skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or, it could just be that they both happen to like Apple products.

Gruber was writing snarkily in a pro-Apple manner for years before it was his source of income.

Marco has written pretty intelligent posts about his decision not to pursue an Android app on his own, that would be a very good read for any entrepreneur.
True, the bit about developing on the server is straight up odd though (if i skimmed it correctly that is) as I find the debug mode exception screens rather helpful, and I wouldnt want debug mode running on a publicly reachable machine
> Chomsky's approach, on the other hand, will result in a 'true' artificial intelligence, the way neurologists understand it. It's just going to take a lot longer to get there.

High-level behavioral impressions taken by a neurologist are a convenient abstraction. That this high-level behavior is useful in monitoring mental state (outputs) says very little about the underlying 'hardware'. In fact, this is the `fundamental` debate in cognitive science: from whence does intelligence arise? Theories generally fall under two headings: 'top-down' and 'bottom-up', which roughly correspond to 'pre-programmed' and 'emergent'. The canonical bottom-up approach is the neural network, approximating cells with various equations that govern behavior (outputs) based on aggregate input (there are various levels at which this can be done). There are a variety of top-down approaches, a typical approach would take the form of logic engines (think Prolog), or generative rules (Chomsky)

Statistical modelling approaches are closer to bottom-up, but depending on the model they may still incorporate domain knowledge that is emergent from the model input.

Statistical approaches have momentum these days due to considerable success - thanks largely to Moore's law. However, they also have biological support: what is a neuron? It's an FPGA with a lot of electrical and chemical inputs. Small neural circuits can behave statistically, and it's an open question whether this gives rise to high-level behavior. A big reason it's an open question is that we don't yet have the spatial or temporal resolution to measure enough signals.

That said, there is plenty of room for what I consider a happy medium: locally statistical behavior, but globally (and generationally) top-down organization driven by genetics.
This definitely reinforces the point. You're not allowed to bring your own drinks in, if you want to drink anything you must buy an overpriced drink from one of 3 or 4 sponsors.
It's now showing in the Mac App Store for me as 4.4, but when I try to update to it, it says my OSX is too new. Hurr...
Apple Won't Let You See What iPhone Apps Do With Your Data
Predictions for the Year 2000 (from The Ladies Home Journal  of December 1900)
Heh, at some point soon[1]... once i've migrated the rest of my websites into rackspace cloud & their "next generation" offering stabilises i'll be writing a "This is how we do it now, it might work for you" type article.

[1] for a yet to be determined value of soon
This doesn't seem like it is going to change. Ever. The course Apple was on software-wise when Jobs passed away Apple seems terrified of moving away from, even when it was clear at the time that desktop was not getting full attention over iOS.

No one in software at Apple seems to have the vision required to make positive changes, rather than cribbing from iOS as the Lions have. Jonny Ive can keep hardware running well, but software is languishing.

It used to be such an easy choice as to what OS I wanted. Mac OS X was prettier, more stable, more fluid and had better apps. I think Windows 8 is a much prettier OS, although the apps aren't there yet. Ubuntu is also plenty usable, has the UNIX underpinnings, and is less ugly in a number of spots than OS X (god I hate linen, and I have no love for skuemorphism). I've strongly considered running Windows 8 as my host system and virtualizing Mountain Lion, although I'm leaning towards sticking to Mac as host for now.

EDIT: FWIW, I would note that Apple's core programming: system libraries and such, remains top notch. It's the front-end that seems fairly clueless.
The Haze of the Blog-o-Sphere
Me too, and I'm seeing a whole lot of other people with the same bug on twitter. Apparently AppleCare are saying codes will be reissued, so report the problem:
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/07/25/apple-reissuing-os-x-mou...

edited to add:
I've now had a response from apple after mailing support. We're getting new codes. NB they do mention doing this in response to a claim, so it appears you did need to contact Apple if you had a problem!

"Before I proceed I would like to point out that Apple is aware of the issue and are working hard to resolve it ASAP...If your claim is accepted, a valid replacement code will be sent to you by email. There will be no need to submit a new claim....Please let me know if you do not receive a replacement code within 24-48 hours, as I'll be happy to look into things further for you."
SPARQl1.0 is equivalent to a datalog without recursion. Wonder what SPARQL 1.1. with property paths is equivalent too. Any way a hobby project idea I won't have time for is implement the datomic api on top of a systap bigdata quad store.
How big would you be if you were smooshed down to a 1 atom-thick sheet?
Indeed. Though you'll note that ASP.NET is conspicuously absent from my list of nightmare monstrosities.

Not because it's not a nighmare monstrosity. It's the posterchild for nightmare monstrosity frameworks. But it's unique in that if ignore roughly 95% of the "point and click your way to unmaintainable intranet sites" garbage, what's left is pretty much pure awesome.

Deep in the center of the hairball is a tight little framework for building websites that has access to a really good, really big library that can do pretty much anything you'd want to do with a computer.

So it's both terrible and awesome at the same time, depending on whether you know which bit you're supposed to use. I wouldn't be surprised to find that there was a team at Microsoft somewhere using that small bit to build stuff and guiding the project just enough to make sure none of the good got mangled by the tons and tons of bad.
The way I've heard this describes is with an analogy. If you have an infinite number of decks of cards, shuffled randomly, the same shufflings will show up an infinite number of times. There are only so many ways to put together an infinite number of particles, do the shufflings get reused.
But when does your average human hit a wall? Pretty quickly, I'd say. Mostly due to laziness and parenting and getting old.

I think that you are also getting at the _sentience_. I think this is what most people refer to when speaking about true AI. You know, having consciousness, desires, social skills, etc.
Apple dispute forces Samsung to disable Galaxy S3 Google local search function
So You Want A Brand New Spa
Agreed. I worked on an open-source app development framework and found it really difficult to "do the right thing" unless we were actively building "real world" apps with it.

Although they have enough money to not do consulting - I strongly suggest they take on strategic apps (even for free!) that push the boundaries of the framework. It'll be a better product for it.
This definitely reinforces the point. You're not allowed to bring your own drinks in, if you want to drink anything you must buy an overpriced drink from one of 3 or 4 sponsors.

Well, that's a different argument from the one that coke is your only option ;)

Can't say that I like these sponsorship deals enforcing things like this though. Going to a festival? Flat Carlsberg it is!
rolling restart is the killer for me...
this is the only feature i miss from passenger compared with unicorn.
I started laughing at the first graph of wordcounts, as I realized what he was doing.
The wireless hotspots provided for the Olympics are not free: £5.99 for 90 minutes.

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2180518/bt-covers-olympic-par...
Oh, the humanity!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Morrison_%28announcer%2...
It's kind of late to be complaining about a new keyword in a language standard from 1999 in 2012. However, it does reflect an attitude I've seen in a variety of places, that C99 is a corruption of the spirit of C, which was most closely captured in the old ANSI C. Standard C, they called it. To these people, C99 (and its successors) will always be a proposal, a hypothetical, and a foreign idea. Fun to think about and debate, but not really something that really matters.
The deal has been signed so many times, how on earth have the contents not been leaked yet? Or do they never show the patents to the companies they extort money from and just threaten them with legal action?
It would be nice if the mouse was tilted slightly so that your wrist is not parallel to the desk. For the scroll wheel, you could put that under the thumb, i.e. on the side.
for me, passenger is much easier to setup than unicorn etc...
the only thing i miss compared to unicorn is preload_app, which in my understanding will be addressed via the rolling restart feature.
FlyRight Helps Travelers Get Real-Time Customer Service from Airlines
Your Passion Will Be The Fuel That Keeps You Going
I'm completely with you, but take it a bit further. Steel bike frames are basically perfect until they're useless. That is, if you don't let them rust, then they are literally as good as new until you fall over hard enough to crack or buckle them. Properly maintained, a quality steel frame could easily last 50 years.
> Craigslist holding onto its monopoly position is a broken market.

This sounds more like whining than anything based in reality. Craigslist has a monopoly on apartment rent listings?

http://www.apartments.com/

http://www.apartmentguide.com/

http://www.zillow.com

http://www.apartmentfinder.com/

http://www.forrent.com/

http://www.apartmentsearch.com/

http://www.rent.com/

http://www.apartmentratings.com/

http://www.rentals.com/Apartments/
From hard times to lives of fame
From hard times to lives of fame, For these historical figures, honchos and headliners, the road to success was rocky. Can you guess who once had nary a penny to their now-celebrated names.

Abraham Lincoln, Pride of the Bluegrass State

The clues: He was born in a one-room cabin in Kentucky, squatted on public land and worked the rough frontier before taking his place as one of the most important figures in American history and politics.
The primary use, like any bicycle, is to prevent pollution while encouraging physical activity and exercise.

I don't know about other people, but my primary use for my bicycle is transportation.

Edit: Also, does anyone else think that disposable bikes are a step backwards, not forwards, in terms of environmental responsibility?
Journalistic accounts of the same predictions, with reality checks:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/magazine-16444966

http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2011/12/31/archives/then-...
I agree with everything you just wrote, so if I came off as contradictory it means I wasn't clear about something. When said "government says," obviously it was a bit of hyperbole, I really meant that citizens and government agree on a set of rights, pursuant to certain goals we have as a society, and how they should be distributed. Of course there are subtleties that I tried to gloss over, such as owning a patent vs. owning an idea---I was just trying to emphasize the fact that even ownership of material property is such a right, based on agreement, and is basically already an abstract concept, and therefore consistent with other forms of ownership that may seem more abstract.
To me Lion seems like it's swapping an awful lot. I take it from your comment that there's been no improvement in this regard?
I like Network Solutions.
Engineers can sometimes be quick to dismiss the value of other roles

Very true and unfortunately an attitude which I've seen hold many good engineers back from career growth. Enlightenment comes when you are able to recognize that the non-technical roles are also trade crafts where the clever hacks involve constructing valuable relationships and managing perceptions, essential in every business.
It's on the site, but currently hidden because it's not a "seed accelerator" by the definition I use: http://www.seed-db.com/about/definition (Similarly, Seedcamp isn't shown on NESTA's Startup Factories site.)

Basically, as I understand it Seedcamp has morphed into a seed fund instead of strictly a seed accelerator. (Where you have classes of startups that enter/leave at the same time.)

Again, I'm going to keep track of other program models, too. I personally believe Seedcamp is VERY valuable and a great program for startups. I just wanted to get what's there launched first.
Any sufficiently complex debate is indistinguishable arbitrary action.
Apple's recent success has come from recognizing and creating new markets. Even in traditional computers, a large part of their current success is that they pioneered the market for people who want physically attractive computers. This is unlikely to continue to succeed for them without Steve Jobs a the helm.

As for Mac vs Windows, I'm referring to the old macs, OS 7, etc. That story ended with Apple almost dying before Steve Jobs came back and did what he did best - focused the company on creating new markets.

Moving back to your focus on profits, I think you could benefit from reading The Innovator's Dilemma and its followup The Innovator's Solution. What you'll learn is how across many types of technologies (examples include ship design, steel production techniques, earth moving machines, disk drives, etc), across many decades, whenever two technologies compete head to head, the odds very, very strongly favor the one that is cheap and crappy. Throughout the competition, all of the revenue to be made is in the established, strong technology - until they suddenly have no market left.

Given that history, there is no question what to expect in phones. The iPhone is clearly the superior option that makes more money. Android is clearly the cheap crappy option that ships more units. But both are going to improve faster than people's needs increase, and Android is going to win.
I wish they'd cited some examples of the mistakes. In general, this article doesn't offer much that the submission title didn't cover.
Some Epistemic Benefits of Action: Tetris, A Case Study [1992]
Can a web service come back from the dead?
Six Degrees of Aggregation
D-Wave are making more exaggerated press release claims. Universities have better working quantum computers (i.e. any at all)
#2 is simply wrong. Children are corrected when their grammar is off so they do get to see incorrect sentence structure. It's questionable if children could learn language from only watching TV, but that's not the standard learning environment.

PS: I am far from the first person to point that out. At this point they are treating it as an axiom because they continue to believe it despite the disproof of their premises.
It's just sad that the actual review, which is tremendously interesting and substantial, has noticeably fewer votes than this, the #1 link.

Is the oft-mentioned decline of HN a bunch of tiny cuts?
USAF has discovered root cause of Raptor's oxygen problems
I prefer bolder features in these applications, they are the ones in the corner and when your eyes look out for them the distinctive features help enormously.
As a counter example take Google's redesign: I can't tell by a glance whether I am in Calendar, Email, Groups or Blogger. It is unified but without distinctiveness.
German court upholds ruling in tablet battle
I have to say that I am happy to see a major company saying what everyone is thinking. It is truly absurd that Apple has the audacity to claim some 'we invented it' right to any type of Cellphone tech or Tablet hardware.

ALL Apples success is derived from the UI/UX side and the fact that iTunes laid the pavement for the 'app' concept.

Trying to bully the competition with purchased patents and lawyers will only turn people off their products, and once the 'Steve Jobs effect' wears off, they are nothing but another company selling cellphones and tablets.

And then, it might be time to look elsewhere for your 401k investment.
Google Search Gets a Cool and Useful Calculator
So Apple should stop selling iPhones because it has a dominant position in the marketplace because it is the device most preferred by buyers?
But what is the nature of the failure? If the way you know the bike is ready to throw out is that it collapses underneath you, that's no good.
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Is it your country or the Internatinal Olympic Committee (or whatever their official name is)? When they came to my town, I was very disappointed at the commerciality of it all, but all insisted upon by the Official International Olympic Organization.
That's not really a meaningful distinction especially in an article meant for a popular audience. Besides:

A bot (derived from 'robot') is an automated or semi-automated tool that carries out repetitive and mundane tasks in order to maintain the 4,009,598 articles of the English Wikipedia.

-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots

Internet bots, also known as web robots, WWW robots or simply bots, are software applications that run automated tasks over the Internet. Typically, bots perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive, at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human alone.

-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_bot
I expect paid Wifi hotspots, not 3G hotspots. In addition to them being offended you aren't paying them for Wifi, the phones will also potentially interfere with their paid Wifi.
It's not just the UK. The Olympics has their heads buried so far up corporate backsides, they're operating with a 20th century mentality.

Time to shut the whole thing down and come up with something relevant.
Sponsorfied (YC S12) Matches Brands With Events Seeking Swag
With a title like that the lawyers will be onto you.

You should use the official euphemism: "Steroid Event 0x7DC"
I spent about ten years working on Markov based chat programs. I gave up on themwhen I realized that no matter how sophisticated your statistical model it will never be more than a statistical analysis of text, unless it includes some rich rule based model of mental processes and mental objects. It may be that such a model of mental processes must itself be fuzzy and probabilistic, but it must exist. Therefore I come down firmly on the side of Chomsky in this debate: we should pursue theories of intelligence, and stastical models without any theory do not advance our scientific understanding of AI, however practical their application may be at the present time. This is not to say statistical methods do not work, of course they work, what I am saying is it is not a path that leads to true understanding of intelligence any more than spectral analysis of the EMF emissions of a running computer would lead to a theory of computation.
Lisp Hackers: Luke Gorrie [+ his ECLM video]
I love the idea of Meteor and want to use it on some projects, the only thing I don't like is how language-centric it is on the back-end. node.js is okay, I'm not completely adverse to coding server stuff in JavaScript, but I'd prefer having a choice of languages, for instance most of my server-side code is in Python. I wonder how friendly its architecture would be to supporting multiple language back-ends eventually.
30,000+ hours using more computing power than the fastest computer on the planet to get the a 3 year olds grasp of language is hardly 'fast'.

PS: Language acquisition starts before birth, and continues 24/7 after that until we 'learn' it.
WOW 3D is so real
The Dalrymple thing doesn't surprise me--once Gruber left, he filled that role of communicating with ardent Apple fans.

As for Tumblr, Marco was also a co-founder! I think he has much more to say about businesses than Gruber, who often analyzes businesses by comparing them to Apple.
No Mountain Lion for me till they have an official Xcode that supports the OS. I think the same is true for a lot of other developers too.
Agreed. I came here to post basically the same line.

>without ... trying to create some other application on top of Meteor to sell

I hope I dont see millions of dollars of time spent on abstraction and magic, or losing sight of a scientific process or an ability to correct fundamental architectural flaws that would challenge or invalidate the need for or the existence of what is now meteor, just because there has been introduced a fiduciary duty. Introspection on the fundamental usefulness and proper use cases in comparison to competition or existing equivalents is an ongoing dialogue that would be unprofessional to dismiss. Meteor is for everything? I really doubt that. Dont think about proper tools for the job, dont think about how to really scale out javascript architecture or solve that problem without subjectivity, dont think simplicity, just think meteor?

Marketing like this seems out of place in open source -- especially javascript frameworks -- which in proper form is most functional as a meritocracy. Along this continuum we will see meteor probably fitting right in at oscon, and maybe thats where they want to be, because it seems like its just going to be enterprise software with a hipster twist, donning open source as an applause light.

>Meteor was also a stealth participant in the S11 cycle of Y Combinator.

Sorry to be more cynical than everyone else in this comment thread, meteor guys, but I had red flags going up about meteor the first time it was posted on HN and I saw testimonials for a javascript framework that wasnt even production ready.

This is an open source javascript web framework:
https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/master/app/server/serv...
https://github.com/senchalabs/connect#authors
I think you mean 12th Century.

Elected leaders of major democratic nations bending over to do what the divinely appointed leaders of a bunch of steroid cases say
While they aren't usually quite this long, Ars Technica is known for its excellent reviews and feature stories.
The new location is perfect. Thanks for listening!
Gruber seems to take politics in the US relatively seriously. I've seen posts where he supported the protests on the 1% within the past few months yet he has never written one post on how Apple keeps well over half of their profits overseas to avoid US taxes and how Apple is lobbying for a tax holiday. However he will talk consistently about Apple's financial success. These are very serious issues which he has sidestepped.

I don't want to hold Apple's feet to the fire since they're not alone. Google, Apple, MS and a whole host of other companies are doing the same.

>Marco has written pretty intelligent posts about his decision not to pursue an Android app on his own, that would be a very good read for any entrepreneur.

I understand Marco's decision and I may be wrong about him. The problem for me is that everyone I know will rationalize their opinions and how they make money. I have a hard time believing that Marco is the exception to the rule after reading his blog for two years.
Next iPhone to shrink its dock connection from 30-pin to 19-pin.
Then why even have one?
Looking for Data Scientists from Within – Start with Marketing
Yes, but it's just a risk to be aware of. You're far more likely to be killed by other factors than the API disappearing (assuming it's a major API).

You can also mitigate the risk by looking at other options such as alternatives.