skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key thing for the new channels is that it's the first expansion outside the screen and into the physical world. A lot more to come in that area, stay tuned.
Lessons from Bridgehead
My favorite example is Mormonism. By having such a ridiculous story at its center (see the episode of Southpark for details in palatable form) you automatically select a perfect population.
Now to work on that smoking habit ;-)
Sorry to burst your bubble. This is one of the dumbest comments I've ever seen here. I don't know where you studied debate or 'logical fallacies' as you put it.
Here's a more apt analogy for you: It's as if you argued that most Asians have yellow hair and then you gave 5 examples of Asians, one of whom actually has red hair to bolster your argument. The original comment (the one you were replying to) then pointed out to you that those 5 examples don't prove anything and in fact one of those has red hair. And then I added that, though I don't dispute that it could be true that most Asians in fact have yellow hair I can actually think up more than 5 examples of Asians that have red hair, if you think your 5 examples(including one false example) is proof supporting your argument. This is not the same thing as saying that I have proof that most Asians are red-headed. Not sure why I'm even bothering to explain this to you as you seem incapable of understanding even the original commentors point let alone simple "logic". The only person making zero sense here is you.
Context: My day job has been coding Ruby for years, and I'm a big fan of Haskell.

Someone was asking me about my thoughts on static vs dynamic. And I realized that I have two reasons for my tests a) I didn't do something stupid like mistype a method or variable name and b) validate my logic.

Sometimes I think it swings 20/80 and others 80/20. But either way, I know that's why I gravitate towards integration tests in Ruby, and that some of them would go away if it were statically typed.

Even after coding in Ruby all these years, I'm still just as afraid of (and susceptible to) problems in a).
So true.

That's a typical hardware company's response - deliver only half-baked functionality and leave the debugging to platform integrators. Nvidia reaps the marketing bonus points. Laptop companies have to put in the time to actually get the power savings.

Still, I don't think many people were aware that Linux wasn't (ever * ) going to work on Optimus laptops and notebooks - and Linus' comments have helped raise awareness of the issue.

* Until Linus and Nvidia make up.
Organize your co-workers to go after them for back wages and damages.
He is making the point that you can create a separation between Query and string just as easily in a dynamic language; it just gets caught at runtime (preferably during testing) rather than compile time.
If you have the two algorithms mixed up, unit tests aren't going to save you either. Nothing will ever save you from intending to do the wrong thing.
So to sum up the morning:

1. OP doesn't use his Android tablet, therefore Android tablets suck and they'll die if they don't "fix" it soon.

2. Cue HN opinion war, as a community representing the minority use cases opines about market prospects based on what they think the "average" person appreciates in a tablet.

3. Degenerate into a fanboy flame war while the rest of us get on with our day.
"education is a significant component of the mission of the university"

I'm old enough to remember those days !
I don't think anyone is making that claim. You can obviously do runtime inspections of types before building the query, or rely on the "runtime inspection" of getting an exception when the unescaped String doesn't support the Query method being used.

It's entirely possible to do this without static typing. It's impossible to guarantee that all database calls use a Query instead of a String without running the code in some form.
That's because both are descended from a common ancestor. GLaDOS is designed to look like contemporary robots, and IRIS is clearly very much based on existing robot designs used in manufacturing, like this one: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Automatio...
Can't connect but downforeveryone says it's up. Anyone else having trouble?
Try this link to see all the developer videos available in iTunes (you have to be logged in to apple dev first) in order to have a choice of HD or SD for big or small video sizes:

https://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/BrowsePrivately...
Given the distant and not-so-distant history of the South, my personal experience is that attitudes are different there than elsewhere. But, of course, that's anecdote, not data.
It's not about under-performance. You are taking the 'boss knows best' stance which anyone who has ever held a job knows is utterly incorrect. People who manage corporations are usually very immature and have child-like sensibilities. They may decide that they simply don't like someone, that a person is the wrong race or gender, or they want to try and scare other employees. There is no second chance in office politics. Any sort of "second chance" notice indicates a loss of respect and is grounds for immediate firing of my boss. Employees should keep a resignation letter at their desk and be continuously looking for their next job unless they are absolutely sure they are not working under the typical psycopathic boss or founder.
Chins, man, chins.

Why do lats get no love?
> Something like Haskell with perhaps a little less religion about mutability is a whole different story.

I consider Ocaml [1] to fill that particular niche. When I was going through my FP phase, I tried that out a little before going full-on lazy evaluation with Haskell.

From what I can recall, the type inference isn't as cool as what's in Haskell, but at least it's there. There are plenty of libraries, and packages for major OSs.

[1] http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/
If a service does it right, it is work. No one's asking for a free pass, they're just asking that the content is manageable for the audience they're trying to cater to.
Sure, GHC is on ARM now.
I seem to remember that water in some agricultural regions of Indonesia was allocated based on a certain religious ritual called Subak. Apparently, although it appears to be an inefficient system, villages which experimented with supposedly more efficient, Western systems ended up harming their ecosystem and saw lower yields on subsequent years. Here's the Wikipedia article, though it doesn't have much:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subak_%28irrigation%29
I hope you realize that's a non-sequitor. The hypothesis was people only care about the iPad - not tablets. Which is laughable because a significant proportion of the market cares about non-iPad tablet.

What does profit have to do with what people care about?
It is a bummer that the Belkin WeMo's are going to be so expensive.

http://www.belkin.com/wemo/ ($50 switch, $100 for switch + motion sensor)

http://ifttt.com/wemo_switch

If I was looking to dip my toe into some home automation toys, I would rather pick up a Nest($250) and one of the iOS/Android powered home locks (~$300) than the equivalent # of WeMos(at $50/per)... but that's just me. To get real value out of a WeMo system, I figure you need at least 10 spread around your house.

If the WeMo's were $20-25/ apiece and they had a wall switch version, I think Belkin & IFTTT would be a game changer in the home automation space.
That's not what I'm looking for. Your data is still owned by an app, in your case Dropbox (from the perspective of your tablet experience). Note that you must first go into an app (Dropbox) and push it to another app. You can't do the opposite, you can't pull. You can't, from Dropbox, pull in a document created in App X. If you're lucky App X has a "share" feature that you can send to Dropbox but that is not guaranteed.

A lot of people think the file system metaphor is a bad one, but I can't think of an alternative that keeps the user in control of their own data.
Not so hilarious when you look at the break-down of profit in the market.

Outside of flag waving cheerleading squads, how is that even remotely relevant in this discussion?
You have an obsolete finger
We are all told we use the the base 10 number system because we have 10 fingers. Weird, as we never use the number '10'.
It probably comes from the Roman numerals as by the time 30 was written 'XXX'. But now the number '10' is obsolete as of Arabic numerals, so is you finger I guess. :)

# don't try to correct this at home
When startups compete, no one wins
I love the concept: crowd-sourced research can provide an enormous amount of help to research groups barely clinging onto life (financially). However, there's an enormous issue that also needs to be addressed: the impact of university affiliations on the results obtained. In an ideal world, crowd-funded research would lead to public domain research papers (no copyright) and inventions (no patents). Clearly, that's not the real world... More often than not, universities have air-tight intellectual property agreements with all professors and graduate students that grant all right, title, and interest in any inventions or discoveries back to that university. Effectively, it's this that enables major publishers to maintain their choke-hold on the industry.
For laughs re: startups circa 2001 -

"Startup.com", "e-Dreams", "Dot"
Know Where The Money is Going Before You Ask For It
Microsoft Surface could be the last straw for Android tablets
Why not Zepto? It's like jQuery without the weight.
This is stunning. I've so much respect for people so young drawing so much know-how and expertise together into one team. Brilliant video
Good lord, a mobile-OS review article that is honest, unbiased and stays away from tribalism! Bravo, sir!
Jaws from hell
What Animal These Jaws Belong To?
I'm not sure how owning an iPad would change anything.

I'm thinking of having mine surgically implanted.

It does everything a smartphone does, and much better (actual phone use aside, for which I have a tiny it's-just-a-phone). It can remote-login to any computer I need, extending all those desktops & racks to wherever I am without having to set up yet another computer. The key is "anywhere anytime": check status of a long compile at work on a whim while I'm in bed? done. Code review someone's project while I'm on the beach? rather not, but done anyway. Walking, riding, standing around, munching lunch, whatever wherever? instant online with access to anything. Yeah it's not optimal for development, but it extends every use to wherever I am. A laptop still wants a lap, must be unfolded, aggregates "computer" use to compete with the desktop ... the tablet extends it instead.
Best Ergonomic Mice
Like it or not, technology is infiltrating in our lives stronger than ever. Recent numbers suggest that by 2017, there will be more than 3 billion smartphones in the world. Add to that the increasing presence of tablets and you’ve got yourself a society that will be more technically evolved. With the rise of smartphones and tablets and other smaller computing devices, many are questioning whether we’re not living the last days of the PC era. It’s all about touch technology now, but some things will never change.
Wow, how have I not heard of WeMo before? Though Belkin is typically a little overpriced, I think they've opened the door for other companies (Phillips, maybe?) to offer their own version. I'm definitely looking forward to automating my dorm next year.
When zooming in on Firefox it looks great all the way (aside from the reflection being in the wrong place)
"does the "photo-realism" hold up at large scales? (i.e. is it vector?"

Try it yourself and zoom in. Seems to hold up really well.
>The sad thing is the free market is probably the main reason we have these distortions in the first place, but then again I digress (and I may just be wrong).

Not the free market, but entrenched corporate interests. One of the most interesting results from economics in recent years is that in any field where the top four players have a combined marketshare of over 60%, they will act like a cartel.

Free markets are good at solving many problems, but free doesn't mean unregulated; it takes serious government intervention to prevent monopolies taking over and maintain a free market in the economists' sense.
See also the space shuttle / horse's ass story:
http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.asp
Signs your team might be too large
I just sent my kids on a plane to visit the grandparents in Texas. She got the iPad and he got the Touchpad running the latest CyanogenMod 9 nightly (ICS 4.0.4). They were indifferent.
In my admittedly-limited personal experience doing something similar, it's really hard to characterize this in a sane way. What you end up with is a pile of unit tests which are "really testing something", yet, some non-trivial percentage of the tests are still redundant to the type system. You feel like you can't throw it away because of the percentage that is a real test of functionality, but if you'd been starting from scratch with the stronger type system you'd have written fewer tests with very different focus.

It's hard to even come up with an example, but consider testing that an HTML generation library doesn't unexpectedly emit text unescaped. The pile of tests you write if you're in Python or Perl mostly translate to Haskell unscathed, in that each individual test still is testing something ("is the href attribute on <a> encoded properly? is the name attribute on <a> encoded properly? ..."), yet considered as a whole the tests have significant redundancy with the type system, because if you set the types up correctly there's a great deal fewer possible ways to screw up than there used to be.
Also, type-checking is free[1], while unit tests have to be manually written.

The use of type-checking doesn't negate the need for unit tests. It just adds another layer of validation. The Unit Test "cost" is still there.
And they cost how much on top of an already higher priced system ?
Interesting. I'm meeting McKelvey tomorrow, so this whets my excitement.
No true scotsman much?
The article you link to is bizzare. Firstly, control adds up to 150% in the chart.. and I"m not sure what it's adding. Secondly, there are many different levels of control; board control, shareholder control and contractual control for example. All may have different voting thresholds or veto rights.

Chances are that Dorsey has supervoting shares and potentially irrevocable proxies over other's securities.. but thinking about control as a probability distribution is the wrong way to think.
>In addition, the hidden assumption is that all static and dynamic typing are created equal, i.e., since Haskell is statically typed and Haskell appears to have caught Python bugs that unit tests did not, therefore Java will catch bugs in a Ruby codebase, C++ will catch bugs in a JavaScript codebase, etc.

That assumption isn't hidden, it is made up. By you. The question was "can static typing catch bugs that made it past a decent (and common) test suite". The answer to that can drive interest in static typing, and thus more language with useful static type systems. Just because java has a crappy type system, doesn't mean we should be content with that.
You should just use addEventListener. It's supported by every browser for a while now and is really easy to shim for those targeting IE6-8.
Show HN: Chrome extension for custom shortcuts
ICS upgrade coming to Samsung Galaxy Tabs 10.1, 8.9, 7.7 and 7.0 in July
The key phrase is "Play VC". Much like getting an etrade account lets you "Play Daytrader". To do some serious damage you need a little more firepower.
I'm not clear on the difference between a trigger and a quick trigger. Is it just that regular triggers are run in batch jobs, and quick triggers are processed individually?
My (CLAS '99 graduate) problem with this is that UVA is known as a strong liberal arts research institution, and even if areas like German & Classics are money sinks, cutting them causes comprehensive reputation damage spanning the liberal arts. I attended engineering graduate school at NC State, which is 100% known for engineering & agriculture/textiles, and not at all for liberal arts. That isn't to say there may not be niches of expertise, but when marketing to prospective undergraduates who judge with a broad stroke and lots of ignorance (most have no idea what course of study they'll actually end up pursuing), it does mean they can stagnate and whither.
Also, I'm concerned about the idea of it taking power even while everything in the house is off. Is there a page somewhere that addresses the power usage concern?
BlueGriffon EPUB Edition beta1
Business Model Canvas for User Experience
When the web browsers on a platform cease rolling their own half-assed tab windows and start using a platform's native window manager, that platform will be the first which can be said to have great window management. So far they're all kinda crappy.
For anyone wondering what's unique about this, basically:

- It allows single key shortcuts because it disables itself when typing in form fields (vimium also does this).

- You can blacklist individual shortcuts on individual pages, so you don't have to completely disable all shortcuts on sites like Gmail.

- Much easier to configure/customize than vimium.

Happy to hear any feedback! Hope this is useful to someone besides myself.
That is why you make them separate. You only really start taking advantage of the type system after you learn to encode system invariants and rules into the type system.
I don't think the VC's like the crowd sourcing parts. That does nothing but cause them headaches. They like the other bits that let them stretch the truth about IPOs.

I don't expect crowd sourced deals to get crammed down by VC's - there is too much risk in those deals to deal with a bunch of non-professionals. I expect crowd sourcing to be a red flag that kills your chances of raising professional rounds.
Serial entrepreneurs and today's Silicon Valley [2009]
How Amazon Saved My Life
I've always found iTunes and iTunes Store UI's to be deficient in many ways. My theory is that the continuous overloading of iTunes with a wide range of functionalities is creating a mess. What makes sense for music files doesn't necessarily make sense for videos, books or apps.

Searching the iTunes store is horrible, particularly on an iPad or iPhone. More often than not it is easier to use Google on a browser to search the iTunes store.

Importing content into iTunes is equally fraught with issues. I had to import a library of hundreds of music CDs from Windows Media. Thousands of songs. iTunes refused to maintain the grouping of songs per album (as they show-up in Windows Media) and required manually editing and sorting of thousands of songs in order to clean-up the mess. I understand that it has to do with metadata issues, but if MS can do it iTunes ought to be far more intelligent and do it right and offer to auto-magically fix the issues during import.

This is very similar to what happened with XCode 4. Before XC4 browsing documentation was a good experience. Now they chose to overload the iTunes-ish Organizer with all manner of things, including documentation. Now browsing the docs is ugly and difficult. It sucks.

What I'd like to see is for iTunes to return to being the best app for managing your music while new specialized apps are introduced to manage your iPhone and other content.
Regular triggers are checked every 15 minutes. http://ifttt.com/wtf
Note to hardware hackers: IFTTT almost certainly started with some musings about "wouldn't it be cool if I could make my household X trigger web API Y" and for many entrepreneurs would have led to a startup about smart gadgets. There have been many over the years.

The very clever thing about IFTTT is they sat and cheaply began the process of building the web layer.

I like it!

WeMo is likely the first of many many gadgets and interfaces where they can accept links.

Now they wait and see how quickly the China Ecosystem and the gadget makers like Belkin deliver lots of nice cheap easy trigger devices.

BugLabs...Nest...Dropcam...LG Smart Refrigerators...Toyota Prius...
If you don't get it built, the work doesn't matter.
Do you remember the day trading centers back in the bubble? They managed to do some serious damage.
I tested a preview unit. It was something like 0.3 watts, if I recall correctly.
For me its automating turn-based role-playing game mechanics using .NET technologies. Turned out to be a much longer term project than anything I've worked on "for hire".
http://www.amazon.com/Zero-The-Biography-Dangerous-Idea/dp/0...
Hi,

We take the guerilla approach. We prop an iPhone against whatever is handy, then use the front-facing camera to introduce ourselves and let them know what to expect in the first few weeks of their new subscription. We then push the video to Vimeo via its iPhone app, then embed the video in a special welcome page that's shared with the customer. Whole process takes 3-4 minutes.

The goal is to establish a human connection right off the bat. We want them to know we don't vanish the second we get their money. We're there to make them successful, and we're in it for the long haul.

Let me know if you have any other questions. And thanks for taking the time to read and engage!

Scott
I think one of the comments on that video sums it up nicely:

"I'm pretty sure this is the closest my eyes have come to having sex. That. was. AMAZING!"
Agreed. They're just trying to bully you out of the domain.

Anecdote: A co-worker owned a domain www.furrytown.com back in the 90s (a pet lovers site, not the other thing...). Mattel was planning on launching a big toy line called Furry Town, and sent him similar letters to the one you've received telling him he should just give up the site or else face legal action. They claimed he had just scooped the domain up after he "saw it was copyrighted" by Mattel (of course he had no idea they were doing this before they sent the letters).

Well, he wasn't bullied by them, and just held his ground and told them they could try to prove it if they wanted, but he wouldn't just give up the domain. After a week or so they email him asking him what it would take for him to give them the rights to the domain. He said $10,000 dollars, and he received a check in the mail 10 days later.

Moral: Don't get bullied by a big company with no grounds for their claims.
To be short: Netflix doesn't accept uploads from customers via postal mail—so it doesn't exactly match the example. Most people want content that requires more than 2GB/month. Yes, NYTimes is much less than 2GB/month, but this wouldn't be about receiving "just" the NYTimes---the newspaper delivery service would work as a "carrier" of bits. Users signal for the data they're interested in via what they upload. Publishers of bits upload indexes to the content network. It can be implemented now with the postal service, by sneakernet in communities of people, or it could be something that newspapers implement, it doesn't matter who does the physical work of bit-moving. And finally, I'm not interested in supporting the "large majority of the sites" because they're all Fast Web. If they want Slow Web, they can add it, but they don't have to, it's not mandatory and its not expected of them.
The fact is that user control will always be a "security risk" and that there will therefore be a reasonable case to be made that use control should be restricted. A strong response to this line of argument is the Free Software perspective, where user control of a computer is a matter of liberty, not security. Freedom can be messy, it can result in a rootkit, but it's something many people value.