skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The chances that someone has actually misplaced a $100 bill in public, and that you are the first to come upon it, are very low indeed.

It's impressive how you try and own the very fallacy you're using. It doesn't change the result but gives the superficial impression that you've addressed the criticism.

> The fact is that there are plenty of tech companies who spend more on marketing than Apple does, and who often have better ads, as well. Each of those companies has something in common: they sell less stuff than Apple does. Therefore, your dismissal of Apple as a "marketing" company, while not necessarily wrong, must be incomplete.

Citation needed. Apple advertise their products on UK TV to a much higher rate than any other smartphone. I've only ever seen brief SGS3 and N7 adverts, I see an iPad or iPhone advert every other break.

Stop making assertions and demanding they're right. You are not.
http://emacsmovies.org/blog/2012/08/05/customisation_part_1/ Here's part one. I'm really glad there is a growing number of screencasts and movies about Emacs. You can find many more here: http://emacsrocks.com/

Also, there are more and more videos of Vim too. Emacs is my favorite text editor, followed by Vim. All this is great news :)
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The file's name is also "Neil_armstrong.jpg"
It has been known for a while that ants have algorithms - although the similarity to TCP is a new interpretation. From an article in Edge [1]:

Ants have algorithms. If you think about an ant colony, it's a computing device; there's some wonderful work by Jean-Louis Deneubourg in Brussels and his collaborators that really started this field in a way with Ilya Prigogine and later on Jean Louis Deneubourg looking at the ways in which social insect colonies can interact. One example would be—it sounds trivial, but if you think about it, it is quite difficult—how can a colony decide between two food sources, one of which is slightly closer than the other? Do they have to measure this? Do they have to perform these computations?
[1] : http://edge.org/3rd_culture/couzin08/couzin08_index.html
> The reality is, you guys are ideologically driven- you want to get google off the hook for stealing Apples inventions, so you pretend like the patents cover features rather than implementations.

This is Samsung vs Apple. Not Google vs Apple. Don't be so arrogant and blind.

> Your dishonesty is shameful.

Pull down notifications. Begin backpedalling.
Apple did what they had to do and Samsung did not just try to solve a usability problem, they willfully copied Apple even when they knew there were patents on these features. The reason Microsoft is exempt is because they licensed rights to these patents and agreed to steer clear of the aesthetics of the iPhone which they did with Nokia's version of Windows Phone. And I think the Metro UI is creative and innovated while Android and what Samsung is actually devoid of creativity and innovation.

Given all the years that Samsung has been making phones they could have come up with these solutions but they didn't. If tap to zoom was so obvious why didn't they do it? Why was Apple the first to do it?

Apple has been screwed before. And mostly by Microsoft copying features and putting them into Windows while marginalizing Apple just enough to keep their market share small enough so they were not a threat, but big enough so they could survive and create new features which Microsoft could "borrow" time and again. Innovation is a process and Apple does a good job of doing it incrementally with each OS X update. The original OS X did not have gestures. They worked on the iPad and iPhone for 6 years before releasing it. They carefully worked out the gestures, which the Open Source community was experimenting with but was completely ignored by Microsoft. Now Apple's OS X relies on a solid trackpad with lots of gestures in Mountain Lion and Microsoft is jumping in with many similar features in Windows 8 to make it a tablet-friendly OS. Without the patent protects Apple would continue to be marginalized and since they are known as a strong innovator I think it is best for them to defend their work as much as possible.

Consider what The Oatmeal's review or Telsa's contributions and how Edison took advantage of him because Tesla did not protect his work with patents while Edison leveraged the system as much as possible for his personal benefit. Tesla felt his work should benefit the world. The result was that Edison won, for now.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla

Apple's second act under Steve Jobs has been to fight to protect the hard work done by it's employees and continue pushing the envelope.

This is not the end of creativity and innovation for other companies. It is insulting and disgusting to suggest that. Copying Apple is not innovation. The likely result here will be more unique offerings from the Android OEMs who will be forced to blaze their own trail just as Microsoft has done with Windows Phone.
That is bizarre. I've never seen that happen. Probably part of some sort of botnet as you hypothesized. The easiest thing is for you to go ahead and report the profiles as spam.

Assuming it continues, perhaps add tracking to the Twitter button in your analytics suite and see if they all come from the same user agent, location, IP, etc.
Tale Of A Grok Pattern
Russia imprisons members of punk band for protesting against Putin
Probabilistic chips will be the next generation of computing; it's great to see initiatives on this front. PCMOS (I assume this is the same thing) itself is patented, so I'm not sure how much it affects the progress. Original and more comprehensive article of the PCMOS technology (2009) http://phys.org/news153398964.html
Lyft Is Doubling Its Fleet Of Drivers And Readying An Android App
> No, of course thats only true for digital computers.

Not even that. Computers with ternary instead of binary logic are possible:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer

Quote:

"The only modern, electronic ternary computer Setun was built in the late 1950s in the Soviet Union at the Moscow State University by Nikolay Brusentsov […]
IBM also reports infrequently on ternary computing topics (in its papers), but it is not actively engaged in it."
Wonder If | Trifter
How many dead people are on MySpace?
These are looking promising:

William Chueh:
Pulling hydrogen out of water with the help of concentrated sunlight and an inexpensive material

Prashant Jain:
Tuning nanocrystals to make tinier, more efficient switches for optical computing and solar panels

Shannon Miller:
Making engines super-efficient by getting them to run at extremely high pressures

Bozhi Tian:
Artificial tissue that can monitor and improve health down to the level of individual cells

Zheng Wang:
Slowing light to help chips cope with optical data
I've recently fallen in love with Automator. Although it make have a few limitations, you can get around it by embedding AppleScript or Python.

In two minutes I made a quick and dirty system wide workflow to download the selected URL.
Why is it that nobody could land on moon after 1972? After all cold war was still on. All moon landings happened between 1969-72. It is really unbelievable that US would forego such an advanced technology that nobody else had. There are many unanswered questions here.
Is that allowed though? Microsoft was penalized heavily for not providing options to Internet Explorer. Can this fall under a lawsuit?
Wikipedia has an implementation of Fibonacci with DP, and another with memoization. It's a clearer explanation than the blog provides.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming#Fibonacci_...
"Obviously discrete"?
Didn't you watch Transformers: Dark of the Moon?
> the space-time we exist in is obviously discrete

Obviously? It might be obvious to you but it isn't to me.
Sure. I'm currently a PhD student and I love it. So any offer is by definition over and above what I _really_ want to do with my life, which is research. However, I can still be bought for ridiculous amounts of money. If you can negotiate that, then you deserve your 10%. If you drive away employers with your negotiations, I'm still happy.

I'm not claiming to be a superstar, but superstars are usually in the same position: They are already in a job they love and are successful at. So negotiating a better gig for them always includes the option of credibly walking away.

Of course, the question then comes back: why are you a decent agent, and why should I let you represent me?
I can't believe no one has suggested Peepcode.

https://peepcode.com/products/backbone-js
https://peepcode.com/products/backbone-ii
https://peepcode.com/products/backbone-iii

It's not free, but you get way, way more than what you pay for ($9 per screencast).
You're totally right (I had a thinko and managed to miss the D in the DAG). My apologies for the misinformation.
You should use an empty line to make a new paragraph, and then start every line with two spaces:

#lang racket

(define memo-table (box empty))
(define-struct memo (key ans))

(define (memoize f)
(lambda args
(local ([define lookup (filter (lambda (v)
(equal? args (memo-key v)))
(unbox memo-table))])
(if (empty? lookup)
(begin (local ([define ans (apply f args)])
(begin
(set-box! memo-table (cons (make-memo args ans)
(unbox memo-table)))
ans)))
(memo-ans (first lookup))))))
Interesting, I would have to say though I can't really imagine how you begin programming an analog cpu. I'm assuming is is some type of neural network right (b/c of the metioning that transistor states are not pure on/off)? any help here? it sounds fascinating but I have never read anything on the topic or worked on an analog cpu.

Also how does analog use less energy (i.e. how can aynthing compute at a reasonable speed without some sort of power charge)? Obviously, my pc has a lot of power dissipation compared to any microcontroller on the market, which according to the article is the main reason they're going analog. In a standard case, I would have a multi-core (for less dissipation) and need to program multi-threaded. Are there any paradigms for analog? Or is this something completely new (at least since the 50's).
I think I am actually headed in your direction but don't have the means to get there yet. I have intuitions that space-time is discrete, but I don't possess the requisite knowledge or the grasp of physics to corroborate them.

Totally agree with how unsettling our model of physics is if we grant that space-time is in fact discrete. I do believe, however, it is not so much about making the math easier as it is about making the universe conform to our perception of beauty. Continuous is just sexier than discrete. :-)
1) The aggregation of marginal gains - most enterprise software is crap, most enterprise teams are lazy - if you consistently and repeatedly improve the worst aspects of your app you quickly end up with something that outperforms competitor software developed with 8-figure budgets.

2) Software quality is inversely proportional to the number of people working on it.

3) Teaching someone with maths how to code is a lot easier than teaching a coder maths.
Open .

This opens the current directory in finder. I use this one all the time.
That's a lot of static in the background. :/
Exactly! This is the very reason OP never meet anyone disagreeing with his view of the world.
There is an upcoming AngularJS meetup in London

http://www.meetup.com/AngularJS-London/events/78531572/
My apologies for singling you out with this, but many people seem to be jumping on this bandwagon all too much and I've about lost my patience with it. This isn't something that Apple, or Amazon, or Netflix, or Hulu etc. can take the blame for in my opinion.

Dealing with multi-national accounts is terribly complicated, especially when it comes to selling the content that Apple does. I imagine it would be extraordinarily difficult to convince music labels, TV producers, Movie studios etc. to provide the earliest possible access to their content at reasonable market prices if Apple were to say "we have millions of customers with credit cards, but that regional release restriction thing you like so much, yeah you're going to have to let that go because we allow a single account to pay using credit cards from multiple countries and they might actually, you know, be in another country at the time they buy something." All content companies face this issue, just try watching Netflix or Hulu outside of the US and compare what you can and can't get access to.

It's a backwards way of doing things in the internet age, but I haven't seen anyone who's found the key to get passed the gatekeepers yet and until someone does, we'll continue to be stuck with this problem.

> See: people talking several years ago about why anyone who wanted copy/paste in iOS didn't understand why that was unnecessary.

When did this happen? I don't recall anyone saying any such thing. I do recall many being very frustrated, but nevertheless reiterating Apple's position of "well release it when it's ready" despite the genuine need that any solution would have been better than no solution.

Apple doesn't ignore the long tail nor do they actively try to convince people that they don't want what they want. They do seem to take their sweet time in putting a solution out there if they don't happen to think the solutions available work very well.
> the slight inaccuracy that it isn't a picture taken of him

Slight?

Jyap, I think you're wrong on this one and digging yourself a bigger whole. In journalism, it's certainly an obvious problem. But even amongst amateurs who prefer accuracy, it's clearly a problem. A picture of a different person is hardly a "slight inaccuracy". It is a complete and major innacuracy.
> the space-time we exist in is obviously discrete.

Citation? I was under the impression that this wasn't a solved problem, and both discrete and continuous models can be useful in different situations.
Maybe not a surprise, but definitely unexpected, was the number of systems where, over time, the incremental features had overtaken the original architecture, but the vendor would not fund a new implementation. I've seen 15 year-old systems that were so byzantine, every feature change broke two others, and attempts at improvement caused entropy. It was both a huge time sink and customer satisfaction debacle.

Here is an idea for CSCI 344: Identifying When to Throw that Shit Out
Ask HN: Open Source licensing for School Club?
I am in the process of starting an "Open Source Society" at my university, and one problem I've run into is licensing our code. I really don't know the first thing about open-source licenses, but essentially our setup is:

* Split into groups to work on internal and external projects (todo lists, polling, simple stuff)

* Host these apps on our GitHub organization page

* We also have a variety of learning materials that I make for the club (to teach things like jQuery, bottle.py, etc).

So I'm curious how I should license these projects. I admit this is a little embarrassing that I don't know the answer. I can answer any further questions if you require more information.
>You mean buying an app for personal use in the US and then taking your laptop to Sweden means you have to pay Swedish tax on that app?

No, but that is not what the guy did. He bought the app in the US and then went and changed to a brazilian iTunes store account, with a brazilian credit card and brazilian address.

>The way I (or everyone) sees it is: it's like a USA shop selling software in USA to someone in USA, and a Swedish shop selling software in Sweden to someone in Sweden. Where is the problem?

There could be several. For one, the developer of the app might only opted to make it available in some iTunes stores, not all of them, e.g only in the US store. Should a US customer with a brazilian bank account, address and credit card be able to use it? They could add some multi-account management and tracking into iTunes for such cases but it can get messy, plus: "opportunity cost".

Second, several apps cannot be sold in some countries for reasons of copyright, export/import restrictions (e.g crypto code), trademark disputes, etc.

For example, if I had a penny for every time I see a youtube video or iTunes movie, app or song, that is "not available in my country" I would be rich.

It's not like Apple or the media company doesn't want my money. It's that they have agreements to honor, they have to work with regional monopolies and players, they might want to milk other options first that are more lucrative to them (e.g sell DVDs), they want to adhere to the local schedules (e.g we get new episodes of us series several months after the original airing).

So, part of it is problems with global logistics, trade and accounting and part of it is business interests.
Samsung is not just copying Apple's technology ...
The current edition (no. 1321) of UK magazine Private Eye (private-eye.co.uk) has written the following:

Apple is suing Olympic sponsor Samsung all over the world, claiming the rival firm has been copying its products - and it seems Samsung may have been cloning its business practices, too.

Like Apple before it, the Korean gadget-maker is under fire over reports of child labour at its Chinese supplier, HEG Electronics. As many as one in 20 of the 2,000 staff may be under 16, claims China Labor Watch (CLW), which infiltrated the plant with its own workers. It says conditions are even worse than those at Apple's Foxconn plant.

Samsung has responded to the allegations by flying out a delegation of its own managers to investigate. But it doesn't expect them to find much, claiming that two on-site inspections in the past year have come up with nothing wrong.

So who carried out these inspections? Samsung flatly refuses to say. But according to CLW founder Li Qiang it's a firm called Intertek - which does indeed list Samsung as a client on its website.

These audits are big business for the companies that carry them out; in China, there were more than 100,000 audits of at least 30,000 factories last year. But, as readers of [Private Eye] will remember, independent inspections of tech factories - the FLA's audit of Foxconn springs to mind (see [Private Eye no.] 1308) - are often a touch unobservant.

According to CLW, Intertek staff have on several occasions taken bribes in return for favourable audits - indeed, the company is facing charges in the US over the issue. Toy industry association ICTI sacked the firm after discovering that it had carried out a dishonest social responsibility audit. Intertek, showing great social responsibility itself, responded by publishing the name of the informant, whose family subsequently received death threats.

But not all the company's clients are quite so high-minded, or so local labour groups allege. All too often they're happy to have their factory conditions rubber-stamped - just like the mobile phones being build by 14-year olds.
How is Trello different from a task list with multiple status values?

e.g.

A shared task list can correspond to a Trello board.

Each task has a status field that can have multiple values (Pending, In Development, Done, In Test, In Beta, In Prod etc). If the list can be grouped by this status field, we have Trello "lists"

Cards are the tasks themselves.

Even Outlook + Sharepoint task list can do this.
Well, obviously everybody thinks he has very good reasons - christians, muslims, intelligent design believers, etc.
I can't believe that the power required for computing is significant when compared with power of flight.
A/B test the prices. Start from ridicously high, and work your way down. Why not ridicously low and work your way up? Because you can then tell people you lowered your prices. Also, it also does not anchor your price to a low starting point.
The biggest problem with conspiracy theories is the cover-up. I don't deny that governments are capable of lying and doing terrible things (cf. early CIA). But I can't accept the idea that a massive conspiracy would stay secret. Any of the hundreds of conspirators involved would be an instant millionaire celebrity for breaking the news.
Thank you, I'm not afraid to say I've done some of my own thinking and research and come to conclusion not shared by the majority in US.

As far as the scatter light - I'd be happy to hear what exactly you're referring to.
I love this video. Aldrin was a test pilot for crying out loud. They could have used his brass balls in that scene from Glengarry Glen Ross. Did that dope really think he was going to intimidate him?
It is going to allow you to use slightly more familiar syntax

You're still going to have to learn and use all the libraries in your iPhone app in ObjC

If you have crushing large amounts of business logic, you might see gains
> I could imagine specialized computer for artificial neural networks (ANN) being commercially successful in the future.

There are a few companies already commercializing this, CogniMem[0] is one that comes to mind. However, I haven't heard of any commercial scale "success" stories despite their first parts being built in 2008.

[0] http://www.cognimem.com/index.html
High-res NASA version of the picture where the name on the suit is visible:

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-40-5903HR.jpg
Check out http://pruned.blogspot.com/2012/01/gardens-as-crypto-water-c... to see a Soviet water-based computer. I don't know the details of it, but it appears to be able to solve PDE's by mapping the PDE you're solving to a hydraulic system. Since the flow of water is governed by PDEs, once you've mapped the problem to the computer you can just make some analog measurements of water flow to get the answer you're looking for. (Is this right?)

I have to wonder, thought, whether this is can really be called a computer. If you do, don't you also have to consider a simple integrator circuit one?

Error correction must also be somewhere between a total PITA and impossible, right?
Every single picture we've ever seen from the Hubble has been intensely manipulated, but that is rarely even mentioned. The manipulation in that one picture of Aldrin is irrelevant in my opinion.
That's explained in the 1st line of the post:

"If you are fond of double-clicking the Title bar of a window to minimize"

If you are not fond of double-clicking the title bar, then you probably weren't looking for the UI change from Lion to Mountain Lion.
> I'd never thought of it in comparison to dynamic programming algorithms.

The blog post is using a different terminology. Memoization isn't part of dynamic programming - it's just that the top-down dynamic programming benefits from memoization.

The top-down fibonacci is defined as fib(n) = fib(n-1) + fib(n-2) Since fib(n-1) and fib(n-2) are overlapping(they have to overlap for it to be an example of dynamic programming), memoization reduces the number of computations. But that's not to say that a non-memoizing solution isn't an example of dynamic programming.

The bottom-up dynamic programming is the iterative solution.

The blog post is calling the top-down DP as memoization, and bottom-up DP as dynamic programming. I don't think this terminology is common(or correct).
Anyone have a way of removing the aggregators from the HN front page?
The articles through [wired | extremetech | etc] show up in other feeds, and I swear many of them are being manipulated to the front page.<p>In any case, it would be nice if there were a way of just eliminating any HN entries on the front page using a personalized list of sites.<p>TIA.
Make it free and monetize it like all the free-to-play games do:

If you want to cross of a non-top task, you have to pay increasing amounts of (real) money, e.g. 2nd task 0.50 $, 3rd task 1$, 4th task 2$ etc.
Twitter Launches Clockwork Raven: an Open Source Mechanical Turk Application
Look at and read the annotated source, every now and again