skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the docs it's pretty close to that already: http://lispyscript.com/docs/#browser

You'd just need to make it find the special script tags and eval them.

EDIT: Yeah actually it's already in there: https://github.com/santoshrajan/lispyscript/blob/master/src/...
Having purchased mobile phones in the past, I have had store reps open the box, boot and test the phone. That seems courteous if that is their intent. And you've got to think that dude sells a lot of phones other than the iPhone, and may well not have appreciated that you have a special personal relationship with Apple (via their devices) that he was interfering with.

That's what I mean by cultural norms. You are essentially demanding that this man accede your preferred experience. This guy may just be totally clueless that this is how you experience devices (because I can tell you a lot of other folks do not experience unboxing the way you do).

And it's okay that you wish to have that experience, and that Apple wishes to facilitate that sort of experience, but to blame this guy for not having known what your expectations are ahead of time, that is what comes off to me as entitled.

Apple pretends that they are mind readers (what they really are is a company that is really good at cultivating expectations that they then meet), and AT&T and your rep are clearly not mind readers and are also bad at cultivating expectations.
What exactly is tangible about this advice? The only thing tangible about it is that everyone is going to be trying to analyze everyone else to see if the fit into the mystical buckets of A players versus B players.

Seth Godin sometimes has interesting insights but this type of stuff is just selling self help advice that leads to nowhere. Just do what your interested in and think your good at - stop trying to put yourself and others into meaningless buckets, people are people, not A vs Bs.
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I tried something like this with the list of Hugo/Nebula award winners. That project derailed in short order - as soon as I read something I really enjoyed from a particular author I'd end up reading their entire body of work rather than continuing down the list.
Hi, this is Omri (Genome Compiler CEO) - thanks for the share!

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Can you please complete your proof? How do I go from 1.(-1) = -1 to (-1)*(-1)=(+1)?
Pushing technical trading platforms to the public? I don't follow how there is an overgeneralized public here, or how they are pushing something. They are releasing a tool to those who want to use it.

What companies like this do makes the RESEARCH for quant trading available to those who otherwise wouldn't have access. The organizations and people with the means to buy or build their own tools to do this were already doing it. Whether or not they are doing something that benefits the greater good is neither here nor there.

Saying those tools shouldn't be available to the general public is analogous to the old gun ownership argument. If guns are outlawed, only the outlaws will have guns. If only a limited few have the means to do quant research, it puts those who don't have access to those tools at a dangerous disadvantage.

Yes, there are risks to any sort of paradigm shift, but limiting the accessibility will hurt those who don't have access. If you (being someone who doesn't have the means) are unable to adapt to the changes, then you perish.
Do kids not learn this in 8th grade any more? I'm seriously not trying to be snarky, I just can't think of a way to write that question that sounds unsnarky. I thought everyone learned about the polar representation of complex numbers.
I have suffered buzzword overload. :(
that, or even 10 lines, is still several orders of magnitude more code than how you do it in a dynamic language like ruby or python
I'm glad! I had to keep the list short for the blog, but I think this would be a great place to collect other ideas. What 10 points would you have written?
Please see my other responses in this thread.

I recommend people to write up proposals for such APIs and submit them to the W3C working group. It should be simple to specify them because you should literally be able to specify them directly in code based on the low-level API.
He says that he isn't using any of those services.
A user's home was trashed:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/27/the-moment-of-truth-for-air...
You'll find that many authors have words, analogies, literary devices, etc that they go back to. It's part of having a voice.

I'm occasionally downright embarrassed by HNSearch. Easy example searches to demonstrate include [ROFLstomp], [pathological customer], [patio11 "charge more"], etc. Or, if you want things that take a little effort to spot, you can see that I really, really like parenthetical statements (one English teacher of mine estimated that I used them 20x more than her reference sets... oh, there I go again) and extended surprise expectation inversion as a device, particularly in introductions.

A related issue is that these two interviews were recorded with a 30 second break in between and, since the topics are spiritually adjacent and our memories were fresh, we both recycled good turns of phrase and ideas from the previous interview.
Open source apps can be in the app store, like openmbta
It's not a new theory and it's not his.

Pretty sure Minsky covered this stuff in his Society of Mind hypothesis.
I bought an ibook in 2002 and each time an upgrade was announced I chose not to purchase the upgrade (none of the advertised features appealed to me). Eventually I was not able to run safari anymore which I have never forgiven them for. In my view Apple is charging users for service packs.
Yes. This part is worth repeating even though it says the same thing as the GP (I cleaned it up slightly):

"Patents are usually discussed in the context of someone "stealing" an idea from the long suffering lone inventor that devoted his life to creating this one brilliant idea, blah blah blah. But in the majority of cases in software, patents affect independent invention. Get a dozen sharp programmers together, give them all a hard problem to work on, and a bunch of them will come up with solutions that would probably be patentable, and be similar enough that the first programmer to file the patent could sue the others for patent infringement. Why should society reward that?"

Carmack put his finger on precisely what bothers me as a programmer about software patents.
The only reason to run 10.5 is for a ppc Mac and chrome never supported that...
In praise of the unplanned career
I really think "not indexing path" is the better choice. Instead of (uname -a), why not just export a single symbol and do (shake uname -a)? (or even just (sh uname -a)?) Then find the correct program to run at invocation time. It's more clear about what happens, and allows much simpler implementations with much less weird failure modes.
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Apple masterfully plays the media with every product. The secrecy they keep before a launch leads to tons of articles speculating about features and reporting leaks. I agree with the author that it's all just a big infomercial.

I used to be a big Google News readers, but about a third of their Tech section is devoted to Apple, so I've gone to other sources.
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> One thing I would probably do as Archduke, after ordering a 70% tax on cupcakes, is have the bindings only work on HTTPS connections.

I am very interested in this idea, not only regarding this API, but also regarding camera/microphone APIs, where a MITM could cause all kinds of severe privacy issues. I know the idea has been discussed specifically in the context of WebRTC (can an active attacker inject JS into a page to turn on your camera & microphone and the feeds back to them?), but it seems like it may have already been shot down there.
I have mixed feelings about this explanation.

On the one hand, the mathematician inside of me is raging "this is neither specific, nor rigorous!" In my opinion, this definition is as close to useless as a mathematical definition can be, since the person who has this (and only this) will be hard pressed to answer any other questions involving complex numbers. For example, what is multiplication by i+1? Without further understanding, I don't think such a question can be answered.

On the other hand, the teacher in my head is celebrating. This person managed to take a concept normally feared and hated by the population at large and made it interesting and understandable. The response is well thought out, and is much more engaging to the reader than any response that I could come up with. In short, this explanation is more likely to make the person interested in mathematics, while a more technical definition would probably just make them zone out.

What do other people here think about this? Is the clarity and interest worth the loss of utility? Am I totally off base?
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To answer the question, e^(it) =cos(t)+ i * sin(t). That means that when t=pi/2, cos(t)=0 and sin(t)=1, so i = e^(i * pi/2)

To get the 'i'th root we divide the exponent by i, so i^(1/i) = e^((i * pi/2)/i) which is e^(pi/2).

As for the angle metaphor, that works for multiplying by complex numbers. The usual "understanding" of exponentiation is repeated multiplication, but taking a power of "i" can't be understood as multiplying together "i" lots of the number. Similarly the "i"th root can't be understood like that.

But you knew that.
Another one: http://www.usa2me.com
I submitted this, but not because of any upvoting deal~

Some sites, such as Quora, use algorithms to rank submissions and comments. They also avoid anonymity to the most part, so people can notice if there's a conflict of interest with a comment or submission. This probably increases the quality on Quora, though they do have large group biases.

I don't know if rewarding "correct" votes like that is such a good idea, since it can just encourage even more manipulative voting, and scare people from submitting controversial content. But taking relationships into account would be probably be a good idea, so if people are just up-voted by one group, their weight would go down.

The problem on sites like HackerNews (as opposed to Quora) is regular readers don't normally feel it's worth the bother to go back to the main page and upvote something, so submitters often rely on people who know them to upvote something (which can help Ycombinator startups).
I wish! Thank you for the kind words, we've run out of money. Couldn't quite get the proof of concept traction we needed. Great user base, no revenue (bc of restrictions in VA that could be overcome with an investment). Too bad!
IIRC, that is exactly Netflix's interest in the API. Google for the "Netflix use case."
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I took a walk with some coworkers this morning to watch the shuttle fly over the Bay Bridge. I shot a short video of it.
This is just a light lisp-like syntactic layer, as the docs say "LispyScript is not a dialect of Lisp. There is no list processing in LispyScript ." It's just enough to allow nice macros, which adds quite a bit, IMO. There's no CONS, etc. It adds a couple nice things, like an "each" function that does the right thing, and (= foo bar) becomes foo === bar.
What's wrong with copyrighting work so someone can't just steal your entire source-code and call it their own? Just like you can copyright a book so nobody can steal that exact instance of your thought process but people can still write very similar books.

JRR did not patent 'the application of height-challenged individuals manually transported to a heated device for the purpose of destroying small amounts of jewelery', but the work is copyrighted so you cannot just find/replace the story so it reads Shrodo and Hamwise going to Mt Foomp with their trusty sidekick Bandalf.
Speculation (I know nothing about the technology, either):

There are two factors to smooth scrolling:

- high-resolution, low latency measurement of finger location.

- fast, low latency scrolling of screen content.

I guess one can use multiple detectors to increase spatial resolution of position detection. For example, with two detectors that each have a X DPI resolution, one could place them in two layers, staggered from each other behind the screen to double resolution in one direction.

Alternatively, if there is no technical limitation to DPI, it might be a limitation to the controllers one can buy. If they have a maximum number of lines they can detect, one could use two controllers, each one covering half the screen, and double resolution that way.
You need to differentiate between "are told" and "learn". Personally I was told a lot of things in my high school math classes, I learned very few of them.
I picked this guy

http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/IM+Fell+English
The man who controls the press, controls the speech.

Twitter undeniably controls the press in this case - they can do whatever they feel like.
Updated. Thanks for the suggestion
Sure! You might want to check out http://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-understanding-...

I like this question because it really works your intuition.

The basics: x^y means "grow at x, for y units of time". I see "2^3" as "grow at 2x for 3 units of time".

Having a base of i means your "growth" is a rotation at 90 degrees, no scaling. So i^(1/2) means a 45 degree rotation, i^3 means a 270 rotation, etc.

Raising this to the i power (or 1/i power, which is -i) means the growth that was originally purely rotational is now rotated. So instead of growing at i, you are growing at (i * 1/i = 1). So, we should expect a positive real number, greater than 1 since our growth is positive.

How long do we actually grow for? Well, the base of "i" is really e^(i* pi/2), which means "Start at 1.0 and rotate continuously for pi/2 seconds". We've now modified this to "Start at 1.0 and grow at 1.0 for pi/2 seconds", which is e^(pi/2).

So the answer is i^(1/i) = e^(pi/2) ~ 4.8

It's a bit tough with text-only, read the above article for more diagrams.
It's less about being "beholden" and more about the fact that producing the content costs money and Apple do journalists a huge favor in delivering more or less "ready to print" stories, saving time and money.

A great read on the media is "Flat Earth News"
Good list, and you could easily replace 'Entrepreneurs' with 'Project Managers.'
Younger me was in the same boat as your youngest daughter. It's almost as if girls don't get to have individual personalities and tastes; they have to be a Marketed Monolithic Girl Consumer.
I think it's awesome how aware you are of your own impact of appearing on the front page more than normal and how considerate your attitude is towards the impact of that on the experience of other HNers. Total. model. citizen.
Shoot. I lost sight of the goal. Sorry.

a·0 = 0 for all numbers a

Thus it is true that

–1·0 = 0

Replace 0 on left hand side with (–1 + 1) to get

–1·(–1+1) = 0

Now use the distributive property

–1·(–1) + (–1)·1 = 0

Keeping in mind that 1·a = a for all numbers gives us

–1(–1) + (–1) = 0

Thus –1(–1) is a number such that when added to –1 gives 0. Hence –1(–1) must be the opposite of –1 which is 1.
This is probably the first time (IMHO) when the "title-change by mods" made complete sense. The old "400 years" title was pure link-bait.
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Nothing wrong with taking some branches. It would stink if it turned into a chore.
And the iPhone is a bigger business than ALL of Microsoft's offerings combined

Per Vanity Fair:

"Exhibit A: today the iPhone brings in more revenue than the entirety of Microsoft.

No, really.

One Apple product, something that didn’t exist five years ago, has higher sales than everything Microsoft has to offer. More than Windows, Office, Xbox, Bing, Windows Phone, and every other product that Microsoft has created since 1975. In the quarter ended March 31, 2012, iPhone had sales of $22.7 billion; Microsoft Corporation, $17.4 billion."

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2012/08/microsoft-lost-mo...
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It seems to me to be naive to believe that a bunch of computers running software built by humans will compete perfectly to create a perfect market, the hypothetical "efficient market".

Instead what you would probably arrive at is an arms-race of retail investor-accessible HFT systems competing for investor dollars. That arms-race would just lead to a market even more arbitrary than the one we have now where the HFT systems are using fundamentals and at the same time learning about the trading patterns of the other systems indirectly to exploit them. Investors would be investing in the trading system instead of the real market, it would be reduced to gambling on the race instead of investing in the market.

My personal opinion is the HFT systems of today add zero value, as argued in the article. The liquidity provided by them is an illusion as they skim a cut off between the original seller and their buyer on the two ends of the trades they perform.
the main, reasonable complaint against HFT (at least from my perspective, besides brain-drain) is the introduction of a higher volatility. since pension funds and other institutional investors dont usually have them same well trained funds managers and sophisticated analytics, yet a much higher volume, they are usually the ones who get it in the pants. the loss might be fractional, since you are usually investing long term, yet a short fluctation (eg. 2 cents, after you started executing your orders) in prices does add up if you're investing upwards of 100 mil.
I think it would very much depend on the project, the industry, and contribution breakdown. There are too many variables to give a blanket answer.
Been there, done that.

I can tell you that - as a startup - it's next to impossible to make a deal before you run out of money. With enterprise customers it takes at least several months from the first sales pitch to striking a deal. There are one or two startups though which managed to pull this off. Atlassian comes to mind.

That being said, from currently freelancing in enterprise software development once more (sadly, bills have to be paid ...) there are lots of pain points in enterprise IT environments. Enterprise IT basically is lacking in every respect. Time tracking, ERP, CRM, ticket management, document management, I can hardly think of any area enterprise IT isn't light years behind what I'm normally used to. Problem is, there already are tons of better products for each of those areas. Tragically, once they've made a purchase decision enterprise customers are highly unlikely to switch to a different product, no matter how much better it is. This is the reason why the likes of Oracle, IBM and SAP are so formidable at selling their crappy software and it's also the reason why I currently have to put up with an HP issue tracking system that actually requires IE6 to run and is so far behind any other issue tracking system out there, - free or not.
I'm guessing... 100?
This article is wrong. I am always interested in hearing about Apple's products because they are so incredibly good, and the new features often have a dramatic impact on my life.

The 2007 iPhone introduction showed me what my future phone would look like. The latest LTE feature on iPhone 5? Awesome because it means I won't have to hunt around for wifi once it becomes widespread.

To sum it up, people care about these announcements because the company that makes them actually delivers (and they do it in style).
It's also functional, in the "tell me three times" sense. Effective teaching tends to involve lots of repetition.
well, read some ML or Haskell code to see how much more pleasant it looks than the equivalent lisp code. i don't hate parentheses per se; i just think you miss out on a lot when they're your only syntactic construct. (of course, as you point out, you gain a lot too, but that is orthogonal to the basic experience of reading and writing code)
For my app it was being able to post to the timeline that made Facebook attractive as an auth system. Get more exposure quickly.
$575k is not a large investment. It's basically angel money.
(Author of the above article)

I learned the polar representation, yep, but didn't connect as i as an "rotation operation" that took you from one dimension to the other. For all I knew, having i be 2-dimensional was like saying "We can represent condiments by having an axis for ketchup and and an axis for mustard".

It was 2 random quantities represented as an (x,y) pair, without the notion that they were deeply connected.
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Does Foursquare's Venue data count as "map data" or "mashup data"?

IMHO, basic venue metadata info like name, address, geocoded address, and other details like phone number, hours and website should count as map data. Stuff like user reviews should count as mashup data.
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The advertising buys are misleading, as Apple doesn't include (or directly disclose afaik) the money spent on their paid placements, which anyone who watches western media knows is quite substantial.
Yet Knight Capital's share price never recovered. Say instead of KCG it was JPM, operating without the usual risk concerns because they've got assurance from the government of support. Should investors or taxpayers be okay with such an "internal issue" destroying part of their net worth? And wouldn't a too-big-to-fail company have a broader impact on the entire market if such a think were to happen? It's kind of the whole concept behind too-big-to-fail that they would.
Actually I'm kind of glad the software industry doesn't fall into this category. I don't want a "professional organization" telling me what I can or can't charge for my work!
Ask HN: Just bought Ipad 3, please suggest free ebooks to read on kindle app
I am interested in any kind of free ebook that deals with inspiration, attitude, efficiency, startup, real estate, learning etc.
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Where I found one of my favorite books from a genre I generally don't like (alt history): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yiddish_Policemen%27s_Unio...
IOS 6 downloads were a crazy 12% of all US Internet traffic this week
Agreed. Luckily you have macros, so go ahead and do it:

http://i.imgur.com/wl2Q5.png
Who said you have to release your method? If what you found through 'R&D' can be quickly reproduced through reverse engineering it's highly unlikely it was complex to figure out. On the other hand if your development is complex, and requires a great deal of time and effort to reverse engineer then your R&D has paid for itself by giving you a dramatic lead in time to market. If a company can't win the market with such a lead they don't really deserve protection. Lets also not forget copyright still exists to protect exact copies of the ultimate product.