skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a feeling my own "Why I Chose New Hampshire" would not have the same traction on HN, though it would bear some similarity to this post. Maybe I should write it anyway.

I live in an 1840's house that I love. I walk seven minutes to main street (and work) every day. I live a mere hour from the mountains, the ocean, boston, minutes from country. I don't have any wants, I just like programming and reading and making things. I live a simple life, I like to think.

Yet I get an email from a recruiter once a week (or a little less often, some more personal invitation) who are thrilled to talk to me until the point that they find that I have no intention of leaving New Hampshire.

Willingness to uproot one's entire life and move (to Silicon Valley), it seems, is a foregone conclusion to them and I never cease to astonish my correspondents by not wanting to go there.

I don't begrudge them. But I don't understand why in the grand game of chess I would exchange 23 years of life for a single job.

(At last one correspondent signed, "let me know if you ever decide to head west, young man :-)")
Don’t break the Internet with your Javascript
He also wrote, "Do you have the courage and ordinary decency to show this letter to the people, or will it, too, be consigned to the fires of your furnace?"
Neutrino 'faster than light' scientist resigns
Thanks for the feedback! To be clear, I'm not critiquing SF. When I refer to Silicon Valley, I am talking about the south bay. My experiences are based on my anecdotal experience over the past 3 summers living in the south bay. Admittedly, I haven't lived in SF(only gone up for day trips), so I have no place to critique it.

I will absolutely write up another blog post after 6 months of being in NYC, and let HN know how it went.
Can you elaborate more on why it is important from an incubator standpoint? I would imagine folks from incubators meet a ton of folks and even otherwise would be willing to meet with someone who has a well defined/concrete idea.
How to Prevent Other Financial Crises
Was absolutely concerned about this as well, but then say the timeline they are talking about (almost a decade) and decided to keep my concern in check, at least for another 6 years.

I either imagine hardware progressing so far in the next decade that this is absolutely moot or the language changing directions and some surprise coming out of left field to change this gameplan.
This looks like a rip off of Ash's Maurya's Running Lean:
http://www.runningleanhq.com/
Take a look at Counsyl. One of the most math/CS focused companies in genomics:

http://counsyl.com/about/jobs
> A faked teck demo's basically count as fiction which does not count as prior art for a normal patent case

Why would it not count as prior art if it demonstrates the patented method? Supposedly the original patent on the modern waterbed could not be defended because such a similar device had been described by Heinlein in SciFi books.
I've been #2, and always explained the risks, options and my estimate of success. I Always recommended the MVP approach. I felt fine about what I did.

Warm bodies don't often choose their projects. Its hard to call them unethical when they're helpless to choose.

And its really hard to 'know full well its not going to be useful', isn't it?
You can write RESTful SOAP, I don't think the two ideas are perpendicular. The problem with SOAP is more implementation than spec - PHP SOAP is different from .NET SOAP which is (slightly) different from Java SOAP, which leads to headaches.

REST is just a style of API. You can write a JSON API that isn't RESTful just as easily, and in some cases a RESTful API is not warranted.
Shaun here - I run Letters of Note.

Presumably Vonnegut kept the draft, or kept the original and sent McCarthy the one copy. The letter's text was later included in Vonnegut's book, Palm Sunday, as mentioned on the site.
That, or a nice way of using different mimetypes to indicate which representation you want.

Also, http status codes perfectly solve the problem of needing to know wether an object was sent to the server successfully. No need to reinvent the wheel and mess with guids imo.
>A faked teck demo's basically count as fiction which does not count as prior art for a normal patent case //

At least in Europe you're wrong; I can't recall anything in USA patent law that rules out this sort of disclosure either.

The tech demo is only citable as far as the detail disclosed however. For example a patent application claiming a touchscreen tablet device with multi-touch would be novel WRT the device shown here. They do say "just touch the screen" so arguably a touchscreen is disclosed in the narrative. But they don't give any details as to how that touchscreen would work so such a disclosure wouldn't prevent a claim that included such detail.

As you suggest, most of IP cases between the large corps is apparently about posturing or "negotiation" rather than the case itself.

To me the cited video preempts the form factor entirely.

The video's version of a newspaper rendered on tablet is also rather good IMO.
For day hikes (into fairly remote areas), I carry a moderately larger day pack with enough gear to -- if somewhat uncomfortably -- get by for a week (in summer). Enough clothing (layers) to overnight and/or be comfortable on a cool day. Rain gear. Multipurpose tool. Local map(s). Adequate water for the day, plus water purification. Compass. First aid kit. Light source (these days, LED). Fire-making equipment. High cal trail mix. Bug repellent. Sunscreen. For convenience and comfort, some TP.

The pack's still quite manageable -- I need the exercise, anyway. And in addition to taking care of myself, I'm ready to help anyone on the trail who might be in trouble but unprepared.

Until it was recently stolen, I had a Jansport daypack that I rather liked. As mentioned, moderately larger (than a standard "backpack"). And while without a rigid frame, it did have a waist belt, although I often didn't use it.

P.S. I forgot to mention the cell phone. Turned off to conserve battery. In some areas, I have reception. In others, I know/suspect that after a few days missing, someone will bring in a local tranceiver to look for a signal from me. (And family know where I am and what network my phone uses.)

P.P.S. Signal mirror -- many compass models include a mirror that can function as such. I wrote this whole comment ad hoc, without actually packing or consulting a list.

And a mylar "thermo-blanket". Also quite shiny and "visible" -- and I think some now come colored red on one side.
So only true scotsmen aren't tools? I'd argue that if a concept is so badly explained that both its most zealous proponents and antagonists are mistaken, that perhaps it's not such a useful design concept in the first place.

I mean, who could possibly be confused about what the transfer of representational state means?
iOS vs. Android - A comparison for first-time developers
it could be an open source project, i'd be interested
The article hasn't been liberated yet, but here's the abstract: https://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6076/1628.abstract

A bit more on diffusion imaging, though you'll have to hit google scholar to find more up-to-date information on the signal processing:

http://www.metafilter.com/114373/What-a-beautiful-mind-you-h...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_MRI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractography
I don't believe passing judgement on something you don't fully understand is a good quality to have, even if it gets your blog more hits.
Nothing radical here, even for 1994. Not long ago I was watching an old episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (around the same year) in which the commander's son is doing homework on a slightly smaller tablet with a color display. IIRC, he was using a stylus.
The live examples aren't working. Is it just me?
Having lived in both San Francisco and New York (and a dozen other places), I can attest that all the OP's points sound factually correct-dating is much easier for straight men, commutes are shorter, and there is a lot more diversity when it comes to careers.
MasterCard, Visa Warn of Processor Breach
RIM is mercy to the fatal inability to self-reflect and be self-critical. As an iPhone user, just looking at a Blackberry is cringe-inducing. I'm not a Blackberry fan, so I don't know what the latest, greatest is, but I've tried a Bold and a Torch and they are both terrible. By terrible, I mean relative to 2012. And by terrible I don't mean non-iPhone terrible, because, unlike using a Blackberry, I can use an Android phone and not get pissed off after 30 seconds.

In 2006 these devices would have been great. So it takes roughly 4 years (taking R&D, production, etc into account) for them to admit they are wrong and adhere to, or create new features. "What can we possibly innovate on?"

I think companies like RIM get stuck because they see themselves as innovators – and they were – when we were all using flip phone Nokias. In that relative time period, a Blackberry was today's iPhone/Android. So you get self-righteous. People are calling you an industry titan. "Now don't change anything because this is working great!". First mistake.

RIM would have done well by suffering from Imposter's Syndrome. In this mentality, being told you're an industry titan stays in your head as a compliment for about a day.
I wanted to, but I didn't. I didn't want to add an average application to the pile. I'll keep working on it for next time :)
It's not clear to me what the "privilege" of these few thousand people (who obviously achieved their positions by stealing them from worthy persons of color) has to do with the admissions odds of a million random Americans, black, white, purple or green.

But here, this might help you with your weeping problem:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2117695/Brutal-home-...

Reported only overseas (with a helpful sidebar of tits) and in the local press. Nobody needs to weep for the kulak, the Jew, the enemy of the workers and peasants. But whoa - if some rapacious Jew defends himself against a good Aryan worker who's only trying to grind his head into the pavement, my gosh, well, that's an interplanetary sensation.
Super long, condemning article that points out hyper-hypocrisy, then I get to this.
We’ve reached out to Apple to see whether a licensing arrangement has been reached for this graphic…but we doubt it.
So, what we have here is someone who took the time to write all of that and not even fucking fact check first. I also doubt Apple licensed their artwork, but you can't fucking post shit like this before you know for sure.
We never worry about this. Helping people find happy relationships is hard, and there's no risk of us succeeding so completely that there's nobody left to pair up. People in happy relationships also tell their friends that they met on OkCupid, and we rely on that fact almost exclusively to bring new members. We spend no money whatsoever on marketing.
Alas, you could be all too right!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_i...
>better user experience

This is exactly what you won't get from a company that insists on pandering to the enterprise. The bean counters and IT departments that make purchasing decisions don't care about UX. you need to take a consumer-first product and upgrade it to work in the enterprise networks if you want UX. and that's exactly why android and iOS have been outpacing BB lately - they built their devices into something that people want, not just something that corporations want.
Interesting idea. It fits in well with a capability model of security. Also note, that as more computing happens on the web, the JavaScript sandbox becomes less meaningful.
Seems like this one does both.
School Punishes Filipino Boys for Facebook Kissing
Job Opening In Muthoot Fincorp Ltd
Education:UG – Diploma – Civil, Compensation:Rupees 1,00,000 – 1,50,000, Muthoot Fincorp Limited is a finance company catering to the financial needs of retail and institutional customers. Muthoot Fincorp Limited focuses on providing a host of financial services through a wide network of over 1200 branches pan India.
> "How did you know what to type at a command line?"

My son asks me this all the time. What he doesn't know is the amount of time I spent going over the contents of DOS's built-in help.
Wisconsin. Land of brats, cheese and good canoeing.
I was curious how this document was released, if only one copy was distributed to a person who was probably not inclined to share it. The first newspaper reference on Google I could find is dated June 1982.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=L6pNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=r...;

Anyone have access to Factiva or LexisNexis?
Well, they'll still leave quickly, but they'll stay long enough for you to get their credit card info.
This is a much less revolutionary proposal than it may seem. The web already features extensive use of a non-Turing complete language. It's a less-appreciated feature of SQL, but it makes defense against nasty attacks at least feasible (if not always applied).

Another important advantage is query optimization. Programs in non-Turing complete languages can be automatically analyzed, not only to determine their security implications, but also to rewrite them in optimal form. In a good NTCL with an optimizer, you don't care how (in)efficient your algorithms are - they're automatically upgraded to their theoretical fastest speed.
Not forgetting that HIV increases the risk of getting those other STIs too.

There's been some speculation about why rates of HIV vary so widely across Africa.

(http://www.irinnews.org/Report/91305/AFRICA-Risky-sex-does-n...)

Unsafe injection is the most efficient way to transmit the virus. It's scary that so many injections in the developing world are unsafe. (UNICEF say "16 billion injections are administered each year, of which 90 percent are for curative purposes; 50 percent of the total number of injections are unsafe.")

(http://www.irinnews.org/Report/85278/AFRICA-Poor-syringe-hyg...)

The amount of money needed to make a difference is probably (relatively) small. But changing behaviour is hard.

(http://www.path.org/our-work/safe-injection.php)
How Activist Data Mining Is Penetrating the Veil Around Syria's Bloody Conflict
Except it seems to have been published before Ash Maurya's.
Sorry I wasn't clear. When I mean bet against this, I don't mean that it will collapse anytime soon -- it properly won't.

What I mean is that as a founder of a business there is some people out there whoes skills are incorrectly priced by the market.
Considering the work that ran into GNUStep, its window management, the libraries, etc., I think its the typical programmers oversight: it runs for me, why should I care to run it elsewhere?
Editar Fotos Online
★★★★★ Editar Fotos Online. Si quieres editar tus fotografias e imagenes y darle un toque especial, aca les traemos las mejores web creadas especialmente para Editar Fotos Online
Ask HN:  Please review my app Haikufriday.com
Hello HN,

This my first app. Not really solving any problems here just trying to have a little fun. I think the site's purpose it pretty obvious but I'm always open for suggestions and feedback.

http://haikufriday.com

I'm using the same platform for:

http://lyricpost.net
What you need to do if you want to live in San Francisco and work in Silicon Valley: get a (stupidly expensive!) apartment near Caltrain, take an express train down (30-45 minutes, and work on the train), then get the rest of the way to work quickly (helps if your startup is near the train - mine is ~20 minutes' ride, not the greatest).

It's probably not as good as you're getting in New York, but it's significantly better than 90 minutes.
The Power of Accelerator Location
The web site got the letter from a book that Vonnegut put together and published in 1981. Presumably he saved a copy himself, as many letter writers do.
Never claimed it was revolutionary. ;)
I got the same astonishment from my friends when I told them I was leaving NYC. "Why would you leave New York?" "Is there anything in Wisconsin?" One even told me if I wasn't happy in NYC, I should seek therapy, because there was clearly something wrong with me.
Vonnegut himself released it, in his book, Palm Sunday.
I miss the 3.5" disks - those things had a really appealing appearance. The hard(ish) case and the sliding door gave them this sense that they would keep your data safe forever. Of course, I was just an impressionable kid, but whoever the designer was for those things - you left me with a lasting impression.
?skip=N in the API is inefficient — from yesterday's discussion on infinite scrolling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3764518 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3765665
The old UK system was the longer of 42 years after publication, or 7 years after the death of the author.

The actual numbers might not be perfect, but this kind of system (possibly with different numbers) would eradicate the downside you mention.

It might be appropriate for different types of work to enjoy different copyright terms. You are probably right in saying that 20 years is long enough for a book, but music might last longer due to covers, remixes etc.

It might be also appropriate to have different events occurring after different terms, rather than simply shifting from owned to public domain overnight - e.g.

Up to 30 years: A copyright holder is pretty much god, save for any parody/fair use etc. clauses.

After 30 years: A copyright holder is bound to accede to "reasonable requests", and cannot place unreasonable conditions or fees on use.

After 50 years: Must be properly attributed, but otherwise it is uncontrolled.

After 100 years: Completely public domain, and you can do what you want;
Business Cards Are Annoying
Fall In Love With Your Business, Not Your Business Plan
As an aside: thank you for the great web site.
Just launched restaurant recommendation site - feedback?
There's the 720kb 3.5" floppies too. I remember there was a shady outfit(s) that sold punchers you could use on these disks to trick the drive into thinking it was a 1.44mb disk.

Of course, those 720kb disks were never intended to store 1.44mb of data, so while you could write that data to the disk, and maybe even read it immediately after, the odds that you could read it again awhile later were pretty low.
Ever heard of the Samsung BlackJack [1]? Came out around the time BlackBerrys were just getting hot.

This isn't about deliberately trying to confuse customers per se, but it's a close pursuit strategy that relies heavily on the association between their products and what is popularized by other companies. I remember my family taking a couple because they were offered free with a contract. Certainly this choice was partially informed by the popularity and name recognition RIM created.

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_SGH-i607
I've actually met more friends off of OKC than I've had dates, and the SOs I've found from OKC have been fine with keeping the profile up -- you just mark yourself as not looking, and meet people off the site as mutual friends, assuming you're in a "serious" relationship.
I keep hearing about user experience. I have a blackberry 9860 and for the life of me I can't figure out what it so horrible about using it. Is there a direct comparison checklist somewhere that breaks down the joy of iPhone vs the horror of Blackberry?
I have submitted but found that people I started with aren't so interested in something other than just work. So I am one of those submitting as a 1 man behind the project.

So I decided to work alone for now.

Simplify -> Amplify was really great to improve my project.
This raises an interesting question that I hadn't considered before: how many of the programs that we write every day actually rely on the Turing-completeness of their underlying languages? If the statically-verifiable properties of, whaddya call it, strong functional programming outweigh the loss of expressiveness, there could be a big market for general-purpose (is that a contradiction?) languages of this bent.

Throw it on the pile of Things That Could Be The Next Big Thing, Maybe--right on top of declarative programming and highly-concurrent programming.
I can't agree more with this, we've just redesigned a site with 50m+ per mo with articles in the hundreds of thousands. Akamai Caching and google indexing alone can turn a relatively steady paced site into a snail.
If you're ever in the museum with time to kill, talk to the docents (in the blue jackets). Almost all of them have pretty amazing stories.
Ship with a state machine implementation by default, and a generator for a state machine-backed process model. Be opinionated!

I think this is the most compelling take away. I learned how to use the state_machine gem in my current job, and it's an invaluable tool for going beyond CRUD and building real process models.
No. An AI arms race between the US and China means one of the many bad versions of the Singularity is on its way. You know, the ones where computers eventually hit self-improving territory and grow so powerful so fast that all the design mistakes inevitably made get magnified and the pathetic attempts at safety that were implemented prove to be completely pointless, leaving the computers to eventually wipe us out, whether by accident or on purpose. If we're lucky we'll get to lose an actual war against them that plays out on a human timescale, but chances are that won't even be an option, our loss will be so quick and decisive.

That this is military research makes this outcome vastly more certain, as the systems would be weaponized from the beginning.

However, there's hope. They mention "big data", which means they're unlikely to ever get truly general AI, let alone the self-improving kind - "big data" is what you do when your system is stupid and your data is cheap, and if that's your situation, you're never going to be build a system that's smart, because that requires extracting as much information from minimal input as possible. AGI is not an incremental improvement on machine learning methods, it's a whole different beast. As long as they're fundamentally misguided from the start, they won't be much of a threat.

China, on the other hand, does have people working on the "right" parts of this problem, and that's a lot more concerning...
The moderator was editorializing on the massive skew of votes in favor of Schneier. “Winning” this debate is determined by votes, so there's nothing wrong with that.
1 is dead certain. 2 is a bizarre request, and you're probably the only person who'd want that.
Java objects have functionality beyond dispatch tables. Synchronization is one. You can also have x != y where x and y are different objects with the same value.
> not using a bezel

The black (or white) border around the iPad screen is effectively a bezel.

> having an all glass front

The all-glass front is neither unique to Apple nor truly optional. Edge-to-edge touch capability requires that the glass extend far enough past the edge of the screen to allow touch gestures to work across the full screen. A "bump" going from the screen to the bezel makes it nearly impossible to effectively touch at the edges.

If you extend the glass past the screen but then also introduce a "bump" to transition to plastic or some other material, you either make the device bulkier, make it uncomfortable to hold, or both.

> an aluminum back

Meh. This a functional element, because it dissipates heat better. But it is optional. However, it hardly constitutes a clone by itself.

> black buttons

The buttons on the tab are completely different, in that there are multiple and also in that they are just capacitive buttons. The color of the buttons in both Apple's and Samsung's designs are chosen to match the bezel. Note that Apple does not put a black button on the white iPad, because it would look stupid. Even the original Kindle had color-matched buttons (ugly as it was).
That's like saying chopping off your limbs reduces body weight by 50 pounds in 3 minutes. It's a true fact.