skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sweet guys. I'm looking forward to a nice write up.
It wouldn't be some, itd be most. What make FB appealing is that so many people use it. If most drop off, it would be less appealing and the amount of people willing to pay would be even less.
Jeans made the philosophy loop for me?

http://i.imgur.com/rgMkh.png
> I do see Android as basically a piece-by-piece copy of the iPhone.

You realize you are comparing an OS to a device? As well, assuming you are comparing Android to iOS, you realize that there are numerous accounts -- too many to iterate -- where features were born on iOS only after Android had success (ex. Android's notifications bar).
And if you go to the last link in any regular paragraph (not footnotes nor tables, nor references) you may often end up bouncing around sports teams.
Samsung Ativ Tab: a 10.1-inch tablet running Windows RT
great minds != great stock

Bell Labs had great minds, but that didn't mean that the legal entity managed their innovations well ...
Twitter jokes: free speech on trial
FYI - the intarray contrib module for Postgres does support indexing of arrays of integers.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/intarray.html#AEN1...

And it happens to use bloom filters under-the-hood to do it.

From the docs:

"Two GiST index operator classes are provided: gist__int_ops (used by default) is suitable for small- to medium-size data sets, while gist__intbig_ops uses a larger signature and is more suitable for indexing large data sets (i.e., columns containing a large number of distinct array values). The implementation uses an RD-tree data structure with built-in lossy compression."

That bit about the lossy compression in the implementation if referencing the use of a bloom filter. Also mentioned here, http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-05/msg0147...
Bezos' grandmother was dying of smoking cigarettes, and if he managed to push her into quitting it was probably worth being a little mean about it.

This is the kind of "deep" sounding quote that's actually not so deep at all. It's obviously good to be kind, and good to be clever, and in fact in order to really be kind one must be at least a little clever.

Check the consequences, not the surface appearance, of your actions!
I transferred after ~3 months because my original team wasn't a good fit for me. One of the topics that is mentioned during orientation is that Google is designed to be fault tolerant at multiple levels. If a server goes down, the workload needs to be able to move to a different server. If a Noogler is placed a team that isn't a good fit for their skillset, they need to be able to move to a different team. This happened to the person giving the orientation when he was first hired and it still happens today. Some people end up quitting because they can't adapt, while others successfully recover from the error.
Jaron Lanier: Conformity is the soul-killer.
20% Of Internet users in the US can’t watch HD video at all, on any device
It would be interesting to set up a website that took donations for a cause, like a bounty board. The first politician (or group of politicians) to enact the policy would receive a donation to their next political campaign. This would probably only be effective if corporate spending was limited but... just a thought.
Open webOS Beta Officially Released
I've wanted for a while a way of taking a small % of your taxes and allowing you the government agencies (or NGOs?) that you prefer. Maybe even a small % would be a useful thing to compete over - for instance NASA / NIH / NSF might get huge funding boosts if a certain segment of the population might give 1% of their taxes to such causes.
Enterprises can learn from the Pentagon's social-media battle with the Taliban
We did actually consider prompting for an email address once they sign up with Twitter. However, whenever I've used an app that does that to me I just leave the site and don't go back and thought that if I didn't like it happening to me, it wouldn't be fair to do it to others.
True, the stakes in a death sentence case are higher, but the reasoning and expertise required are a lot lower. "Does the evidence prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this person killed that person" takes significantly less intelligence and expertise than "According the volumes of patent law and complex edge cases and prior art, does it seem like they were copying Apple" and "Examine this financial data and tell me how many dollars Apple lost because Samsung copied them".
I have been working with angular recently and it has helped me get good separation on action binding if JavaScript function and element (which otherwise could end up heavily in JavaScript and pose challenge to maintain).
This behaves erratically. Sometimes it considers the coordinates link, above the entire article the "first link" (in the "Michael Phelps" chain), sometimes not (Chicago). Consequentially, I believe "Michael Phelps", when the coordinate link is ignored, leads to it's own loop that is not the philosophy loop in question.
I applaud your effort to describe why we factor equations, I just don't think you've done that here.

A high-level question needs a high-level answer before
diving in. I'm not a fan of "Because that's where the
graph touches the x-axis" because it again leads to...
Why does touching the x-axis matter?

Because that's where the the system "becomes what you want it to become", i.e, where:

x^2 + x - 6 = 0
x^2 + x = 6

You're trying to describe factoring to someone without the basic fundamentals to even need to do factoring.

By analogy, that's like saying "I want to explain why we need piston rods, but I don't want to mention anything about engines."

Prerequisites are meaningful.

[Edit]
I just verified that graphing is typically taught after factoring, so I at least sympathize with the challenge you're facing.
Yeah, I'm being too cynical.
no it's not. it just depends on who you think your audience is. why do people always put their own use case as general rule for everyone?

granted, you're talking about making money. otherwise is perfectly fine being a complete douchebag and everyone still using and loving what you build, invent, research.
Hate Networking? 3 Ways to Get Over It
Generic sequences are coming to common lisp. I'm working on a simple implementation inspired by clojure which I'll be posting to /r/lisp in the coming week.
Social custom search folders is an angle that we hadn't considered. It's been mentioned somewhere else in this thread too, so it's definitely something to think about. Thanks!

We've been aiming at the power user market for now, trying to get people who can offer constructive criticism as a user. Everyone's saying to focus on the business market though, so we might have to change our focus on that one.

Thanks for the reassurance that we're doing the right thing! Hopefully we'll be able to sell it to the right people soon
The jokes write themselves for this one, so that's no fun. Given how poorly most liberal arts majors I know are making use of their degrees, I could certainly see the value in this sort of program to help them build more attractive résumés. I had a science degree, so I didn't feel the need to rely on much career guidance from the school.

FTA:

"The Leadership Assessment and Professional Development (LEAD) program..."

Looks like another liberal arts major might need a bit of help.
FB has 2.7B shares outstanding, yahoo and other sites have it wrong.
Great story. But I wonder what would have happened if she was not five feet and him seven feet tall !
Puts me in mind of Translation Party[1] (which is back up, kudos to WillC and Rick!). There's a lot to be entertained via this sort of vertex-following algorithm.

[1] http://translationparty.com/
I'm actually launching something in the same space on Labor Day (http://codewren.ch). This is not a particularly good omen ...
As far as I know using "Tweet" in your name isn't too big an issue (look at Tweetdeck pre-acquisition). Based on how Twitter have been tightening the rules on how we use their platform recently though, it might be something to look at.

Our target audience at the moment is power users who would give us constructive criticism. We thought that any businesses would be reluctant to give us a go whilst things are changing so rapidly. This thread is giving us a reason to rethink that decision though.

Thanks for the reassurance!
This looks really interesting - thanks for sharing!
Why the Tech World May See An Influx of Troops
It is already a great program (CAS, graphing, spreadsheet, soon 3D graphing) for K-14 mathematics exploration on computers. But its move away from Java to html5 and beyond could make it into a superstar in mathematics education.

The idea of exploring visual mathematics by just dragging points around makes me wish I were young again.

I also wonder whether this funding model may become more common for useful apps--fundraise, get your money, make a great product with minimal risk though with minimal gain.
Took a look at the home page, did a double take when I saw the "FU Score". Maybe that resonates poorly with potential users? I get that we're supposed to use cutesy Web 2.0 names, but if what makes a hacker smile doesn't lead to revenue, it has no place.
The Supermicro servers are really really great - one of the best investments I've done so far in 2012.

I bought mine (a Supermicro 2U Dual 3GHz Xeon 4GB 12 Bay Storage Server) for 400$ on eBay, with great service and terms. Recommended if you are ever in the need (or just want) a private server rack unit (1U, 2U or more).
Prime applies to objects in any commutative algebraic system that can't be further decomposed. I don't want to get too technical so I'm speaking in very loose terms. x^2+1 is prime over the integers but not over the complex numbers.

I don't know the French education system but it would be very shocking to me if the discriminant is taught when factoring is first taught. Factoring x^3 - y^3 does not have anything to do with the discriminant and x^3 - y^3 is typically taught when factoring is first introduced. At least in the U.S.
We´d love to hear your thoughts on where to take this...

Either here or on Quora :)
http://www.quora.com/Startup-Advice-and-Strategy/We%C2%B4ve-...
First off, thanks!

I've been thinking about playing around with that plugin for some time, I just haven't got around to it yet. My understanding is that there is no voice to music feature -- it's more about vocoder and harmonizer effects. It sounds like a genuinely innovative and cool product, though, so I have nothing bad to say about it.

The difference between the two products is that the emphasis of "The Mouth" is on vocal performance, whereas the emphasis in Beatmatic is on composition. The compositional aspect probably doesn't come across that clearly in the videos because, well, all we have implemented is beat detection. But suppose the next step in the app was to voice a bassline, or a melody instrument, or have some cool pre-built synth loops to add to your beat, then we're talking about a music app that can, in theory, offer the ability to write a song to anyone who can sing "Happy Birthday" roughly on key and in time. As a musician who has experienced the joy of writing songs a few times (my band: babylonbaby.de), I'm excited about the idea of sharing that awesome experience with a much larger slice of the consumer market.
I didn't miss the point, I am saying that there are two points, one of which was addressed in the article, which is that the prior art doesn't have anything to do with the specific hardware implementation, and the other, which the article was happy to leave stated as fact, which is the claim by the foreman that the software couldn't be run on other processors.

The first point is only to do with an incorrect interpretation of the law, whereas the second is to do with being uneducated about the content of the case itself and I felt that techdirt should really have picked up the second point as well as the first rather than treating his assertion about the non-universality of software as somehow valid.
"Convertible Equity" - A Better Alternative to Convertible Debt?
If we were to filter out any content, we would be breaking the agreement we made with Twitter when we started developing on top of their platform and they could revoke our access.

Thanks for the tip about pitching. The copy on the site needs work, so we'll be sure to make sure it explains exactly what Tweetdig is and what it does.

Our blog and twitter account is a bit neglected, but we feel that our time is better spent improving the product than writing blog posts. If anything, I'd say that shows that we're even more invested than if the blog + Twitter were very busy. If we were to spend more time on the social side of things, what would you like to see us do?
If you thought $38 was a good price, this must be a good time to buy some more with the prices low.
not sure what you're trying to say, but the devices you buy in store are only BASED on android. theyre not AOSP, and they never will be. on top of that all the gapps are not free at all.

I have a custom rom, but I wouldn't be one bit surprised if google got access to most of the things I used on the phone, which is why i try not to use all my passwords on the device.
Hang the Painting
Awesome stuff guys. Hackathon projects are fun.
Also curious about server side implementation!
What keeps the stock up is the idea that one day they may do something other than ads, and sell something to their user base.

Which sounds remarkably similar to the way people thought about companies during the dotcom boom: Get the users first, figure out how to make money off of them later. Facebook's admittedly got one key difference from companies during the dotcom heyday, which is that instead of a burn rate it has this thing called 'revenue'. But that aside, at least for a while investors seemed to have fallen back into the old trap of thinking that the monetary value of a user isn't somehow tied to the amount of income they provide.

Maybe Facebook will figure out something else. . . but if nobody's sure what that is right now then it's still an Underpants Gnomes[1] business model.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomes_(South_Park)
The purpose of patents aren't reward hard work, but to promote innovation.

You have to ask, if the patent system were dramatically changed (shortened, the scope of not obvious widened etc...)--would Apple still have innovated?

The answer is a resounding yes.

According to the verdict Samsung copied apple. Yet Apple still made hundreds of billions of dollars, of course they would have still created the iPhone, even if they had no patent protection whatsoever.
I get that this is tongue-in-cheek, but philosophy as in "Doctor of Philosophy" doesn't refer to the field of philosophy per se, but to the more general concept of "love of knowledge."
"expected to grow"

i'm still waiting for the famous growth numbers to be made public. everyone talks about growth, but FB has not made estimates/target numbers available.
> ""finding another way to connect with merchants" really isn't that important or useful in the scale of things"

No, it really is enormously important. See for example eBay, Amazon (with third party sellers), Yelp, and Craigslist, all of which have created enormous societal change by changing the way consumers find and engage merchants.

Imagine if we removed all of the above from existence today!

The problem is not that "connecting with merchants" is a relatively unimportant field (it is very important), but rather that most of the startups who claim to be in this space actually aren't really.

If I had a dollar for every time I've been introduced to a service that "connects consumers with merchants" and find out they're really just another daily deals site. Or worse, a daily deals site that doesn't even have their own deals, instead they just aggregate.

How much are they actually improving the "connecting with merchants" experience? Marginal at best, and their performance shows. They don't have a product, they have a feature nobody asked for, solves nobody's problem, and they're wondering why they're pivoting constantly.

And this is the problem I see with so many startups floating out there right now. Forget moral judgments on how "humanity-worthy" their fields are, I'll settle for startups that actually solve someone's problem and actually produce a compelling product.

If you find yourself saying "we're like X, but...", just stop.
The failure mode of "clever" is "asshole." From John Scalzi, I believe.
Interesting, thanks! I'll note, though, that given the 55M units Apple shipped in 2011 (hopefully that's right, read it off the google results page and didn't click through) it comes to about $11/unit. The 1% number, if it's based on retail price, is about a third of that. That's a big deal, and honestly much larger than I expected.

But reports were that Apple demanded $30/unit from Samsung, and pushed ahead with the suit when they didn't get it. That's not quite in the same realm of "compromise". Nokia was happy to be a parasite. Apple wants Samsung dead.
Both of these points have been made elsewhere in the thread, so we should take a look at them. Unfortunately, machine learning isn't as good as users explicitly saying what they want to see (and not nearly as easy to implement either!)

As for pricing, our rationale is that a user shouldn't have to think about pricing unless they get to the stage that they need to pay, and are sufficiently invested in the product.
Here's the relevant chapter in one of Julius Smith's books:

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/filters/Transfer_Function_An...

It might not make total sense if you don't have any background in this area, but it's hopefully enough to give you an inkling.
His query took 65 milliseconds, not 65 seconds, which is totally reasonable.
The original prospectus quoted the 2.1B share count that google uses. I'm sure the difference will be corrected after a few filings ...
We have. My co-founder emailed each person individually and a large majority of them simply ignored the email. :(
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Thats nice, does this emacs-thing also have an editor?
Driving Customers Out of State
"It is hack-proof"

You would think people would know not to say things like this anymore.
I heard about it from a coworker in the office. I like it because it's like Digg in it's early golden days -- mostly technical stuff hitting the front page. But more than that, I have entrepreneurial goals, and I enjoy seeing and sharing with other similar-minded people.
Interesting observation, any data behind this to get the magnitude of the effect?
>Being happy improves my life, if my meaningless project does that then so what?

So you are a solipsistic narcissist. It's not about making you happy, it's about making the world a better place.
Funny... As I was playing with this, somebody changed the order of:

"In philosophy and sociology..."

On the Agency (philosophy) page. This changed the output of the results, but in the end the loop still existed. However, I couldn't help but feel like someone is trying to hack the matrix.
$4 - $7 might be a good price to buy at, might.
Runtimes in the article are in milliseconds.
This makes me want to start buying up shares just so I could brag to friends saying I bought it when it was super low. Probably not a good reason, but the heart wants what the heart wants.
Traditionally, a university had four faculties, the lower or artists faculty, and the three higher faculties of theology, law and medicine. Students would start in the artists faculty learning the seven liberal arts (grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy (including astrology)) to become a magister artium (M.A.) and then go to one of the higher faculties to get their doctorate (Th.D, LL.D or M.D., respectively). Philosophy and science (née natural philosophy) developed in the artists faculty and over time became important enough to grant the artists faculty the right to grant doctorates, too, with philosophy leading the way. That's why many science faculties, which split off of the artists faculty over the centuries still grant the title of a doctor of philosophy.

Ah, and the first three of the liberal arts that were the first thing a student learned, grammar, rhetoric and logic, were called the trivium, hence the modern word "trivial" for obvious things everyone should know.
Awesome stuff! If you make an iPhone/Android app for this, it might even sell well for amateur impromptu musicians. Alternately, once your backend is more stable, you could make an API, and others can build mobile apps on top. Contact me if you want to collaborate on the iPhone end.
What? Implying people work on ideas they know are bad?
Let's compare, shall we? Last year, Splunk lost a few million dollars on revenues of 66M. Facebook profited $1BN on revenues of 3.7BN.

Guess there's something to businesses that generate lots of snarky comments.
No, while this was once true, this is no longer true at all.
You should know exactly what team you will be working on before you ever get an offer.
A pharma company receives patent for the specific molecule to be used for treating defined conditions. The cost of R&D usually is several billion dollars. The absense of prior art is crystal clear. The efficacy is confirmed by clinical trials, required by FDA.

I am not convinced that using pharmaceuticals industry example is valid to illustrate your point, especially taking into account the subjective nature of prior art examination process.
Scala Versus Java (video)
Gapps (Google Apps) are just a bunch of closed-source and non-free applications. They are not a part of the operating system and they are not required for the operating system to work. Just like you can use Ubuntu without Ubuntu One, you can use Android without Google Apps. Unless you absolutely need a Google app like Gmail, it won't be an issue. Even then, you can use the browser (which is open source) to go to gmail.com etc.

As for the manufacturer ROMs, they are not Android. They are Android-based operating systems and they have their own names such as TouchWiz, Sense etc. This article is specifically talking about the Android operating system, which means it is referring to AOSP rather than, say, Touchwiz.