skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, yes. For desktop, it's fuzzier (perhaps literally?). I haven't played with a Retina display on Windows 8. One of the PMs I work with has one that he purchased, though, and he mentioned that Windows automatically scales up the desktop (i.e. in Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Display) on the Retina display. I don't know how well that works, though.

I'm not sure what the plan is for desktop apps on high-res devices. Hopefully the plan isn't "we'll live with tiny text" or "we'll live with fuzzy graphics", but it could be one of the two.
I feel/sense sarcasm. I did not see this being useful from day one.
Hi, I work for Mozilla and I co-edited the W3C Touch Events standard. Some personal opinion follows...

Mozilla previously (before my time) did some work on multitouch events for early Windows touch PCs, but we don't have much influence in the mainstream mobile market because unlike other browser vendors we don't (yet) have our own mobile platform. In the current mobile market, Apple and Google have a lot of power to create de facto standards. It doesn't matter much if Mozilla evolves the API or creates our own alternative, unless the big mobile vendors agree to ship it too. (Google has participated in the Touch Events standardization process, but Apple has refused.) For example, Firefox is currently the only browser to implement some of the experimental features in the Touch Events spec, but that doesn't mean anyone will use them. Microsoft may have a chance of getting web developers to target a new API, but only because they can leverage Windows Phone and Windows 8.

The touch event standardization effort ground to a halt for much of the past year due to Apple (who is not participating in the working group) disclosing patents they claimed should block the standard. While work recently resumed, the future of touch events as an open standard is still cloudy.

With an existing de facto (but potentially non-open) standard, and an interesting (but non-standard) alternative already coming from Microsoft, the last thing we want is to further fork the platform by going off in our own, third direction. I would love to see Microsoft propose their Pointer Events API for standardization. That would provide a great way forward, and doing it within the W3C would let other vendors contribute, while requiring Microsoft and other participants (unlike Apple) to provide open licensing of any essential patents they hold. But without MS on board we would risk a repeat of the Apple patent issue. So for now it's partly a question of what Microsoft will do next.

In summary, I think we have some useful options, but realistically they depend on at least some of the mobile platform owners cooperating to move web standards forward.
My intuitive interpretation is something like "in almost every irreducible A+B=C, we almost have C < product(primes(A,B,C))."

^^Another intuitive version the conjecture is: "if A+B=C (with no common prime factors), then it is very difficult for A, B, and C to be divisible by a prime raised to a high power." For instance, if A was divisible by 2^1000, B was divisible by 3^1000, and C by 5^1000, then these prime factors together would contribute only 235 = 30 to the "radical" R, which could allow C to perhaps be much bigger than R. This can't happen "too often" (well, maybe some finite number of times).

It was proved by Tijdeman in 1976 that the equation A + 1 = C has only finitely many solutions where A and C are both perfect powers. Think about this for a minute: they could be perfect squares, cubes, 4th powers... and perhaps A = something^1000 and C = somethingelse^1001. Probably the only obvious example of this is 2^3 + 1 = 3^2.

The ABC conjecture, if true, implies that for any positive integer k, the equation A + k = C has finitely many solutions where both A and C are perfect powers.
Yea, but that last one wasn't worth the cost and the user limit. Most groups using IRC in this fashion probably have a high level of technical experience.

Campfire succeeds at this because it wasn't their first product. They essentially brought customers in from their other products and then tied them all together. As a stand alone service, it's fairly useless IMO.
>I stopped using because it was too expensive for a channel with a few friends (a channel with fewer than 10 friends was costing $25/month).

Wouldn't it be easier to just register a quakenet channel or even run your own passworded ircd on a spare linux box?
It's likely the government doesn't like him because a few years ago he released 18 million pages of public court records that the government ordinarily charges 8 cents per page to access.[1] As these were public records, what he did was not illegal nor, in my opinion, immoral. But the government didn't like being undercut, and now they have a good opportunity for some payback.

See http://blog.simplejustice.us/2011/07/20/swartz-caught-in-a-c... for some analysis from someone who doesn't support what Swartz did, but nevertheless sees this as a vindictive prosecution.

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/swartz-fbi
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I have to admit, I love the snark of "A totally different plug". It captures exactly how I feel about every recent iteration of the iPhone: that minor improvements are met with inappropriately high levels of enthusiasm, simply because it's the "new" iProduct.

And, while it does seem like they're reaching by the end, a removable battery is absolutely worth mentioning to some consumers. I don't plan on purchasing either of these phones, for reasons unrelated to this ad, but it seems like the criticisms on here are awfully reactionary and over the top.
Well, that's the point of the java and objective-c bridge: it lets you call out to native APIs, so you have all native components.
It's sarcasm mixed with caremad.

I was a huge fan of Pownce, Motion, LeafyChat, Baconfile, Convore, and Grove. All failed.

I was really hoping this one would work, but after seeing no improvements in a year, it became obvious it wouldn't. :(
I set Grove up for my distributed team but it didn't stick. I still think team-level chat is a problem worth solving, but nothing I've tried has gotten any real traction.
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List of projects by Leah Culver: http://blog.leahculver.com/about.html – Hurl, Baconfile, Convore, Pownce, and Grove.
Samsung Takes Jab at iPhone 5 With Feisty Ad
This.

Finding rigorous engineers is hard.
What are you currently using? I didn't use Grove, but I use IRC; I've definitely found that some people really take to it, and some people don't; some people even end up using IRC only to watch what other people are saying, and then send PMs as if they were using instant messenger, but never say things in the channel in public, even if they later talk about the things being said on IRC when we are all at dinner.
That does not solve the "The last one is way harder than you'd think." problem that was mentioned.
Another observation that struck me when I read this (and after reading the percolator and megastore papers) is how there is a convergence of the "traditional" relational DB world and the "new NoSQL" world.
Relational Databases are becoming more scalable, partially with new technology, partially by shedding features in some scenarios.
And the NoSQL stores, are becoming less so (it was really about "NoSQL" anyway, but that's a different story). All of these stores have layers or features that bring closer to the traditional SQL/relational model.

Spanner appears to strike a nice middle ground.
On first look I thought ok, well, of course Android phones have more features on paper. Then I saw those bullet points after NFC you were talking about. Really? Really? They couldn't find anything better?
It tends to naturally revert to gchat or aim, which are not awful, but they seem to make it easier to accidentally exclude people.
It's frustrating to see products die from what seems like as an outsider as attention rot. Then again, I completely understand moving on if an idea doesn't stick.
I find it amazing that Bill Gates seems to still have the time and passion to read books that will help him grow as an individual with everything that he probably has going on in his life and everything he has accomplished. Over the past couple of years, I have personally have had a hard time keeping up with reading habits due to school and job demands. I still read, but look to reading as a relaxing activity as in picking up Game of Thrones for an hour when I have it. I guess that's what makes Bill Gates who he is.
Was my first thought to, no real explanation of why they are shutting down either. If something is a low friction consumer app, it is expected that many will evolve and pivot.

With something like a business tool though I want something that is going to be around for the long term and it would be a factor on further products she creates.

From experience I know a startup is hard and things don't always go to plan so I can sympathise there, just that when choosing tools for business stability is a factor.
> I'm sure there's a lot of people who don't actually know what Apple are doing to innovation around the world.

Sigh.

As has been reported many, many times, Apple are not doing anything to innovation. They are trying to stop people copying their ideas. They've given plenty of examples of smart phones and tablets that are great and not copying. They just don't like the copies.

Go sell cola in a certain shape bottle, or a car with the same profile as a BMW, or a baseball cap with a certain shape logo on it and see what happens to you. It's not that those companies are trying to stop competition and innovation, they are trying to stop people copying their products.
Yahoo Employees Getting Free Smartphones Including iPhone 5
And yet you just did.

As a community we praise people for trying, then when it fails we pillory them? A dick move, sir.
I strongly recommend using Atheme services for your next IRC project. They have a nice web interface and EGS is a really nice third party web interface.
I'm a 30 year old Software Engineer, and I have no idea what any of those things are, other than complete guesses.
I'd recommend hipchat.
I think you would find that in moving the apple workstations away from x86 would cause them a lot of pain as they would lose all those that use the apple hardware to run both OSX and Windows.
I would assume that Linux would be available for any future architecture but that can by no means guaranteed.
Its a self-fulfilling prophesy. You can't get big without customers, but customers won't use you because you're small.

How do we overcome this?

(Edit: I was asking a rhetorical question to counter the parent. But great discussion below.)
Obviously, I consider this a highly flattering comment :)
This covers a lot of ground, and is quite accurate and balanced. Very nice work. Kudos to the author.

I noticed a couple of things.

The graph of the F distribution on page 8 is mislabeled as chi-square.

The sets Ai must be disjoint in the law of total prob. and Bayes rule on page 6.

In section 5 on page 7, "variance of sum equals sum of variances" certainly does not imply ("iff") independence. I'm not positive it implies uncorrelated, although it certainly might. The safe thing is "variance of sum equals sum of variances" if uncorrelated. Uncorrelated is usually abbreviated with an inverted T (reminiscent of "orthogonal", although that abbreviation is not introduced in these notes). The inverted capital Pi used here means independence.

A small typo: the Strong Law of Large Numbers is mis-abbreviated, it is the SLLN (sec. 10.1).

And, neither the WLLN nor the SLLN requires Var(X1) < Infinity. They just need finite first moment ("E[X1] exists finite.") This is not an error in the notes, it's just that the result holds in more generality than is stated there, and the lack of need for a second moment shows the strength of the result (i.e., if the mean exists, you always get convergence to it, end of story). (This is in Billingsley's book, or Durrett's book, or also in http://www.math.ust.hk/~makchen/Math541/Chap1Sec7.pdf as Thm 1.7.)

Also, one omission: Brownian motion in Stochastic Processes (sec. 20). Since Poisson processes and Markov processes are there, it would make sense to have one continuous process. ("random walk" gets a couple of bullet points in sec. 21, but it's not the right place nor the right position.) All you need to define B.M., or a gaussian random process for that matter, is that B.M. is the continuous process with independent increments characterized by:

X_0 = 0
X_t - X_s ~ N(0, t-s) for t > s

Sec. 20.0 might also be a good place to introduce Kolmogorov's extension theorem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_extension_theorem), since it is such a powerful result, is easy to state, and explains the centrality of finite-dimensional distributions.
You can't do smart things on each frame (for ex, subbing in new content as the user scrolls)

You also don't know for sure when a scroll ends w/ the current impl
Well, it sounds like a hard problem. Reducing the resolution is not a satisfying solution, even if it worked without artifacts, you'd still be wasting your expensive screen. The OS and apps would have to support the higher resolution to sell the hardware, and the hardware needs to exist to drive the software changes; chicken meet egg!

It is nice that this is fixed in WinRT, but we can't do the high-end productivity apps in WinRT (e.g., Visual Studio or Photoshop with plugins). I actually wouldn't mind using high-end productivity apps in WinRT (I maximize most of my apps already in desktop), and I hope in the future that will happen.
As a founder of http://lingr.com, I know firsthand how hard to build a chat app and make it sustainable. I've been working on it since 2006, first as a startup, then as my personal side project.

I've learned to not invest too much on the project, staying with the minimum server cost, and that's the only sustainable way for me. In fact it costs me almost nothing and users have built trust on me for running it for 6 years.

I'd give her tons of credit for trying to turn it into a real business. That's what I've been failing so far, or maybe I just don't even have the guts to do. I admire her courage and thus feel really sorry.

Hopefully I'll find another course, who knows.
I said this earlier upthread - my comments are directed as to what people are looking <at>. Not what they <see> and whether or not it is any utility for them. I liked seeing the images, I'm not disparaging them etc. In otherwords, what I'm talking about is the structure of that information. The images we are looking at have certain elements restuctured in photoshop. This is most obvious in the WWW image that was in the HN story. The way the pixels have been modified alters the structure of the space and to some extent other elements to make it easier to see more detail. This may or may not be subtle, but it arguably "works." People respond to it. I don't need to make my own image to demonstrate this, that's silly. There are a lot of HN readers that are computer savvy and are likely to be in conversations at some stage in their lives with people who understand these things...designers and artists ... etc are becoming more important and more integrated into the startup scene.
Wow, I didn't know that the government compelled Quinn Norton and Alec Resnick on this one too. What exactly is aaronsw's defense going to be?
Thanks. What's up with Hip in names nowadays?
Sucks, but I think it's a good idea to wait a generation for stuff like this; even if it's apple. I got a big IPS LCD from Sony back when they were a new thing. I thought $1500 was well worth it for 1920x1200 in 24". I still use it but it has a similar burn in issue.

Display tech is a shady game, figuring out the actual panel mfg is hard, and years of custom modelines have taught me to avoid being an early adopter on displays. Retina is "teh futar" though, and I welcome it once it's been refined; we've needed higher dpi in large displays and software that can handle dynamic dpi well for a long time.
It takes time. Some kind of competitive advantage over everything else in the marketplace will help to. People need a reason to bet on your company which overcomes the risk in instability.

As time passes and your service stays solid more people will come on board. Something like github is a good example. I doubt many big companies would have considered relying on them early on, but their track record has changed that now.
He stopped reading "mainstream news," not all news. Whether you solely read newspapers or Hacker News, you're getting an insignificant and unrepresentative sample of "what's going on in the world." Personally, I think that building one's own sampling technique (for example, by reading a variety of blogs or sites like this) can deliver a much more accurate picture of the world than your average newspaper.
This is one of the reasons I stick to LTS releases (Long Term Support). The releases between LTS are sort of "unstable" in comparison (for a lack of a better way of putting it).

Personally, I have had no issues upgrading from one LTS to another LTS system.

I agree, however, that there should be more work done on the upgrade system. It is a sort 50/50 in a lot of peoples eyes.

With that said: Ubuntu is not the only distro out there that is easy to use. There are other distro's out there that are built on Ubuntu - Linux Mint, Xubuntu, Kubuntu etc. etc. etc. - that may be more suitable for some people. With Ubuntu 12.04, things are really starting to look up. It is becoming a rather nice, usable system, regardless of the controversy of Unity. Yes, there are issues with 12.04 right now. For instance OpenGL performance under Unity is bad. With Steam coming on board, I will bet it will be fixed in due time.

Anyway, yes issues are still around. Though, really, it isn't as bad as your luck, I guess? I don't mean that in any condescending way, of course. I just think perhaps you might want to take another gander at it some time.
Its very Zen ;)
viz "Reporters at real publications have already read the entire order. It wasn't "leaked".

-- This makes no sense. To those that are following along.[1]

_________

[1] "Draft Cybersecurity Executive Order" was marked for official use only.
let's not try to fit my bubble, throw me anything
Finding n-th smallest element in an array
No NO.. it's not because they're small. It's because tech start-ups have a history of shutting down or selling, and leaving their users in the dust.

The list is long. Another recent example was Sparrow. I broke my rule about buying/licensing software from small companies (unless I got the source) with Sparrow. I didn't just buy 1 copy, I (we) brought 15 (for the office). And of course, I got burned. Again.

It will not happen again. Period. Unless you tell me up front your plans - what you plan to do for me, the user, when/if you fail or sell.
Maybe you touched on the solution.

If you're a small startup, putting forward a statement that all the code will be open sourced if you shut down should increase the level of comfort your customers have in the product.

What are the downsides I'm not thinking of? Companies that reuse code across multiple products, perhaps. Product A dies, but uses component Foo in Product B that still exists, and represents some kind of special-value-add.
Grove inspired me to make an open source alternative: Subway https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway . And while it is far from perfect it is a start towards opening up IRC to teams.
I really meant my point to be a counter to its parent.

But since we're on the topic, presenting social proof is also pretty useful. Show customers that people know, show the press that featured you, show them who you are, who your advisors/investors are, show them whose tweeted about you.

(Maybe writing this will be a catalyst to take my own advice for CircleCi)
We use standard chat messaging, Skype, Google Hangouts, teleconferencing and a team mailing list. So... clunky, I guess, but it gets the job done.

Chat messaging is for quick questions or requests to Skype or Hangout, Skype for 1 to 1 video or extended audio chats, Hangouts for small group video chats (quality is kind of crummy though), teleconference is for larger meetings and the team mailing list is for "hey everybody, check this cool thing out" type stuff.

IRC would be too much for our designers and some project managers.
Yeah but, Github is a different sort of product. You don't lose much if it shuts down (assuming you have your code). You can push your code someplace else.
The screen seems totally scratch proof so far, although when I do this for the night I put it on a book or something instead of really hard or scratchy surface.

The other gesture I really like is the tap on the physical top of the phone to go to the top of a long list of items. Unfortunately it only works in Samsung's own apps. Would be nice to see this rolled back into mainline Android.
As has been reported many, many times, Apple are not doing anything to innovation.

Certainly a matter of opinion. I'm seeing a lot more resentment towards Apple from previous fans than I can ever remember over this.
Obviously, B-trees have many other uses. But, i) Fenwick algorithm is more efficient when it comes to the hard numbers (the k is small), ii) it is very easy to implement.
They actually have built a better phone but this isn't a very effective way of making that point to the average consumer.
I thought about this earlier - putting a statement on circleci.com saying that if we shut up shop then we'll open source everything. However, I think its dangerous to plant that seed in a users' mind - I think it suggests that there's a danger of that happening (which there isn't, CI fans).

I actually think the solution is to ignore customers with this view. We'll get their business when we "cross the chasm".
I disagree with that. The entire point of data visualization is to highlight patterns in data to make the data easier to understand. Highlighting what's already known is a waste of time. A good visualization will help uncover something new.

I feel bad saying this, because it probably took a lot of work to make, but this prime number spiral is kind of pointless. What is it showing me? If I let the painfully slow animation run for a while, and look at the bigger picture, what insight will I gain about prime numbers? Probably nothing.

It's even a bit misleading, because to the best of my knowledge, there's no connection between spirals and prime numbers.

If I'm just being dense and not getting it, I'd love for somebody to explain it to me.
How do you live your life?
This is some cool tech! Really see myself using this.
As a programmer I find constructivism is my default position if I think of math intuitively; perhaps that's why I butted heads so much with many of my math teachers. But, your argument actually makes me less sure of my agreement with it: it seems clear that at bottom constructivism must lead to the rejection of the concept of continuously variable quantities. It is the horns of a dilemma: if you reject Cantor you reject the existence of "analog" as even an admissible concept, on the other hand if you accept continuous variability then you must also accept the shocking conclusion that the overwhelming majority of the set you assert you believe exists (the reals) cannot even be described or calculated.
Lots of people are quick to jump on Facebook and claim that their well paid developers are just poor at their job. What I'd like to see is a list of html5 mobile apps that are as interactive as Facebook is, so that we can see the best practices in action. I'm struggling to come up with many that aren't simple blog/news sites. Is anyone able to point me towards some good ones?
> (not that I equate JSTOR to slavery)

Not to belabor the analogy too much, but in academia at large, there's a decent argument to be made....