skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny, that's just the attitude Steve Jobs had about IBM in the 1980s. He was sure that IBM was the bad guy monopolist that stood in the way of Apple's success. He created the famous "1984" commercial as a result.

You're looking in the wrong place, 30 years late. The 2012 Microsoft is more like 1984 IBM and that's not likely to change. The duopoly of Apple and Google has more ability to dictate our technology today, if that's what you're worried about. At least we have a choice though.
Nope, in this case the algorithm was tuned to deliver the highest commission for them. It's a really, really stupid technique, and leads to poor conversion, but that aim of grasping for every bit you can get out of your local maximum is a difficult habit to break (and a worse one to codify in an algorithm).
Single page article: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/85278-tim-cooks...
The Republican Study Committee was founded by Republicans who thought the mainstream of their party was too moderate. Proposals that go beyond what is politically feasible is part of their mission, because they want to change the boundaries of what is feasible.

(For example, right now the committee’s Web page links to an op-ed advocating a flat 15% income tax. The President—any President, of either party—will sign a flat income tax into law some time after the Air Force trades its fighter jets for flying pigs.)
That's probably very hard, and then you have the "Bad Lip Reading" channel on youtube :)
I went over my thoughts on it and how I feel it pertains to design as well as photography. From my experience with using Kicksend and talking with Wells, I feel it truly does bring photographs to the peak of most interactions by allowing you to capture moments, share them, and print them all within a seamless UX.
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Spotloss- Bluetooth fob & app helps find your lost keys or kid
>Until we have web pages running as background tasks

That would make the Grooveshark HTML5 app 99% more useful than it currently is (not at all).
There are so many alternative explanations for that sentence. Your confidence in your conclusion is shocking, and your willingness to throw around such allegations with so little evidence is repugnant.
This is why I treat my iPhone roughly and get the insurance; I just couldn't live with the hypocrisy.
We (Code School) actually run all of our tests server side, even for courses like Mobile Web and Backbone.js. We do this because we don't want to deal with the headache of dealing with cross-browser issues. For Javascript or HTML/CSS related courses we use either Node.js with jsdom or Node.js with phantomjs (we started with jsdom but now use phantomjs for these courses). It makes everything more reliable, and we can always assure the consistency of testing the submitted code.
Hope so. Moving the Mac Pro assembly line might also imply they're finally getting a substantial redesign/update.
It really isn't. In fact, it is less so, just based on the UI. Yet it's completely awesome at the same time.
(in reply to the much more nested comment) but this is the age of electronic data - it is easy to delete the content that was the subject of the DCMA and leave the rest of the site up read-only for a month while people archive (or something).
You're right. I got the number from Commerce, but Commerce's industry breakdown is weird. I don't know what the revenue split is between content producers like Viacom (who factor into the Entertainment & Media industry) and Comcast (who appear to factor into Communications Technology).

I think we can probably stipulate that information technology is a larger industry than entertainment and media; to the extent that it isn't, though, my point is stronger, right?
I've only written a simple LKM to patch the interrupt descriptor table and patched the kernel pool memory allocator on the true operating system of the proletariat (That is to say Plan9) but I think I can safely say that you don't just hack on it and see what happens.

The knowledge required to write device drivers or understand and manipulate kernel behavior is totally distinct from what is typically taught in Computer Architecture/Computer Science and Software Engineering, a massive amount of knowledge is required that I could see no way to acquire short of trying to build your way up designing/reading kernels of greater complexity or being interested in some field where consecutively deeper levels of knowledge are an exponentially more profitable use of your time such as information security.

The documentation on ALL modern kernel's current implementation details is sparse (yes, even Linux) and the knowledge is assumed which gives some truth to the statement "You just hack on it" in the sense that there's no way to learn it save actually doing it. In truth however, to really get anywhere you MUST know x86 (Or whatever architecture you are developing for, additionally, if you think this will be easy because you coded MIPS or SPARC in school, be prepared to feel dumb), you MUST know deep C and a slew of other topics that the typical CS education leaves you remarkably ill-equipped to even get started.
Ask HN: Will Apple/Google take over Microsoft by giving desktop power to mobile?
I'been thinking for a while that is all looks like Apple and Google take over on Microsoft will take place relatively soon as the mobile, tablet phones processor chips become more powerful, at least powerful enough to run a complete desktop session. This doesn't seem too far away and may be the ultimate disruption over the classic desktop.

Some throughs on this.

* Apple pushing increasing speed chips.

* New iPhone / iPad smaller dock. Future displays soon that connect straight to the phone?

* Keyboards, mouses already are bluetooth supported by iOS devices.

* Increasingly merging in consistency of iOS and OS X and prepared as a touch device. OS X will become also touch in addition to mouse and keyboard as main inputs for it?

Horace Dediu [1] estimated that 225M iOS devices will be sold in 2012 alone. What about giving desktop power to those users on an Apple ecosystem?

I do think this is very convenient in many ways.

Probably the differences of performance needs will mostly still determinate if using a phone or a laptop, but you get the idea.

What are your throughs on such speculation?

[1] http://www.asymco.com/2011/11/28/how-many-ios-devices-will-be-sold-in-2012/
World of 'Futurama' rebuilt in Legos
so silly. brogrammer turned maddox.
Felix Geisendörfer is a core contributor to Node.js. Nice to see Go gaining support from someone so close to the Node project. I'd say that's a significant statement in Go's favor.
That's awesome, exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for sharing as-is, looking forward to seeing the finished product. Could save us a ton of support work, and possibly even help with conversions!
Citation to the vetting that report got?
From my perspective he addressed your points clearly and concisely and you responded by acknowledging these points exist and nothing more.

If you can't defend a position, perhaps you shouldn't be taking it.
Apple To Assemble Some Computers In U.S. | The Onion
is there a swype/swiftkey equivalent on iOS? I miss swype the most since switching.
~2M msgs/second messaging system written in Go
Solid service. I've been using it to educate my teammates about entrepreneurial thinking.

Thanks for the new slideshow feature!
Scroogled, new campaign by Microsoft
Why is it that every time that something like this happens, Google is the only tech company that comes forward with a message? Doesn't having a free and open internet benefit any other company?
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If you look (by your nature) intimidating and give someone a grim look, they could be intimidated (especially a 13 year old). Does that mean that you should treat this the same as if he had said aloud, "I'll break your bones if you don't give me that piece of pizza?"

[This is all speculation anyways since we don't really have the full story.]
Tim Cook's biggest problems so far: Maps,iCloud & iOS. We know he's aware of Maps & fixing it, albeit slowly. iCloud's idiosyncrasies are mostly a developer problem. iOS, though, is getting tired fast & it's highly visible to the consumer.

Siri is still a gimmick. That's bordering on the unacceptable now, esp when compared to Google's voice offerings & how fast they've reached par & exceeded it. Stil no APIs, no offline capability, slow response times when it's working.
No.22

That's the one that got me. Now pardon me while I write a post about duplicating comic timing graphically, as a constraint.
Both fair points. And I'd argue that's a great philosophical discussion for the libertarian parts of the GOP to have.

In this case it seems like the discussion was stifled because of the big money behind copyright questions.

So regardless it seems a shame that the GOP couldn't use this memo as a starting point for a good debate around policies and where the party stood/stands.
Hi Sean,

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I will put a contrarian point of view (just for the sake of discussion):

The law is good because Google can afford to pay and the hordes of blogspammers can't.

Therefore Germany will be the first country without blogspam.
I get what you're saying but in this specific instance, Google was right to delete them from news.google and the general index. The newspapers can't have it both ways (pay us to show up on Google News but keep us for free on Google Search).
robots.txt ?
IrisCouch's pricing is also interesting: http://www.iriscouch.com/service
> "Ones with few channels sound positively terrifying to me."

I am told (one of my family members works with cochlear implants) that the ideal candidate for a cochlear implant is a young child who has had severe or total hearing loss. This is for two reasons: if you have never heard sound before then the fidelity is far less of an issue, and children can adapt far easier than most adults.
One of my pet peeves is misleading charts and graphs. While not intentionally misleading, this chart is pretty sloppy [1].

Apple's 64% looks closer to 75%, because nine percent of the market is just plain excluded from the chart. Another issue is that Google's five percent is smaller than Zune's three percent.

I don't understand how an editor can let something like this get through, even if it's only incidentally related to the story. If it takes some random jerk on the internet a few seconds to se something is wrong with the chart, surely they are cutting corners? It undermines my confidence in the other information they are providing.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/ImN07.png
They should google ''Wyatt's Torch'' before voting.)
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That he wasn't able to, coz he passed away, but the point stands. Jobs is famous for things like that. I remember clearly when he said there is no way anyone could make a computer that is less than 1000 bucks(when the rumor is ripe with upcoming ipad) and 6 months later releases the ipad for 500.
While I think the government could have been more forgiving of innocent third parties, remember that MegaUpload was a virtual company where all the computers were leased on the cloud. Those vendors were not being paid and meanwhile had capital costs on their equipment for as long as the prosecutors were copying off data. They deserved to have their equipment returned to them as soon as possible.
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Great advice from Doug Ludlow  "avoid the illusion of progress"
10 Per Cent Of Britions Are Millionaires But Where Is The Money?
Awesome. Thank you. Very similar to the "process" I've witnessed and documented. From memory:

1) Assemble non-experts, non-stakeholders

2) Misidentify problem

3) Establish quorum

4) Do not communicate decisions

5) Everyone runs off in separate directions

6) Assign blame

7) Repeat.

Given the challenges of organizational psychology (aka herding kittens), where trying harder won't change outcomes, I support the strategy of multiple competing teams, as detailed in the book Design Rules: The Power of Modularity.

http://www.amazon.com/Design-Rules-Vol-Power-Modularity/dp/0...
I checked Canary - the charts look fine, there is only a single js error in console. In Beta though, there is a lot of errors in d3.v2.js and rickshaw.min.js + that one that is reported in Canary (absinthe.min.js)
I blame that stupid political compass the libertarians are always trotting out.

For example, suppose I want to leave government spending where it is, but take fifty billion dollars a year from Medicare and spend it on student loan forgiveness and basic research grants. Which quadrant does that put me in?

We need to give up on the tired old categories and start over. We built parties around heuristics like "government spending bad" or "social programs good" instead of evaluating specific programs on their merits.

Ideologically pure libertarians are really anarchists. I've encountered people who advocate private police forces and private roads. People who don't understand that there is no difference in the harm that can be caused by de facto and de jure governments when they go bad.

But if you allow public roads and a public police force, why not public schools? Why not public universities, or public parks? Why not publicly financed scientific research? The answer to any of these questions is, at bottom, "because that program is better or worse than allowing private enterprise to handle it." But you have to answer that question on a case by case basis -- and it changes with demographics and technology and everything else.

And of course, you have to throw in the nature of coalition politics. Publicly funded universities are an extremely valuable program for college-aged voters and those with college-aged children, but seen as a complete waste of money by childless retirees. So sure, you have to build a coalition, but the existing parties exist as they do only by historical happenstance.

What could be interesting it to start a party with the following principles: First, for any given issue, evaluate what the majority of the population would want. Then, evaluate whether that position is manifestly unjust or based on assumptions contrary to the evidence. If not, adopt it as the party's position. Repeat for all issues.

Take the platform that party puts out, it's pretty much guaranteed to win a majority of the votes by definition. Then the other party can try to pick off a group of minority positions to form an opposing coalition, but any success they have is liable to just change the majority's view on that particular issue -- which changes the first party's position on it going forward from the date of the next election. And if you want to change policy, get on your soap box and convince the majority, which will chance the party's position.

It's kind of like direct democracy, but with a filter for extremely bad ideas.
> Someone posts a "Show HN" doesn't mean you get the right to walk all over it

I didn't realize that signing up to HN entitled me to negativity free advertising for my pet project.

Wouldn't you expect people posting Show HN posts to know what happens in the comment threads of all of them?

I agree that the community should try to discourage plain insults, but I want to see well reasoned thoughts and critiques of other projects from the community. If that critique is harsh then it's harsh. Welcome to going public with your idea. I agree with you about the insults, but you are also drifting towards encouraging protecting egos that are tied to their product. That's not a helpful community norm. Be supportive of people working hard and ruthlessly honest about their ideas and products.

Also, we're coming up on a decade of digg/reddit/HN style social news sites. Is it time to stop being surprised that the behaviour that this medium incentivises is the behaviour we keep seeing?
Nice to see some new ideas are explored. We can't have only one logging framework. Keep up the good work !
Updatified: iGoogle done right?
Technology generally finds a way around poorly written laws but I think there is a real underlying problem. Google News has become its own thing now. The headlines, snippets and icons I get from a variety of newspapers is often enough to skim over the day's news and I only click on maybe one or two stories for more in-depth reading. I think a way for Google to charge news sources and for news sources to charge Google both make sense but they have to be developed by willing participants, not by legislators.
I'm glad you like the slideshow as much as we do.
No, slf4j doesn't solve any problems: it just gives you different problems. What makes it twice as infuriating is that slf4j looks really promising until you realize that it is just more pig-lipstick, albeit in a different color than before.

PS: That is because I am really pissed. If there is one thing I fucking hate it is all the time you have to spend trying to fit components together that use any one of the gazillion different logging frameworks and combinations of logging frameworks that are possible. But I'll give you that: I despise the shitheads behind log4j more than I despise the people behind slf4j.

Logging sucks in Java.
Nokia Beta Labs since 2007.
I keep wondering the exact same thing and yeah people alway say 'now way' but you have to wonder, as a founder, it's got to be hard to watch your former company struggling so hard at this point.

I keep thinking back to the mid-90's when Gates sent out his famous internet tidal-wave email; that was how he reacted to a threat to MS's longterm survival - a huge pivot away from multimedia, cds/dvds (remember Encarta?) to focusing everything on the Internet.

Ballmer in 2005 facing a similar tidal-wave does what? Laughs and mocks the iPhone then the iPad. Had he reacted as Gates had and pivoted the entire company then instead of 6+ years later with Window 8/Surface, who knows where they'd be right now.
I think an interesting solution would be to charge a compounding fee for copyright protection. So let's say you have a no charge for the first X years. Your first renewal is almost nothing but after that it increases rapidly so that by the time you're pushing 50+ years the payments are only affordable for the largest properties. Now it might be worth millions for Disney to keep their 70 year old copyrights for another few years but at least that doesn't force every single piece of content into the same 70+ year IP regime. In fact it provides a strong incentive for most content to enter the public domain quickly. The licensing fees from the copyright system could be paid back to protected artists based on measures of downloads, plays and performances.
This hatchet job reads like Ballmer put it out to make it seem like he's a great manager and did a wonderful thing firing Sinofsky. I smell "The Submarine," the unseen hand of a PR company carefully managing public perception.
CEO removes subordinate and has product heads reporting directly to themselves. Clearly, the CEO wants to take a more active interest in product development.

Point out the sexism.

CEO is female and product heads are male, point out the sexism
CEO is male and product heads are male, point out the sexism.

CEO is male, product heads are female. Without any more information then that, you saw sexism. Point out the issue. You are making huge leaps to conclusions that are just not supported by the information given.
> so he could then do that when his journey was over.

So what's he doing now? I don't think the wiki is paying rent... I could be wrong.
Who is Marc Aurel? I found one link making it seem that "Marc Aurel" was actually "Marcus Aurelius" and had a citation referencing Meditations. But google could not find that quote in any translation for Meditations. The "that's Marc Aurel for ya" makes it seem that he is a well known writer/thinker so maybe I am way off base thinking its Marcus Aurelius.
John Biggs at TechCrunch Should Be Scared
I thought it was going to be sarcasm, but clicked through anyway hoping it wasn't.

Sarcasm is annoying and often hurtful. I've tried to eliminate it from my everyday speech. Maybe that's a reason this article irks me, and I like TDD.
>Ballmer had been frustrated by Sinofsky before. Microsoft partners apparently had a reference design for tablet hardware ready in time for Windows 7. Sources tell us that Sinofsky refused to add support for it in Windows 7. Whether it would have been successful is hard to gauge, but it would have put Microsoft in the tablet market several years earlier, and possibly around the same time as Apple’s original iPad.

I would love to just catch a quick glimpse of the Universe in which this is NOT 100% Ballmer's fault. It must truly be full of fascinating things to see.
FWIW, I've written to my member of parliament [0], expressed my dissatisfaction and asked him to oppose the law. He wrote back saying hat his parliamentary party is already opposing this law but for slightly different reasons: It won't increase the quality of journalism and will just create a flood of lawsuits. Lastly it is far too vaguely phrased as to not have grave side effects.

The changes of the opposition are slim though as there is a conservative majority the parliament.

Interestingly, he has a personal axe to grind with Axel Springer AG as he was a big part of the student movement of '68 which was so intensely vilified by said company ("Youth in the street - Germany going down the drain ...").

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Christian_Str%C3%B6bele
In most games, the deck is stacked in favor of AI in a variety of ways. (BTW, it's "horde," unless it's a deliberate use of a homophone by the game designers.) If the AI's units can overwhelm humans with superior reaction times or superior numbers, then it's not the AI's strategy that's winning. There are real world situations and games that are still complex enough, it's difficult to compute tactics and strategy properly.

Here's the difference between humans and AI in a nutshell: Competent humans can usually tell when someone is using an exploit against them. AIs almost never have a clue that's happening.
"Fox has figured out that by simply putting a question mark at the end of something, you can say fking anything."

Still effective.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september-13-2006/the-...
There are a number of issues around quality: the number of electrodes is not always the most important factor. The processing algorithm is also vital to good quality, and that can be improved in situ. There's a lot of research that has gone into algorithms that are best suited to speech, music, etc.

More importantly, many patients receiving implants do not have a healthy cochlear, in the sense many of their auditory nerves may be damaged. In this case the electrodes stimulate the surviving nerves, and additional electrodes may not provide much additional benefit.

Again, the audio quality is really down to the algorithms: because each patient is different the processor can require intensive tuning and individual work to get it sounding reasonably decent. Far more research goes into these audio processing algorithms increasing the number of electrodes (not least because improving the processing benefits both new and existing patients).
By this logic, the interstates, the railroads, and the internet should not exist.
Facebook to buy Microsoft's ad platform to take on Google
This is why Germans must vote for Pirate Party at the next elections.

Oh, and I've noticed Twitter shows snippets from websites, too, now, so this will affect them as well.