skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you submitted a bug report? That's the most brutally consistent way of crashing Chrome tabs I've seen...
Ah, missed that reference.

I meant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragmentation_(weaponry)
Sorry, that's rough.
Hacking Facebook Propaganda: Inside The Analog Research Lab
It's pretty ridiculous that Ruby still uses Subversion yeah.
There are hedge funds and banks who NEED this stock to go up. They bought in at 38. This thing will hit 55 way before it hits 25.
People are also totally ignoring the reality of the market as a whole today.

In the literal sense of "today", Facebook launched on kind of a crappy day. In the more expansive sense of "today", nobody's terribly optimistic right now. The US still hasn't pulled itself out of the hole, and current events in Greece and France have everybody wondering what happens next in what is collectively the world's largest economy.

Even without the unique features of Facebook's IPO, this isn't a great time to be looking for "pop" in anything.
I think the run was only supposed to be very short anyway (it ended a while back), to be ready in time for WWDC.
It depends where you live. I regularly make a 35 mile drive to a place that's only twenty miles away. A vehicle that used 75% more fuel per mile than my car could let me make the same trip in almost half the time for the same amount of fuel.
that is high praise!
They're supposedly about productivity, but most of the show is just Mann saying things in strange voices. If you can make it past the first ~20 minutes, things get less absurd and the hosts begin to form coherent thoughts.
Ha, I believe the original intent is to discuss productivity which is what Mann consults with business / startups.

It doesn't always go as planned which is probably why you were confused. The show is filled with random tangents which could be just as engaging. Topics include his other podcasts, Sodastream, keyboard, GTD, daughter, Star Wars, etc.

Pro Tip: sit with the episode for at least 30 minutes if you really want to hear the topic of the week. The first 29 minutes are build up to excellence.

Edit: I love the fact that while I was typing two other posts described the exact same thing. Awesome.
This is very much an early stage, but as with startups, if you're not embarrassed by it then you waited too long to launch.

My intention is to go through enough of the details to show that there really are problems that are NP-Complete, and to give enough of the details that someone truly interested in the topic has a handle on the concepts, terminology, and what to look for to get more details.

I'm interested to know what you think needs expanding or better explaining.

Let me know!

Added in edit: To whomever is trying to edit, feel free to email me for a login.
Microsoft unveils sandbox boundaries for Windows 8/Metro developers
"I could play games, take pictures, send them to friends, surf the web, chat, "share my life" and meet new people with computers fifteen years ago. The iPad has made that process easier and better, and to some extent cheaper."

and more accesible to ordinary people.
This is interesting as it shows how Facebook may move away from pure advertising as a revenue stream on the mobile and more towards transactions.
True, but with the exception of tablets, the trends themselves sound problematic at best. To wit:

"Today, this is increasingly how we see many people use their devices, obsessively switching between different websites and programs on their PC and apps on their phone, checking to see if there’s anything new to see or do."

Just what I want my OS to facilitate. Perhaps the new OS should come bundled with an Adderall prescription?

Personally, I've found that the new Start Screen works well . . . once I've _removed all the tiles_. Similarly, one of my gripes with iOS has always been the home screen's tendency to remove the first page if it doesn't contain at least one icon. Surely I'm not the only one that launches things from Spotlight and the "double tap" bar 99.9% of the time? Organizing icons is shit work.
Microsoft OEMs will build them in order to qualify for discounts in desktop and laptop W8 licenses. And x86-based tablets will be able to go into classic mode (and JIT JavaScript) and run current x86 apps.

Why would anyone desire a W8 ARM tablet instead of a much cheaper (as in "you can buy two of them") Android-based one or an iPad is an excellent question, but we should never underestimate the power of advertising.
The "Build Stuff Then Play A Game" bundle extended through this weekend.
Microsoft developed core products (Word, Windows) mostly in-house (after purchasing seed programs).

I would expect that success of FaceBook would be always defined by the core FaceBook product - social network, not by acquisitions.
> One, you presume that advertisers are incredibly naive and don't measure returns.

Working in digital media (in Australia) I would say this is actually accurate.... People measure returns not on the impact on sales because its difficult to account for... people are using metrics such as "likes" and size of the email list to know if a campaign is working. The top advertisers do measure the impact down to the user... but most are not willing to pay the money it costs to gather and analyse the data. Instead they follow the trends, under the impression that if everyone else is doing it, it must be right.

Part of the problem is that

- Most companies run digital through a different team from press, broadcast and other media.

- The digital team is almost always very lightly funded compared to the other mediums (its also cheaper to run). Due to the lighter funding it tends to have the more junior marketers.

- Many companies run each brand in their portfolio through a different marketing team, so that your dealing with small teams (3-10) of people even for large national brands.

- These people are typically not mathematically and technologically trained and typically work with outside vendors to do their work.

Don't overestimate the value of facebook ads, they work really well for certain things (some impulse buys, things on the facebook platform, etc), but It doesn't work well (at the moment) for many other products (expensive, niche).

Facebook has a lot of potential to adapt this going forward but I am thinking that people are betting on facebook like its a sure thing and am not yet convinced they will pull it off.
Of course it will be just as easy eventually. Surely you don't think we'll be forced to use JS forever now do you? Coerce people into using a UNIQUE and LIMITING solution and they will find ways to use something else. The sooner the better.
We did something similar for our site http://jokels.com. We'd search Twitter every 5 minutes for the phrase "Tell me a joke" and reply to people with a random joke from our site. It was (usually) very well received by the random people we tweeted at. We found out pretty quickly that when people say "tell me a joke," they're feeling blue. It looked like we cheered a lot of people up.

Twitter banned us after a few days.

We tried our best to make the tweets not spammy (i.e. no links, the jokes fit, only show 'clean' jokes), but it wasn't good enough. Twitter never responded to us about our questions. They just reinstated our account. It was a fun few days, though.
Yes, you're right. A more correct headline would be "Can You Please Add A World IPv6 Launch Badge To Your Blog Or Website If It Is Appropriate For Your Audience And Content ?" but that would be a bit too long. We want to reach technical professionals like you on the sites and blogs that you and others read.
How do you know that without knowing the price?
The "angel" in angel investor is how you're seen by the company you're giving money to. It fits in a tight funding market, although it may not seem to fit now that the market is so liquid.
Not sure if you're trolling me, but you can see that your response does not answer the question. And given that you likely used a web browser to provide your response, it might have been effortless to confirm that your answer does not answer the question.
I just don't know if I could muster the cojones to refer to you as a small-time investor in your presence (I'd have the decency to check that you're not around first).
That's what makes the shows good. Dan, like most hosts that own networks (like Leo) don't really know a lot and don't really contribute to the conversation. Their job is to get the best cohorts and let them do their thing. As far as I'm concerned, the less Dan talks, the better. That's more time that people like Siracusa and Marco get to talk.
Lee is a really nice guy, and has multiple successful companies behind him. Seems like a great move on Facebook's part.
I can't say that I'll be updating my podcast client to follow his smug ass.
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I'ver never understood how the "this" thing actually brings possibilities. If anything, it introduces unnecessary confusion about scoping/binding. Python and Ruby don't have "this" and do just fine.
It's our job as technical professionals to keep people that don't want/need to be technical professionals from caring about this sort of thing.

No it's not. As users of the Internet, we all share responsibility for ensuring that it can grow. It's important to educate regular users as to why there are now two Internets, and how the first Internet (v4) is now deprecated.

They shouldn't be expected to take any actions to use the new Internet we're building for them, but they should know that it exists. It's like saying "I use Windows" even though the user did not actually write Windows. He still needs to know what OS he uses so he can understand compatibility issues. Similarly, he needs to know if he is reachable via IPv4 or IPv6, so that when something doesn't work, he has a mental frame of reference of what to check.

It's nice to embrace the magical idea of "everything will magically work with no training", but there's only one truly intuitive interface. Everything else is learned. Treating people like idiots only angers them.
We have links to IPv6 tutorials and case studies on our site at http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ipv6/ but I don't know that we have something exactly like you are looking for. It definitely sounds like something we should add to the site, though.
I dont see how light table is different than an good ide for java.

- docs everywhere

When i hover over a symbol, method or class i get the documentation right in my IDE

- instant feedback

Ok this is new but can only be done for simple calculations

- table as a unit of work

Saying that "we can de better than files" is true. In fact in my IDE i just dragndrop methods around, navigate the class hierarchy, etc. Its just coincidence that every class is represented as a file. But i do not care. The point is that i write code against the AST and not against "plain text". The IDE parses the code on the spot. This is nothing new.

So all in all i dont see a lot of new concepts.
First thing this reminded me of, especially because of the choice of sine, triangle, square or sawtooth waves and the slightly creaky sound was C64 Music Maker - an piano overlay for the C64 keyboard:

http://retro-treasures.blogspot.co.uk/2007/11/commodore-64-m...
Having worked on campus at CIT which has a very highly regarded Business school and the rest of university tended to look down on them as having "won second place in life" to borrow an old quote from Cecil Rhodes.

I would bet that 90% of non B school students at elite unis look down on the business school

Every one did envy them there funding though back in 81 or so I remember talking to my opposite number at the business school and her saying "oh that new HP color computer we have another 40 to unpack and set up" :-)
Agree. Did not read the story because once you say "I'm putting all my eggs in [this one basket]" then you are taking WAY too much risk on a single investment.

The guy probably should take some courses on retirement/investment planning.
Since their service is free to users and they primarily generate revenue by ineffectively advertising to people who simply want to connect socially, I wouldn't say Facebook is a very sound investment. It is a battle between the users who want privacy and the companies who want user data, where the outcome could be that FB loses a ton of users or FB loses a ton of funding. FB also seems to have a lot of debt, which could hinder growth considerably since they don't have a ton of ways to make money or increase their customer base in the first place.
Gridspy, what do you need that Dygraphs doesn't provide?
One of the features of first order logic is that the provability relation is recursively enumerable: given any recursive first order theory, there is a Turing machine that can list every theorem of that theory (although of course it will run forever).

Additionally, first order logic is complete: for every statement true in all models of a theory, there is a proof of the statement from the theory.

These two constraints cannot both be satisfied in a sound deductive system for second order logic. To see that this is so, consider that in second order logic we can prove Dedekind's categoricity theorem: there is only one model (up to isomorphism) of the second order Peano axioms (PA2). Let's assume that the provability relation for second order logic is recursively enumerable. We know from Gödel's incompleteness theorem that the set of first order sentences true of the natural numbers is not recursively enumerable. So take a sentence of the form "If PA2 then _" for some sentence _ which is in that set but not in the extension of the provability relation (this is a legitimate statement since the PA2 axioms are finite so we can just take their conjunction). This should be a logical truth of second order logic, but it's not provable (by the argument just given), so second order logic is incomplete: there are statements which are logical consequences yet are unprovable. So in other words, yes, the incompleteness theorem is very much at play in this limitation of second order logic.

For the technical details I very much recommend chapters 3 and 4 of Shapiro's book; it's not terribly expensive, and any decent university library should have a copy.

(A small footnote to my earlier post: Shapiro's book originally came out in 1991, not 2000—that's just the date of the paperback edition, and I'm unsure as to whether there are any substantial differences between the two.)
>There are a lot of ways to read the situation, but my favorite is that Light Table makes sense purely as a strategic acquisition for YC; there are enough YC companies using the languages Light Table targets that, should it yield magical productivity gains, the knock-on effects from being able to get their developers early access and input would be enormous. If they wind up changing the future of software development, all the better.*

This sounds like a really lame conspiracy theory. YC got LT to "yield magical productivity gains" to it's companies? Please. Even if the programmers dropped their editors (Emacs, etc) to adopt LT, the productivity gains would be marginal. And code productivity at that level is not the bottleneck for a startup success either.

A decent product people want to use, connections, and chance are far more important. For all the "we used Lisp so we did it faster/better" bragging, Yahoo could almost just as easily buy any other ViaWeb competitor for example, even one using the lamest of methodologies.

Downvotes? People believe that using a better editor/IDE will yield "magical productivity gains" for a company?

Or that ViaWeb succeeded because it was in Lisp? Well, how about the other 99% of companies, that succeeded based on lame technologies, from Facebook's PHP, to whatever. One company doing something successfully among thousands is as far from a proof as you can get. Post-fact rationalization sounds more like it ("Oh, we got bought. It was because we were ultra-productive programmers yielding Lisp").
Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012
It probably doesn't make much sense taken without any context, so the best way to understand what's being said here is to remember that Rand escaped communist Russia.

Imagine you're a russian and you're taught that the "code of morality" is to sacrifice for the proletariat (which really amounts to the politburo's whims) and that when the wheat harvest fails to be sufficient, it is not caused by the inefficiencies of central planning, but by the greed of individuals who didn't sufficiently sacrifice themselves for the good of all.
Thanks for the link. It appears that you are allowed to drop the ground level from below the helicopter :-)

One thing that is slightly more in the spirit of the contest is to have rotors tht do not provide lift at all and hence have low drag, build up lots of potential energy, and then adjust the angle of attack to get lift. Storing potential energy to get a 30 second launch and subsequent 30 second drop will be 'challenging', though.

I guess that both will be covered by "3.2 For any and all questions regarding acceptance of entries, eligibility of an entrant, pilot, crew or aircraft under the regulations, or any other matter relating to the AHS prize, the decision of the AHS is final."
This level of control at this stage/size is unprecedented

Google's founders control the majority of Google's votes.
That's out of order. Dan is a coder, a writer, something of a designer, and has founded or been involved with several startups. He shows he knows a thing or two.

Put another way, I very much doubt any of these co-hosts you admire share your view that Dan is clueless.
No disrespect intended. It is a neat use for that type of program, but it does make me wonder what other A.I. experiments are out there on twitter.
Democrats created the pool of "job creation" money and their Republican governor earmarked it for an idiotic venture.

And yet, I keep hearing in this year's campaign messaging that "bipartisanship" and "bringing the parties together" is what the future of our government needs.
Why Did John Gruber's Talk Show Leave 5by5?
Harvard also has a world-renowned Med School, so Zuck must be something of a doctor too.

The truth is, Zuck is a Harvard drop-out hacker entrepreneur like Bill Gates, nothing more, nothing less. Mere vicinity doesn't add anything to his education.
I think one problem is that both DH and RSA depend on the fact that finding inverses is hard in certain big groups, which isn't an intuitive idea.(Admittedly, in RSA, the idea that factoring is hard is intuitive, but then you have the problem that the fact that the big composite number gives you a group, isn't).

I always find it a shame that Fermat's Little Theorem, and multiplicative groups aren't taught earlier in a typical maths education, as the beauty returned from a small effort is significant.
When I was working at startups in Cambridge, there was a company there that had a similar reputation called "JumpTap". They were in the same building as us and their people complained a lot a the nearby bar. Long hours, long weeks, no recognition, even guys on the same team sabotaging each other's projects to chase promotions. When I saw that comment "getting a lot of advice from JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon," I remembered that JumpTap was founded by a former Morgan banker.

At the time I knew some people at investment banks and they basically report the exact same environment. Right around then my friend went to JumpTap and lasted about 5 weeks before he walked out, reporting the exact same thing. So when they called to recruit me I knew it would be wasting my time to even explain to them I thought that they should fix their rep as an employer first - rapacious and exploitative is the only environment they know how to run. It works for Morgan's and Goldman and the rest of Wall Street so they bring it with them into tech. It seems to me that only about 5% of engineers are suited for it, that suitability doesn't correlate with actual technical talent, they don't really gain anything in the long run for the extra time they put in (JumpTap's never gonna have a big stock pop, and Square employees will never see a Google kind of IPO payout), so for pretty much everyone it's best to steer clear.
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Do you have a decent understanding of first order logic? If not, sort that out first. Peter Smith has a good list of books to choose from:

http://www.logicmatters.net/2012/05/teach-yourself-logic-1-f...

Then get Smith's book An Introduction to Gödel's Theorems. It explains Gödel's results in great detail and doesn't assume too much background knowledge. A certain amount of perseverance will, of course, be required…

There's some supplementary material on his website: http://www.logicmatters.net/igt/
Don't worry, I got it.. Btw I'm an AI experiment too... :-D
Steve told us
But if people delay purchases or go with competing products instead of buying an HP, Acer, Dell, Toshiba, etc. with Windows 8 pre-installed, then they've all got a problem on their hands.

Also, do you remember how long manufacturers were offering laptops with Windows XP pre-installed? I think you may still be able to buy one somewhere.
No doubt his comment about "Dancing on the grave of Silicon Valley" will join counterparts like "640K ought to be enough for anyone" and "Who wants to print faster than they can read?"

It is a bit short sighted, and while I disagree with the premise I'm certainly fine with Blank having an opinion that the 'glory days' of Silicon Valley are behind it.

But when I read that article I thought to myself, "Wow, here is someone that doesn't 'get' the valley at all." Because he didn't seem to remember that the valley "died" in 1984, if you recall that is when semi-conductor companies started going out of business and silicon was dead, it was all going off shore. Except that systems companies like Sun were being born, and Cisco, and a host of other infrastructure plays that were going to lead into the a huge up welling of innovation (and sadly patents). Then the dot com bubble burst and Silicon Valley 'died' again, no more would anyone build innovative tech companies in 'the valley' after all it was a wasteland, a burned out cinder that had burned brightly for half a dozen years, only to leave behind an infertile plain of concrete layups and landfills with t-shirts from companies nobody would ever remember. And now we've got Google, a re-born Apple, Ebay Etc. Facebook's IPO heralds the "end" of Silicon Valley? Really?

So when ever someone tells me that the valley is dead, and can't explain why this time it is actually going to die when the last several times it didn't die, I know that they don't understand why it lives, and thus can't reliably prognosticate about its death.

Its always interesting to read though. And when folks things it's dead, well smart people go out looking for the saplings.
The last commercial Fab in the valley closed some five years ago. Many of the companies that were essential still have their HQ in the valley, but are transferring more of their operations over seas, Applied Materials for one.

The valley has evolved over time too, and in order to be an interesting place it must continue to evolve. I have yet to see an end to interesting conversations, ideas, and things coming out of here.
This trophe is older than time its self people always say that yesterday was a golden age and those pesky kids today are ruining it.

"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and impatient of restraint" (Hesiod, 8th century BC).

SV is changing but I am sure people complained when software took over from hardware in SV
Despite witnessing countless "enterprise" systems built out of bubble gum and popsicle sticks, I still have a hard time believing that Nasdaq really couldn't handle this technically... I'm not sure what to make of this.