skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, both Apple and Google want to all but replace the whole "PC paradigm" with iOS and Android. The iPad already re-uses most of the code for the iPhone version, except with some design tweaks, and with Android it's the same. I can't see how this WP8/W8 "integration" could possibly be anymore "integrated" that what Apple and Google already have for both phones and tablets/hybrid devices.

Also, I can't help but think that Microsft will take the whole "homogenization" of platforms between mouse-driven PC, touch-driven tablet, and phones, a little too far. Some form factors do need optimized UI's and code for that form factor or device type. You can't just use a one-size-fits-all for everything. It would be like Google using the phone UI for Google TV. It would be a mess.
It's not fair to take affirmative action solely on family income, as the cost of living varies vastly across the US. $100K in Manhattan is nothing, but can translate to an extremely comfortable lifestyle in rural Texas.
Amazingly, esr defines "hacker" in a different way to Mark Zuckerberg. Next thing we'll be seeing is people using "hacker" to mean people who break into other people's systems without permission and what a firestorm that will cause.
I mean a combination of explicit censorship (for example, access to sourceforge in certain countries) and also content providers attempts to control what is seen where (seems like BS to me).
You may find Gudeman's "Representing Type Information in Dynamically Typed Languages" (http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.39.43...) interesting - it's an overview of type tagging strategies used in many dynamically typed languages. It's not specific to Ruby (it's from 1993), but gives more context to the methods Ruby uses.
Yup, it's all here: http://www.browserscope.org/browse?category=usertest_agt1YS1...
Did the suit have merit? Was it in any way contacted to the technology, or just a revenge?
He is using "steep learning curve" correctly, in your example X-axis is what you want to achieve and Y-axis is how much you need to know to achieve it. The beginning part is a sharply increasing line for vim, you have to learn more to achieve the same amount on the low end.
SAT scores are not a sufficient indicator for bias in college admissions. There are two factors at work here:

1. For elite colleges, specific SAT scores are irrelevant. Essentially, once a certain cut-off is reached, say 2250, it doesn't matter how high you go. In fact, I'm sure admissions officers get a kick out of rejecting the 2400 - I'd rather have a 2380 than a 2400 any day. The variance in SAT scores over a certain cutoff is simply not a good enough indicator for what the colleges are looking for.

2. In my experience, Asian families tend to place a disproportionate emphasis on test scores and grades. This leads to higher than average SAT scores for Asian students, sometimes at the cost of other parts of the application package.

Taken together, I believe these two ideas contribute to a reasonable explanation for the phenomenon discussed in the article.

This is not to say that admissions are not racially biased - I would not be at all surprised if they are.
I think this two comments are good one.

--- from the blog

Garrett Says:
February 2nd, 2012 at 3:19 pm

At one of my last companies, all of our web GUI pages were structured that if you passed in a parameter to the query the result you got back was effectively the same data, but as a JSON dump. This was used internally by some of our own implementation and tools, and allowed the whole website to be scripted. Written by hackers, used by everybody. Its also good practice, too, because it allows for the separation of UI and data. As long as the UI logic is separate, you can validate the entire data-processing component through automated testing, leaving only the UI processing code to be tested manually as that actually requires a human to look at and see if things are working correctly.

Good design leading to better quality and testability.

esr Says:
February 2nd, 2012 at 3:22 pm

>Good design leading to better quality and testability.

Damn. Garret, can you email me more details? That sounds like a good case study for the second edition of TAOUP.
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"If all other credentials are equal, Asian-Americans need to score 140 points more than whites, 270 points higher than Hispanics, and 450 points above African-Americans out of a maximum 1600 on the math and reading SAT to have the same chance of admission to a private college, according to “No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal,” a 2009 book co-written by Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade. """"

The gap is nowhere near that large for Wisconsin-Madison or Duke which are rather selective institutions. I bet you're only going to get those kind of gaps at the Ivies and even then I'm very skeptical.
I don't think it's so much about Apple as about Google.

The story about the Gmail Man and privacy concerns was down around number 70 (page 3) at two hours old and 59 points. That's a lot of flagging.

And Android is far more vulnerable to Microsoft than iOS because the major manufacturers all have licensing agreements in place with Microsoft because of patents.

Stories about BN's claims of patent abuse being thrown out by the ITC magistrate on Monday have been flagged down, including this excellent article:

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2012/01/itc-throws-out-barne...
I carry a bulletproof pendrive with Tails (0.10.1 is out BTW https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html) on it. I guess I should at least stop bragging. Never had a problem though, same with a screen full of terminals -- it's usually met with curious interest rather than suspicion or hostility, if noticed at all.

> If you live in a small village where everyone knows everyone then the oddball or outcast will naturally be viewed with curiosity and suspicion.

On the other hand, they're a known oddball which seems to put people at ease most of the time.
As someone who has used vim for many years, tried emacs a few times and was confused and disheartened, and continued to just use vim, I can provide no useful anecdotal evidence.

;)
You're right that the article should have been more clear - it's looking at retail investors specifically (in your example; Person2), which is the audience that FutureAdvisor focuses on. It's not focused on other actors in the market such as Institutional Investors, Hedge Funds, etc (you could see those other actors as Person1 and Person3, in your example). You are completely right that if you don't look at the market from any individual perspective there is no inflow and outflow, especially if keeping money in cash is still counted as "in the market".

If we say Person2 is the aggregate of all retail investors, then you have money flow. Person2 in your example has a $100 outflow from Equities and a $100 inflow to Tbonds.

The reason we chose to focus on retail investors and look at money flow from their perspective is to focus on a phenomenon that we see among individual investors, that of moving their money around in the market based on perceptions of the near future, and showing that the data shows this doesn't work.
Maybe you shouldn't assume that people are morons?

---

Clarification, since I'm getting downvoted for that: Go look at the guy's profile, and his blog. He's an experienced dev, using vim for "6 years", and he's been on HN for three, has racked up a bunch of karma, blah, blah, blah. I'm pretty sure he got past the "use vim as notepad" stage. Assuming that he hasn't is assuming that he's a moron, and contributes nothing to the discussion.

How about you deal with the meat of what he's said? Something like "vim can do this thing which emacs can't" (unlikely) or "emacs does this annoying thing which vim doesn't" would be more productive than "Hey, I'm going to assume that you know nothing about vim, despite you using it for six years"

Actually, that's more of a rant than a clarification, but I'll let it stand.
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I'd be a bad entrepreneur if I didn't plug my own product here: http://trackjumper.com - I took a spreadsheet-based bug tracking system from a previous startup job and made it into an app.
Don't Mistake Features for Vision
Dieter Rams' 10 principles of good web design
Is there a big reason an IDE couldn't have a child editor process running inside the UI, and operate directly on the file? That would allow you to plug the editor if your choice into the IDE.
Ask HN:Whats the best event to launch at this Summer
We are looking to launch our product this summer (May or later) in or near SF. Are there any events that are applicable.

Thanks
Blodget: Now We Know What Facebook's Worth - And It's Not $100 Billion
There's the Sonic Physics Guide (http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_Physics_Guide), though that's more about implementing the physics of the original Sonic games in code, rather than explaining real-world physics through playing Sonic games.
wow that's lame. People abuse that flagging ability for stupid shit I guess.
doesnt Pinterest smell too much women (no disrespect whatsoever!) by now? I mean, its been built upon profiles of shoes, wedding dresses, carpets, flowers, knitting stuff, etc. I wonder if they will be trying to shift it more towards men, or perhaps there is a good niche right now here: built pinterest that has a strong lean towards men interests: cars, women, alcohol, bikes, boats, luxury watches, houses, cool places, etc, etc.

EDIT: although second thought. Pinterest strong side is that women (more than men) like to collect stuff. Nice thing about Pinterest is that you can pinboard your collections, join others, etc. I am not sure if the same effect would work on "mens pinterest".
I agree that the title could use some love. Here's my contribution: The Gumroad to building a successful company. You can thank me later, Sahil ;).
Is this 100% embedded in javascript? Is the code available un-obfuscated somewhere?
thanks!
Indeed - yet individual investors try anyway, and the futility of this is all we're trying to point out.
I've used Vi(m) enough to know that I'm far more efficient in an editor designed to work with my OS.

Knowing Vi (or Emacs) is essential as a software developer, but using it as your local code editor has never made sense to me.

What most people who pontificated about Vi/Emacs/editor-of-choice often fail to realize is that there isn't a "One True Way To Do Things Bestest". Everyone works differently. Using Vi for 30+ hours isn't going to make me a better developer - and it certainly isn't going to speed up anything.
"You wouldn't download a car, would you?"

(sorry, it had to be done)
It's interesting what people find important about news like this. The fact that Win Phone 8 will support native code (C/C++) and cross-app communication is far more important to me than the Windows 8 integration.

As a platform I have been very impressed by Win Phone 7, and I hope they continue to execute as well as they have.
The question is why don't you ever hear about some huge Chinese or Russian website being hacked? It seems most of these types of high level intrusions can be traced back to those two countries.

We can only HOPE that somewhere the US has a Top Secret Cyber Warfare group that's so good they never get caught.
I just posted the link with no problems - paranoia?
Great article. I've worked with M for over 2 decades in various healthcare institutions. It's amazing how it has supported multi-user systems from 286's to minicomputers (remember them?) to IBM mainframes to today's servers. In one large company we had the same application running on OpenVMS, Unixware, Linux and Windows. While there are domains in which it is not appropriate, for storing and accessing large amounts of indexed data, it is hard to beat.

And the syntax of the base language does not pose the barrier of entry that some more modern languages might.

Steve
Damn. I sailed through without a problem. May be because I hit the link via google news and I think if google is the referrer, the FT don't force registration. Shame because it's a good read.
umm how about you finish the book, then we pay for it. its also confusing if we are paying a page or the entire book..
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really? pinterest has a substantial potential for data warehousing! maybe that's why they're hiring to find ppl with data mining experience for their hadoop stack . . .
Can you explain how this works? I couldn't find any info on your page.
And yet you are getting 90% defragmentation? I wonder why that is happening to you.
>"I can't see how this WP8/W8 "integration" could possibly be anymore "integrated" that what Apple and Google already have for both phones and tablets/hybrid devices."

Developers! can use NET and Visual Studio from the compact framework on phones via Silverlight, right on up to Windows Server at your DataCenter.

Developers! get a continuous stack.

Developers! can integrate everything from an ATM to a Website.

[edits: formatting, add quote to which I was responding.]
Arguing about definitions, a how-to:

Step 1. Choose a word with a vague and emotional meaning to the audience

Step 2. Espouse a definition of the term based on syllogistic reasoning.

example A: The hacker way is good. Continuous iteration and improvement is good. The hacker way is continuous iteration and improvement.

example B: The hacker way is good. Writing your own tool to present a filtered view of a datastream is good. The hacker way is writing your own tool present a filtered view of a data stream.

Step 3: Now Fight!

[EDIT: slipping this in here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/np/disputing_definitions/]
>I wonder what the Ivies would look like if admissions were 100% merit.

The issue is "how do you determine merit".
> It reminds me of the people that are pro-universal health care.

Thank you for lumping all of them together.
Thanks so much - I've been teaching myself rails from the first edition of your tutorial. I made it about halfway through and was spending a ton of time trying to fix the app for heroku commits. Upon realizing that there was a second edition in the works, I've started over again from the beginning of the newer ed.

Anyways - this is the first tutorial I've followed where I feel like I'm actually learning and maintaining concepts. It seems like every other language tutorial I've followed in the past has gone in one ear and out the other. You rock for making something so interesting, educational and easy to follow.
>Correlation does not imply causation.

Precisely my point. By my reading it appears that the only empirical evidence for race-based discrimination (an extraordinarily grave accusation) is something that could just as easily be explained by factors other than racism.

But this is no defense of those elite institutions, mind you. I'd even go so far as to make an exception and tax the staggering returns on their endowments.

http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/09/harvard-endowment-rises-t...
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PHP's biggest strength is also it's greatest weakness: flexibility. For a beginning programmer it is great because you can just do simple stuff in minimal number of lines. For advanced programmers it is great because you can build a flexible framework that fits your unique business situations. However, for intermediate programers there is enough flexibility to really write terrible code that somehow works, but could never be maintained.
sed is faster than vi.

and pagers are better for reading through documents than vi, or emacs.
The first server you hit does a geographic lookup of your IP address to get a reasonable estimation of where you are, then redirects you to a CDN server that's closest to you on the network.

http://whatismyipaddress.com/ shows you where in the world the net thinks your IP address is. There are a bunch of geolocation services out there.
> Absurdity

And for the American credit card carrying traveler, the next most important phrase would be, "Puce ou piste?"

Cafés in particular really don't like your card "piste" (magnetic stripe) and often gesture bewilderedly with the wireless card terminal as if to indicate there's no conceivable mécanisme for mating with your filthy swipey card. (There is, as they may eventually concede.)
This is also the future of recycling. Your soda bottle will become a toy will become part of your shoes will become...
Yeah, it can be hard to explain the value of Wayland given that it has similar features as Xorg/Compiz but implemented without kludges.

I think Mike Paquette's classic post is relevant here (since Wayland is inspired by Quartz Compositor): http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=75257&cid... "There doesn't appear to be much code left from the original X server in the drawing path or windowing machinery, and it doesn't appear that apps relying on these extensions can work with any other X server. Just what did we gain from this?"
IPhone 5 to Unveil at the WWDC this Year? Release in June
Good question. The inflow/outflow data is from the ICI (Investment Company Institute - a consortium of fund companies) and is dollars in/out which is independent of asset performance.
Try this (free) iPad app. Also contains a numerical solver:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gridpaper/id385633188?mt=8
SEEKING WORK (telecommute) - Chennai, India.

I'm an M.Sc. in computer science, and a member of ACM and the GNOME Foundation.

I'm good with C, POSIX programming environment (esp. on Linux), the GNU toolchain and other development tools like automake, valgrind, etc.

I like computer graphics, so much that I've been a GIMP developer for nearly 10 years now. I also write code for GEGL and Raster.

A sample graphics article:
https://banu.com/blog/6/flower-disk-sampling-for-the-thin-le...

I also have experience with network programming (bsd-sockets) and the POSIX programming environment in general. Some articles which made it to Hacker News frontpage:

https://banu.com/blog/2/how-to-use-epoll-a-complete-example-...
https://banu.com/blog/7/drawing-circles/

I have been creating websites for various things (remember the GIMP splash competition?) for many years. I use PHP and PostgreSQL. It serves me well and I write neat code. Sometimes it needs going further:
https://banu.com/blog/40/arithmetic-fun-with-mod-rewrite/

My Ohloh page:
http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/muks

My first computer experience was on a 8088. I learned BASIC, then found a book on assembly language and learned 8086 assembly. (The nop opcode 0x90 is the same as the opcode for xchg ax, ax). Like it or not, Jurassic Park got me interested in UNIX and because we only had 8088 DOS machines, I got to buy the MINIX 1.0 Tannenbaum book, read it cover to.. well quite a bit of code at the back :), and _learn_ about UNIX before I could sit at a tty. Eventually when we got to senior year they let us use SCO UNIX via dumb terminals. That sucked. Thankfully, it was not long before a magazine shipped a copy of Slackware and I got a 486 to run it. Back then, you had to configure X by hand. But once things were configured, it was steady and fast. There were so many programs. Jurassic Park also got me interested in graphics and I learned a lot from magazines. :) On one CD, they shipped a mirror of portions of sunsite with a ton of graphics programs (source code). But many didn't compile on Linux and it required patching C code..

I have to live in India on account of my family being settled here. But I can work on anything, have telecommute experience, and you can talk to references about work quality.

What would you like me to do for you?
Congratulations on the launch! I think the concept is great, but your site is pretty bare. I would suggest adding more info to get people through the conversion funnel. How it works, case studies, who the influential people are, etc.
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Agreed. I'm sure they'll look racially biased, I think they probably are racially biased, but saying "LOOK AT THE NUMBERS AND GRADES" as the only indicator of who a college should let in is ludicrous.

Other things people have done in life factor into future success. Working a part time job, for instance, something many 4.0/2400 people didn't do, relating well to others, volunteering, government service, art, sports, etc all have value as well, and can all be a much better determiniate of success than "did he test well".
Summary: Should you spend more and have a shorter runway to potentially get to market quicker?

Answer: "it depends"
It's not exactly the same thing. To serve targeted ads, you need to associate the information you inferred from e-mails with individual users (and with so much data that goes through your Gmail account, that means building a very accurate profile of the user: their interests, buying habits etc.). To filter out spam, you don't need all that. In fact, you can build a pretty decent spam filter that is entirely contextless i.e. classifies e-mails without knowing who's the recipient.
> $ cat .ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh host 'cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys'

Using ssh-copy-id is simpler:

ssh-copy-id host

(Works On My Machine™)
Right on. Merit is much more than SAT scores and GPA. It is, in fact, whatever the school wants it to be.
Interesting.
Is this opt in on their part or are you doing some form of online stalking? I'm curious how it works the site has a very clean design. Good job.
Steven Colbert avoids toilet controversy, just loves NASA to pieces
This delightful fear-mongering quote from a former DHSer is in the article:

"Oh my God," said Stewart Baker, former assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and before that the top lawyer at the National Security Agency. "That could allow people to imitate almost any company on the Net."

The point is that this was a small attack that affected a very small part of the company that they don't believe has any lasting implications to their business. You get an article with quotes like that from such a small attack, and it makes you raise an eyebrow.
> That's a lot of flagging.

Again, the video is plain dishonest. It compares the free Gmail with the paid 365. And why do we need to assume Microsoft's Hotmail banners are not based on page content?

> including this excellent article:

Come on... Excellent and Florian Mueller in the same sentence? The only thing I never saw with his name is a criticism of Microsoft. I have to wonder why...
Just throwing it into the mix, what would it take to convince Google to stop indexing the content of journal articles from closed-access journals? Surely without search, the articles are siloed; both journals and authors get a taste of the importance of opening access.
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Is setting goals for your startup a waste of time?
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Its the right to freedom of speech, not the right to bribe politicians
Someone's been hanging out with direct marketers:) But remember, direct marketers get your attention with the headline and then back it up...often using dozens of pages. A 100 word blog post won't make the sale.

It seems like you are selling page one of your sales pitch--not even the book.
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