skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a book on the subject, "Why Mexicans Don't Drink Molson"

http://www.amazon.ca/Why-Mexicans-Dont-Drink-Molson/dp/15536...

Essentially the Canadian business elite always wanted to set up protected markets where they could collect easy rent instead of competing on the world stage.
I hope so:
http://doublestealth.blogspot.com/2012/06/life-in-day-of-sta...

An excerpt:
Here's my daily rhythm (don't call it ritual: it's not about being repetitive, it's about being in tune).

0523 Alarm sounds on my iPhone 4GS. I don't use just any alarm program: I use Biorythym Alarm System+ which monitors my internal body clock and starts ringing at the appropriate time before 0523 to begin a smooth start to the day. It uses Gregorian chants, nature sounds and recordings from inside the womb to ease me into the day.

0530 I'm in front of my MacBook Air (with 256GB SSD) at my desk made from recycled lumber from South African railway tracks. Why did I get up 7 minutes earlier? Because, as Manic Minute Minder Pro reminds me 7 minutes wasted per day 1.7 extra days of productive time per year. 1.7 days when the competition is literally sleeping!

I drink a large bowl of Jing Tea Matcha Supreme Green and a glass of organic milk. At 0533 every day I'm hacking through my email, TODOs, tweets and catching up on Hacker News. Every 20 minutes Time Out reminds me to stop, meditate and focus.

0645 I walk into my bedroom with a green tea for my wife Cassiopeia who is waking up. We smile at each other and spend the next 15 minutes on One on One Time. At 0700 it's time to wake our two boys: Dagwood and Spaniel.
....Isn't finding a co-founder like dating anyway?
Cool. Columnar, read-only, nested records.
Part of me wants to say that blogs killed RIM.

They did so much to slander a product that was for all intents and purposes doing well at the time.

They made it cool to rag on RIM before ragging on RIM was even a "thing"

My old BB Bold was the best phone I ever owned. I'm currently using an iphone, but that keyboard when used right and well can NEVER be beat.
OK, but you're diving deep into arcane abstraction there. All the tricks that modern processor architectures do for speed are only relevant to your understanding if you are designing microprocessors (which everyone should also try, we did it in college, and it was a blast).

At that level, even the compiled opcodes aren't strictly demonstrative of what's happening inside the processor, but you'd only know that if you were running a simulator and watching traces light up.
I don't ever remember ever reading anything about how 2000 years ago we had a debate on if pi would be better than tau (if 3.14 is better than 6.28).

goes online to see if he can find answer to question before asking... Nope, sorry.
I quite like the command line tooling GCE comes with. It's a much nicer user experience.
I've fiddled around with it for 10-15 minutes and I love it.
It feels much more responsive. Switching and creating tabs are much faster.

I'm on a 3GS
I agree. These "Google Now Cards" hardly share any connotations I have with the word "card", except for being rectangular and containing a small amount of information.

To the other person calling them "atomic" bits of information, neither the information on "Google Now Cards", business cards, or index cards is "atomic". You can easily split the information and the bits still make sense. You probably meant to say "chunk" or "unit" or perhaps "self-contained"--though external links make them not very self-contained either.

I kind of get the idea they picked the word "card" because it's such a mundane, every-day word. And they want their product to appear like that. It's just a card! Must be easy to use!

Calling it a "message" or "notification" would also make it sound intrusive, like it interrupts your activity whenever it activates. A "card" has a very passive connotation, and that's the idea they want to give: It doesn't interrupt you, only when you look at your phone, it's right there presenting you with the info you need right now.

The problem I think is, we don't really have a every-day metaphor for such a thing. Maybe a "personal assistent", but I don't think they wanted to use a metaphor of something that is "alive", because it brings connotations of inaccuracy and doing all sorts of stuff with it, while they want just this thing that, when you look at it always happens to show exactly what you want to see.

They should've called it "psychic paper" :-) (Dr. Who)

Personally I feel a bit of annoyance at calling it "card" because if this thing really takes off they've claimed a mundane every-day use word with a rather inaccurate extra meaning. And if it doesn't, it's just a program that uses weird words for simple notifications.

I do like how they actually look like cards, rectangular with a subtle drop shadow, it looks good. I wonder what the three vertical dots are for? Some UI element or branding to make it look like a sort of sprocket perforations?
Paintable battery could turn any surface into a lithium-ion battery
Using this logic, the following are subsidies as well: student loan guarantees, low student loan interest rates, tax deductions for mortgage interest payments, FDIC insurance of deposits.
Correction: Another comment here says that Chrome is using its own networking stack on iOS, so SPDY is working. However, there are still other differences between Chrome and Safari WebKit, like the Audio API.
I can't install it either.
I'm really worried about HDD space though...should I be concerned about downloading all of that?
I don't think it's that simple. It's quite easy to operate in retail and have horrible customer service. So it's not just the fact that amazon is in the retail space and google is in the technological space. It's to do with the fact that Amazon made a decision very early on(maybe on the first day) to do what is best for the customers.
here's a good overview of some of the technical details by arnav guleria http://www.quora.com/Trading-finance/How-did-the-London-Whal...
>Why is one quantum more important than the other?

I've owned both. Long story short, things like comics, magazines, non-mobile web, etc are terrible on a 7". Consuming this media often involves lots of tapping and zooming. Its annoying. Two people can sit together and watch a TV show or movie comfortable with a 10" tablet. With a 7" its almost like crowding around someone's phone.

Oh, and the 10" opens up this world of remote desktop/citrix apps that suddenly are usable.

I'd also argue that a 10" is just a sexier and more futuristic device. A 7" is typically fatter and has a larger bezel while a 10" has a lot more area to spread this stuff out. There's something really fun about having a thin 10" screen that weighs next to nothing in your hands. This is sci-fi territory here.

I'd also argue that no 7" is really pocketable. Unless you're a woman with a purse or are wearing massive cargo pants, you'll be carrying a bag anyway.
Chuck Moore: The Map is Not the Territory
I have met Jeff Barr, or should I say

JOHN CONSTANTINE

They both look like Sting, that's for sure. Well, Jeff less than John, but even so. Ok, Jeff looks like a actual dude and John Constantine looks like a fictional antihero of questionable allegiance.
A question to those at BB: if you're being laid off of leaving, where are you planning to head? There is a growing number of start-ups in Toronto and Montreal, and I wonder if they'd suddenly an influx of available workforce.
> The other day someone sent me an e-mail or text (I forget) to invite me to an event.

On the other hand, maybe you've missed a dozen of other events, where you could have had your share of "real" communication.

I despise Facebook as a company, and its many shady schemes, but I have to admit, it's a very efficient tool for connecting people.
> Like many others have said here before, if you don't like what they do with their platform you can choose not to buy apple products.

And also like many others have said before, that's not a difference. You could choose not to buy Microsoft products in the '90s. I did it. The place I worked did it. Most people and places simply didn't make that choice because Microsoft seemed like a safer purchase.

Also, Apple has pretty much the same position in the tablet market that Microsoft did in the PC market. I can't remember the last time I saw someone holding a non-Apple tablet who wasn't trying to sell me one.
Yes, just got "The item you tried to buy is no longer available"...hmmmm...https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VzS7TgKtYRE/T-zQMcuxLXI/A...
Disable strict host checking for git clone
Is there any evidence that they ever had any "super advanced crap"? They happened to hit the combo of a nice keyboard back when you needed a keyboard and a separate server-side component that integrated with Exchange back when you needed a separate server-side component that integrated with Exchange.
Well, both (desktop) Chrome and Safari are based on webkit, which I believe is the DOM rendering engine rather than the JS interpreter (nitro, v8, etc). Most users don't really care whats under the hood anyway, just that it works.
How about this for motivation?

You assign a due date and a dollar amount punishment when you create a todo list or task. When you fail to complete your tasks on the due date, your account is charged the punishment amount.

"How do you verify that the task has been completed?" you might ask.

You don't. If users "cheat" then they're just losing out on the motivation service, otherwise you get the motivation required to do the task on time.
Thanks, I must've missed that in the wwdc keynote. I feel better now.
Story of me building it here:

http://philipithomas.com/2012/06/introducing-food-truck-stl/

Basically, I was hungry and wanted an easier way to find my food trucks. Consider it a 'weekday project.'

I know that loading takes a little time, but running this many twitter queries server-side was a pain in the butt and the caching so it wouldn't crash was proving to be annoying, so I currently have it set to render client-side with JQuery. I'll update it to cached server-side api calls if anybody uses it.
Turns out: typing isn't the be all end all of a mobile device for the vast majority of people. (And, besides, it's not at all clear that most people type significantly faster on a hardware keyboard anyway.)
I don't understand. What in particular was wrong? We had formalised design patterns and architectures back then.

A large portion of any industry ignores established best practices and makes a mess every generation.
>> I'm starting to think they'll go out at $8-12 though.

Why? What would justify a premium over the after-hours $7.70? Wouldn't a savvy acquirer just wait another quarter or two to get a better price? What's the rush?

At the rate they are destroying value, it would seem more likely that they go out for much less than $8.
Nope. iOS 5 enabled the JIT for web apps saved to the home screen from Safari (which then open in a full-screen browser app), but not for third-party native apps that use UIWebView:

"One caveat, though, is that third-party apps that load webpages in a WebKit view still won't take advantage of Nitro's fast JIT execution."

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/06/ios-5-brings-nitro-spee...
I read a lot of the same material, but its worth noting to those who aren't familiar with zerohedge that it is the biggest chicken-little as far as the global financial narrative goes.

Its partially "ahead of the curve" with respect to mainstream media, but often uses conjecture or hyperbole which makes it hard to separate fact from opinion.
YES! This is what I've been saying for over a year! Two quarters ago, I said that it would run through another eight quarters of bloodletting, and then $ORCL would pick them up -- so only six more quarters to go! Reasons for an $ORCL buy: especially after another year and a half of hemorrhaging, the only customers that $RIMM will have left are those who can't physically move because their dependencies on the platform are inextricable. Like a marine apex predator, $ORCL can sense this kind of blood in the water from an ocean away -- customers that can't move are ripe for the kind of price increase that only an experienced monopolist has the temerity to mete out!
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Office? Do you work at Microsoft? Most of us just have cubes. Thanks for the suggestions though. I've worked in a place that had white noise generators. Really awful, imo. Much better to have silence.
It's bizarre. Why is a Google app using an application specific password instead of your authentication code? The only reason an app should not use the two factors is if it's some legacy protocol that only takes a single userid/password pair. WTF.
"the item you tried to buy is no longer available."

That was brief.
Re: 2000 years. pi as standard notation goes back to Euler, though of course Archimedes and others calculated it much earlier.

I haven't heard of tau being considered pre-2001, though it must have happened here and there (I had the same idea independently, for example).
So now we have two companies (Nokia and RIM) in similar circumstances (the Innovators Dilemma). They each saw two paths forward. Each chose their own path. Neither are succeeding.

So were they already doomed by the time they chose to act or did they misunderstand the dilemma they faced?

It was both. After years of tech homogeneity, people were looking for a change. Apple came along and it was young and fresh, fun and had awesome technology to boot.

The incumbents were slow to act. When they did act they failed to recognize that it was a branding problem as well as a technology shortfall. They are toast.
Just checked: No.
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RIM needs more coders and less executives. Their products are lacking from basic stuff, just for example:

- no IMAP folders means that I can't get two-way sync without getting every single email, no way to avoid 'bypass inbox' mails, it's that or just one way

- software, and social integration on the PlayBook is really bad and too 'alpha' (hm, can't even send a DM typing the twitter account name) to be used.

And we have unstable software, lacking of the most basic functionality (like… editing bookmarks, storing notes, and with frequent glitches and bugs, disappearing folders…)

You cannot get adoption with such a bad experience, and that's why I understand that BB10 is the way to go. Their hardware is excellent, their software is a few years (and thousands of lines of code) behind of where it should be.

If you cannot attract developers, hire them and make your own ecosystem. In the end, social networks and usual convenience apps (weather, netflix, browser, twitter, facebook, presentations, sync, calendar, contacts) with a good support is all you need to attract a decent user base.

If every time someone tries out my PlayBook they run into a stupid glitch or crash, it's clear that they aren't going to buy one, even if it's cheap and it's a real beauty in terms of hardware and underlying system.

And my dad isn't going to get a new BlackBerry either. They're getting more expensive and he still can't have a decent Gmail integration without stupid 'features' like skipping inbox or two-way sync. There is no flexibility, menus are still too complicated and messy.

It's no wonder that they're making losses. I guess I'm the only one still sticking to BB out there without hating it or being forced to…
Nifty! I wasn't trolling for recognition so much as being puzzled why this was billed as a new epiphany---that makes sense though. I love the idea of recasting the presentation from "list of complex formulae for area and volume" to "sequence of constants expressing ratios".
The ability to JOIN (even if it is limited to 8Mb) is pretty useful for a couple of specific use cases we came up against recently.

It can reduce the disk (& therefore more importantly, cache) space requirements of the materialised views you otherwise have to maintain with a product like Cassandra (which is still ACE! IMHO).

https://developers.google.com/bigquery/docs/query-reference#...
Reveal.js - very nice css 3d slideshow tool
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Yes, it is.

Yesterday my parody post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166183) was a big hit and some people asked me to run with it.
_This_. I'm frustrated already with having to attach my cellphone to an @gmail.com address (yes, you can have Google Apps for Domains addresses as secondaries, but you're not billed through it).
Carl's our boss, so yes.
Yes I see the superficial resemblance with Gödel and Turing, but it's not more than that. The reason I insist on that is because the value of their theorems lies in the fact that they have been mathematically proven, and the proof only holds in very particular conditions. Basically, a system that is strong enough to prove statements about arithmetic cannot prove its own consistency. This hypothesis about the difficulty of certain machine learning tasks is a conjecture, at best. I don't think you could prove it, and if you could, it would look very different from the incompleteness proof. I think it has to do with certain AI problems being hard, but this is a rather vague notion; perhaps we simply lack certain concepts or mathematical tools. The important thing about the incompleteness proofs is that that is completely ruled out: given the right formal conditions, certain things are absolutely impossible to do.
Call me crazy, but I bet that pricing model for storage doesn't last long.
kind of a reply to: http://blog.koding.com/2012/06/we-want-to-date-not-hire/
Comparison table of 39 single board computers
I can add both models to the cart here in the US.
Just navigate to this page on iOS and click on the iTunes link. It will open up the App Store and redirect you to the app.
> That made no sense. How you can have a space elevator if it's not geo-stationary?

Apparently, you didn't read. The tether rendezvous is with a pod carried by a hypersonic spaceplane, not the ground. The tether can be spun, to make the ground speed of the tether-end even slower. Rendezvous slows down the spinning tether and lowers its orbit, but it can be boosted between rendezvous using very high ISP motors like ion thrusters, which dramatically lowers the amount of fuel to be lifted.

You didn't actually say what materials are strong enough for this (that we can actually produce without bankrupting whole countries).

Spectra and Kevlar have the required tensile strength for many proposed configurations. There is the added complication of dealing with ions, free radicals, and radiation, however.
No, it is per month.
Yeah once they brought the pearl out and the drive towards the pube market I was of the same mentality. Also was only 2006 when somebody asked at a town-hall meeting about QA and iirc it was Mike who for all effect admited they had none.

Then in late 2006 during a backend upgrade they were rolling out they failed on a test, turned out that even before the upgrade they would of failed on that test as it was a outstanding bug and the role out had neglected to run the tests prior to the rollout. So once they rolled out they did the tests went op's and backed it out.

General fragle managment and no love lost from me who also left in 2007. But that was due to a incompetant manager messing up my expenses and leaving me the otherside of the World without a home to come back to as all my rent and council tax standing orders went tits up as I for all effect didn't get paid.

Since then I've been watching them go from epic fail to epic fail and still certain managment who are there are still doing there thing - clearly.

Sad on so many levels but in many ways I'll not stop until my ex boss is homless and that will happen, i'm patient :).
You have no understanding of modern economies, and you should not have posted this comment.

Wall St. is run and operated by greedy people who invest money to make a profit. This is what they do, and it indirectly benefits society in many ways. Don't comment here or anywhere else if you can't be bothered to do a little research.
Have you checked out LARK, they do the same thing that Wakemate did...
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> If you pay for google apps, you get customer service.

This wasn't true in my case; my Google Voice account disappeared when they forced migration of apps accounts to a new system, and the official answer was "ok, here are instructions on how to get a new one."

I don't use Google Voice any more.
This is so interesting. We now have:

1. Apple - who makes great hardware and great software winning
2. Google - who doesn't make hardware and gives away OK software winning
3. RIM - who makes good hardware and OK software losing
4. MS - who doesn't make hardware and makes OK software losing

It goes to show that business model both matters and doesn't matter.
I don't think I could have predicted exactly what would happen before the iPhone, but _after_ the iPhone launched I thought it was pretty evident that _if_ Apple managed to pull it off wrt the carriers (which they did), other cell phone companies would have a lot of catching up to do.

I always thought that Big Telco wouldn't be the ones bringing the innovation. I did expect that 3G would eventually reduce telcos to big data pipes (exactly their nightmare 10 years ago), but of course I couldn't have imagined that it would take so long to happen, and that it happened to fast once it did (how many sends MMS today?)
"I don't know if it is terrible management or just lack of crazy new ideas. I remember just over a decade ago ... Nortel was doing quite well. I remember being at a meeting when I heard Apple was taking an investment from MSFT. I thought ... wow .. that's it for Apple. They're done for. And look what happened."

In the early to mid nineties, Apple spent fortunes on 'crazy new ideas'— it nearly bankrupted them. When Steve Jobs came back, he terminated all those projects and discontinued most of the product catalog. No more PDAs, stylus operated netbooks, printers, scanners, digital cameras -- all gone.

So no, trying 'crazy new ideas' won't necessarily save RIM. Replacing all major executives and the board of directors might. That's one of the first things Steve Jobs did when he returned to Apple, and most of those execs are still with Apple now, 15 years later.