skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When a new product is created, companies compete initially on features. When all the essential features are there (take radios, for example: most radios have the basic features down), innovation starts. Innovation, such as portable radios, radios in your car, etc. push the industry forwards for a while.

Eventually though, innovation stops (I don't see many new radio sets today). When that happens, the product becomes almost a commodity, and another product improves so greatly upon it that the other product can be considered a new product.

Television, for example, replaced radio (two senses versus one sense). The internet, arguably, appeals to the same senses, but allows for user-created content, more freedom, etc.

When we reach the upper bound of innovation for television sets, it too will become a commodity. Perhaps it will eventually be replaced with a product that not only exceeds the capabilities of human sound and sight (for television to hit the bound for innovation, this must happen), but also incorporates something else: maybe it's another sense, maybe it's something more convenient (I guess the internet, could, to some extent, be considered as an evolution of television).
Relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Canyon_Company
When people are applying for a job you can be 99% sure they're motivated by the money

I would challenge the 99% rule (I know it wasn't derived scientifically so I'm not poking fun). Speaking purely from my own experience and my knowledge of two of my coworkers, money is always a factor, but once you get past enough to live comfortably, other factors start to come into play. I don't want a larger house (I'd like to pay it off, instead), I know I probably have a raise coming soon and I don't care how much it is for. About 5 years ago I cut my salary off at $60,000 before taxes. I get paid much more than that, but that's all I see in my main checking account and I'll probably drop that to $40,000 soon (a story for another post, perhaps). My closest coworkers (the ones who are the top performers IMO) feel the same way. The environment is good, the work is fun, the money is enough even though we could all do better elsewhere.

I've been given other offers, some that were very attractive and paid more. I've not accepted them because they tended to be too narrow in what I'd be doing. My job as a corporate drone writing software is fun and rewarding well beyond my salary, I have a great boss and great coworkers and I'd quit and head someplace else for $50,000 if that changed. Maybe I'm not a typical HN reader in that I have no desire to create a start-up (the business side of it is no fun) or work for one (there's no such thing as job security, but it's admittedly worse and while I'm no stranger to "crunch time", my desk will never have a sleeping bag under it).

I'd spend most of my days skiing

Are you sure about that? My dad's life plan was to retire at 35, and he did. His thing was golf, not skiing, and he did a lot of it for half a year before he took his family's retirement savings and purchased a quarter of a small business where he also took a job as the only salesperson. "You can only play so much golf" is the excuse he gave. I don't know his net worth, but he has two homes and one is on a lake that is exceptionally prime real estate. He's past his 60s and still working and I give him another 5 years before he tries to retire again.
I bet this is where Stallman does another 180 (like with cloud computing) and will claim that open hardware is paramount.
What the hell kind of blinkered world view is this?

I applied for my current job (a game developer at a small company) because I love the work. I took a 1k/month pay cut from what wasn't a spectacular salary in the first place.
Perhaps he wasn't thinking about the business implications whatsoever and just thought "they deserve it".
Have you ever watched an action movie and enjoyed it? If so, you should be aware that it is essentially the same thing as playing a violent video game.

Have you ever read a fantasy/sci-fi/historical novel where a conflict took place and people died? It's still the same thing.

Did you ever read comic books or watch loony tunes? Both are full of violence.

Aggressive behavior is sadly just a consequence of being a member of the animal kingdom. However, we are gifted with an intelligence that allows us to understand that violence is not a favorable attribute in any society, so we developed artificial outlets for our aggressive tendencies in the form of video games, movies, music, comic books, sports, and even literature. There isn't anything unhealthy about playing a violent video game. I suspect if someone did create the game that was described in the article, that most people who currently enjoy violent games wouldn't enjoy playing it, which incidentally happens to be the author's point.
haha i saw this earlier today, intense! Not going to lie...Australia has a bunch of unusual plants and animals, but 10kg pine cones is a new thing to me. I would love to understand why these are so big, from a botanical point of view.

When i was a kid growing up in NSW, Australia i once got a massive thorn from a tree stuck in my arm...the trees in Australia are out to get you. LOOK OUT!
The x220 with a 9-cell battery weighs 1650g. It is in every other respect the perfect development ultraportable - it's powerful, extremely frugal in lower power states and has a mSATA slot allowing for both an SSD and a HDD. It'll run for 8 hours on a realistic workload and 12 hours on idle, although like any laptop you'll want to run linux in a VM under windows, as you'll get better battery life.

Unless you're taking it into space, just suck up the extra two ounces and buy the better machine.
But this is like someone on the subway reaches into my pocket and takes the credit card, copies the number and then publishes it in a blog post.
"Bang! You're dead." "No I'm not! No I'm not!"

Sociopaths?

That's all these games are. If you seriously can't understand how normal, empathic people could enjoy playing pretend, then you, not they, are the one who has difficulty distinguishing reality from fiction.
I was curious how publishing articles naming companies and user agents was allowed within their privacy policy. Relevant section:

We reserve the right to use the information we collect about your computer, mobile or other device (including its geographic location), which may at times be able to identify you, for any lawful business purpose
17 years ago, Jakob Nielsen predicted a maximum of "about four tera bits per second bandwidth without compression, or one Tbps with some compression": http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9511.html

Interestingly, he also predicted that "it will probably be about seventeen years before these perfect monitors are commonplace", though I think he was just looking at VRAM requirements.
With the wireless off, the 13" mba should do that

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook-air/macbook-ai...

http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MC965LL/A?

$1300

Ubuntu installs on them fine.
They're probably adding a few new features to iOS 5.x to launch with the iPad 3. In years past they showed off the next major version in the March/April time-frame but this was when the iPhone was launching in June/July. With an iPhone release later in the year they don't really have to show off iOS6 until WWDC.
The first chapter jumps right into the contents - https://wickedproblems.com/read.php - thanks :)
DARPA and others are concernced about this exact scenario and are funding research into reverse-engineering chips to detect these types of backdoors. There are two parts this problem. One part is using electron microscopes and lasers and whatnot to go from silicon to a netlist of gates. The second part, which I'm a little more familiar with, is "decompiling" these gates into higher-level structures like ALUs and multipliers. The hope is that we can identify maybe 80% of the circuit to be good/recognized using purely algorithmic techniques and then a human can dig in and look through the remaining 20% for anything suspicious.

They do seem to be more concerned about chips the US buys from certain other countries than about the likes Intel/AMD building in backdoors.

EDIT: I should also mention that this is not just a concern of the american defence. I'm aware of the indian govt also funding this sort of research with similar motivation. However, in this instance, the professor was trying to attack the problem through the lens of formal techniques. I think the idea was to prove that if the chip interacts with the outside world through these limited set of channels then you can't sneak data out through some sort of covert channel hiding in the "regular" communication. The specific concern here was about routers/switches and the like equipment sneaking sensitive data out of a secure network.
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Hm...i would love to provide more valuable feedback, but the page doesn't load for me.

Firefox says "The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading."
News.me Brings News Discovery to iPhone. And Lets You Browse Articles In Subway
You missed the bigger story that they were making light of.
one of which is I can't change its battery<=

They are user serviceable on the macs, just not externally so. It's not like the iPhone.
Maybe MS and Apple think other things are much more worth talking about. I would concur, personally.
It could be Apple is testing the new shipment of iPad 3 with iOS 6. iOS 6 is scheduled at WWDC in June, my guess is iOS 6 will be a refinement of iOS 5 just like Mountain Lion is a refinement of Lion. And there will be a few new things in iOS 6/Mountain Lion not reveal to public yet. Question is will Apple surprise all by giving us a preview of iOS 6 next week?

My conspiracy theory: Apple is pushing yearly iOS update to put further pressure on Android. Apple will be glad that Android 5 will launch later this year, at a time when Android partners are just starting to roll out Android 4 hardware.
"If society tells you to go kill somebody and you do, you can't be a sociopath."

I have no problem with the notion that our society is sociopathic or at least on a fast pace towards it.
Hi -

Arguably, all wicked problems ARE social and systemic problems, at least as defined by most respected literature on the topic. The terms have been a bit overused in popular business culture, applied to problems that, while complex, aren't part of interconnected and systemic humanitarian problems.

https://wickedproblems.com/1_wicked_problems.php has more on this; Rittel is perhaps the most significant source for this topic.
Hmm. As I read the article, it seemed like the author was alternating between suggesting that experience was what turned people that way ("he was the FNG [ed: fucking new guy] that got blown up because he was incompetent, who left the fight before it turned him into one of us."), and suggesting that there is something else at play ("only roughly 20% of combat troops ever get PTSD – when if you think about it, it should affect everyone that ever sees combat."). I read it as him carefully suggesting that the career self-selects for sociopathic tendencies.
It's all GWT. The abstraction works there because you can't touch the DOM.
> War is part of society

War is part of society? To barbaric ones maybe. Civilized societies don't settle disputes by mass murder.

> If society tells you to go kill somebody and you do, you can't be a sociopath.

Are you kidding me? Society can't tell a person to go kill somebody. A person tells another person to kill somebody. It is this absurd respect for authority that makes these wars possible, combined with a lack of personal accountability. Didn't we learn the lesson of the second World War?

> The United States made a huge mistake in moving to an all-volunteer army in the 1970s [...] As it is now, the vast majority of civilians have absolutely no idea what military service is like, as the author points out.

That was the entire point of ending conscription! Vietnam became a huge PR nightmare because average kids from middle class families had to fight in it. That's why it got constant media attention. That's why people protested in the streets. The people don't mind war as long as it doesn't affect them personally, and poor people have no say anyway. So now poor kids with few options are recruited into the military. Problem solved.
Redesigning the classroom chair
To play devil's advocate, the moment the government gets involved, so do politics.

Contraception and sexually transmitted diseases - will the religious right / moral majority voters turn against a representative who supports medical research for these?

What about diseases associated with lifestyle - smoking, alcohol, obesity. Will a parent group ask why X million is going to emphysema research when it could have gone to childhood cancer research instead? What about the anti-vaccine groups? Vegan/Vegetarian groups? Whatever other special interest group or political viewpoint?

I really don't want to see Bill O'Reilly or Rosie O'Donnell on tv expressing their outrage at why funding is going to curing the wrong diseases/disorders.
The game does not have to 'justify' itself to you, or anyone. It is what it is - a virtual world where human conflict drives the story and the mechanics, and the goal is entertainment. And if people like playing games where other humans are enemy, what does that tell you about people?

Maybe you have not noticed, but violence is part of human nature, and our creative works (of all kinds) have used this because, for better or for worse, it mirrors us. If you don't like the reflection, don't look.

I don't suppose you think any book where humans kill humans is also 'F*d up'? What about movies? Or is it only acceptable when they provide moral overtones you agree with?
Seriously? Google Docs is nothing compared to any native word processor. Just look at Apple Pages or Microsoft Word. The kinds of layouts and power you get from those tools is way beyond what anyone has ever been able to do in the browser.

Secondly, yes Google Docs uses HTML for their UI, but it's seriously abstracted I believe as Google Closure though I may be wrong. My point is that HTML and CSS can still be used, but they need abstractions for this type of app. Canvas is just another approach to the same problem.
I like the video but it is too long. I was ready to be done it after 45 secs and I knew what you did after 15 seconds. It's a good idea though.
I think fewer people would have a problem with this if the outlet for sociopathic aggression didn't involve detonating women and children
Mmmm. Self-serving vitriol. I would really like to be able to see step-by-step these 'advocates' thinking processes and sidesteps over any (if any remaining) moral qualms.

As long as it's easier to pirate than get stuff through legitimate channels, people will pirate. And people will always fight having to jump through hoops and being treated like they are criminals all the time.

My current pirating usually has to do with books that I've signed out using Overdrive and are then unable to read! Instead of fighting with Overdrive and reinstalling it, hunting down passwords, or finding out I can't read it on device X, I usually have a pirated copy within 2 minutes. Then when I'm done I return the Overdrive book. (That's the one function that seems to work on the damn thing.)
OK, here is your sanity check. What is being demonstrated is the same technology that is used in LTE and 802.11n (MIMO beam forming, wikipedia it you like). Basically by using offset antenna's which is essentially what the slit does, creates an offset so the waves are scrambled out of phase, you can put multiple streams on one frequency. This is nothing new, and sadly, Shannon's Law prevails (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theorem). [fyi, me: 32+ yrs in telecom & wireless, engineer at very large wireless company. ps. love hackernews :) ]
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Does he? What makes you think that? He posted in a tweet. I think you're putting words into his mouth
Biblically, obeying the authorities set over you is a command from God, not a guideline. Disobeying God is sin, so disobeying the law is sin. The exception is when this obedience conflicts with other commands from God.

Exactly where the line between respect for the law and conflict with God's commands lie is a favorite topic for Christian ethics debates, but probably not relevant to the linked article. ;)
To be honest, I'm comfortable with websites publishing User Agent data. If I changed my UA to IE 5.5 for Mac and some sysadmin did a double-take and published it on her site, I wouldn't care as long as she didn't give away any personally-identifiable information like an IP address.
And yet ironically, a lot of people will give up as soon as they see there's a competitor in the space where they were planning to start a business. "Oh, somebody's already doing that."
Attempt to grab climate scientists' e-mails rejected by Virginia Supreme Court
The RIAA has one of the biggest misnomer names in the lobbying business. They serve the interests of record labels and the plutocracy who maintains control and legislation of that control.

Not artists.

The sooner they cease to be an issue the better.
Ok now it loads.

1. So its a bit like google buzz for documents?

2. I get the pain point...i have always printed too many or not enough, and i hate seeing that go into the bin either way...

3. The site is ok, but i just don't feel interested enough to signup.

4. I suspect i would want to signup, if i currently needed to use something like this, right now i don't. Maybe this is something to consider when you're thinking about customer acquisition.
How much data does a 2 hour immersive holographic "film" consume?
This is a strange conclusion from a site that accepts every OAuth option under the sun with the facebook login as the last presented major option.

Assuming a UX mind trick because someone has a strict password policy is a bit far-fetched IMO.
Hypothetically, say I'm an Apple employee who plays a prank on a tech website whereby I raise expectations for the product we launch in a week above reality.

How long should I expect to keep my job for?
AntiSec dumps Monsanto data on the Web
Why downvote this? It's a valid comment. A 'good' action would be for Google to revoke Rumblefish's takedown ability, and force them to use a real DMCA request. At least that would allow for legal recourse when Rumblefish commits fraud.
Experts Exchange NEVER paid cash for answers. People answered questions to earn t-shirts or free memberships but never money.

It's an idea that has been discussed for as long as I've been involved with EE and prior but never implemented. It's too complicated given taxes and the international user base to be at all feasible.
Web based would be ideal.
I guess I understand what you are trying to say, but you can't seriously think you, with a knife in hand, are going to kick an unarmed Bruce Lee's ass?

(using Bruce Lee because he is internationally famous, but assume I mean any world-renowned, elite trained multi-dimensional fighter)

The person still needs to be trained how to use a knife in combat. Have you ever stabbed anybody? (I haven't) but it seems obvious that it would be a lot harder than you'd think. (what is the proper grip? how do you thrust, how not to break your wrist, obviously can't go lunging blindly because if you miss your momentum carries you to a defenseless position... lot's of things going on here)
It’s because the vast majority of us are straight up sociopaths.

I don't think this can be taken out of context.
I must be missing what ticked you off here.

We set up a system where society approves of the use of lethal force. (In fact, many believe the true defining characteristic of a government is the monopoly in the use of force) People are instructed by this system to go kill people.

As long as that's all the information we have, there's nothing to indicate that these people care nothing about societal norms. In fact, they might actually be less sociopathic than those who do not serve. The only thing we'rd offered is descriptions of the cavalier attitude they have towards death, but, yet again, this is not an indicator of being a sociopath. Perhaps a callous and heartless person. Perhaps a crazy person. Perhaps as you point out they may actually be sociopaths. But nothing in this article tells us one way or another. Instead we're presented with these experiences as being the "true" nature of the entire conflict, and then the brutal and crass attitudes observed as being indicative of some sort of psychiatric disorder. That's just a little too much wringing of the hands and over-reaching for my comfort.

There is a premise here: going off and sneaking through the high grass to kill somebody in a brutal and bloody fashion without remorse is indicative of a psychiatric disorder. I'd like to explore that idea. But this article doesn't go there. Instead it's trying to be a "yeah, well this is how it really is, kid." and all I'm saying is to take such stories -- no matter what their slant -- with a gain of salt.

If it makes you feel any better, if the author had written the same tough-guy-been-there story with the soldiers all acting like boy scouts I would feel the same way. The only difference is that there would be plenty of folks willing to take that apart for me, so no comment would be needed.
What was his 180 with cloud computing?
As a personal development junkie, I find war to be very problematic (well duh). Killing people is just so... unenlightened.

Then again, I find the warrior ethos or what you might call the male Warrior archetype to be of great interest. It's pretty obvious that this is something that the modern world very much lacks, at least we don't have any formal initiation rites for it (going to Marine boot camp might qualify though).

For more reading, check out this book: http://www.masculinity-movies.com/articles/king-warrior-magi...
"Not only can the military manipulate public opinion through selective release of information, other soldiers like this one can also."

It's illegal for a soldier to even tell a reporter how they feel about the war, whereas the military has a propaganda budget of several tens of billions of dollars per year to control what gets shown on TV, in movies, in newspapers, etc. Yes, a retired soldier could theoretically spin something, but in reality they have basically 0 percent control over the way that war is portrayed and sold to society.
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And at least at some point, it was only there if you had a google referer header. Navigating directly to the page in question wouldn't show you the answers at all.
Pixel measurements in CSS are not actual physical pixels. I think that's rather silly, but on the other hand what can you except from web tech....
Fast Followers?

Here's a Steve Blank article noting that the fast-following has some substantial advantages over being the first mover:

http://steveblank.com/2010/10/04/why-pioneers-are-the-ones-w...
Do electromagnetic waves obey inertia and momentum? Really?

How is that possible if they move at the speed of light for any observer?
"My belief is they haven't thought it through, and are just being cute for the sake of being cute"

What I find scary sometimes is if you make challenges like you did to Pando you are assuming they even have the same sense of care and responsibility about their data as you or an average person would.

This reminds me of someone who runs an amusement ride and says "I let my kids ride that ride" as if that is to imply ultimate safety. It doesn't. To wit: There was a story or two recently about parents who let their teenage daughters sail around the world solo. I don't think most parents would do that.
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