to learn to code from scratch and build a Web/smartphone app, I'm curious what your coding background was before your 8 week ruby cram session began?